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 109

Education Training Industry Accessibility 109

edWeb.net

JULY 23, 2021

Education is just different than it was pre-pandemic—many school leaders think it shouldn’t go back to the way it was before when schools used systems developed in the 20th century. How to fully engage students: The current and next generation of learners have never lived without smartphones, the internet, etc. Bill Daggett, Ed.D.

Education 98

Education Dropout Professional Learning System 98

EdNews Daily

MAY 29, 2017

If we can’t effectively support our educators then expecting them to reverse the concerning trends of high school dropouts (more than ¼ fail to graduate H.S.), Professional Engagement includes classroom management, dealing with challenging students, interacting with families, and understanding oneself in relation to all these groups.

Training 228

Training Dropout Competency Based Learning Common Core 228

MindShift

OCTOBER 22, 2018

” Now, this study only shows an association between group exercise and improved mental health, and can’t prove that the one causes the other. People who are depressed often isolate themselves, he says, so exercising in a group setting, “can help alleviate symptoms and deal with this very pernicious symptom of depression.”

Exercises 28

Exercises Groups Dropout Study 28

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 17, 2022

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

Dropout 106

Dropout Policies Data Report 106

EdNews Daily

OCTOBER 8, 2019

It showed how using a high-tech artificial intelligence system precisely predicts the genuineness of a player’s win, by analyzing factors like – surprise, shock, hysteria, reaction, and change in the heart rate. By Samuel Alfie. Ocean’s 13 is more than just a heist movie in a casino. Get an overall view including: attrition.

Data 100

Data E-rate Dropout Adaptive Learning 100

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 14, 2019

The idea, said Ann Swartz-Beckius, interim director of student achievement, is to teach students how to remain calm under pressure, “to tune out the noise in their heads.”. Paul is outperforming many of its peers in the community college system. Our future economic vitality depends on this.”. That is not who we serve today.”.

Dropout 74

Dropout Secondary Course Report 74

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 104

Dropout Chromebook Report System 104

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 6, 2022

Freshman calculus students at the University of Texas at Austin work together in small groups to master calculus concepts they will need later in college and their careers. Now, after two years of cobbled-together pandemic learning, many college students not only are less prepared than they should be, they’ve forgotten how to be students.

Education 129

Education Course Report Policies 129

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. Minority enrollment is pegged at 96 percent. The Impact of Serving At-Risk.

Dropout 52

Dropout Mobility Elementary Policies 52

Edsurge

APRIL 23, 2019

She shares how a group of students encouraged one of their classmates who was struggling and what that taught her about the importance of student relationships. Any time there was a group activity, she had to be the first to share. Not only with children, but teachers, my peers and the system itself.

Learning 149

Learning Dropout Company Groups 149

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 8, 2018

District officials theorized that students’ disillusionment with the curriculum contributed to Vista High’s 10 percent dropout rate. Teachers say they appreciate the chance to work more closely with the students, along with a small group of their colleagues, and believe it’s helped contribute to a drop in disciplinary incidents.

Personalized Learning 79

Personalized Learning Chromebook Learning Groups 79

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. The goal with the first two groups was to help them earn a traditional diploma, if possible.

Dropout 55

Dropout Policies Report System 55

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 28, 2019

Although Mississippi has not adopted online preschool programs to the same extent as other states, during the 2015-16 school year, a group of children in Mississippi participated in a pilot program of the UPSTART kindergarten-readiness program. But, if the bill becomes a law, it could be hard to find and retain enough assistant teachers.

Accessibility 45

Accessibility Dropout Elementary Trends 45

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. When they break out into group work, no one talks except him. I’m very worried.

STEM 128

STEM Report Course Study 128

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 6, 2017

“The bad news is we’re not seeing a lot of innovation or discussion around personalized learning,” said Claire Voorhees, national policy director for the Tallahassee, Florida-based Foundation for Excellence in Education, an advocacy group for personalized learning. These new assessment systems are a crucial component of personalization.

Personalized Learning 72

Personalized Learning Policies Advocacy Assessment 72

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

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

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Gutierrez and Williams spent 90 minutes standing on the sidewalk outside the house in the Texas sun, at arm’s length from the students, showing them how to sign into Google Classroom on their school-provided Chromebooks and helping their father figure out passwords. This story also appeared in The Christian Science Monitor.

Elementary 144

Elementary Online Learning Report Laptops 144

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

In 2016, 75 percent of its ELL students graduated, a rate 14 percentage points higher than the district’s average for this group and higher even than the overall graduation rate for BPS. And the dropout rate among the first Muniz cohort, the class of 2016, was just 2.5 percent, compared with a district average of 10 percent.

Learning 111

Learning Dropout Report Elementary 111

The Hechinger Report

MAY 26, 2020

higher education system is fair had evaporated. Harvard researcher Anthony Jacks revealed in his groundbreaking 2019 book how poor students cleaned showers and toilets and went hungry after cafeterias closed while their wealthier Ivy League classmates fled campus for ski resorts and spring break beaches.

Education 111

Education Policies System Survey 111

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

DECEMBER 13, 2017

Almost anyone can enroll at a community college in California, but each college has its own process to decide how to place students. But it’s another thing to actually have support systems to deal with the students that are there.”. The lessons include more hands-on problem solving and the students often work in small groups.

Report 111

Report Course System Data 111

The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2023

These are the four system campuses that offer flexible assistance. More than 64,500 students are enrolled at Dallas College, and the system employs nearly 240 success coaches who are spread out across its seven campuses. Meanwhile, Dallas College leaders say they’re ahead because of how they shifted priorities over the past few years.

Outcomes 88

Outcomes Report Meeting Study 88

Educator Innovator

JULY 14, 2014

But the part of her research that was most meaningful was when she asked questions of a focus group of Latino parents whose children attend her high school. In a Youth Radio interview , she commented that “some parents didn’t understand what the report card system was and more often, they didn’t know how important college was.”

Dropout 42

Dropout Advocacy Groups Strategy 42

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 Innovative Educator

DECEMBER 31, 2016

Deven was part of a group that contributed to the New York City Department of Education’s ground breaking social media guidelines which were the first in the world to be created with students and teachers. A thoughtful, deep thinker, who had smart ideas on how to make learning more fulfilling. Check it out at [link]. It is a message.

Social Media 43

Social Media Dropout Guidelines Libraries 43

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 7, 2021

The good news is, we can break out of this competitive mode; a group of 11 public research universities is already showing how that’s done. Over the years, we’ve found that such champions are most successful when they have the president’s trust, know how to drive change on campus and are likeable. New work requires new hands.

Education 99

Education Mobility Report Examples 99

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 112

Digital Divide Broadband Chromebook Survey 112

MindShift

AUGUST 17, 2018

District officials theorized that students’ disillusionment with the curriculum contributed to Vista High’s 10 percent dropout rate. Teachers say they appreciate the chance to work more closely with the students, along with a small group of their colleagues, and believe it’s helped contribute to a drop in disciplinary incidents.

Personalized Learning 34

Personalized Learning Chromebook Learning Groups 34

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 3, 2018

He then mills around the room, meeting with students individually or in small groups. But in a proficiency-based system, students must show that they’ve mastered “competencies” — specific skills or knowledge — before they move on to the next level, and eventually receive a diploma. Is anyone interested in taking an assessment today?”

Pearson 87

Pearson Personalized Learning Report Course 87

The Electric Educator

APRIL 20, 2011

This blog is primarily dedicated to sharing tips, tricks, and ideas on how to successfully use technology to increase student engagement, critical thinking, and mastery of learning objectives. Cuban is not anti-technology, but he does not see it as a silver bulletin in solving the problems in the American system of education.

Technology 60

Technology Education Dropout Twitter 60

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Many middle-class white students arrive at school with “insider knowledge”— of how to pick classes, take tests and complete homework — that some of their less-advantaged peers lack, says Lea Hubbard, chair of the Department of Leadership Studies at the University of San Diego. Photo: Nick Chiles for The Hechinger Report.

Report 111

Report E-rate Study Training 111

MindShift

JULY 8, 2015

Paul, Minnesota — are trying to help connect the dots for freshmen, and may serve as a model for other schools and systems to create a strong bridge over the rough waters from middle to high school. It’s a much bigger group of kids who are falling down. Countdown to High School. And it’s not just the kids who should be at risk.

Dropout 28

Dropout Training Groups Course 28

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 24, 2023

Candace Ronhaar, left, an instructor, teaches Crystal Baker how to use red cabbage, a natural pH indicator, to test the pH of different substances during Chemistry 121 class at Everett Community College on Friday, March 10, 2023. The program is growing, and serves a diverse group of students. This is bigger than I-BEST.

Industry 73

Industry Training Report Course 73

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 20, 2021

Few have received much guidance from administrators on how to handle discipline issues that arise in remote learning and in school buildings where education has been reshaped by new health and safety guidelines. and then realized that her student didn’t know how to tell time. “I Their parents were threatened with courts and fines.

Guidelines 143

Guidelines Report Elementary Online Learning 143

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 22, 2020

I see a lot of black kids like me lost to the system,” Elliott said. Early in her teaching career, when she worked as a Spanish language teacher, Rhodes had witnessed how jail pulled promising young people onto a hard-to-reverse path. I see a lot of black kids like me lost to the system. But my school had my back.”.

Strategy 112

Strategy Education E-rate Report 112