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How Can Technology Help Improve Teaching Efficacy in a Classroom?

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DECEMBER 4, 2023

The effects of mental health are not restricted to the teachers but in turn impact the students they teach, leading to poor academic outcomes, poor student discipline, and higher dropout rates. As a case point, it may be that the teachers want to combine parts from different digital documents to explain a concept.

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These students are finishing high school, but their degrees don’t help them go to college

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 1, 2017

The alternative diploma, attained through the LEAP Alternate Assessment, Level 1 (LAA1) graduation pathway, allows students with severe disabilities to forgo typical academic expectations and requirements, and it doesn’t end with the high school diploma. Related: How one district solved its special education dropout problem.

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

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 6, 2017

Their ESSA plans detail systemic transformations of assessment methods and other practices, according to Lillian Pace, the senior director of national policy at KnowledgeWorks. High schools were rated on standardized tests, as well as dropout, attendance and graduation rates. But developing such systems is a complicated task.

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The Cause That Unites Chief IT and Academic Officers

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.” It’s one thing to be ask students to write a document or take a test. Solution: offer happier prompts?). What Keeps A Futurist Optimistic?

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High schools fail to provide legally required education to students with disabilities

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

Since then, the department has eliminated 72 guidance documents that dealt with the rights of special education students. The department said the documents were “outdated, unnecessary, or ineffective.”. Michael’s IEP allowed him to work in small groups, have extended time on assessments and use a computer for written assignments.

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Home visiting in high school: Trying an intervention for toddlers on teenagers

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 22, 2018

Only, rather than sending health care or social service providers to support parents and assess young children’s readiness for school, McDowell is sending teachers directly to kids’ homes — including high schoolers’ — to counsel, persuade and cajole them to graduate on time and plan for their future.

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Held back, but not helped

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 7, 2018

In the mid-2000s, Louisiana implemented high-stakes tests known as Louisiana Educational Assessment Program, or LEAP, which required fourth and eighth graders to show that they were grade-level proficient. Louisiana had long erred on the side of social promotion, often passing underachievers through school despite low reading and math levels.

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Chronically absent: Is quality education possible in juvenile detention in Mississippi?

The Hechinger Report

JULY 27, 2016

The juvenile-detention center does state Department of Education-established assessments that show whether or not a student is on track or behind with Mississippi’s benchmarks, and that determines their coursework for their stay. Related: Dropouts try to find their way back to school.

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A vocational school curriculum that includes genocide studies and British literature

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 16, 2018

That evolution has sped up since 2001, when the state introduced a requirement that students pass a statewide assessment (known as the MCAS) to earn a high school diploma. Historical documents and literary fiction make up the curriculum.

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Students who drop out for mental health struggles are turning to pricey programs to find their way back

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 29, 2022

Pinder-Amaker said that now, a lot of what the program does is help students design an effective leave of absence and understand how to assess when they are ready to go back. McLean, a psychiatric hospital associated with Harvard Medical School, accepts private insurance. It’s also important that they don’t return until they are ready.

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How To Make A Civics Education Stick

MindShift

AUGUST 14, 2018

“What’s the dropout rate in some places? On the civics portion of the National Assessment of Educational Progress, commonly called the “Nation’s Report Card,” students of color and low-income students have consistently scored lower than their white, wealthier counterparts. Forty percent?

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Is the effort to curb strict discipline going too far, too fast?

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 11, 2018

So, too, did the growing body of evidence documenting the harm associated with pulling students out of school: One study , for example, found that students’ chances of dropping out doubled with their first suspension. These include study skills, guided reflections and personality assessments to encourage students to identify their strengths.

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The messy reality of personalized learning

The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2019

Nearly two decades ago, the reporter Todd Oppenheimer documented the aggressive rise of emerging Silicon Valley technologies — personal computers and the Internet — in the nation’s public schools.

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

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. He’s missing out on how to document, experiment, prove your theory — that’s important stuff if you want to go into sciences,” she said.

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Are the challenges of Puerto Rico’s schools a taste of what other districts will face?

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 3, 2023

take (the National Assessment for Educational Progress, commonly called the Nation’s Report Card), about a third of fourth graders and a quarter of eighth graders on the mainland were considered “proficient” in 2022. Academic outcomes in Puerto Rico are poor and have been on a steady decline since Hurricane Maria.

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