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. Instead, she’s surrounded by friends, including elementary-school classmate Rory Williams, who also will be 20 when he graduates.

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Analysis Report Data Policies 123

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

Hatharasinghe-Gerschler had been diagnosed with a reading comprehension disability in elementary school. Back in Anchorage in the early 2000s, Michelle McLaughlin started doing research on her own to determine why her son, Michael, was falling further behind in elementary school. But he still struggled.

Education 111

Education Strategy Report Training 111

Edsurge

MAY 22, 2023

This week marks one year since an unspeakable act of violence was carried out in an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas. One year since a gunman stole the lives of 19 fourth graders and two teachers at Robb Elementary. Children at Robb Elementary were of course most acutely affected by the shooting in Uvalde.

Secondary 188

Secondary Training System Elementary 188

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

Students with disabilities process information differently, so they need more explicit instruction to develop and use these skills than general education students do. Districts recognized the need to assess how the student would do in college or work or the community and then provide services in accordance with what they find.”.

Study 87

Study Advocacy Report Outcomes 87

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Maranda Seawood, student support specialist at Washington Elementary School. So I don’t know where to get any information from. I kind of just get my information from around, you know, just from what my parents and teachers tell me. Valente’ Gibson , fifth grade teacher at Jackson Creek Elementary School.

Elementary 143

Elementary Broadband Assessment Dropout 143

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Related: Communities hit hardest by the pandemic, already struggling, could face a dropout cliff To assess just how many students have gone missing, AP and Big Local News canvassed every state in the nation to find the most recently available data on both public and non-public schools, as well as census estimates for the school-age population.

Data 100

Data Analysis Online Learning Laptops 100

Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

“Most of what our staff does is show up committed and dedicated — they really take care of these kids and make sure that they’re safe, that they’re healthy, that they’re happy, they’re eating, they have clothes,” says Amy Creeden, an elementary school principal. The initiative is in place at elementary and middle schools in Middletown.

Blended Learning 177

Blended Learning Elementary Broadband Dropout 177

techlearning

MARCH 5, 2018

Our elementary and middle schools utilize i-Ready diagnostics to form enrichment and intervention groups,” says Dr. Julia Lamons, assessment supervisor at Greene County Schools. This technology solved another of the district’s biggest struggles—implementing an effective common assessment among 12 elementary and middle schools.

Classroom 54

Classroom Schoology Khan Academy Blended Learning 54

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

Third-graders at Alamosa Elementary School in Albuquerque practice reading with first-graders in Carrie Ramirez’s classroom. Burnett spends half her time at Alamosa Elementary School, where about one in four students have missed more than 10 percent of school days so far this school year, according to attendance data Burnett tracks.

Elementary 93

Elementary Learning Report Data 93

Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

. “Most of what our staff does is show up committed and dedicated — they really take care of these kids and make sure that they’re safe, that they’re healthy, that they’re happy, they’re eating, they have clothes,” says Amy Creeden, an elementary school principal. ” Ending Social Promotion. "You’re

Blended Learning 120

Blended Learning Elementary Broadband Dropout 120

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 14, 2020

On a crisp day in early March, two elementary school gifted and talented classes worked on activities in two schools, three miles and a world apart. There are gifted dropouts. They knew not all their children were especially brilliant — they just wanted to get into the best elementary school in the city. BUFFALO, N.Y. —

Education 145

Education Elementary Report Data 145

MindShift

JUNE 18, 2020

In pre-pandemic times, it offered a series of hourlong workshops to family members, mostly in low-income communities, coaching them to set goals and practice specific reading concepts with elementary school-age children. Use online systems to assess, remediate and individualize learning.

Khan Academy 57

Khan Academy Survey Dropout Meeting 57

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. von Stumm said.

Data 58

Data Study Assessment Report 58

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. 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.

Personalized Learning 40

Personalized Learning Learning Elementary Common Core 40

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. Down Route 6, not far from the Shady Acres Restaurant and Dairy, is Captain Isaac Paine Elementary School. Tammy Kim, for The Hechinger Report. PROVIDENCE, R.I.

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Personalized Learning Learning Chromebook Elementary 97

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 79

Education Assistive Technology Advocacy System 79

Doug Levin

MARCH 5, 2017

Tagged on: March 4, 2017 State auditor introduces legislation to protect students' personal information | The Turner Report → Missouri Senate Bill 478 would require school districts to notify parents or guardians of a data breach involving student information. He gave a speech and devoted 150 words to education and choice.

EdTech 170

EdTech Coursera Data Case Study 170

The Hechinger Report

JULY 24, 2022

But these same students who don’t have access to medically accurate, up-to-date information have to live with the consequences. Teenage moms don’t have access to that type of information, and they believe everything they read or hear on social media. Most receive an abstinence-only education, if they receive sex education at all.”

Report 134

Report Accessibility Outcomes Social Media 134

Hack Education

AUGUST 24, 2018

despite having Arizona ’s third-highest dropout rate.” Writing assessment company Writable has raised $3.2 ” Data, Surveillance, and Information Security. .” ” Data, Surveillance, and Information Security. .” OPB on “The Strange Case of Susie Strangfield ,” Parts 1 and 2.

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Education MOOC Kaplan Robotics 46