The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

You can change one simple thing to help transform your classroom. ” We have a significantly low dropout rate and high on-time graduation rate in Albemarle. But one of the things that I’ve really learned is that everybody has the potential to change something tomorrow. Reasons that Keep Kids Coming Back to School.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

Students participate in morning workshops in advance of national May 1 “Day Without Immigrants” rallies, learning also about the labor rights history of May Day rallies worldwide. And the dropout rate among the first Muniz cohort, the class of 2016, was just 2.5 They learn something in one language and build on it in the other.

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EdNews Daily

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

Famous billionaire college dropouts like Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates, and the late Steve Jobs are prominent examples of successes who never completed undergraduate degrees. Although we may make much of college dropout successes, remember this: The biggest Internet Age success of all — Google — was started within a graduate program, as a Ph.D.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 19, 2022

PHILADELPHIA — At first, Marie Wilkins-Walker was just happy to be back in a classroom. On the floor below Wilkin-Walker’s classroom, David Thiebeau had begun to notice similar challenges. The pandemic will create that dropout crisis if schools just focus on 11th and 12th graders and trying to catch them up.

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MIND Research Institute

NOVEMBER 8, 2016

A photo posted by Eating Around So Cal (@eatingaround) on Nov 4, 2016 at 8:17pm PDT. Lifetime Achievement Honoree: Marian Bergeson (1925-2016). While teaching, Marian proved wrong the prevailing notion that many children were incapable of success by actively engaging her students in hands-on, project-based learning.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

While general education classrooms at Covina High School in this town in the Valley east of Los Angeles were stocked with algebra and geometry books, Parry was given a book that covered only basic math. Parry said his room was a “horrible little classroom in the back of the campus that no one knew existed.” Sign up for our newsletter.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 1, 2017

As of 2016, Louisiana and 23 other states had alternative diploma or certificate options specifically for students with disabilities, each state with its own system. Related: How one district solved its special education dropout problem. Future of Learning. Mississippi Learning. Here’s why they’re not. Weekly Update.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 6, 2019

In meetings with his academic adviser during the second semester of his freshman year, Robinson said he learned that though his GPA was solid, the school’s computer algorithm saw trouble. For more stories about education, opportunity, and how people learn subscribe to the Educate podcast. But that progress may come at a cost.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 9, 2018

The repercussions of not learning to read are magnified for poor children: Research shows that low-income children who cannot read at grade level by third grade are six times more likely to become high school dropouts. “In Children do not come wired to learn how to read: It is an acquired skill. It’s simply malpractice.”.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 1, 2018

In 2016, 45,567 young people were held in facilities nationwide, down 20 percent from 2012.) Sophia Jones-Redmond, superintendent of the district, which serves students from ages 13 to 21, said that a blended-learning model has been a major factor in this success. Source: PEARSON CONNEXUS.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 18, 2018

Wess Wheeler (L), an independent learning opportunity student at Randolph Union High School, and Miles Hooper, manager and co-owner of Ayers Brook Goat Dairy farm, among the goats. Miles Hooper, the 26-year-old manager of Vermont’s largest goat farm, remembers what it’s like to be 16 and not want to be in a classroom. . RANDOLPH, Vt.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 14, 2019

Others have revamped remedial education, a major stumbling block for students who are forced to repeat subjects they should have learned in high school. As the college itself put it in its 2016 equity and inclusion plan : “The community college does not look like the community.”. I felt like I needed mirrors in the classroom.”.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 27, 2016

No longer, he says, does it make sense for colleges to divorce technology from teaching and learning. FUN SAD FACT: According to Avi Yashchin, Senior Offering Manager at IBM Watson: “Sadness [sentiments] in incoming freshman college application essay is the sixth strongest predictor of dropout.” 1 priority for 2016?

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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. As I reflect on the upcoming 2016-2017 school year, I wonder how this negativity has affected my own 5th grade reading classroom. What offers a wealth of literary resources?

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 13, 2021

And Shayla Savage, a middle school principal, said that when her students returned to in-person learning this spring, she noticed differences beyond just their math and reading progress compared to previous years. “We Even with the physical aspect of school, the learning loss is real all across the board.”. Read the stories.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 17, 2017

Chicago’s mayor, Rahm Emanuel, and the city’s Chief Education Officer Janice Jackson hope to raise a million dollars for the “ Learn. Even though the unemployment rate has improved in the last decade, the class of 2016 joined “a sizable backlog of unemployed college graduates” dating back to 2009, the study found.

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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.” Future of Learning. Mississippi Learning. In 2016 schools earned the 25-point incentive for a total of only 41 students citywide; the 2017 total was worse, a mere 17 students.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 13, 2021

So he has no idea if they’re learning. So, we’ve spent several months traveling the country learning from schools applying best practices and from researchers and educators who have studied what works. For many students it’s been a lonely year, and algebra is tougher to learn while peering at a screen, say teachers and researchers. “I

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The Thinking Stick

JUNE 15, 2016

Then “Doing the Work” to start changing teaching practice to understand how to make the most of this new tool and connected classrooms…it’s been tough but exciting. Let’s see, you made a transition from a PC to Mac operating system, you are learning and are continuing to learn the power of Google Apps for Education.

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MindShift

JULY 9, 2018

The repercussions of not learning to read are magnified for poor children: Research shows that low-income children who cannot read at grade level by third grade are six times more likely to become high school dropouts. Children do not come wired to learn how to read: It is an acquired skill. It’s simply malpractice.”.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 22, 2020

He was a responsible kid, eager to learn,” said Rhodes. Elliott’s lawyer told him that he could expect to spend the next two months in jail — and out of the classroom — while the district attorney decided whether to accept his case. She knew how many arrested students never returned to her classroom. She knew his potential.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 28, 2017

Future of Learning. Mississippi Learning. In Riverside, in the classrooms, it was all, like, sit at a desk and just work on an English paper or stuff like that. But, over here, we use a Chromebook, and the classrooms, if you prefer to stand up when you work, a lot of classrooms have high tables with no chairs.

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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

AUGUST 7, 2023

But one day in February, after refusing to go into her classroom and allegedly cursing at her teachers, the seventh grader was sent home to learn online indefinitely. Still, districts nationwide are now placing students in online learning in response to misbehavior, in a process referred to in certain circles as “virtualization.”

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 29, 2019

Now she wants others to learn that history. Funding for McDonogh 35, New Orleans’ last noncharter school, fell from $15,594 per student in 2008-09 to $11,651 per student in 2016-17. Lewis said streamlining his central office staff allowed more money to flow to classrooms and schools.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 28, 2018

I pay close attention to classroom solutions that can meet these students exactly where they are. I’ve spent 16 years serving on and chairing the board of the National Dropout Prevention Center (NDPC) and 25 years leading companies that serve schools and students of all kinds. “Stay out of jail!” Image credit: Achieve3000.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 27, 2016

He had joined the band and learned to play the trombone, but he hardly ever got to play it anywhere. “Too many discipline issues,” he told the Jackson Free Press during an interview at his house in the Washington Addition in June 2016. He was hardly in the door, he said, when he learned the principal wanted to see him.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

He was frustrated enough by how little he was learning that he and his family were on the brink of suing the school district. Now his teacher had so little faith in his ability to learn that she was offering to help him cheat. “If Future of Learning. Mississippi Learning. He rarely studied but still got As. Weekly Update.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 3, 2018

Many of these details are ones that, after 15 years in the classroom, Cruey has learned to pick up on, through careful tracking: what students are wearing, hunger levels and emotional states. If my students learn other stuff, too, that’s great.”. If my students learn other stuff, too, that’s great.”. average of 369. .

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 8, 2017

In 2016, it became the first high school created after Katrina to attain Louisiana’s coveted A grade. So in January 2016, LaRoche hired a new head coach, Corey McCloud, who had experience coaching in high school, college and the NFL. By 2015, Renaissance had earned a B rating from the state. From 3:30 to 6 p.m.

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Edsurge

APRIL 28, 2017

What’s worse, the average 2016 college graduate who took out loans celebrated his or her new degree with a staggering $37,000 in student loan debt. high-profile dropouts and the rise of the so-called “ anti-credential.” Crushing Student Debt: Less than half of graduates left school with student loans back in 1993. At almost $1.3

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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. Future of Learning. Mississippi Learning. Of the district’s nearly 91,000 students, 69 percent were considered economically disadvantaged during the 2016-17 school year. ALBUQUERQUE, N.M.

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

— Digital Promise (@DigitalPromise) February 9, 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. Instead, teachers, aided by learning software, determine students’ strengths and weaknesses and tailor activities toward them.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

He adds, “Differential association—I learned that in one of my criminal theory classes.” At CSUF, 106 students participate, bringing the total to more than 300 since 2016. But back in 2016, she was hired in part to answer the mail. He did, and he learned that he could breathe around them—“like an exhale,” he says.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 11, 2016

Sheryl Javier graduated from Bronx Arena in July 2016, after 8 years of high school. This model demands more resources than those available to a traditional high school, but given that the typical high school dropout costs the state an estimated $300,000 over their lifetime , Cesene argues that the math is elementary. high schools?

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 20, 2019

The Hechinger Report traveled to three counties with very high numbers of adults without a high school credential to learn about the obstacles schools and families must overcome to provide and obtain this essential first step to a middle-class life. The school had fights in the hallways and tedium in the classrooms.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 24, 2017

Future of Learning. Mississippi Learning. Many times, I find, some of my friends go into a classroom, and they’re dealing with things at home. They bring that into the classroom, and the teacher assumes that it’s targeted towards them. And, of course, you know, have your science and math, and learn how to write.

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