edWeb.net

APRIL 30, 2021

The disruptions and changes during the past year have made a return to the industrial education model of the 19th and 20th centuries problematic for school districts committed to preparing diverse students for 21st century careers. Creating a Framework for Innovation. WATCH THE EDWEBINAR RECORDING. LISTEN TO THE PODCAST.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 12, 2018

Secretary of Education Arne Duncan. But I do read memoirs—most recently, How Schools Work: An Inside Account of Failure and Success from One of the Nation’s Longest-Serving Secretaries of Education (2018), by Arne Duncan. Department of Education in 1980. Much of what you hear about education is a lie, he argues.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 20, 2022

In some ways, the return to exclusionary discipline is a predictable outcome of the chaos of the pandemic. Darryl White is an educational consultant who works with school districts throughout California and chairs the Black Parallel School Board, a community organization that advocates on behalf of Black students in Sacramento.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

MARCH 24, 2015

Educators believe that student engagement in the classroom is crucial to learning and that it can increase achievement and enrollment in challenging courses while decreasing dropout rates. Research Seeks Scale For Measuring Student Engagement. by TeachThought Staff. From a press release. COLUMBIA, Mo.

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edWeb.net

MARCH 16, 2020

Chronic absenteeism emerged as a top indicator that affects students’ educational experiences. 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. what others do or how they rank in a specific area.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

Michelle McLaughlin said Michael’s education did not prepare him for college or career. 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. Our son’s education was a waste. Higher Education.

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MindShift

JANUARY 11, 2019

Public education has a persistent and well-documented issue: the achievement gap between white students and students of color. According to the results, black students who have just one black teacher in elementary school are 13 percent more likely to enroll in college than their peers who didn’t have any black teachers.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

They still are, but as the academy enters its sixth full year, its student outcomes are drawing praise from a variety of sources, even while administrators note that steep challenges remain. And the dropout rate among the first Muniz cohort, the class of 2016, was just 2.5 percent, compared with a district average of 10 percent.

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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. Higher Education. Sign up for our newsletter.

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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. For those that enroll in two-year schools, the outcomes aren’t much better: 41 percent, according to federal data. Sign up for our newsletter.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 4, 2023

Our current education accountability system purports to measure school quality, yet it fails to reflect many of the characteristics of quality schools that most of us identify. Related: One of the poorest cities in America was succeeding in an education turnaround. Maybe you see children from diverse backgrounds learning together.

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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. Buffalo educators hoped Eve’s new program would give more children — particularly children of color — a chance at enrichment and advanced learning. BUFFALO, N.Y. — Inequity is the norm.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 27, 2020

Johnson also didn’t want her children to go through the next two months with no educational tools beyond the worksheets she’d picked up from the Greenville Public School District and limited access to online materials through Kentiona’s phone, shared between the four of them. Meanwhile, education is just one role schools fill.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 26, 2020

If, after a natural disaster decimated a city, I proposed to a governor or a school board that they replace a significant portion of a majority- white teaching corps with black teachers because doing so would potentially confer educational and social benefits, I’d probably be denounced as a racist and publicly excoriated.

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

now live in poverty, a mark hit in 2013 for the first time in 50 years, according to the Southern Education Foundation. For these students, poverty brings a host of other disadvantages, most beyond the school district’s control: broken homes, transient living situations, and a lack of educational support at home. to 11:30 p.m,

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edWeb.net

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Throughout the school year—and even during the summer—administrators and educators should make sure they are reaching out to every family in the school. Educators need to continue the conversations during the year and administrators should provide opportunities that allow the children to continue their education.

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

now live in poverty, a mark hit in 2013 for the first time in 50 years, according to the Southern Education Foundation. For these students, poverty brings a host of other disadvantages, most beyond the school district’s control: broken homes, transient living situations, and a lack of educational support at home. to 11:30 p.m,

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Blended Learning Elementary Broadband Dropout 120

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 24, 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. The odds he faced, as a black boy in special education, were actually stacked against him. 20, 2017, in Durham, N.C. Photo: AP Photo/Brian Blanco.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

Third-graders at Alamosa Elementary School in Albuquerque practice reading with first-graders in Carrie Ramirez’s classroom. Sometimes it’s simply a matter of educating parents about the importance of attendance. Higher Education. This is only the second year Alamosa Elementary has been tracking attendance student by student.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Meanwhile, interventions aimed at teenagers, such as dropout prevention programs , often disappoint. The paper on afterschool instruction, “Does Remedial Education at Late Childhood Pay Off After All? Political whims in education are universal. But researchers occasionally find things that work with high schoolers.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Harlem Children’s Zone, the renowned nonprofit providing social and academic support to low-income families in Central Harlem, has announced a new initiative to replicate its community-based model of family and educational services nationwide. This story also appeared in The Washington Post.

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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.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 12, 2023

Tilsen-Brave Heart worried that her 5-year-old daughter, Pia, would be exposed to even fewer lessons taught through a cultural lens than her older siblings had been, robbing her of an educational experience that would foster a sense of belonging and self-identity. “I I want my children to know who they are,” said Tilsen-Brave Heart. “I

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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.”.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 6, 2018

Snyder is the principal of the elementary, middle and high schools in this tiny town in southeastern Colorado. Rural school leaders have some of the most complex, multifaceted jobs in education. Buses for a field trip to a dinosaur museum have to be sorted. It is barely 8:30 a.m. At least that’s one of his jobs. People like Snyder.

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Elementary Training Report Policies 112

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

Students at Lovett Elementary in Clinton, Miss. The school choice option favored by Education Secretary Betsy DeVos and President Donald Trump isn’t enough to turn around chronically struggling schools. In addition, America’s educators need to redesign state and district systems so that every child has better choices.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 28, 2021

Experts point to a confluence of factors for this, including poverty, culture, trauma and a lack of comprehensive sexual health education. “My Programs that help teenage mothers stay in school can make a big difference to the education and life outcomes for both the adolescents and their babies. She motivates me a lot.”

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 20, 2019

They also share one abiding theme: Parents know the risk of dropping out of school and want desperately for their children to get through high school and beyond in their education. My dad was always telling us we needed to get an education,” said Mayko. “Me My dad was always telling us we needed to get an education.

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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.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 27, 2018

As Louisiana struggles to balance its budget in face of a nearly $1 billion shortfall, lawmakers face a stark choice: Shrink a program that once made the state a national model in education, or end it entirely. A college education for everyone’. Higher Education. Choose as many as you like. Weekly Update. Future of Learning.

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Dropout Policies STEM Outcomes 79

Doug Levin

MARCH 5, 2017

Filter bubbles are bad, including in educational technology. Here’s what caught my eye this week – news, tools, and reports about education, public policy, technology, and innovation – including a little bit about why. He gave a speech and devoted 150 words to education and choice.

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EdTech Coursera Data Case Study 170

The Hechinger Report

JULY 24, 2022

Fifty years have passed since Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 went into effect. The law guarantees the right to an education for pregnant and parenting students. Some educators still believe that having pregnant or parenting teens in school or providing services like nurseries will encourage other students to get pregnant.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 6, 2022

Collins Elementary School, in southeastern Mississippi, paddled students more times than almost any school in the country in 2017-18, the last year for which there is national data. Johnson is the principal of Mississippi’s Collins Elementary School, where the paddle remains a staple of the educational experience.

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Elementary Handbook Report Policies 144

Hack Education

JUNE 16, 2017

(National) Education Politics. “To Understand Betsy DeVos ’s Educational Views, View Her Education,” says The New York Times. Via The Chronicle of Higher Education : “A Task Force With Falwell Is Happening, White House Says.” State and Local) Education Politics.

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 26, 2018

*Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. All this feeds the review I write each December on the stories we are told about the future of education. (Oh National) Education Politics. State and Local) Education Politics. Immigration and Education.

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