The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

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Academic Standards Assessment Report Trends 98

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

Since the 1990s, education stories emanating from Massachusetts have largely been positive, but that started to change over the last decade. The decline has accelerated, and results from the 2019 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) have pushed the state into the “learn-from-our-mistakes” category. Related: U.S.

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Common Core Academic Standards Comparison Report 131

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

Mississippi’s gains came as students in many states did worse in 2019 than they did in 2017 on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) — to the disappointment of leaders, educators and parents across the United States. The Magnolia State has been making steady progress on NAEP since 2005.

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Academic Standards Policies Assessment Course 84

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 17, 2017

For this story, reporters analyzed every available open-enrollment charter application approved between 2005 and 2015 — the decade after Katrina. They tended to cite a combination of their own optimism coupled with pressure from state officials, who in turn were pressured to meet the federal educational goals set in No Child Left Behind.

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Elementary Report Meeting Academic Standards 78

MindShift

MAY 25, 2015

This story was produced by The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. But educators here saw how behind some of their students were in reading and math, so even at a school linked to the iconic Stax Records, R&B is having to make more room for the three Rs.

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Common Core Academic Standards Course Report 28

MindShift

JUNE 30, 2015

In the case of many Chicago 14-year-olds leaving their small, familiar K-8 schools, moving up to high school can feel like entering “the Wild, Wild West,” according to University of Chicago Urban Education Institute researcher Camille Farrington. But the entire paradigm of education has changed.

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System Academic Standards Study Report 28

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MAY 27, 2020

of Education, author of 12 books including the recent Slaying Goliath: The Passionate Resistance to Privatization and the Danger to Our Public Schools; Cindy Cisneros , Vice President of Education Programs at the Committee for Economic Development at The Conference Board; and Gavin Dykes , from England, Managing Director of Cellcove, Ltd.

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Policies Academic Standards Company Assessment 36