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Will the students who didn’t show up for online class this spring go missing forever?

The Hechinger Report

Monica Williams remembers the late May day she and first grade teacher Lizette Gutierrez reconnected with the four young siblings from Cable Elementary. No teachers from the San Antonio elementary had heard from the children since schools closed abruptly in March due to the pandemic. Credit: Redland Elementary.

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Implementing Innovation Strategies to Make School Districts More Equitable

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The presentation featured Raymond McNulty, President of the Successful Practices Network, and Michael Conner, Ed.D., About the Presenters. McNulty is the president of the National Dropout Prevention Center (NDPC) and the Successful Practices Network (SPN). Superintendent of the Middletown Public Schools in Connecticut.

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OPINION: Arne Duncan, the fallible narrator

The Hechinger Report

Secretary of Education, and into the present day, doesn’t add up to much. This is the essential contradiction of Arne Duncan: He claims to be driven by data, but he prefers a good story. This is the essential contradiction of Arne Duncan: He claims to be driven by data, but he prefers a good story.”.

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Let Evidence Guide the Solutions to Student Absenteeism

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Data that Drive Solutions. Research illuminates its impact: Elementary school students who miss 10% of school show weaker social skills development, lower reading ability, and higher grade-retention rates. Chronically absent middle schoolers have lower grades and test scores that increase dropout potential. About the Presenters.

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Held back, but not helped

The Hechinger Report

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.

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Home visiting in high school: Trying an intervention for toddlers on teenagers

The Hechinger Report

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. Like elementary and middle school home visits, high school home visits are all about relationship building.

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Why haven’t new federal rules unleashed more innovation in schools?

The Hechinger Report

Often, personalized learning includes technology that adapts lessons to students’ needs and provides data so that teachers can see how each learner is growing. Each year, districts and schools were rated based on whether their elementary school kids performed better than the prior year’s students in math and English.