The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Now they are demanding a greater role in school policy and the decisions that shape their educations. They are also seeking to use this moment to educate teens about elections and voting and turn them into lifelong voters. “The Andrew Brennen, National Geographic education fellow. Credit: Alison Yin for The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 10, 2017

The switch to a proficiency-based education, which focuses on making sure students can demonstrate what they know, has helped students like Elderkin. That’s due to a new teaching approach here called “proficiency-based education,” that was inspired by a 2012 state law. Photo: Gregory Rec/Portland Press Herald.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 15, 2019

As the leaders of organizations that advocate on behalf of the disability and higher-education communities, we are committed to working together to continue the progress made in recent years to welcome and support college students with a wide range of disabilities. Ted Mitchell is president of the American Council on Education.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 4, 2016

He took honors physics in 11th grade and earned a general education diploma, even though his cerebral palsy classified him as a special education student. She had spent 12 years as a senior education advocate at the Disability Law & Advocacy Center of Tennessee, advising other parents on how to get through the system.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 4, 2017

Well, in New Orleans, 30 of 72 public schools (or 41 percent) have just received a “D” or an “F” grade, according to the Louisiana Department of Education. The website The Lens , which covers public education in New Orleans, reported that 65 percent of schools have declined in performance over the last three years. “Our Weekly Update.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 9, 2024

“One out of 10 Black students in the eighth grade math scores were scoring basic or above,” saidKristen Hengtgen, a senior policy analyst at the nonprofit advocacy group EdTrust, referring to last year’s National Assessment of Educational Progress, known as the Nation’s Report Card. Related: Widen your perspective.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2019

The nation’s school districts spend about $46 billion less per year on facility upkeep than is needed to maintain “healthy and safe” learning environments, according to a 2016 report from the 21st Century School Fund, a research and advocacy organization. It sends a message that education isn’t important,” he said. “It million in 2012.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 10, 2021

We know that these obstacles exist, and we haven’t addressed them,” said Wil Del Pilar, vice president for higher education policy, practice and research at the Education Trust, a nonprofit organization that focuses on helping students of color and low-income students. Camilla Forte contributed reporting to this story. The post ??Why

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 20, 2017

The stereotypical library can seem like a vestige, making it an easy target when budgets are tight, according to Mark Ray, Vancouver’s director of innovation and library services, “but we want libraries to be the lynchpin of education transformation.” based education advocacy group. “It Sign up for our newsletter.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 17, 2024

She began her college education in her early 20s, balancing it with raising two sons and working retail jobs. Keischa Taylor, who began her college education in her 20s, balanced it with raising two sons and working retail jobs. You’ve got this. You didn’t come this far to stop. It’s a rare success story. More than a third of the 40.4

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 8, 2016

The same is true of the Muñiz Academy, which opened in 2012 as the city’s first such high school. David Nieto, executive director of the BUENO Center for Multicultural Education at the University of Colorado at Boulder’s School of Education. The rest only speak English or are already bilingual. Photo: Tara García Mathewson. “It

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 5, 2016

As part of his special-education program at the new school, Jacob was still entitled to continue his weekly therapy sessions. Kast says she would love to enroll him at Old Dominion, but the school does not have a special-education program. In addition, the Mississippi Department of Education accredits 68 non-public school programs.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 17, 2017

Kylie finds it a little stranger in chorus and physical education, but there, too, she is held accountable for mastering certain competencies, like singing on pitch, clapping an accurate rhythm and dribbling a basketball. Picard’s older children went through the traditional education system and she can see a difference. “I

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 19, 2019

The only thing most everyone agrees on is this: The roll out of the 2012 law, LD 1422, was a disaster, plagued by insufficient funding and inadequate guidance from the top. While the state’s Department of Education cycled through commissioners (six in six years) superintendents struggled to figure out the law, largely on their own.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 1, 2017

When Mary Fair became a teacher in 2012, her classes often contained a mix of special education students and general education students. Placing children with and without disabilities in the same classroom, instead of segregating them, was a growing national trend, spurred on by lawsuits by special education advocates.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 31, 2019

And classrooms needed more books and educational materials. Smith’s teachers were also sponsored to complete the courses required to earn their Child Development Associate Credential, a badge of expertise for early childhood educators. That plan identified preschool as an important first step to improve K-12 education.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 11, 2023

million additional students became chronically absent, according to the data, which was compiled by Stanford University education professor Thomas Dee in partnership with The Associated Press. Our families aren’t valuing education because it isn’t something that’s ever valued us,” Powell said. All told, an estimated 6.5

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 4, 2019

Sign up for our Higher Education newsletter. Higher Education. Closing this educational divide matters for individual students and for the U.S. The label from the federal Department of Education is meant to recognize colleges with significant Latinx populations. It closed its child care center in 2012, citing low demand.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 16, 2018

Students engage in creative activities on the playground at Pre-K 4 SA North Education Center in San Antonio, Texas. SAN ANTONIO, Texas — By the end of the school year, the playground at Pre-K 4 SA North Education Center looked like a dreamscape of “DIY Outdoor Learning Spaces.” Photo: Bekah McNeel for The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 6, 2022

Johnson is the principal of Mississippi’s Collins Elementary School, where the paddle remains a staple of the educational experience. As of late April, educators pulled out the paddle 20 times on kindergartners, twice on first graders, 31 times on second graders, 16 times on third graders and 10 times on fourth graders.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 4, 2017

It’s unclear to me just if there’s any strategy around that unrestricted reserve,” said Jennifer Lee, a higher education policy analyst at the Georgia Budget and Policy Institute. “In So she made what she believed was a more realistic financial choice — in 2012 she enrolled at Columbus State University. It’s a problem nationwide.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 23, 2019

Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Future of Learning newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every other Wednesday with trends and top stories about education innovation. Higher Education. EducationSuperHighway’s advocacy supported the district’s efforts perfectly. Weekly Update.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 4, 2018

Texas A&M University at Texarkana has one of the lowest retention rates of public higher-education institutions; 55 percent who started in 2012 were gone by 2016. Department of Education data analyzed by The Hechinger Report. The line between Texas and Arkansas in front of the bi-state federal building, which straddles both.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 6, 2017

Understanding that cost is an issue that won’t be solved immediately, we asked educators to identify the other biggest obstacles to a timely graduation. Students who are worried about debt sometimes work more and then reduce their course load,” said Robert Kelchen, a professor of higher education at Seton Hall who studies student debt.

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All Things Pedagogical

JULY 10, 2024

So this takes me to where my activism and advocacy started from and it is Ruskin, yes problematic fav Ruskin. When you look at Ruskin’s scholarship and work it demonstrates a commitment to sharing knowledge to those who would not have access to traditional routes of education. Ruskin at Walkley is still one of my favourite websites.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 21, 2017

But some higher education experts say the proposal misses the point. We can’t leave behind families who need more assistance to close that financial gap,” said Ian Rosenblum, the executive director of Education Trust–New York, a nonprofit education advocacy group that published a report about the Excelsior Scholarship.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 9, 2016

In Mrs. Peterson’s classroom, an educational film about big cats splashes across the projector screen. The cuts endanger the school’s unique mission of equipping its students with the language skills and self-advocacy that enriches their Deaf identity, the school’s administrators and teachers say.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

The controversial financing tool, often referred to as a social impact bond, has allowed this cash-strapped district, one of five in the Salt Lake City area, to provide high-quality early education to thousands of poor 3- and 4-year-olds who might have otherwise stayed home. Public education should not be market-driven.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

According to the state Department of Education, hundreds of thousands of parents like Gobert are thought to be financially at-risk and should warrant help from the Child Care Assistance Program, the only state-administered initiative in Louisiana that assists low-income families to pay for care and education for children under the age of 4.

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Political Science Now

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

In 2021, Dr. Lewis was honored with a Missouri State Resolution “for service in higher education” from the Missouri House of Representatives, Resolution No. In 2011-2012, APSA had an easily accessible online resource listing all the universities that offer doctorate degrees in Political Science and which programs were endorsed by APSA.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 11, 2016

I think this school exemplifies some of the enormous problems that we’re having just in terms of getting enough resources to educate our kids,’’ the future president said, shooting a little basketball in the heavy heat of August in a gym with no air conditioning. Secretary of Education John B. told The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 17, 2018

It’s where districts and schools decide to spend their money,” Worth, a veteran educator who has also taught in Greene County’s traditional public schools, explained. Department of Education. Board of Education decision. Some schools spend their money on overhead. We spend it on students.”.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Khoa Ta, then a sophomore at Owensboro High School from Daviess County in Western Kentucky, was elected as a student board member for the local board of education last May. And how useful is civic education for those who chose to get involved? The victory was bittersweet. But can you really force young and student voters to take part?

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 25, 2021

Her parents wanted to get her a special education designation — and all the supports that came with it. The short answer, according to special education lawyers and advocates across the country, is no. Catherine Pearson, parent of a student in special education. But that doesn’t stop it from happening frequently.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 22, 2020

When he was assistant superintendent of schools in Meriden, Miguel Cardona — the state’s new education commissioner — would take new teachers on a tour of the city’s neighborhoods. Miguel Cardona, whom President-elect Joe Biden has chosen for his education secretary, speaks to educators earlier this year.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 10, 2021

But now, as graduation rates stagnate, the Covid-19 pandemic threatens to make them even worse and the Biden administration proposes spending $62 billion to improve completion at higher education institutions with large proportions of low-income students, it’s attracting unaccustomed scrutiny. After lobbying by universities and colleges, Sen.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 24, 2023

This story also appeared in The Seattle Times For years, she sat through meetings with her son’s special education teachers, struggling to maintain a smile as she understood little of what they said. Mireya Barrera, left, spent years struggling to understand her son Ian’s teachers in special education meetings without a Spanish interpreter.

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