The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 1, 2017

The alternative diploma, attained through the LEAP Alternate Assessment, Level 1 (LAA1) graduation pathway, allows students with severe disabilities to forgo typical academic expectations and requirements, and it doesn’t end with the high school diploma. Related: How one district solved its special education dropout problem.

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Dropout Advocacy Outcomes Report 80

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 14, 2019

Though some programs have helped lower dropout rates and improved graduation rates for students of color, the gap in the percentage of students finishing a degree has barely budged across the 30 community colleges in the Minnesota State Colleges and University system. System leaders don’t dispute that assessment.

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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.” It’s not entirely a rosy account.

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Edsurge

JULY 28, 2016

The district is also known for having one of the largest dropout rates and one of the highest pupil-to-teacher ratios in the country. Teachers Know Best, 2015 Report Ebook platforms can provide scaffolding that English language learners need, such as audio enhancements and highlighting features that help support the reluctant readers.

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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

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

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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Dropout Policies Report Course 99

TeachThought - Learn better.

OCTOBER 26, 2015

MOOCs are great ideas, but assessment and feedback loops and certification are among the many issues holding them back. The most exciting thing I’ve seen come out of higher ed in years was Stanford’s announcement in April 2015 that its tuition will now be free any student from a family that earns less than $125,000 a year.

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Examples MOOC E-rate Dropout 40

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 24, 2023

Among students who started college from 2015 to 2018, an average of 52 percent enrolled in I-BEST classes earned a degree or certificate within four years compared to 38 percent of students who did so while enrolled in traditional adult basic education coursework, according to the Washington State Board for Community and Technical Colleges.

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Industry Training Report Course 73

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 8, 2017

These children made up less than 2 percent of public school students in every state during the 2015-2016 school year. She fought for years and went to court to stop her district from giving her daughter certain assessments. But parents and advocates say that other 10 percent are often assumed to be less capable than they are.

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Education Assessment Report Resources 83

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 7, 2018

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. In 2015-16, more than one-third of all retained students were from grades K-3. 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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Personalized Learning Khan Academy Education Elementary 101

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 22, 2018

Only, rather than sending health care or social service providers to support parents and assess young children’s readiness for school, McDowell is sending teachers directly to kids’ homes — including high schoolers’ — to counsel, persuade and cajole them to graduate on time and plan for their future.

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Report Elementary Study Conference 111

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 3, 2018

Is anyone interested in taking an assessment today?” According to data provided by the university, the school’s first-to-second year retention rate started to rise in 2015. Dobrin lectures on blood clots and vessels, mapping out diagrams on a whiteboard. Dobrin asks. Some students fill out a handout or watch a video online.

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Pearson Personalized Learning Report Course 87

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 13, 2017

Rodriguez was forced into remedial math by the community college’s placement test, which assesses a student’s ability to succeed in for-credit, higher education classes. The professor was teaching basic math skills that the 18-year-old had already learned in high school. California part of national trend.

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Report Course System Data 111

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

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. Michael’s IEP allowed him to work in small groups, have extended time on assessments and use a computer for written assignments.

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Education Strategy Report Training 111

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 24, 2019

That fall of 2015, they began rolling out twice-daily meetings where students could talk about their emotions, exercises in which students mapped out their goals and aspirations and lessons to help teachers improve how they communicate with kids. Even advocates of social-emotional learning acknowledge the risks of shoddy programs.

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Strategy Training Report Company 79

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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Education Elementary Report Data 145

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. That’s a gain of 4.2

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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.

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Education Outcomes Study Assessment 145

Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

“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.”. Some teachers also have students assess their own mastery of skills.). Ending Social Promotion.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

Students who routinely miss school get individual assessments and attendance success plans geared toward their unique needs and circumstances. John Barry School (grades pre-K to 5) in Meriden, for example, reduced its chronic absenteeism rate from 21 percent in the 2014-15 school year to 9 percent in 2015-16.

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

. “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.” Some teachers also have students assess their own mastery of skills.).

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Blended Learning Elementary Broadband Dropout 120

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 16, 2017

Nineteen pilot schools participated in 2015; this year, the number skyrocketed, with 113 more joining the Basecamp ranks. Bits of student performance data are only just starting to trickle out of the pilot schools, so it’s too early to assess most of them quantitatively. More than two-thirds of them are district-run schools.

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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

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

Fellows receive monthly stipends that start at $450 and rise each year, up to $700, in an attempt to combat steep post-secondary dropout rates — 33 percent of black college students drop out after one year of college, often because of financial shortfalls. Photo: Jacob Carroll for the Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

Indeed, in a 2016 state-by-state assessment that compared student achievement, chances for success and financial investment per student, Nevada ranked last in the nation. Her father was a social worker and her mother, a high school dropout, worked as a maid, a bus driver and eventually as an attendance officer in the district. “I

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Training Dropout Report Meeting 40

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. “We saw it as a scaffolding until things got better — a short-term, possible solution,” Agnew recalled.

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Education Assistive Technology Advocacy System 81

The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2019

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. Four years ago, only one school out of 39 in Providence used personalized learning; the model has since spread to 25 schools.

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Personalized Learning Learning Chromebook Elementary 98

The Hechinger Report

JULY 24, 2022

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. And perhaps even more worrisome are the outcomes for the children of teenage mothers, who score lower than children of older parents in health, intellectual and behavior assessments.

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Report Accessibility Outcomes Social Media 136

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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