The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 17, 2017

While seven of those 27 schools were able to reach 70 percent student proficiency in either English or math in 2016, none had attained 80 percent. At Arise, the school whose name begins with Achievement, not even 40 percent of students were proficient in 2016, based on composite scores for English and math.

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eSpark

JANUARY 5, 2016

Higher standards are right. The president went on to add, "What hasn’t worked is denying teachers, schools, and states what they need to meet these goals. Furthermore, No Child Left Behind’s one-size-fits-all method of evaluating schools has been criticized as incentivizing low academic standards. Blended Learning.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 16, 2017

A robot built by students to research endangered frogs in Lake Titicaca, in Peru, being tested in June, 2016, by Lindsey Hamblin (left), then a Skyline High School senior, and Callie Meyers, then a Skyline junior. In one back room at Skyline High School, you can learn all you need to know about St. Photo: Courtesy of Jeffrey Sylvester.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 5, 2017

In this ongoing series, The Hechinger Report is visiting high schools that have beaten the long odds to learn what’s behind their success in improving graduation rates and sending more students to college. Research found that a $3.5 TULSA, Okla. — The results have been impressive. Robert Balfanz, researcher at Johns Hopkins University.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 10, 2016

But in child care centers across the state, directors — who must, by state regulation, meet the highest education requirements of any employee — are frequently absent from the centers they are supposed to be overseeing. Sign up for our Mississippi Learning newsletter.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

That was in January 2016. In 2016, unintentional overdoses claimed 1,465 lives statewide, up from 613 in 2011. A tainted batch of heroin hit the streets in January 2016, causing 40 overdoses in just two days. Most classes meet in a large central room that feels part art studio, part living room. Photo: Austin Haeberle.

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Edsurge

APRIL 17, 2019

He envisioned a game-based educational platform used by teachers and students to learn about science and the environment. He had the money, at least $13 million raised by July 2016. But at an all-hands meeting at the company’s Washington, D.C. headquarters in June 2017, Planet3 executives laid off the staff.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 8, 2020

Students have at least 40 minutes a day to play during what’s called “Play to Learn” time. On a sunny winter morning in Sara Stevens’ kindergarten classroom at Pathfinder Kindergarten Center, 5- and 6-year olds spread out across the classroom learning about colors, shapes, engineering and design. EVERETT, Wash. —

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2019

Future of Learning. Mississippi Learning. Leave this field empty if you're human: In 2016-17 alone, Premier schools enrolled more than 10,000 students across nine states along the East Coast who brought with them $65 million in federal funding, according to federal data. Sign up for our Higher Education newsletter.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 5, 2018

In 1970, an East Texas-based federal court mandated Longview ISD tackle a long list of tasks designed to make sure its black students were learning and playing in the same classrooms and playgrounds as their white peers — including closing four all-black schools and busing black students to formerly all-white schools throughout the district.

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Policies Data Elementary Academic Standards 58

Digital Promise

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

The Obama administration released a regulations package in December 2016 that they called Equity in IDEA. Another important guidance letter that came out in August 2016 was on supporting students who have behavioral issues associated with their disabilities, ensuring that those students have behavioral supports in school.

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Guidelines Education Academic Standards Policies 162

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 17, 2021

The new policy stands to degrade academic standards and exclude students based on race, she argued, calling it “a backdoor attempt to dismantle the exam school system altogether.” ” “Covid is a fake cover story for those who want to kill the exam.” In January, the Rev.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 6, 2017

Thanks to a work-based learning program offered through nearby Harwood Union High School, Woods has been able to earn math and science credit by working 15 hours a week at the garage, instead of sitting in a classroom. “I’m Related: In this New Hampshire high school, internships shape the future of learning.

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Classroom Report Academic Standards Company 89

eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

We work with teachers and administrators to create life-long learning patterns in students, whether that’s by curating resources for classroom research projects or by coming into the classroom to teach a lesson on how to do research themselves. What does a modern library look like? What are the emerging technologies in a library?

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Libraries Social Media Handbook eBook 93

The Hechinger Report

JULY 23, 2016

The new language supports the rights of parents to opt their children out of standardized tests, demand more oversight of charters and oppose evaluating teachers using their students’ standardized test scores. We all support higher funding, expanding early learning options, better pay for teachers,” said Cunningham. “I

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