Edsurge

MARCH 12, 2018

Anabel Garza, Principal After realizing modest improvements on tests scores over the past few years, going from 16 percent showing grade-level academic achievement on state exams in 2013 to 30 percent in 2017, the teaching staff has deepened their mission. At Reagan a whopping 25.8 It’s the same with kids,” she continues.

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The Principal of Change

SEPTEMBER 23, 2015

This process should be something we do for students that dropout and graduate. October 23, 2014 “Visibility Creates Accountability” November 5, 2014 Questioning Forward March 22, 2015 Innovation has no age barrier. May 19, 2013 10 Expectations From Students October 18, 2012 Let’s Figure This Out.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 11, 2018

Each year since, they have won numerous awards, including the trophy for Outstanding Production for the best overall elementary school performance three years in a row, from 2013 to 2015, and again in 2017. Her son, Aaron Wang, starred as the title character in “The Music Man” in the 2015-16 school year.) “I

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 2, 2016

At the start of the 2015 school year, about 800 new students — the majority African-American—from schools in Oktibbeha County prepared for their first year in the newly consolidated Starkville Oktibbeha County Public School District. Jones came to Starkville High in 2015 from East Oktibbeha County High School. Photo: Nicole Lewis.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 28, 2016

Math scores declined one point between 2013 and 2015. In 1971, students of color, many of them poor, made up just 12 percent of public school enrollments; in 2015 minority enrollment sat at 52 percent — and more than half of all public school students were eligible for subsidized meals, a widely accepted metric for student poverty.

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Bryan Alexander

NOVEMBER 10, 2015

Continuing with our reading of Richard DeMillo’s Revolution in Higher Education: How a Small Band of Innovators Will Make College Accessible and Affordable (2015) ( publisher ; Amazon ): this week we’re discussing chapter 2, “Shifting Landscape.”

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

The New York Times found that the proportion of households earning between $35,000 and $100,000 fell from 53 percent in 1967 to 43 percent in 2013. Four-year institutions charged , on average, $26,120 in tuition, board and other fees in 2015-16, compared with $5,504 in 1985-86. No matter how it’s defined, we know the U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 5, 2018

In New Orleans, the large number of dropouts who lack HiSET credentials drives the astronomically high count of so-called “opportunity youth.” But most don’t take the test immediately after dropping out. The alternative is riskier: digging in earlier to help lagging students achieve a diploma, but risking a zero score if they fail.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 4, 2017

It is features like these that have helped former high school dropouts like Rocheli Burgos — and other students who have struggled in school — get a second chance at earning a diploma. After giving birth to her son in 2011, Burgos dropped out of her old school when counselors told her that she didn’t have enough credits to pass ninth grade.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 1, 2018

In Illinois, District 428 awarded 73 high school diplomas in 2017, up from 65 in 2013 when there were twice as many juveniles in the system and their average stay was longer. (In 2016, 45,567 young people were held in facilities nationwide, down 20 percent from 2012.)

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

Michael McLaughlin and his mother, Michelle, at Michael’s 2013 graduation. In fiscal year 2015, the federal government gave states about $12 billion, or 16 percent of the excess costs, according to a report by the New America Foundation, a nonprofit public policy institute. He graduated in 2013.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 8, 2017

In fall 2013, she persuaded Martin to enroll at KIPP, in part by pointing to the fledgling varsity team the school had fielded that year. In New Orleans, Friday night football is a big deal,” said Joey LaRoche, who became the principal of KIPP Renaissance in 2013. By 2015, Renaissance had earned a B rating from the state.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 6, 2017

Since 2015, when Florida State University began to counsel incoming freshmen on the wisdom of 15 credits, those who took the advice have actually earned higher G.P.A.’s. To help address the problem, in 2013 CUNY designated that three courses in each of its most popular majors would count toward requirements on every campus.).

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 3, 2017

And the resulting decline in borrowing and dropout rates on those campuses suggest the toll that fees were taking on their students. The fees weren’t necessarily lowered, but since 2013 they have been included in the tuition charge (this year, $26,590), meaning more of them can be covered by financial aid and all are paid up front.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 14, 2020

million public school students were identified as gifted in 2015-16, about 6 percent of the total school population, according to the federal Department of Education. percent, were considered gifted in 2015-16. There are gifted dropouts. School administrators often see gifted education as a frill. Nationally, 3.3

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

now live in poverty, a mark hit in 2013 for the first time in 50 years, according to the Southern Education Foundation. If we can grab them at kindergarten and start to give them the skills that they need in order to be successful students,” says Creeden, “we have the potential to prevent that student from being a high school dropout.”.

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

now live in poverty, a mark hit in 2013 for the first time in 50 years, according to the Southern Education Foundation. In 2013, as part of an effort to head off the digital learning gap, Middletown began to provide every student with a personal device and to equip teachers with the skills to personalize learning for every student.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 17, 2016

Deering High School graduation at the Cross Insurance Arena in Portland on Wednesday, June 3, 2015. percent of students in the class of 2015 graduated, compared with 82.3 It also shows that only 8 percent of high school graduates in 2013 completed a full college- and career-prep curriculum. percent in the prior academic year.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 9, 2017

So in the fall of 2015, P.S. 67 began the year with yet another new principal, this time as part of the city’s “Renewal” program, a last-ditch effort to rescue failing schools. Among its 31 high schools, graduation rates increased in 2i and decreased in eight last year over 2015 (two stayed the same).

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 30, 2018

Aimed at curbing dropouts, improving graduation rates and sending more kids to college and other postsecondary programs, the corps is designed to offset a growing achievement gap in this relatively affluent but increasingly diverse state. “When there’s a budget cut, counselors are the first to go.”.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 3, 2017

When a state budget impasse drained money from public universities and colleges in Illinois beginning in 2015, some were forced to lay off hundreds of employees, shorten their semesters, even warn they might shut down. Enrollment plummeted. Credit ratings fell to junk status.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2019

Kristen Danusis, a former school psychologist who became the principal in 2013, tells me that many of her students live “off the grid,” in households that earn little regular income. Since 2013, the state, dissatisfied with its scores, has shifted through three standardized-testing modules for elementary and middle school students. (On

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Hack Education

MARCH 10, 2017

Following up on ProPublica reporting , “ Florida to Examine Whether Alternative Charter Schools Underreport Dropouts.” ” That’s Rohit Agarwal, founder of TenMarks, a math startup that Amazon acquired in 2013. .” More on AB 165 from the ACLU , which also opposes the proposed law.

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