The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 6, 2020

This historical tension of not feeling wanted or valued by the educational system is understandable. Studies show that the effect of having a black male teacher, especially between grades 3 and 5, decreases the dropout rate among black male students by 30 percent and increases the likelihood of black students aspiring to higher education.

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Dropout Advocacy Report Elementary 145

eSchool News

AUGUST 28, 2023

While Robb Elementary School was the target in this particular tragedy, school shootings have proven to have a domino effect that permeates the entire school system. In 2022, Americans witnessed the horror of the s econd deadliest school shooting of all time, which resulted in the deaths of 19 students and two teachers.

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Dropout Report Elementary Study 98

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. Multi-Tiered Systems of Support (MTSS) : Providing support at different levels based on student needs.

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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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The Hechinger Report

JULY 4, 2023

Our current education accountability system purports to measure school quality, yet it fails to reflect many of the characteristics of quality schools that most of us identify. As a result, present accountability systems fail to offer meaningful information about the important work our schools do.

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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

JUNE 12, 2019

The evidence of system failure is overwhelming: nationally, English language learners graduate from high school at a rate nearly 20 percentage points lower than their peers who are native speakers of English. What can we do about these dilemmas posed by a standardized system trying — and failing — to meet the needs of so many children?

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Dropout Education System Data 111

Edsurge

JULY 29, 2020

In elementary school, frequent absences are linked to a higher likelihood of dropout—even if attendance improves over time. Research shows that attendance is key to academic success, so preventing absenteeism is critical. Reading and math skills are hindered for students who are chronically absent as early as kindergarten.

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Strategy Learning Data Dropout 207

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Totals for the full public school population are likely much higher, given that almost 250 school systems failed to produce comprehensive data — or any data at all — under Arizona public records law. Suspensions can also contribute to new problems, such as lower academic performance and higher dropout rates.

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Dropout Analysis Policies Report 104

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

school system is a “mess.” When I was in elementary school and in middle school, I always knew that I wanted to be a composer. That’s the problem with our education system now, that mistakes are the worst things you can make. Do they feel that way? . Magdalena Slapik has been asking them. That’s how it was conceived.

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System Education Report Elementary 75

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. There is also a related but largely unseen crisis: the number of underemployed and underpaid educators who can’t become full-time teachers because of systemic barriers.

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Dropout Training Academic Standards System 104

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 12, 2021

In Texas — where the energy system failed those who depend on it — and elsewhere, our infrastructure is only as good as the technology that supports it. We need to ensure we’re continuing to expose more Americans to the jobs, opportunities and resources that will help modernize our country’s IT systems. Our shared future depends on it.

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Training Dropout STEM Company 123

Hapara

JANUARY 26, 2023

This included “higher student academic engagement, attendance, grades, fewer disruptive behaviors and suspensions, and lower school dropout rates.” When I was a teacher, I used our school message system to send home automated positive feedback. Learners need to believe that educators at their school understand them and care about them.

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Learning Hapara Examples Dropout 182

edWeb.net

APRIL 30, 2021

District leaders will need to have and communicate a clear, powerful vision about where the school system is headed in order to guide the way forward. As the disruptions and changes continue to unfold during 2021, he recommends using an adaptive system design to change the structures and collective mindsets within school districts.

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Strategy Dropout Industry Professional Learning 98

The Hechinger Report

MAY 31, 2018

This spring, eight high school and college students from across New York City are investigating the systems that have divided them by race and class, and are sharing their own stories and hopes for the future of the city’s schools. The post Inside New York City’s segregated high school system appeared first on The Hechinger Report.

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System Elementary Policies Report 54

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 2, 2020

Under the existing system, the Clearinghouse reports, 36 million have dropped out with no degrees or certificates to show for their time in college — but often student loan debt to repay. “If And if we lose someone, instead of being a dropout, they’ll have a certificate. But is it better than being a dropout? No, it’s not.

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Industry Dropout Pearson Report 142

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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Dropout Mobility Elementary Policies 75

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. Researchers projected estimates for the system based on the percentage of students affected in Compton, Lake Tahoe and Peralta Community College Districts.

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Dropout Policies Data Report 119

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 11, 2016

It’s a decision, studies show , that carries long-term negative consequences, such as a high likelihood of involvement in the criminal justice system and a lifetime of lower earnings. He realized that some students don’t succeed on the conventional academic path, and ran a school for dropouts on Arena Boulevard.

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Dropout Report System Meeting 109

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

Not only are nonwhite students more likely to be assigned to lower-resourced schools that struggle to provide them with the services that they are entitled to, navigating the special education system often presents unique challenges for parents of color, experts say. How one district solved its special education dropout problem.

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Dropout Report System Meeting 98

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. There are gifted dropouts. White and middle-class students attracted to the magnets stayed in the school system, and mixed with Black and low-income students in the same schools.

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Education Elementary Report Data 145

The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2023

In other words, the decline in prospective Black teachers far exceeded the Black college dropout rate.) But this Michigan report points to systemic problems that hinder the development of future Black teachers. But students were abandoning teacher preparation in higher rates than they were leaving school. (In classrooms.

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Dropout Course Analysis Training 132

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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Dropout Study Elementary Report 92

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 Everyone is talking about declining enrollment, but no one is talking about who’s leaving the system and why.”

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Data Analysis Online Learning Laptops 115

The Hechinger Report

MAY 15, 2023

When Alexandra Logue served as the chief academic officer of the City University of New York (CUNY) from 2008 to 2014, she discovered that her 25-college system was spending over $20 million a year on remedial classes. As those students enter the workforce and gain experience, it’s quite possible that their wages will catch up too.

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Study Course Dropout Data 122

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.

Learning 112

Learning Dropout Report Elementary 112

techlearning

MARCH 5, 2018

Diagnostic products and software systems that target specific areas of learning for improvement can help students find success, freeing educators to help every learner reach their personal best within one classroom. The i-Ready Standards Mastery system allows apples-to-apples assessment for grades 2–8 in ELA and math.

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Classroom Schoology Khan Academy Blended Learning 73

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 11, 2021

Students who have been underserved by a deeply inequitable education system often undergo a remarkable transformation at an HBCU. They typically come from K-12 school systems that lack resources like state-of-the-art learning technology, curriculum and student supports. Across the U.S., for example, some 1.

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Digital Divide Course Accessibility System 145

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.

Dropout 111

Dropout Report Accessibility Study 111

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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Dropout Policies Elementary Data 77

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 29, 2022

And while peer support systems aren’t meant to replace trained adults equipped to handle severe issues, they can be a first line of early intervention and empowerment — though experts point out research on their effectiveness remains limited.

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Accessibility Training Dropout Survey 115

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. Dr. Erin M.

Dropout 88

Dropout Strategy Policies Meeting 88

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

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.” YEP got its start in 2004 as a re-entry program for teens involved in the juvenile-court system. But most don’t take the test immediately after dropping out. My grades were perfect.

Dropout 69

Dropout Policies Report System 69

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 6, 2017

New Hampshire, Oregon and Vermont are among the few states that have been building personalized learning systems for years. Their ESSA plans detail systemic transformations of assessment methods and other practices, according to Lillian Pace, the senior director of national policy at KnowledgeWorks.

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Personalized Learning Policies Advocacy Assessment 82

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. People talk all the time about not going back to the system that didn’t work for all kids. Related: Communities hit hardest by the pandemic, already struggling, could face a dropout cliff.

Learning 101

Learning Report Elementary Dropout 101

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 2, 2016

Starkville, in contrast, was regarded as a successful school system, offering opportunities such as Advanced Placement classes and robotics competitions through a career and technology center. This economic divide was mirrored in the school system. The school district had a 27 percent dropout rate in 2014.

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Report Dropout System Elementary 111