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 195

Strategy Learning Data Dropout 195

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.

Elementary 144

Elementary Online Learning Report Laptops 144

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. The California Community College Chancellor’s Office does not track this information. This story also appeared in Los Angeles Times.

Dropout 110

Dropout Policies Data Report 110

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 12, 2019

This information is used to link students to a wide array of supports, services and opportunities. Longitudinal data show that students enrolled in City Connects schools performed better academically and had lower grade retention, chronic absenteeism and dropout rates. City Connects has shown strong results. Outcomes are encouraging.

Dropout 109

Dropout Education System Data 109

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 12, 2021

Recent history reminds us that the only way we can build a stronger, more resilient society is by investing in meaningful workforce training and good-paying jobs in the rapidly growing information technology field. Through 2029, growth in the IT sector is expected to rise 11 percent and add over half a million jobs to the U.S.

Training 121

Training Dropout STEM Company 121

The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2022

Some transfer schools have an informal reputation for being safe places for LGBTQ students. Another transfer school dropout described becoming a manager at a retail store. By contrast, students described feeling far safer in their transfer schools and less bullied.

Dropout 103

Dropout Report Data Analysis 103

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 19, 2023

After a few hours, the elementary school called: Come pick up your son, they told her. When parents inform APS that they are unable to provide updated proof of residence, protocols are in place to support families,” Atlanta communications director Seth Coleman wrote by email. He was no longer enrolled, they said.

Policies 86

Policies Online Learning Dropout Elementary 86

The Hechinger Report

MAY 19, 2022

The pandemic will create that dropout crisis if schools just focus on 11th and 12th graders and trying to catch them up. The pandemic will create that dropout crisis if schools just focus on 11th and 12th graders and trying to catch them up. The students in this grade level remained her toughest. “My

Dropout 109

Dropout Chromebook Report System 109

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2022

Not just so students could keep learning during the shutdown, but so that the whole family had access to information and resources.”. “We In May 2021, Think College Now elementary students sit in class after returning to in-person learning. All the information was on the internet. Technology was the lifeline to information.”.

Digital Divide 115

Digital Divide Broadband Chromebook Survey 115

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 96

Dropout E-rate Education Secondary 96

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 26, 2019

Many among this small number are the children of higher-income families who can afford to pay for private schools or to hire college consultants, exacerbating a level of income inequality that economists at Puerto Rico’s Census Information Center say is third-highest in the world, after South Africa’s and Zambia’s. Enrique Ferna?ndez,

Dropout 111

Dropout Report Accessibility Study 111

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 2, 2020

“Even if I chose not to finish, I would still have these pieces and I’d say, ‘Look what I’ve done,’ as opposed to, ‘I have two years of college’ ” but nothing to show for it, said Nelson, who works as an information technology consultant and hopes to move into an administrative role. But is it better than being a dropout? No, it’s not.

Industry 140

Industry Dropout Pearson Report 140

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 20, 2022

She said schools could have invested in staff training, hired more counselors and generally shifted toward a more trauma-informed, restorative approach to serving students. But early accounts of how schools have spent the money have been disappointing, she said.

Personalized Learning 139

Personalized Learning Learning Data Report 139

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 3, 2023

Related: OPINION: Parents and students need more information about pathways to college and careers Some states and local communities have embraced the promise of building education-to-workforce pathways and have done great work to bring those opportunities to more students.

Education 114

Education Training Industry Accessibility 114

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. Evidence-Based Solutions Examples.

Policies 52

Policies Dropout Outcomes Comparison 52

Edsurge

JULY 28, 2016

The district is also known for having one of the largest dropout rates and one of the highest pupil-to-teacher ratios in the country. Students are inundated with information and visual stimulation at a rapid pace, and their stamina for reading lengthy pieces of text needs to be cultivated. What a summer.

Technology 60

Technology eBook Dropout Libraries 60

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. Part two is, what do you do with that information? Jot down any information you have about why those kids are impacted. Okay, great.

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. Sharing information helped them develop closer relationships with students and better tailor their lessons. Some freshmen teachers want to follow their current students to the 10th grade.

Personalized Learning 83

Personalized Learning Chromebook Learning Groups 83

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 2, 2016

And the reports the district files to the federal court and DOJ don’t include information on achievement. The school district had a 27 percent dropout rate in 2014. Closing the school meant the district had to reshuffle students into existing elementary schools.

Report 111

Report Dropout System Elementary 111

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 11, 2011

The scientific management system we use in educational leadership today tends to bring us consistently to the four failures of information learning and applied action identified by the 9/11 Commission Report: failures of management, imagination, policy, and capacity. psid=2011-04-27.1619.M.9E9FE58134BE68C3B413F24B3586CF.vcr&sid=2008350

Industry 50

Industry Dropout Policies System 50

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 184

Secondary Training System Elementary 184

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 129

Analysis Report Data Policies 129

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

Poor education for special education students typically starts in elementary school, most often with a student not being given the services to which they are entitled or not being properly diagnosed. When Brad was in elementary school, he said he wanted to go to MIT and become an engineer. He graduated high school this year with a 1.9

Education 96

Education Elementary Meeting Study 96

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Suspensions can also contribute to new problems, such as lower academic performance and higher dropout rates. For years, it was a battle getting Guadalupe to his Phoenix elementary school in the Washington Elementary School District. Credit: Isaac Stone Simonelli/AZCIR.

Dropout 103

Dropout Analysis Policies Report 103

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

Hatharasinghe-Gerschler had been diagnosed with a reading comprehension disability in elementary school. Back in Anchorage in the early 2000s, Michelle McLaughlin started doing research on her own to determine why her son, Michael, was falling further behind in elementary school.

Education 111

Education Strategy Report Training 111

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 8, 2017

Rachel’s elementary school was part of Shelby County Schools. This plan uses student interests and other information about a student to outline post-high school goals. For Mast’s daughter, those two factors were important. Since she left, it split off and is now part of another district, Bartlett Municipal School District.

Education 85

Education Assessment Report Resources 85

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

Students with disabilities process information differently, so they need more explicit instruction to develop and use these skills than general education students do. This plan uses student interests and other information about a student to outline post-high school goals. It’s a crisis. Our kids are graduating to the couch.”.

Study 90

Study Advocacy Report Outcomes 90

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 27, 2020

While in prison in McLoud outside of Oklahoma City, she took classes, volunteered as a mentor to at-risk youth and worked for a brokerage firm, where she rose to an information technology administrator position. I had to get clean in my mind of everything.”. She’d received her GED years earlier while incarcerated in Texas.

Report 113

Report Exercises Video Education 113

The Hechinger Report

JULY 4, 2023

As a result, present accountability systems fail to offer meaningful information about the important work our schools do. Consequently, we must balance our desire for simplicity with our goal of sharing information with schools and the public, and resist the lure of combining several data points into one overall school “score.”

Dropout 143

Dropout Outcomes Data System 143

MindShift

AUGUST 17, 2018

District officials theorized that students’ disillusionment with the curriculum contributed to Vista High’s 10 percent dropout rate. Sharing information helped them develop closer relationships with students and better tailor their lessons. Some freshmen teachers want to follow their current students to the 10th grade.

Personalized Learning 34

Personalized Learning Chromebook Learning Groups 34

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Maranda Seawood, student support specialist at Washington Elementary School. So I don’t know where to get any information from. I kind of just get my information from around, you know, just from what my parents and teachers tell me. Valente’ Gibson , fifth grade teacher at Jackson Creek Elementary School.

Elementary 144

Elementary Broadband Assessment Dropout 144

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Related: Communities hit hardest by the pandemic, already struggling, could face a dropout cliff To assess just how many students have gone missing, AP and Big Local News canvassed every state in the nation to find the most recently available data on both public and non-public schools, as well as census estimates for the school-age population.

Data 107

Data Analysis Online Learning Laptops 107

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

The services are out there, but a lot of times, parents of color just don’t have the information and resources they need to fight for them,” said Daisy Brown, Tyrone’s mother. How one district solved its special education dropout problem. Related: How one district solved its special education dropout problem.

Dropout 96

Dropout Report System Meeting 96

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.

Dropout 77

Dropout Strategy Policies Meeting 77

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Her math teacher had just informed her that she would have to wait and take it next year. Rubio, a junior at the University of Rhode Island who attended elementary school in Central Falls, had already intervened once this quarter. Related: Communities hit hardest by the pandemic, already struggling, could face a dropout cliff.

Learning 89

Learning Report Elementary Dropout 89

Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

“Most of what our staff does is show up committed and dedicated — they really take care of these kids and make sure that they’re safe, that they’re healthy, that they’re happy, they’re eating, they have clothes,” says Amy Creeden, an elementary school principal. The initiative is in place at elementary and middle schools in Middletown.

Blended Learning 132

Blended Learning Elementary Broadband Dropout 132

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 14, 2020

she emailed the kids’ school for information on the withdrawal process, but they’re first going to finish the semester and then evaluate their options later this month. Hayden, typically an A or B student, has had difficulty making the transition from elementary school to middle school online. She’s still exploring this option ?

Policies 143

Policies Schoology Elementary Report 143