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JANUARY 28, 2019

This bill would amend the state code that calls for a statewide system of assistant teachers in K-3 classrooms. House Bill 187 would provide additional funding to enable school districts to employ a professional school counselor in every elementary school , with priority going to school districts with low accreditation levels. .

Accessibility 45

Accessibility Dropout Elementary Trends 45

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 107

Education Training Industry Accessibility 107

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. In normal times, students enrolled in her courses as 10th graders already knew how to navigate high school life. This story also appeared in Billy Penn.

Dropout 102

Dropout Chromebook Report System 102

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 29, 2022

And while peer support systems aren’t meant to replace trained adults equipped to handle severe issues, they can be a first line of early intervention and empowerment — though experts point out research on their effectiveness remains limited.

Accessibility 94

Accessibility Training Dropout Survey 94

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.”.

Digital Divide 111

Digital Divide Broadband Chromebook Survey 111

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 12, 2018

Similar to Lang’s approach, the Ariel Foundation offered support, mentoring, and paying the cost of postsecondary education for a cohort of sixth-graders at a Chicago elementary school. Then, as CEO of the Chicago Public Schools, Duncan decided to close three low-performing elementary schools.

Dropout 69

Dropout Policies Elementary Data 69

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. But most don’t take the test immediately after dropping out. My grades were perfect.

Dropout 54

Dropout Policies Report System 54

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 11, 2021

We’ve seen firsthand just how true this statement is at Benedict College, our small, historically Black college in Columbia, South Carolina. Students who have been underserved by a deeply inequitable education system often undergo a remarkable transformation at an HBCU. Across the U.S., for example, some 1.

Digital Divide 142

Digital Divide Course Accessibility System 142

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 Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 6, 2017

In a personalized classroom, students are taught how to take control of their own learning, so that they can take different pathways to gain understanding of concepts. Often, personalized learning includes technology that adapts lessons to students’ needs and provides data so that teachers can see how each learner is growing.

Personalized Learning 70

Personalized Learning Policies Advocacy Assessment 70

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. percent, compared with a district average of 10 percent.

Learning 111

Learning Dropout Report Elementary 111

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.

Guidelines 143

Guidelines Report Elementary Online Learning 143

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 Elementary 138

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. What do you do?

System 59

System Case Study Course Examples 59

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 8, 2018

District officials theorized that students’ disillusionment with the curriculum contributed to Vista High’s 10 percent dropout rate. Yet some teachers also said that the intimacy of the house system — in which freshmen often ended up in three or more classes with the same students — caused friction.

Personalized Learning 77

Personalized Learning Chromebook Learning Groups 77

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

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.”.

Education 111

Education Strategy Report Training 111

MindShift

AUGUST 17, 2018

District officials theorized that students’ disillusionment with the curriculum contributed to Vista High’s 10 percent dropout rate. Yet some teachers also said that the intimacy of the house system — in which freshmen often ended up in three or more classes with the same students — caused friction.

Personalized Learning 34

Personalized Learning Chromebook Learning Groups 34

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 7, 2018

Early this past December, the state released guidance to explain how to institute alternatives to retention in fourth grade, to comply with a resolution passed by the Board of Elementary and Secondary Education in October. Students who failed LEAP suddenly have more options than pass or fail.

Analysis 124

Analysis Report Data Policies 124

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.”.

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. 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.

Report 111

Report Exercises Video Education 111

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 28, 2021

Yet research tells us that exposure to a Black teacher in elementary school can reduce the high school dropout rate for low-income Black male students by 39 percent. There is also a related but largely unseen crisis: the number of underemployed and underpaid educators who can’t become full-time teachers because of systemic barriers.

Dropout 97

Dropout Training Academic Standards System 97

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Everyone is talking about declining enrollment, but no one is talking about who’s leaving the system and why,” said Tom Sheppard, a New York City parent and representative on the city’s Panel for Educational Policy. “No Everyone is talking about declining enrollment, but no one is talking about who’s leaving the system and why.”

Data 101

Data Analysis Online Learning Laptops 101

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

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

As the new school year began this fall, battles around vaccine and mask mandates raged, school boards took up the thorny issue of how to teach students about race and Congress argued about how much to spend on children (and everything else). Maranda Seawood, student support specialist at Washington Elementary School.

Elementary 143

Elementary Broadband Assessment Dropout 143

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. Related: Communities hit hardest by the pandemic, already struggling, could face a dropout cliff.

Learning 83

Learning Report Elementary Dropout 83

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 20, 2019

High school dropouts are much more likely to be unemployed and earn thousands of dollars less per year than people with higher levels of education. But before that he was a student at Cottonport Elementary, which is majority black, almost entirely low-income and has struggled for years to improve its academic performance.

Elementary 79

Elementary Report Dropout Training 79

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.

Education 145

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. But like Pressley, many students say their perspectives have largely been left out of those discussions.

Survey 145

Survey Policies Groups Report 145

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 That’s how I learned the system. Related: Schools provide stability for refugees. Covid-19 upended that.

Meeting 109

Meeting Survey Study Report 109

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Researchers in the field want to see more critical discussion of how their work could be applied in educational settings.“If If we don’t pay attention now, systems will be created, constructed around us, responding to our genetic difference. Credit: Jackie Mader/The Hechinger Report. We don’t know whether it’s causal or not.”.

Data 58

Data Study Assessment Report 58

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Tyler Wright congratulates one of his 4th grade students with a fist bump at Stono Park Elementary School in Charleston, Friday, Nov. You can kind of rationalize somebody’s frustrations if you feel a level of trust in the system, a level of trust in your school,” he said. “That’s something that I always wanted to be in.

Education 135

Education Elementary Data Dropout 135

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.

Dropout 111

Dropout Report Training Outcomes 111

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 12, 2023

This story also appeared in The Nation “I knew that the public school system would not benefit my child without the important and critical history and culture of Indigenous people being taught,” said Tilsen-Brave Heart, a member of the Oglala Lakota Nation. And so they just don’t, so there is no Native history being taught.”

Policies 144

Policies Report Dropout Study 144

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.”.

Education 80

Education Assistive Technology Advocacy System 80

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.

Elementary 104

Elementary Report Dropout System 104