The Hechinger Report

MAY 6, 2019

Before elementary school, the boy was diagnosed with autism, ADHD and anxiety, and in kindergarten he was placed in a small, self-contained class for kids with disabilities. Often, their intelligence masks their disability, so they are never assessed for special education or don’t receive the services best suited for them.

Advocacy 111

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eSchool News

APRIL 14, 2022

The research used MAP Growth assessment data and revealed that while students with disabilities, English learners, and rural students make gains at rates equal to or faster than their grade-level peers during the school year, these students also experience greater learning loss in the summer, leading to persistent achievement gaps. “We

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 22, 2021

The research examined MAP Growth assessment scores from six million U.S. Achievement was lower for all student groups in fall 2021; however, as our data have illuminated before , historically marginalized students and students in high-poverty schools were disproportionately impacted, particularly in the elementary grades studied.

Outcomes 95

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Moreover, children who are expelled in preschool or early elementary are 10 times more likely to be incarcerated. The value of the human potential unlocked by early education and social and emotional interventions is more difficult to assess: it is arguably limitless.

Education 195

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 28, 2022

18, Richmond received an email from the Jefferson County School District: AJ was suspended while the district evaluated his risk of violence, a formal process known as a behavioral threat assessment. Still, policymakers increasingly see the use of threat assessment teams as a viable way to prevent mass shootings.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

It was inadvertently codified in school systems through influential studies led by British psychiatrists Michael Rutter and William Yule on the Isle of Wight in the 1960s and early 1970s. The same thing happened when Chittenden requested another evaluation when her daughter was in first grade. For the child, the results were wounding.

Learning 144

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Waterford

JANUARY 14, 2020

Friends can act as a support system for stressful situations, and if a child feels like they don’t have any friends in school, they may be more vulnerable to toxic stress. Anxiety about grades and assessments is one of the major causes (outside of ACEs) of student stress.[12] Inability to control their emotions. Johnson, S.B.,

Classroom 239

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 29, 2018

Jennifer Gonzalez has released her 2018 Teachers Guide to Technology with over 200 education technology tools including tools for assessment, flipped learning, presentations, parent engagement, video engagement and more. We Don’t Have To Choose Between Assessment and Excellent Teaching. The assessment piece is important for kids.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 18, 2020

The process of assessing students for special education can be lengthy and often requires a barrage of assessments including classroom observations, a psychological evaluation and academic tests. Not all districts have complied, said Dustin Rynders, a supervising attorney with the advocacy group Disability Rights Texas. “In

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MindShift

MAY 6, 2019

Before elementary school, the boy was diagnosed with autism, ADHD and anxiety, and in kindergarten he was placed in a small, self-contained class for kids with disabilities. Often, their intelligence masks their disability, so they are never assessed for special education or don’t receive the services best suited for them.

Advocacy 53

Advocacy Elementary Training Assessment 53

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 6, 2017

“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. These new assessment systems are a crucial component of personalization.

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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. So systems are really trying to figure out, ‘How do we do that?’ ”. “It’s not something we’re going to make up in a summer or in a year.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2022

It’s just been exacerbated by the pandemic,” said Rebeca Shackleford, the director of federal government relations at All4Ed, an education advocacy nonprofit. In May 2021, Think College Now elementary students sit in class after returning to in-person learning. The homework gap isn’t new. Credit: Javeria Salman/ The Hechinger Report.

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edWeb.net

MAY 1, 2020

Steps to encourage a school culture that promotes executive functioning includes analyzing current systems, assessing physical or social learning environments, and providing teacher training and executive function professional development opportunities. Fostering a Culture That Promotes EF.

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ExcelinEd

AUGUST 3, 2020

Last week , Excel in Ed hosted Commissioner Morat h and Jennifer Esterline , founder and director of Educate Texas’ Texas Education Grantmakers Advocacy Consortium , for a deep dive into about the state’s COVID-19 strategy and approach.? ? . Assessing Anticipated Learning Loss. Designing New School Models.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 17, 2016

Education Reimagined, a reform advocacy program that emerged from an unusual coalition of union leaders and reformers, recently highlighted the Cedar Rapids district’s work, and The Hechinger Report spoke with Pickering to learn more about it. They do no better or worse on the state assessment. A: We’re only in our third year.

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edWeb.net

OCTOBER 16, 2018

Imperative 5: Create Balanced Assessments. Assessments look far different than 10-15 years ago, but it’s not just the switch to computerized testing. Successful schools look at assessments as a jumping off point to evaluate curriculum, teaching methods, student engagement, etc.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Prior to the 2021-2022 school year, the district’s assessment data showed math scores were low, contributing to 14 out of 48 schools in the district being identified as low performing in 2019. However, there were still 25 elementary schools in the district without access to Hazel’s mental health resources.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

The National Alliance for Public Charter Schools, a charter advocacy group, issued a document in 2016 along with two other organizations asking states to establish performance-based funding systems that pay virtual charters based on metrics like course completion and calling on charter authorizers to close chronically underperforming schools.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 17, 2017

In 2008, a few years after Hurricane Katrina, school officials in Louisiana asked aspiring charter-school leader Andrew Shahan to consider taking over the failing Dr. Charles Drew Elementary School in New Orleans’ Upper 9th Ward. Related: When a hyped school model proves difficult to replicate.

Elementary 66

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

All students with disabilities need to develop strong self-advocacy and communication skills to make sure they’re getting the supports they’re due, especially in the sink-or-swim real world. When he got to Purdue University in 2014, he didn’t have a system for organizing his deadlines.

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Study Advocacy Report Outcomes 87

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. So systems are really trying to figure out, ‘How do we do that?’ ”. When given the opportunity, then they will succeed.

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MindShift

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

She says it is not unusual for dyslexics to go unrecognized until adolescence and beyond, a systemic shortcoming that effectively abandons struggling young readers during the most critical years of learning. When Billy Gibson, 18, was in elementary school, he couldn’t spell his own name. Disagreements Over Reality .

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Training Report Groups System 78

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 31, 2020

O’Neal Elementary School, in Elgin, Illinois, none of the third graders could read and write at grade level according to state tests in 2019. Just nine miles away sits Centennial Elementary School, where 73 percent of third graders met grade-level standards on that same test. At Ronald D. This story also appeared in Daily Herald.

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Data Elementary Trends Analysis 145

Edsurge

MAY 28, 2019

That didn’t stop Bryan Short, who was a student at the University of British Columbia in 2016 when he got curious to know what information the learning management system at his university had collected on him and how it was being used. So you decided you would start looking into some of the data that the system had collected on you?

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 1, 2022

The system designed to support struggling students is broken—in ways that extend far beyond evaluations, says Nadine Gaab, an associate professor and reading expert at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Why are we not making assessments in the schools better and more comprehensive?”

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Report Advocacy Policies Accessibility 23

edWeb.net

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

The growing concerns about security among families, school systems, and legislature increased teacher and student reliance on internet accessibility. Yet, alarmingly, many school systems are not sufficiently aggressive in getting ahead of cybersecurity. Blog post by Eileen Belastock based on this edWebinar.

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edWeb.net

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Curriculum, Instruction, and Assessment. Assessment of students has also been transformed in many cases, with a greater emphasis on students’ social-emotional well-being and behavioral characteristics, in addition to their academic achievement. Improving the use of the various types of assessment data is another priority.

Technology 88

Technology Blended Learning BYOD Assessment 88

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

In 2020, Baltimore County Public Schools was hit with a cyberattack that disrupted the district’s remote learning programs, froze its operations and cost the school system nearly $10 million. 1, Pennsylvania’s Chambersburg Area School District was the latest school district to be hit with a cyberattack.

E-rate 109

E-rate Advocacy Data Libraries 109

MindShift

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Members of the NAACP and an advocacy organization called Oakland REACH , started by Oakland parents whose kids attend the district’s lowest performing schools, have coalesced around a campaign for better reading instruction they’re calling Literacy for All. She was still struggling to read and other kids teased her for it.

Advocacy 62

Advocacy Elementary Meeting Report 62

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 22, 2020

He was very committed to collaborating with people to come up with a statewide solution around the lack of minority young people thriving in our overall urban school system.” But I gravitated toward elementary education and once I started doing internship experiences in New Britain, it was sealed for me,” he said.

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edWeb.net

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Having students in crisis meet regularly with social-emotional Multi-Tiered System of Support (MTSS) teams. ROX, a girl empowerment program, offered in elementary through high school. If It’s Tier 1 attendance, the goal is enhanced classroom management the student advocacy team supports.

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Outcomes Survey Data System 81

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

New York City’s Department of Education is the latest public school system to require that U.S. But many hurdles must still be overcome by lawmakers and policymakers, before they can assess the effectiveness of the curriculum and its impact, if any, on healing societal wounds. A student at the N.Y.C. KATIE CHEN. Homecrest, Brooklyn.

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Groups Study System Advocacy 92

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 29, 2022

Diversion programs like Schenectady’s allow districts to hold students accountable for their actions within the school community by turning suspensions into learning opportunities, bypassing the criminal justice system altogether. The idea for diversion programs originated in the criminal justice system, where they are still more common.

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Groups Report Meeting Elementary 138

techlearning

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

www.getalma.com ) Alma Technologies has announced it is allowing any SQL-based business intelligence tool, such as Tableau and Jaspersoft, to access data from its modern, student information system and learning management system. Software & Online ALMA TECHNOLOGIES, INC.

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Tools PresenceLearning Edmodo Blackboard 71

The Hechinger Report

JULY 30, 2018

In math teacher Danielle Bosse’s classroom, three students take assessments (foreground) while their classmates learn and practice different math skills. We can’t keep structures that would allow us to fall back into a more traditional system,” said Steiner. “If Photo: Chris Berdik for The Hechinger Report. HUNTER, N.D. —

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Report Personalized Learning Assessment System 111

The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2020

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. Teachers decide how many times a student can retake an assessment before intervention is needed.

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Learning Laptops Personalized Learning Data 121