Marketplace K-12

JUNE 30, 2016

Superintendent Mark Edwards talked about the Mooresville Graded School District’s experiences integrating technology into K-12 education during the 2013 Summer Connection in Mooresville, N.C. Adkisson for Education Week – file). who have visited the town to learn from its community of educators. Credit: John W.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 12, 2018

Secretary of Education Arne Duncan. But I do read memoirs—most recently, How Schools Work: An Inside Account of Failure and Success from One of the Nation’s Longest-Serving Secretaries of Education (2018), by Arne Duncan. Department of Education in 1980. Much of what you hear about education is a lie, he argues.

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ExcelinEd

APRIL 25, 2019

I was fortunate to have the opportunity to visit Alabama yesterday to speak with the House Education Committee. During the hearing I talked about the importance of early literacy, discussed the components of a comprehensive early literacy policy and highlighted success stories in Alabama’s neighboring states.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 6, 2017

And it has everything to do with the policies of the states.”. Like a handful of states, New Hampshire is taking the opportunity provided by the federal Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) to revise its accountability measures to further individualize education. But the state line does make a difference in the schools. “At

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edWeb.net

MARCH 16, 2020

Panelist Phyllis Jordan, editorial director at FutureEd, pointed to the results of the organization’s analysis of states’ 2017 ESSA plans, which require one non-academic indicator for school assessments. Chronic absenteeism emerged as a top indicator that affects students’ educational experiences. Evidence-Based Solutions Examples.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 8, 2017

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. The family also made the move due to Mast’s husband’s job, but the education issues in Tennessee were a key factor. “I Photo: Courtesy Jawanda Mast.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 25, 2016

Today, students have choices when it comes to their education; technology has enabled new school models and a growing number of students are finding success through personalized pathways. Online learning offers educators access to a wealth of learning data to guide their teaching and assessment of student performance.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 14, 2019

Minnesota ranks among the most educated states in the country, with nearly half of adults aged 25 to 64 holding an associate degree or higher. He estimated that nearly one in three new jobs created through 2026 will require education beyond high school. Will jobs go begging? Our future economic vitality depends on this.”.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

A wrestler and physical education major, he suffered a concussion and a sprained ACL. More broadly, nearly 73 percent in the Fall 2021 American College Health Association National College Health Assessment survey reported moderate or serious psychological distress. She believes mental health education should be required.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 1, 2017

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. Related: How one district solved its special education dropout problem. Who is in Special Education? Higher Education.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

Michelle McLaughlin said Michael’s education did not prepare him for college or career. 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. Our son’s education was a waste. Higher Education.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 5, 2018

Instead of dropping out and waiting months or even years to re-start their education, they can move directly into YEP’s classes and start prepping for a high-school equivalency test right away, without ever officially dropping out. Higher Education. But most don’t take the test immediately after dropping out. Weekly Update.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 4, 2017

It is features like these that have helped former high school dropouts like Rocheli Burgos — and other students who have struggled in school — get a second chance at earning a diploma. While BDEA’s approach to education may once have been a radical departure from the norm, experts say it’s gaining in popularity.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 27, 2016

Related: Pipeline to Prison: How the juvenile justice system fails special education students. Detention almost always has a negative impact on the education of young people. It further explained that providing an education for detained young people is necessary to support communities and the kids’ future success.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2022

“We have this huge digital divide that’s making it hard for [students] to get their education,” she said. David Silver, the director of education for the mayor’s office, said people talked about the digital divide, but there had never been enough energy to tackle it. The homework gap isn’t new.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 7, 2018

The proportion of overage students — those who have been retained for at least one grade — hovers around 40 percent for New Orleans high school students, according to an analysis of 2014 data by researchers at Education Research Alliance for New Orleans, which is based at Tulane University. Photo: Cheryl Gerber for The Hechinger Report. “We

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 18, 2018

Higher Education. For most educators, it’s a cultural shift, and one that comes with additional, often uncompensated, work. That law, known as Act 77, “opened up learning beyond the four walls of the traditional classroom,” says John Fischer, who was a deputy secretary of the Vermont Agency of Education at the time. “It

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 22, 2018

But in this county of fewer than 19,000 residents, just 38 percent of recent high school graduates sought more education, according to the latest available data from the West Virginia Higher Education Policy Commission. Related: How diplomas based on skill acquisition, not credits earned, could change education.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 3, 2018

Dobrin has embraced the school’s new proficiency-based education model and now offers his students many choices inside his classes. Is anyone interested in taking an assessment today?” This change is part of a larger move at the university towards “proficiency-based education” (sometimes called competency- or mastery-based education).

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 2, 2016

Their schools were crumbling and had twice been taken over by the Mississippi State Board of Education for failing to provide students with an adequate education. It’s about improving education for all kids,” said school district Superintendent Lewis Holloway. Related: Schools in the poorest state become even poorer.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

MAY 4, 2015

This approach has alienated a significant number of potentially brilliant children who, for whatever reason, didn’t make the cut, which creates a useful context to rethink education. These limited answers, to me, miss the point of education entirely, but I’ll get to that in another post. You can fail. “Drop out.”

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 16, 2018

Massachusetts is turning that traditional model on its head by having many schools combine rigorous academics with hands-on career training, now called “career and technical education.” A similar proportion receive special education services, on par with the statewide average for high schools.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

She also didn’t allow Kailani to use her headphones while working independently in class, something permitted in her special education plan to help her focus, according to Kailani. Gone is the urgency to find the students who left — those eligible for free public education but who are not receiving any schooling at all.

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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.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

More than two-thirds of those students — about 70 percent — are women , according to Education Department data analyzed by the Institute for Women’s Policy Research. Sixty-one percent of student fathers drop out of college without degrees, compared to 48 percent of student mothers, the women’s policy research institute finds.

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MindShift

AUGUST 14, 2018

Charles Quigley, executive director of the Center for Civic Education, says children grasp these concepts as early as kindergarten. “What’s the dropout rate in some places? ” And according to Jim Shon of the Hawaii Educational Policy Center, civics education needs to extend into college.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 25, 2016

For example, some studies focus only on a select group of children whose parents send them to pre-K, assessing the impact of a year of pre-K on children’s test scores in the first months of kindergarten. Related: Preschool education: Go big or go home? Related: Into the woods: When preschoolers spend every class outdoors.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 17, 2016

This story was originally published by the Education Writers Association and reprinted with permission. Secretary of Education John B. Department of Education, released today, 83.2 Deering High School graduation at the Cross Insurance Arena in Portland on Wednesday, June 3, 2015. percent in the prior academic year.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 29, 2022

The Department of Education does not track leaves of absence. Mental health and education experts are working to develop shorter, more accessible models that can be used on any campus and help ensure that more students are able to successfully return from leaves of absence and earn their degrees. Read the series.

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

now live in poverty, a mark hit in 2013 for the first time in 50 years, according to the Southern Education Foundation. For these students, poverty brings a host of other disadvantages, most beyond the school district’s control: broken homes, transient living situations, and a lack of educational support at home. to 11:30 p.m,

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

now live in poverty, a mark hit in 2013 for the first time in 50 years, according to the Southern Education Foundation. For these students, poverty brings a host of other disadvantages, most beyond the school district’s control: broken homes, transient living situations, and a lack of educational support at home. to 11:30 p.m,

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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. Beth Rabbitt, CEO of education nonprofit The Learning Accelerator. We know how education reform is. More than two-thirds of them are district-run schools.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 15, 2014

We also highlight good conversations about learning taking place between educators, learners, leaders, and others from the school, library, museum, work, adult, online, non-traditional and home learning worlds. Remember that ISTE starts a day earlier, so the Hack Education Unconference is on Friday, June 27th. ISTE Unplugged.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 7, 2016

The Education Commission of the States, a Colorado-based education policy research center, has named Gov. Since 1965, state governors have served as chair of the ECS, which attempts a bipartisan approach to education policy research and consulting. . Photo: Imani Khayyam. Phil Bryant as chair-elect.

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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.”.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 11, 2018

One of the more radical transformations in public education today begins with a simple greeting each morning among second-graders. The Department of Education declined to offer more details on its plan, but it has already sparked pushback: In mid-December, more than 50 members of Congress sent DeVos a letter opposing any changes.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2019

Danusis and her teaching staff practice personalized learning, an individual-comes-first approach, usually aided by laptops, that has become a reformist calling card in education. Sign up for our Higher Education newsletter. Higher Education. Choose as many as you like. Weekly Update. Future of Learning. Mississippi Learning.

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