The Hechinger Report

JUNE 18, 2018

Vermont’s experiment in experiential learning goes back a number of years, but it took off in 2013, when the legislature passed a law that lets students meet state graduation standards through work-based experiences. Among Act 77’s aims: to reduce high school dropout rates, particularly among low-income students. (In

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Bryan Alexander

NOVEMBER 10, 2015

This chapter takes us from 2012 through 2013, following the expansion of MOOCs across American research-1 institutions and the breakout of Coursera, edX, and Udacity. DeMillo sees MOOCs as unbundling academic content, specifically extracting lectures and the possibility of assessment from the rest of university functions.

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The Innovative Educator

DECEMBER 31, 2016

If you want to learn about progressive ideas in the areas of grading, assessment, and homework, check out Joe's book, De-Testing + De-Grading Schools , one of his talks , and his blog. In 2013 I sat next to Deven in Washington D.C. You may also appreciate his 140Edu Talk where he explains high school dropouts is not a crisis.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2023

Although they’re still committed to getting people in the door and increasing enrollment, there’s a heightened focus on assessing how to keep students on track, college completion and students’ achievements after graduating. Meanwhile, Dallas College leaders say they’re ahead because of how they shifted priorities over the past few years.

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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

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.” After an academic assessment, using the Test of Adult Basic Education, or TABE, Irving-Marin asks students about barriers holding them back, and about goals five or 10 years in the future.

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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. Every fall, each student is tested to assess any gaps in skills and knowledge.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

Michael McLaughlin and his mother, Michelle, at Michael’s 2013 graduation. Schools are supposed to revise the IEP document annually in partnership with the student’s parents and conduct a barrage of assessments to reevaluate the child’s disability classification every three years. He graduated in 2013. But he still struggled.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2022

The district relied on individual schools to call families, while its department of research, assessment and data conducted surveys at individual school sites to find out whether families had an internet connection and computer access. We didn’t even have infrastructure on tracking devices,” Thomas said. for the nonprofit.

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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

MAY 22, 2019

When he moved from principal of the high school to superintendent in 2013, he initiated a conversation about priorities with school board members, educators and the community. Teachers now assess students’ proficiency across four categories: basic, approaching, proficient and advanced.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2018

Vaux closed in 2013 amid a wave of citywide school closures. By the time it closed in 2013 along with more than 20 other schools in the district, over three-quarters of Vaux students were not reading or performing math at grade level, according to state records. David Bromley, executive director of Big Picture Philadelphia.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 17, 2016

It also shows that only 8 percent of high school graduates in 2013 completed a full college- and career-prep curriculum. students’ stagnating and even declining proficiency rates at some grade levels in reading and math on a national assessment. How do you know” that students are actually leaving high school better prepared, she asked.

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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. Black hat,” Valenti-Barone instructed them, “add a few more details.”.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 15, 2014

Learn about the resources that can help district leaders develop the next generation network infrastructure necessary to support multiple mobile devices on and off campus, the delivery of digital content, and administration of online assessments. The NEA shared this article that discusses nation-wide efforts to re-engage high school dropouts.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 9, 2017

Last year 27 percent of children passed the state English exam, up from 5 percent in 2013. “We She not only treats patients, she goes into homes to assess risk factors. We wouldn’t be able to go into the academic work without these other things in place,” Coviello said.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 11, 2018

According to administrators, between 2013 and 2016, the district of about 19,000 students slashed its number of expulsions and out-of-school suspensions from 1,628 to 475. Highline’s out-of-school suspensions plunged by 71 percent between 2013 and 2016, according to district administrators. Progress was swift. In 2012-13, 10.4

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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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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

Since 2013, when the school switched to its skills-based curriculum, Juarez has seen gains in graduation rates and college acceptance that seemed unlikely for a school that had been on academic probation since 1996. Calendar-driven midterm and final exams are jettisoned in favor of ongoing assessments. The results have been dramatic.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 31, 2019

In the 2013-14 school year, there were 125 new arrivals who were English learners, according to district officials. Luís’ uncle in Patchogue, a U.S. citizen, offered to sponsor him while he made a case for asylum, and he joined a growing number of immigrant students who arrived in Patchogue-Medford. Four years later, there were 212.

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