The Hechinger Report

MAY 17, 2016

Jones discussed programs at Temple that provide financial resources to students the university thinks are at risk of dropping out, while Tough discussed the power of just telling students they belong in college—a potentially far cheaper solution to the college dropout crisis. Subscribe to our Higher Ed newsletter.

Dropout 56

Dropout Trends Data Study 56

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 6, 2017

His school and his state are trailblazers in personalized learning, a method that tailors instruction to students’ individual interests and learning speeds. Personalized learning advocates had big hopes for ESSA, enacted in 2015. About 20 other states sprinkled elements of personalized learning into their plans.

Personalized Learning 83

Personalized Learning Policies Advocacy Assessment 83

techlearning

JULY 3, 2018

With nearly 15 million students and almost 300K formative assessment items on our combined platform, the opportunity to personalize learning is groundbreaking,” said Adam Berger, managing director at Insight Venture Partners and chairman of the new Illuminate Education. It will be business as usual,” said Willig.

Personalized Learning 40

Personalized Learning Education Industry Dropout 40

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 28, 2016

Two experts associated with NAEP’s National Assessment Governing Board (Mary Lynne Bourque and Susan Loomis) made it clear in 2001 that NAEP’s “proficient achievement level does not refer to ‘at grade’ performance.” Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings, confuse NAEP’s proficiency benchmark with being on grade level.

Dropout 40

Dropout Assessment Report Comparison 40

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 16, 2018

The next school day and a just a few floors below, Miller is in the school’s biotechnology lab where students are learning the skills they would need for a job testing specimens for the presence of amalyse, the protein enzyme that breaks down starch into sugar. It’s a challenging curriculum for high schoolers, O’Toole said.

Study 93

Study Training Report Industry 93

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 1, 2016

A mother of two, Amy Nalesnik felt her heart drop when she learned the campus day care center she had hoped would watch her kids all day was being evicted. An existing federal program that helps with child care, called Child Care Access Means Parents in School, has had its budget cut from $25 million in 2001 to $15 million last year.

Groups 40

Groups Dropout Report Examples 40

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

For a few years the California State University system has had an unusual requirement for professors who win a grant to redesign their courses: They must post a summary and reflection about their teaching in a public Web collection so others can learn from their experiments. The rate of dropout or failure is down from 13 to 5 percent.

Classroom 60

Classroom ePortfolio Dropout Course 60

The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2019

In another room, children rotate through learning stations, sometimes at screens, sometimes putting pencils to paper. Danusis and her teaching staff practice personalized learning, an individual-comes-first approach, usually aided by laptops, that has become a reformist calling card in education. Future of Learning.

Personalized Learning 103

Personalized Learning Learning Chromebook Elementary 103

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 25, 2016

Nationally, about 4 percent of Canadians are indigenous, up from 3 percent in 2001. It was really our own reinvigorated call to action,” said Patti McDougall, vice provost for teaching and learning at the University of Saskatchewan, or U of S. Patti McDougall, vice provost for teaching and learning, University of Saskatchewan.

Groups 40

Groups Report Dropout Study 40

EdNews Daily

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

Department of Labor figures, that teachers are quitting their jobs at record rates, since such records began to be kept in 2001. Many parents have made efforts to prepare their children for learning. Clearly, something must be done to address the teacher dropout problem. Why are teachers, and others in the field, leaving?

Dropout 130

Dropout Training Report Social Media 130

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 6, 2017

What they learn in math, English and science they apply in real life. Taking English and learning about Shakespeare is not just about command over the language but also imparting American and British culture. Citizenship and Immigration Services offers to pass the citizenship exam. Students take the pledge of allegiance daily.

Advocacy 71

Advocacy Secondary System Report 71