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National test scores reveal a decade of educational stagnation

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Fourth-graders didn’t improve in 2017 in either subject. Photo: Jackie Mader/The Hechinger Report. The average performance of the nation’s fourth- and eighth-graders mostly held steady in math and reading from 2015 to 2017, now marking a decade of stalled educational progress, according to the results of a test released Tuesday.

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What I Learned From My Students Who Became Teachers

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Gariecia was in my Sociology of Class, Gender, and Race elective during the 2016-2017 academic year. In 2018, a report conducted by the Consortium for Policy Research in Education and the Graduate School of Education at the University of Pennsylvania found that 44 percent of new teachers left the classroom in five years.

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Teenage Brains Are Elastic. That’s a Big Opportunity for Social-Emotional Learning.

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Supporting such learning is an explicit priority of the Education program at the Carnegie Corporation of New York , which seeks to advance systems and opportunities that ensure all students reach adulthood with the knowledge, skills, and dispositions they need to participate in democracy and thrive in the global economy. “You

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How to do online learning well? A California district has some answers.

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Credit: Charlotte West for The Hechinger Report. Lindsay Unified has seen significant improvement in academic achievement, graduation rates and the number of students going to college since it created a performance-based system in the mid-2000s. Credit: Charlotte West for The Hechinger Report. Ushering in a new model.

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Not enough students have mentors, and we must change that

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The non-profit organization Mentor, which works to ensure that everyone “has the supportive relationships they need to grow and develop,” conducted a national survey in 2014 of youth aged 18 to 21 and found that one in three reported growing up without a mentor of any kind. Sign up for Hechinger’s newsletter.

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How a dropout factory raised its graduation rate from 53 percent to 75 percent in three years

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Photo: Amadou Diallo for The Hechinger Report. 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. Photo: Amadou Diallo for The Hechinger Report. Research found that a $3.5

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Can ‘Sober High’ schools keep teenagers off drugs?

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Drug use, suspensions and expulsions have put many students here far behind academically. While Massachusetts high schools adhere to the relatively tough Common Core academic standards, at Independence Academy the priority is on meeting students where they are. The standard is what’s appropriate,” Mr. Kain says. “If

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