The Hechinger Report

MAY 19, 2022

PHILADELPHIA — At first, Marie Wilkins-Walker was just happy to be back in a classroom. Her classes focus on computer systems networking; students earn certificates for jobs in fields like IT while also providing tech support to the high school.

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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. But in October, less than two months after returning to in-person learning in Sacramento, California, she was suspended again.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Related: Millions of kids are missing school as attendance tanks across the US Thousands of students went missing from American classrooms during the pandemic. Contact logs provided by the district show social workers from three schools have sent four emails and called the family 19 times since the pandemic closed classrooms in 2020.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 8, 2018

This shouldn’t be news,” said Damon Yarnell, Dickinson’s dean of academic advising, after leading an orientation for new faculty about its early-alert system in a quiet classroom on the college’s distinctive campus of grassy quads bounded by historic limestone buildings. Faculty care about their students, Espinosa said.

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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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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 6, 2022

From then until the coronavirus hit, when she was a 16-year-old precalculus student, Hernandez shined in the classroom. The standards for online learning during her junior year weren’t just lower than they had been in the classroom, she said, “the standards weren’t even there at all.”. “It This story also appeared in USA Today.

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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. So systems are really trying to figure out, ‘How do we do that?’ ”.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

Leave this field empty if you're human: In interviews with 45 parents and students and more than 50 other experts, advocates and lawyers across 34 states and the District of Columbia, families and advocates described systemic problems with special education in high school. The system, she said, “failed me.”.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 24, 2023

That’s why I-BEST programs feature two teachers in the classroom: one provides job training and the other teaches basic skills in reading, math or English language. And the only reason is people like me – I’m middle class – have known how to work the system. This is bigger than I-BEST. Math has revolutionized every industry.”

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Edsurge

JULY 10, 2019

Driving student success in the classroom and beyond Ivy Tech can now predict with 84 percent accuracy which students are at risk of dropping out within the first two weeks of enrollment. The ultimate goal of education is to help students grow and succeed, both in the classroom and in the workforce.

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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. Related: An urban charter school achieves a fivefold increase in the percentage of its black and Latino graduates who major in STEM. As a sophomore, she worked six hours a night at a burger joint in a shopping mall.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 29, 2019

Lewis said streamlining his central office staff allowed more money to flow to classrooms and schools. Classrooms went without certified teachers or materials. His network boasts several of New Orleans’ rare A and B ratings on the state grading system. Teachers went without curriculum support at the district level, they said.

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Edsurge

APRIL 28, 2017

In the United States alone, jobs website Indeed reports that reduced productivity stemming from open positions accounted for $160 billion of lost revenue in 2014. high-profile dropouts and the rise of the so-called “ anti-credential.” These unfilled positions carry a tremendous economic cost for businesses. At almost $1.3

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 3, 2018

This story about the opioid crisis and foster care was produced as part of a series, “Twice Abandoned: How schools and child-welfare systems fail kids in foster care,” reported by HuffPost and The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. Photo: Damon Dahlen/HuffPost.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 20, 2019

High school dropouts are much more likely to be unemployed and earn thousands of dollars less per year than people with higher levels of education. She filled classrooms with four full-time substitutes, who had bachelor’s degrees but no training in teaching. White families also began to leave the system altogether.

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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

Be a Presenter at Reinventing the Classroom. We want YOU to present at the Reinventing the Classroom conference on May 1st - all about the impact of ed tech on the classroom experience, and kicking off our self-proclaimed May as "Ed Tech Month." A Look At Physical And Digital Spaces Conversations Classroom 2.0

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 9, 2017

The school has struggled to stem sliding enrollment and to address poor safety ratings by parents and test scores that were among the worst in the city. The funding by the city is there; it’s now more about the management system.”. No children from those luxury condos have enrolled in P.S. 67. That was only the beginning.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

And they’re shocked that we’re actually busy learning stuff,” he said, tidying up his classroom after getting his last students onto the afternoon bus headed for home. Boccia’s classroom walls are decorated with colorful posters of the subjects his students are learning about: the solar system, maps of the world, nouns and verbs.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 30, 2018

About one-third of all black collegians earn degrees in either a STEM-related (science, technology, engineering and math) field or in business, according to my analysis of integrated post-secondary education data system (IPEDS), the national dataset of college outcomes. See chart below.). Related: The empress’s new clothes.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

To remedy this problem, California State University, which consists of 23 schools and is the largest university system in the country, has launched an initiative to double its four-year graduation rate in 10 years. I learned how to study and apply myself in the classroom setting and at home.”. The dropout rate is around 70 percent.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

Our students have immense talent but this system handicaps them.”. Related: An urban charter school achieves a fivefold increase in the percentage of its black and Latino graduates who major in STEM. Rather than crying foul, I want to use it as an opportunity to bring about systemic change.”. More of that change is underway.

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 6, 2017

Related, via Salon : “ Silicon Valley ’s $300M donation to STEM educatio n is not what it seems.” Via ProPublica : “ For-Profit Schools Get State Dollars For Dropouts Who Rarely Drop In.” Via Curbed : “ School buses : A massive mass transit system in need of a tech upgrade.”

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Hack Education

AUGUST 24, 2018

.” Via the Northwest Arkansas Democrat Gazette : “More than $300,000 spent on high-tech parking management system at UA.” “How a Faculty Trip to Silicon Valley Changed the Classroom Experience,” according to The Chronicle of Higher Education. despite having Arizona ’s third-highest dropout rate.”

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Hack Education

JULY 28, 2017

” From the Department of Education press release : “Secretary DeVos Accepts President Trump’s Q2 Salary as a Donation for STEM-Focused Camp.” Bloomberg reports that “ Trump Administration Tapping Tech CEOs for STEM Policy Approach.” “ Is higher ed creating the next dropout factories?

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 31, 2019

They added resources in an existing dual-language program at the elementary school level, created a sheltered English learner program for newcomer students in the middle school, and overhauled high school offerings, placing native English speakers and English learners into more of the same classrooms, so they can learn from each other.

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Hack Education

JUNE 16, 2017

.” Via Inside Higher Ed : “The Department of Education last week outlined changes to civil rights investigations that advocates fear will mean less consistent findings of systemic discrimination at colleges.” ” “More Than Half of School Expenditures Spent on Classroom Instruction ,” says the Census Bureau.

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Hack Education

MARCH 3, 2017

” Via CNET : “ Trump signs laws to promote women in STEM.” “ Apple ’s Devices Lose Luster in American Classrooms,” according to The New York Times. Via The Atlantic : “The STEM Superhero of Sesame Street.” ” Here’s the Department of Education press release.

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 29, 2017

“ President Trump Earmarks $200 Million in Federal Grants for STEM , Computer Science Programs ,” says Edsurge , later swooning that “ Google , Facebook , Amazon Among Tech Titans Committing $300 Million to K–12 Computer Science.” Edsurge on “How to Protect Education Data When No Systems Are Secure.”

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