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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. One tutor, Kingsley Esezobor, 38, is a graduate student in computational data science and engineering at North Carolina A&T State University.

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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. Jen Bender, the data tech lead at Castlemont High School, gives a new student her #OaklandUndivided Chromebook and hot spot in May 2021. The homework gap isn’t new.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 26, 2019

Among the many other problems dragging down Puerto Rico’s stagnant economy, made worse by hurricanes Irma and Maria in 2017, is a huge high school dropout rate and, among those students who do manage to graduate, a comparatively low trajectory to college — especially college on the mainland — and a high dropout rate there, too.

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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. Yet, that idea didn’t play out in most states’ first-year ESSA plans.

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DECEMBER 13, 2017

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. A Hechinger Report/inewsource analysis of California community college data yielded stark results.

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JULY 18, 2023

And research by the Education Data Initiative shows Native students borrow more and pay more per month in student loan debt than their white peers. Perrantes now works as a program manager for Mother Nation , a Seattle-based nonprofit that focuses on cultural services, advocacy, mentorship and homeless prevention for Native women.

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DECEMBER 6, 2022

Yet the scope of that practice is largely hidden: The federal government doesn’t collect detailed data on why schools suspend students, and most states don’t, either. Arizona collects limited discipline data from its districts. Suspensions can also contribute to new problems, such as lower academic performance and higher dropout rates.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2017

For those that enroll in two-year schools, the outcomes aren’t much better: 41 percent, according to federal data. 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.

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APRIL 6, 2017

Colleges and universities usually require 120 credits for a bachelor’s degree but students graduate with about 135, on average, according to data compiled by Complete College America, a nonprofit research and advocacy group. Some states’ figures are even higher.

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AUGUST 7, 2023

Related: How the pandemic has altered school discipline — perhaps forever The stakes of such discipline playing out in schools across the country “are fairly enormous,” said Sara Zier from TeamChild, a youth advocacy organization in Washington State that also provides legal services.

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JUNE 4, 2019

She blamed the high dropout rates on the fact that many students have to juggle school with full- and part-time jobs, leaving little time for academics. based advocacy group Excelencia in Education, said universities need to go beyond that sort of passive outreach, especially for students who may be hesitant to seek out help. “We

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OCTOBER 17, 2016

Two examples of the latter: WBEZ Chicago’s investigation into the city’s questionable methodology for tracking dropouts and in-depth reporting by the Los Angeles Times on that district’s credit recovery program.). Understandably at the front of the first group is U.S. Secretary of Education John B. Measuring gains.

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The Hechinger Report

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. Nineteen pilot schools participated in 2015; this year, the number skyrocketed, with 113 more joining the Basecamp ranks. More than two-thirds of them are district-run schools.

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NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Just 7 percent of America’s public school teachers were Black during the 2017-18 school year, while Black students make up 15 percent of the student population, according to the most recently available data from the National Center for Education Statistics. Related: Uncertified teachers filling holes in schools across the South.

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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. We’ve asked — ‘Where are your data to show that what you’re doing is meaningful and effective?’ ” said Zimring. The truth of it is, we know how to educate these kids.

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JULY 10, 2019

But skeptics warn that underneath the language of “student-centered” pedagogy is a tech-intensive model that undermines communal values, accelerates privatization and turns public schools into big data siphons. For decades, nonprofit advocacy groups and corporate donors have targeted K-12 education for intervention.

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DECEMBER 3, 2019

Related: Colleges are using big data to track students in an effort to boost graduation rates, but it comes at a cost. Data analysis is being used to pinpoint bottlenecks, such as those overcrowded courses. But California, with a higher education budget for 2019-2020 of $18.5 If not, I’ll be taking summer classes to be sure I am.”.

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Hack Education

JULY 28, 2017

” Meanwhile in that other big football state, Nebraska , the World Herald reports that “Sherwood Foundation buys data-tracking helmets for every OPS high school football player.” “ Should big data be used to discourage poor students from university? “ Is higher ed creating the next dropout factories?

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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. She has also analyzed data about corporal punishment use in schools. Credit: Tara García Mathewson/The Hechinger Report.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

Via The Chronicle of Higher Education : “Economic Boom Isn’t Helping Some Student-Loan Debtors , Advocacy Group Says.” ” Via The Chronicle of Higher Education : “With Student Interest Soaring, Berkeley Creates New Data-Sciences Division.” How a College Dropout Plans to Replace the SAT and ACT.”

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Hack Education

MARCH 10, 2017

As if applying for financial aid wasn’t difficult enough already, it appears that the IRS Data Retrieval Tool, which pulls tax information into the FAFSA app, “ will be unavailable for several weeks.” Following up on ProPublica reporting , “ Florida to Examine Whether Alternative Charter Schools Underreport Dropouts.”

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JULY 6, 2018

Only about one in five of 2016 graduates got full-time jobs in legal offices, the advocacy organization Law School Transparency reported. Minnesota uses state unemployment insurance data to publish the price, graduation rates and earnings of residents who attended higher-education programs, including for-profit ones.

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 28, 2016

” Via the Education Law Center : “Several New Jersey civil rights and parent advocacy organizations have filed a legal challenge to new high school graduation regulations recently adopted by the State Board of Education. ” “A Conveyor Belt of Dropouts and Debt at For-Profit Colleges ” by Susan Dynarski.

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