2013, Accessibility, Dropout and Elementary

School Cellphone Use Contracts Can Reduce Bullying

EdNews Daily

JULY 30, 2019

Eighty-eight percent (88) of 13-17-year-olds have access to cellphones. Ninety-one (91) percent have access to computers, tablets or cellphones. More parents are sending their young children to elementary school with a smartphone. He was one of nine people, globally, to be nominated.

Dropout

Dropout Smartphone Tablets Report

How one city closed the digital divide for nearly all its students

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2022

You don’t have a computer, you don’t have internet, you can’t even access distance learning,” Silver said. RELATED: Racial segregation is one reason some families have internet access and others don’t, new research finds. In May 2021, Think College Now elementary students sit in class after returning to in-person learning.

Digital Divide

Digital Divide Broadband Chromebook Survey

OPINION: What health care can teach educators about the difference between ‘equal’ and ‘equitable’

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 12, 2019

Longitudinal data show that students enrolled in City Connects schools performed better academically and had lower grade retention, chronic absenteeism and dropout rates. He served as Secretary of Education in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts from 2008 to 2013. Encouragingly, pioneers are making headway in this work.

Dropout

Dropout Education System Data

How a Chinatown school is trying to bring more diversity to theater

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. Elementary schools like P.S. 124 are the “new frontier, because upper elementary is a great time to introduce kids to theater.”

Dropout

Dropout Elementary Report Common Core

What happens when two separate and unequal school districts merge?

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 2, 2016

In July 2013, the Mississippi legislature mandated the consolidation of Starkville and Oktibbeha County school districts in an effort to save money and ensure a better education for students in the low-performing Oktibbeha County schools. The school district had a 27 percent dropout rate in 2014. I struggled at first just to keep up.”.

Report

Report Dropout System Elementary

Erasing the Look and Feel of Poverty

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. Compared to white and affluent students, low-income and minority students have less access to nearly every type of educational benefit. The initiative is in place at elementary and middle schools in Middletown.

Blended Learning

Blended Learning Elementary Broadband Dropout

Erasing the Look and Feel of Poverty

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. Compared to white and affluent students, low-income and minority students have less access to nearly every type of educational benefit. The initiative is in place at elementary and middle schools in Middletown.

Blended Learning

Blended Learning Elementary Broadband Dropout

Why decades of trying to end racial segregation in gifted education haven’t worked

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 14, 2020

On a crisp day in early March, two elementary school gifted and talented classes worked on activities in two schools, three miles and a world apart. The gifted program at Eve opened two years ago as a way to increase access to Buffalo’s disproportionately white, in-demand gifted and talented programs. There are gifted dropouts.

Education

Education Elementary Report Data

Canadian schools succeed in nudging one minority group to and through college

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 25, 2016

The number of university programs nationwide that focus on indigenous issues or are designed for indigenous students is up by a third since 2013, according to Universities Canada. Sixty-six percent also offer academic support and mentorship to indigenous students starting as early as elementary school, according to Universities Canada.

Groups

Groups Report Dropout Study

School counselors keep kids on track. Why are they first to be cut?

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.”. Why are women locked out?

Dropout

Dropout Report Training Outcomes

The messy reality of personalized learning

The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2019

In tiny Foster, Rhode Island, teachers at Captain Isaac Paine Elementary School use high-tech methods to teach a largely rural, off-the-grid population. Down Route 6, not far from the Shady Acres Restaurant and Dairy, is Captain Isaac Paine Elementary School. Tammy Kim, for The Hechinger Report. PROVIDENCE, R.I.

Personalized Learning

Personalized Learning Learning Chromebook Elementary

Out of the fields: In a North Carolina county where few Latino parents have diplomas, their kids are aiming for college

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 20, 2019

Part of the disparity starts in home countries where access to education is often limited. In Guatemala and El Salvador, around a quarter of students don’t even make it through elementary school, according to the World Bank, while in Honduras, about 17 percent of children don’t get past primary school.

Report

Report Course Elementary Meeting

A college scholarship meant to help low-income, black students now serves mostly white, middle-class kids

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 27, 2018

At the time, a third of Louisiana’s adults were high school dropouts. Black students make up 44 percent of the state’s elementary, middle and high school classes, but only 17 percent of the students who won the scholarship last year were black. The new convocation center at Xavier University is seen in New Orleans, Monday, Sept.

Dropout

Dropout Policies STEM Outcomes

‘Backpacks full of boulders’: How one district is addressing the trauma undocumented children bring to school

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 14, 2020

Since 2013, there has been a dramatic increase in the number of children like Nando fleeing poverty and violence in Central America. Cooper Lane Elementary School in Maryland’s Prince George’s County school district had almost 550 children, 60 percent of whom are Hispanic. Credit: Kavitha Cardoza for The Hechinger Report.

Elementary

Elementary Report Exercises Trends

Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 29, 2017

’” Via Education Week : “ FCC Seeks Comment on Access to WiFi for Schools and Libraries.” Meanwhile, the state has given initial approval for ECOT to become a “dropout school.” Via the Future of Privacy Forum : “ Law Enforcement Access to Student Records : What Is the Law?”

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Education Company Data Report

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School Cellphone Use Contracts Can Reduce Bullying

How one city closed the digital divide for nearly all its students

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OPINION: What health care can teach educators about the difference between ‘equal’ and ‘equitable’

How a Chinatown school is trying to bring more diversity to theater

What happens when two separate and unequal school districts merge?

Erasing the Look and Feel of Poverty

Erasing the Look and Feel of Poverty

Why decades of trying to end racial segregation in gifted education haven’t worked

Canadian schools succeed in nudging one minority group to and through college

School counselors keep kids on track. Why are they first to be cut?

The messy reality of personalized learning

Out of the fields: In a North Carolina county where few Latino parents have diplomas, their kids are aiming for college

A college scholarship meant to help low-income, black students now serves mostly white, middle-class kids

‘Backpacks full of boulders’: How one district is addressing the trauma undocumented children bring to school

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