Edsurge

DECEMBER 21, 2018

Then my friend, Barack Obama, became President of the United States and he asked me to develop an education strategy for the country. In other words, for every dollar we invest in high-quality pre-K, dropout rates decline. I’ve been in education my whole life: My mother set up a tutoring program for kids in our Chicago neighborhood.

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Education Learning Dropout Blended Learning 168

Minga

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

PBIS offers a proven framework to transform school climate by setting clear expectations, recognizing positive behaviors, and using data-driven strategies. While traditionally more common in elementary and middle schools, PBIS has proven to be highly effective in addressing the unique challenges faced by high schools.

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Secondary Data Elementary System 52

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 144

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. Strategies for combating absenteeism can vary within a single school system.

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Dropout Analysis Policies Report 104

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. The diversity of students in this country is increasing, but the diversity of our teaching force is not. Just seven percent of our country’s teachers are Black.

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Dropout Training Academic Standards System 104

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

DECEMBER 23, 2023

Understanding and effectively leveraging this aspect of cognition is vital for educators in creating effective, responsive, and inclusive teaching strategies that build upon what learners already know and guide them towards deeper understanding and higher levels of academic achievement.

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Knowledge Base Study Assessment Dropout 112

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 98

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 11, 2016

While other schools adopt different strategies to keep students in class, Bronx Arena, in the Bronx borough of New York City, is betting on close relationships and a personalized academic program to get the job done. Related: Presentations and portfolios take the place of tests for some students. I gravitated toward them.” I’m an adult.”.

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edWeb.net

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Have tiered strategies for absenteeism. Have strategies for every level and the resources available to implement them. Pappas is a nationally recognized executive leader known for implementing cohesive and high-performing strategies for large-scale, complex organizations. Be restorative, not punitive. About the Moderator.

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Dropout Strategy Policies Meeting 88

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

While district spokesperson Kristina Saccone declined to address the specifics of Colson’s case, citing federal student privacy laws, she said that the district is aware of these achievement gaps and is committed in its new strategy plan to addressing them. How one district solved its special education dropout problem.

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Dropout Report System Meeting 98

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. Rogers Elementary School here set a three-alarm fire in the library. Related: Choosing personalized learning as a strategy for educational equity. Rogers Elementary Principal Lisa Lovato.

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Personalized Learning Education Khan Academy Elementary 103

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

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

When James Smith became principal at Snowy Peaks three years ago, the school was a dropout prevention program on turnaround status. Roots Elementary School in Denver, Colo. Students at Roots Elementary are not constrained by grade levels and instead learn in an open area called “ the Grove ” (pictured below).

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Personalized Learning iLearn Learning Dropout 60

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 29, 2022

The pilot program trains 11th and 12th grade students to do basic interventions — helping with schoolwork planning and navigating new social dynamics — to reduce the risk of dropouts. Educators and others are experimenting with new ways to address students’ mental health needs — or reinvent old strategies. Read the series.

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Accessibility Training Dropout Survey 115

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

Her disability doesn’t mean she can’t analyze and discuss a text; she can be taught strategies to help her decode words more easily. Hatharasinghe-Gerschler had been diagnosed with a reading comprehension disability in elementary school. She said she never got the help she needed or was taught strategies to work on comprehension.

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Education Strategy Report Training 111

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 24, 2019

Meghan Groves, a teacher at Washington-Lee Elementary School, in Bristol, Virginia, leads her first graders in “closing circle,” where they talk about how their day went. Then the newly hired principal, Faith Mabe, heard about a new strategy for helping students. Caroline Preston/The Hechinger Report. BRISTOL, Va. —

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Strategy Training Report Company 80

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.

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Guidelines Report Elementary Online Learning 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

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How To Training Report Dropout 110

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. Follow-up research by the same group showed more mixed results.

Personalized Learning 82

Personalized Learning Policies Advocacy Assessment 82

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 11, 2020

In the most recent, pre-pandemic school data available, only 31 percent of elementary school students within the Promise Neighborhood zone were scoring at proficiency in English, and only 16 percent in math. That’s below the figures for the overall city population, though the gap has narrowed slightly each of the last two years.

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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. 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

JUNE 27, 2020

Now, the strategies she had pieced together to survive were being whittled away. Greenville schools have some of the highest school dropout rates in the state, and Johnson also viewed staying at home as necessary to defend her children’s chances of living an easier life. “I

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Broadband Digital Divide Education Accessibility 145

The Hechinger Report

JULY 13, 2021

A 2020 review of nearly 100 tutoring programs found that intensive tutoring was particularly helpful in reading during the early elementary years, and most effective in math for slightly older children. But less frequent tutoring, such as having sessions once a week, was not. So systems are really trying to figure out, ‘How do we do that?’ ”.

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Study Data Report Personalized Learning 140

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 3, 2023

Eleven states and over 20 communities have joined five national organizations — Advance CTE, Education Strategy Group, ExcelinEd, Jobs for the Future, and New America — and six foundations to help scale high-quality pathways and build momentum for this work across the nation.

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Education Training Industry Accessibility 121

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. When Brad was in elementary school, he said he wanted to go to MIT and become an engineer. He was missing a foundational reading skill.

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Education Elementary Meeting Study 98

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Weise, author of the new Lifelong Learning: Preparing for Jobs That Don’t Even Exist Yet, and a senior vice president for workforce strategies at Strada Education Network. Weise, vice president for workforce strategies, Strada Education Network.

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Study Guidelines Strategy Report 106

edWeb.net

AUGUST 26, 2019

SEL also decreases behavioral issues, dropout rates, drug use, and teen pregnancy, so the advantages of including it in elementary and secondary classes are clear. Recent research has shown that SEL increases high school graduation rates, and post-secondary enrollment and graduation rates, as well as employment rates and wages.

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Differentiated Instruction Secondary Advocacy Dropout 46

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 8, 2017

Rachel’s elementary school was part of Shelby County Schools. Accommodations : Accommodations include strategies like allowing a student to take extra time on a test, type an assignment instead of hand writing it, or sit in an area that helps a student focus. For Mast’s daughter, those two factors were important.

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Education Assessment Report Resources 87

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

Yet families of children with disabilities and the students themselves say that schools are failing to provide direct instruction in communication and organizing strategies or, if they do teach them, failing to give students adequate practice. Related: Special education too often leads to jail for thousands of American children.

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Study Advocacy Report Groups 92

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 just five weeks, on average, 3 out of 4 of their participants get to the next reading level or even further.

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Khan Academy Survey Dropout Meeting 57

eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

South Fayette Township School District , a district just outside of downtown Pittsburgh, is creating opportunities for new skills by engaging students in practical coding and making experiences as early as elementary school. Browse more stories practices and strategies of League of Innovative Schools members.

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Industry Broadband Course Elementary 40

MindShift

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. Kindergarten teacher Rosy Taveras, pictured left, receives feedback from reading coach, Xiania Foster.

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How To Training Report Dropout 43

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 16, 2017

So it was with parents at one of the first Basecamp schools, Marshall Pomeroy Elementary in Milpitas, a small city off the southern tip of San Francisco Bay. Pleasant View Elementary in Providence, Rhode Island, for instance, started Summit with fifth-graders in 2015, and this year introduced a few aspects of the approach to fourth-graders.

Personalized Learning 40

Personalized Learning Learning Elementary Common Core 40

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Maranda Seawood, student support specialist at Washington Elementary School. We’re still using some of those mitigation strategies. Valente’ Gibson , fifth grade teacher at Jackson Creek Elementary School. When the pandemic happened, there was a lot of sadness, and scariness. We learned what worked and what didn’t.

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Elementary Broadband Dropout Assessment 144

The Hechinger Report

MAY 26, 2020

In a 2017 study published by the Institute of Labor Economics, researchers found that low- income black male elementary school students who were paired with a black teacher in the third, fourth, or fifth grades were 39 percent less likely to drop out of high school.

Education 145

Education Outcomes Study Assessment 145

edWeb.net

MARCH 16, 2020

Addressing this high level of absenteeism is possible using research-centered strategies, advised a panel of research, attendance, and behavioral science specialists in the recent edLeader Panel, “ Taking an Evidence-Based Approach to Reducing Absenteeism ,” sponsored by EveryDay Labs. Implementation Strategies.

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Policies Dropout Outcomes Comparison 52

The Hechinger Report

JULY 28, 2021

School should not be considered impossible for young women with children to manage, said Alma Cardenas-Rubio, the district’s assistant superintendent for innovation, strategy, and educational technology. (It does not.).

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Kaplan Report Policies Tablets 117