The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

That’s similar to retention rates in previous years — a report from the Tennessee Education Research Alliance shows that around 1 percent of third graders were held back each school year between 2010 to 2020. Mississippi held back 8 percent of third graders in 2015, the first year its retention policy was in place.

Policies 104

Policies Report Advocacy Elementary 104

Edsurge

APRIL 17, 2019

In the 10 months since Girls Who Code announced a set of policy recommendations aimed at closing the gender gap in K-12 computer science, the national nonprofit has been working with states to promote legislation that would help measure the extent of the gender disparity in U.S. classrooms.

Policies 167

Policies Advocacy Data Report 167

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 1, 2022

In March, 2021, Meredith Kolodner and Sarah Butrymowicz first reported on the way that direct-to-student loans were used by for-profit colleges to bolster their business models while ensnaring students in practices that blocked them from getting jobs or transferring to other colleges.

Advocacy 91

Advocacy Policies Report Accessibility 91

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 13, 2021

Credit: Nancy Walser for The Hechinger Report. The pandemic really changed the policy conversation to more systemic shifts.” Lillian Pace, vice president of policy and advocacy, KnowledgeWorks. The pandemic really changed the policy conversation to more systemic shifts.”. And Daniel A.

Competency Based Learning 140

Competency Based Learning Personalized Learning Report Advocacy 140

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

It’s one relevant to past research about barriers preventing students from enrolling in college, said Taylor Odle, an assistant professor of educational policy studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and co-author of the “non-submitters” study. But this strategy had a fundamental error. had low application submission rates.

Survey 193

Survey Analysis Advocacy Report 193

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 7, 2023

The retention policy is part of a state law passed in 2021 that was meant to boost long-lagging reading scores and stem pandemic learning losses. Third graders must now pass the Tennessee Comprehensive Assessment Program, or TCAP, at the end of the year to avoid repeating third grade. Because it is just one assessment.”

Elementary 107

Elementary Policies Advocacy Report 107

edWeb.net

MARCH 1, 2020

Whether schools are 1:1 or still relying on computer carts, the move to online assessments creates new needs from devices to professional development to data privacy policies. Have an instructional framework centered around curriculum design before talking about assessment. Feedback is more than just one assessment.

Online Assessments 52

Online Assessments Assessment Student Data Privacy BYOD 52

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. Credit: Valerie Plesch for the Hechinger Report. In 2018 Congress allocated federal funds to train schools on threat assessment.

Assessment 104

Assessment Report Training Guidelines 104

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 23, 2018

Head Start centers make up one-third of the center-based child care programs available in some of Mississippi’s most rural areas, providing critical child care services, access to health care, and early intervention services that children may not otherwise get, according to a new report. Sign up for our Mississippi Learning newsletter.

Report 57

Report Advocacy Outcomes Policies 57

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

After a phishing attack in 2019, the Atlanta Public Schools district hired a private firm to conduct security assessments of its networks to find blind spots and weaknesses, according to Olufemi “Femi” Aina, the district’s executive director of information technology.

E-rate 113

E-rate Advocacy Data Libraries 113

The Hechinger Report

MAY 21, 2020

And the level of advocacy and support for a solution has snowballed. On the policy side, the website has advice for state legislators and governors thinking about their role in all of this. Marwell said his team is leading pilots in districts and states to refine methods of assessing who needs internet access in a given community.

Advocacy 134

Advocacy Policies Accessibility Laptops 134

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Nevertheless, teens report that their own mental health is spiraling : Increasingly, they are anxious, depressed and wrestling with thoughts of suicide. As other measures improved, youth also reported feeling less anxiety and depressive symptoms. Fewer teens are taking up smoking. Arrest rates among teens are dropping.

Smartphone 56

Smartphone Social Media Trends Report 56

eSchool News

DECEMBER 22, 2021

The research examined MAP Growth assessment scores from six million U.S. In addition, states and districts should be setting up data collection and reporting processes to understand which interventions are succeeding in improving student outcomes.

Outcomes 99

Outcomes Education Advocacy Policies 99

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 18, 2020

Credit: Jackie Mader/The Hechinger Report. While getting a national picture of the problem is hard, lawyers and advocates in eight of the nine states contacted by The Hechinger Report said they were aware of districts that had put special education evaluations on hold. Credit: Jackie Mader/The Hechinger Report.

Education 132

Education Assessment Advocacy Report 132

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Meghan Whittaker, director of policy and advocacy at the National Center for Learning Disabilities. I don’t think anyone’s going to say that what we were doing worked or was equitable,” said Meghan Whittaker, the director of policy and advocacy at the National Center for Learning Disabilities. Here’s why they’re not.

Education 145

Education Advocacy Policies System 145

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Credit: Lillian Mongeau for The Hechinger Report That’s slowly changing — for some disabilities. This back-to-school season, the Education Reporting Collaborative, a coalition of eight newsrooms, will be documenting the enormous challenge facing our schools and highlighting examples of progress. That also trickles down into schools.”

Report 131

Report Training Elementary Strategy 131

Edsurge

JANUARY 11, 2021

As temperatures began to dip this fall, Allen Blackwell III says he and his colleagues at Baltimore City Public Schools kept watch on weather reports hoping to see it hit 32 degrees. The organization aims to help students overcome homelessness through education, policy advocacy and practical support to educators. “I It’s school.”

Report 190

Report Advocacy Meeting Resources 190

Edsurge

DECEMBER 21, 2021

The value of the human potential unlocked by early education and social and emotional interventions is more difficult to assess: it is arguably limitless. He found that 56 percent report children being more aggressive, hyper-active or oppositional than they used to be, and 55 percent report children more shy, withdrawn or anxious.

Education 193

Education Survey Advocacy Outcomes 193

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

“One of the great paradigm shifts that has occurred with colleges that are really making headway is they no longer consider the students to be broken who come to them,” said Sugar, who was a co-founder of the advocacy group Complete College America. Sign up for our higher education newsletter. .

Advocacy 95

Advocacy Policies Training Accessibility 95

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 10, 2023

Credit: Joan Morse for The Hechinger Report “It’s going to be a battle,” she said at the table. Buildings are infrequently cleaned; an elementary school principal reported at an October school board meeting that mice were running over children’s feet and hallways smelled of urine. The policy ended up passing 4-0.

Elementary 136

Elementary Report Meeting Policies 136

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Pearson, the parent company of Connections Education, the second largest for-profit online charter operator, reported enrollment growth in its virtual schools division of 20 percent in 2020. Gary Miron, an education researcher who co-authored a National Education Policy Center report on for-profit charter schools. At Stride Inc.,

E-rate 125

E-rate Pearson Company Report 125

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

The model has shaped decades of policy regarding whose literacy is considered vital and worthy of extra help and investment—and whose is not. An early case report of dyslexia, published in the British Medical Journal in 1896, helped to define the disorder as an unexpected deficit in otherwise “bright” children.

Learning 145

Learning Study Report Elementary 145

Edsurge

OCTOBER 5, 2020

In May, as one school year ended and another began to loom large on the horizon, Danks and the leaders of a handful of other outdoor education advocacy groups— Ten Strands , the Lawrence Hall of Science museum in Berkeley, Calif., And she hopes educators and families all across the country will try it and see that for themselves.

Learning 218

Learning Analysis Assessment Groups 218

The Hechinger Report

JULY 9, 2021

Credit: Mike Vanata for the Hechinger Report. Representatives from the health department say they are hamstrung by the state’s local control policies, which make it difficult to administer statewide programming. This story is one of four produced by local reporters under Hechinger’s inaugural Local News Fellowship project.

Education 123

Education Policies Survey Training 123

Edsurge

OCTOBER 29, 2017

This is one of the principles championed by Future Ready Schools (FRS), a project of the policy and advocacy organization, Alliance for Excellent Education. FRS helps district leaders plan and implement personalized, research-based digital learning strategies to help all students achieve their full potential. What the program offers.

Future Ready 60

Future Ready Advocacy Strategy Personalized Learning 60

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 31, 2020

Nearly 90 percent of the school population is considered low-income and nearly three-quarters are labeled English learners, meaning that the state language arts test assesses their reading and writing ability in a language they’re still trying to learn. Districts that use the federal dollars to equalize their spending violate federal policy.

Data 145

Data Elementary Trends Analysis 145

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 6, 2017

Photo: Kate Flock for The Hechinger Report. And it has everything to do with the policies of the states.”. Claire Voorhees, national policy director, Foundation for Excellence in Education. Brian Stack is the principal of Sanborn Regional High School in Kingston, N.H. But the state line does make a difference in the schools.

Personalized Learning 70

Personalized Learning Policies Advocacy Assessment 70

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

The Department of Education said they would look into the possibility, The New York Times reported. metal detectors, security cameras) is not expressly included in this list, nor does any regulation, policy guidance, case or legislative history seem to address this issue.

Advocacy 69

Advocacy Policies Training Technology 69

Doug Levin

AUGUST 28, 2017

New data analyses by NCES offer an updated assessment of the adoption of online learning by high schools: More than 4 in 10 U.S. Otherwise, here’s what caught my eye this past week – news, tools, and reports about education, public policy, technology, and innovation – including a little bit about why. public high schools (42.5

EdTech 150

EdTech Tablets Policies E-rate 150

Doug Levin

AUGUST 28, 2017

New data analyses by NCES offer an updated assessment of the adoption of online learning by high schools: More than 4 in 10 U.S. Otherwise, here’s what caught my eye this past week – news, tools, and reports about education, public policy, technology, and innovation – including a little bit about why. public high schools (42.5

EdTech 150

EdTech Tablets Policies E-rate 150

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 10, 2018

Just this year, judging from a fall to a winter assessment of student learning, Procope said, students who hadn’t shown growth in academic achievement in prior years are showing it now. This story was produced by The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education.

Personalized Learning 100

Personalized Learning Strategy Education Learning 100

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Last week, the National Center for Education Statistics released the 2019 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) for mathematics and reading in the fourth and eighth grades. The report set off a heated debate about the reasons for this decline. The same was true for black children in three states.

Outcomes 52

Outcomes Policies Advocacy Report 52

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 28, 2019

Similar to a doctor with a bedside manner that fosters respect and trust when working with patients and their families, teachers can design initial and subsequent interactions with families that demonstrate trust, collaboration and advocacy, giving them a better chance of effectively meeting the needs of students. Sign up for our newsletter.

Advocacy 76

Advocacy Elementary Report Policies 76

The Hechinger Report

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.

Digital Divide 111

Digital Divide Broadband Chromebook Survey 111

edWeb.net

AUGUST 6, 2020

The reality is that instructional practices and policies tend to emerge from an inherently racist foundation. In fact, reported the presenters, integration resulted in educational inequities along with a decline in Black cultural identity and the disappearance of Black educators. Is My Classroom Equitable? Iruka, Ph.D.,

Kaplan 98

Kaplan Education Policies System 98

Edsurge

MAY 28, 2019

These days we do a lot of workshops and special projects around freedom of information and privacy issues and advocacy work because that act was passed back in 1992. You had some experience in research and advocacy for privacy before you started there, while you were a student. So some updates are in order. Can tell us about that?

Data 151

Data Learning Advocacy System 151

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. Photo: Chris Berdik for The Hechinger Report. Photo: Chris Berdik for The Hechinger Report. Photo: Chris Berdik for The Hechinger Report. HUNTER, N.D. —

Report 111

Report Personalized Learning Assessment System 111