ExcelinEd

APRIL 25, 2019

During the hearing I talked about the importance of early literacy, discussed the components of a comprehensive early literacy policy and highlighted success stories in Alabama’s neighboring states. In fact, research shows that nearly 90 percent of high school dropouts were struggling readers in third grade.

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Dropout How To Policies Assessment 28

Edsurge

MAY 5, 2023

Relationships are critical in engaging students and families in meaningful and culturally appropriate ways, and are associated with increased literacy acquisition, lower dropout rates and improved attendance. Strong family and community engagement can enhance learning outcomes and help to create a sense of belonging.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2021

The good news is that bridge builders — including nonprofit civic groups, economic development agencies and businesses and educators — have shown in recent years how to bring the right parties together to make change. Workers have had to rapidly figure out what additional training and skills they need, and where to find them.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 4, 2018

It’s about making sure they come back from one year to the next,” said Eboni Zamani-Gallaher, a professor of higher education policy, organization and leadership at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign College of Education. Dropouts cost colleges a collective $16.5 “It’s not just about getting them in the door.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 18, 2018

The challenge policymakers now confront: how to find them and get them back. The push to reach these dropouts by Mississippi and other states, including Indiana and Tennessee, reflects a growing recognition that there just aren’t enough students coming out of U.S. One of the advertisements produced by the “You Can.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

As we consider how to support students, we need to prioritize making sure they have enough to eat and a safe place to sleep along with providing high-quality instruction and internet access. We know from exhaustive research that hunger seriously impairs learning outcomes and that financial insecurity drives dropout rates.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 12, 2018

He’s not a politician, he admits, but he has strong opinions about public policy, bolstered mainly by vignettes and anecdotes. A good story goes a long way, and issues often rise or fall on the policy agenda as much on the basis of stories as on hard evidence. It’s a puzzling policy argument. What a brilliant stroke!

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eSchool News

AUGUST 3, 2017

When a charter can choose only top-performing students through selective admission or else cull under-performing students through arbitrary zero-tolerance behavior policies, they can better control the students that ultimately matriculate. Minority enrollment is pegged at 96 percent. The Impact of Serving At-Risk.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 15, 2023

That switch from algebra to stats is a big one for a lot of students,” said Lindsay Daugherty, a senior policy researcher at the RAND Corporation who has studied remedial education and efforts to reform it. Some researchers argue that the shift to statistics might have made the difference.

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edWeb.net

JULY 23, 2021

How to fully engage students: The current and next generation of learners have never lived without smartphones, the internet, etc. Thus, schools need to figure out how to use resources more effectively and what they’re currently doing that they could remove from the curriculum. Key Challenges Identified by the Commission.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

Now more than ever, schools need to carefully consider how to build emotionally and physically safe school cultures and climates. Students thrive when norms and expectations are clear, they are invested in upholding them and they receive real-time coaching about how to meet them.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 26, 2019

It is not good policy to keep Puerto Rico economically on a downturn in what feels like an endless loop of economic underperformance. It is not good policy to keep Puerto Rico economically on a downturn in what feels like an endless loop of economic underperformance,” said Aponte, who also served as U.S. Department of Education.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

They may not realize how important accommodations are to their success in school, and they often don’t know what kinds of services are available in college or what particular supports and accommodations they need. Related: How one district solved the special education dropout problem. Here’s why they’re not.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 6, 2022

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. It seemed like there needed to be a policy and expectation change in the face of an emergency situation,” Patterson said. That they will figure out how to do this.”.

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EdNews Daily

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

You were more or less able to learn how to interact with other children and the world around you on your own terms, in your own way. Gruia, “The education pipeline in the United States 1970-2000,” (The National Board on Educational Testing and Public Policy, Boston, 2004). Once you entered kindergarten, however, things changed.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 9, 2017

He’s trying to figure out how to parcel out his meager paycheck to pay back college loans for a degree he never finished. Honestly, I didn’t know how to handle it. Students who withdraw are also much more likely to default on their loans; dropouts make up two-thirds of defaults nationwide. On a good day, he’s out by 9 p.m.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 12, 2023

Districts across the country have been ramping up career education programs spurred, in part, by federal legislation updated in 2018 that provides funding for career education (commonly referred to as Perkins V ), said Matt Giani, a research associate professor in sociology at the University of Texas at Austin who studies education policy.

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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.” The YEP program makes the incentives more attainable, by incorporating several existing state policies into a brand-new framework. But most don’t take the test immediately after dropping out.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 1, 2022

I had to learn how to balance my finances. I had to learn how to balance work and school and the relationship I’m in.” It’s learning how to be an adult.”. Related: Colleges’ new solution to enrollment declines: Reducing the number of dropouts. . — Joy Malak floundered through her freshman year in college.

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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.”. College dropouts cost Minnesota millions of dollars in wasted subsidies and lost revenue each year. Paul College that shows students’ countries of origin.

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Dropout Secondary Course Report 74

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 6, 2017

And it has everything to do with the policies of the states.”. 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.

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Personalized Learning Policies Advocacy Assessment 71

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 9, 2019

Colleges are also working to reduce their numbers of dropouts on the principle that it’s cheaper to provide the kind of support required to keep tuition-paying students than to recruit more. Lehigh University has started hiring faculty for a new college of health policy , part of a plan to add 1,800 students. Will there be more?

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Dropout Training Industry Kaplan 75

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.

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Elementary Online Learning Report Laptops 143

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 20, 2022

In September, the NAACP Legal Defense Fund released a report recommending school districts institute a moratorium on all suspensions and modify school discipline policies to be trauma-informed and supportive. Studies show not only is it ineffective at improving students’ future behavior, it can also do the opposite.

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Personalized Learning Learning Data Report 138

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

It is hard to overstate how much the pandemic has short-circuited the college experience and affected students’ well-being. To those already burdened by the demands of social media and fears about how to succeed in the world, Covid piled on. Questions like, “How do I build community? How do I build meaningful relationships?”

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Training Meeting Report Policies 123

The Hechinger Report

MAY 26, 2020

Will a backdrop of economic ruin prompt higher education to listen to feedback on how to become more accountable, flexible and accessible? But changes in some areas, like college admissions policies, could happen now. We’re already seeing more institutions are drop SAT and ACT exam requirements – a move Carnevale applauds.

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Education Policies System Survey 112

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 28, 2019

The bill states that these districts have the greatest need due to high incidences of violence, a large number of low-income students and high dropout rates. Teaching home economics would be a requirement in districts rated D or F by the state under House Bill 16. Senate Bill 2300 would require compulsory attendance in kindergarten.

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Accessibility Dropout Elementary Trends 45

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 8, 2018

New faculty at Dickinson College attend a training session about how to help students who might be foundering. Yet only a surprisingly small minority of colleges and universities explicitly include their faculty in this work and teach them how to do it, though that number is beginning to grow. CARLISLE, Penn. That’s $13.3

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Training Report Dropout System 82

The Hechinger Report

JULY 13, 2021

Educators and school leaders are scrambling to figure out how to regain ground next year in a course that often makes or breaks students’ life chances. Steele, who studies high school policies and practices related to algebra I, is advising teachers to slow down this fall — a strategy that, confusingly, the U.S. I’m very worried.

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STEM Report Course Study 129

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 7, 2021

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. That challenge is circumvented when a senior leader — a senior vice president, for example — is charged with shepherding the work. Without all three factors, the work too often stalls.

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Education Mobility Report Examples 99

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 1, 2020

As school presidents agonize over how to reopen their campuses, student affairs and enrollment management leaders are working feverishly to make their services accessible to all students, wherever they are. But now, we must take them on with a renewed sense of urgency.

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Survey Report Accessibility Trends 105

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

And the dropout rate among the first Muniz cohort, the class of 2016, was just 2.5 English was his stronger language for reading and writing when he started at Muñiz, but now, if he doesn’t know how to say something in English, he can say it in Spanish without fear of reprisal. “It It feels much better like that,” Oniel says.

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Learning Dropout Report Elementary 111

The Hechinger Report

JULY 17, 2017

The policy calls for students to present an acceptance letter from a college, a branch of the armed services, an employer, a trade school or a “gap-year” program. School leaders already know how to pressure, punish and bribe students, schools and districts into change. Students are supposed to graduate to something.

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Policies Study Report Training 60

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 We [didn’t] want this to be a Band-Aid fix,” said Jordan Mickens, a Leadership for Educational Equity public policy fellow who served as #OaklandUndivided’s project manager until August 2021.

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Digital Divide Broadband Chromebook Survey 112

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 20, 2019

I asked Jerome Lucido, executive director at the University of Southern California’s Center for Enrollment Research, Policy and Practice, how admissions can be fixed. “That some rich families bribe their children’s way into college is the least of our problems.’’. Ted Mitchell, a former U.S.

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Report Policies System Outcomes 95

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.

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Guidelines Report Elementary Online Learning 143

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 18, 2018

The challenge that rural high schools like Randolph Union now face is how to scale work-based learning so that more students like Wess see the connections between the classroom and a career, and maybe — just maybe — see a future in their graying home state. It recognized that learning can occur anywhere.”.

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