The Hechinger Report

MARCH 12, 2021

The job market analytics company Burning Glass reports that nine out of ten tech jobs sit outside the technology sector and that, in the utility sector alone, 35 percent of job openings in 2019 were in IT. The post OPINION: Why we must invest in new, innovative workforce training to fill a skills gap appeared first on The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 20, 2022

Her online coursework gave teachers no reason to take issue with her classroom behavior. The consequence was an unwelcome reminder that the pandemic isn’t the only thing that can keep her from the classroom. Credit: Kelly Field for The Hechinger Report. And three days was a lot to miss.”.

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Personalized Learning Learning Data Report 138

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 19, 2023

After a few hours, the elementary school called: Come pick up your son, they told her. Related: Millions of kids are missing school as attendance tanks across the US Thousands of students went missing from American classrooms during the pandemic. An Associated Press reporter has had to visit the family in person to communicate.

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Policies Online Learning Dropout Elementary 79

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. The homework gap isn’t new.

Digital Divide 111

Digital Divide Broadband Chromebook Survey 111

Edsurge

JULY 29, 2020

By comparison, the state of California reported a 12 percent chronic absenteeism rate among students in 2018-2019, representing 676,000 students. Department of Education reported that for the 2015-2016 school year, more than 7 million students —or 16 percent of all students—and 20 percent of high school students are chronically absent.

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Strategy Learning Data Dropout 191

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 2, 2020

Credit: Photo: Ronda Churchill for The Hechinger Report. Among lower-income adults, who have already been disproportionately affected, one in four say they have only enough savings to cover their expenses for three months if they’re laid off or get sick, the Pew Research Center reports. But is it better than being a dropout?

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Industry Dropout Pearson Report 135

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 20, 2021

That same day, six other students across the district were written up for not wearing their masks correctly (including one who also faked using hand sanitizer), while an elementary school student was assigned three days of “private dining” for sharing food in violation of safety guidelines. Their parents were threatened with courts and fines.

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Guidelines Report Elementary Online Learning 143

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 26, 2019

Rivera Pichardo for The Hechinger Report. Rivera Pichardo for The Hechinger Report. Of those who do enroll at universities on the island, fewer than half earn degrees, even after six years , the advocacy group Excelencia in Education reports, compared to more than 58 percent of college students nationwide.

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Dropout Report Accessibility Study 111

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

Photo: Tara García Mathewson/The Hechinger Report. The idea behind the Muñiz Academy, named for the longtime principal of Boston’s first dual-language elementary school (the Rafael Hernandez K-8 school), was that many Hispanic students would do better in schools that support their cultural background and, with it, the Spanish language.

Learning 111

Learning Dropout Report Elementary 111

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 28, 2019

Assistant teachers would be required in every kindergarten through fourth grade classroom under House Bill 116. This bill would amend the state code that calls for a statewide system of assistant teachers in K-3 classrooms. But, if the bill becomes a law, it could be hard to find and retain enough assistant teachers.

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Accessibility Dropout Elementary Trends 45

The Hechinger Report

JULY 1, 2018

Rogers Elementary fourth-grade teacher Sudhir Vasal created math lesson pathways so each child can progress at their own pace. Photo: Laura Pappano for The Hechinger Report. Rogers Elementary School here set a three-alarm fire in the library. Rogers Elementary Principal Lisa Lovato. What can that look like? When Dan D.

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Personalized Learning Khan Academy Education Elementary 100

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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How To Training Report Dropout 109

The Hechinger Report

MAY 19, 2022

PHILADELPHIA — At first, Marie Wilkins-Walker was just happy to be back in a classroom. Credit: Caroline Preston/The Hechinger Report. On the floor below Wilkin-Walker’s classroom, David Thiebeau had begun to notice similar challenges. Credit: Caroline Preston/The Hechinger Report.

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Dropout Chromebook Report System 100

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 3, 2023

This means aligning educational experiences in and out of the classroom, so they are structured in pursuit of that end goal. Colorado is promoting youth apprenticeships as a means of accelerating the journey from classrooms to credentials to careers in high-wage jobs. Sign up for our higher education newsletter.

Education 106

Education Training Industry Accessibility 106

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

Photo: Sarah Butrymowicz/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. Parry said his room was a “horrible little classroom in the back of the campus that no one knew existed.”

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Dropout E-rate Education Secondary 94

The Hechinger Report

JULY 13, 2021

At the beginning of 2021, The Hechinger Report’s members (individual readers who donated money to our nonprofit news organization) asked us if we would report on the best practices for helping the nation’s public school system recover from the pandemic. Your stories. There were disappointments in other years, too.

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Study Data Report Elementary 138

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 6, 2017

Photo: Kate Flock for The Hechinger Report. 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. Photo: Kate Flock for The Hechinger Report. Related: In one state, students are ditching classrooms for jobs.

Personalized Learning 69

Personalized Learning Policies Advocacy Assessment 69

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 24, 2019

Meghan Groves, a teacher at Washington-Lee Elementary School, in Bristol, Virginia, leads her first graders in “closing circle,” where they talk about how their day went. Caroline Preston/The Hechinger Report. Caroline Preston/The Hechinger Report. Caroline Preston/The Hechinger Report. BRISTOL, Va. — Proof Points.

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Strategy Training Report Company 79

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.” All through elementary school, she’d excelled in the classroom, though she spent a lot of time in the principal’s office.

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Dropout Policies Report System 53

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 11, 2021

Recognizing that student success in the classroom hinges on student wellness, new campus partnerships among faculty, staff and administration — such as student success centers and campus health counseling centers — give students support when they most need it. Sign up for our higher education newsletter.

Digital Divide 141

Digital Divide Course Accessibility System 141

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 7, 2018

Photo: Cheryl Gerber for The Hechinger Report. As a freshman, she constantly got into fights, and spent long hours in a disciplinary classroom. Photo: Cheryl Gerber for The Hechinger Report. “We Laster’s presentation, based on 2010 data, reported that 28 percent of Louisiana students did not make it to fourth grade on time.

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Analysis Report Data Policies 123

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 2, 2016

The Starkville Foundation for Public Education, funded by donations from local residents, gave frequent grants to Starkville teachers to purchase new equipment and materials for their classrooms. And yet, the Justice Department has not asked the district to report on the performance of the minority students desegregation is supposed to help.

Report 111

Report Dropout System Elementary 111

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? What a summer.

Technology 60

Technology eBook Dropout Libraries 60

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 2, 2021

Online-schooling shoved students out of familiar classroom settings straight into independent, self-directed learning. This story about pandemic high school seniors was produced by The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. Sign up for Hechinger’s newsletter.

Handbook 112

Handbook Groups Meeting Study 112

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. Hatharasinghe-Gerschler had been diagnosed with a reading comprehension disability in elementary school. Photo courtesy Michelle McLaughlin.

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Education Strategy Report Training 111

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. Just a few decades ago, students with disabilities faced high rates of institutionalization and were rarely included in typical classroom settings.

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Education Assessment Report Resources 83

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 known outside the classroom as Rosy Taveras, tapped a hand pointer below each word on the pad as, together, they read aloud: “My New Pet.

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How To Training Report Dropout 43

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 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. When they separate you into different classrooms it can just debilitate you,” he said, adding that the content was “dummied down.”

Education 94

Education Elementary Meeting Study 94

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 6, 2022

This story also appeared in Arizona Center for Investigative Reporting. But a first-of-its-kind analysis by The Hechinger Report and the Arizona Center for Investigative Reporting has found that attendance-related suspensions are pervasive, in some districts accounting for more than half of all in-school suspensions.

Dropout 101

Dropout Analysis Policies Report 101

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. They settled on four skills to focus on in the classroom and for students to practice in internships.

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Study Advocacy Report Outcomes 88

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 11, 2011

The scientific management system we use in educational leadership today tends to bring us consistently to the four failures of information learning and applied action identified by the 9/11 Commission Report: failures of management, imagination, policy, and capacity. We fail to properly use our people and resources.

Industry 50

Industry Dropout Policies System 50

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

Handbook 98

Handbook Learning Online Learning Data 98

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Credit: Danielle Dreilinger for The Hechinger Report. On a crisp day in early March, two elementary school gifted and talented classes worked on activities in two schools, three miles and a world apart. In this series, The Hechinger Report examines racial inequity in gifted classes and what schools are doing to fix it.

Education 145

Education Elementary Report Data 145

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 28, 2021

Marie Lewis in her classroom at New Providence Middle School in Clarksville, Tennessee. Yet research tells us that exposure to a Black teacher in elementary school can reduce the high school dropout rate for low-income Black male students by 39 percent. Credit: Randall Lahann. Sadly, her story isn’t unusual.

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Dropout Training Academic Standards System 96

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 18, 2021

Here’s a hard lesson I’ve learned working in the after-school field for nearly three decades: Often, it’s not until report cards come that parents discover there’s a problem. In past summers, we’ve done project-based learning, in which students in every classroom come up with their own themes. Too often, the assumption is proven wrong.

Dropout 141

Dropout Report Course Groups 141

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Rubio, a junior at the University of Rhode Island who attended elementary school in Central Falls, had already intervened once this quarter. Credit: Nancy Walser for The Hechinger Report. Credit: Nancy Walser for The Hechinger Report. Credit: Nancy Walser for The Hechinger Report. What’s his name?”

Learning 82

Learning Report Elementary Dropout 82

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. Individuals are stressed with doing more to cover and to supervise children when they are not in classrooms. We just don’t have the available workforce out there.

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Elementary Broadband Assessment Dropout 143