The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Monica Williams remembers the late May day she and first grade teacher Lizette Gutierrez reconnected with the four young siblings from Cable Elementary. No teachers from the San Antonio elementary had heard from the children since schools closed abruptly in March due to the pandemic. Credit: Redland Elementary.

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Elementary Online Learning Report Laptops 145

MIND Research Institute

NOVEMBER 8, 2016

Champion of Education Award: Lisa Gonzales-Solomon, Principal, Madison Elementary. Hyundai Motor America’s partnership with MIND Research Institute and JiJi started in 2011 in Fountain Valley when Hyundai provided funding to two elementary schools to adopt MIND’s ST Math program. Driving Innovation Award: Hyundai Motor America.

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Education Elementary Dropout Company 102

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Meanwhile, interventions aimed at teenagers, such as dropout prevention programs , often disappoint. One such example is a remedial high school program in Israel, now defunct, that gave thousands of disadvantaged and lower achieving 16- and 17-year-olds after-school instruction in small groups, similar to tutoring.

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Dropout Study Groups Report 132

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 18, 2021

We help make learning fun for those who are flailing, using gaming and group activities that the students enjoy. One group of older middle school kids told their personal stories with pictures. We need to invest in after-school programs for middle school students now more than ever, to stave off pandemic learning loss and dropouts.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Suspensions can also contribute to new problems, such as lower academic performance and higher dropout rates. For years, it was a battle getting Guadalupe to his Phoenix elementary school in the Washington Elementary School District. Credit: Isaac Stone Simonelli/AZCIR. Credit: Tara García Mathewson/The Hechinger Report.

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Dropout Analysis Policies Report 111

The Hechinger Report

MAY 27, 2024

Research has also long demonstrated that kids who are suspended have negative outcomes, including lower academic performance, higher dropout rates and increased involvement with the criminal justice system. Because there are such serious consequences, experts say transparency about the discipline process is key.

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Dropout Data Report Guidelines 141

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 12, 2023

Whittenberg Elementary School of Engineering groaned in disappointment when they saw the runny mess. Then, they made way for the next group of students, who were eager to drop their own bag from the staircase in hope of a different result. The third graders at A.J. Justin Middaugh, an engineer from Michelin, watches as students at A.J.

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Industry Elementary Education Robotics 139

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. The initiative is in place at elementary and middle schools in Middletown.

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Blended Learning Elementary Broadband Dropout 140

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 28, 2021

When Marie Lewis applied to the Nashville Teacher Residency (NTR), she was earning $18,000 per year as a paraprofessional, supporting students with special needs, one-on-one or in small groups. To make ends meet, she also worked over the summers and during school breaks at a child care center, earning $10.25

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Dropout Training Academic Standards System 110

eSchool News

AUGUST 3, 2017

Opened in 1995 as a dropout recovery high school and one of the first generation of charters in Texas, the George Gervin Academy is actually six campuses in one—with five campuses in San Antonio and one in Phoenix. If George Gervin Academy cherry-picks students, it is to select the ones who need the most support.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 15, 2023

Researchers then compared what happened to these stats students with a similar group of almost 300 students who were sent to remedial algebra, the traditional first step for students who fail the algebra subtest. By all measures, the students who went straight to college stats did better.

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Study Course Dropout Data 130

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 14, 2020

On a crisp day in early March, two elementary school gifted and talented classes worked on activities in two schools, three miles and a world apart. Black, Latino and Indigenous groups are often left out. There are gifted dropouts. In 2014, a group of Buffalo parents filed a racial discrimination complaint with the U.S.

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Education Elementary Report Data 145

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 12, 2019

We are now working with a group of communities in our By All Means initiative where leaders have committed to piloting Success Plans. Longitudinal data show that students enrolled in City Connects schools performed better academically and had lower grade retention, chronic absenteeism and dropout rates. Outcomes are encouraging.

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Dropout Education System Data 111

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 11, 2018

Asians were also the group least likely to be cast in roles that did not call for a specific race. 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. percent of the U.S.

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Dropout Elementary Report Common Core 85

edWeb.net

APRIL 30, 2021

To recognize and work through this sort of situation, McNulty recommends avoiding the “polarity stereotyping” of traditionalists and progressives, in which each group views the other as representing policies they disfavor while portraying their own views as having no downside. WATCH THE EDWEBINAR RECORDING. LISTEN TO THE PODCAST.

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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. We have to make space for them to access the content.”.

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Learning Dropout Report Elementary 112

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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Blended Learning Elementary Broadband Dropout 120

The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2022

Normally, I would read a self-serving report by a consulting group and file it away. Another transfer school dropout described becoming a manager at a retail store. And even the Eskolta report found that one group of overage students – 16-year-old ninth graders – might not be served well at transfer schools.

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Dropout Report Data Analysis 119

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 10, 2021

Even before the pandemic, American Indian and Alaska Native students had the highest high school dropout rate and lowest college enrollment rate of any U.S. racial group. Credit: Andi Murphy for The Hechinger Report. When the pandemic hit in March 2020, Newcomb staff started calling students to check on their wellbeing. “It

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Dropout Report Groups Laptops 143

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. 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.

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Dropout Policies Data Report 125

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

Third-graders at Alamosa Elementary School in Albuquerque practice reading with first-graders in Carrie Ramirez’s classroom. Burnett spends half her time at Alamosa Elementary School, where about one in four students have missed more than 10 percent of school days so far this school year, according to attendance data Burnett tracks.

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Elementary Learning Report Data 102

edWeb.net

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

She leads the work in the areas of MTSS, dropout prevention, social and emotional learning, homeless and foster student supports, disproportionality, crisis and care team, employee incidents, and supports related to school psychologists, school social workers, and school counselors.

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Dropout Strategy Policies Meeting 98

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. After school, staff and tutors work individually and in small groups of six or seven with teens deemed most at risk for not graduating. What’s his name?”

Learning 102

Learning Report Elementary Dropout 102

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 22, 2020

While individual school districts in Arizona have opted to start the year online, the group is calling for remote learning statewide. Elementary students told Pressley they wanted more opportunities to interact with their classmates; one fourth grader suggested Zoom recess. Credit: Sophia Hammer. “I’m conflicted.

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Survey Policies Groups Report 145

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 2, 2020

And if we lose someone, instead of being a dropout, they’ll have a certificate. But is it better than being a dropout? Related: Where education systems stumble, grassroots groups step in to raise success rates. “That early milestone — the early win — is so motivating,” Gilbert said. Now they understand how education works.

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Industry Dropout Pearson Report 142

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

A Hechinger Report analysis of federal data exposes the stark racial gap between different groups of special education students. How one district solved its special education dropout problem. Related: How one district solved its special education dropout problem. Not all students are as lucky. It’s not an easy thing to do.”.

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Dropout Report System Meeting 102

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. The data provided allows teachers to group students intentionally for maximized learning opportunities.

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Classroom Schoology Khan Academy Blended Learning 73

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 14, 2020

Most states have some sort of truancy laws on the books, but only about half still have policies punishing truancy with potential penal measures, according to the national policy group Education Commission of the States.

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Policies Schoology Elementary Report 144

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 Taveras headed to her desk where five children were waiting to do small group work.

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How To Training Report Dropout 111

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 20, 2020

Along with Rose, I contacted a middle and an elementary school teacher to see how they are faring. In Wood’s suburban Massachusetts district, elementary school educators were so concerned about their students they held a car parade , driving through streets and shouting greetings from a distance. Will we get yearbooks? said Glick. “I

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Broadband Chromebook Laptops Meeting 143

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 11, 2016

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. Related: Presentations and portfolios take the place of tests for some students.

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Dropout Report System Meeting 104

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2022

In May 2021, Think College Now elementary students sit in class after returning to in-person learning. The first thing the group did, Mickens said, was to start tracking the number of public school students in Oakland who already had a device and internet service, and those who didn’t. Credit: Javeria Salman/ The Hechinger Report.

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Digital Divide Broadband Chromebook Survey 126

The Hechinger Report

JULY 13, 2021

Researchers and educators are considering various methods to fill these gaps, including small-group instruction, extended school hours and summer programs. The first group of tutors was placed in Title I middle schools, in which low-income families make up at least 40 percent of enrollment. It’s just gotten worse.”.

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Study Data Report Elementary 141

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 8, 2018

District officials theorized that students’ disillusionment with the curriculum contributed to Vista High’s 10 percent dropout rate. Teachers say they appreciate the chance to work more closely with the students, along with a small group of their colleagues, and believe it’s helped contribute to a drop in disciplinary incidents.

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Personalized Learning Chromebook Learning Groups 94

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 26, 2019

Among the many other problems dragging down Puerto Rico’s stagnant economy, made worse by hurricanes Irma and Maria in 2017, is a huge high school dropout rate and, among those students who do manage to graduate, a comparatively low trajectory to college — especially college on the mainland — and a high dropout rate there, too.

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Dropout Report Accessibility Study 111

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

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Report Elementary Secondary Classroom 109

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 20, 2022

Dallas’ changes are part of a wider movement away from exclusionary discipline due in part to its disproportionate impact on some groups of students, including Native American students and students with disabilities along with Black students.

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Personalized Learning Learning Data Report 141