The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

One of the most promising uses of technology in education seemed to be a cheap one: nudging text messages. Several studies in the mid 2000s found that cell phone messages were surprisingly effective at reminding students to fill out financial aid forms, as well as to apply to and enroll in college. 1/2) Hi [first_name].

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Thirty-five colleges and universities shut down in 2021, a 70 percent decrease from 2016, when a peak of 120 colleges shuttered, according to an analysis of federal data by the State Higher Education Executive Officers Association (SHEEO). Roughly 500 were closed because of a merger or a consolidation with another college.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2023

Studies have often found that Black students learn more from same race teachers. Chart from the website of the National Center for Education Statistics. Condition of Education. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences. Teacher diversity statistics in 2020-21. Retrieved from [link].

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 22, 2020

Such closures have a disastrous impact on education in STEM subjects: science, technology, engineering and math. While pre-Ks, elementary schools and some schools for children with complex disabilities reopened in December, there is still no plan to reopen middle and high schools. Related: We must boost elementary science education.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 31, 2023

In Philadelphia, 49 percent of students who graduated from public high schools matriculated to a college or university, a number that does not account for the 19 percent pushout or dropout rate of students who did not graduate from high school. Only 10 percent of Philadelphia public school students went on to earn a college degree.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 6, 2020

Board of Education Supreme Court ruling, African American teachers were pushed out of schools and out of the teaching profession to make integration more appealing to white families. This historical tension of not feeling wanted or valued by the educational system is understandable. After the 1954 Brown v. Sign up for our newsletter.

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Hapara

JANUARY 26, 2023

Every educator wants a classroom, whether in person or online, that is brimming with engaged learners and progress. First, students can observe the behaviors of their teachers and other educators around the school. Learners need to believe that educators at their school understand them and care about them.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MARCH 24, 2016

John Hattie, Professor of Education at the University of Auckland, spent 15 years synthesizing the vast body of peer-reviewed, meta-analytical research pertaining to student achievement. Hattie went on to state: It would be difficult to find another educational practice on which the evidence is so unequivocally negative. (p.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 1, 2020

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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The Hechinger Report

JULY 1, 2018

Rogers Elementary fourth-grade teacher Sudhir Vasal created math lesson pathways so each child can progress at their own pace. Rogers Elementary School here set a three-alarm fire in the library. When it comes to their children’s education, parents are like drug-sniffing dogs. Rogers Elementary Principal Lisa Lovato.

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techlearning

JULY 2, 2018

Herndon, Virginia, July 2, 2018 —Education is not one size fits all. That’s why innovative educators across the country are implementing creative programs to better meet those needs. Ryan, General Manager of Fuel Education. ©2018 Fuel Education LLC. Students learn in different ways and have varying needs.

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The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

Thank you, Pam for your time and wisdom and I hope everyone has enjoyed this four-part series with a truly remarkable educator. ” We have a significantly low dropout rate and high on-time graduation rate in Albemarle. Vicki: So, educators, we’ve gotten so many great thoughts here. I just so appreciate you as an educator.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 11, 2018

Through their efforts, along with those of other outside arts organizations, they are introducing theater to more and younger participants, at an age when education experts say children are especially poised to benefit from it. Related: Can testing save arts education? Higher Education. percent of all roles, though Asians are 5.6

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 17, 2022

Wilson, 47, started taking courses in 2019, a few months before the pandemic hit and just before he lost his job as an elementary school music teacher. Pandemic-related hardships have propelled many students to choose jobs over education and online classes have been barriers for low-income students without digital resources.

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Edsurge

JULY 29, 2020

The team established a partnership with a local housing project where some of their chronically absent students live and coordinated attendance outreach activities, which included workshops to educate teachers, staff and guardians on the consequences of missing school. Understanding Chronic Absenteeism The U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 13, 2021

When the kids showed up, educators could see even more clearly how uneven their learning has been during the pandemic. So, we’ve spent several months traveling the country learning from schools applying best practices and from researchers and educators who have studied what works. Allison Socol, The Education Trust.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

A special education student at South Hills High School takes an online quiz about RNA. The district’s reforms to special education have included making sure students use the same textbooks as their general education peers. They moved special education classrooms to be more centrally located. Sign up for our newsletter.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 19, 2018

Echalé ganas, mijo,” my grandpa would often say — apply yourself and put efforts into your studies. Eighty-five percent of students in the Alum Rock Union Elementary School District receive free or reduced-price lunch. Despite these efforts, high school dropout rates remain high. Her investment in my education has never waned.

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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. He knew it would be easy; he said tests in his special education classes almost always were. He rarely studied but still got As.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2022

argues that New York’s transfer schools are doing a much better job at educating struggling students than traditional schools. They are graduating underserved students at much higher rates,” said Ali Holstein, co-author of the Eskolta study on transfer schools. They’re looking at test scores and graduation rates.

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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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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 26, 2019

Department of Education. The only way I know that this can be changed is when there’s access to higher education.”. Even low-income students with the highest standardized test scores are more than three times less likely to go to top colleges than higher-income students , according to the Education Trust. That’s about 2 percent.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 19, 2023

After a few hours, the elementary school called: Come pick up your son, they told her. She studies how burdensome paperwork and processes often prevent poor people from accessing health benefits. But she should act fast, the social worker urged, or the department might have to take action against her for “educational neglect.”

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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. Educators and others are experimenting with new ways to address students’ mental health needs — or reinvent old strategies. Read the series.

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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. Researchers have studied disparities in areas such as test scores and discipline rates to identify ways to close the gap. “This is the first study of its kind to show that there are long-run effects.”

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 2, 2020

A lot of people will need more education to get back into the workforce, and they’ll need to get it quickly, at the lowest possible cost and in subjects directly relevant to available jobs. Related: Subscribing to college and other visions of higher education’s future. Now they understand how education works. No, it’s not.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 10, 2021

Curley told Jake she’d love to have him in the class, which covered topics such as study skills, but he needed to promise to upload his assignments every week and come to the live Zoom session every Monday morning. I wanted to take [the class] just to like, push myself and to further my education, and also to get ready for college,” he said.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 10, 2021

Lassen, who Bohannon describes as “like a brother,” wants to study to become a barber and Bohannon will study nursing at College of the Desert. She was elated by the news that she’d been accepted to study nursing. She studied online her senior year due to the coronavirus pandemic. Read the series.

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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

Miriam Rollin, director of the Education Civil Rights Alliance, a collaborative convened by the National Center for Youth Law, saw the influx in federal dollars for Covid relief as an opportunity to make schools more supportive for students. Before the pandemic, she trained educators working with children who live in violent communities.

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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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The Hechinger Report

MAY 19, 2022

Wilkins-Walker teaches career and technical education at West Philadelphia High School, where she has worked for a decade. The pandemic will create that dropout crisis if schools just focus on 11th and 12th graders and trying to catch them up. Related: More studies mark the pandemic’s toll on student achievement.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos, on a September speaking tour, told students she felt they mostly “just follow the same schedule, the same routine — just waiting to be saved by the bell” and that the U.S. When I was in elementary school and in middle school, I always knew that I wanted to be a composer. Higher Education.

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System Education Report Elementary 69

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2022

“We have this huge digital divide that’s making it hard for [students] to get their education,” she said. David Silver, the director of education for the mayor’s office, said people talked about the digital divide, but there had never been enough energy to tackle it. The homework gap isn’t new.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 5, 2018

Instead of dropping out and waiting months or even years to re-start their education, they can move directly into YEP’s classes and start prepping for a high-school equivalency test right away, without ever officially dropping out. Higher Education. But most don’t take the test immediately after dropping out. Weekly Update.

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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.

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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. The much-improved letter increased its impact by 40%.

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