The Hechinger Report

JULY 4, 2017

Sixteen-year-olds share classrooms with 20-somethings, students earn diplomas at their own pace and if anyone has a problem with a peer, they’re encouraged to talk about it like adults. Burgos, too, has relied on staff support for help outside of the classroom. There are 575,000 students in alternative schools nationwide.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 24, 2023

That’s why I-BEST programs feature two teachers in the classroom: one provides job training and the other teaches basic skills in reading, math or English language. I’m an assessment instructor,” Mosser said. Statewide data shows students in the program graduate at a higher rate than those enrolled in traditional adult basic education.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 8, 2017

Mast and her family decided to leave their home in Tennessee for Kansas, where they could put Rachel into a school system that offered a better education and would include her in an integrated classroom. These children made up less than 2 percent of public school students in every state during the 2015-2016 school year.

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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.” All through elementary school, she’d excelled in the classroom, though she spent a lot of time in the principal’s office. “My But most don’t take the test immediately after dropping out.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

OCTOBER 26, 2015

The flipped classroom movement seems to, in pockets, be threatening the college lecture. MOOCs are great ideas, but assessment and feedback loops and certification are among the many issues holding them back. Reduce the college dropout rate to closer to 10% (than the current 40%+). We shall see. And iTunesU. Which is dumb.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 7, 2018

As a freshman, she constantly got into fights, and spent long hours in a disciplinary classroom. In the mid-2000s, Louisiana implemented high-stakes tests known as Louisiana Educational Assessment Program, or LEAP, which required fourth and eighth graders to show that they were grade-level proficient. percent national average.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 1, 2018

Rogers Elementary became one of five schools in the Dallas Independent School District to pilot personalized learning in 2015-16, principal Lisa Lovato said she and her team grappled with decisions on granular issues, such as “How long should it take a kindergartner to log into a computer?” Photo: Laura Pappano for The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

In some cases that means being given more time on tests or being offered the option of using technology for written assignments; in other cases it means having an aide in the classroom working with them individually. Within each disability, there is variance in severity and how the disability reveals itself in a classroom.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 24, 2019

But first, the kids in teacher Meghan Groves’ first-grade classroom were taking a moment to share their favorite part of the day. “My But they also note many efforts underway to assess interventions and ensure bad actors don’t undermine the field. BRISTOL, Va. — I can tell my teacher it was hard and she can help me.”.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Eve, on the city’s majority-Black East Side, 13 first graders, all of them Black, Latino or Asian American, folded paper airplanes in their basement classroom as part of an aerodynamics and problem-solving lesson. percent, were considered gifted in 2015-16. In PS 61 Arthur O. School administrators often see gifted education as a frill.

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

Like a few other students of hers, Karim would spend his lunch period in her classroom, where she would give him some extra academic help. A prevailing sentiment among the teachers is how impossible it is to effectively support students in the classroom while ignoring what happens once they leave. Middletown, N.Y.

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

Like a few other students of hers, Karim would spend his lunch period in her classroom, where she would give him some extra academic help. A prevailing sentiment among the teachers is how impossible it is to effectively support students in the classroom while ignoring what happens once they leave. Middletown, N.Y.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 26, 2020

According to 2015 research by Adam C. Wright, a professor of economics at Western Washington University, behavioral assessments of black students in the classroom significantly improve when they have a black teacher rather than a white teacher. The student would sit down as he or she did in Aiken’s classroom.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

Two years ago, Nathaniel Albert walked into a first-grade classroom at Andrew H. It’s a rarity to see male teachers in the classroom at all on this floor,” James said. Those destined to be teachers will enter the classroom and find their purpose in the classroom, Jones believes. Teaching is tough,” she said. “If

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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 students’ stagnating and even declining proficiency rates at some grade levels in reading and math on a national assessment. Brown pointed to U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 16, 2017

. — Using small yellow and orange squares of paper and lengths of yarn stretched between tables and chairs, sixth-grade math students made number lines — including everything from fractions to negative decimals — in a classroom at Walsh Middle School. Related: Must a classroom be high-tech to make personalized learning work?

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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. She visits every classroom every day, which allows her to get to know the kids and give the teachers immediate feedback. “We

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

Third-graders at Alamosa Elementary School in Albuquerque practice reading with first-graders in Carrie Ramirez’s classroom. Students who routinely miss school get individual assessments and attendance success plans geared toward their unique needs and circumstances. Photo: Tara García Mathewson/The Hechinger Report. ALBUQUERQUE, N.M.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

And they’re shocked that we’re actually busy learning stuff,” he said, tidying up his classroom after getting his last students onto the afternoon bus headed for home. Boccia’s classroom walls are decorated with colorful posters of the subjects his students are learning about: the solar system, maps of the world, nouns and verbs.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2019

Kids work alone and in small groups; they sit at tiny desks and on beanbags and sofas scattered around the classroom. The state’s largest district, in Providence, has dramatically increased its spending on web-based instructional programs, from $158,000 in the 2011-12 school year to $928,000 in 2015-16, the latest data available.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 21, 2017

Ten years later, the couple sat across a wooden table from Caleb, now 16, a high school dropout and, as of September, survivor of a suicide attempt. They are often placed in separate classrooms within public schools and spend large numbers of hours on computers using technology that is not aligned with their specific needs.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 24, 2022

Many struggled in the classroom setting, so at Hope House they work with tutors, one on one. A 2015 report by the American Civil Liberties Union of California found that teen moms felt “pushed out” of their schools by educators’ shaming behavior. Credit: Jimena Peck for The Hechinger Report.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 12, 2017

A study released in 2015 found that colleges were increasingly turning to adjuncts to teach online classes, and those hiring patterns – that is, the hiring of part-time, contingent instructors rather than tenure-track professors – have likely continued in recent years as higher education has expanded its online offerings.

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