The Hechinger Report

APRIL 6, 2022

From then until the coronavirus hit, when she was a 16-year-old precalculus student, Hernandez shined in the classroom. The standards for online learning during her junior year weren’t just lower than they had been in the classroom, she said, “the standards weren’t even there at all.”. “It This story also appeared in USA Today.

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Education Course Report Policies 127

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

The maker industry is projected to grow to more than $8 billion by 2020, and with the maker movement infiltrating classrooms, after-school clubs and homes, it’s no wonder. Next page: How many projects are focused on the classroom?). Maker culture is going mainstream. But where is the maker movement strongest?

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Maker Movement Dropout Robotics Industry 67

edWeb.net

APRIL 30, 2021

The disruptions and changes during the past year have made a return to the industrial education model of the 19th and 20th centuries problematic for school districts committed to preparing diverse students for 21st century careers. By Robert Low. WATCH THE EDWEBINAR RECORDING. LISTEN TO THE PODCAST. Creating a Framework for Innovation.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Related: Millions of kids are missing school as attendance tanks across the US Thousands of students went missing from American classrooms during the pandemic. Tameka’s kids have essentially been out of school since COVID hit in March 2020. Tameka’s kids have essentially been out of school since COVID hit in March 2020.

Policies 83

Policies Online Learning Dropout Elementary 83

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 12, 2023

One week per month, engineers from local industries visit the classrooms and talk to students about their careers. . Across the country, schools have shifted toward career-focused education in recent years, reviving a long-running debate on whether the purpose of education is to prepare students for jobs or to be well-rounded citizens.

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Industry Elementary Education Robotics 130

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 20, 2022

Her online coursework gave teachers no reason to take issue with her classroom behavior. The consequence was an unwelcome reminder that the pandemic isn’t the only thing that can keep her from the classroom. But in October, less than two months after returning to in-person learning in Sacramento, California, she was suspended again.

Personalized Learning 136

Personalized Learning Learning Data Report 136

Edsurge

JULY 29, 2020

In the early months of 2020, her team expanded an attendance campaign called “All In,” from four to 25 schools across the district, which is home to 85 public schools in total. In elementary school, frequent absences are linked to a higher likelihood of dropout—even if attendance improves over time.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 13, 2021

When the kids showed up, educators could see even more clearly how uneven their learning has been during the pandemic. Last year, researchers at NWEA, an independent nonprofit assessment company, published an analysis of data from the autumn 2020 MAP Growth tests of more than 4 million public school students. Read the stories.

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Study Data Report Elementary 136

The Hechinger Report

MAY 22, 2023

These barriers include the cost of higher education, the disproportionate debt Black students and families take on and the discrimination and lack of belonging many Black students experience at college. We are calling for action in four areas: Making higher education truly accessible and affordable for Black learners and their families.

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Mobility Outcomes Accessibility Policies 114

The Hechinger Report

JULY 2, 2021

The dean’s list student ended up a college dropout, a gay 20-something cut off from his parents after coming out, and working at a UPS Store in a job he described as “retail drudgery” while running up credit card debt and stringing out his college loans. You don’t have to have a dime in your pocket and you can get your education.”

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Company Training Industry Dropout 135

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2022

After schools went remote in 2020, Jessica Ramos spent hours that spring and summer sitting on a bench in front of her local Oakland Public Library branch in the vibrant and diverse Dimond District. We have this huge digital divide that’s making it hard for [students] to get their education,” she said. OAKLAND, Calif.

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Digital Divide Broadband Chromebook Survey 111

The Hechinger Report

MAY 19, 2022

PHILADELPHIA — At first, Marie Wilkins-Walker was just happy to be back in a classroom. Wilkins-Walker teaches career and technical education at West Philadelphia High School, where she has worked for a decade. On the floor below Wilkin-Walker’s classroom, David Thiebeau had begun to notice similar challenges.

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Dropout Chromebook Report System 106

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 11, 2021

Students who have been underserved by a deeply inequitable education system often undergo a remarkable transformation at an HBCU. It has amplified HBCUs’ underfunding by putting new strains on education budgets. Across the U.S., for example, some 1. The pandemic has shown how vulnerable these institutions and their students are.

Digital Divide 143

Digital Divide Course Accessibility System 143

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 24, 2023

The 27-year-old is also one of more than 6,000 Washington community and technical college students enrolled in the state’s Integrated Basic Education and Skills Training (I-BEST) program. Statewide data shows students in the program graduate at a higher rate than those enrolled in traditional adult basic education.

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Industry Training Report Course 75

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 28, 2022

The university has done this by luring out-of-staters with in-state tuition prices and by breaking with long-standing attitudes through which higher education sometimes alienates rather than embraces prospective applicants. Related: Colleges’ new solution to enrollment declines: Reducing the number of dropouts. Department of Education.

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How To Report Training Comparison 113

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

In my first year of teaching, I was blessed to have a SMART board in my classroom. My excitement was palpable given that this fancy piece of technology was (and is) a luxury for most educators. At least that was the case for a few months before a screw fell from the ceiling and landed in the middle of my classroom.

EdTech 218

EdTech Learning Blended Learning Dropout 218

The Hechinger Report

JULY 13, 2021

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. Educators and school leaders are scrambling to figure out how to regain ground next year in a course that often makes or breaks students’ life chances. Read the stories.

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STEM Report Course Study 126

The Hechinger Report

JULY 17, 2017

Beginning with the class of 2020, all Chicago Public School students who meet traditional academic requirements necessary to graduate must also present a post-graduation plan before they can cross the stage to receive their diploma. Related: Learning is social and emotional; our classrooms should be too.

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Policies Study Report Training 64

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 27, 2020

Johnson also didn’t want her children to go through the next two months with no educational tools beyond the worksheets she’d picked up from the Greenville Public School District and limited access to online materials through Kentiona’s phone, shared between the four of them. Meanwhile, education is just one role schools fill.

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Broadband Digital Divide Education Accessibility 145

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Hechinger and AZCIR obtained, through public records requests, data from 150-plus districts and charter networks that educate about 61 percent of Arizona’s 1.1 Suspensions can also contribute to new problems, such as lower academic performance and higher dropout rates. million public school students.

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Dropout Analysis Policies Report 102

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

She also didn’t allow Kailani to use her headphones while working independently in class, something permitted in her special education plan to help her focus, according to Kailani. Missing” students received crisis-level attention in 2020 after the pandemic closed schools nationwide. In short, they’re missing.

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Data Analysis Online Learning Laptops 105

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 18, 2021

million middle school students were in after-school programs nationwide in 2020, down from 2.3 In past summers, we’ve done project-based learning, in which students in every classroom come up with their own themes. And as demand is growing, participation has plummeted due to inadequate resources to support after-school programs.

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Dropout Report Course Groups 140

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Eve, on the city’s majority-Black East Side, 13 first graders, all of them Black, Latino or Asian American, folded paper airplanes in their basement classroom as part of an aerodynamics and problem-solving lesson. And admissions for gifted programs tend to favor children with wealthy, educated parents, who are more likely to be white.

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Education Elementary Report Data 145

The Hechinger Report

MAY 26, 2020

Adapted and reprinted from Know Your Price: Valuing Black Lives and Property in America’s Black Cities by Andre Perry, with permission from Brookings Institution Press, © 2020 by Brookings Institution. She’d walk in the classroom, look at the child and ask, “Are we going to do this today?” According to 2015 research by Adam C.

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Education Outcomes Study Assessment 145

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Our reporters are spending the year listening to people from across the country as they manage school districts, lead classrooms, parent students and attend school. As of this fall, it had 198,645 students, compared with 205,778 in the 2019-2020 school year, and was still trying to track down students who’d gone missing.

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Elementary Broadband Assessment Dropout 142

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. Sometimes, there is no system in place for tracking how many students are being punished this way or how many days of in-person classroom learning they are forced to miss. “We

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Handbook Learning Online Learning Data 98

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Emerging at the height of the pandemic, pods (or “hubs” as they are sometimes called) were organized primarily by middle-class, college-educated parents and community groups to provide safe, supportive spaces for virtual learning. The pod program in Central Falls is among the country’s smallest but most ambitious.

Learning 89

Learning Report Elementary Dropout 89

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Amid all this glass, Conner feels a bit like Cinderella—lucky to be getting an educational experience that’s a perfect fit for him. But that decades-long ban will end this summer, thanks to legislation passed in 2020. I became a crackhead to education.” I became a crackhead to education.” I gotta get into college.’

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E-rate Study Report Accessibility 118

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 14, 2020

Most states have some sort of truancy laws on the books, but only about half still have policies punishing truancy with potential penal measures, according to the national policy group Education Commission of the States. Remote learning had given her a look into their classrooms, and she didn’t like what she saw. he is transgender.

Policies 141

Policies Schoology Elementary Report 141

MindShift

JUNE 18, 2020

Wherever classrooms are open, there will likely be some form of social distancing and other hygiene measures in place that challenge traditional teaching and learning. American education has long been full of innovators practicing alternatives to the mainstream. Future outbreaks will make for unpredictable waves of closures.

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Khan Academy Survey Dropout Meeting 57

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

More than two-thirds of those students — about 70 percent — are women , according to Education Department data analyzed by the Institute for Women’s Policy Research. Among single, Black and Latino fathers, the dropout rate is about 70 percent. That’s where education becomes a second or third or fourth priority to everything else.”

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Policies Report Dropout Study 134

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

Two years ago, Nathaniel Albert walked into a first-grade classroom at Andrew H. It’s a rarity to see male teachers in the classroom at all on this floor,” James said. We get you talking about your educational experience, get you working with children.”. Photo: Jacob Carroll for the Hechinger Report.

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Report Elementary Secondary Classroom 105

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 22, 2020

Those efforts are driven not only by individual students but also by a movement of youth-led organizations advocating for a greater student voice in educational decision-making. She’s also a senior advisor with Student Voice, a national organization that aims to help students take action on issues involving their education.

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Survey Policies Groups Report 145

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 29, 2022

The Department of Education does not track leaves of absence. Mental health and education experts are working to develop shorter, more accessible models that can be used on any campus and help ensure that more students are able to successfully return from leaves of absence and earn their degrees. Read the series.

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Course Report Strategy System 96

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 31, 2021

When sports practices were abruptly canceled at his school on March 12, 2020, Michael Liao, then 17, started to worry how much the pandemic would affect his school – and particularly his upcoming theater performance. All three planned to graduate at the end of the 2020-21 school year. It threw a huge fork into my plans.”.

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Report Survey Meeting Study 113

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 30, 2020

These days, she spends her time doing counseling sessions via Zoom and Facebook, editing juniors’ essays in Google Docs and trying to contact all 320 members of the class of 2020. Up until six weeks ago, she spent her days in Terra Linda’s College and Career Center, a converted classroom off the school’s busiest thoroughfare.

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Report Meeting Training System 78

The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2018

The housing authority and the district, which manages the school, hired Big Picture Learning, a nationally recognized education nonprofit, to operate it. Vaux’s redesign stresses creating close relationships with parents and community members and ways for student learning to continue beyond the classroom walls.

Report 82

Report Digital Divide Groups Social Media 82