The Hechinger Report

APRIL 6, 2022

When she started at a new school in the fall of 2012, she breezed through the timed math tests. And many educators, both in high school and college, had trouble accurately assessing their students’ progress. From then until the coronavirus hit, when she was a 16-year-old precalculus student, Hernandez shined in the classroom.

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Education Course Report Policies 127

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 14, 2020

There are gifted dropouts. By that, the students knew, their teacher meant one of the psychologist Dr. Edward de Bono’s six “thinking hats,” specifically the one that called on thinkers to assess their ideas and look for potential flaws. Charles Parish outside New Orleans began talent development in 2012.

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Education Elementary Report Data 145

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 9, 2017

The school has struggled to stem sliding enrollment and to address poor safety ratings by parents and test scores that were among the worst in the city. In 2012, city officials became convinced that the school could not improve and began the process of shutting it down. No children from those luxury condos have enrolled in P.S. 67.

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Groups Meeting Examples Classroom 40

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

84 percent of this Chicago high school’s students graduate on time and 52 percent of them now go to college, an 11-point increase from 2012. Calendar-driven midterm and final exams are jettisoned in favor of ongoing assessments. A student who got an A was assumed to have learned something. We call them ‘benchmarks’.”

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Report Competency Based Learning Common Core System 89