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. A report published Thursday by the Student Borrower Protection Center , a nonprofit advocacy group focused on student debt, attempts to quantify the scope of this problem.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 28, 2019

Although Mississippi has not adopted online preschool programs to the same extent as other states, during the 2015-16 school year, a group of children in Mississippi participated in a pilot program of the UPSTART kindergarten-readiness program. Senate Bill 2300 would require compulsory attendance in kindergarten.

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MindShift

JULY 9, 2018

The repercussions of not learning to read are magnified for poor children: Research shows that low-income children who cannot read at grade level by third grade are six times more likely to become high school dropouts. Children do not come wired to learn how to read: It is an acquired skill. Sarah Gonser for The Hechinger Report). “In

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2022

While some students remain unconnected, Oakland’s effort has emerged as an example of how to tackle a citywide digital divide. “We Still, she added, there were “just so many stories of kids using their cellphones to complete assignments, to research, or having to figure out how to get to public libraries in order to access devices.”.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 19, 2022

In normal times, students enrolled in her courses as 10th graders already knew how to navigate high school life. The pandemic will create that dropout crisis if schools just focus on 11th and 12th graders and trying to catch them up. One April day, Williams was leading a group of algebra students through a lesson on graphing equations.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

The idea behind the Muñiz Academy, named for the longtime principal of Boston’s first dual-language elementary school (the Rafael Hernandez K-8 school), was that many Hispanic students would do better in schools that support their cultural background and, with it, the Spanish language. We have to make space for them to access the content.”.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 2, 2021

Students had to take full responsibility for their education, making choices about attendance, motivation, engagement and how to limit distractions. They also gained invaluable experience being resourceful when they didn’t know how to proceed. “We Los Angeles high school senior.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 5, 2018

In New Orleans, the large number of dropouts who lack HiSET credentials drives the astronomically high count of so-called “opportunity youth.” The goal with the first two groups was to help them earn a traditional diploma, if possible. The goal with the first two groups was to help them earn a traditional diploma, if possible.

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edWeb.net

AUGUST 26, 2019

SEL also decreases behavioral issues, dropout rates, drug use, and teen pregnancy, so the advantages of including it in elementary and secondary classes are clear. Recent research has shown that SEL increases high school graduation rates, and post-secondary enrollment and graduation rates, as well as employment rates and wages.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 3, 2023

Pathways help students and families navigate complex systems and figure out how to get the skills they need for the jobs and the lives they want. Pathways are a way of connecting the dots among K-12, higher education and career training in a smooth continuum, rather than treating them as three separate systems.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 13, 2021

Researchers and educators are considering various methods to fill these gaps, including small-group instruction, extended school hours and summer programs. The first group of tutors was placed in Title I middle schools, in which low-income families make up at least 40 percent of enrollment. It’s just gotten worse.”. I love math.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 26, 2019

Among the many other problems dragging down Puerto Rico’s stagnant economy, made worse by hurricanes Irma and Maria in 2017, is a huge high school dropout rate and, among those students who do manage to graduate, a comparatively low trajectory to college — especially college on the mainland — and a high dropout rate there, too.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 20, 2022

Dallas’ changes are part of a wider movement away from exclusionary discipline due in part to its disproportionate impact on some groups of students, including Native American students and students with disabilities along with Black students. Before the pandemic, she trained educators working with children who live in violent communities.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 6, 2017

“The bad news is we’re not seeing a lot of innovation or discussion around personalized learning,” said Claire Voorhees, national policy director for the Tallahassee, Florida-based Foundation for Excellence in Education, an advocacy group for personalized learning. Follow-up research by the same group showed more mixed results.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 8, 2018

District officials theorized that students’ disillusionment with the curriculum contributed to Vista High’s 10 percent dropout rate. Teachers say they appreciate the chance to work more closely with the students, along with a small group of their colleagues, and believe it’s helped contribute to a drop in disciplinary incidents.

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Personalized Learning Chromebook Learning Groups 76

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 20, 2021

That same day, six other students across the district were written up for not wearing their masks correctly (including one who also faked using hand sanitizer), while an elementary school student was assigned three days of “private dining” for sharing food in violation of safety guidelines. Their parents were threatened with courts and fines.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 22, 2018

The success of home visits has been well documented for infants and has been studied at the elementary and middle school level , but it’s an open question whether these visits make a difference for older students, according to some experts. Related: How diplomas based on skill acquisition, not credits earned, could change education.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 24, 2019

Meghan Groves, a teacher at Washington-Lee Elementary School, in Bristol, Virginia, leads her first graders in “closing circle,” where they talk about how their day went. But we don’t know how to go about it right now and as an industry we are picking and choosing what feels right as opposed to using evidence-based practices.”.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

APRIL 25, 2021

In this article and Truth for Teachers podcast episode, I’ll share how often the solution to big problems is solving smaller ones. 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. Okay, great.

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MindShift

AUGUST 17, 2018

District officials theorized that students’ disillusionment with the curriculum contributed to Vista High’s 10 percent dropout rate. Teachers say they appreciate the chance to work more closely with the students, along with a small group of their colleagues, and believe it’s helped contribute to a drop in disciplinary incidents.

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Personalized Learning Chromebook Learning Groups 34

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

But high schools often neglect to teach these students the soft skills that will help them in higher education — like how to study, manage their time and self-advocate. Students with other disabilities, such as autism, may have trouble knowing how to act in social situations. It’s a crisis. Our kids are graduating to the couch.”.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

When she dropped out at the end of ninth grade, she didn’t know how to use punctuation or do multiplication. Hatharasinghe-Gerschler had been diagnosed with a reading comprehension disability in elementary school. Instead, she was passed from class to class at her high school in North Carolina. But he still struggled.

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Education Strategy Report Training 111

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

Janae Cantu, who has dyslexia, recalls that as a sixth-grade student in Oklahoma, she started to notice that she was consistently learning in a separate classroom with a small group of students, and her assignments were drastically different from her peers’. The goal of the class is to introduce students to technology.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 27, 2020

Steven Montoya, who is 27 and grew up in Queens, New York, recalls how much he struggled in classes because of anger over his mother’s incarceration. Few of his teachers knew how to handle his behavior, he says. Once, his mother’s parole officer dropped by his school, which set off rounds of bullying.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 18, 2021

We help students who are interested in college understand which courses they need to complete, and we show them how to apply. We help make learning fun for those who are flailing, using gaming and group activities that the students enjoy. One group of older middle school kids told their personal stories with pictures.

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Dropout Report Course Groups 141

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 28, 2021

When Marie Lewis applied to the Nashville Teacher Residency (NTR), she was earning $18,000 per year as a paraprofessional, supporting students with special needs, one-on-one or in small groups. To make ends meet, she also worked over the summers and during school breaks at a child care center, earning $10.25

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Rubio, a junior at the University of Rhode Island who attended elementary school in Central Falls, had already intervened once this quarter. After school, staff and tutors work individually and in small groups of six or seven with teens deemed most at risk for not graduating. What’s his name?”

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Learning Report Elementary Dropout 82

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. In airy PS 64 Frederick Law Olmsted, in affluent, white north Buffalo, 22 would-be Arctic explorers wrestled with how to build a shelter if their team leader had frostbite and snow blindness.

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Education Elementary Report Data 145

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 22, 2020

In the absence of clear federal and state guidance for reopening, school districts have debated everything from whether to mandate masks for in-person classes to how to make online-only learning more effective. While individual school districts in Arizona have opted to start the year online, the group is calling for remote learning statewide.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

A Hechinger Report analysis of federal data exposes the stark racial gap between different groups of special education students. How one district solved its special education dropout problem. When she started going to the center two years ago, she said, she didn’t even know how to multiply whole numbers.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

As a college readiness coach at low-income high schools in San Diego, I talked to multiple high school refugee students to figure out how to support them, especially as many schools continue to operate remotely. (My Here are some ways to help refugee students this fall and beyond: Hold weekly virtual small-group sessions.

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Meeting Survey Study Report 107

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Fogel, 18, can recite a list of typical college experiences she has missed out on: study groups, small seminars, office hours with professors, parties, football games, a chance to meet new people from around the world. Credit: Jennipher Acheampong. Concerns remain that college campuses are coronavirus superspreaders.

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Study Guidelines Strategy Report 104

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 14, 2020

The scientists studying genetic markers in education are trying to untangle how nature and nurture together explain school performance. In principle, genetic screening might enable teachers to tailor their approach to groups of students. And even if we understood this information, it’s not clear how to best use the scores in schools.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 31, 2021

She previously wanted to specialize in trauma surgery but eventually decided to avoid “the terrible rates of PTSD ” in that field and instead learn how to cut into people’s brains.). We’re all a group of misfits,” he said. “I I’ve always been obsessed with the brain,” said Jaden. I wish I had joined theater sooner.”.

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Report Survey Meeting Study 115

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

These issues can have a greater impact on Black male teachers and other teachers from underrepresented groups. In recent years, a movement against teaching “critical race theory” and the rise of groups like Moms for Liberty have galvanized white parents to target Black educators and literature that centers Black characters.

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Education Elementary Data Dropout 134

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 12, 2023

The standards were developed by a diverse group of tribal educators, historians and cultural experts in collaboration with the department to provide guidance on Native American instruction. “A Educators are very fearful on how to even start that discussion, much less continue to teach it in the classroom.

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Policies Report Dropout Study 144

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 11, 2018

McMicken Heights Elementary School principal Alexandria Haas sits with second-graders during a morning activity developed by the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence. Good morning, Mahlet,” says one student to another at McMicken Heights Elementary School. Photo: Wayne D’Orio for The Hechinger Report. BURIEN, Wash. —

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