The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 13, 2022

By the 2021-22 school year, districts and charter networks across the country were facing what many dubbed a crisis of absenteeism. Agua Fria Union High School District had just 6 percent of in-school suspension days assigned because of attendance problems in 2021-22, compared with 40 percent in 2017-18.

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Edsurge

MAY 26, 2021

It is now time to update this piece for 2021. In January 2021, 40 percent of adults reported experiencing symptoms of depression and anxiety—three times more than the rate in the first half of 2019. Source: A Year in the Life of a Pandemic , April 27, 2021, by Philip Fisher, Joan Lombardi and Nat Kendall-Taylor.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

It didn’t matter that he’d likely never have to teach the geometry concepts that kept tripping him up (Anderson hoped to teach elementary school). That was in 2017. “It Latiker points out, “but he couldn’t teach elementary education because of his performance on the Praxis math exam.” By 2021, that had declined to 15.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Do the word problems pose questions that help students think critically about themselves or the data that they’re using?” The Clayton district’s efforts to develop more engaging and relatable lessons for math instruction began in 2017, Clarke said. Project.” (The

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

million students calculated that in the spring of 2021 students in each grade scored three to six percentile points lower on a widely used test, the Measures of Academic Progress or MAP, than they did in 2019. Students in grades 3 through 8 slid 6 percentage points in reading on state tests in the spring of 2021 compared to 2019.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Black elementary students in North Carolina tended to score higher on annual math tests when they were taught by an HBCU-trained teacher, but not necessarily a Black teacher, according to an unpublished study from a Stanford University graduate student. Credit: Cheryl Gerber for The Hechinger Report. HBCUs are clearly enjoying a renaissance.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

(September 23, 2021—Minneapolis, MN) EmpowerU has reimagined the online portal to its highly personalized, data-driven social-emotional learning (SEL) solution. A one-click portal tab allows a student and the school-based team to visualize student data and progress on personal goals. More than 98.5% About Empower U.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2022

A Tech Exchange employee works in the nonprofit’s warehouse in May 2021. Credit: Javeria Salman/ The Hechinger Report Boxes of #OaklandUndivided devices wait for student pickup at Castlemont High School in May 2021. In May 2021, Think College Now elementary students sit in class after returning to in-person learning.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 4, 2023

Read more Despite policies that require California school districts to report the number of students transferred, the Department of Education’s overlapping and vague data reporting requirements mean it’s often unclear why a student changed schools. The data doesn’t get reported publicly. But the data isn’t reported publicly.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 16, 2022

The latest is an analysis of more than 4 million high school seniors who took the ACT from 2010 to 2021. A 2017 study by a College Board researcher found that grade inflation was worse at wealthier schools. points from 3.22 (a B) in 2010 to 3.39 (a B-plus) in 2021. The top score is 36.) in 2010, but a 3.7

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 3, 2024

Across the 20 states that collect data on the reasons why students are suspended or expelled, school districts cited willful defiance, insubordination, disorderly conduct and similar categories as a justification for suspending or expelling students more than 2.8 million times from 2017-18 to 2021-22.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 11, 2023

Brentwood Union Free School District gave out 466 long-term suspensions from 2017-18 to 2021-22. Related: When your disability gets you sent home from school In 2021-22 alone, the 17 school districts that provided data issued more than 1,600 long-term suspensions, an average of nine per school day.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Data released at the end of the 2021-22 school year showed the district increased math scores by double digits in grades 3-8, outperforming pre-COVID levels. However, there were still 25 elementary schools in the district without access to Hazel’s mental health resources. Through persistent efforts, Ms.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 18, 2021

Researchers at Penn State analyzed 10,000 students and found that kindergarteners in low-income families and Black kindergarteners of all incomes had a higher propensity to be heavy users of technology by the end of elementary school. Our study provides some indication of the groups.”. The Penn State researchers analyzed an existing U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 7, 2022

Papay cited his own 2015 study with Matt Kraft , along with a 2017 study of middle school teachers in North Carolina and a 2011 study of elementary and middle school teacher s. The data are unclear after year 15. . The science has evolved.”. Using test scores to measure teacher quality can be controversial.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

At OHDELA, enrollment more than doubled to about 5,200 students in the 2020-2021 school year, according to state data. All told, according to National Education Policy Center data, more than 330,000 students attended virtual schools in 2019-20, roughly 60 percent of them at for-profits. At Stride Inc., Stride Inc.,

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 4, 2023

In most places, information about how often this happens is hidden from the public, but in districts where data has been made available, it’s clear that Black students are more frequently subjected to these removals than their peers. The ER trips, they say, often follow months, and sometimes years, of the students’ needs not being met.

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eSpark

JULY 1, 2021

In demonstration of this theory, one study found that students who receive adaptive testing paired with individualized instruction show significantly better performance than their peers who receive more generalized instruction (Huey-Min, 2017). #3: The Elementary School Journal, 108(2), 115–130. & Martinez, 1992). Bodovski, K., &

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 15, 2023

The early results of her randomized control trial were so extraordinary that her study influenced not only CUNY in 2016 but also California lawmakers in 2017 to start phasing out remedial education in their state. Many public colleges, from Nevada and Colorado to Connecticut and Tennessee, have followed suit, phasing out remedial ed.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Source: Map is Panel A, Figure 1 in The Effect of Teacher Evaluation on Achievement and Attainment: Evidence from Statewide Reforms , December 2021 EdWorking paper at the Annenberg Institute at Brown University). Forty-four states have adopted some version of a teacher evaluation system that rates, rewards and penalizes teachers.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 5, 2022

Black teachers were more than twice as likely as other teachers in the winter of 2021 to say they planned to leave their jobs at the end of the 2020-21 school year, according to a report released by the RAND Corporation. Yet early data suggests that the pandemic is aggravating the leaky bucket problem. Into a burning house.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 20, 2022

Although national data on discipline for the current school year isn’t expected to be public for several years, The Hechinger Report requested data from a dozen medium and large school districts around the country and found that in some of them, exclusionary discipline is down, even way down.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 5, 2021

Home plate umpire Marvin Hudson called balls and strikes during a Major League Baseball game between the New York Mets and San Francisco Giants in 2017 in San Francisco, California. The study, “ The Dynamics Of Inattention In The (Baseball) Field ,” is a draft paper circulated by the National Bureau of Economic Research in June 2021.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 30, 2021

While the state has implemented several alternative certification options to speed things up, the number of unlicensed teachers in Montana classrooms has more than doubled in the past four school years, from 88 in 2017-18 to 185 last year. He even had one available: The sixth-grade teacher was set to retire at the end of the school year. “We

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 21, 2022

But last February, Ophelia received her first dose; she was excited about starting kindergarten at West Whitesburg Elementary School this fall. Auggie’s friends were okay, but Robinson Elementary School, where he was going to start fifth grade, was flooded. She entered kindergarten this year, but not at Whitesburg.

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edWeb.net

MAY 21, 2021

The 2021 Driving K-12 Innovation report released by CoSN selected the most critical Hurdles (challenges), Accelerators (mega-trends), and Tech Enablers (tools) that school districts are facing with personalized learning, innovation, and digital equity. Juliet Chamber of Commerce “Wilsonian of the Year” award in 2017. Dr. Carol Kelley.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 13, 2022

In January 2021, Seage decided it was time to leap into the education field, leveraging the skills he acquired to make a difference at his alma mater, Christopher Columbus High School. Under his leadership, CCHS was one of the first schools to implement Samsung’s Flip 3 whiteboard in 2021.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 8, 2021

Four new studies released in February 2021 are helping to fill this void. The foundation is planning to try math again as a data science and statistics class, where projects are more feasible. Advocates say that hands-on projects motivate students to learn, think critically, solve problems and work collaboratively with their peers.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 1, 2021

New Orleans was among the top 10 districts nationwide for academic growth in a 2017 study by Stanford researchers of the largest 2,000 school districts in the U.S. We have no ability to say if New Orleans students caught up after Katrina because it’s not the same group of students,” Hill said when I interviewed him in January 2021.

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edWeb.net

MAY 27, 2021

At an organizational level, he recommends consideration of an equity audit, looking in particular at data on the makeup of advanced placement and remedial classes and what types of students and other people are represented in the curriculum and media center resources. WATCH THE EDWEBINAR RECORDING. LISTEN TO THE PODCAST. About the Presenters.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Although the majority of educator-preparation programs saw no or relatively small enrollment changes in fall of 2020 and fall of 2021, 20 percent of institutions saw a decline in new undergrad enrollment that exceeded 10 percent, according to survey data from the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education.

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MindShift

MARCH 16, 2021

Education Department civil rights data, University of Wisconsin-Whitewater professor Scott Peters found that on a state level “equity got worse” in gifted education from 2016 to 2018, with underrepresentation of Hispanic children in a majority of states and of Black students in three-quarters of states, he wrote in an email.

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edWeb.net

MARCH 5, 2021

Gather qualitative and quantitative data. Of course, student outcomes matter, and schools should collect and share data that analyzes the impact of technology. Doug Brubaker has served as Superintendent of Texarkana Independent School District (TX) since January 2021. Brubaker has CoSN CETL certification and a Ph.D.

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edWeb.net

APRIL 14, 2021

They started with four squares—learning, community, character, and joy—leading to five principles of practice meant to prepare children to be the global leaders of tomorrow: innovation, data-informed decisions, diversity and inclusion, partnering, and communication. About the Host.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 7, 2021

Georgetown University professor Marguerite Roza tracks school spending and she’s also seeing a new 2021 trend of schools’ hiring more teachers in order to reduce class size s. Parents and teachers may like smaller classes but the research evidence for spending money on them isn’t strong.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Several said that they would not have such data available even internally until after the admissions cycle wraps up next year. percent in 2017 to 9.2 percent in 2021. About half the institutions responded and none provided the requested information. Ashley’s class at Oxford is 15 percent Hispanic. “I

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 2, 2024

The data show that students with disabilities, like Kyra, are more likely than their peers to be punished for such violations. Similar patterns played out in other states with available data including Massachusetts, Montana and Vermont. In fact, they’re often more likely to be suspended for these reasons than for other infractions.

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