The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 13, 2017

Rodriguez was forced into remedial math by the community college’s placement test, which assesses a student’s ability to succeed in for-credit, higher education classes. Her department first saw the data on how few students of color were making it through remedial classes several years ago, and started making changes in the fall of 2010.

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Report Course System Data 111

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 16, 2017

Bits of student performance data are only just starting to trickle out of the pilot schools, so it’s too early to assess most of them quantitatively. Summit partnered with Stanford’s Center for Assessment, Learning, and Equity to develop the rubric for evaluating the cognitive skills in each grade.

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Personalized Learning Learning Elementary Common Core 40

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 21, 2017

Ten years later, the couple sat across a wooden table from Caleb, now 16, a high school dropout and, as of September, survivor of a suicide attempt. A 2010 state audit of the program reached many of the same conclusions. “We saw it as a scaffolding until things got better — a short-term, possible solution,” Agnew recalled.

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Education Assistive Technology Advocacy System 79

The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2019

For decades, nonprofit advocacy groups and corporate donors have targeted K-12 education for intervention. In 2010, Rhode Island won a four-year, $75 million grant from Race to the Top. Karla Phillips, a policy director at Excel in Ed, told me that both personalized learning and charter schools have “flexibility” as their aim.

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Personalized Learning Learning Chromebook Elementary 96