The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 14, 2019

Though some programs have helped lower dropout rates and improved graduation rates for students of color, the gap in the percentage of students finishing a degree has barely budged across the 30 community colleges in the Minnesota State Colleges and University system. System leaders don’t dispute that assessment.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 11, 2016

Sheryl Javier graduated from Bronx Arena in July 2016, after 8 years of high school. This model demands more resources than those available to a traditional high school, but given that the typical high school dropout costs the state an estimated $300,000 over their lifetime , Cesene argues that the math is elementary.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 2, 2016

John Jones asks a question to his students in AP Human Geography on August 18, 2016. The current desegregation order, issued in March 2016, mandated a Biracial Advisory Committee to oversee implementation of the desegregation plan. Every fall, each student is tested to assess any gaps in skills and knowledge.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

Of the district’s nearly 91,000 students, 69 percent were considered economically disadvantaged during the 2016-17 school year. Students who routinely miss school get individual assessments and attendance success plans geared toward their unique needs and circumstances. The third tier is the most individualized.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 18, 2018

Among Act 77’s aims: to reduce high school dropout rates, particularly among low-income students. (In ILOs are the ultimate in personalized learning, and they depend on teachers to structure programs, assess student growth and award academic credit. It recognized that learning can occur anywhere.”.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 8, 2017

These children made up less than 2 percent of public school students in every state during the 2015-2016 school year. She fought for years and went to court to stop her district from giving her daughter certain assessments. But parents and advocates say that other 10 percent are often assumed to be less capable than they are.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 17, 2017

I would have been a dropout.”. At the outset a survey was conducted to assess the needs of schools, families and communities. Say Yes also credits its partnerships for a K-6 summer camp program that served 2,500 students in 2016. “It I don’t even talk to my [real] sister about them or cry in front of her. Dedecker said the No.

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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.” In 2016 schools earned the 25-point incentive for a total of only 41 students citywide; the 2017 total was worse, a mere 17 students. But most don’t take the test immediately after dropping out.

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Edsurge

JULY 28, 2016

The district is also known for having one of the largest dropout rates and one of the highest pupil-to-teacher ratios in the country. As I reflect on the upcoming 2016-2017 school year, I wonder how this negativity has affected my own 5th grade reading classroom.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 27, 2016

FUN SAD FACT: According to Avi Yashchin, Senior Offering Manager at IBM Watson: “Sadness [sentiments] in incoming freshman college application essay is the sixth strongest predictor of dropout.” University IT departments are still feeling the effects of budget cuts from the recession, according to the 2016 Campus Computing Survey.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 14, 2020

To do this, researchers are turning to a relatively new genetic approach called the polygenic score, which assesses a person’s likelihood for a specific future based on a combination of genetic variables. It’s a research technique that some scientists are using to assess obesity or cancer risk, for instance.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 12, 2018

Rural fourth- and eighth-graders do, in fact, score better on the National Assessment of Educational Progress than urban students, on average, and just as well as suburban ones, the U.S. Department of Education reports.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 22, 2018

And in 2016 just 8 percent of McDowell County residents of working age held an associate degree or higher, compared to 31 percent statewide. That’s well below the statewide rate of 55 percent. To increase those numbers, the district is trying to be more innovative and aggressive.

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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. Photo: Jacob Carroll for the Hechinger Report.

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MindShift

JUNE 18, 2020

South Fort Myers High School follows a dropout prevention program called BARR, which stands for Building Assets, Reducing Risks. Use online systems to assess, remediate and individualize learning. But then over a few hours you can actually form, in some ways, a more granular view than you would in a traditional assessment.”

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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 25, 2016

billion to almost $7 billion in 2016. For example, some studies focus only on a select group of children whose parents send them to pre-K, assessing the impact of a year of pre-K on children’s test scores in the first months of kindergarten. Indeed, states across the country are getting on board.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 27, 2016

“Too many discipline issues,” he told the Jackson Free Press during an interview at his house in the Washington Addition in June 2016. A 2016 BOTEC study on crime in the city of Jackson and JPS, however, reported that underfunding means schools have difficulty implementing PBIS with district-wide fidelity.

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Edsurge

JULY 29, 2020

Simon and the rest of the district turned their focus to food security , internet connectivity for families in need and online suicide prevention assessments. In elementary school, frequent absences are linked to a higher likelihood of dropout—even if attendance improves over time. Distance learning began March 23.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 13, 2021

Last year, researchers at NWEA, an independent nonprofit assessment company, published an analysis of data from the autumn 2020 MAP Growth tests of more than 4 million public school students. “It’s not something we’re going to make up in a summer or in a year. It’s a long road of recovery.” Whitney Oakley, Guilford County Schools.

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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

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

In a city that recorded 762 murders in 2016, the most in the nation , security measures like these were authorized years ago for every public high school. Calendar-driven midterm and final exams are jettisoned in favor of ongoing assessments. We call them ‘benchmarks’.”

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2018

As part of the redevelopment plan, the Blumberg homes were razed in 2016, and families were temporarily relocated to public housing elsewhere in the city. “In an area where you need more investment in education and housing,” said Jeremiah, “what we saw was the reverse — an exodus of investment.”.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

Indeed, in a 2016 state-by-state assessment that compared student achievement, chances for success and financial investment per student, Nevada ranked last in the nation. Her father was a social worker and her mother, a high school dropout, worked as a maid, a bus driver and eventually as an attendance officer in the district. “I

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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. The number edged back up in 2016-17 to 682 incidents.). Progress was swift. In 2012-13, 10.4

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Doug Levin

MARCH 5, 2017

Tagged on: March 3, 2017 Blended Learning for Quality Higher Education: Selected Case Studies on Implementation from Asia-Pacific | UNESCO Bangkok → A new report presents a framework and self-assessment tool developed to drive, sustain, and scale up blended learning. He gave a speech and devoted 150 words to education and choice. ."

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Hack Education

AUGUST 24, 2018

” Via The Chronicle of Higher Education : “ For-Profit Companies With the Highest Enrollments at Their Colleges, Fall 2016.” despite having Arizona ’s third-highest dropout rate.” Writing assessment company Writable has raised $3.2 Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). .”

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 12, 2017

Some 200,000 students attend online charter schools, according to a 2016 report by Education Week , out of the 3 million or so total who are enrolled in charters and the 50 million or so who are enrolled in K–12 public schools. Meanwhile, the state has cleared the company to become a dropout recovery school. ECOT refuses to pay.

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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. The report sought to gauge how the online lessons reached “struggling learners.”

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 31, 2019

Since 2016, Rosario has run half a dozen counseling groups of about eight to ten kids. Morales, a short 19-year-old from Chiché, Guatemala, joined five brothers already in Patchogue in 2016. Other kids have tracked her down to talk after hearing from friends that she’s a sympathetic listener.

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