The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Photo: Jackie Mader/The Hechinger Report. In the early 1990s, Kentucky districts were among those grading student portfolios and assessing performance tasks, instead of standardized tests, and they found themselves on the cutting edge of educational assessment. And not all districts want to do performance-based assessments.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 6, 2022

Credit: Erika Rich for The Hechinger Report. Credit: Erika Rich for The Hechinger Report. “It Erika Rich for Hechinger Report Credit: Erika Rich for The Hechinger Report. And many educators, both in high school and college, had trouble accurately assessing their students’ progress. Their failure is my failure.”.

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JULY 23, 2021

He spends much of his time providing leadership and guidance to the National Dropout Prevention Center and the Career and Technical Education Technical Assistance Center, which are part of the Successful Practices Network. He is also the author of numerous books about learning and education, textbooks, research reports, and journal articles.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 9, 2018

Photo: Sarah Gonser for The Hechinger Report. The repercussions of not learning to read are magnified for poor children: Research shows that low-income children who cannot read at grade level by third grade are six times more likely to become high school dropouts. “In Photo: Sarah Gonser for The Hechinger Report. BRONX, N.Y. —

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MARCH 16, 2020

Addressing this high level of absenteeism is possible using research-centered strategies, advised a panel of research, attendance, and behavioral science specialists in the recent edLeader Panel, “ Taking an Evidence-Based Approach to Reducing Absenteeism ,” sponsored by EveryDay Labs. This information provides insight into the reasons (e.g.,

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 6, 2017

Photo: Kate Flock for The Hechinger Report. Their ESSA plans detail systemic transformations of assessment methods and other practices, according to Lillian Pace, the senior director of national policy at KnowledgeWorks. Photo: Kate Flock for The Hechinger Report. But the state line does make a difference in the schools.

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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. How one district solved its special education dropout problem.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 24, 2019

Caroline Preston/The Hechinger Report. Then the newly hired principal, Faith Mabe, heard about a new strategy for helping students. The new strategy aimed to alleviate the social and emotional needs of students. Caroline Preston/The Hechinger Report. Caroline Preston/The Hechinger Report. BRISTOL, Va. —

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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 post How one district went all-in on a tutoring program to catch kids up appeared first on The Hechinger Report. Your stories.

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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. The Barr Foundation is one of the many funders of The Hechinger Report.). Yet, at BDEA, the strategies worked for Burgos.

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MindShift

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

Left untreated, mental health concerns can contribute to high school dropout rates. She also learned how to assess for suicide risk by asking questions like, “Are you having thoughts of hurting yourself?” Wardrip completed the training in June. and “Are you in danger?”. Spreading the Word. Additional Resources.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2021

Pruitt praised Alabama’s strategy. After implementing the combination of the tiered placement and co-requisites, the system reported a 43 percent decrease in students enrolled in developmental English and a 32 percent decrease in students enrolled in developmental Math. Sides has a similar assessment at Northwest-Shoals.

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Neo LMS

APRIL 5, 2022

These systems also provide assessments, feedback and reporting tools, as well as automation and gamification, among many other features. Hence, more advanced students can access more complex learning resources and assessments to keep them motivated. . Lower dropout rates. Read more: 5 Must-have LMS reports for schools.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 3, 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. Her disability doesn’t mean she can’t analyze and discuss a text; she can be taught strategies to help her decode words more easily.

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Edsurge

JULY 11, 2017

Brown says technology has made differentiating instruction based on students’ needs easier, noting how the curriculum is personalized through programs such as Odysseyware, a learning management system that allows students to move through lessons at their own pace (based on assessed content mastery). Most of them were dropouts.” “In

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 1, 2018

Photo: Laura Pappano for The Hechinger Report. Related: Choosing personalized learning as a strategy for educational equity. Photo: Laura Pappano for The Hechinger Report. We discuss their goals and what they are working on, and if they had an assessment we might talk about that,” she said. What can that look like?

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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. She fought for years and went to court to stop her district from giving her daughter certain assessments. Jawanda Mast with her daughter Rachel.

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MindShift

JULY 9, 2018

This story was produced by The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. Sarah Gonser for The Hechinger Report). “In Sarah Gonser for The Hechinger Report ). Sarah Gonser for The Hechinger Report ). Sign up for the Hechinger newsletter.

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IAD Learning

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

have been part of the “Horizon Report” for a while. There are many benefits of using learning analytics, as follows: Increase retention and performance: Learning analytics may be used to reduce dropout rates and increase students’ performance. Some reflect neither the spirit nor the current state of this technology.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 3, 2018

Photo: Robbie Feinberg for The Hechinger Report. Is anyone interested in taking an assessment today?” Photo: Robbie Feinberg for The Hechinger Report. Photo: Robbie Feinberg for The Hechinger Report. Dobrin lectures on blood clots and vessels, mapping out diagrams on a whiteboard. Dobrin asks. Sign up for our newsletter.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

Photo: Karen Salomon for The Hechinger Report. 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. Adam Salomon at his high school graduation. That’s very easy to tell somebody,” Hendricks said. “It

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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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Edsurge

OCTOBER 27, 2016

He believes chief academic officers are best positioned to lead and implement a campus-wide strategy around building digital literacies. 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.”

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 27, 2016

The report also found that two-thirds to three-fourths of 9th graders who did return to school after incarceration withdraw within a year. A 2016 BOTEC study on crime in the city of Jackson and JPS, however, reported that underfunding means schools have difficulty implementing PBIS with district-wide fidelity.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 29, 2022

Credit: Yunen Bonaparte for The Hechinger Report. Taking a leave of absence essentially would end up pulling the plug on all of that as our system is right now,” said Zainab Okolo, a licensed marriage and family therapist and a strategy officer at the Lumina Foundation. Credit: Yunen Bonaparte for The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 11, 2016

This story is part of a Hechinger reporting series about how “last chance” high schools are pioneering some of the latest trends in high school reform. He realized that some students don’t succeed on the conventional academic path, and ran a school for dropouts on Arena Boulevard. Photo: Luba Ostashevsky. I gravitated toward them.”

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

Photo: Tara García Mathewson/The Hechinger Report. Photo: Tara García Mathewson/The Hechinger Report. Instead of focusing exclusively on students who miss the most days of school, the district has a three-tiered strategy , with all students getting some type of targeted attention. ALBUQUERQUE, N.M.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Our reporters are spending the year listening to people from across the country as they manage school districts, lead classrooms, parent students and attend school. We’re still using some of those mitigation strategies. When it comes to dealing with Delta, we pushed through regular Covid last year. We never had to close.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 26, 2020

Wright, a professor of economics at Western Washington University, behavioral assessments of black students in the classroom significantly improve when they have a black teacher rather than a white teacher. The post The educational value of a black teacher appeared first on The Hechinger Report. According to 2015 research by Adam C.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 25, 2016

And as we discuss in a report released last week , the picture isn’t as simple as it appears at first glance. 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.

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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. Summit partnered with Stanford’s Center for Assessment, Learning, and Equity to develop the rubric for evaluating the cognitive skills in each grade. It’s easy to do it superficially.”.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 9, 2017

The timeline for academic turnaround and attendance improvement is very short,” said Robin Veenstra-VanderWeele, the chief strategy officer at Partnership with Children. “In She not only treats patients, she goes into homes to assess risk factors. Tal Bar-Zemer, community schools director at the nonprofit Partnership with Children.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

At the beginning of last school year, the district reported 900 vacancies, according to its chief recruitment officer, Mike Gentry. So the state and district are trying some creative — and highly controversial — strategies to draw teachers into the county’s rapidly diversifying and increasingly needy schools. “We Photo: Sarah Gonser.

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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 Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

Photo: Amadou Diallo/The Hechinger Report. Special Report. In this ongoing series, The Hechinger Report is visiting high schools that have beaten the long odds to learn what’s behind their success. Photo: Amadou Diallo/The Hechinger Report. Photo: Amadou Diallo/The Hechinger Report. Research found that a $3.5

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 3, 2023

Credit: Kavitha Cardoza for The Hechinger Report It was just the latest interruption in schooling that’s been characterized by near constant disruption. Credit: Kavitha Cardoza for The Hechinger Report The Puerto Rican school district, the sixth largest in the U.S., Department of Education report. Nothing could be salvaged.

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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.

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