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These students are finishing high school, but their degrees don’t help them go to college

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DECEMBER 1, 2017

This story was produced by The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education, in partnership with the Huffington Post. Candace Cortiella, the director of The Advocacy Institute. Related: How one district solved its special education dropout problem.

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Why haven’t new federal rules unleashed more innovation in schools?

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DECEMBER 6, 2017

Photo: Kate Flock for The Hechinger Report. The bad news is we’re not seeing a lot of innovation or discussion around personalized learning,” said Claire Voorhees, national policy director for the Tallahassee, Florida-based Foundation for Excellence in Education, an advocacy group for personalized learning.

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How one city closed the digital divide for nearly all its students

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APRIL 14, 2022

Credit: Javeria Salman/ The Hechinger Report. “We Credit: Javeria Salman/ The Hechinger Report Boxes of #OaklandUndivided devices wait for student pickup at Castlemont High School in May 2021. Credit: Javeria Salman/ The Hechinger Report. Credit: Javeria Salman/ The Hechinger Report. The homework gap isn’t new.

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How one district went all-in on a tutoring program to catch kids up

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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. The post How one district went all-in on a tutoring program to catch kids up appeared first on The Hechinger Report. Your stories.

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The community college “segregation machine”

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DECEMBER 13, 2017

Photo: Meredith Kolodner/The Hechinger Report. This story was produced jointly by inewsource San Diego, a data-focused investigative news organization, and The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. Sign up for our newsletter. The results have been promising.

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The vast majority of students with disabilities don’t get a college degree

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NOVEMBER 10, 2017

Photo: Karen Salomon for The Hechinger Report. This story was produced by The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education, in partnership with the Huffington Post. Adam Salomon at his high school graduation. In the end … a lot of the onus will come back on the school.

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The ‘forgotten’ part of special education that could lead to better outcomes for students

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DECEMBER 15, 2017

This story was produced by The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education, in partnership with the Huffington Post. Photo: Jackie Mader/The Hechinger Report. An accurate and thoughtful assessment of a student’s abilities and interests. He blames the system.

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More students are graduating but that’s not the whole story

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OCTOBER 17, 2016

who used a press call with reporters to showcase some of the Obama administration’s flagship efforts, such as investing in high-quality early childhood programs, offering competitive grants for school improvement, and boosting classroom technology capabilities , particularly in high-need urban and rural communities. That’s a gain of 4.2

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Tipping point: Can Summit put personalized learning over the top?

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JANUARY 16, 2017

Bits of student performance data are only just starting to trickle out of the pilot schools, so it’s too early to assess most of them quantitatively. Summit partnered with Stanford’s Center for Assessment, Learning, and Equity to develop the rubric for evaluating the cognitive skills in each grade. It’s easy to do it superficially.”.

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Georgia program for children with disabilities: ‘Separate and unequal’ education?

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MARCH 21, 2017

Ten years later, the couple sat across a wooden table from Caleb, now 16, a high school dropout and, as of September, survivor of a suicide attempt. His paltry education was much like that of dozens of other children in the GNETS system whose experiences this reporter researched. The truth of it is, we know how to educate these kids.

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The messy reality of personalized learning

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JULY 10, 2019

Tammy Kim, for The Hechinger Report. Nearly two decades ago, the reporter Todd Oppenheimer documented the aggressive rise of emerging Silicon Valley technologies — personal computers and the Internet — in the nation’s public schools. Tammy Kim, for The Hechinger Report. Tammy Kim, for The Hechinger Report.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2018

Via Vox : “Brazilian media report that police are entering university classrooms to interrogate professors.” Via The Chronicle of Higher Education : “Economic Boom Isn’t Helping Some Student-Loan Debtors , Advocacy Group Says.” How a College Dropout Plans to Replace the SAT and ACT.”

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