The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 12, 2023

Whittenberg Elementary School of Engineering groaned in disappointment when they saw the runny mess. Whittenberg Elementary School of Engineering prepare to drop a paper bag with an egg inside off a railing at the school during engineering week. . — The brown paper bag hit the ground with a smack. The third graders at A.J.

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Industry Elementary Education Robotics 129

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 17, 2022

Wilson, 47, started taking courses in 2019, a few months before the pandemic hit and just before he lost his job as an elementary school music teacher. Researchers estimate that, from July 2020 to June 2021, some 321,000 community college students accrued a collective $107 million in debt to their campuses.

Dropout 103

Dropout Policies Data Report 103

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 19, 2023

After a few hours, the elementary school called: Come pick up your son, they told her. She studies how burdensome paperwork and processes often prevent poor people from accessing health benefits. Tameka’s kids have essentially been out of school since COVID hit in March 2020. He was no longer enrolled, they said.

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Policies Online Learning Dropout Advocacy 80

The Hechinger Report

JULY 13, 2021

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. Guilford sent its first batch of tutors to middle schools in November 2020. It’s a long road of recovery.” Read the stories.

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Study Data Report Elementary 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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Strategy Learning Data Dropout 198

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 10, 2021

Curley told Jake she’d love to have him in the class, which covered topics such as study skills, but he needed to promise to upload his assignments every week and come to the live Zoom session every Monday morning. All of the 266 students enrolled at the high school are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a federal measure of poverty.

Dropout 141

Dropout Report Groups Laptops 141

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. Oakland’s partnership, known as #OaklandUndivided , launched in May 2020. OAKLAND, Calif.

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Digital Divide Chromebook Broadband Survey 110

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 20, 2022

Suspensions and expulsions plummeted during the 2020-21 school year, as most school districts closed their buildings and put instruction online to slow the spread of Covid. Studies show not only is it ineffective at improving students’ future behavior, it can also do the opposite. And three days was a lot to miss.”.

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Personalized Learning Learning Data Report 136

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 29, 2022

One of the coolest and simultaneously heartbreaking things to see was that right around March-April 2020, interest in becoming a volunteer with Teen Link just skyrocketed,” said Zanny Shehata, Teen Link’s volunteer coordinator. Plenty of students are willing to take on these roles. Right now, the line has 58 teen volunteers — 18 of them new.

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Accessibility Training Dropout Survey 94

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 10, 2021

Lassen, who graduated from Hamilton High School in 2020, took a year off after high school. Lassen, who Bohannon describes as “like a brother,” wants to study to become a barber and Bohannon will study nursing at College of the Desert. She was elated by the news that she’d been accepted to study nursing.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 19, 2022

The pandemic will create that dropout crisis if schools just focus on 11th and 12th graders and trying to catch them up. Related: More studies mark the pandemic’s toll on student achievement. 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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Dropout Chromebook Report System 101

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Suspensions can also contribute to new problems, such as lower academic performance and higher dropout rates. For years, it was a battle getting Guadalupe to his Phoenix elementary school in the Washington Elementary School District. Dysart Unified School District celebrated its 100th anniversary in 2020.

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Dropout Analysis Policies Report 101

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

She is among hundreds of thousands of students around the country who disappeared from public schools during the pandemic and didn’t resume their studies elsewhere. Missing” students received crisis-level attention in 2020 after the pandemic closed schools nationwide. Some students couldn’t study online and found jobs instead.

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Data Analysis Online Learning Laptops 101

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

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. Maranda Seawood, student support specialist at Washington Elementary School. We feel like we’re in a better place as a school district than we were in October of 2020.

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Elementary Broadband Assessment Dropout 143

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 18, 2021

A recent study commissioned by the Afterschool Alliance found that unmet demand for middle school after-school programs has risen sharply. million middle school students were in after-school programs nationwide in 2020, down from 2.3 million in 2014. In after-school programs, it’s about a lot more than academics.

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Dropout Report Course Groups 140

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Rubio, a junior at the University of Rhode Island who attended elementary school in Central Falls, had already intervened once this quarter. When schools shifted to remote learning in 2020, Superintendent Stephanie Downey Toledo watched another crisis unfolding. What’s his name?” asked Rubio, “Text me the dates you were out.”.

Learning 84

Learning Report Elementary Dropout 84

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 27, 2020

But asking Kentiona to look after her younger siblings — and maintain her studies — seemed like too much. Greenville schools have some of the highest school dropout rates in the state, and Johnson also viewed staying at home as necessary to defend her children’s chances of living an easier life. “I Then Amareon went silent.

Broadband 145

Broadband Digital Divide Education Accessibility 145

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2023

Schools kick students out but call it a ‘transfer’ In 2020, nearly every school district in the nation was forced to come up with a way of providing education online. Another study found that Latino students were more likely to receive disciplinary action than white students. Related: Hidden expulsions? Louis, in the spring of 2022.

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Handbook Learning Online Learning Data 98

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. Banks — all people of color — validated the need for black teachers in New Orleans schools through their studies on teachers of color.

Education 145

Education Outcomes Study Assessment 145

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

Fellows receive monthly stipends that start at $450 and rise each year, up to $700, in an attempt to combat steep post-secondary dropout rates — 33 percent of black college students drop out after one year of college, often because of financial shortfalls. But Albert’s struggles with speech lasted all through high school. “I

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Report Elementary Secondary Classroom 105

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 22, 2020

Elementary students told Pressley they wanted more opportunities to interact with their classmates; one fourth grader suggested Zoom recess. A majority of students experienced a decrease in both the manageability and meaningfulness of their schoolwork during remote learning in spring 2020, the survey found. Credit: Sophie Bograd.

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Survey Policies Groups Report 145

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 14, 2020

On a crisp day in early March, two elementary school gifted and talented classes worked on activities in two schools, three miles and a world apart. There are gifted dropouts. They knew not all their children were especially brilliant — they just wanted to get into the best elementary school in the city. BUFFALO, N.Y. —

Education 145

Education Elementary Report Data 145

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Toward the end of her first semester at the University of Pittsburgh, Sophie Fogel spent every night studying alone in her dorm room, eating lukewarm takeout meals from the cafeteria and wondering why she bothered going away to college in the first place. Credit: Jennipher Acheampong.

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Study Guidelines Strategy Report 103

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. Mana Setayesh. Mana Setayesh.

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Report Survey Meeting Study 114

MindShift

JUNE 18, 2020

Here are some ideas that seem newly relevant given the constraints of 2020 and beyond. In pre-pandemic times, it offered a series of hourlong workshops to family members, mostly in low-income communities, coaching them to set goals and practice specific reading concepts with elementary school-age children. ” Copyright 2020 NPR.

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Khan Academy Survey Dropout Meeting 57

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

He started teaching social studies at Blythewood High School in Richland 2, a school district in the Midlands, in 2005, the same year the school was founded. “I Tyler Wright congratulates one of his 4th grade students with a fist bump at Stono Park Elementary School in Charleston, Friday, Nov. One Alabama town is trying to change that.

Education 134

Education Elementary Data Dropout 134

The Hechinger Report

MAY 30, 2018

Aimed at curbing dropouts, improving graduation rates and sending more kids to college and other postsecondary programs, the corps is designed to offset a growing achievement gap in this relatively affluent but increasingly diverse state. “When there’s a budget cut, counselors are the first to go.”.

Dropout 111

Dropout Training Report Outcomes 111

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 3, 2023

This story also appeared in The Guardian The flooding last fall that devastated the home of Deishangelxa Nuez Galarza, a fifth grader in this coastal area of southern Puerto Rico, also closed her elementary school, El Coquí, for three days while staff cleaned out a foot of muddy water from every first floor room. I want to become a nurse.”

Elementary 104

Elementary Report Dropout System 104

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 14, 2020

Cooper Lane Elementary School in Maryland’s Prince George’s County school district had almost 550 children, 60 percent of whom are Hispanic. The atrium at Mary Harris Mother Jones Elementary school in Prince George’s County, Maryland, is lined with flags from different countries, including those in Central America. And she is happy.

Elementary 143

Elementary Report Exercises Trends 143

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 6, 2022

Collins Elementary School, in southeastern Mississippi, paddled students more times than almost any school in the country in 2017-18, the last year for which there is national data. Johnson is the principal of Mississippi’s Collins Elementary School, where the paddle remains a staple of the educational experience. I signed the paper.”.

Elementary 144

Elementary Handbook Report Policies 144

The Hechinger Report

JULY 24, 2022

per 1,000 in 2020. For example, the Pregnancy Assistance Fund, a $25 million federal grant program that supported services for young parents so they could finish school, ended in 2020. There were almost 160,000 births to 15- to 19-year-olds in 2020. In 1991, there were 61.8 That’s a 75 percent drop.

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Report Accessibility Outcomes Social Media 134

Hack Education

JUNE 16, 2017

Via The New York Times : “ New York to Shorten Standardized Tests in Elementary and Middle Schools.” Via the press release : “ Amazon Announces More Than 10,000 Employee Participants in Career Choice and Expects to Reach 20,000 Participants by 2020.” ” Contests and Awards. ” “Whither Moodle ?”

Education 44

Education Coursera Kaplan MOOC 44

Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 29, 2017

Meanwhile, the state has given initial approval for ECOT to become a “dropout school.” ” A follow-up from Cory Doctorow : “Deluded billionaire gives UC Irvine $200M to study homeopathy and ‘alternative’ therapies.” ” Immigration and Education. .” Upgrades and Downgrades.

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Education Company Data Report 47