eSchool News

JUNE 5, 2024

Research tells us having a person of color teach them has a positive impact on students of all backgrounds, but particularly on the dropout rates of black students. No single software solution or hiring team can remove these systemic biases. We also know that attracting and retaining teachers of color presents unique challenges.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 22, 2020

Despite mounting evidence that schools are not turning out to be major incubators or vectors of Covid-19 transmission, New York City shut down its public school system in November. Many other major school systems remain closed as well. Unsurprisingly, such foundational STEM disparities extend far beyond secondary school education.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 27, 2018

We have backed companies focused on budgeting, scheduling, procurement, dropout prevention, and professional development for the teachers of special education students and English language learners. urgently need to find new tools and programs for the cultivation of empathy, at every level of the educational system.

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EdNews Daily

AUGUST 29, 2016

As a leader in educational media for children and students and a key partner with parents and educators across America, PBS today announced SPOTLIGHT EDUCATION, a special week of primetime programming examining the challenges facing today’s students and America’s education system. ET – TED TALKS “Education Revolution”.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 13, 2017

At a time when little to no work exists for a high school dropout to support a family, the community, as a result, falls deeper into despair. At a time when little to no work exists for a high school dropout to support a family, the community, as a result, falls deeper into despair. Take Noe Castro’s story. So where do we go from here?

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 9, 2017

By 2025, more than 60 percent of Georgia jobs will require some kind of post-secondary education, and now only 45 percent of the state’s young adults meet that criterion. Students who withdraw are also much more likely to default on their loans; dropouts make up two-thirds of defaults nationwide. In 2016 it was 79 percent.

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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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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 14, 2019

With people of color expected to make up a quarter of the state’s population by 2035, these gaps represent an economic threat to Minnesota; unless more residents get to and through college, there won’t be enough qualified workers to fill the jobs that require a post-secondary degree or certificate. “[O]ur That is not who we serve today.”.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

Educators who remain firm, consistent and empathetic, including and especially when students make mistakes and even challenge teachers, are far more likely to de-escalate conflict and prevent secondary incidents. All kids — but especially those who have experienced trauma — shift into fight-or-flight mode when confronted with conflict.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 17, 2017

I would have been a dropout.”. Stubbe has a counterpart in every public school in the city, yet neither she nor her colleagues are employees of the Buffalo Public School system. We’re finally dealing with the systemic challenges to success … instead of just the symptoms.”. And I do that with [Stubbe].

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 22, 2019

A big part of this shift was to change the grading system. Juab has sidestepped much of the controversy in Maine (and other places trying this) by developing a “competency-referenced” rather than “competency-based” system. Teachers now assess students’ proficiency across four categories: basic, approaching, proficient and advanced.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Acceleration Academies provides the necessary supports to help remove obstacles so that students can not only graduate from high school but be prepared for post-secondary and job success. Students receive a dedicated social and emotional support system to remove impediments that have caused them to struggle in a traditional setting.

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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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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.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 11, 2011

The scientific management system we use in educational leadership today tends to bring us consistently to the four failures of information learning and applied action identified by the 9/11 Commission Report: failures of management, imagination, policy, and capacity. psid=2011-04-27.1619.M.9E9FE58134BE68C3B413F24B3586CF.vcr&sid=2008350

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

Leave this field empty if you're human: In interviews with 45 parents and students and more than 50 other experts, advocates and lawyers across 34 states and the District of Columbia, families and advocates described systemic problems with special education in high school. The system, she said, “failed me.”.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 30, 2020

The public school system isn’t geared to attracting counselors who have that kind of detailed experience with colleges and college admissions. Paradoxically, her job is a classified position that doesn’t require a post-secondary credential, not even a bachelor’s degree, though this varies by school and district.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2022

The district handed out its existing stockpile of loaner devices and hot spots to as many students as possible, said Preston Thomas, OUSD’s chief systems and services officer. The district lacked a system for tracking how many students weren’t logging on to classes for lack of a working computer, tablet or internet connection at home.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 18, 2023

The same is true for the University of California system, the University of Arizona and other institutions across the country. Limiting which Native students get financial assistance is especially significant, given the rising cost of post-secondary degrees. regardless of what state they live in.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 7, 2018

Early this past December, the state released guidance to explain how to institute alternatives to retention in fourth grade, to comply with a resolution passed by the Board of Elementary and Secondary Education in October. Students who failed LEAP suddenly have more options than pass or fail.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

When he got to Purdue University in 2014, he didn’t have a system for organizing his deadlines. It would be too easy to forget to write something down in the first place, or he might forget to check his planner, making the whole effort pointless. There would be times that I would forget I even had an assignment,” he said.

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EdNews Daily

MARCH 6, 2020

I had graduated from college and was convinced that my university professors had trained me with the skills I needed to thrive in the educational system. UNESCO reports that the market for pre-primary, primary and secondary education worldwide expanded by more than 142 million students between 1999 and 2006. million trained teachers.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 30, 2018

Aimed at curbing dropouts, improving graduation rates and sending more kids to college and other postsecondary programs, the corps is designed to offset a growing achievement gap in this relatively affluent but increasingly diverse state. “When there’s a budget cut, counselors are the first to go.”.

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EdNews Daily

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

In addition to educational disruption, what are the costs to school systems? A report by Richard Ingersoll has observed that new teachers are particularly vulnerable because they are more likely than more experienced teachers to be assigned to low-performing schools in urban areas, where the dropout rates reach or exceed 50 percent.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 30, 2018

About one-third of all black collegians earn degrees in either a STEM-related (science, technology, engineering and math) field or in business, according to my analysis of integrated post-secondary education data system (IPEDS), the national dataset of college outcomes. See chart below.). Maybe we need to rethink our advice.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

Companies take it on faith that that a college degree is worth the handsome salaries graduates command; in contrast, dropouts suffer with little to show for their aborted time in school. As Harry Anthony Patrinos at the World Bank reports , “Post-secondary education graduates are at the lowest risk of losing to automation.

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Dropout Data Training Secondary 103

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 6, 2017

Doe that public elementary and secondary schools couldn’t consider immigration status when a student seeks to enroll. Schools are the best naturalization system we have. But the real monsters are the pervasive fear of being deported and a broken and backlogged immigration system. The 1982 U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Plyler v.

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Advocacy Secondary System Report 73

Edsurge

MAY 17, 2017

Those who are keeping systems in place are very focused on power,” said Hammer. Greer later added: “We haven’t recognized the secondary trauma that our teachers face” as they work with students raised in challenging environments. Parents don’t just want a “voice,” Hammer said. They want to be co-leaders in their children’s schooling.

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