The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

Photo: Cheryl Gerber for The Hechinger Report. We established district-wide instructional calendars, regularly administered formative assessments and analyzed data to pinpoint student weaknesses for re-teaching and remediation. percent in 2008-09 to 84.9 A student raises her hand in a Louisiana high school class.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 14, 2019

Kelly Field for The Hechinger Report. Kelly Field for The Hechinger Report. Kelly Field for The Hechinger Report. College dropouts cost Minnesota millions of dollars in wasted subsidies and lost revenue each year. College dropouts cost Minnesota millions of dollars in wasted subsidies and lost revenue each year.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 24, 2019

Caroline Preston/The Hechinger Report. Known as the birthplace of country music, Bristol has seen rates of poverty and drug use rise significantly since the 2008 recession. Caroline Preston/The Hechinger Report. Caroline Preston/The Hechinger Report. Caroline Preston/The Hechinger Report. BRISTOL, Va. —

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 29, 2019

Jess Clark for The Hechinger Report. A student jumps off a bus to enter McDonogh #35 Senior High School before the start of the school day March 19, 2008 in New Orleans, Louisiana. Funding for McDonogh 35, New Orleans’ last noncharter school, fell from $15,594 per student in 2008-09 to $11,651 per student in 2016-17.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 17, 2017

I would have been a dropout.”. In particular, he noted, the Say Yes provision to share student data went against the closed-shop mentality of the superintendent’s office. One of the more difficult things for us to give up,” said Keresztes, “was our student data. And I do that with [Stubbe]. Photo: Amadou Diallo.

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Edsurge

MAY 11, 2017

That’s why it might come as surprise to hear AspirEDU , an educational analytics company, pitch their Dropout Detective software as an “academic credit score” for students. Whereas credit scores are designed to prevent risky buyers from getting approved on loans, Dropout Detective is meant to improve student success and lower dropout rates.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 4, 2019

Aaron Cantú, for The Hechinger Report. From 2008 to 2017, the share of Latinx students at this commuter school of roughly 4,000 rose from 13 percent to 22 percent — the highest of any public university in the state. Aaron Cantú, for The Hechinger Report. Aaron Cantú, for The Hechinger Report. GARY, Ind. —

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 20, 2019

The Hechinger Report traveled to three counties with very high numbers of adults without a high school credential to learn about the obstacles schools and families must overcome to provide and obtain this essential first step to a middle-class life. Photo: John Flavell for The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 30, 2018

Photo: Sarah Gonser for The Hechinger Report. Editor’s note: This story on school counselers is part of Map to the Middle Class , a Hechinger Report series exploring how schools can prepare young people for the good middle-class jobs of the future. Photo: Sarah Gonser for The Hechinger Report. COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

Photo: Amadou Diallo/The Hechinger Report. Special Report. In this ongoing series, The Hechinger Report is visiting high schools that have beaten the long odds to learn what’s behind their success. The impetus for the change at Juarez can be traced to Ocon’s appointment as principal in 2008, veteran school staffers say.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Photo: Alison Yin for The Hechinger Report. Related: Colleges are using big data to track students in an effort to boost graduation rates, but it comes at a cost. Photo: Alison Yin for The Hechinger Report. It took a burden off my shoulders,” Deas says. SAN JOSE, Calif. Those spending more?

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 22, 2021

Even attracting that many required giving every entering freshman a discount from the advertised tuition, federal data reveal. Grim new birthrate data suggests there’s no rebound in sight. New federal data shows that the number of births last year declined by 4 percent, to the lowest point since 1979.

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Doug Levin

MARCH 5, 2017

Here’s what caught my eye this week – news, tools, and reports about education, public policy, technology, and innovation – including a little bit about why. Tagged on: March 3, 2017 How to Tell a Secret in the Digital Age | New York Times → Education reporters take heed.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 31, 2019

Sarah Garland/The Hechinger Report. Sarah Garland/The Hechinger Report. In some ways, Patchogue-Medford has had little choice: It now has more students learning English than students in special education, officials said, and nearly 40 percent of its students are Hispanic, according to New York State data. PATCHOGUE, N.Y.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 6, 2022

This story also appeared in Mississippi Center for Investigative Reporting. Collins Elementary School, in southeastern Mississippi, paddled students more times than almost any school in the country in 2017-18, the last year for which there is national data. Credit: Tara García Mathewson/The Hechinger Report.

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Hack Education

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

” Via US News & World Report : “Bathroom Wars.” Via The Hechinger Report : “ DeVos praises virtual schools , but new research points to problems.” The suit against the for-profit chain and its American InterContinental University was originally filed in 2008.” The transcript.).

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 12, 2017

Clayton Christensen and Michael Horn, for example, predicted in their 2008 book Disrupting Class that by 2019 half of all high school classes would be taught via the Internet. It has some 2500 “beta testers,” Edsurge reported in February. ” It’s an inevitable move, or so the story goes.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 15, 2017

.” “A new analysis from the Center for American Progress found more than two dozen minority-serving institutions would fail a graduation rate requirement for funding in the proposed House update to the Higher Education Act ,” Inside Higher Ed reports. More on Claypool’s resignation from WaPo’s Valerie Strauss.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 9, 2018

Paulsen for The Hechinger Report. In addition to collecting useful data on the fragile ecosystem, the purpose of this visit to the University of Montana’s Flathead Lake Biological Station was to entice the students to go on to college and expand their own horizons. Paulsen for The Hechinger Report. Photo: Kristine T.

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