The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 12, 2018

He’s not a politician, he admits, but he has strong opinions about public policy, bolstered mainly by vignettes and anecdotes. A good story goes a long way, and issues often rise or fall on the policy agenda as much on the basis of stories as on hard evidence. It’s a puzzling policy argument. What a brilliant stroke!

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Dropout Policies Elementary Data 77

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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Dropout Secondary Course Report 87

The Hechinger Report

JULY 4, 2017

It is features like these that have helped former high school dropouts like Rocheli Burgos — and other students who have struggled in school — get a second chance at earning a diploma. The school favors conflict mediation over zero-tolerance policies as a way to prepare young people to handle themselves once they head to college and jobs.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 6, 2022

And many educators, both in high school and college, had trouble accurately assessing their students’ progress. Patterson suspects it’s more difficult to assess students’ understanding of the class material with remote tests and quizzes, where students often can consult more resources. Credit: Erika Rich for The Hechinger Report.

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Education Course Report Policies 132

edWeb.net

JULY 23, 2021

He spends much of his time providing leadership and guidance to the National Dropout Prevention Center and the Career and Technical Education Technical Assistance Center, which are part of the Successful Practices Network. He was the first president and co-founder of the New York State Association for Bilingual Education.

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Marketplace K-12

JUNE 30, 2016

I worked for two years as vice president of business development at Harcourt Assessment, but left that job to join Mooresville. Also, I think that we’re going to see–both in federal and state policies–a merging to prepare students for their future, not our past. You’ve worked before in the corporate world.

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Education Company Dropout Policies 75

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 1, 2017

The alternative diploma, attained through the LEAP Alternate Assessment, Level 1 (LAA1) graduation pathway, allows students with severe disabilities to forgo typical academic expectations and requirements, and it doesn’t end with the high school diploma. Related: How one district solved its special education dropout problem.

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Dropout Advocacy Outcomes Report 83

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 25, 2016

The practice of funding public schools and assessing student engagement based on a student’s physical attendance is rooted in this definition and has only reinforced what is an outmoded idea. Online learning offers educators access to a wealth of learning data to guide their teaching and assessment of student performance.

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Dropout Competency Based Learning Differentiated Instruction Online Learning 60

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. Just this week, I saw several petitions like, ‘We have to change the administration’s policies.’ ”. I wanted to focus on prevention.”

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

“Everyone is talking about declining enrollment, but no one is talking about who’s leaving the system and why,” said Tom Sheppard, a New York City parent and representative on the city’s Panel for Educational Policy. “No No one,” he said, “is forthcoming.” The missing kids identified by AP and Stanford represent far more than a number.

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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.” The YEP program makes the incentives more attainable, by incorporating several existing state policies into a brand-new framework. But most don’t take the test immediately after dropping out.

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Dropout Policies Report System 67

Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

“If we can grab them at kindergarten and start to give them the skills that they need in order to be successful students,” says Creeden, “we have the potential to prevent that student from being a high school dropout.”. Some teachers also have students assess their own mastery of skills.). Ending Social Promotion.

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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 We’ll give you math and English credits for writing a business plan; biology credit for studying antibiotics and breeding; and social studies credit for researching how Vermont’s policies affect goat farmers.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 8, 2017

She fought for years and went to court to stop her district from giving her daughter certain assessments. The district needed these assessments in order to push Guldan’s daughter, Rebecca, into a graduation track specifically for students with disabilities. Maryland parent Marjorie Guldan has a 14-year-old daughter with Down syndrome.

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Education Assessment Report Resources 85

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 2, 2016

Hooks said the effects of failed desegregation policy are most evident in the Mississippi Delta, where nearly all white students have left the public school system. Every fall, each student is tested to assess any gaps in skills and knowledge. The school district had a 27 percent dropout rate in 2014.

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ExcelinEd

APRIL 25, 2019

During the hearing I talked about the importance of early literacy, discussed the components of a comprehensive early literacy policy and highlighted success stories in Alabama’s neighboring states. In fact, research shows that nearly 90 percent of high school dropouts were struggling readers in third grade.

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Dropout How To Policies Assessment 28

Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

. “If we can grab them at kindergarten and start to give them the skills that they need in order to be successful students,” says Creeden, “we have the potential to prevent that student from being a high school dropout.” Some teachers also have students assess their own mastery of skills.).

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Blended Learning Elementary Broadband Dropout 120

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 17, 2016

A project last year by NPR’s education team found examples at both ends of the spectrum : innovative programs that were legitimately helping students find hard-fought academic success, as well as examples of questionable policies and practices. Understandably at the front of the first group is U.S. Secretary of Education John B.

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Policies Dropout Report Course 40

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 7, 2018

The state enforced strict policies to retain children who failed high stakes tests, ballooning the ranks of those who were held back. In the mid-2000s, Louisiana implemented high-stakes tests known as Louisiana Educational Assessment Program, or LEAP, which required fourth and eighth graders to show that they were grade-level proficient.

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Analysis Report Data Policies 131

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2022

We [didn’t] want this to be a Band-Aid fix,” said Jordan Mickens, a Leadership for Educational Equity public policy fellow who served as #OaklandUndivided’s project manager until August 2021. Not just so students could keep learning during the shutdown, but so that the whole family had access to information and resources.”. “We

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Digital Divide Broadband Chromebook Survey 115

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 22, 2018

But in this county of fewer than 19,000 residents, just 38 percent of recent high school graduates sought more education, according to the latest available data from the West Virginia Higher Education Policy Commission. That’s well below the statewide rate of 55 percent.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 29, 2022

Pinder-Amaker said that now, a lot of what the program does is help students design an effective leave of absence and understand how to assess when they are ready to go back. McLean, a psychiatric hospital associated with Harvard Medical School, accepts private insurance.

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Course Report Strategy System 104

MindShift

AUGUST 14, 2018

“What’s the dropout rate in some places? ” And according to Jim Shon of the Hawaii Educational Policy Center, civics education needs to extend into college. . “The knee-jerk reaction to teach civics in high school is too little, too late,” he says. Forty percent? Some never get to that high school class.”

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How To Education Social Media Dropout 38

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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Education Strategy Report Training 111

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 3, 2018

Is anyone interested in taking an assessment today?” Lindsay Daugherty, a policy researcher with the nonprofit RAND Corporation, warns that the model could be more difficult for younger students. Dobrin lectures on blood clots and vessels, mapping out diagrams on a whiteboard. Dobrin asks.

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Pearson Personalized Learning Course Report 94

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 25, 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. Second, the methods most commonly used to study the impact of school-based pre-K have crucial flaws.

Education 40

Education Dropout Study Outcomes 40

TeachThought - Learn better.

MAY 4, 2015

But that’s too broad for policy, apparently. The reasons for going to college is a more specific group of words, but also misunderstood (see the college dropout rate, which is somehow attributed to lack of “prep” instead of the high cost or dubious utility of many college classes). You can fail. “Drop out.”

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Dropout Common Core Analysis Data 40

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 16, 2018

Essex Tech’s state-approved admissions policy considers prior academic performance, teacher recommendations and an in-person interview among other factors. 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.

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Study Training Report Industry 85

The Hechinger Report

JULY 27, 2016

The juvenile-detention center does state Department of Education-established assessments that show whether or not a student is on track or behind with Mississippi’s benchmarks, and that determines their coursework for their stay. Related: Dropouts try to find their way back to school.

Education 40

Education Report System Policies 40

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 15, 2014

We believe that the development of everything from policies to facilities to lesson plans should be guided by our compass roses, Critical Attributes of 21st Century Education and the Multiple Literacies for the 21st Century. The NEA shared this article that discusses nation-wide efforts to re-engage high school dropouts.

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BYOD Libraries Conference Learning 46

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.

Personalized Learning 40

Personalized Learning Learning Elementary Common Core 40

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. However, reformers instituted “zero-tolerance” policies that became fashionable at the time, criminalizing mundane school infractions.

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Education Outcomes Study Assessment 145

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. About the Presenters.

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Policies Dropout Outcomes Comparison 52

The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2019

Intermediary funders and education-policy groups that depend on their grant dollars — including iNACOL, Excel in Ed, the Learning Accelerator, Big Picture Learning and Jobs for the Future — have, in turn, made personalized learning a priority. Yet the academic and policy research behind it is thin.

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Personalized Learning Learning Chromebook Elementary 109

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 7, 2016

The Education Commission of the States, a Colorado-based education policy research center, has named Gov. Since 1965, state governors have served as chair of the ECS, which attempts a bipartisan approach to education policy research and consulting. Phil Bryant as chair-elect. Bryant will replace outgoing chairman Gov. 5 Facebook post.

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Dropout Policies Education Facebook 40

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 30, 2024

A strong school leader is a valuable asset, able to mobilize academic achievement, address individual causes for dropouts and champion a positive school climate. From pandemics to natural disasters, school violence, teacher dismissals and about-turns in policy, school leaders navigate choppy waters. Related: Become a lifelong learner.

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Dropout Report Course Data 107

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 11, 2018

During the 1990s, amid rising fears of youth violence, many districts adopted zero tolerance policies mandating suspensions for certain offenses, including relatively minor infractions such as shoving other students or cursing. Highline isn’t the only district facing backlash over new discipline policies.

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Elementary Training Report Guidelines 108