The Hechinger Report

JUNE 18, 2018

But Goldstein, who helped create a hands-on manufacturing course at Randolph Union in 2014, says “retention is much easier than recruitment.” Among Act 77’s aims: to reduce high school dropout rates, particularly among low-income students. (In It’s better to be out here than sitting behind a desk listening to a teacher talk.”.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 7, 2018

The proportion of overage students — those who have been retained for at least one grade — hovers around 40 percent for New Orleans high school students, according to an analysis of 2014 data by researchers at Education Research Alliance for New Orleans, which is based at Tulane University.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 2, 2016

The median household income in Oktibbeha County for black residents is $21,795 annually while the median income for white households is almost double, at $41,501, according to American Community Survey 2014 estimates. Every fall, each student is tested to assess any gaps in skills and knowledge.

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MindShift

JULY 9, 2018

The repercussions of not learning to read are magnified for poor children: Research shows that low-income children who cannot read at grade level by third grade are six times more likely to become high school dropouts. After an initial assessment, he determined that early reading instruction was one of the school’s glaring weaknesses. “We

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2022

The district relied on individual schools to call families, while its department of research, assessment and data conducted surveys at individual school sites to find out whether families had an internet connection and computer access. When he taught at Castlemont in 2014, the school had only one Chromebook cart. “To

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

Fellows receive monthly stipends that start at $450 and rise each year, up to $700, in an attempt to combat steep post-secondary dropout rates — 33 percent of black college students drop out after one year of college, often because of financial shortfalls. Our way of convincing our fellows is with experience.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

Students who routinely miss school get individual assessments and attendance success plans geared toward their unique needs and circumstances. John Barry School (grades pre-K to 5) in Meriden, for example, reduced its chronic absenteeism rate from 21 percent in the 2014-15 school year to 9 percent in 2015-16.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 14, 2020

There are gifted dropouts. By that, the students knew, their teacher meant one of the psychologist Dr. Edward de Bono’s six “thinking hats,” specifically the one that called on thinkers to assess their ideas and look for potential flaws. In 2014, a group of Buffalo parents filed a racial discrimination complaint with the U.S.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 15, 2014

Learn about the resources that can help district leaders develop the next generation network infrastructure necessary to support multiple mobile devices on and off campus, the delivery of digital content, and administration of online assessments. The NEA shared this article that discusses nation-wide efforts to re-engage high school dropouts.

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

Though the rate of low-income students in the district has steadily increased in the last decade, so have graduation rates, to 83 percent in 2014. Some teachers also have students assess their own mastery of skills.). That even if no one in these students’ families attended college, they can be different. Ending Social Promotion.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 27, 2016

In a December 2014 “Dear Colleague” letter from the Departments of Justice and Education, then-Secretary of Education Arne Duncan and then-Attorney General Eric Holder wrote to state superintendents and attorney generals across the nation, asking them to continue their investment in correctional education.

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

Though the rate of low-income students in the district has steadily increased in the last decade, so have graduation rates, to 83 percent in 2014. Some teachers also have students assess their own mastery of skills.). That even if no one in these students’ families attended college, they can be different.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 13, 2017

Rodriguez was forced into remedial math by the community college’s placement test, which assesses a student’s ability to succeed in for-credit, higher education classes. The professor was teaching basic math skills that the 18-year-old had already learned in high school.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 15, 2017

BRUNSWICK, Maine — Kate Lord didn’t have a plan when she graduated from Brunswick High School in 2014. An accurate and thoughtful assessment of a student’s abilities and interests. Many districts rely on formal assessments to help schools create viable plans for students. Sign up for our newsletter. He blames the system.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

When he got to Purdue University in 2014, he didn’t have a system for organizing his deadlines. Districts recognized the need to assess how the student would do in college or work or the community and then provide services in accordance with what they find.”. There would be times that I would forget I even had an assignment,” he said.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

Schools are supposed to revise the IEP document annually in partnership with the student’s parents and conduct a barrage of assessments to reevaluate the child’s disability classification every three years. Michael’s IEP allowed him to work in small groups, have extended time on assessments and use a computer for written assignments.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 16, 2018

Opened in 2014 when two existing vocational programs consolidated, Essex Tech is preparing to graduate its first senior class to have spent the entirety of their high school careers at the new campus. That’s the trade-off students have to make to come here,” O’Toole said.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 9, 2017

Last year, 23 percent of the school’s third-graders passed the state reading test, up from 0 percent in 2014. She not only treats patients, she goes into homes to assess risk factors. The fear we’re going to be closed down isn’t there as much. Somebody said to us, ‘you’re valuable,’ and the kids feel that.”.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 16, 2017

Bits of student performance data are only just starting to trickle out of the pilot schools, so it’s too early to assess most of them quantitatively. Summit partnered with Stanford’s Center for Assessment, Learning, and Equity to develop the rubric for evaluating the cognitive skills in each grade.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 26, 2020

Wright, a professor of economics at Western Washington University, behavioral assessments of black students in the classroom significantly improve when they have a black teacher rather than a white teacher. In addition to academic gains, black students taught by black teachers exhibited better behavioral outcomes.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 11, 2018

And that knowledge, she believes — combined with new strategies to help students regulate their emotions — has contributed to a 43 percent drop in the number of children referred for discipline from 2014 to 2016, according to school data. percent from 2012-13 to 2014-15.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2019

That push officially began in 2014, when Deborah Gist, then the state’s commissioner of education, announced a public-private “innovation partnership” to merge traditional and computerized pedagogy. Collectively, New England Basecamp and Highlander have trained hundreds of educators at dozens of schools in the state since 2014.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 21, 2017

Ten years later, the couple sat across a wooden table from Caleb, now 16, a high school dropout and, as of September, survivor of a suicide attempt. “We saw it as a scaffolding until things got better — a short-term, possible solution,” Agnew recalled. Related: Column: Stop punishing black children just because they’re black.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 31, 2019

Since 2014 it has added more than 70 employees, including 40 educators and counselors who speak Spanish, according to district officials. Hynes, the district superintendent, was hired in 2014, chosen in part for his “whole-child” approach to education. Related: Eight steps to establish support systems for undocumented students.

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Hack Education

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

” Maine governor Paul LePage has finally nominated an education commissioner – the post has been open since 2014. Testing, Testing… Via Inside Higher Ed : “Large-Scale Assessment Without Standardized Tests.” ” Via The New York Times : “Universities Face Pressure to Hold the Line on Title IX.”

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 12, 2017

And Coursera co-founder Andrew Ng left Baidu , where he’d been since leaving the MOOC startup in 2014. Meanwhile, the state has cleared the company to become a dropout recovery school. Tom Willerer, Coursera’s chief product officer, left the company to become a venture capitalist. ECOT refuses to pay.

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