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What Is Prior Knowledge and Why it Matters?

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

DECEMBER 23, 2023

This term refers to the pre-existing cognitive framework that each student brings into the learning environment, encompassing everything from factual information to deeply ingrained skills and misconceptions. Prior knowledge is one of the key concept in educational research that fundamentally reshape our understanding of how learning occurs.

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Districts Pivot Their Strategies to Reduce Chronic Absenteeism During Distance Learning

Edsurge

JULY 29, 2020

The director of student support services for Long Beach Unified School District wanted to reduce the number of local students who were chronically absent, a term that refers to those who miss 15 or more school days of the academic year. Erin Simon had big goals for this school year. But it has proven elusive.

Strategy

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Proficiency and NAEP scores: Let’s stop talking about trivial distinctions and focus on ending inequality instead

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 28, 2016

It was as predictable as night following day that this week’s release of results from the National Assessment of Educational Progress would be followed by weeping and gnashing of teeth on a biblical scale. As we read NAEP’s latest report, we should focus on what truly matters. Related: When fourth-grade problems include gunfire.

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Spreading First Aid for Teens’ Mental Health by Training Adults to Help

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. Wardrip completed the training in June. and “Are you in danger?”. Spreading the Word.

Training

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How one city closed the digital divide for nearly all its students

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2022

Credit: Javeria Salman/ The Hechinger Report. “We Credit: Javeria Salman/ The Hechinger Report Boxes of #OaklandUndivided devices wait for student pickup at Castlemont High School in May 2021. Credit: Javeria Salman/ The Hechinger Report. Credit: Javeria Salman/ The Hechinger Report. Nothing was coordinated,” Thomas said.

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Community college students get double the support through unusual dual-teacher program

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 24, 2023

I’m an assessment instructor,” Mosser said. between now and 2031, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported in 2021. The post Community college students get double the support through unusual dual-teacher program appeared first on The Hechinger Report. Mosser said Ronhaar’s presence was the most valuable part of the I-BEST model.

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OPINION: Arne Duncan, the fallible narrator

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 12, 2018

These references to fictional characters are not incidental. 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 Department of Education in 1980. Mr. Chips was influential.

Dropout

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The ‘forgotten’ part of special education that could lead to better outcomes for students

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 15, 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. Photo: Jackie Mader/The Hechinger Report. An accurate and thoughtful assessment of a student’s abilities and interests. He blames the system.

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Getting a GED while still enrolled in high school

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 5, 2018

Photo: Judge Evans for The Hechinger Report. In New Orleans, the large number of dropouts who lack HiSET credentials drives the astronomically high count of so-called “opportunity youth.” Kayla Patrick, an author of the National Women’s Law Center report “Let Her Learn.”. My grades were perfect,” said Hargrove.

Dropout

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What happens when two separate and unequal school districts merge?

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 2, 2016

In the civil rights era, Greenville, Mississippi was the model of desegregation for the nation, a shining example held up by the famous Coleman Report of a community doing it the right way. And yet, the Justice Department has not asked the district to report on the performance of the minority students desegregation is supposed to help.

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A vocational school curriculum that includes genocide studies and British literature

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 16, 2018

Photo: Gretchen Ertl for The Hechinger Report. Photo: Gretchen Ertl for The Hechinger Report. 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. Photo: Gretchen Ertl for The Hechinger Report.

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Learning Analytics 2018 – An updated perspective

IAD Learning

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

have been part of the “Horizon Report” for a while. Learning analytics is sometimes referred to as “ big data in education ”; however, when we run a learning analytics project, we won’t be dealing with “big data” as such. Some reflect neither the spirit nor the current state of this technology.

Learning Analytics

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Buffalo shows turnaround of urban schools is possible, but it takes a lot more than just money

The Hechinger Report

JULY 17, 2017

I would have been a dropout.”. At the outset a survey was conducted to assess the needs of schools, families and communities. Referring to the in-school mental health counselor who is on site each day through a Say Yes partnership, Galenski noted, “I have, over the years, made many referrals for kids to see her on a weekly basis.

Data

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Why decades of trying to end racial segregation in gifted education haven’t worked

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Credit: Danielle Dreilinger for The Hechinger Report. In this series, The Hechinger Report examines racial inequity in gifted classes and what schools are doing to fix it. Credit: Danielle Dreilinger for The Hechinger Report. There are gifted dropouts. BUFFALO, N.Y. — This story also appeared in NBC News.

Education

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Can a school save a neighborhood?

The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2018

Photo: Kia Gregory for The Hechinger Report. Photo: Kia Gregory for The Hechinger Report. Photo: Kia Gregory for The Hechinger Report. Photo: Kia Gregory for The Hechinger Report. Photo: Kia Gregory for The Hechinger Report. Related: How the federal government abandoned the Brown v. Board of Education decision.

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Rankings exodus raises the question: How should consumers pick a college?

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

News & World Report rankings. News & World Report rankings. Data is collected by the nonprofit journalism organization The Hechinger Report and comes from the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System of the National Center for Education Statistics, which in turn is an arm of the U.S. Harvard Yard.

Survey

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

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 11, 2018

Photo: Wayne D’Orio for The Hechinger Report. And that knowledge, she believes — combined with new strategies to help students regulate their emotions — has contributed to a 43 percent drop in the number of children referred for discipline from 2014 to 2016, according to school data. Photo: Wayne D’Orio for The Hechinger Report.

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The messy reality of personalized learning

The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2019

Tammy Kim, for The Hechinger Report. 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. Tammy Kim, for The Hechinger Report. Tammy Kim, for The Hechinger Report.

Personalized Learning

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Some colleges extend scholarships and other help to rural high school grads

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 12, 2018

Photo: Diane Weiss for The Hechinger Report. Rural fourth- and eighth-graders do, in fact, score better on the National Assessment of Educational Progress than urban students, on average, and just as well as suburban ones, the U.S. Department of Education reports. Photo: Diane Weiss for The Hechinger Report.

E-rate

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If more students become pregnant post-Roe, are we prepared to support them?

The Hechinger Report

JULY 24, 2022

Credit: Jimena Peck for The Hechinger Report. Credit: Jimena Peck for The Hechinger Report. Fewer than 2 percent of mothers under 18 complete college by age 30 , according to a 2006 report published by the National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy (now Power to Decide). Credit: Jimena Peck for The Hechinger Report.

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What Is Prior Knowledge and Why it Matters?

Districts Pivot Their Strategies to Reduce Chronic Absenteeism During Distance Learning

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Proficiency and NAEP scores: Let’s stop talking about trivial distinctions and focus on ending inequality instead

Spreading First Aid for Teens’ Mental Health by Training Adults to Help

How one city closed the digital divide for nearly all its students

Community college students get double the support through unusual dual-teacher program

OPINION: Arne Duncan, the fallible narrator

The ‘forgotten’ part of special education that could lead to better outcomes for students

Getting a GED while still enrolled in high school

What happens when two separate and unequal school districts merge?

A vocational school curriculum that includes genocide studies and British literature

Learning Analytics 2018 – An updated perspective

Buffalo shows turnaround of urban schools is possible, but it takes a lot more than just money

Why decades of trying to end racial segregation in gifted education haven’t worked

Can a school save a neighborhood?

Rankings exodus raises the question: How should consumers pick a college?

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

The messy reality of personalized learning

Some colleges extend scholarships and other help to rural high school grads

If more students become pregnant post-Roe, are we prepared to support them?

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