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. The confusion stems from the study design.
The Hechinger Report
JANUARY 12, 2023
Whittenberg, a public elementary school in downtown Greenville, South Carolina, that focuses on science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) in its curriculum. Whittenberg Elementary School of Engineering, a school focused on STEM curriculum in Greenville, South Carolina. Credit: Ariel Gilreath/The Hechinger Report.
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The Hechinger Report
JANUARY 20, 2022
In 2017 it banned suspensions for students in kindergarten, first and second grade. Black girls, like Hatten’s daughter, face the starkest disparities: During the 2017-18 school year, the last for which there is nationwide data, Black girls made up just 7 percent of all girls in public schools but 45 percent of girls who were suspended.
Edsurge
MARCH 12, 2018
Anabel Garza, Principal After realizing modest improvements on tests scores over the past few years, going from 16 percent showing grade-level academic achievement on state exams in 2013 to 30 percent in 2017, the teaching staff has deepened their mission. But early college programs like the P-TECH model have struggled with completion rates.
The Hechinger Report
AUGUST 6, 2019
ATLANTA — When Keenan Robinson started college in 2017, he knew the career he wanted. For an absurd example, if dropouts tended to take classes on Thursdays in their first semester at college, but students who completed their degrees didn’t, then you might worry about current students who are currently taking classes on Thursdays.
The Hechinger Report
MARCH 11, 2018
Each year since, they have won numerous awards, including the trophy for Outstanding Production for the best overall elementary school performance three years in a row, from 2013 to 2015, and again in 2017. Yet, funding for the arts currently shows no sign of rebounding from cutbacks stemming from George W.
The Hechinger Report
APRIL 26, 2019
Among the many other problems dragging down Puerto Rico’s stagnant economy, made worse by hurricanes Irma and Maria in 2017, is a huge high school dropout rate and, among those students who do manage to graduate, a comparatively low trajectory to college — especially college on the mainland — and a high dropout rate there, too.
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