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: Bonnie Arbittier, San Antonio Report.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 27, 2024

Despite those choices, 88 percent of suspensions in Texas last year were marked in state reports as a “violation of student code of conduct” with no additional detail. Subscribe to our free weekly newsletter to receive our comprehensive reporting directly in your inbox. Tara García Mathewson contributed reporting.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 28, 2023

Key points: Students and educators report feeling increasingly unsafe in their schools A school safety plan should include both reactive and proactive measures See related article: 4 considerations for school safety solutions The U.S. continues to grapple with its gun-related violence problem as new shootings make headlines every day.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

High school seniors were targeted, as were college dropouts who wanted to resume their studies. When schools in Botswana closed for the coronavirus pandemic in March 2020, one non-governmental organization texted math problems to parents of elementary school children, along with making weekly telephone calls. 1/2) Hi [first_name].

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 12, 2023

Whittenberg Elementary School of Engineering groaned in disappointment when they saw the runny mess. Whittenberg Elementary School of Engineering prepare to drop a paper bag with an egg inside off a railing at the school during engineering week. Credit: Ariel Gilreath/The Hechinger Report. The third graders at A.J.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 6, 2022

This story also appeared in Arizona Center for Investigative Reporting. But a first-of-its-kind analysis by The Hechinger Report and the Arizona Center for Investigative Reporting has found that attendance-related suspensions are pervasive, in some districts accounting for more than half of all in-school suspensions.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Most other public closures were small ones, such as the closure of a teacher training site at a local elementary school. Fewer than half of them ever re-enrolled in college, according to a November 2022 report by SHEEO and the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center. adults who have student loans and no degree.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 18, 2021

Here’s a hard lesson I’ve learned working in the after-school field for nearly three decades: Often, it’s not until report cards come that parents discover there’s a problem. 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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Edsurge

JULY 29, 2020

By comparison, the state of California reported a 12 percent chronic absenteeism rate among students in 2018-2019, representing 676,000 students. Department of Education reported that for the 2015-2016 school year, more than 7 million students —or 16 percent of all students—and 20 percent of high school students are chronically absent.

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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. If you want to ensure that students don’t leave elementary school illiterate, hire a personal tutor for academically-struggling 4th graders. Retention is not a policy unknown.

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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. 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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Minga

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

TLDR PBIS in high schools builds on the same multi-tiered framework used in elementary and middle schools, but its designed to meet the unique challenges of older students and the complexity of high school life. Reduced Dropout Rates: Supports at-risk students with targeted interventions , fostering engagement, relationships, and persistence.

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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. Sign up for Hechinger’s newsletter.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Credit: Danielle Dreilinger for The Hechinger Report. 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. In this series, The Hechinger Report examines racial inequity in gifted classes and what schools are doing to fix it.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 12, 2019

Longitudinal data show that students enrolled in City Connects schools performed better academically and had lower grade retention, chronic absenteeism and dropout rates. This story about student success plans was produced by The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2023

At the start of college, Michigan’s Black students are almost as interested in teaching as white students, the report found. The June 2023 research report, “ Tracking Progress Through Michigan’s Teacher Pipeline ,” analyzed prospective teachers of all races, and found that enrollment in education courses has been declining since 2010.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 12, 2021

The job market analytics company Burning Glass reports that nine out of ten tech jobs sit outside the technology sector and that, in the utility sector alone, 35 percent of job openings in 2019 were in IT. The post OPINION: Why we must invest in new, innovative workforce training to fill a skills gap appeared first on The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 2, 2020

Credit: Photo: Ronda Churchill for The Hechinger Report. Among lower-income adults, who have already been disproportionately affected, one in four say they have only enough savings to cover their expenses for three months if they’re laid off or get sick, the Pew Research Center reports. But is it better than being a dropout?

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Credit: Meredith Kolodner/The Hechinger Report. Meanwhile, interventions aimed at teenagers, such as dropout prevention programs , often disappoint. The post PROOF POINTS: Even older teens benefit from catch-up classes appeared first on The Hechinger Report. Sign up for the Hechinger newsletter.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 10, 2021

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2022

But an April 2022 report by Eskolta School Research and Design, a nonprofit consultancy that provides training and services to alternative schools in New York, Boston and Washington, D.C., The report, How They Thrive: Lessons from New York City Alternative School Alumni , was also written by Anelfi Maria and Alicia Wolcott.

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

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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. This story about teacher residency was produced by The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 26, 2019

Rivera Pichardo for The Hechinger Report. Rivera Pichardo for The Hechinger Report. Of those who do enroll at universities on the island, fewer than half earn degrees, even after six years , the advocacy group Excelencia in Education reports, compared to more than 58 percent of college students nationwide.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 11, 2018

Photo: Eveline Chao for The Hechinger Report. Photo: Eveline Chao for The Hechinger Report. 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. NEW YORK — It’s 3 p.m.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

Photo: Tara García Mathewson/The Hechinger Report. 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.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 1, 2018

Rogers Elementary fourth-grade teacher Sudhir Vasal created math lesson pathways so each child can progress at their own pace. Photo: Laura Pappano for The Hechinger Report. Rogers Elementary School here set a three-alarm fire in the library. Rogers Elementary Principal Lisa Lovato. What can that look like? When Dan D.

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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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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2022

Credit: Javeria Salman/ The Hechinger Report. “We Credit: Javeria Salman/ The Hechinger Report Boxes of #OaklandUndivided devices wait for student pickup at Castlemont High School in May 2021. Credit: Javeria Salman/ The Hechinger Report. Credit: Javeria Salman/ The Hechinger Report. The homework gap isn’t new.

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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. Credit: Andi Murphy for The Hechinger Report. Monica Braine, who is Assiniboine and Hunkpapa Lakota, contributed reporting. racial group.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 11, 2016

This story is part of a Hechinger reporting series about how “last chance” high schools are pioneering some of the latest trends in high school reform. He realized that some students don’t succeed on the conventional academic path, and ran a school for dropouts on Arena Boulevard. Photo: Luba Ostashevsky. I gravitated toward them.”

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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. Photo: Tara García Mathewson/The Hechinger Report. This is only the second year Alamosa Elementary has been tracking attendance student by student. Photo: Tara García Mathewson/The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 20, 2021

That same day, six other students across the district were written up for not wearing their masks correctly (including one who also faked using hand sanitizer), while an elementary school student was assigned three days of “private dining” for sharing food in violation of safety guidelines. Rebecca Klein contributed reporting.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 20, 2022

Although national data on discipline for the current school year isn’t expected to be public for several years, The Hechinger Report requested data from a dozen medium and large school districts around the country and found that in some of them, exclusionary discipline is down, even way down. Credit: Kelly Field for The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

This story was produced by The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education, in partnership with the Huffington Post. A Hechinger Report analysis of federal data exposes the stark racial gap between different groups of special education students.

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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. Credit: Nancy Walser for The Hechinger Report. Credit: Nancy Walser for The Hechinger Report. Credit: Nancy Walser for The Hechinger Report. What’s his name?”

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 15, 2023

More than two-thirds of all community college students and 40 percent of undergraduates in four-year colleges had to start with at least one remedial class, according to a statistical report from the U.S. Department of Education. The majority of these students dropped out without degrees.

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