The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

The district’s class of 2010 had a 73 percent graduation rate for students in special education and a 13 percent dropout rate — double the dropout rate for the student body overall. The high dropout rate for students with disabilities is a pressing national problem. Covina-Valley has seen its efforts pay off.

Dropout 94

Dropout E-rate Education Secondary 94

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 74

Personalized Learning Policies Advocacy Assessment 74

The Hechinger Report

JULY 18, 2023

Studies suggest affordability is one of the leading causes of attrition. The same is true for the University of California system, the University of Arizona and other institutions across the country. Limiting which Native students get financial assistance is especially significant, given the rising cost of post-secondary degrees.

Groups 91

Groups Accessibility Policies Advocacy 91

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

Leave this field empty if you're human: In interviews with 45 parents and students and more than 50 other experts, advocates and lawyers across 34 states and the District of Columbia, families and advocates described systemic problems with special education in high school. He said he never had to study or actually learn anything to get an A.

Education 111

Education Strategy Report Training 111

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

But high schools often neglect to teach these students the soft skills that will help them in higher education — like how to study, manage their time and self-advocate. Skills like knowing how to ask for help or organize a study group “are as important as anything else you’re going to learn,” said Tudisco. It’s a crisis.

Study 89

Study Advocacy Report Outcomes 89

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 7, 2018

One study by the Louisiana board of education showed that 40 percent of retained eighth graders did not even make it to a high-school campus after being held back. Related: A new movement to treat troubled children as ‘sad, not bad’. Students who failed LEAP suddenly have more options than pass or fail.

Analysis 128

Analysis Report Data Policies 128

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2022

A recent study from EducationSuperHighway, a nonprofit that works with school districts to help close the digital divide, found that affordability was the largest contributing factor. The district lacked a system for tracking how many students weren’t logging on to classes for lack of a working computer, tablet or internet connection at home.

Digital Divide 113

Digital Divide Broadband Chromebook Survey 113

EdNews Daily

MARCH 6, 2020

I had graduated from college and was convinced that my university professors had trained me with the skills I needed to thrive in the educational system. A recent study by the American Association for Employment in Education reported teacher shortages in more than half of the countries surveyed. ” Everything else is secondary!

Secondary 130

Secondary Training Survey Dropout 130

EdNews Daily

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

In addition to educational disruption, what are the costs to school systems? From the same study: “The current teachers’ shortage represents arguably the most imminent threat to the nation’s schools. A study by the business school at the UCLA, Los Angeles, showed that the U.S. What subjects are losing the most educators?

Dropout 130

Dropout Training Report Social Media 130

The Hechinger Report

MAY 30, 2018

Aimed at curbing dropouts, improving graduation rates and sending more kids to college and other postsecondary programs, the corps is designed to offset a growing achievement gap in this relatively affluent but increasingly diverse state. “When there’s a budget cut, counselors are the first to go.”.

Dropout 111

Dropout Report Training Outcomes 111

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 30, 2018

So says a 2017 study published by the Institute of Policy Studies. About one-third of all black collegians earn degrees in either a STEM-related (science, technology, engineering and math) field or in business, according to my analysis of integrated post-secondary education data system (IPEDS), the national dataset of college outcomes.

Dropout 92

Dropout STEM Analysis Company 92

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

Companies take it on faith that that a college degree is worth the handsome salaries graduates command; in contrast, dropouts suffer with little to show for their aborted time in school. As Harry Anthony Patrinos at the World Bank reports , “Post-secondary education graduates are at the lowest risk of losing to automation.

Dropout 88

Dropout Data Training Secondary 88

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 6, 2017

Doe that public elementary and secondary schools couldn’t consider immigration status when a student seeks to enroll. Schools are the perfect teaching grounds for potential citizens because when students go to school, they are doing more than someone who simply studies the materials the U.S. The 1982 U.S.

Advocacy 64

Advocacy Secondary System Report 64

Edsurge

MAY 17, 2017

Those who are keeping systems in place are very focused on power,” said Hammer. Greer later added: “We haven’t recognized the secondary trauma that our teachers face” as they work with students raised in challenging environments. Parents don’t just want a “voice,” Hammer said. They want to be co-leaders in their children’s schooling.

Education 93

Education Policies Company Dropout 93