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

The Hechinger Report

So our daily greeting provides a positive interaction before they get into their classroom.”. When kids perform poorly in the classroom, it’s the schools that are held accountable, but those who work with low-income students said that academic struggles are often the least of a child’s problems. “We

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A charter chain thinks it has the answer for alternative schools

The Hechinger Report

ussell Rumberger, author of “Dropping Out: Why Students Drop Out of High School and What Can Be Done About It” and director of the California Dropout Research Project, has studied alternative schools. The difference may be that they may spend less time in their classroom, but they’re taking responsibility of their own learning,” she said.

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All ninth graders study at the local 4-H center in this Maine district

The Hechinger Report

Working with Ryder Scott, the statewide director of the University of Maine 4-H Camp and Learning Center, Murphy created a program that merged outdoor and farm-based education with academic instruction, ultimately creating a faculty of five: a humanities teacher, a science teacher, an outdoor education teacher and two 4-H professionals.

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Where Are Quality Instructional Materials for English Language Learners?

MindShift

Research has shown that a majority of the educators who teach English-language learners (ELLs) are creating their own instructional materials — often with little oversight — that don’t necessarily match the student’s grade level or the rigor required by state academic standards. Those statistics recently prompted the U.S.

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High schools fail to provide legally required education to students with disabilities

The Hechinger Report

In some cases that means being given more time on tests or being offered the option of using technology for written assignments; in other cases it means having an aide in the classroom working with them individually. Within each disability, there is variance in severity and how the disability reveals itself in a classroom.

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OPINION: We need more teachers of color. Getting there requires ambitious equitable solutions

The Hechinger Report

Marie Lewis in her classroom at New Providence Middle School in Clarksville, Tennessee. Yet research tells us that exposure to a Black teacher in elementary school can reduce the high school dropout rate for low-income Black male students by 39 percent. Better preparing candidates for licensure exams and rigorous academic standards.

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