The Hechinger Report

JUNE 4, 2018

A newly released federal report, “ The Condition of Education ,” looks at dozens of education statistics, some broken down by state, to paint a picture of education in America. You can read the full report here. Sign up for our Mississippi Learning newsletter.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 7, 2022

The new NCTQ report, State of the States 2022: Teacher and Principal Evaluation Policies , presents data and analysis on policies from all 50 states and D.C. While the pandemic may have interrupted assessments, recent declines in student results should reinvigorate states’ focus on student growth.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 16, 2022

Today, A students make up a majority of ACT test takers, some of whom are not college bound and take the test as a required high school assessment. One drawback of the study is that it relies on self-reported grades that students disclose on an optional survey when they register for the ACT. points from a 3.0 – a B – in 2009 to 3.11

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A Principal's Reflections

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

students in global assessments in math and science is another troubling statistic: According to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, fifteen-year-old girls in 65 countries generally outperformed boys worldwide, but in the United States, boys outperformed girls in quantitative studies. World News and Report.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

We couldn’t and can’t answer all of those questions, and that’s why we’re with the 650 teachers who drafted a letter to the Hechinger Report, naming frustrations with misguided reading instruction, urging literacy leaders to reckon with research and saying that they wished they had taught better. She was a native Spanish speaker.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 31, 2022

Back in 2016, Ben Herold of Education Week reported that grade-school students who took the computerized version of a different test, the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC), in 2014-15 scored lower than students taking the paper-and-pencil version. Research has shown mixed results.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

JANUARY 3, 2024

This highlights the essential role of teacher collaboration in school reform efforts, with restructured schools reporting marked improvements in student performance. This could involve using differentiated instruction, incorporating multicultural education, or employing a range of assessment methods. Adaptive teachers, as Madda et al.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 24, 2023

This story also appeared in Mind/Shift The nine authors, most of whom hail from the University of Virginia, issued a press release trumpeting it as the first long-term study of a knowledge-rich curriculum and the first to show outsized gains on state assessments. They said the gains were large enough to catapult U.S.

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Digital Promise

JUNE 30, 2016

According to findings culled from five meta-analyses, blending technology with face-to-face teacher time generally produces better outcomes than face-to-face or online learning alone ( Cheung and Slavin, 2011; Cheung and Slavin, 2012 ; Tamim, Bernard, Borokhovski, Abrami, and Schmid, 2011 ; Means et al, 2009 ; Means et al.,

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 6, 2016

The results are in: The National Center for Education Statistics today released its findings for the 2015 Program for International Student Assessment (PISA). The assessment, which has been administered every three years since 2000, measures math, science and reading literacy of 15-year-olds in 73 education systems around the globe.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 20, 2020

A Hechinger Report review found dozens of companies promoting their products’ effectiveness on their websites, in email pitches and in vendor brochures with little or shoddy evidence to support their claims. Between 2009 and 2014, records provided by the district show it spent about $4.7

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Edsurge

APRIL 28, 2020

Each chapter concludes with an assessment to prove employee understanding. Founded in 2009 and based in American Fork, Utah, the company has amassed 1,500-plus games, quizzes and templates to sell to corporate clients in search of more compelling digital learning materials for employees. This is a big leap for us,” says Scivally. “We

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 12, 2021

They scrutinized a large federal dataset of more than 20,000 students across the nation who started high school in 2009 and were surveyed through to their third year of college in 2016. The post PROOF POINTS: Rural American students shift away from math and science during high school, study finds appeared first on The Hechinger Report.

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Digital Promise

JUNE 15, 2016

2008; Webster-Wright, 2009 ; Accomplished California Teachers, 2012 ). Performance assessments that integrate evidence of teaching practices and student learning measured in a variety of ways (such as student work, lesson plans, assignments, in-person or video observations based on standards, and/or National Board assessment).

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 25, 2019

According to statistics published by Gartner analyst Thomas Bittman, only 4% of the school and education system was interested in cloud computing in 2009. Results can be then assessed and graded accordingly, which facilitates the overall learning experience immensely. Extended Access to Education.

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ExcelinEd

MARCH 20, 2019

Congress’s National Reading Panel report was released. The report concluded that explicit and systematic instruction of the “ Fab 5 ” helps kids become better readers. During this time, I witnessed vast improvement in assessment practices, professional development and instructional practices based on the science of reading.

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Waterford

APRIL 10, 2020

Over 40% of teachers report feeling high stress every day during the school year, which ties teaching with nursing as having the highest stress rate of any career.[13] Public Health, 123(11), November 2009, pp. Self-Care Tools, Strategies and Assessment. Sources : 1. and Wang, L. National Alliance on Mental Illness. 364-367.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 15, 2022

But his academic science background is unclear: He declined a request from The Hechinger Report to answer questions about his science training and how he discusses pandemic-related public health measures in class. In Oklahoma, to fill vacancies, emergency teaching certifications have skyrocketed since 2009.

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Waterford

JULY 6, 2020

3] For example, low-income and minority families are significantly more likely to report that school faculty made them feel uncomfortable or showed them a lack of cultural awareness.[8] Parental involvement in middle school: a meta-analytic assessment of the strategies that promote achievement. Retrieved from michigan.gov: [link].

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 5, 2016

Founded in 2009, Schoolzilla began as an internal project of Aspire Public Schools, a charter management network in Oakland, to help educators draw actionable insights from the gargantuan bytes of data available from different technology providers.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 14, 2017

based provider of data, assessment and reporting tools for K-12 schools and districts. Educators can also look at individual student records to see a combined report of historical and current data, including whether the pupil has been flagged for intervention and other types of supports.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Credit: Kelly Field for The Hechinger Report. Credit: Kelly Field for The Hechinger Report. American Student Assistance is one of the many funders of The Hechinger Report, which produced this story.). Credit: Kelly Field for The Hechinger Report. Students are less stressed out in the middle grades.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2023

Credit: Carly Graf for The Hechinger Report But, two years in, enrollment had dropped to 87 kids, a 65 percent decrease. Credit: Carly Graf for The Hechinger Report “Do we continue to fund something that is showing declining enrollment?” said Rachel Aaker, the principal of SpaRRK Academy, who spearheaded its creation. “I

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 24, 2019

Through these deals, the company has expanded its product suite beyond its original K-12 student information system offering to assessment, enrollment, special education and talent management services. Founded in 2009, Schoology has raised more than $57 million in venture capital, according to Crunchbase. K-12 LMS market share in U.S.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

Betting on Digital Founded in 2009, Top Hat claims that 2.7 higher education courseware in 2015, down from 50 percent the year before, according to a 2018 report from Macquarie, an investment bank and financial services company. It’s a challenging transition to build a learning platform,” says Silagadze, 36. Top Hat has that platform.”

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Edsurge

APRIL 20, 2020

From 2004 to 2009, transfer students on average lost 43 percent of their credits—basically a semester’s worth. As we chronicled in a new report , and as previous efforts to fix similar problems among healthcare institutions has demonstrated, the economic incentives in the current system make wholesale change nearly impossible.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 5, 2016

Back in the driver’s seat is Mick Hewitt, who co-founded the company in 2009 and served as its first CEO. Its core offerings include formative assessment products such as Socrative (a startup acquired in June 2014), grading tools and reporting services. See our report on edtech venture capital for more details.)

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2014

.” Envision enacts this philosophy through a “Know-Do-Reflect” process that uses projects, portfolios and presentations to integrate assessment with learning. In 2011 KIPP, the charter school chain, released a much discussed report looking at the outcomes of its own students. It’s also more relevant.

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Linways Technologies

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Nation is in the initial stages of “higher education-massification” according to recent reports. Going by the current growth rates, this target is likely to be met in the next few years,” said the report, describing India as in the initial stages of ‘higher education massification’. GER has increased during the last 5 years, from 24.3

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 9, 2020

Credit: Jackie Mader/The Hechinger Report. The Hechinger Report, which produced this story, is also housed at Teachers College.). Thirty-seven percent of students transfer at least once in their college careers, the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center reports; of those, nearly half change schools more than once.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 13, 2020

Perhaps nothing has remade American education so profoundly in my lifetime as the 2001 federal law that required states to assess all students every year. This story about Daniel Koretz was produced by The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education.

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EdNews Daily

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

We assess readers’ behaviors and attitudes when using Story Shares versus their traditional choices, measuring both time spent reading and reported feelings around it. Cited: National High School Center, 2009: High School Literacy Facts. Learn more or peruse our paperback collection ). link] , p.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 21, 2017

Much of the momentum behind myON’s launch was spurred by the popularity of iPads, recalls Todd Brekhus, myON’s President, who joined Capstone in 2009 to expand its digital offerings. The team has since added notation and audio narration features, along with writing and assessment activities. Capstone provides the rest.)

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 9, 2018

Photo: Jackie Mader/The Hechinger Report. Since the biennial test, called the National Assessment of Educational Progress or NAEP, was first administered in the early 1990s, student achievement, particularly in math, steadily improved until the late 2000s, then flatlined. . We must do better for all children.”

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 31, 2017

Photo: Jackie Mader/The Hechinger Report. The pilot is run through the non-profit Waterford Institute, which launched the first online preschool offering in Utah in 2009. The program plans to collect more data in the next few weeks as students complete the remaining activities and assessments.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 14, 2016

According to Hewitt, who co-founded the company in 2009, the money will go towards fine-tuning MasteryConnect’s core products, which he describes has four parts: formative assessment, benchmark assessment, curriculum planning and teacher collaboration. Today there are 60 employees. The company currently claims more than 2.5

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techlearning

OCTOBER 11, 2018

Waterford UPSTART (Utah Preparing Students Today for a Rewarding Tomorrow) launched in 2009 and has grown from 1,631 participating students in that first year to more than 15,000 in 2018. Additionally, these sustained gains continue through the 4 grade.

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