The Hechinger Report

MARCH 18, 2021

We help students who are interested in college understand which courses they need to complete, and we show them how to apply. For middle schoolers, once they are engaged, we give them high school course material, so they are on track academically and confident in themselves by the time they get to high school.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 15, 2023

She compared remedial math classes to the alternative of letting ill-prepared students proceed straight to a college course accompanied by extra help. In the experiment, CUNY randomly assigned almost 300 students who failed the algebra portion of a math placement test to an introductory statistics course.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MARCH 24, 2016

Significantly higher dropout rates. Retention has found to be a stronger predictor of student dropout than socioeconomic status or parental education. Most parents care very much about their children’s literacy development, of course. The proposed interventions in early grades for struggling readers are desirable and necessary.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 2, 2018

His latest book, “ When ,” draws on research from psychology, biology and economics to explore how timing impacts every aspect of our lives—including of course, how we teach and learn. Again, elementary school students who took the test in the afternoon did worse than those who took the test in the morning. Many schools do.

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Hapara

JANUARY 26, 2023

While the curriculum and learning standards are of course important, you can’t simply put all of your focus on academics. This included “higher student academic engagement, attendance, grades, fewer disruptive behaviors and suspensions, and lower school dropout rates.”

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 4, 2023

And we must differentiate between the direct work of schools — such as fostering strong student-teacher relationships and course offerings — and educational outcomes, such as dropout rates, college-going rates and standardized test scores, that are often reflections of social inequality.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 28, 2021

Yet research tells us that exposure to a Black teacher in elementary school can reduce the high school dropout rate for low-income Black male students by 39 percent. They pay educator preparation programs for course credits earned by their free labor as student teachers. Just seven percent of our country’s teachers are Black.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 2, 2020

The number taking microcredential programs from edX, the online course provider created by MIT and Harvard and the other major provider of this educational model, rose to 65,000 by the end of April, increasing 14-fold since early March alone. And if we lose someone, instead of being a dropout, they’ll have a certificate. No, it’s not.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Meanwhile, interventions aimed at teenagers, such as dropout prevention programs , often disappoint. There is considerable research on the benefits of intervening early when a child is falling behind at school. Intuitively, teachers and parents know that it’s much harder to improve a person’s academic trajectory later in life.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 12, 2019

” Of course, we’d never do this in health care. Longitudinal data show that students enrolled in City Connects schools performed better academically and had lower grade retention, chronic absenteeism and dropout rates. We’ve always done this. It’s more convenient for us. But we do it all the time in schooling.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2022

Even before the pandemic, during the 2018-19 school year, nearly 100,000 New York City high schoolers — almost a third of the city’s 350,000 high school students — had fallen significantly behind in their course credits and were two or more years older than their grade-level peers.

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

. “Most of what our staff does is show up committed and dedicated — they really take care of these kids and make sure that they’re safe, that they’re healthy, that they’re happy, they’re eating, they have clothes,” says Amy Creeden, an elementary school principal. ” Ending Social Promotion. "You’re

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 11, 2018

Each year since, they have won numerous awards, including the trophy for Outstanding Production for the best overall elementary school performance three years in a row, from 2013 to 2015, and again in 2017. Elementary schools like P.S. 124 are the “new frontier, because upper elementary is a great time to introduce kids to theater.”

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 17, 2022

Wilson, 47, started taking courses in 2019, a few months before the pandemic hit and just before he lost his job as an elementary school music teacher. Such a program benefits colleges as well, by helping them boost enrollment and, ultimately, bring in more money from the former dropouts. “It

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 11, 2021

At Benedict, we’ve taken a crash course in how to recreate that on-campus support in a virtual environment, and the lessons extend beyond our institution. Before the pandemic, many students had never taken a course online. We also understand that the digital divide isn’t just about access, but also know-how.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

Third-graders at Alamosa Elementary School in Albuquerque practice reading with first-graders in Carrie Ramirez’s classroom. Her job is to identify the underlying reasons and help families change course. Her job is to identify the underlying reasons and help families change course. ALBUQUERQUE, N.M.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 19, 2018

Eighty-five percent of students in the Alum Rock Union Elementary School District receive free or reduced-price lunch. Despite these efforts, high school dropout rates remain high. In elementary school, when I brought home reading material and worksheets, she’d sit with me at great length to make sure I understood the lessons.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

The idea behind the Muñiz Academy, named for the longtime principal of Boston’s first dual-language elementary school (the Rafael Hernandez K-8 school), was that many Hispanic students would do better in schools that support their cultural background and, with it, the Spanish language. percent, compared with a district average of 10 percent.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

How one district solved its special education dropout problem. While Burns struggled at a Durham, North Carolina, elementary school, she says she began to catch up academically after she transferred to a middle school in nearby Raleigh. That year, the school didn’t ask her to take any end-of-course exams.

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techlearning

MARCH 5, 2018

Our elementary and middle schools utilize i-Ready diagnostics to form enrichment and intervention groups,” says Dr. Julia Lamons, assessment supervisor at Greene County Schools. This technology solved another of the district’s biggest struggles—implementing an effective common assessment among 12 elementary and middle schools.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 12, 2018

Similar to Lang’s approach, the Ariel Foundation offered support, mentoring, and paying the cost of postsecondary education for a cohort of sixth-graders at a Chicago elementary school. Then, as CEO of the Chicago Public Schools, Duncan decided to close three low-performing elementary schools.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

DECEMBER 23, 2023

Elementary Mathematics in Advanced Math Classes : In advanced math classes, students’ understanding of elementary concepts like multiplication tables and basic algebra is crucial for grasping higher-level concepts like calculus or trigonometry.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 8, 2018

Connelly, who is pioneering a new course in social and emotional wellness, added: “I don’t know who thought white desks and rolling chairs were good ideas for high school students.”. District officials theorized that students’ disillusionment with the curriculum contributed to Vista High’s 10 percent dropout rate.

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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.” All through elementary school, she’d excelled in the classroom, though she spent a lot of time in the principal’s office. But most don’t take the test immediately after dropping out.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Rubio, a junior at the University of Rhode Island who attended elementary school in Central Falls, had already intervened once this quarter. Related: Communities hit hardest by the pandemic, already struggling, could face a dropout cliff. Her math teacher had just informed her that she would have to wait and take it next year.

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Learning Report Elementary Dropout 107

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. But Albert’s struggles with speech lasted all through high school. “I We have synergy.”

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The Hechinger Report

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. “In Yet we routinely only prepare between 60 and 70 percent of kids to be successful readers.”

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techlearning

JULY 2, 2018

.) – for implementing full-time, statewide virtual school opportunities to provide students with rigorous online courses in a learning model that meets their individual needs. For details about this year’s winners, their programs, and how they are using FuelEd solutions, visit [link].

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TeachThought - Learn better.

MARCH 24, 2015

Educators believe that student engagement in the classroom is crucial to learning and that it can increase achievement and enrollment in challenging courses while decreasing dropout rates. COLUMBIA, Mo. Until recently, teachers and administrators lacked tools to measure the engagement levels of their students in the classroom.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 6, 2017

Each year, districts and schools were rated based on whether their elementary school kids performed better than the prior year’s students in math and English. High schools were rated on standardized tests, as well as dropout, attendance and graduation rates. Sanborn Regional High School art teacher Jillian Swist works with students.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 7, 2018

Now, after realizing that academic stragglers who were retained frequently didn’t receive the support they needed, the state is changing course. Teachers told us, ‘Oh, of course, that’s a Katrina effect. Instead, she’s surrounded by friends, including elementary-school classmate Rory Williams, who also will be 20 when he graduates.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

Poor education for special education students typically starts in elementary school, most often with a student not being given the services to which they are entitled or not being properly diagnosed. After getting several Ds in the first few semesters, Brad failed two courses during his second semester of sophomore year of high school.

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Education Elementary Meeting Study 102

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

Hatharasinghe-Gerschler had been diagnosed with a reading comprehension disability in elementary school. Instead, her high school placed her in remedial courses for math and English, where she just fell further behind. She said she never got the help she needed or was taught strategies to work on comprehension.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2023

Related: Some kids have returned to in-person learning only to be kicked right back out Rosalind Crawford moved her five young boys, all in elementary and middle school, to Jennings, just north of St. She watched as they fell behind in everything from academic courses to physical education. Louis, in the spring of 2022.

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MindShift

JUNE 18, 2020

In pre-pandemic times, it offered a series of hourlong workshops to family members, mostly in low-income communities, coaching them to set goals and practice specific reading concepts with elementary school-age children. In this time, as in previous educational disruptions, teenagers are most at risk for being knocked off course.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

It is difficult for the 1,200-student district to offer STEM, foreign language or Advanced Placement courses year-round. Students can take courses otherwise unavailable online, at home and even during the summer, earning valuable credits and skills. The courses are free and conducted in Middletown by certified adjunct professors.

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Industry Broadband Course Elementary 40

The Cornerstone for Teachers

APRIL 25, 2021

You’ll hear NYT bestselling author Dan Heath share a short case study from Chicago Public Schools that illustrates how this name-by-name approach worked for reducing dropout rates. Sponsored by Advancement Courses and McGraw-Hill Rise ELA & Math Bundles. And, did they not fail more than one core course?

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