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. Her classes focus on computer systems networking; students earn certificates for jobs in fields like IT while also providing tech support to the high school.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 25, 2016

We all remember classmates who sat in the back of the room, eyes glued to a comic or dog-eared paperback, anything to escape a learning environment that did not—or could not—engage them. But these concerns exist as well for traditional brick-and-mortar schools, some of which have failed generations of students.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 2, 2021

Online-schooling shoved students out of familiar classroom settings straight into independent, self-directed learning. Students had to take full responsibility for their education, making choices about attendance, motivation, engagement and how to limit distractions. Jill Henry, M.A., Sign up for Hechinger’s newsletter.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 1, 2020

When teachers at Cable Elementary in San Antonio couldn’t reach four siblings who attended the school this spring, Monica Williams of Communities in Schools was able to arrange a meeting with them at their grandmother’s house. Williams arranged to meet the children at their grandmother’s. Credit: Monica Williams.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 18, 2018

It’s all part of a statewide push to “personalize” learning, giving students more of a say over what — and where — they study. The effort has two chief goals: keeping students engaged in school and keeping them in the state after they graduate. Higher Education. percent of nondisadvantaged students.). “We

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

APRIL 25, 2021

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. And, I’ll share an intuitive 8 step approach you can use to tackle big problems like student engagement or work completion.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 13, 2021

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. Brown’s virtual students aren’t required to turn on their cameras, so he can’t tell whether they’re paying attention. Read the stories. Few speak up. I’m very worried.

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STEM Report Course Study 128

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 3, 2017

But bilingual education isn’t the school’s only innovation. Teachers and administrators, instead, take a holistic approach to educating teenagers. Students spend every afternoon taking two arts electives, which can include band, visual arts, theater or technology. Higher Education. Choose as many newsletters as you like.

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Laptops Report Strategy Outcomes 56

Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

The majority of K-12 students in the U.S. now live in poverty, a mark hit in 2013 for the first time in 50 years, according to the Southern Education Foundation. Between 30 and 40 percent of students enter kindergarten not ready for school. Between 30 and 40 percent of students enter kindergarten not ready for school.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

As of this fall, it had 198,645 students, compared with 205,778 in the 2019-2020 school year, and was still trying to track down students who’d gone missing. Anna Phelan , kindergarten teacher at Overbrook Educational Center in Philadelphia. But it’s so hard and so challenging that then it makes it even sadder.

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

The majority of K-12 students in the U.S. now live in poverty, a mark hit in 2013 for the first time in 50 years, according to the Southern Education Foundation. Between 30 and 40 percent of students enter kindergarten not ready for school. Between 30 and 40 percent of students enter kindergarten not ready for school.

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Blended Learning Elementary Broadband Dropout 120

MindShift

JUNE 18, 2020

American education has long been full of innovators practicing alternatives to the mainstream. “Never in the modern history of our education system has the importance of family engagement been more apparent,” says Alejandro Gibes de Gac, the founder of Springboard Collaborative. Virtual learning will continue.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 3, 2023

Community colleges can help lift students into the middle class, but their enrollment has plummeted and their dropout rates are high. Advocates for community colleges defend them as the underdogs of America’s higher education system, left to serve the students who need the most support but without the money required to provide it.

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Edsurge

JULY 14, 2016

The Oklahoma Department of Education is moving to shut down a virtual charter school, ABLE Charter, for the first time ever, according to Oklahoma Watch. He also pointed out that ABLE is a nonprofit school attempting to serve homeless students, unlike many other virtual charter schools run by for-profit companies.

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