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. Students post anonymously to a campus-specific group or a broader audience.

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Training Meeting Report Policies 120

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 6, 2017

“The bad news is we’re not seeing a lot of innovation or discussion around personalized learning,” said Claire Voorhees, national policy director for the Tallahassee, Florida-based Foundation for Excellence in Education, an advocacy group for personalized learning. These new assessment systems are a crucial component of personalization.

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Personalized Learning Policies Advocacy Assessment 69

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.” The goal with the first two groups was to help them earn a traditional diploma, if possible. The goal with the first two groups was to help them earn a traditional diploma, if possible.

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Dropout Policies Report System 53

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. The first group of tutors was placed in Title I middle schools, in which low-income families make up at least 40 percent of enrollment.

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Study Data Report Elementary 136

The Innovative Educator

DECEMBER 31, 2016

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. A thoughtful, deep thinker, who had smart ideas on how to make learning more fulfilling. Joe's writing was always informative and inspirational.

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Social Media Dropout Guidelines Libraries 43

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2022

While some students remain unconnected, Oakland’s effort has emerged as an example of how to tackle a citywide digital divide. “We Still, she added, there were “just so many stories of kids using their cellphones to complete assignments, to research, or having to figure out how to get to public libraries in order to access devices.”.

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Digital Divide Broadband Chromebook Survey 110

The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2023

Credit: Liesbeth Powers/Dallas Morning News After Frost coached a student on how to ask her instructor about grades and opportunities to earn extra credit, she knew she’d developed a relationship with her. Meanwhile, Dallas College leaders say they’re ahead because of how they shifted priorities over the past few years.

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Outcomes Report Meeting Study 84

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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Industry Training Report Course 71

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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Study Advocacy Report Outcomes 87

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. Almost anyone can enroll at a community college in California, but each college has its own process to decide how to place students. The results have been promising.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 3, 2018

Is anyone interested in taking an assessment today?” He then mills around the room, meeting with students individually or in small groups. Now, the focus is on how to apply that knowledge; coursework includes case studies or interviews with lawyers and advocates for domestic abuse survivors, she added. “It’s Dobrin asks.

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Pearson Personalized Learning Report Course 84

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. Schools are supposed to revise the IEP document annually in partnership with the student’s parents and conduct a barrage of assessments to reevaluate the child’s disability classification every three years.

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Education Strategy Report Training 111

TeachThought - Learn better.

MAY 4, 2015

The reasons for going to college is a more specific group of words, but also misunderstood (see the college dropout rate, which is somehow attributed to lack of “prep” instead of the high cost or dubious utility of many college classes). You can fail. “Drop out.” ” Get “kicked out.”

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Dropout Common Core Analysis Data 40

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. Good transition planning and services can help special education students flourish after high school. He blames the system. Everybody meant well,” he said.

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Outcomes Education Report Survey 91

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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Report Elementary Study Conference 111

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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Kaplan Dropout Libraries System 40

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 24, 2019

But we don’t know how to go about it right now and as an industry we are picking and choosing what feels right as opposed to using evidence-based practices.”. None of these curricula have been recognized by the Collaborative for Academic, Social and Emotional Learning (CASEL), a group that evaluates social-emotional learning strategies.

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Strategy Training Report Company 78

Edsurge

OCTOBER 28, 2018

I’ve spent 16 years serving on and chairing the board of the National Dropout Prevention Center (NDPC) and 25 years leading companies that serve schools and students of all kinds. How to Navigate the Needs of (M)any Student(s) So All Paths Lead to Learning. My colleague finished his email to me with this: “What we do MATTERS!”

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Differentiated Instruction Learning Dropout Assessment 155

MindShift

AUGUST 14, 2018

Many of those proposals are rooted in popular ideas about the best ways to teach civics, including when kids should start, what they should learn and how to apply those lessons. “What’s the dropout rate in some places? No one is born with an inherent knowledge of how the U.S. Little kids know about rules.

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How To Education Social Media Dropout 38

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 29, 2022

People of traditional college age, between 18 and 25, are also in the age group that is more likely than any other to experience mental illness , and most mental health conditions develop by the age of 24. The program, called NITEO , is named after a Latin verb meaning “to thrive.”.

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Course Report Strategy System 90

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 14, 2020

In airy PS 64 Frederick Law Olmsted, in affluent, white north Buffalo, 22 would-be Arctic explorers wrestled with how to build a shelter if their team leader had frostbite and snow blindness. Black, Latino and Indigenous groups are often left out. There are gifted dropouts. This story also appeared in NBC News.

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Education Elementary Report Data 145

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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Data Study Assessment Report 58

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 9, 2017

Fourth-graders at P.S. 67 often work in groups. And each school has been paired with a community group “partner” to help serve various needs. 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.

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Groups Meeting Examples Classroom 40

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 15, 2014

The call for volunteers is now open - please join the group and sign up here. 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.

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BYOD Libraries Conference Learning 52

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

Overseen by a long-term substitute teacher, the group of eight children, who are mostly nonverbal and physically and intellectually disabled, watched “Grease,” and a drawer-full of other well-worn VHS tapes, often from the first bell to the last. And how I hire new teachers now is a direct connection to my personal experience.

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Training Dropout Report Meeting 40

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

And law school deans will meet March 1 to talk about how to deliver more and better information about their institutions. “We So there’s a great degree of confidence that the data the ABA has is accurate,” said Mike Spivey, founder of the Spivey Consulting Group, which works with both prospective applicants and law school admissions offices.

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Survey Data Report Dropout 88

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 11, 2018

From 2004 to 2014, Los Angeles (which in 2013 became the first school district to ban suspensions for “defiance ”) shaved its suspension rate from 9 percent to 1 percent , but black students were still suspended at higher rates than other racial and ethnic groups. Susan is a hero to me,” he said. But many teachers remain skeptical.

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Elementary Training Report Guidelines 96

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

A student who failed came away with little understanding of how to improve. Calendar-driven midterm and final exams are jettisoned in favor of ongoing assessments. We have to think big picture,” Norris stressed to the group, “before we get down to details like how much lab time to offer. We call them ‘benchmarks’.”

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Report Competency Based Learning Common Core System 90

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. The truth of it is, we know how to educate these kids. The truth of it is,” Zimring continued, “we know how to educate these kids. But he described science at school as “boring.”

Education 79

Education Assistive Technology Advocacy System 79

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 31, 2019

This story is part of a series about how schools, teachers and students are coping with the immigration crisis. Wilda Rosario’s support groups for immigrant students at Patchogue-Medford High School usually start out with lots of laughter. That’s just how teenagers are, she says. PATCHOGUE, N.Y.

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Groups Report Meeting Resources 110

The Hechinger Report

JULY 24, 2022

When her classes were assigned group projects, no one wanted her in their group. The teens learn how to apply for their birth certificates and get a driver’s license or social security card. Georgia passed a law making it easier for nonprofits to operate group homes for pregnant and parenting women.

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Report Accessibility Outcomes Social Media 134

Hack Education

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

Thank God we spent the last 20 years paying a dozen middle-aged white men to rehash the same articles on how political correctness on campus is the true threat to free speech [link] — Dara Very Rude Elevator Screamers Kaye (@DaraKaye) October 29, 2018. How a College Dropout Plans to Replace the SAT and ACT.”

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Education Company Report IXL Learning 53