The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

school system is a “mess.” When I was in elementary school and in middle school, I always knew that I wanted to be a composer. That’s the problem with our education system now, that mistakes are the worst things you can make. Do they feel that way? . Magdalena Slapik has been asking them. That’s how it was conceived.

System 68

System Education Report Elementary 68

Hapara

JANUARY 26, 2023

This included “higher student academic engagement, attendance, grades, fewer disruptive behaviors and suspensions, and lower school dropout rates.” When I was a teacher, I used our school message system to send home automated positive feedback. Learners need to believe that educators at their school understand them and care about them.

Learning 176

Learning Hapara Examples Dropout 176

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 12, 2019

The evidence of system failure is overwhelming: nationally, English language learners graduate from high school at a rate nearly 20 percentage points lower than their peers who are native speakers of English. What can we do about these dilemmas posed by a standardized system trying — and failing — to meet the needs of so many children?

Dropout 106

Dropout Education System Data 106

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 142

Elementary Online Learning Report Laptops 142

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 12, 2021

In Texas — where the energy system failed those who depend on it — and elsewhere, our infrastructure is only as good as the technology that supports it. We need to ensure we’re continuing to expose more Americans to the jobs, opportunities and resources that will help modernize our country’s IT systems. Our shared future depends on it.

Training 114

Training Dropout STEM Company 114

The Hechinger Report

MAY 15, 2023

When Alexandra Logue served as the chief academic officer of the City University of New York (CUNY) from 2008 to 2014, she discovered that her 25-college system was spending over $20 million a year on remedial classes. As those students enter the workforce and gain experience, it’s quite possible that their wages will catch up too.

Study 115

Study Course Dropout Data 115

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. Researchers projected estimates for the system based on the percentage of students affected in Compton, Lake Tahoe and Peralta Community College Districts.

Dropout 100

Dropout Policies Data Report 100

The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2023

In other words, the decline in prospective Black teachers far exceeded the Black college dropout rate.) But this Michigan report points to systemic problems that hinder the development of future Black teachers. But students were abandoning teacher preparation in higher rates than they were leaving school. (In classrooms.

Dropout 117

Dropout Course Analysis Training 117

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 98

Dropout Chromebook Report System 98

eSchool News

AUGUST 3, 2017

Opened in 1995 as a dropout recovery high school and one of the first generation of charters in Texas, the George Gervin Academy is actually six campuses in one—with five campuses in San Antonio and one in Phoenix. If George Gervin Academy cherry-picks students, it is to select the ones who need the most support.

Dropout 55

Dropout Mobility Elementary Policies 55

Edsurge

JULY 29, 2020

In elementary school, frequent absences are linked to a higher likelihood of dropout—even if attendance improves over time. Research shows that attendance is key to academic success, so preventing absenteeism is critical. Reading and math skills are hindered for students who are chronically absent as early as kindergarten.

Strategy 188

Strategy Learning Data Dropout 188

The Hechinger Report

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 44

Accessibility Dropout Elementary Trends 44

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 92

Dropout E-rate Education Secondary 92

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 134

Industry Dropout Pearson Report 134

The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

” We have a significantly low dropout rate and high on-time graduation rate in Albemarle. And I think sometimes that when we see the final product of a school, or a teacher, or a school system that looks really good and has been done really well, it feels insurmountable… Vicki: It does. Vicki: (laughs). Do Something.

Dropout 266

Dropout Company Twitter Maker Movement 266

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 19, 2023

After a few hours, the elementary school called: Come pick up your son, they told her. She doesn’t feel comfortable asking and doesn’t trust the school system, especially after they called the child welfare department. “I She had yet to register the youngest girl, who was entering kindergarten. He was no longer enrolled, they said.

Policies 77

Policies Online Learning Dropout Elementary 77

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 104

Education Training Industry Accessibility 104

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 90

Accessibility Training Dropout Survey 90

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 67

Dropout Policies Elementary Data 67

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.

Dropout 83

Dropout Study Elementary Report 83

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 53

Dropout Policies Report System 53

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 11, 2021

Students who have been underserved by a deeply inequitable education system often undergo a remarkable transformation at an HBCU. They typically come from K-12 school systems that lack resources like state-of-the-art learning technology, curriculum and student supports. Across the U.S., for example, some 1.

Digital Divide 141

Digital Divide Course Accessibility System 141

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 109

Digital Divide Broadband Chromebook Survey 109

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

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

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.

Policies 52

Policies Dropout Outcomes Comparison 52

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 6, 2017

New Hampshire, Oregon and Vermont are among the few states that have been building personalized learning systems for years. Their ESSA plans detail systemic transformations of assessment methods and other practices, according to Lillian Pace, the senior director of national policy at KnowledgeWorks.

Personalized Learning 68

Personalized Learning Policies Advocacy Assessment 68

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 136

Study Data Report Elementary 136

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

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 136

Personalized Learning Learning Data Report 136

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. I begin to ponder: Have the rigorous demands of the Nevada Academic Content Standards and my extensive evaluation system decimated my learners joy of reading? What a summer.

Technology 60

Technology eBook Dropout Libraries 60

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. What changes are ahead?

Personalized Learning 75

Personalized Learning Chromebook Learning Groups 75

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 142

Guidelines Report Elementary Online Learning 142

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 95

Data Secondary System Accessibility 95

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 92

Education Elementary Meeting Study 92

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 172

Secondary Training System Elementary 172