The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Army veteran Chester Dixon, right, works with William Moore, Georgia Department of Labor veterans representative, to apply for a new skills-based program to get out-of-work veterans trained and back in the job market, in Atlanta. percent of GDP on training people, compared with Denmark’s 0.6 AP Photo/David Goldman.

Training 87

Training Data Report Study 87

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

To lower the dropout rate and keep students on track to earn diplomas, we started a “credit-recovery” program to assist high school students who have lost credit in core subjects due to failing grades or excessive absences. percent in 2015-16. Mary Parish Public School System in Louisiana in 2015.

Learning 69

Learning Dropout Blackboard Common Core 69

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 24, 2023

The 27-year-old is also one of more than 6,000 Washington community and technical college students enrolled in the state’s Integrated Basic Education and Skills Training (I-BEST) program. Purvis is in her first year of study for an associate degree in nursing at Everett Community College.

Industry 78

Industry Training Report Course 78

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 14, 2019

Many are taking steps to diversify their faculty and staff and training them in “cultural competency.”. College dropouts cost Minnesota millions of dollars in wasted subsidies and lost revenue each year. Related: More Hispanics going to college: The bad news? They are still behind . Kelly Field for The Hechinger Report.

Dropout 78

Dropout Secondary Course Report 78

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 6, 2017

Personalized learning advocates had big hopes for ESSA, enacted in 2015. High schools were rated on standardized tests, as well as dropout, attendance and graduation rates. In 2015, RAND Corporation found that in 62 schools using personalized learning strategies, students progressed faster than their peers.

Personalized Learning 76

Personalized Learning Policies Advocacy Assessment 76

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 30, 2019

But the incoming Queens College junior has been trained by the nonprofit College Access: Research and Action (CARA) to help guide students like Tasnia through the transition to college. Ruth Camacho, left, attends a College Bridge training session. Camacho isn’t a professional counselor. At 22, she’s just a few years older than Tasnia.

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Training Report Accessibility Study 100

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.” Through Work and Learn programs, working at a YEP-owned thrift shop and bike shop, she’s been able to earn some money and get on-the-job training. Related: Held back, but not helped.

Dropout 60

Dropout Policies Report System 60

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.

Dropout 97

Dropout Policies Report Course 97

The Hechinger Report

JULY 13, 2021

Only half of students who take college algebra score C or higher in the course, a 2015 report by the Mathematical Association of America noted. Later, math is what most often keeps students from graduating from college, experts say. I’ve had to teach in a lot of different places this year,” he says. Credit: Jeffrey Coots.

STEM 126

STEM Report Course Study 126

TeachThought - Learn better.

OCTOBER 26, 2015

And just as universities haven’t been “job training facilities,” more immediately, neither has K-12. When we seek to train students, we have to ask ourselves what we’re training them for, and make sure we can live with the consequences.” Reduce the college dropout rate to closer to 10% (than the current 40%+).

Examples 40

Examples MOOC E-rate Dropout 40

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

A 2017 study by the Houston Independent School District, for example, found that students participating in AVID in 2015-16 enrolled in higher-level courses and received higher scores on AP exams and on standardized tests than those who did not. An independent study conducted in Washington state showed similar results.

Report 111

Report E-rate Study Training 111

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.

Strategy 78

Strategy Training Report Company 78

The Hechinger Report

JULY 26, 2018

The Plano region added more than 114,000 jobs between 2010 and 2015, according to the city’s economic development team. Nationally, students who graduated from four-year nonprofit colleges in the 2015-16 school year and borrowed for their education left with about $28,400 in debt , according to the CollegeBoard.

Report 93

Report Meeting Accessibility Outcomes 93

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.

Personalized Learning 99

Personalized Learning Khan Academy Education Elementary 99

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

They spoke of teachers inadequately trained to support special education students. Margie Gillis, president of Literacy How, a Connecticut-based group that trains teachers and administrators in literacy instruction, said that what Michael and students like him really need is “explicit and systematic instruction in the structure of language.”

Education 111

Education Strategy Report Training 111

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 22, 2020

So a social worker called his home on a December morning in 2015 when he didn’t come to school. Building on her work at Carver, she recently formed a nonprofit called Alas, which means “wings” in Spanish, to help train educators at every New Orleans school to support students who face legal challenges.

Strategy 114

Strategy Education E-rate Report 114

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. But parents and advocates say that other 10 percent are often assumed to be less capable than they are.

Education 83

Education Assessment Report Resources 83

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 8, 2017

The school jettisoned its “no excuses” policy, provided more training to teachers and tried to attract more locals to the faculty. By 2015, Renaissance had earned a B rating from the state. The players in his spring training sessions started to spread the word that things would be different in the coming season. I mean sports.

Report 53

Report Training Policies System 53

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 4, 2019

Between 2000 and 2015, the number of Latinx college students more than doubled , to 3 million. Between 2000 and 2015, the number of Latinx college students more than doubled , to 3 million. Between 1996 and 2016, their share of overall college enrollment rose from 8 to 19 percent , according to the U.S. Census Bureau.

Dropout 110

Dropout Laptops Study Report 110

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 10, 2022

Proportion who had confidence in higher education in 2015: 57 percent. Related: A handful of colleges are finally providing training in a way consumers want it: fast. Related: Colleges’ new solution to enrollment declines: Reducing the number of dropouts. Proportion who thought so before the pandemic: 60 percent.

Education 143

Education Survey Report Trends 143

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 20, 2019

High school dropouts are much more likely to be unemployed and earn thousands of dollars less per year than people with higher levels of education. That’s the number one obstacle,” said Blaine Dauzat, who became Avoyelles superintendent in 2015. She asked teachers to stay for extra training during the summer.

Elementary 78

Elementary Report Dropout Training 78

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

Education 145

Education Elementary Report Data 145

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2019

Megan Lello, a school district spokesperson, said her agency recognizes the importance of school counseling: Since 2015, the district has added 85 counselors and just one police officer, she said. Dunakin said this lack of support contributes to the high dropout rate among those who do make it to college.

Social Media 110

Social Media Report Dropout Meeting 110

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 3, 2018

In 2015, the abandoned school was burned down in an act of arson. As a teacher, that means Cruey has to learn to roll with the punches, even though those punches so rarely involve the stuff he was trained to do, like devise lessons, assign homework and monitor learning progress. It was previously attached to Big Creek High School.

Dropout 111

Dropout Report System Social Media 111

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.

Personalized Learning 40

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?

Training 40

Training Dropout Report Meeting 40

The Hechinger Report

MAY 30, 2018

Since 2008, it has spent almost $60 million to hire an additional 270 counselors and provide professional development training at 365 low-income middle and high schools throughout the state, via grants from the Colorado School Counselor Corps. Colorado Spring’s District 11 began enrolling teachers in AVID training in 2005.

Dropout 111

Dropout Report Training Outcomes 111

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 3, 2023

Community colleges can help lift students into the middle class, but their enrollment has plummeted and their dropout rates are high. Santos Enrique Camara, who dropped out of Shoreline Community College in 2015, prepares food at Capers + Olives, Friday, March 24, 2023, in Everett, Wash. grade-point average. I gave it my all.

Panasonic 145

Panasonic Survey Report Dropout 145

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

He was voted Blythewood High’s 2015-16 Teacher of the Year. The concept behind the program is recruiting, training and certifying minority men to become elementary school teachers in South Carolina. But by that point, Thorne had also started helping out with the football team as a coach.

Education 135

Education Elementary Data Dropout 135

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.

Personalized Learning 104

Personalized Learning Learning Chromebook Elementary 104

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 3, 2017

When a state budget impasse drained money from public universities and colleges in Illinois beginning in 2015, some were forced to lay off hundreds of employees, shorten their semesters, even warn they might shut down. Enrollment plummeted. Credit ratings fell to junk status.

Policies 81

Policies Dropout Analysis Trends 81

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.

Education 81

Education Assistive Technology Advocacy System 81

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 2, 2017

Approximately 250,000 students were enrolled in the 155 Puerto Rican institutions that received federal financial aid in the fall of 2015, according to our analysis of the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System. Training the locals, people who are likely to stay, is the best way to do this.

Education 78

Education Analysis Study Report 78

The Hechinger Report

MAY 22, 2021

Tuition continued to go up and dropout rates have barely improved since 2015, according to the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center. Administrators are trying to chip away at dropout rates, too, plugging the substantial leak of tuition-paying students they’re losing. There are just too many barriers.”.

Dropout 136

Dropout Data Survey Report 136

Hack Education

JUNE 16, 2017

.” Via The Chronicle of Higher Education : “A state-court jury in Connecticut on Thursday sided with a fraternity whose house was closed by Wesleyan University in the fall of 2015 after the fraternity, Delta Kappa Epsilon, resisted complying with a university mandate to admit women.” The Business of Job Training.

Education 44

Education Coursera MOOC Kaplan 44

Hack Education

MARCH 3, 2017

Via Eater : “Sorry Senator, You Can’t Call Sizzler Training a ‘ Business Degree.’” The funding actually occurred in November 2015 but was not disclosed until required by law. ” Via Real Clear Education : “ K–12 Predictive Analytics : Time for Better Dropout Diagnosis.”

Education 40

Education MOOC Company Pearson 40

Hack Education

MARCH 10, 2017

Following up on ProPublica reporting , “ Florida to Examine Whether Alternative Charter Schools Underreport Dropouts.” ” The Business of Job Training. ” Via The Chronicle of Higher Education : “Highest Representation of Racial and Ethnic Groups at Liberal-Arts Colleges , Fall 2015.”

Education 46

Education Robotics E-rate Social Media 46