The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 20, 2022

Although national data on discipline for the current school year isn’t expected to be public for several years, The Hechinger Report requested data from a dozen medium and large school districts around the country and found that in some of them, exclusionary discipline is down, even way down.

Personalized Learning 138

Personalized Learning Learning Data Report 138

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 12, 2018

This is the essential contradiction of Arne Duncan: He claims to be driven by data, but he prefers a good story. Similar to Lang’s approach, the Ariel Foundation offered support, mentoring, and paying the cost of postsecondary education for a cohort of sixth-graders at a Chicago elementary school.

Dropout 68

Dropout Policies Elementary Data 68

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 29, 2022

The pilot program trains 11th and 12th grade students to do basic interventions — helping with schoolwork planning and navigating new social dynamics — to reduce the risk of dropouts. Sibley is hoping eventually to track how students are faring academically throughout high school, as well as socially and emotionally. Read the series.

Accessibility 92

Accessibility Training Dropout Survey 92

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. So it’s easy for me to show them how to do it, show them my way,” said Obimma. It’s a long road of recovery.” I love math.

Study 138

Study Data Report Elementary 138

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.

Guidelines 143

Guidelines Report Elementary Online Learning 143

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.

Dropout 111

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 5, 2018

In New Orleans, the large number of dropouts who lack HiSET credentials drives the astronomically high count of so-called “opportunity youth.” That data matches what YEP instructors have heard anecdotally: Students who drop out, even those who eventually take the HiSET, often become completely disengaged from education, sometimes for years.

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Dropout Policies Report System 53

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. Often, personalized learning includes technology that adapts lessons to students’ needs and provides data so that teachers can see how each learner is growing.

Personalized Learning 69

Personalized Learning Policies Advocacy Assessment 69

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 3, 2023

An alarming number are now choosing not to enroll in higher education because they question its value, even though data clearly show s that a high school diploma is no longer sufficient currency for young people. That’s why it is once again time for a major evolution in how we think about U.S.

Education 106

Education Training Industry Accessibility 106

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 7, 2018

The proportion of overage students — those who have been retained for at least one grade — hovers around 40 percent for New Orleans high school students, according to an analysis of 2014 data by researchers at Education Research Alliance for New Orleans, which is based at Tulane University. percent national average.

Analysis 123

Analysis Report Data Policies 123

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 22, 2018

But in this county of fewer than 19,000 residents, just 38 percent of recent high school graduates sought more education, according to the latest available data from the West Virginia Higher Education Policy Commission. Related: How diplomas based on skill acquisition, not credits earned, could change education.

Report 111

Report Elementary Study Conference 111

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. But we don’t know how to go about it right now and as an industry we are picking and choosing what feels right as opposed to using evidence-based practices.”.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

APRIL 25, 2021

In this article and Truth for Teachers podcast episode, I’ll share how often the solution to big problems is solving smaller ones. You’ll hear NYT bestselling author Dan Heath share a short case study from Chicago Public Schools that illustrates how this name-by-name approach worked for reducing dropout rates. Okay, great.

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System Case Study Course Examples 59

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

These students didn’t move out of state, and they didn’t sign up for private school or home-school, according to publicly available data. But Dee says the data suggests a need to understand more about children who aren’t in school and how that will affect their development. that provided the necessary data.

Data 100

Data Analysis Online Learning Laptops 100

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

For those that enroll in two-year schools, the outcomes aren’t much better: 41 percent, according to federal data. But high schools often neglect to teach these students the soft skills that will help them in higher education — like how to study, manage their time and self-advocate. It’s a crisis.

Study 88

Study Advocacy Report Outcomes 88

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 27, 2020

Steven Montoya, who is 27 and grew up in Queens, New York, recalls how much he struggled in classes because of anger over his mother’s incarceration. Few of his teachers knew how to handle his behavior, he says. Once, his mother’s parole officer dropped by his school, which set off rounds of bullying.

Report 111

Report Exercises Video Education 111

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

As the new school year began this fall, battles around vaccine and mask mandates raged, school boards took up the thorny issue of how to teach students about race and Congress argued about how much to spend on children (and everything else). Maranda Seawood, student support specialist at Washington Elementary School. 18, 2021.

Elementary 143

Elementary Broadband Assessment Dropout 143

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 14, 2020

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 airy PS 64 Frederick Law Olmsted, in affluent, white north Buffalo, 22 would-be Arctic explorers wrestled with how to build a shelter if their team leader had frostbite and snow blindness.

Education 145

Education Elementary Report Data 145

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. More recently, the data tracking firm Burbio identified 36 districts that are using pandemic relief funds to start hubs or hub-like learning centers. What’s his name?” They need a mentor.”.

Learning 82

Learning Report Elementary Dropout 82

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

A Hechinger Report analysis of federal data exposes the stark racial gap between different groups of special education students. During the 2014-15 school year, the most recent year of available federal data, more than 37,000 students with special needs graduated with a certificate instead of a diploma. Not all students are as lucky.

Dropout 94

Dropout Report System Meeting 94

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 22, 2020

In the absence of clear federal and state guidance for reopening, school districts have debated everything from whether to mandate masks for in-person classes to how to make online-only learning more effective. In mid-August, the students presented their data and policy recommendations to the Kentucky State Board of Education.

Survey 145

Survey Policies Groups Report 145

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 14, 2020

For now, the science is almost entirely based on data collected from people with European ancestry, which limits the conclusions that can be drawn from it, so researchers feel that they’ve at least temporarily sidestepped the issue. The score’s ability to explain variation in years of schooling could improve with more data.

Data 58

Data Study Assessment Report 58

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 31, 2021

She previously wanted to specialize in trauma surgery but eventually decided to avoid “the terrible rates of PTSD ” in that field and instead learn how to cut into people’s brains.). Early data suggested about a third of low-income, Black and Hispanic students did not regularly log into online instruction. Across the U.S.,

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Report Survey Meeting Study 115

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Just 7 percent of America’s public school teachers were Black during the 2017-18 school year, while Black students make up 15 percent of the student population, according to the most recently available data from the National Center for Education Statistics. That’s something that I always wanted to be in.

Education 134

Education Elementary Data Dropout 134

The Hechinger Report

MAY 30, 2018

“Since my parents didn’t get much education, it’s hard to talk to them about my schoolwork and applying to college, or how to plan my time and get everything done,” says Mariano Almanza, 18, pictured speaking with his Coronado High School guidance counselor, Colleen McElvogue. Photo: Sarah Gonser for The Hechinger Report.

Dropout 111

Dropout Report Training Outcomes 111

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 11, 2018

McMicken Heights Elementary School principal Alexandria Haas sits with second-graders during a morning activity developed by the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence. Good morning, Mahlet,” says one student to another at McMicken Heights Elementary School. Photo: Wayne D’Orio for The Hechinger Report. BURIEN, Wash. —

Elementary 95

Elementary Training Report Guidelines 95

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 21, 2017

At the meeting, a special education teacher had recommended taking the boy out of Martin Elementary School, in a town 10 miles southwest, and placing him in Georgia’s Network for Educational and Therapeutic Support, or GNETS, a statewide system for children with “emotional and behavioral disorders.”.

Education 80

Education Assistive Technology Advocacy System 80

The Hechinger Report

JULY 28, 2021

Of those, only a handful require instruction on how to use or access contraception, according to data gathered by SIECUS , an organization that promotes comprehensive sexual health education policies. Thirty-five states, including Texas, require that sexual health classes, when offered, focus on abstinence.

Kaplan 113

Kaplan Report Policies Laptops 113

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 3, 2023

This story also appeared in The Guardian The flooding last fall that devastated the home of Deishangelxa Nuez Galarza, a fifth grader in this coastal area of southern Puerto Rico, also closed her elementary school, El Coquí, for three days while staff cleaned out a foot of muddy water from every first floor room.

Elementary 103

Elementary Report Dropout System 103

Doug Levin

MARCH 5, 2017

Students selling notes online a legal gray area, schools say | ArkansasOnline → University of Arkansas faculty members are debating how to best deal with the selling of lecture notes by students, spurred on by the practices of online study resource companies known for aggressive recruiting tactics.

EdTech 170

EdTech Coursera Data Case Study 170

The Hechinger Report

JULY 24, 2022

Even though there is data that shows how pregnant teens can be supported and can be definitely on an educational trajectory of success.”. Related: How parents of young kids make it through college. The teens learn how to apply for their birth certificates and get a driver’s license or social security card.

Report 135

Report Accessibility Outcomes Social Media 135

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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Groups Report Meeting Resources 110

Hack Education

JUNE 16, 2017

Via Inside Higher Ed : “A pending Connecticut law will now mandate that the University of Connecticut and the state’s four other public universities publicly release data on which transfer student credits they accept and which they reject.” Start Holding Weekly Data Conferences ,” says Edsurge.

Education 44

Education Coursera MOOC Kaplan 44

Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 29, 2017

Inside Higher Ed on the “Return of the College Scoreboard” : “The Department of Education published updated information on the College Scorecard Thursday, including a new feature that allows students to compare data from up to 10 institutions at once.” ” (Worth clicking on this link just to see the image.). .”

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Education Company Data Report 47

Hack Education

OCTOBER 26, 2018

” Via The Atlantic : “Why Many College Dropouts Are Returning to School in North Carolina.” Speaking of Google, “ Google Is Teaching Children How to Act Online. More PR from Techcrunch : “ Nintendo is bringing Labo kits to elementary schools.” Enjoy your Google for Education products !

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Education Khan Academy Company MOOC 60