The Hechinger Report

MAY 15, 2023

The confusion stems from the study design. Dropout rates were the same for students in both the remedial and the “corequisite” courses, as the college plus extra help version is often called. “We Going straight to college courses helped more students earn college credits in English but that didn’t help them get through college.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 11, 2018

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. Elementary schools like P.S. 124 are the “new frontier, because upper elementary is a great time to introduce kids to theater.”

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 19, 2023

After a few hours, the elementary school called: Come pick up your son, they told her. Related: When the punishment is the same as the crime: Suspended for missing class To many observers, Tameka’s troubles stem from Atlanta’s rapid gentrification. She had yet to register the youngest girl, who was entering kindergarten.

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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. They knew not all their children were especially brilliant — they just wanted to get into the best elementary school in the city. BUFFALO, N.Y. —

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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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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 20, 2019

High school dropouts are much more likely to be unemployed and earn thousands of dollars less per year than people with higher levels of education. But before that he was a student at Cottonport Elementary, which is majority black, almost entirely low-income and has struggled for years to improve its academic performance.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 20, 2022

In her program, educators learn how traumatic experiences affect kids’ brain development and how to identify the behaviors that stem from such trauma. Studies show not only is it ineffective at improving students’ future behavior, it can also do the opposite.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 27, 2018

At the time, a third of Louisiana’s adults were high school dropouts. Officials also believe the scholarship has helped stem a brain drain from the state. Black students make up 44 percent of the state’s elementary, middle and high school classes, but only 17 percent of the students who won the scholarship last year were black.

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Dropout Policies STEM Outcomes 79

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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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. Kids were falling behind in math before the pandemic.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 22, 2018

The success of home visits has been well documented for infants and has been studied at the elementary and middle school level , but it’s an open question whether these visits make a difference for older students, according to some experts. Related: This program is proven to help moms and babies — so why aren’t we investing in it more ?

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 15, 2017

Jeb Bush’s lieutenant governor, as assistant secretary of elementary and secondary education, the top post at the Education Department overseeing K–12 policy.” ” This stems from a protest at the University of Connecticut. “ Big data could solve the college-dropout problem ,” says The Washington Post.

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Kaplan Education Robotics E-rate 50

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. Photo: Cheryl Gerber for The Hechinger Report.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

It is difficult for the 1,200-student district to offer STEM, foreign language or Advanced Placement courses year-round. Piedmont City School District is a remote, rural part of northeast Alabama. Many students’ families could not afford computers, or even an internet connection.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

Hatharasinghe-Gerschler had been diagnosed with a reading comprehension disability in elementary school. Back in Anchorage in the early 2000s, Michelle McLaughlin started doing research on her own to determine why her son, Michael, was falling further behind in elementary school.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 31, 2019

They added resources in an existing dual-language program at the elementary school level, created a sheltered English learner program for newcomer students in the middle school, and overhauled high school offerings, placing native English speakers and English learners into more of the same classrooms, so they can learn from each other.

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Hack Education

AUGUST 24, 2018

despite having Arizona ’s third-highest dropout rate.” ” Via the Google blog : “ VR Labs open doors of opportunity for STEM students.” – in Edsurge gives me pause: “Elementary School Wellness Program Helps Young Males of Color Cultivate Their Identities.”

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 29, 2017

“ President Trump Earmarks $200 Million in Federal Grants for STEM , Computer Science Programs ,” says Edsurge , later swooning that “ Google , Facebook , Amazon Among Tech Titans Committing $300 Million to K–12 Computer Science.” (National) Education Politics. ” Immigration and Education.

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Hack Education

JUNE 16, 2017

Via The New York Times : “ New York to Shorten Standardized Tests in Elementary and Middle Schools.” .” Ryan Coogler will direct the film, based on the Atlanta School District’s cheating scandal , and Ta-Nehisi Coates will write the screenplay.

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