The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 7, 2016

Mississippi Governor Phil Bryant will assume the role in July of 2017. ECS helps lead effective education policy across America, and I look forward to working with education leaders across the country beginning July 2017.”. Photo: Imani Khayyam. Phil Bryant as chair-elect. Bryant will replace outgoing chairman Gov.

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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.” Until 2017, New Orleans high schools had no internal options to help students who fell so far behind a conventional diploma seemed impossible. “My My grades were perfect.

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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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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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ExcelinEd

APRIL 25, 2019

In fact, research shows that nearly 90 percent of high school dropouts were struggling readers in third grade. Students in all eight – including Florida and Mississippi – outperform states without such policies on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP). How can we help all students achieve this?

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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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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 3, 2018

The report found that less than 15 percent of seniors in the district were considered “college-and-career ready” by the state Department of Education in 2017. But he also offered a stark assessment: “The reality is, we don’t have the capacity right here today to do everything right now,” Greene said. There is no not doing the work.

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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. In 2017, he left teaching to work in education technology at Clever, a digital platform for schools.

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Digital Divide Broadband Chromebook Survey 121

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 16, 2018

That evolution has sped up since 2001, when the state introduced a requirement that students pass a statewide assessment (known as the MCAS) to earn a high school diploma. Vocational high schools asked for an exemption from the new rule but the state held firm, forcing those campuses to “step up their academic game,” Driscoll said.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 24, 2019

Keith Perrigan, Bristol school superintendent since 2017, said he gets emails from companies pitching their social-emotional curricula almost every day. But they also note many efforts underway to assess interventions and ensure bad actors don’t undermine the field. He knows enough to be cautious.

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Strategy Report Training Company 82

Edsurge

JULY 29, 2020

percent (about 10,000 students) in the 2017-2018 school year, to 15.1 Simon and the rest of the district turned their focus to food security , internet connectivity for families in need and online suicide prevention assessments. percent (about 150 students) percent during the 2016-2017 school year. But it has proven elusive.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 26, 2020

In a 2017 study published by the Institute of Labor Economics, researchers found that low- income black male elementary school students who were paired with a black teacher in the third, fourth, or fifth grades were 39 percent less likely to drop out of high school.

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Education Outcomes Study Assessment 145

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

More broadly, nearly 73 percent in the Fall 2021 American College Health Association National College Health Assessment survey reported moderate or serious psychological distress. The school also hired two intake and triage coordinators who screen students to assess what help they need.

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edWeb.net

MARCH 16, 2020

Panelist Phyllis Jordan, editorial director at FutureEd, pointed to the results of the organization’s analysis of states’ 2017 ESSA plans, which require one non-academic indicator for school assessments. Chronically absent middle schoolers have lower grades and test scores that increase dropout potential.

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Policies Dropout Outcomes Comparison 52

The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2019

A few local pilot programs have been shown to slightly improve test scores and teacher satisfaction, but a 2017 study by RAND , commissioned by the Gates Foundation to study 40 Gates-funded schools, reads like a shrug. Yet the academic and policy research behind it is thin.

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Personalized Learning Learning Chromebook Elementary 107

Doug Levin

MARCH 5, 2017

A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 9 Edition). Tagged on: March 5, 2017 Global Evolution of EdTech | Navitas Ventures → A look at over 20 years of edtech company evolution through $16b of investment around the world. No endorsements; no sponsored content; no apologies for my eclectic tastes. government.

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Hack Education

AUGUST 24, 2018

” Via The Chronicle of Higher Education : “ Student-Loan Borrowers , by Age Group, Amount Owed, and Repayment Status, 2017.” despite having Arizona ’s third-highest dropout rate.” Writing assessment company Writable has raised $3.2 The “New” For-Profit Higher Ed. .”

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Education MOOC Kaplan Robotics 46

Hack Education

DECEMBER 12, 2017

” Just as we’ve seen in recent years, there was some faculty pushback to online education in 2017 at various institutions , notably at George Washington University, which was sued last year by a handful graduates who claimed that their online education was inferior to what was offered on campus. ECOT refuses to pay.

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Hack Education

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

Testing, Testing… Via Inside Higher Ed : “Large-Scale Assessment Without Standardized Tests.” Meanwhile on Campus… Via ProPublica : “‘Alternative’ Education: Using Charter Schools to Hide Dropouts and Game the System.” ” “Have We Lost Sight of the Promise of Public Schools ?

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Education Khan Academy Robotics MOOC 47

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 3, 2023

Deishangelxa started kindergarten at Ana Hernandez Usera elementary school in 2017, the year Hurricane Maria struck the island. Since 2017, natural disasters have pounded the island — decimating homes, crippling the power grid and gutting infrastructure. 2017 and 2022 children are not the same.

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Elementary Report Dropout System 118

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 31, 2019

Many, like Luís, came without their parents; Suffolk County received more than 1,000 unaccompanied minors in the 2017 fiscal year , according to the Office of Refugee Resettlement. Patchogue-Medford’s four-year graduation rate for Hispanic students was 74 percent in 2017 , compared to 93 percent for white students.

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