MindShift

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

Left untreated, mental health concerns can contribute to high school dropout rates. MHFA training, referred to as “CPR for the mind,” teaches educators and caretakers how to recognize, understand and respond to signs of psychological distress. She’s also using her new knowledge to teach students how to look out for each other.

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Doug Levin

MARCH 5, 2017

Students selling notes online a legal gray area, schools say | ArkansasOnline → University of Arkansas faculty members are debating how to best deal with the selling of lecture notes by students, spurred on by the practices of online study resource companies known for aggressive recruiting tactics.

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MindShift

JULY 9, 2018

The repercussions of not learning to read are magnified for poor children: Research shows that low-income children who cannot read at grade level by third grade are six times more likely to become high school dropouts. Children do not come wired to learn how to read: It is an acquired skill. Sarah Gonser for The Hechinger Report). “In

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2021

It had been 26 years since the 45-year-old sat in a math course, but in January she found herself surrounded by fellow students, many as young as her sons, at Wallace State Community College, where she now is working on an associate degree to be an administrative assistant. I was very thankful for taking that lab course,” she said. “It

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 14, 2019

The idea, said Ann Swartz-Beckius, interim director of student achievement, is to teach students how to remain calm under pressure, “to tune out the noise in their heads.”. It is using the money — roughly $164,000 — to provide more intensive advising to students of color in remedial education courses. High cost of dropping out.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 6, 2017

In a personalized classroom, students are taught how to take control of their own learning, so that they can take different pathways to gain understanding of concepts. Often, personalized learning includes technology that adapts lessons to students’ needs and provides data so that teachers can see how each learner is growing.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 24, 2023

Candace Ronhaar, left, an instructor, teaches Crystal Baker how to use red cabbage, a natural pH indicator, to test the pH of different substances during Chemistry 121 class at Everett Community College on Friday, March 10, 2023. I’m an assessment instructor,” Mosser said. She’s just a helping instructor. This is bigger than I-BEST.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 27, 2016

FUN SAD FACT: According to Avi Yashchin, Senior Offering Manager at IBM Watson: “Sadness [sentiments] in incoming freshman college application essay is the sixth strongest predictor of dropout.” Your prescriptive solution is your GPS that shows you how to get to your destination.” Solution: offer happier prompts?).

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

It is hard to overstate how much the pandemic has short-circuited the college experience and affected students’ well-being. To those already burdened by the demands of social media and fears about how to succeed in the world, Covid piled on. Questions like, “How do I build community? How do I build meaningful relationships?”

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 18, 2018

But Goldstein, who helped create a hands-on manufacturing course at Randolph Union in 2014, says “retention is much easier than recruitment.” At Randolph Union, there are 32 students participating in “independent learning opportunities,” or ILOs, and another six in a course that introduces students to careers in water management.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 12, 2018

Pointing to the decline in the county’s dropout rate, Duncan proclaims: “It’s a model that works, and it’s been replicated across Georgia and has also been the subject of a Harvard Business School study.” (A Related: Lessons of nope: Joel Klein fails to educate us on how to fix our schools.

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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. Over the course of the 2020-21 school year, 15 graduate students worked up to 20 hours a week, with some earning $14.70 I love math.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 5, 2018

In New Orleans, the large number of dropouts who lack HiSET credentials drives the astronomically high count of so-called “opportunity youth.” But they never would tell me how to go to school when I was going through something.”. But they never would tell me how to go to school when I was going through something.”.

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The Innovative Educator

DECEMBER 31, 2016

Over the course of the past year, we have lost three innovative educators. If you want to learn about progressive ideas in the areas of grading, assessment, and homework, check out Joe's book, De-Testing + De-Grading Schools , one of his talks , and his blog. Each of whom has influenced my practice in meaningful ways. It is a message.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2023

Through the help of the school’s success coaches, she navigated the school, avoided unnecessary courses for her career plan and took advantage of different resources. The student soon opened up about how she had never been able to speak her own mind with her family, but the advice allowed her to work on her confidence.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 13, 2017

Rodriguez was forced into remedial math by the community college’s placement test, which assesses a student’s ability to succeed in for-credit, higher education classes. Rodriguez’s placement test scores dictated at least a year of these low-level math courses. Each week, Rodriguez watched as fewer and fewer classmates showed up.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 3, 2018

Is anyone interested in taking an assessment today?” In the traditional model, students need to pass a specific set of courses to graduate. As an example, Pearson offers a course in the criminal justice program. Dobrin lectures on blood clots and vessels, mapping out diagrams on a whiteboard. Dobrin asks.

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Pearson Personalized Learning Report Course 83

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 15, 2017

An accurate and thoughtful assessment of a student’s abilities and interests. Many districts rely on formal assessments to help schools create viable plans for students. That course is available to both general and special education students and provides students with opportunities to volunteer in the community. “As

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TeachThought - Learn better.

MAY 4, 2015

Of course, this was me standing over her on the deck while she read, not a formal presentation, but I was trying to make the case to her how you learn is more important than what you know. I understand how to research, extract key information, and evaluate its credibility and utility. You can fail. “Drop out.”

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

I think the majority of higher education is complacent” about their dropouts, he said. How could you charge for a student who transferred from a community college to a four-year school within the same system because they’re not enrolled that semester?” Sanchez said. It’s not just financial problems snagging students, however.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 7, 2018

Now, after realizing that academic stragglers who were retained frequently didn’t receive the support they needed, the state is changing course. Teachers told us, ‘Oh, of course, that’s a Katrina effect. Related: A new movement to treat troubled children as ‘sad, not bad’.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

When she dropped out at the end of ninth grade, she didn’t know how to use punctuation or do multiplication. Instead, her high school placed her in remedial courses for math and English, where she just fell further behind. Instead, she was passed from class to class at her high school in North Carolina. But he still struggled.

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Education Strategy Report Training 111

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

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. Students with other disabilities, such as autism, may have trouble knowing how to act in social situations. It’s a crisis. Our kids are graduating to the couch.”.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

Via Inside Higher Ed : “Appeals court ruling continues decade-long legal battle between Georgia State University and three publishers over what constitutes ” fair use “ of course materials.” How a College Dropout Plans to Replace the SAT and ACT.” ” The Business of Financial Aid. .”

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 16, 2018

The state is making a sizable investment in these schools, with an eye toward fueling its economic engines by teaching students how to play a role in high-need, growing fields like advanced manufacturing and health services. When they go out into industry, we want them to know how to think.”. needs more tradespeople.

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Study Training Report Industry 80

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 15, 2014

We are, of course, big fans! Learn about the resources that can help district leaders develop the next generation network infrastructure necessary to support multiple mobile devices on and off campus, the delivery of digital content, and administration of online assessments. Audrey is coming this year!) National Library Week.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 29, 2022

Twice, she enrolled in community college courses to inch her credits toward the number needed for her bachelor’s degree. The second time, she muddled through a few courses but still came up short. But after she made it through, she felt more ready to take on the last couple of courses standing between her and her degree.

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Course Report Strategy System 88

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 14, 2020

To do this, researchers are turning to a relatively new genetic approach called the polygenic score, which assesses a person’s likelihood for a specific future based on a combination of genetic variables. It’s a research technique that some scientists are using to assess obesity or cancer risk, for instance.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 9, 2017

They help connect families that have legal, housing or medical issues to resources, and they run courses in each classroom on topics like how to deal with strong emotions. She not only treats patients, she goes into homes to assess risk factors.

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The Hechinger Report

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. Students like Caleb continue to languish in GNET schools while the lawsuit continues its course. The truth of it is, we know how to educate these kids.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

A student who failed came away with little understanding of how to improve. To accomplish this, courses are year-long instead of being divided into semesters. Calendar-driven midterm and final exams are jettisoned in favor of ongoing assessments. A student who got an A was assumed to have learned something.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 24, 2022

The teens learn how to apply for their birth certificates and get a driver’s license or social security card. And perhaps even more worrisome are the outcomes for the children of teenage mothers, who score lower than children of older parents in health, intellectual and behavior assessments. All are illegal, yet commonplace.

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