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

DECEMBER 8, 2017

These children made up less than 2 percent of public school students in every state during the 2015-2016 school year. Sometimes teachers lack the best training for dealing with a student’s specific disability. She fought for years and went to court to stop her district from giving her daughter certain assessments.

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Education Assessment Report Resources 84

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 24, 2019

Mabe and five teachers traveled to Atlanta, where they were trained in a program to help students control their emotions. But the four-day training session in Atlanta persuaded her and the teachers who attended of the strategy’s promise. I thought it was fluff,” she recalled. Not every teacher liked the new approach.

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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

They spoke of teachers inadequately trained to support special education students. 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. But he still struggled.

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Education Strategy Report Training 111

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

JANUARY 16, 2017

For the last two years, Summit has set out to replicate its success, not by opening more Summit schools, but by offering other schools free tools, training and support to transform themselves. Nineteen pilot schools participated in 2015; this year, the number skyrocketed, with 113 more joining the Basecamp ranks.

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Personalized Learning Learning Elementary Common Core 40

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

At this point, his teaching methods may be more grounded in instinct than formal training. in business, the only formal preparation he’s had to become a teacher was a semiweekly fast-track training program last summer. ” Related: This may be the best way to train teachers, but can we afford it? Photo: Sarah Gonser.

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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. Summit flew Gill and her team to San Francisco, for school visits and training, and won them over.

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Personalized Learning Learning Chromebook Elementary 99

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. What’s more, research has shown that integrating children with disabilities into classrooms, when accompanied by adequate teacher and staff training, yields positive academic and social results.

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Education Assistive Technology Advocacy System 81

Hack Education

DECEMBER 12, 2017

For its part, Udacity has fully rebranded itself as a high-tech job training company, a topic I’ll cover in more detail in a forthcoming article in this series. Meanwhile, the state has cleared the company to become a dropout recovery school. This is the part where someone always cites Arthur C. ECOT refuses to pay.

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