Edsurge

OCTOBER 27, 2016

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.” It’s one thing to be ask students to write a document or take a test. Solution: offer happier prompts?). Don’t forget about Europe and Canada!

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 6, 2017

In a personalized classroom, students are taught how to take control of their own learning, so that they can take different pathways to gain understanding of concepts. High schools were rated on standardized tests, as well as dropout, attendance and graduation rates. Related: In one state, students are ditching classrooms for jobs.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

In some cases that means being given more time on tests or being offered the option of using technology for written assignments; in other cases it means having an aide in the classroom working with them individually. Within each disability, there is variance in severity and how the disability reveals itself in a classroom.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Students in the immersion lab mastered Mandarin about twice as fast as their counterparts in conventional classrooms, said Shirley Ann Jackson, the president of Rensselaer. The way these kinds of learning get documented is also about to change. Related: As small private colleges keep closing, some are fighting back.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 7, 2018

As a freshman, she constantly got into fights, and spent long hours in a disciplinary classroom. So whenever Crosby was disciplined for fighting, she was sent to a classroom run by a teacher named Liza Figueroa, who became a cheerleader of sorts. “Ms. As a sophomore, she worked six hours a night at a burger joint in a shopping mall.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 22, 2020

Elliott’s lawyer told him that he could expect to spend the next two months in jail — and out of the classroom — while the district attorney decided whether to accept his case. She knew how many arrested students never returned to her classroom. hodes began working furiously behind the scenes for the drum major’s release.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 16, 2018

In a darkened classroom in Essex Technical High School, Anna Maria Miller takes careful notes while watching a subtitled video sampling from Rwanda’s infamous “hate radio,” which helped fuel the genocide of the minority Tutsi population in 1994. Historical documents and literary fiction make up the curriculum. HATHORNE, Mass. —

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 27, 2016

He had missed a month and a half of regular classroom instruction, and it was already his second time through the 9th grade. To the right of the computerized door allowing access to the classrooms and living spaces for the students, a sign adorned with a cute Easter duck reads “hello!” Judge Thomas H. Photo: Imani Khayyam.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

Because of this diagnosis, an individualized education plan (IEP) — documents detailing Colson’s special needs, and a plan for how his school would help him reach his potential — was already in place when Colson arrived for his first day of school. How one district solved its special education dropout problem.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

At the height of the buzz around MOOCs and flipped classrooms three years ago, Bridget Ford worried that administrators might try to replace her introductory history course with a batch of videos. And professors have other ways to share their classroom tips: Publishing research about their teaching in peer-reviewed scholarly journals.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2023

But one day in February, after refusing to go into her classroom and allegedly cursing at her teachers, the seventh grader was sent home to learn online indefinitely. Sometimes, there is no system in place for tracking how many students are being punished this way or how many days of in-person classroom learning they are forced to miss. “We

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Meanwhile, interventions aimed at teenagers, such as dropout prevention programs , often disappoint. The study is part of a larger body of work in which Lavy has documented positive results from intervening with older students. There is considerable research on the benefits of intervening early when a child is falling behind at school.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

One of those needs is a dedicated space to escape the well-documented stigma of incarceration on college campuses. Project Rebound participants say professors rely on them to start classroom discussions and persuade younger students to attend office hours and tutoring. Cavitt jumped to his feet, wrapping the younger man in a bear hug.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 29, 2022

Preparing students to manage the classroom stressors upon their return to campus is central to the curriculum that programs like Fountain House’s offer. “If I’m going to go back to school, I want to make sure that I’m going back for the right reasons and know that I’m going to be able to succeed.”.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 1, 2019

don’t have a single staff member dedicated to college admissions guidance – a major reason why, at The Hechinger Report , we are partnering with the makers of Personal Statement , a film documenting the challenging admissions journeys of three public high school seniors from Brooklyn, to bring public attention to this crisis.

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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. Credit: Courtesy of Kimberly Tilsen-Brave Heart When South Dakota Gov.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 21, 2018

Now that I’m a mother, each new season, or day for that matter, brings worry: worry that my teenage son won’t make it out of bed and out the door in the morning; worry that if he does, he will be misunderstood in the classroom, the cafeteria or, worse, the band hall. What will we choose to pay for?

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 11, 2018

So, too, did the growing body of evidence documenting the harm associated with pulling students out of school: One study , for example, found that students’ chances of dropping out doubled with their first suspension. And Highline hired “re-engagement specialists” to oversee in-school suspended students in study hall-type classrooms.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2019

Kids work alone and in small groups; they sit at tiny desks and on beanbags and sofas scattered around the classroom. 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.

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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. They are often placed in separate classrooms within public schools and spend large numbers of hours on computers using technology that is not aligned with their specific needs.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 3, 2023

Bookbags hanging outside a classroom in Delia Dávila de Cabán School in Toa Baja, an elementary school about 25 miles outside San Juan. Ramos Parés said his department has already made some changes — for example, using more electronic records, rather than paper; collecting more data and documenting its actions.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 14, 2020

A whiteboard in a classroom. Our students are not students that you can expect to just go into the classroom and learn English and be fine.”. There are over 27,000 English learners in this school system, so the district has also made a big push to support regular classroom teachers. We were three. Now it’s only me,” he said.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 6, 2022

Superintendents then leave it up to principals and often parents to decide whether to use corporal punishment on a given student, creating unequal systems of discipline within the same communities and even the same classrooms. Covington County Superintendent Babette Duty chalks those cases up to human error. That mindset has gone away.

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