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DECEMBER 1, 2017

Candace Cortiella, the director of The Advocacy Institute. In practice, this process is more complicated and sometimes relegates capable students into diluted settings, stunting their ability to not only learn in school but also to achieve later in life. Related: How one district solved its special education dropout problem.

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NOVEMBER 27, 2017

Too often, our education system sends the one in five children with learning and attention issues into the world without the skills they need to succeed. Related: How one district solved the special education dropout problem. Students with learning and attention issues are smart and can succeed. So why does this happen?

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 6, 2022

That leaves schools in much of the country, including Arizona, free to punish most students for missing learning time by forcing them to miss even more. Suspensions can also contribute to new problems, such as lower academic performance and higher dropout rates. Related: Students can’t learn if they don’t show up at school.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2023

But one day in February, after refusing to go into her classroom and allegedly cursing at her teachers, the seventh grader was sent home to learn online indefinitely. Sometimes, there is no system in place for tracking how many students are being punished this way or how many days of in-person classroom learning they are forced to miss. “We

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 17, 2022

A report published Thursday by the Student Borrower Protection Center , a nonprofit advocacy group focused on student debt, attempts to quantify the scope of this problem. She struggled with online learning and began to face severe health issues. she said, because her family was having to move from motel to motel.

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edWeb.net

AUGUST 26, 2019

As the importance and benefits of social-emotional learning (SEL) have become more widely recognized, many teachers have struggled to combine this type of learning with their required curriculum. And, the goals for students engaged in this type of learning include self-esteem, empathy, motivation, and commitment.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 4, 2019

Future of Learning. Mississippi Learning. She blamed the high dropout rates on the fact that many students have to juggle school with full- and part-time jobs, leaving little time for academics. Instead of formally withdrawing, Perez just stopped showing up. Sign up for our Higher Education newsletter. Weekly Update.

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JULY 13, 2021

And Shayla Savage, a middle school principal, said that when her students returned to in-person learning this spring, she noticed differences beyond just their math and reading progress compared to previous years. “We Even with the physical aspect of school, the learning loss is real all across the board.”. Read the stories.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 24, 2017

I also definitely want to be heavily involved in advocacy for young black youth, or, for youth in general, and just promoting student leadership. Future of Learning. Mississippi Learning. They don’t just want to learn physics, AP Vocabulary, and whatever else you’re teaching them. But, I still want to be president, too.

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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.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 14, 2020

Hayden, 12, had been having panic attacks about school even before a letter arrived at his home last month, threatening legal action for his alleged absences from distance learning. Still, staying on top of her kids’ learning this year feels like a full-time job in itself, more work than previous stints on the school PTA.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

At Generation Hope, we are building a policy and advocacy agenda driven by student parents all over the country that will prioritize removing financial barriers to college completion for Black parents. That agenda will build on the successes of our own organization in helping to reduce student debt for young parents.

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Marketplace K-12

JUNE 9, 2016

Duncan told Fast Company that he sees Pluralsight, which is reportedly worth more than $1 billion and is funded by Silicon Valley interests , as a way to provide more learning opportunities to a broad group of people, including those who traditionally may not have access to such courses.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 19, 2023

This story also appeared in The Associated Press After more than a year of some form of pandemic online learning, students were all required to come back to school in person. Remote learning didn’t hold their attention. But it was traumatic when, in Fall 2021, they figured out it had happened. Communities such as St.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2022

You don’t have a computer, you don’t have internet, you can’t even access distance learning,” Silver said. Not just so students could keep learning during the shutdown, but so that the whole family had access to information and resources.”. “We We need to change that.”. The homework gap isn’t new. Nothing was coordinated,” Thomas said.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 24, 2020

Hernandez, a 33-year-old mother of four and high school dropout, had already overcome an array of obstacles on her nearly five-year journey. “No Marleny Hernandez with her daughter, Anjerlin, at BMCC’s Early Childhood Center, where two of her children learned and played while she studied for her nursing degree.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

Students with attention deficit hyperactive disorder (ADHD) or specific learning disabilities often have weaknesses with executive function, which makes it harder to organize their time and problem solve. Skills like knowing how to ask for help or organize a study group “are as important as anything else you’re going to learn,” said Tudisco.

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Educator Innovator

JULY 14, 2014

By engaging in the local community through her research, she proposed a local way to address the problem of Latino dropout rates at her school, asking that the school offer translation support for parents to talk with teachers at the beginning of each semester to check in on a student’s progress.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 13, 2017

The professor was teaching basic math skills that the 18-year-old had already learned in high school. Who goes to college to learn what they were doing in high school?” SAN DIEGO – Anthony Rodriguez recalled sitting in a remedial math class at Grossmont College, bored out of his mind. Eventually, he dropped out too.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 15, 2017

Nearly 80 percent of students with learning disabilities had jobs, compared to 45 percent of those with autism and 55 percent of those with an emotional disturbance, the federal report found. Future of Learning. Mississippi Learning. He is saving money to buy his own home. Photo: Jackie Mader/The Hechinger Report. Weekly Update.

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MindShift

JUNE 18, 2020

Wherever classrooms are open, there will likely be some form of social distancing and other hygiene measures in place that challenge traditional teaching and learning. Virtual learning will continue. A national survey by the advocacy group ParentsTogether found big gaps by income in the ability to access emergency learning.

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Educator Innovator

JULY 14, 2014

By engaging in the local community through her research, she proposed a local way to address the problem of Latino dropout rates at her school, asking that the school offer translation support for parents to talk with teachers at the beginning of each semester to check in on a student’s progress.

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Dropout Advocacy Groups Strategy 36

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 16, 2017

(From left to right) Sixth graders Mia DeMore, Maria DeAndrade, and Stephen Boulas make a number line in their math class at Walsh Middle School in Framingham, Massachusetts, one of 132 “Basecamp” schools piloting the Personalized Learning Platform created by the Summit charter school network. Photo: Chris Berdik. FRAMINGHAM, Mass.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 6, 2017

Colleges and universities usually require 120 credits for a bachelor’s degree but students graduate with about 135, on average, according to data compiled by Complete College America, a nonprofit research and advocacy group. At the University of Iowa, all resident freshmen must sign up for one of more than 25 living-learning communities.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 10, 2021

They’re pulling a bait and switch on students,” said Yolanda Watson Spiva, president of the advocacy group Complete College America. They often won’t find out about these long odds from the colleges themselves, and they’d have to dig deep to learn them from the federal agency that regulates higher education.

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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.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Then she was summoned to the financial aid office, where she learned that the university, part of the California State University System, was giving her a grant of up to $1,500 to help her get across the finish line. “I That didn’t make Deas feel any better. She considered quitting, or transferring to a community college. Those spending more?

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 1, 2018

Jennifer Pokempner, director of child welfare policy at Juvenile Law Center, a legal advocacy group in Philadelphia, said the Seita program is “seen as a model.” That’s lower than Western Michigan’s overall graduation rate, 54 percent , but significantly higher than the national figure for foster care youth.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

Fuller launched his chief advocacy arm for school choice, the Institute for the Transformation of Learning, housed at Marquette University, more than two decades ago. It’s a strategy Fuller views as a necessary contradiction, but that others say has undermined his credibility. The trade-off.

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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. Whether the Trump administration will approach the case differently is unclear.

Education 85

Education Assistive Technology Advocacy System 85

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 6, 2022

Families, faced with the prospect of missed learning time and a daytime scramble for childcare, opt for the faster, physical discipline and a return to class. Related: Some kids have returned to in-person learning only to be kicked right back out. Ellen Reddy, CEO of the Nollie Jenkins Family Center in Holmes County, Miss.,

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Elementary Handbook Report Policies 144

Hack Education

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

Via The Chronicle of Higher Education : “Economic Boom Isn’t Helping Some Student-Loan Debtors , Advocacy Group Says.” “Life Is Complicated: Distance Learning Helps,” says The New York Times. How a College Dropout Plans to Replace the SAT and ACT.” ” Social emotional learning !

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Education Company Report IXL Learning 55

Hack Education

JULY 28, 2017

. “Now that MOOCs are mainstream, where does online learning go next?” Via The Daily Times : “Blount County Schools building new options to personalize learning.” ” Boy, it seems as though “personalized learning” is really just code for “virtual charter schools.” ”).

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 6, 2017

He is a member of the Latino education advocacy group Nuestra Voz and a student at Cohen College Prep in New Orleans. 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.

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Advocacy Secondary System Report 61

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 22, 2022

After more than two years of pandemic learning, she wanted to finish her classes and her thesis, graduate and go. Working to deal with the potential outcomes of the court’s expected ruling both nationally and on her campus, she learned “a lot of people were afraid, but they had no idea of what to be afraid of.”.

Accessibility 25

Accessibility Training Policies Report 25

Hack Education

MARCH 10, 2017

Following up on ProPublica reporting , “ Florida to Examine Whether Alternative Charter Schools Underreport Dropouts.” ” Via The Financial Times : “ Coursera chief on the future of online learning and the Trump era.” Google is acquiring machine learning contest site Kaggle.

Education 46

Education Robotics E-rate Social Media 46

The Hechinger Report

JULY 6, 2018

Only about one in five of 2016 graduates got full-time jobs in legal offices, the advocacy organization Law School Transparency reported. Still, a study by the Children’s Advocacy Institute at the University of San Diego School of Law found, they could do much more than they are now. “We That was far below the state average.

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Company Industry Advocacy Report 75