The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 6, 2019

For an absurd example, if dropouts tended to take classes on Thursdays in their first semester at college, but students who completed their degrees didn’t, then you might worry about current students who are currently taking classes on Thursdays. The dropout problem got a lot worse in the 1990s when more people started attending college.

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The Thinking Stick

JUNE 15, 2016

Then “Doing the Work” to start changing teaching practice to understand how to make the most of this new tool and connected classrooms…it’s been tough but exciting. You also have started to change lessons, units and overall pedagogical approaches you use in the classroom. Full disclosure our dropout rate is roughly 15%.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 26, 2019

Among the many other problems dragging down Puerto Rico’s stagnant economy, made worse by hurricanes Irma and Maria in 2017, is a huge high school dropout rate and, among those students who do manage to graduate, a comparatively low trajectory to college — especially college on the mainland — and a high dropout rate there, too.

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Edsurge

JULY 28, 2016

The district is also known for having one of the largest dropout rates and one of the highest pupil-to-teacher ratios in the country. As I reflect on the upcoming 2016-2017 school year, I wonder how this negativity has affected my own 5th grade reading classroom. What offers a wealth of literary resources?

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Technology eBook Dropout Libraries 60

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

PORTLAND, Maine — The ergonomic chairs, glass-walled conference rooms, ubiquitous technology and smell of new carpets and fresh paint scream well-funded startup. There are high-tech glass-walled classrooms and a balcony with a view of passing fishing boats and ferries and corporate offices and condos under construction nearby.

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Learning with 'e's

JUNE 10, 2015

Audrey Watters and Maarten de Laat Education writer and journalist Audrey Watters describes herself as a recovering academic, serial dropout and rabble rouser - her blog also carries the epithet 'trouble maker'. It was therefore with great anticipation that delegates at the 2015 EDEN Conference in Barcelona, gathered to hear her speak.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 20, 2015

Sunday, April 26th at 7pm TechEducator Podcast: 10 Ways to be a Rock Star Teacher in your Classroom , Are you interested in creating dynamic hands on lesson plans that leave your students wanting to come back to class the next day? Saturday, May 2nd at 12pm CR20 LIVE Weekly Show - Featured Teacher: Lisa Parisi , Classroom 2.0

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 15, 2022

Simms was speaking in the light-filled but otherwise mostly empty classroom-sized space in a co-working building in downtown D.C. Related: Colleges’ new solution to enrollment declines: Reducing the number of dropouts. Nobody talks about that.”. Then Covid decimated them. Now, said Goldstein, U.S.

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MindShift

OCTOBER 27, 2016

It’s not that teachers want to double as curriculum developers, said Gabriela Uro , director of ELL policy and research for the Council, who presented these findings at an education conference in Mexico City last month. public schools and historically have some of the lowest test scores and highest dropout rates of all student groups.

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Instructional Materials Survey Dropout Common Core 28

The Hechinger Report

JULY 1, 2018

Even in kindergarten, teacher Pauline Hayden schedules brief conferences every few weeks with each of her 20 students. “We Leave this field empty if you're human: Each classroom operates differently — independence has one look in kindergarten and another in fifth grade — but students display a striking sense of academic self-awareness. “I

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Personalized Learning Khan Academy Education Elementary 98

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 11, 2011

We know the silos of departments, schools, and classrooms work against the natural human inclination to work together to solve problems, share ideas, work for the good of the community, and nurture the next generation into the work and play of the community.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Suspensions can also contribute to new problems, such as lower academic performance and higher dropout rates. Districts and charters use a mix of approaches to address absenteeism, the Hechinger/AZCIR investigation found, including warnings, parent conferences, detentions, in-school suspensions and out-of-school suspensions.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 29, 2019

Rather than operating schools, it is our job to approve who has the privilege to operate a school,” Lewis said at an October 2018 press conference. Lewis said streamlining his central office staff allowed more money to flow to classrooms and schools. Classrooms went without certified teachers or materials.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 20, 2020

And while that makes her sad, it’s not what bothers her most after 34 years in the classroom. “My They told me they are often frustrated, longing for classroom interaction and eye-contact. Now, during morning meetings via Google classroom, Glick is the one being peppered with questions – and often she can’t answer them.

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Broadband Chromebook Laptops Meeting 139

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Eve, on the city’s majority-Black East Side, 13 first graders, all of them Black, Latino or Asian American, folded paper airplanes in their basement classroom as part of an aerodynamics and problem-solving lesson. Black and Latino children fill 65 percent of New York City classrooms but just 22 percent of gifted seats.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 15, 2014

Updates Partner Spotlight Partner Announcements Calendar of Events Deadlines Highlighted Recordings NMC Navigator Top Ten Conversations Final Notes Updates Learning Revolution Conference. The Learning Revolution Conference schedule is now up! then a full conference day on Thursday. Be a Presenter at Reinventing the Classroom.

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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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Education Outcomes Study Assessment 145

The Hechinger Report

MAY 22, 2019

Teachers didn’t get much professional development to learn how best to use the iPods in the classroom and there wasn’t a lot of clarity around how the technology could help the district achieve concrete learning goals. “At They are not supposed to offer extra credit or change a student’s grade based on classroom behavior.

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Personalized Learning Learning Competency Based Learning Secondary 109

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 17, 2016

who used a press call with reporters to showcase some of the Obama administration’s flagship efforts, such as investing in high-quality early childhood programs, offering competitive grants for school improvement, and boosting classroom technology capabilities , particularly in high-need urban and rural communities.

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Policies Dropout Report Course 40

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 1, 2019

Jacks shakes his head at the idea that poor students on scholarship, who are supposed to be equal in the classroom, instead find themselves scrubbing the bathrooms of rich students, serving “as personal maids for their peers…it’s time for all colleges and universities to rethink such programs.”.

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Policies Report Accessibility Analysis 99

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

Third-graders at Alamosa Elementary School in Albuquerque practice reading with first-graders in Carrie Ramirez’s classroom. Photo: Tara García Mathewson/The Hechinger Report. ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. Danielle Burnett, a truancy prevention social worker in Albuquerque Public Schools, spends her days figuring out why students miss school.

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Elementary Learning Report Data 92

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 16, 2017

. — Using small yellow and orange squares of paper and lengths of yarn stretched between tables and chairs, sixth-grade math students made number lines — including everything from fractions to negative decimals — in a classroom at Walsh Middle School. Related: Must a classroom be high-tech to make personalized learning work?

Personalized Learning 40

Personalized Learning Learning Elementary Common Core 40

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 22, 2014

Updates Partner Spotlight Partner Announcements Calendar of Events Deadlines Highlighted Recordings NMC Navigator Top Ten Conversations Final Notes Updates Last Week for "Reinventing the Classroom" Presentation Proposals. Submissions are due by April 25th. Ed Tech Month + PowerUp WHAT WORKS. More information and registration here.

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Conference Digital Citizenship Libraries Common Core 51

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 12, 2023

Kristi Noem, a Republican, signed an executive order in April 2022 restricting how race and equity can be taught in the classroom, Tilsen-Brave Heart decided to enroll her daughter at Oceti Sakowin Community Academy, a newly opened private school in Rapid City. Kristi Noem speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), Feb.

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Policies Report Dropout Study 145

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 30, 2018

Indeed, being a black college dropout negatively affects earnings by at least $10 per hour, according to research by the Economic Policy Institute. Incubators provide a physical office space and offer business services such as printing and internet, conference rooms, even management training, to those who apply and/or pay rent.

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Dropout STEM Analysis Company 94

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

ANNOUNCEMENTS The 2011 Global Education Conference has begun! EVENTS The Future of Education interview series will be on short hiatus during the two virtual conferences, but then will return on Tuesday, November 22nd, when my guest will be Scott Nine from IDEA to talk about democratic education. The Classroom 2.0 show is back!

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Moodle Dropout Adobe Education 37

Hack Education

JULY 20, 2018

“ Robots in the classroom ? The reports are starting to come back from those surveilled by ISTE at its conference last month. ” Via Chalkbeat : “Do suspensions lead to higher dropout rates and other academic problems? ” asks Peter Greene. Preparing for the automation of teaching” by Neil Selwyn.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

Inside, the walls of the commons area are covered with college pennants, and on the door of each classroom is a sign displaying the teacher’s alma mater, a collegiate emphasis typical of urban charter schools. Milwaukee Collegiate Academy is housed in a former warehouse in the city’s North Side.

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Report Policies Meeting Groups 107

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 31, 2019

From there, during each weekly meeting in a conference room a few doors down from the principal’s office in this sprawling high school of nearly 2,500 kids, the students dig deeper and deeper into the traumas that haunt them — nightmares about sinking into muddy rivers, or being lost in the pitch-black of the desert night.

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Groups Report Meeting Resources 111

Hack Education

JUNE 16, 2017

Via Inside Higher Ed : “The University of Louisville ’s head basketball coach has been suspended for the first five Atlantic Coast Conference games of the season, a piece of the National Collegiate Athletic Association’s punishment stemming from a prostitution scandal that has roiled the institution for two years.”

Education 44

Education Coursera MOOC Kaplan 44

Hack Education

JULY 28, 2017

Via The Salt Lake Tribune : “Lawmaker: Utah ‘s veteran educators may need to ’die off ’ before technology fills classrooms.” “ Is higher ed creating the next dropout factories? Mindwires Consulting’s Phil Hill offers some data on Google Classroom adoption in higher ed. trillion in 2017.

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Education MOOC Company Report 43

Hack Education

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

The highlight: I visited a school on Friday and met with some wonderful, genuine, sincere teachers who pour their heart and soul into their classrooms and their students and our conversation was not long enough to draw out of them what is limiting them from being even more success from what they are currently. The transcript.). ” Wheee.

Education 46

Education Khan Academy Robotics MOOC 46

Hack Education

MARCH 3, 2017

” Via Buzzfeed : DREAMer “Daniela Vargas was detained by federal agents moments after leaving a news conference where she spoke about her fear of being deported.” “ Apple ’s Devices Lose Luster in American Classrooms,” according to The New York Times. Upgrades and Downgrades.

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Education MOOC Company Pearson 40

Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 29, 2017

Via The New Republic : “Betsy DeVos is headlining Harvard’s Koch-backed conference on school choice – with no critics of school choice.” ” That’s the Electronic Classroom of Tomorrow , which is already having to repay Ohio some $60 million. ” Immigration and Education.

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Education Company Data Report 47