The Hechinger Report

APRIL 26, 2019

Rivera Pichardo for The Hechinger Report. Rivera Pichardo for The Hechinger Report. Of those who do enroll at universities on the island, fewer than half earn degrees, even after six years , the advocacy group Excelencia in Education reports, compared to more than 58 percent of college students nationwide.

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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

MAY 19, 2022

Credit: Caroline Preston/The Hechinger Report. 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.

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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. Your stories. So systems are really trying to figure out, ‘How do we do that?’ ”.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 2, 2021

They also gained invaluable experience being resourceful when they didn’t know how to proceed. “We 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. Los Angeles high school senior.

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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.” All through elementary school, she’d excelled in the classroom, though she spent a lot of time in the principal’s office. “But

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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. Almost all took action as a result.

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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. This story about HBCUs was produced by The Hechinger Report and supported by the Princeton University School of Public and International Affairs Higher Education Media Fellowship. Across the U.S.,

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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. In order to do this, I tapped into the valuable resources available to educators free online. What offers a wealth of literary resources? Capstone Interactive. Lerner Digital. Teachingbooks.net.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 2, 2016

In the civil rights era, Greenville, Mississippi was the model of desegregation for the nation, a shining example held up by the famous Coleman Report of a community doing it the right way. And yet, the Justice Department has not asked the district to report on the performance of the minority students desegregation is supposed to help.

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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. Photo: Cheryl Gerber for The Hechinger Report. Bryant expects a similar proportion this year.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

The Hechinger Report is running 10 excerpts from the project, to give our readers a sampling of what students really think. Photo: Magdalena Slapik for The Hechinger Report. When I was in elementary school and in middle school, I always knew that I wanted to be a composer. No resources. LaGuardia High School in New York.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 27, 2020

In this series we profile vulnerable children whose education was already precarious and how the disease has exacerbated gaps in opportunities and resources for communities already on the edge. Longer term, her goal is to work as a resource support specialist for vulnerable women and youth. Read the series.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 8, 2017

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. But it also depends on time and resources. Rachel’s elementary school was part of Shelby County Schools. Jawanda Mast with her daughter Rachel.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

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. Hatharasinghe-Gerschler had been diagnosed with a reading comprehension disability in elementary school. Photo courtesy Michelle McLaughlin.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 17, 2017

I would have been a dropout.”. This partnership-oriented approach is difficult work, participants acknowledge, but they say it is precisely what makes Say Yes both a sustainable model and one that addresses the holistic needs of an under-resourced community. I don’t even talk to my [real] sister about them or cry in front of her.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 6, 2022

This story also appeared in Arizona Center for Investigative Reporting. But a first-of-its-kind analysis by The Hechinger Report and the Arizona Center for Investigative Reporting has found that attendance-related suspensions are pervasive, in some districts accounting for more than half of all in-school suspensions.

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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. We fail to properly use our people and resources.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 4, 2023

And we must differentiate between the direct work of schools — such as fostering strong student-teacher relationships and course offerings — and educational outcomes, such as dropout rates, college-going rates and standardized test scores, that are often reflections of social inequality. Sign up for Hechinger’s newsletter.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 20, 2019

The Hechinger Report traveled to three counties with very high numbers of adults without a high school credential to learn about the obstacles schools and families must overcome to provide and obtain this essential first step to a middle-class life. Photo: Cheryl Gerber for The Hechinger Report. Stanley Celestine Jr.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 18, 2021

Here’s a hard lesson I’ve learned working in the after-school field for nearly three decades: Often, it’s not until report cards come that parents discover there’s a problem. And as demand is growing, participation has plummeted due to inadequate resources to support after-school programs. Too often, the assumption is proven wrong.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Credit: Danielle Dreilinger for The Hechinger Report. 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 this series, The Hechinger Report examines racial inequity in gifted classes and what schools are doing to fix it.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 14, 2020

Hayden, typically an A or B student, has had difficulty making the transition from elementary school to middle school online. Chicago educator Megan Jackson, who teaches special education at a Chicago elementary school that serves predominantly low-income students, has seen these issues play out in her classroom.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

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. A Hechinger Report analysis of federal data exposes the stark racial gap between different groups of special education students. Here’s why they’re not.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 27, 2020

Greenville schools have some of the highest school dropout rates in the state, and Johnson also viewed staying at home as necessary to defend her children’s chances of living an easier life. “I These relationships are proving crucial now in organizing and spreading word of resources that are available to families. Read the series.

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

The district is working toward this goal through a wide range of bold initiatives, which include offering two years of kindergarten, ending “social promotion,” connecting every student to technology, and putting significant resources into athletic facilities and music programs. “We All schools are equipped with high-speed Wi-Fi.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

Third-graders at Alamosa Elementary School in Albuquerque practice reading with first-graders in Carrie Ramirez’s classroom. Photo: Tara García Mathewson/The Hechinger Report. This is only the second year Alamosa Elementary has been tracking attendance student by student. Photo: Tara García Mathewson/The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 22, 2020

Elementary students told Pressley they wanted more opportunities to interact with their classmates; one fourth grader suggested Zoom recess. Over the summer, several counties and school districts also reached out asking for a report limited to the responses of students at their schools. I had a lot of help,” he said.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 11, 2016

This story is part of a Hechinger reporting series about how “last chance” high schools are pioneering some of the latest trends in high school reform. He realized that some students don’t succeed on the conventional academic path, and ran a school for dropouts on Arena Boulevard. Photo: Luba Ostashevsky. I gravitated toward them.”

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Credit: Meredith Kolodner/The Hechinger Report. Meanwhile, interventions aimed at teenagers, such as dropout prevention programs , often disappoint. Large payoffs, both for the individual and society, may lie here if political leaders are willing to commit the financial resources. Sign up for the Hechinger newsletter.

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

The district is working toward this goal through a wide range of bold initiatives, which include offering two years of kindergarten, ending “social promotion,” connecting every student to technology, and putting significant resources into athletic facilities and music programs. All schools are equipped with high-speed Wi-Fi.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Our aim is to be able to share best practices around the model, and complement that with resources and technical assistance,” said Owusu-Kesse. They have a very strong accountability framework and place heavy demands on data reporting and its role in decision-making,” Gallagher said. Sign up for our higher education newsletter.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Already, several companies sell reports to consumers that incorporate polygenic scores for health or various physical characteristics — despite the fact that the scores are not perfect forecasters of a person’s future. Credit: Jackie Mader/The Hechinger Report. appeared first on The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

It’s up to educators to understand the struggles that they have been through and give them the resources to help them succeed. “My This story about refugee students was produced by The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. Will we let them do so?

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 16, 2017

The centerpiece of Summit’s franchising effort, called Basecamp, is its Personalized Learning Platform, or PLP, a free, open-sourced learning management system that boasts a full curriculum for grades 6 through 12, including projects, online learning resources and tests. Personalized learning is easy to bastardize. Photo: Chris Berdik. “And

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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.”.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 20, 2019

The Hechinger Report traveled to three counties with very high numbers of adults without a high school credential to learn about the obstacles schools and families must overcome to provide and obtain this essential first step to a middle-class life. Photo: Meredith Kolodner/The Hechinger Report.

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