The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2024

In Molly Long’s kindergarten class at Burrus Elementary in Hendersonville, Tenn., Manipulating numbers in different ways, part of a supplemental math curriculum for Murphy’s whole class at Hilltop Elementary in this suburb of Philadelphia, is an attempt to address those problems.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

While data science isn’t a new subject, there’s been growing interest recently in helping students — in both K-12 and higher ed — gain data science skills. One reason is the shifting job market, said Zarek Drozda, director of Data Science 4 Everyone, a national initiative based at the University of Chicago.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

But this fall, everyone at Viewmont Elementary School is in masks, so she has to listen more intently than usual. Some teachers in Hickory Public Schools, where Viewmont Elementary is located, have been focusing more on the science of reading in recent years, spurred in part by the influence of a local education college.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

Parents are concerned about their children’s online safety and data privacy, but not as much as other issues such as the quality of education their child receives, protection from violence and bullying, and ensuring their child doesn’t fall behind in school. Schools are the ones legally responsible for protecting student data.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2023

They run on the same fuel: data , and lots of it. Netflix machine-learning algorithms, for example, leverage rich user data not just to recommend movies, but to decide which new films to make. Facial recognition software deploys neural nets to leverage pixel data from millions of images.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 8, 2023

For example, the College Board reports that in 2022, Harvard received applications from 61,220 students – the highest-ever number of applicants, but only accepted 1,214, the elite university’s lowest acceptance rate. The survey data underscores a fundamental change in how students utilize AI tools for college applications.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

One district in the Southeast tried to tackle its post-pandemic surge in absenteeism with a computer dashboard that tracks student data and highlights which students are in trouble or heading toward trouble. Called an early warning system, tracking student data this way has become common at schools around the country.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 9, 2021

Three new reports on student achievement during the pandemic all point to larger declines in math than in reading and widening gaps between the haves and have-nots. The data we currently have omits vast numbers of low-income children, who have been the hardest hit by the disruption.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Many people may assume that what I saw is an outlier, but the latest Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC) shows that at least 19,395 students experienced corporal punishment during the 2020-21 school year. The most recent number is much lower mainly because in-person instruction and data reporting were disrupted during the pandemic.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 14, 2022

After reading many reports and making many more phone calls, I realized the practice was common, not unique to this district in Tennessee. Collins Elementary stood out in a national dataset for its widespread use of paddling in 2017-18, in a state where paddling is more common and opposition to it is more organized than anywhere else.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Yet many people in our country looked askance when guidelines were revised or refined based upon new data. Instead of accepting the scientific practice of revising recommendations based on new data, many saw it as a weakness. A May 2020 report by the Southern Regional Education Board promotes three key solutions.

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Edsurge

MARCH 14, 2024

Given the amount of planning time he has each day, along with the assistance of an AI-powered app, Robert can easily turn a hard copy reading passage and questions into an interactive quiz for the students in his elementary classroom. Parsing education data into snack-sized servings. Why Does Planning Time Matter?

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Edsurge

MARCH 15, 2022

It’s the little things, like crayons, says Christine Slayton, a bilingual first grade teacher at Frank Del Olmo Elementary School in Los Angeles. billion since 2000, according to impact data from DonorsChoose’s site. Daniel Mollenkamp is a business reporter at EdSurge. No more sharing Crayolas—or markers or playdough.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Qustodio today released their 5th Annual Report, offering valuable insights into children’s digital habits across 2023. Some of the key findings from 2023’s report include: TikTok continued to captivate with children spending a global average of 112 minutes daily on the app – up from 107 in 2022.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 1, 2024

A group of fifth grade boys trailed into the conference room in the front office of Johnsburg Elementary School and sat at the table, their feet dangling from the chairs. “It In elementary schools across the country, an incident as common as a playground fracas over a football could result in kids being suspended. JOHNSBURG, Ill. —

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 13, 2024

That data showed considerable progress in integrating schools but also some steps backward, especially since the 1990s in the nation’s biggest cities. That’s why I also wanted to trace the data on academic achievement over the same time period. Board of Education decision that declared racial segregation in schools unconstitutional.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 28, 2022

New data released this week from the National Assessment of Educational Progress, or NAEP, known as the “nation’s report card,” should raise the alarm for America’s high schools. A systemic and intensive focus on data, relationships and evidence-based support can help meet the current challenges.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 20, 2024

Bellevue Elementary is one of three school buildings in the Northgate School District, a district of 1,100 students two miles from downtown Pittsburgh. Students from Avalon Elementary school’s after-school Kindness Club created buttons advocating kindness to pass out in their community.

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Edsurge

MARCH 21, 2024

The committee’s roughly 250-page report also made recommendations for governmental policies and future research on the topic. But the committee report says that keeping kids off social media isn’t going to solve any problems.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

News reports—and rumors—about the pandemic are inescapable. Yet without a coordinated national response to the crisis, reliable data that could help inform policy is scarce. They’re not getting health and safety data from the government agencies that might be best positioned to collect and publish it.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

12, 2024 column about how chronic absenteeism remains stubbornly high in elementary, middle and high schools. Attendance has failed to snap back and recovered only a bit during the 2022-23 year, according to data from 38 states and the District of Columbia collected by FutureED, a think tank based at Georgetown University.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Abbott Elementary is a television series about a fictional elementary school in Philadelphia. After watching the entire season twice , I’d love to share 8 great things about Abbott Elementary. Abbott Elementary was created by and stars Philly-native Quinta Brunson. Warning: There are spoilers in this review! We make do”.

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Edsurge

MARCH 4, 2024

Kaufman and Holmes published a report in February that suggests large and low-poverty middle schools tend to use achievement-based tracking more for math placements than their high-poverty counterparts. In general, schools are using different kinds of data when slotting kids into tracks, Kaufman says.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 8, 2024

Wealthy suburbs can have a surplus of qualified applicants for elementary schools at the same time that a remote, rural school cannot find anyone to teach high school physics. On the surface, that sounds like a success and other news outlets reported it that way. Fixing the problem is not easy because those shortages aren’t universal.

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eSchool News

APRIL 11, 2024

principals said their elementary or middle school offered algebra in eighth grade, but only to certain students. The report also details the extent to which students are separated based on their perceived math abilities, starting as young as elementary school.

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eSchool News

MARCH 29, 2023

PRWEB) — Sourcewell , a trusted advisor to education leaders, announces that North Star Central Elementary School in Boswell, Pennsylvania—home to more than 350 pre-K–4 students—is seeing significant growth in students’ math scores, despite national trends. “At PAUL, MINN. To read more about North Star’s success, please visit [link].

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The Electric Educator

MARCH 2, 2016

My first project of 2016 was to help Kingsley elementary school , a small school in northern Michigan, build an elementary book report machine. We quickly put together a Google form which contained all of the required elements of the book report. Book reports are meant to be read! But wait, there is more!

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 7, 2024

I can be mom and teacher in the same breath,” said Zimmerman, who teaches fourth grade at Endeavor Elementary in Nampa, Idaho. Women are more likely than men to leave their careers to care for children , data shows. She cried every day for weeks, but didn’t have the option to quit her job as an elementary reading specialist in Nampa.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 18, 2022

The good news, according to the latest achievement data, is that learning resumed at a more typical pace during the 2021-22 school year that just ended. Based on the subsequent catch up that NWEA documented in the spring of 2022, upper elementary school students might now be six to seven weeks behind. It’s very small.”.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

When Kim Rider and her team contact a former student, they aren’t just checking in — they’re also gathering data. Their inability to answer stems from disconnected data. Due to student privacy concerns, a number of states fail to connect their K-12 school and workforce data sets. Do they earn good wages?

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 9, 2023

This story also appeared in Mind/Shift In the past decade, the population of elementary, middle and high school students in Massachusetts dropped by 42,000 while the number of school employees grew by 18,000. It could be years before complete national data is available, Roza said.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 25, 2024

Students also need adequate training, even in elementary and middle school. Statisticians at the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) have continued to dig into the 2022 data, and they’ve been also turning their attention to students at the top. Let’s walk through the numbers together. That fell to 7 percent.

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Edsurge

MARCH 27, 2024

But the ESSER “funding cliff” — the fall deadline for districts to allocate money from the final disbursement of Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief grants — isn’t a singular culprit behind the staff cuts that are rolling out around the country. In many cases, that means educator layoffs are coming.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

ATLANTA/PRNewswire/ — CENTEGIX , the leader in incident response solutions, today released its biannual report highlighting the impact of safety tools in K12 schools across the country and the benefits of wearable panic button solutions. alerts per semester. High schools saw an increase in alerts from 14.6

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Credit: Shane Bevel for The Hechinger Report Until recently, however, students in Union’s advanced math classes remained mostly white. Credit: Shane Bevel for The Hechinger Report Enrollment data suggest the effort to make higher-level math accessible to more students had started to yield results before the pandemic.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

The report comes at a time when students continue to struggle academically in the wake of the pandemic and as efforts turn to learning recovery. Findings from Pathways to Success: How Stretch Growth Goals Support Learning Recovery are based on data from more than 2.4 After two years of Typical Growth, only a small percentage (i.e.,

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eSchool News

MAY 15, 2024

educators reporting burnout on most days, leading to absenteeism and a decline in instructional quality as consequences. That’s according to new data from Canva , a visual communication platform offering free tech tools for the classroom. are widely experiencing strain at work, with 35 percent of U.S.

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