The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 29, 2017

Different states use different cutoff scores to determine who must take these classes, which makes remediation-rate comparisons difficult and, critics say, remedial placement somewhat arbitrary. But despite the difficulty of comparison, many states have strikingly high remediation rates in their public colleges and universities.

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Learning in Hand

NOVEMBER 12, 2014

Bryan gives you a head to head comparison of all of the popular interactive response systems that work on your classroom''s mobile devices. However, what does that look like for early elementary grades (K-3)? Mobile Learning Experience 2011 , 2012 , and 2013 were fantastic opportunities for educators to learn, share, and connect.

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Resources iPad Mobility eBook 91

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 25, 2016

By way of comparison, white non-Hispanics make up just 31.8 percent of teachers in 2011-12, up from 3 percent in 1987-88, according to National Center for Education Statistics. In Nashville, Hispanic students almost never see faces like their own at the front of a classroom. Hispanics account for 21.5 percent of students, but 73.9

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 31, 2020

O’Neal Elementary School, in Elgin, Illinois, none of the third graders could read and write at grade level according to state tests in 2019. Just nine miles away sits Centennial Elementary School, where 73 percent of third graders met grade-level standards on that same test. At Ronald D. This story also appeared in Daily Herald.

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Data Elementary Trends Analysis 145

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 29, 2021

One of the most rigorous summer school studies looked at an unnamed Northeastern city that made summer school mandatory to elementary school children who failed year-end tests. One district spent almost $70,000 in supermarket gift cards for parents and small treats for kids, such as pizza and ice cream.

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Analysis Study Report Elementary 127

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 14, 2021

This year, the Green Lake Parent Teacher Association paid about half that much to cover the cost of the elementary school’s vocal teacher and a portion of a full-time counselor’s salary, among other supports for students. About 3 in 4 students at Rising Star Elementary qualify for subsidized meals. Double click image to enlarge.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 2, 2017

As Kristina Rizga wrote in Mother Jones this year , In 2011, all federal funding for civics and social studies was eliminated. By comparison, just 19% of Democrats believe that colleges’ and universities’ effect is negative.). And Americans don’t just struggle with facts about science.

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Technology Education Facebook Social Media 71

The Hechinger Report

JULY 9, 2018

However, the latest data from the federal government, covering the 2014-15 school year, still shows an advantage to the wealthy across the nation’s public elementary, middle and high schools. Source data: NCES, Revenues and Expenditures for Public Elementary and Secondary School Districts: School Year 2014–15 , Table 7).

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Report Comparison Elementary Data 88

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2019

Baum & Company, the same financial firm that underwrote the Fox C-6 bonds, was sanctioned by the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority for overcharging a school district in 2011. Pipes have been left in disrepair in an Antonia Elementary School art room storage closet in Imperial, Missouri, causing sewage to drip through.

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Report Industry Company Conference 72

Digital Promise

JULY 3, 2017

Think, for example, about the 2011 Occupy Wall Street protests in the U.S., However, one finding was common to the preschoolers and the older elementary school children alike: all asserted that the stickers should be shared evenly. We also showed the same classroom scenarios to a comparison group of 93 adults.

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Study Examples Comparison Elementary 121

Hack Education

DECEMBER 4, 2016

“The number of states planning to use the new tests dropped from 45 in 2011 to 20 in 2016,” Education Next observed this fall , and many states and districts have opted to use the SAT or ACT instead of those assessments created by the Common Core consortia, SBAC and PARCC. ” So congrats, ed-tech vendors.)

Technology 40

Technology Education Common Core Company 40

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

The Shanker report found that between 2003 and 2011 the white teaching workforce in Washington more than doubled, from 16 to 39 percent, while the black share declined precipitously, from 77 to 49 percent. Charter schools in the district have different grade configurations and staffing considerations, precluding an apple-to-apples comparison.

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Analysis Report Comparison Data 111

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 4, 2016

Average weekly child care expenses for families with working mothers who paid for child care … rose more than 70 percent from 1985 ($87) to 2011 ($148),” states a summary of Census data by the Pew Research Center, a think tank. And yet, the kitchen table economics of the new American reality make less sense than ever. Photo: Lillian Mongeau.

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Policies Advocacy Study E-rate 56