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STUDENT VOICE: Black boys need the guidance and mentorship of black male teachers

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 6, 2020

Studies show that the effect of having a black male teacher, especially between grades 3 and 5, decreases the dropout rate among black male students by 30 percent and increases the likelihood of black students aspiring to higher education. We need more black male teachers in public schools. Sign up for our newsletter.

Dropout

Dropout Advocacy Report Elementary

Overdue tuition and fees — as little as $41 — derail hundreds of thousands of California community college students

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.

Dropout

Dropout Policies Data Report

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

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

Digital Divide Broadband Chromebook Survey

For some kids, returning to school post-pandemic means a daunting wall of administrative obstacles

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 19, 2023

After a few hours, the elementary school called: Come pick up your son, they told her. An Associated Press reporter has had to visit the family in person to communicate. The post For some kids, returning to school post-pandemic means a daunting wall of administrative obstacles appeared first on The Hechinger Report.

Policies

Policies Online Learning Dropout Elementary

In Puerto Rico, the odds are against high school grads who want to go to college

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 26, 2019

Rivera Pichardo for The Hechinger Report. Rivera Pichardo for The Hechinger Report. Of those who do enroll at universities on the island, fewer than half earn degrees, even after six years , the advocacy group Excelencia in Education reports, compared to more than 58 percent of college students nationwide.

Dropout

Dropout Report Accessibility Study

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

The Hechinger Report

JULY 13, 2021

At the beginning of 2021, The Hechinger Report’s members (individual readers who donated money to our nonprofit news organization) asked us if we would report on the best practices for helping the nation’s public school system recover from the pandemic. Your stories. When given the opportunity, then they will succeed.

Study

Study Data Report Elementary

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

The Hechinger Report

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.

Personalized Learning

Personalized Learning Policies Advocacy Assessment

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

The Hechinger Report

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.

Study

Study Advocacy Report Outcomes

When the punishment is the same as the crime: Suspended for missing class

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 6, 2022

This story also appeared in Arizona Center for Investigative Reporting. But a first-of-its-kind analysis by The Hechinger Report and the Arizona Center for Investigative Reporting has found that attendance-related suspensions are pervasive, in some districts accounting for more than half of all in-school suspensions.

Dropout

Dropout Analysis Policies Report

The newest form of school discipline: Kicking kids out of class and into virtual learning

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2023

Related: Some kids have returned to in-person learning only to be kicked right back out Rosalind Crawford moved her five young boys, all in elementary and middle school, to Jennings, just north of St. The post The newest form of school discipline: Kicking kids out of class and into virtual learning appeared first on The Hechinger Report.

Handbook

Handbook Learning Online Learning Data

They didn’t turn in their work for remote school. Their parents were threatened with courts and fines

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 14, 2020

During a pandemic, when there’s no uniform way of counting attendance, Hedy Chang, director of the advocacy group Attendance Works, has seen districts rethinking some of these rules, with their ability to do so varying on state flexibility. Caroline Preston contributed reporting. Sign up for the Hechinger newsletter here.

Policies

Policies Schoology Elementary Report

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

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 16, 2017

So it was with parents at one of the first Basecamp schools, Marshall Pomeroy Elementary in Milpitas, a small city off the southern tip of San Francisco Bay. Pleasant View Elementary in Providence, Rhode Island, for instance, started Summit with fifth-graders in 2015, and this year introduced a few aspects of the approach to fourth-graders.

Personalized Learning

Personalized Learning Learning Elementary Common Core

Schools can’t afford to lose any more Black male educators

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Tyler Wright congratulates one of his 4th grade students with a fist bump at Stono Park Elementary School in Charleston, Friday, Nov. ” Eric Duncan, part of education advocacy organization Ed Trust’s policy team, said Thorne’s story is one echoed by Black male educators nationwide who feel perpetually overlooked.

Education

Education Elementary Data Dropout

The messy reality of personalized learning

The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2019

In tiny Foster, Rhode Island, teachers at Captain Isaac Paine Elementary School use high-tech methods to teach a largely rural, off-the-grid population. Tammy Kim, for The Hechinger Report. Down Route 6, not far from the Shady Acres Restaurant and Dairy, is Captain Isaac Paine Elementary School. PROVIDENCE, R.I.

Personalized Learning

Personalized Learning Learning Chromebook Elementary

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

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 21, 2017

At the meeting, a special education teacher had recommended taking the boy out of Martin Elementary School, in a town 10 miles southwest, and placing him in Georgia’s Network for Educational and Therapeutic Support, or GNETS, a statewide system for children with “emotional and behavioral disorders.”.

Education

Education Assistive Technology Advocacy System

‘State-sanctioned violence:’ Inside one of the thousands of schools that still paddles students

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 6, 2022

This story also appeared in Mississippi Center for Investigative Reporting. 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. Credit: Tara García Mathewson/The Hechinger Report.

Elementary

Elementary Handbook Report Policies

A new test that no student would dread — one that leads to citizenship

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 6, 2017

He is a member of the Latino education advocacy group Nuestra Voz and a student at Cohen College Prep in New Orleans. Doe that public elementary and secondary schools couldn’t consider immigration status when a student seeks to enroll. The 1982 U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Plyler v. Read more about education in New Orleans.

Advocacy

Advocacy Secondary System Report

EdTech Update

STUDENT VOICE: Black boys need the guidance and mentorship of black male teachers

Overdue tuition and fees — as little as $41 — derail hundreds of thousands of California community college students

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

For some kids, returning to school post-pandemic means a daunting wall of administrative obstacles

In Puerto Rico, the odds are against high school grads who want to go to college

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

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

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

When the punishment is the same as the crime: Suspended for missing class

The newest form of school discipline: Kicking kids out of class and into virtual learning

They didn’t turn in their work for remote school. Their parents were threatened with courts and fines

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

Schools can’t afford to lose any more Black male educators

The messy reality of personalized learning

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

‘State-sanctioned violence:’ Inside one of the thousands of schools that still paddles students

A new test that no student would dread — one that leads to citizenship

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