The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

High school seniors were targeted, as were college dropouts who wanted to resume their studies. 2/2) To learn the steps that may be required to get your aid: [link] For help w/ FAFSA, visit www.commonapp.org/fafsa Examples of nudging text messages sent to students that proved ineffective. 1/2) Hi [first_name].

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2023

Studies have often found that Black students learn more from same race teachers. At the start of college, Michigan’s Black students are almost as interested in teaching as white students, the report found. In other words, the decline in prospective Black teachers far exceeded the Black college dropout rate.)

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

DECEMBER 23, 2023

Prior knowledge is one of the key concept in educational research that fundamentally reshape our understanding of how learning occurs. This term refers to the pre-existing cognitive framework that each student brings into the learning environment, encompassing everything from factual information to deeply ingrained skills and misconceptions.

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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

MAY 2, 2022

But an April 2022 report by Eskolta School Research and Design, a nonprofit consultancy that provides training and services to alternative schools in New York, Boston and Washington, D.C., The report, How They Thrive: Lessons from New York City Alternative School Alumni , was also written by Anelfi Maria and Alicia Wolcott.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 12, 2021

More and more employers are eager to hire potential candidates who already have hard skills in core IT areas , such as cloud computing, artificial intelligence and user-experience design, according to LinkedIn Learning. All of this adds up to one unfortunate conclusion — our country’s skills gap isn’t just hurting our energy infrastructure.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2022

Credit: Javeria Salman/ The Hechinger Report. “We You don’t have a computer, you don’t have internet, you can’t even access distance learning,” Silver said. Credit: Javeria Salman/ The Hechinger Report Boxes of #OaklandUndivided devices wait for student pickup at Castlemont High School in May 2021. We need to change that.”.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MARCH 24, 2016

In his highly-acclaimed book, Visible Learning: A Synthesis of Over 800 Meta-Analyses Relating to Achievement , he highlighted 138 different factors that can influence student learning success. Significantly higher dropout rates. Image credit: Mackenzie Ryan, Des Moines Register education reporter.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 15, 2023

More than two-thirds of all community college students and 40 percent of undergraduates in four-year colleges had to start with at least one remedial class, according to a statistical report from the U.S. Department of Education. The majority of these students dropped out without degrees.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

Students participate in morning workshops in advance of national May 1 “Day Without Immigrants” rallies, learning also about the labor rights history of May Day rallies worldwide. Photo: Tara García Mathewson/The Hechinger Report. And the dropout rate among the first Muniz cohort, the class of 2016, was just 2.5

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 19, 2023

This story also appeared in The Associated Press After more than a year of some form of pandemic online learning, students were all required to come back to school in person. After a few hours, the elementary school called: Come pick up your son, they told her. Remote learning didn’t hold their attention.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 12, 2019

Students with learning disabilities are more likely to be suspended or expelled from school and less likely to graduate from college than students without learning disabilities. Students living in poverty underperform, compared to those who are more affluent, on every measure of achievement at all stages of development.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 11, 2018

Photo: Eveline Chao for The Hechinger Report. Photo: Eveline Chao for The Hechinger Report. Around 2009, Lee learned about the Junior Theater Festival (JTF) in Atlanta, where students from across the country gather for three days to compete, take workshops and nerd out over musical theater. Future of Learning.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 2, 2020

Credit: Photo: Ronda Churchill for The Hechinger Report. People are looking for shorter forms of learning during this time. People are looking for shorter forms of learning during this time. The concept is finding new acceptance among people who need new jobs, fast. And they can add up over time to a bachelor’s degree.

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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. This story also appeared in HuffPost.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 10, 2021

Even before the pandemic, American Indian and Alaska Native students had the highest high school dropout rate and lowest college enrollment rate of any U.S. Credit: Andi Murphy for The Hechinger Report. For Jake, when learning went online, school started to recede from his mind. racial group.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 1, 2018

Rogers Elementary fourth-grade teacher Sudhir Vasal created math lesson pathways so each child can progress at their own pace. Photo: Laura Pappano for The Hechinger Report. Rogers Elementary School here set a three-alarm fire in the library. But personalized learning raises big questions about educational equity.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 8, 2018

Photo: Mike Elsen-Rooney for The Hechinger Report. SAN DIEGO — Vista High School principal Anthony Barela had a vivid image of what school here could look like after a $10 million grant to reimagine learning: Rolling desks and chairs, with students moving freely and talking about their work. We’re literally learning as we go along.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 13, 2021

And Shayla Savage, a middle school principal, said that when her students returned to in-person learning this spring, she noticed differences beyond just their math and reading progress compared to previous years. “We Even with the physical aspect of school, the learning loss is real all across the board.”.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 28, 2019

Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Mississippi Learning newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes with trends and top stories about education in Mississippi. Experts cautioned that online learning programs can lead to overuse of screens, which can impact behavior, sleep, and social-emotional development.

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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.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 19, 2022

Credit: Caroline Preston/The Hechinger Report. It’s becoming blatantly apparent that the year they spent in remote learning did not allow them to mature properly,” said Thiebeau, who teaches biology and forensics in a room decorated with animal bones and a taxidermied bear head. Credit: Caroline Preston/The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 29, 2022

The pilot program trains 11th and 12th grade students to do basic interventions — helping with schoolwork planning and navigating new social dynamics — to reduce the risk of dropouts. Instead of trying to relate the thing they’re saying directly back to myself, I’ve learned more to ask them questions about what’s happening to them,” she said.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 9, 2018

Photo: Sarah Gonser for The Hechinger Report. 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. “In Photo: Sarah Gonser for The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 19, 2018

Eighty-five percent of students in the Alum Rock Union Elementary School District receive free or reduced-price lunch. Despite these efforts, high school dropout rates remain high. In elementary school, when I brought home reading material and worksheets, she’d sit with me at great length to make sure I understood the lessons.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 22, 2018

Peggy Barmore for The Hechinger Report. 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. Peggy Barmore for The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 6, 2017

Photo: Kate Flock for The Hechinger Report. His school and his state are trailblazers in personalized learning, a method that tailors instruction to students’ individual interests and learning speeds. Personalized learning advocates had big hopes for ESSA, enacted in 2015.

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Personalized Learning Policies Advocacy Assessment 70

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

Photo: Sarah Butrymowicz/The Hechinger Report. This story was produced by The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education, in partnership with the Huffington Post. The high dropout rate for students with disabilities is a pressing national problem.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 5, 2018

Photo: Judge Evans for The Hechinger Report. In New Orleans, the large number of dropouts who lack HiSET credentials drives the astronomically high count of so-called “opportunity youth.” Future of Learning. Mississippi Learning. Kayla Patrick, an author of the National Women’s Law Center report “Let Her Learn.”.

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Dropout Policies Report System 54

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 3, 2023

It will also involve offering work-based learning experiences that build transferable skills and professional networks and vetting programs with employers and colleges. Every student deserves access to quality pathways providing mentorship, engaging and relevant academic learning and meaningful work-based experiences along the way.

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Education Training Industry Accessibility 107

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. Caroline Preston/The Hechinger Report. To her left, Makayla offered: “My sunshine share is the part where we learned about oak trees.” Future of Learning.

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Strategy Training Report Company 79

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. what others do or how they rank in a specific area.

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Policies Dropout Outcomes Comparison 52

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 11, 2021

They typically come from K-12 school systems that lack resources like state-of-the-art learning technology, curriculum and student supports. So we devised a new summer program, not just for incoming students, but also for returning ones, to orient them to our learning management system and other digital tools. Across the U.S.,

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Digital Divide Course Accessibility System 142

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 7, 2018

Photo: Cheryl Gerber for The Hechinger Report. Photo: Cheryl Gerber for The Hechinger Report. “We Laster’s presentation, based on 2010 data, reported that 28 percent of Louisiana students did not make it to fourth grade on time. Future of Learning. Mississippi Learning. Sign up for our newsletter. Weekly Update.

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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. That left students powering through learning challenges by texting classmates for help, forming Zoom study groups and capitalizing on free internet resources to help clarify difficult material.

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MindShift

AUGUST 17, 2018

This story about personalized learning was produced by The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. District officials theorized that students’ disillusionment with the curriculum contributed to Vista High’s 10 percent dropout rate.

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Personalized Learning Chromebook Learning Groups 34

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. Teachers Know Best, 2015 Report Ebook platforms can provide scaffolding that English language learners need, such as audio enhancements and highlighting features that help support the reluctant readers.

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Technology eBook Dropout Libraries 60