Reading By Example

APRIL 12, 2017

She is participating in Genius Hour in her classroom. This seems to fly in the face of research, such as John Hattie’s meta-analysis that homework has a negligible effect in elementary school and a significant one at the secondary. Storytelling is a skill they have been working on for a while.

Policies 37

Policies Secondary Analysis Examples 37

eSchool News

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Our mission within the Office of Information and Analysis is to provide solutions that support more effective teaching and learning. Using data for advocacy Increasing funding to expand our collection of audiobooks is just one example of the many ways we’re using data for advocacy.

Data 110

Data Advocacy Libraries eBook 110

MindShift

JULY 15, 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. Both Obimma and VonSeggen tutored remotely, but some tutors have come back into the classroom along with the students.

Study 42

Study Advocacy Training Groups 42

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 2, 2023

Her two youngest, both attending Vancouver’s Washington Elementary School, had struggled with remote learning and still lagged their peers in basic math and reading. At Washington Elementary School, in the Vancouver school district in Washington state, 16 students were identified as homeless in 2021-22.

Elementary 124

Elementary Report Advocacy Secondary 124

Edsurge

OCTOBER 5, 2020

and since learning inside was deemed dubious at best, the classroom was moved outdoors, where group gatherings were considered safe. They created a sort of how-to manual for outdoor learning, detailing everything from campus site assessments and classroom infrastructure to case studies and curriculum. And in the Chicago one, too.

Learning 218

Learning Analysis Assessment Groups 218

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 11, 2023

Absences were more prevalent among Latino, Black and low-income students, according to Dee’s analysis. They cost crucial classroom time as schools work to recover from massive learning setbacks. When classrooms closed in March 2020, Negrón in some ways felt relieved her two sons were home in Springfield.

Analysis 76

Analysis Report Data Advocacy 76

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 6, 2022

But a first-of-its-kind analysis by The Hechinger Report and the Arizona Center for Investigative Reporting has found that attendance-related suspensions are pervasive, in some districts accounting for more than half of all in-school suspensions. Arizona collects limited discipline data from its districts. Credit: Isaac Stone Simonelli/AZCIR.

Dropout 101

Dropout Analysis Policies Report 101

Doug Levin

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

" Tagged on: September 18, 2017 Too Much Technology in AR Elementary Schools? | Arkansas Matters → Arkansas lawmakers want to take a closer look at technology in schools and ask if it's really helping- not hurting- students.

EdTech 150

EdTech Industry Survey Laptops 150

Doug Levin

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

" Tagged on: September 18, 2017 Too Much Technology in AR Elementary Schools? | Arkansas Matters → Arkansas lawmakers want to take a closer look at technology in schools and ask if it's really helping- not hurting- students.

EdTech 150

EdTech Industry Survey Laptops 150

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

A Center for Public Integrity analysis of district-level federal education data suggests roughly 300,000 students entitled to essential rights reserved for homeless students have slipped through the cracks, unidentified by the school districts mandated to help them. Credit: Zoë Meyers for the Center for Public Integrity.

Analysis 70

Analysis Policies Report Advocacy 70

Hack Education

DECEMBER 29, 2017

The report is always a big deal in technology circles – “a tech industry event in its own right,” as Wired’s Steven Levy put it in 2012 – and many publications and pundits dutifully cover Meeker’s observations, often adding very little analysis of their own.

Trends 56

Trends Coursera Company Personalized Learning 56

techlearning

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

CURRICULUM ASSOCIATES AQUIRES MOTION MATH ( www.curriculumassociates.com ) & ( motionmathgames.com ) Curriculum Associates has acquired Motion Math to further help elementary students improve their math fluency and number sense in key conceptual areas. These solutions will be offered to school librarians in the U.S.

Tools 70

Tools PresenceLearning Edmodo Blackboard 70

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

Cruz, who had worked for several years teaching kids with autism in a special needs classroom, noticed the shifts and, suspecting that they might signal a speech delay, promptly reported them to Jonathan’s pediatrician. The nonprofit offers workshops, one-to-one advocacy, and a monthly Spanish-speaking support group for families.

Advocacy 84

Advocacy Study Report Groups 84

The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2020

Many schools embrace technology in the classroom as a route to these students’ hearts. Shelby Villegas, sixth grade math teacher at Whispering Wind Academy Elementary School in Phoenix. Shelby Villegas, a sixth grade math teacher at Whispering Wind Academy Elementary School in Phoenix, is in her third year with Summit.

Learning 122

Learning Laptops Personalized Learning Data 122

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Their absence in classrooms is deeply felt, especially in states like South Carolina where almost a fifth of students are Black. While teacher vacancies are affecting all educators, experts say if South Carolina wants its Black students to succeed, it can’t afford to lose any more Black men in the classroom.

Education 134

Education Elementary Data Dropout 134

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 7, 2020

But when schools shuttered for the coronavirus last spring, Vaughn gained a slew of new responsibilities, like helping her kids access virtual classrooms and coordinating the special education services they receive. Meghan Whittaker, director of policy and advocacy at the National Center for Learning Disabilities.

Education 145

Education Advocacy Policies Report 145

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

“The communities that need the most will face the biggest hits,” said Zahava Stadler, special assistant for state funding and policy at The Education Trust, a nonprofit education research and advocacy organization. “If A math teacher at Trevor Browne High School in Phoenix teaching online in an empty classroom.

Laptops 128

Laptops System Policies Meeting 128

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 1, 2017

In the 2015-16 school year, none of the social studies textbooks listed for use in the state’s fourth grade classroom was published before 2005. The Civil Rights Movement was once a footnote in Mississippi social studies classrooms, if it was covered at all. Photo: Terrell Clark for The Hechinger Report. In contrast, James K.

Study 87

Study Report Analysis Course 87

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 21, 2020

Central Holmes Christian School, a private school in the county, reopened for in-person classes this month but Jefferson is reluctant to send her nephew into a classroom at this point. Classrooms here, which never fully integrated after Jim Crow, have long been at the frontlines of a battle against poverty and for equal opportunity.

Advocacy 100

Advocacy Report Accessibility Tablets 100

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 17, 2018

The school’s halls and classrooms are bright and airy, with high ceilings and oversize windows looking out across the lush landscape. The guide also noted that starting in elementary school, all students take Spanish, art and music classes. There is even a terrace on which students can work on warm days. Department of Education.

Report 112

Report Company Data Meeting 112

The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2022

Woods said he won’t stop having those conversations when Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay” law, which limits classroom discussion about sexual orientation and gender identity, takes effect this summer. Related: What do classroom conversations around race, identity and history really look like? Credit: Image provided by Michael Woods.

Survey 22

Survey Elementary Advocacy Report 22

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Warm classrooms in the 60-year-old building would smell like urine, her co-workers told her. Rand recognized the classroom sets of literature books she studied from as a senior. White students account for less than 5 percent of enrollment in these districts, according to a Hechinger Report analysis of state data.

Outcomes 139

Outcomes Elementary Report Resources 139

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

According to the most recent data available, teachers and school staff send thousands of classrooms’ worth of students to the police each school year. At least 51,000 of those incidents resulted in an arrest, according to a Hechinger Report analysis of federal data compiled by the Office for Civil Rights at the U.S.

Report 140

Report Analysis Data Training 140

The Hechinger Report

JULY 6, 2016

Luis Antonio Hernandez reads a story about Cinco de Mayo to students in Christy Crotwell’s first grade class at Morton Elementary School. He’s the only full-time translator at the school, which has 152 Spanish-speaking students in its 21 classrooms. He reads each page twice — once in English, once in Spanish. Photo: Ben Stocking.

Elementary 88

Elementary Training Classroom Company 88

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.

Elementary 144

Elementary Handbook Report Policies 144

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 19, 2019

Taheem Fennel poses for a picture with his mom and stepdad after his fifth-grade graduation ceremony at Bancroft Elementary School. The staff at Bancroft Elementary School suggested counseling, and his mother eagerly accepted the help. Photo: Nichole Dobo / The Hechinger Report. WILMINGTON, Del. He had angry outbursts. Proof Points.

Elementary 119

Elementary Report System Training 119

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 27, 2021

Casagranda said in one classroom at Seward High School there’s a “huge leak in the ceiling panel.” A ceiling panel damaged by water inside a classroom at Seward High School, pictured in May 2021, is the result of a warranty issue that the Kenai Peninsula Borough School District maintenance team said it is working to resolve.

Report 97

Report System Broadband Study 97

Hack Education

DECEMBER 17, 2017

But this year, I’m reorganizing my analysis of these “trends,” partly because I think they can all be subsumed under the larger theme of “the new economy.” These have all been separate articles in each series. ” (Ha. ” “Everyone should learn Salesforce.”

Robotics 59

Robotics MOOC Training Industry 59

The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2020

Such descriptions of climate change are muddled and misleading, according to four climate scientists who reviewed them as part of a Hechinger/HuffPost analysis of 32 middle school and high school textbooks and digital curricula and what they say on the subject. It’s very common to face backlash in the classroom.”.

Pearson 129

Pearson Guidelines Company Report 129