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NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Nurturing bilingual students is the mission of the 400-student public school where Menéndez teaches, Dos Puentes Elementary in Washington Heights, a predominantly Latino neighborhood of New York City. One stretch of “purple time” in Menéndez’s kindergarten classroom is at the end of the day during what the school calls “explorations.”

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 11, 2019

As far back as middle school, she fantasized about leaving the state to attend an elite university. When she got to high school, nobody disabused the ace student of that notion. Red Wing High laid off its full-time college adviser in 2012 amid budget cuts. Steve Friess for The Hechinger Report. RED WING, Minn.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 16, 2019

All students are exposed to music starting in elementary school; by middle school nearly half (44 percent) have picked up an instrument, according to district data. For example, 97 percent of Poe Middle School students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, according to the state, and 58 percent play an instrument.

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MARCH 17, 2021

Over 100,000 high school students were enrolled in 165 competitive, academically selective schools in 30 states, most of which used exam results for admissions, researchers Chester Finn Jr. and Jessica Hockett found in 2012. Related: Is it time to stop segregating kids by ability in middle school math?

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

She dreamed of attending a historically black school out of state, maybe Spelman College or Clark Atlanta University.1 She watched from the backseat in August 2012 as the city gave way to the causeway, miles and miles of concrete bridge she hoped would ferry her to the future she’d been promised. Plus, she had little to lose.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Hedges oversees all things math for the Milwaukee district’s elementary and middle schools. Huinker led a math education revolution in the district when, between 2004 and 2014, almost every teacher in Milwaukee Public Schools received this type of training. New district leaders abruptly ended that work.

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APRIL 25, 2023

She would also lead an upcoming meeting on the school’s finances, including how to spend federal pandemic relief dollars. And she was running for the school’s governing board. The Boston Teachers Union Pilot School, where Snyder has worked since 2012, is a “teacher-powered” school.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 9, 2022

in 2012 to 16.9% CU Boulder reported that its Precollegiate Development Program actively recruited first-generation students from 25 middle schools and 18 high schools. Seventy-two percent, 510, of the middle and high school students enrolled in the program for 2020-21 were Latino.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 12, 2017

Josh Walton, principal, Walton Middle School, in sAlbemarle County, Virginia. Still in its early stages, this ambitious project relies on a little-known public resource — a slice of electromagnetic spectrum the federal government long ago set aside for schools — called the Educational Broadband Service (EBS).

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

BOSTON — When the Boston Public Schools opened the Margarita Muñiz Academy in 2012, it was a first-of-its kind dual-language high school meant to address issues faced by the city’s growing Hispanic population. The Muñiz Academy is an open-enrollment school, so administrators can’t restrict who attends.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2016

In 50 elementary schools, according to officials, these students now take classes in Spanish and English with an ultimate goal of achieving academic proficiency in both languages by middle school. In Boston Public Schools, Superintendent Tommy Chang has placed an emphasis on culturally and linguistically inclusive schools.

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JULY 4, 2016

Careful not to offend the charter school community, which upholds autonomy as sacred, King added, “But I believe the goal for all schools should be to create a school culture that motivates student to want to do the best.”. The racial disparities in school discipline reflect the cultural appetite to punish black children.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 23, 2016

In 2012, Estonia’s 15-year-olds ranked 11 th in math and reading and sixth in science out of the 65 countries that participated in an international test that compares educational systems from around the world, called the Programme for International Student Assessment, or PISA. The divisions for American students also occur within schools.

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It really didn't hit me until probably middle school. But in middle school, it was around 2014, when there were a lot of newcomer students who didn't understand English. In 2011 or 2012, my mom was diagnosed with leukemia. When did you realize that you might want to become a teacher yourself? It was very hard.

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DECEMBER 6, 2016

“This benefits the school system, it benefits the community,” Foose said. “It After attending PUC Schools for middle school and part of high school, he returned to PUC Schools to coach high school soccer. It benefits the students and their families.”. How it works.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2018

Galt is sufficiently suburban to locate its district office in a strip mall next to an AutoZone, but rural enough that a tractor flattens the dirt track at McCaffrey Middle School. While the number of schools using the method isn’t tallied anywhere, the number of tests taken could serve as a loose proxy for interest in it.

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AUGUST 25, 2021

When you’re in a new country, new friends, new culture, new everything — what a hit that takes to your confidence,” said Fabela, who teaches at Fort Worth’s International Newcomer Academy. When you’re in a new country, new friends, new culture, new everything — what a hit that takes to your confidence.”

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AUGUST 22, 2016

And parents say Highland Park’s once-proud school district has collapsed, hastened by four years under state control. In 2012, the district was in “financial freefall,” according to a news release quoting then-state Superintendent Mike Flanagan. Not long after the district consolidation legislation, Drew’s high school was closed. “It

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In 2012, the district was one of 16 U.S. “Our children, because they come from homes of poverty, are cultured into avoiding anything that costs money,” Eastwood says. The initiative is in place at elementary and middle schools in Middletown. The rest of the country is starting to pay attention as well.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2017

Students are referred by residential drug-treatment programs, school districts, or parents desperate for help. Once in, the hope is that a culture of “positive peer pressure” will help teens stay sober. Its doors opened in January, 2012. Going back to their old school could hinder their progress. “My

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DECEMBER 8, 2017

When they returned to New Orleans four years later, Hales enrolled him at KIPP Believe, a middle school that was established the year after the hurricane by a national charter school chain focused on getting black and Latino students to and through college. The school already had basketball, baseball and lacrosse.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2016

In 2012, the district was one of 16 U.S. Our children, because they come from homes of poverty, are cultured into avoiding anything that costs money,” Eastwood says. The initiative is in place at elementary and middle schools in Middletown. The rest of the country is starting to pay attention as well.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Still, the path was winding and not limited to school. When Ta was in middle school — when the country was embroiled in the 2020 presidential election and reeling from COVID-19 — political questions seemed suddenly relevant for them. While Ta is too young to vote in this election, they are highly engaged in politics.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

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OCTOBER 14, 2020

There was a real culture that ‘We hate school and we hate language,’” Burris said. Before Rockville Centre detracked math in the ninth and 10th grades, for example, it added support math classes in middle school so that all students graduated eighth grade having completed algebra. Wells Middle School, D.C.’s

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Doug Worthen, mindfulness director at Middlesex School. At Middlesex, a college-preparatory school that attracts students hailing from across the country, there was a large shift in the school’s culture after introducing mindfulness classes. We see kids not staying up as late, getting better sleep.”

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 18, 2016

“It was overwhelming,” Jesús “Nacho” Aguilar, 23, told me as we sat at a table in the basement of the University of Texas-Austin with a group of Roma High School graduates who now live in Austin and San Antonio. “It When I attended the high school graduation for Jesús’ class, 88 of my 131 former students picked up a diploma.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 6, 2024

In early 2015, when its superintendent announced his retirement, the district recruited Heath Grimes, then superintendent of the nearby Lawrence County school system, for the job. A Cuban refugee herself, she led discussions with teachers on similarities between Hispanic and Southern culture. They love family.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 15, 2017

Leiserowitz — whose research has focused on how culture, politics and psychology impact public perception of the environment — said fossil-fuel companies have a stake in perpetuating a message of oil dependency. API’s vice president of communications delivered a special presentation to the board in 2012 on marketing strategies.

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ED Surge

APRIL 22, 2025

Students in schools run by the Department of Defense have staged multiple walkouts in recent months to protest the agencys decision to pull books that may not align with President Donald Trumps executive orders on race and gender. The book won the 2012 Stonewall Book Award and the 2012 Lambda Literary Award for LGBT Nonfiction.

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JULY 24, 2022

Analidis Ochoa, now a doctoral candidate in social work and sociology at the University of Michigan, was formerly a tutor at an alternative school for pregnant and parenting girls in Florida’s Miami-Dade school district. She said a negative cultural judgment prevailed there, even in a school specifically for these students.

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