The Hechinger Report

JULY 15, 2019

While 20 percent of elementary and secondary students have a learning disability, 94 percent of those students received some sort of help or accommodation while in high school. The post OPINION: Ending the stigma for college students with learning disabilities appeared first on The Hechinger Report. This is no accident.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Photo: Ariane Kunze for The Hechinger Report. Typically, high schools have lower poverty levels than elementary schools because parents are older and able to earn more.). Photo: Ariane Kunze for The Hechinger Report. Photo: Ariane Kunze for The Hechinger Report. PORTLAND, Ore.

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Doug Levin

APRIL 21, 2016

For each of the three primary (equity-focused) federal educational technology programs authorized by Congress since the passage of the 1994 revision to the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), below I provide details on the programs’: legislative authorization (i.e., ” FY 2012 $0. FY 2001: $450,000,000.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MARCH 24, 2016

That extra year is a killer – literally – when it comes to retained students’ secondary school completion rates. Similarly, I said back in April 2012: Please realize that it doesn’t matter how many safeguards are put into place before retention occurs. Image credit: Mackenzie Ryan, Des Moines Register education reporter.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 16, 2016

75 percent of principals think their job has become “too complex,” according to a 2012 survey. A 2012 survey found 75 percent of principals think their job has become “too complex.” Between 2008 and 2012, the same survey found job satisfaction among principals decreased nine percentage points, from 68 percent to 59 percent.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 17, 2017

Since its launch in 2012, the city’s high school graduation rate has climbed 15 points, to 64 percent, according to New York State education department figures , the highest rate the city has achieved in more than a decade. Since the Say Yes Buffalo launch in 2012, the city’s high school graduation rate has climbed 15 points, to 64 percent.

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MindShift

JUNE 5, 2019

The 2017 version found that 17% of Colorado middle and high school students reported considering suicide and 7% reported making one or more attempts. It was co-created by a University of Northern Colorado psychology professor and has been used in Boston Public Schools since 2012-13. That’s where the triage team comes in.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 23, 2016

Fifth-graders at Konguta Kool – an elementary school in a small Estonian village – prepare for a math lesson in the computer lab. On the 2012 PISA math exam , more than a third of low-income students were among the country’s top performers. Photo: Sarah Butrymowicz. But there’s an overlooked member of the list: Estonia.

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Edsurge

MAY 9, 2017

Almost all of the PreK to 12 programming clustered in the Little America hotel, while the post-secondary, workforce training and company suites clustered in the more opulent Grand America across the street. This split was almost reinforced physically, in a way. Perhaps that’s a sign of where the dollars and funders are gravitating these days.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

Photo: Casey Parks/The Hechinger Report. Photo: Casey Parks/The Hechinger Report. From an educational perspective, no possible good is served by creating this kind of caste system in schools,” said Bob Farrace, a spokesman for the National Association of Secondary School Principals. Photo: Casey Parks/The Hechinger Report. “In

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NeverEndingSearch

JUNE 17, 2019

Elementary think alouds. At the elementary stage, these quotes represent talking points from our 4th and 5th graders. On the other had, a smaller number of elementary students see Wikipedia as a starting point to discover additional content. Note the binary approach. So and she told me it’s not really a good site.

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MindShift

MAY 14, 2018

30, 2016 was a big day for Lake Canyon Elementary. Lake Canyon Elementary School ceremony assigning students to a house. In addition to allowing for “much more individualized responses,” he said, the house system helps replicate the coherence of the elementary experience. Katie Fewell Photography). Samantha Shanahan/KQED).

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 1, 2017

When Mary Fair became a teacher in 2012, her classes often contained a mix of special education students and general education students. Although she earned a bachelor’s degree and teaching certificate in math instruction for both elementary and middle school, she never had to take a class about students with disabilities.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 7, 2016

As rain poured outside on the chilly evening of February 24, a group of Arlington elementary school parents was imagining a sunnier place — Dorothy’s trip down the yellow brick road. Mitchell Chester, Massachusetts commissioner of elementary and secondary education, was the first to suggest combining MCAS and PARCC into MCAS 2.0. (AP

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 12, 2016

President Bush promotes his “No Child Left Behind” education agenda during a visit to Kirkpatrick Elementary School in Nashville, Tenn., This is just the medicine we need,” Cassellius recalls telling the reporter. Monday, Sept. Photo: AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite. Every kid will be counted, and we’ll focus on equity.”.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

AUGUST 24, 2023

Report on emotional & behavioral disorders in youth, 17(1), 13–18. Student-Centered and Teacher-Centered Classroom Management: A Case Study of Three Elementary Teachers. American Secondary Education, 41(3), 21–33. The Elementary School Journal, 59(1), 158–. Teaching and Teacher Education, 48,21-12, [link] Gage, N.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 23, 2016

Hurley has been teaching nursery classes for 20 years at this state-funded school that we would call a public elementary school. The study in question, called Effective Pre-school, Primary and Secondary Education (EPPSE), tracked 3,000 children from the mid-1990s through 2008. The child does not speak English at home, she said.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

1 Photo: Cheryl Gerber for The Hechinger Report. She watched from the backseat in August 2012 as the city gave way to the causeway, miles and miles of concrete bridge she hoped would ferry her to the future she’d been promised. Photo: Cheryl Gerber for The Hechinger Report. Most still read at an elementary school level.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 9, 2016

Unofficially, local teachers and community members report unemployment rates closer to 80 percent. Heart Butte School has had six superintendents, including the current one, since the 2012-13 school year. The post Pulling reservation schools back from the brink appeared first on The Hechinger Report. This year is no better.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 22, 2020

In between those two jobs, Cardona had the distinction of being the youngest principal in the state at age 28, was named principal of the year in 2012, and served as co-chairman of the Legislative Achievement Gap Task Force. I went from 25 kids to 600 at Hanover Elementary School … Now it’s over 530,000, but it’s still service to kids.”.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

FEBRUARY 10, 2024

I’m also limited by my experience as a secondary teacher; these conversations have less controversy in lower elementary, though discussions about appropriateness do surface more commonly in the upper elementary/middle school transition. May you take what you need and may it be useful to you.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Nominee: Link Text Becky Alexander, Morris Elementary Nominated by: Istation. Becky Alexander is the principal at Morris Elementary School in Morris, Oklahoma. Inspired by Alexander’s success, educators at Morris Elementary also use Istation’s reports and printable resources to promote academic growth in reading and math.

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MindShift

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

For a report published in 2018 by the Center on Reinventing Public Education, researchers interviewed and surveyed hundreds of teachers at schools that had received funding from the Gates Foundation to design and implement personalized learning. Kaylee Bodge, a fourth-grader at Marcia Buker Elementary School, says the appeal is simple.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

She is also co-author of Flattening Classrooms, Engaging Minds: Move to Global Collaboration One Step at a Time, Pearson 2012, and an ADE (Apple Distinguished Educator). Julene also works with Suumu Secondary School and Roots & Shoots in Tanzania.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 15, 2018

The 2008 recession may seem like a long time ago, hitting before Barack Obama began his presidency, but public elementary, middle and high schools around the country are still feeling the pinch from it. Department of Education, reported that local, state and federal governments had collectively spent 2.8% See adjacent graph.).

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edWeb.net

MAY 19, 2021

COVID’s impact on schools was so substantial that Congress established the Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief Fund (ESSER). From Chromebooks in 2012, Securly in 2013, and with Massac as one of the first school districts to deploy Alma in Illinois, Tom thoroughly enjoys early-adoption projects. Anna Logan.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 19, 2017

During the past 50 years, no segment of elementary education has prospered against the odds more than homeschooling. By 2012, about 1.8 In Massachu­setts, for example, the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education lists and links to all private and parochial schools in the commonwealth. million, or 3.4

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 14, 2018

Photo: Gretchen Ertl for The Hechinger Report. Already, one in every four elementary-school students is Hispanic, the U.S. Department of Education reports. Photo: Gretchen Ertl for The Hechinger Report. It’s difficult to provide a recipe for student success,” said Andrew Nichols, the author of the report. “So

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 31, 2017

In many communities – Buffalo, Syracuse, Cincinnati, among others — such partnerships already play a vital role in helping more elementary and secondary school students to access the comprehensive supports that are crucial to overcoming predictable barriers to academic achievement. appeared first on The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

While the measure wouldn’t guarantee that every child in the state gets a week at outdoor school, a summer-camp like experience with a focus on science and social emotional skill building, it would make such an offer possible for every interested school district, as was first reported by The Hechinger Report in this story from our archives.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 6, 2016

In 1965, Oregon received a federal grant to expand the program under the first Elementary and Secondary Education Act, which allocates federal funding to schools for categories ranging from teacher education to supplementing local schools serving low-income students to innovative school programs. It’s the chance of a lifetime.”.

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Hack Education

MARCH 8, 2017

According its January 2017 report, the FCC’s modernization push enabled some 77% of school districts to meet the minimum federal connectivity targets by the end of 2016; just 30% had met those requirements in 2013. “Progress,” the FCC boasted in the report. ” Among them: an $8.71

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 15, 2017

This story was produced by the Center for Public Integrity in collaboration with StateImpact Oklahoma , a reporting project of NPR member stations in Oklahoma. Jennifer Merritt’s first-graders at Jefferson Elementary School in Pryor, Oklahoma, were in for a treat. It was reprinted with permission.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 19, 2016

During the Republican and Democratic conventions, The Hechinger Report will publish a new story each day, examining what the party proposals might mean for the future of education. Our staff reporters will provide education coverage from Cleveland and Philadelphia. Convention coverage.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 3, 2017

Bill, federal Pell grants and student loans, the Individual with Disabilities Education Act, the Institute for Educational Sciences, and the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, Washington has been a major player in the field of education despite the zealotry for local control animating the far right. Board of Education , the G.I.

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