The Hechinger Report

MAY 22, 2019

Teachers now assess students’ proficiency across four categories: basic, approaching, proficient and advanced. Robins sees clear benefits to doing away with class rank and assessing students as individuals on their own path to mastery. The change that I’ve seen in parent-teacher conferences has been amazing,” he said. “To

Personalized Learning 104

Personalized Learning Learning Competency Based Learning Secondary 104

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 14, 2020

And even before June’s historic civil rights protests, the issue of racism permeated the National Association for Gifted Children’s (largely white) November 2019 conference in Albuquerque. There are gifted dropouts. The New York City and Seattle school districts have considered proposals to eliminate gifted education altogether.

Education 145

Education Elementary Report Data 145

The Hechinger Report

MAY 26, 2020

If, after a natural disaster decimated a city, I proposed to a governor or a school board that they replace a significant portion of a majority- white teaching corps with black teachers because doing so would potentially confer educational and social benefits, I’d probably be denounced as a racist and publicly excoriated.

Education 145

Education Outcomes Study Assessment 145

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OCTOBER 17, 2016

students’ stagnating and even declining proficiency rates at some grade levels in reading and math on a national assessment. 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.).

Policies 40

Policies Dropout Report Course 40

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

The organization has produced attendance resources for schools, which include talking points and tips for school and community leaders, and it held a conference in September to help educators create attendance teams and develop comprehensive strategies for their own schools. Photo: Tara García Mathewson/The Hechinger Report.

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Elementary Learning Report Data 93

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. Summit partnered with Stanford’s Center for Assessment, Learning, and Equity to develop the rubric for evaluating the cognitive skills in each grade.

Personalized Learning 40

Personalized Learning Learning Elementary Common Core 40

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

We want to make sure we get it to our students in the most useful ways,” said Heather Gerken, dean of Yale Law School, who is heading up the conference in conjunction with her counterpart at Harvard. “We all know that the data is out there. If you’re a law school, you’re likely not going to lie to your accrediting agency.

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Survey Data Report Dropout 89

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 31, 2019

From there, during each weekly meeting in a conference room a few doors down from the principal’s office in this sprawling high school of nearly 2,500 kids, the students dig deeper and deeper into the traumas that haunt them — nightmares about sinking into muddy rivers, or being lost in the pitch-black of the desert night.

Groups 110

Groups Report Meeting Resources 110

Hack Education

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

Via The Chronicle of Higher Education : “ Betsy DeVos Criticizes Professors in Remarks to Conservative Conference.” Testing, Testing… Via Inside Higher Ed : “Large-Scale Assessment Without Standardized Tests.” AFT president Randi Weingarten calls b t. The transcript.). .”

Education 46

Education Khan Academy Robotics MOOC 46