The Hechinger Report

MAY 8, 2023

Here she is training math teachers on how to teach children to solve word problems at an elementary school in Brooklyn, New York. This story also appeared in Mind/Shift In a study, Powell posed that question to children at the end of third grade, when they should have been able to answer it easily. Sometimes, it’s a simple question.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 31, 2022

This is likely due to several factors: increasing involvement from parents as schools moved online; advocacy from groups like Decoding Dyslexia; social media conversations and coverage in the popular press; and a push by state legislatures toward improving our nation’s stagnant and dismal reading scores.

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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. And another study found that intensive tutoring had major positive impacts on math gains among high school students. Read the stories.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 24, 2021

A 2012 review of studies on learning time found that the extra time often didn’t produce academic benefits for students and when it did, the benefits were small. Indeed, many advocacy groups, including the Learning Policy Institute and Ed Trust , are recommending extending learning time next year. Credit: Getty Images. until 5:00 p.m.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 28, 2022

Since then, three main programs have emerged that follow similar approaches, said Dewey Cornell, a professor of education at the University of Virginia and principal author of the most-studied model. No Colorado state agency collects data on school threat assessments, nor is any such information collected nationally.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 17, 2022

Wilson, 47, started taking courses in 2019, a few months before the pandemic hit and just before he lost his job as an elementary school music teacher. A report published Thursday by the Student Borrower Protection Center , a nonprofit advocacy group focused on student debt, attempts to quantify the scope of this problem.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 29, 2018

I was over in one of the elementary schools the other day, and three years ago we were all in awe and kind of gaga about a high school student who was all in with drones, and sort of building and flying, and learning about aviation and drones with his high school peers. Drones in the Classroom. He’s actually been back, He’s taking a gap year.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 21, 2022

The Afterschool Alliance – an advocacy group – was instrumental in securing the 1 percent set aside for afterschool and making sure that after-school programs would qualify for learning loss. The Afterschool Alliance also cited an unpublished conference paper from 2013, which tracked 1,000 elementary school students over time.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2019

Miguel Hernandez, who came to Los Angeles four years ago knowing only his Zapotecan dialect and neither Spanish nor English, is now headed to California State University at Northridge to study computer science. Census data analyzed by the Lumina Foundation. He will be the first in his family to go to college. NORTH HOLLYWOOD, Calif.

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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. A recent study from EducationSuperHighway, a nonprofit that works with school districts to help close the digital divide, found that affordability was the largest contributing factor.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 6, 2018

Katherine Cribbs, a second-grader at Discovery Elementary School in Arlington, Virginia, explores the online “energy dashboard” that tracks her school’s energy consumption and production. With a flurry of touch-screen taps, she explored the “energy dashboard” of Discovery Elementary in Arlington, Virginia.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 11, 2023

The New York State Education Department does not collect data on suspension lengths, but public records requests to 17 of the state’s largest school districts uncovered more than 6,200 suspensions of more than 20 days from 2017-18 to 2021-22. Rochester City School District recorded the second most, with 854. That’s not what happens.”

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 7, 2019

A narrow room crammed with high-tech equipment including 3D printers and an electrophoresis chamber to separate molecules and study chromosomes, the Fab Lab gives students at Laing a chance to get hands-on experience with the sorts of tools they might find in the workplace. “I In 2020, the C.E.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

At OHDELA, enrollment more than doubled to about 5,200 students in the 2020-2021 school year, according to state data. All told, according to National Education Policy Center data, more than 330,000 students attended virtual schools in 2019-20, roughly 60 percent of them at for-profits. At Stride Inc., Stride Inc., formerly K12 Inc.,

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

AUGUST 6, 2020

This week, REINVENTING SCHOOL focuses on the spectacular rise in interest in pod schools--small groups of students studying with one or more teachers in an environment that is both similar to, and different from, traditional school. My data stories at Earnest have been covered by The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Time, Fortune, Inc.,

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MindShift

DECEMBER 21, 2017

In one recent study by the Stanford History Education Group, 170 high school students were shown a photo of flowers growing fused together and asked if that provided strong evidence on the conditions outside the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. He instructed students to evaluate these claims. Teaching Health Claims.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

A student leaps during a game at Horizons Elementary School. Florida and Rhode Island now mandate 20 minutes of recess time a day for elementary school students. At least we’re at the table now,” said Carly Wright, advocacy director for SHAPE. “It Related: The Science of Learning Column — When body beats mind in learning.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 18, 2022

Pacific Time) Anthony Chow, Director, SJSU School of Information Q&A Dear iSchool Family, As the new Director of the iSchool, many of you know that my educational roots reside in developmental and educational psychology - the study of healthy development with a focus on human cognition. See our iSchool letter of support.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 5, 2022

Federal and state data on teacher departures lag by a year or more, meaning we won’t have a conclusive picture of the pandemic’s impact on teacher diversity for years to come. Yet early data suggests that the pandemic is aggravating the leaky bucket problem. ” Takeru Nagayoshi, the 2020 Massachusetts Teacher of the Year.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 8, 2016

In 50 elementary schools, according to officials, these students now take classes in Spanish and English with an ultimate goal of achieving academic proficiency in both languages by middle school. Sal DiDomenico, chief sponsor of a bill that would make these changes, is optimistic because he believes he has data on his side.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

The overwhelming majority of young people are unable to sift through online information and separate fact, fiction and opinion, according to a new study from Stanford University. The study, Evaluating Information: The Cornerstone of Civic Online Reasoning , was produced by researchers at the Stanford Graduate School of Education.

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

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MindShift

JUNE 5, 2019

In classrooms around the building, the school’s ninth-graders whizzed through an online mental health survey that would soon deliver real-time data to the group in the conference room. One of the biggest takeaways from the screening data was that many teens need more help coping with school and life.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Her current research involves the deployment and study of emerging information technologies supportive of digital inclusion and resiliency. She attended the local elementary and high school and now serves as a school board member. KEYNOTE SPEAKERS: Kristen Radsliff Rebmann, Ph.D., One of her duties is to oversee the community library.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 12, 2017

Thousands of Mississippi’s third graders will sit in front of computers later this month to take the statewide reading test, but the eyes of teachers and administrators at Finch Elementary School will be intensely focused on a dozen students at this Wilkinson County school. Sharon Robinson, principal of Finch Elementary.

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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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The Hechinger Report

JULY 1, 2016

. — This fall, students at Enterprise Attendance Center in the small city of Brookhaven may get to draw, paint and make crafts in an elementary art class — the first the school has had in 12 years. billion on elementary and secondary education. Census data. Schools stand to receive $2.4 billion under the 2017 budget. “We

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MindShift

JULY 7, 2019

A narrow room crammed with high-tech equipment including 3D printers and an electrophoresis chamber to separate molecules and study chromosomes, the Fab Lab gives students at Laing a chance to get hands-on experience with the sorts of tools they might find in the workplace. “I In 2020, the C.E.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Her current research involves the deployment and study of emerging information technologies supportive of digital inclusion and resiliency. She attended the local elementary and high school and now serves as a school board member. in Communication from University of California, San Diego.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Her current research involves the deployment and study of emerging information technologies supportive of digital inclusion and resiliency. She attended the local elementary and high school and now serves as a school board member. KEYNOTE SPEAKERS: Kristen Radsliff Rebmann, Ph.D., One of her duties is to oversee the community library.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

For those that enroll in two-year schools, the outcomes aren’t much better: 41 percent, according to federal data. But high schools often neglect to teach these students the soft skills that will help them in higher education — like how to study, manage their time and self-advocate. It’s a crisis.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Her current research involves the deployment and study of emerging information technologies supportive of digital inclusion and resiliency. She attended the local elementary and high school and now serves as a school board member. KEYNOTE SPEAKERS: Kristen Radsliff Rebmann, Ph.D., One of her duties is to oversee the community library.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 29, 2020

In recent years, the group’s advocacy has led to changes in the district’s graduation requirements, to align them with admissions requirements for California’s university systems, and an expansion of funding for an after-school meal program that had been cut by the school board. Every year the group chooses an issue to focus on.

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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. And another study found that intensive tutoring had major positive impacts on math gains among high school students.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 17, 2014

Andrew Weiler Looking at Cultural Differences in Motivating Students to Seek Information: A Study Conducted in Colorado Springs, CO and Kampala, Uganda - Dr. Sherry R. Kolleen Bouchane, Policy and Advocacy Director Turning Interests into Insights: Using Data Visualizations to Teach Global Issues - Ann Marie Gleeson, Ph.D.,

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

With architecture, “It did seem like I had made the wrong choice,” he said in a study area in the lobby of the university’s R. These students are increasingly the children of parents who helicoptered them through elementary, middle and high school or who didn’t go to college themselves and can’t provide much help with it.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Data released at the end of the 2021-22 school year showed the district increased math scores by double digits in grades 3-8, outperforming pre-COVID levels. However, there were still 25 elementary schools in the district without access to Hazel’s mental health resources. Through persistent efforts, Ms.

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