Edsurge

JULY 29, 2020

In elementary school, frequent absences are linked to a higher likelihood of dropout—even if attendance improves over time. To address absenteeism, school administrators have turned to outside groups to help implement data-informed intervention and outreach strategies.

Strategy 197

Strategy Learning Data Dropout 197

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 3, 2023

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. 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.

Education 111

Education Training Industry Accessibility 111

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.

Dropout 107

Dropout Policies Data Report 107

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. But, if the bill becomes a law, it could be hard to find and retain enough assistant teachers.

Accessibility 45

Accessibility Dropout Elementary Trends 45

The Hechinger Report

MAY 19, 2022

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. The pandemic will create that dropout crisis if schools just focus on 11th and 12th graders and trying to catch them up. This story also appeared in Billy Penn.

Dropout 106

Dropout Chromebook Report System 106

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 2, 2020

Under the existing system, the Clearinghouse reports, 36 million have dropped out with no degrees or certificates to show for their time in college — but often student loan debt to repay. “If And if we lose someone, instead of being a dropout, they’ll have a certificate. But is it better than being a dropout? No, it’s not.

Industry 138

Industry Dropout Pearson Report 138

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.” YEP got its start in 2004 as a re-entry program for teens involved in the juvenile-court system. The goal with the first two groups was to help them earn a traditional diploma, if possible.

Dropout 57

Dropout Policies Report System 57

The Hechinger Report

JULY 13, 2021

At the beginning of 2021, The Hechinger Report’s members (individual readers who donated money to our nonprofit news organization) asked us if we would report on the best practices for helping the nation’s public school system recover from the pandemic. So systems are really trying to figure out, ‘How do we do that?’ ”.

Study 138

Study Data Report Advocacy 138

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. That demands flexibility on the part of teachers.

Learning 112

Learning Dropout Report Elementary 112

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2022

In May 2021, Think College Now elementary students sit in class after returning to in-person learning. The district handed out its existing stockpile of loaner devices and hot spots to as many students as possible, said Preston Thomas, OUSD’s chief systems and services officer. Credit: Javeria Salman/ The Hechinger Report.

Digital Divide 112

Digital Divide Broadband Chromebook Survey 112

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.

Personalized Learning 81

Personalized Learning Chromebook Learning Groups 81

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

He remembers thinking it looked like a book you’d find in an elementary school, with a picture of the numbers 1 through 9 written in the sand of a beach on the cover. The high dropout rate for students with disabilities is a pressing national problem. In Maryland, 14 percent of students in special education dropped out of school.

Dropout 94

Dropout E-rate Education Secondary 94

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. These new assessment systems are a crucial component of personalization.

Personalized Learning 73

Personalized Learning Policies Assessment Advocacy 73

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 20, 2022

The students still lose class time, but Nina Lakhiani, a media relations representative, wrote in an email that the initiative is “part of an effort to do away with an antiquated discipline system that district leaders say does not work for students of color, particularly Black students.”.

Personalized Learning 138

Personalized Learning Learning Data Report 138

edWeb.net

MARCH 16, 2020

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. Chronically absent middle schoolers have lower grades and test scores that increase dropout potential. Join the Community.

Policies 52

Policies Dropout Outcomes Comparison 52

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.

Dropout 111

Dropout Report Accessibility Study 111

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, this is how we create better systems: by designing those systems for individuals rather than trying to force individuals to fit into the systems.

System 59

System Case Study Course Examples 59

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.

Guidelines 143

Guidelines Report Elementary Online Learning 143

The Hechinger Report

JULY 17, 2017

I would have been a dropout.”. Stubbe has a counterpart in every public school in the city, yet neither she nor her colleagues are employees of the Buffalo Public School system. We’re finally dealing with the systemic challenges to success … instead of just the symptoms.”. And I do that with [Stubbe].

Data 97

Data Secondary System Accessibility 97

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.

Personalized Learning 34

Personalized Learning Chromebook Learning Groups 34

Edsurge

MAY 22, 2023

This week marks one year since an unspeakable act of violence was carried out in an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas. One year since a gunman stole the lives of 19 fourth graders and two teachers at Robb Elementary. Children at Robb Elementary were of course most acutely affected by the shooting in Uvalde.

Secondary 190

Secondary Training System Elementary 190

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 2, 2016

Starkville, in contrast, was regarded as a successful school system, offering opportunities such as Advanced Placement classes and robotics competitions through a career and technology center. This economic divide was mirrored in the school system. The school district had a 27 percent dropout rate in 2014.

Report 111

Report Dropout System Elementary 111

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

Special education is a notoriously weak point in the nation’s education system, despite the fact that 6.6 The two scenarios are so common they have created a crisis for the millions of special education children the American education system serves. “If you’re giving kids the answers, you’re not helping them at all,” he said.

Education 94

Education Elementary Meeting Study 94

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

Leave this field empty if you're human: In interviews with 45 parents and students and more than 50 other experts, advocates and lawyers across 34 states and the District of Columbia, families and advocates described systemic problems with special education in high school. The system, she said, “failed me.”. But he still struggled.

Education 111

Education Strategy Report Training 111

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Totals for the full public school population are likely much higher, given that almost 250 school systems failed to produce comprehensive data — or any data at all — under Arizona public records law. Suspensions can also contribute to new problems, such as lower academic performance and higher dropout rates.

Dropout 102

Dropout Analysis Policies Report 102

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

Skills like knowing how to ask for help or organize a study group “are as important as anything else you’re going to learn,” said Tudisco. When he got to Purdue University in 2014, he didn’t have a system for organizing his deadlines. He’d create a study group to go over the terms with classmates or make flashcards.

Study 88

Study Advocacy Report Outcomes 88

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 27, 2020

Children of incarcerated parents say their families’ involvement with the justice system can complicate education in a variety of ways. Alexis Mansfield, a senior adviser of children and families with the nonprofit group Women’s Justice Institute, said that schools need to do more to involve incarcerated parents.

Report 111

Report Exercises Video Education 111

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. But too many excellent teacher candidates lack both the economic and racial privilege to fight through the multi-layered systems of teacher education.

Dropout 100

Dropout Training Academic Standards System 100

edWeb.net

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

She leads the work in the areas of MTSS, dropout prevention, social and emotional learning, homeless and foster student supports, disproportionality, crisis and care team, employee incidents, and supports related to school psychologists, school social workers, and school counselors. Dr. Erin M.

Dropout 76

Dropout Strategy Policies Meeting 76

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. People talk all the time about not going back to the system that didn’t work for all kids. Her math teacher had just informed her that she would have to wait and take it next year.

Learning 88

Learning Report Elementary Dropout 88

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. Black, Latino and Indigenous groups are often left out. There are gifted dropouts. In 2014, a group of Buffalo parents filed a racial discrimination complaint with the U.S.

Education 145

Education Elementary Report Data 145

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

Not only are nonwhite students more likely to be assigned to lower-resourced schools that struggle to provide them with the services that they are entitled to, navigating the special education system often presents unique challenges for parents of color, experts say. How one district solved its special education dropout problem.

Dropout 94

Dropout Report System Meeting 94

techlearning

MARCH 5, 2018

Diagnostic products and software systems that target specific areas of learning for improvement can help students find success, freeing educators to help every learner reach their personal best within one classroom. The data provided allows teachers to group students intentionally for maximized learning opportunities.

Classroom 53

Classroom Schoology Khan Academy Blended Learning 53

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 22, 2020

While individual school districts in Arizona have opted to start the year online, the group is calling for remote learning statewide. Elementary students told Pressley they wanted more opportunities to interact with their classmates; one fourth grader suggested Zoom recess. Credit: Sophia Hammer. “I’m conflicted.

Survey 145

Survey Policies Groups Report 145

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2023

Sometimes, there is no system in place for tracking how many students are being punished this way or how many days of in-person classroom learning they are forced to miss. “We Without data, advocates like Fink worry that disproportionate disciplinary measures against already-marginalized groups could be hiding in plain sight.

Handbook 98

Handbook Learning Online Learning Data 98

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 11, 2016

It’s a decision, studies show , that carries long-term negative consequences, such as a high likelihood of involvement in the criminal justice system and a lifetime of lower earnings. He realized that some students don’t succeed on the conventional academic path, and ran a school for dropouts on Arena Boulevard.

Dropout 100

Dropout Report System Meeting 100

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Breaking the cycle of systemic poverty and low academic achievement takes a long-term commitment, he said, and even after 20 years of focusing just on Harlem, the ultimate successes are only now coming into view. Before the survey was conducted, Lepore said, her partners did not have a strong workforce development system in place.

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Survey Outcomes Data Strategy 100