The Hechinger Report

MAY 21, 2016

On Kentucky’s previous state tests, tied to its old standards, over 70 percent of elementary school students scored at a level of “proficiency” or better in both reading and math. By spring 2015, 54 percent of Kentucky elementary school students were proficient in the English language arts and 49 percent were proficient in math.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 23, 2018

In contrast, Onalaska’s population rose from 731 residents in 2012 to 772 residents in 2016, according to U.S. Heather Guenther, Onalaska High School graduate. While the data is imperfect, school enrollment also tells a story of growth. But that changed in in 2012, when the Onalaska Alliance purchased the 72-acre property.

High School 111

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 23, 2016

Fifth-graders at Konguta Kool – an elementary school in a small Estonian village – prepare for a math lesson in the computer lab. On the 2012 PISA math exam , more than a third of low-income students were among the country’s top performers. Photo: Sarah Butrymowicz. But there’s an overlooked member of the list: Estonia.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 16, 2021

He hired Wells to overhaul the gifted program in November 2012 even before the judge issued his ruling. New York City has chosen to address inequity by simply ending testing for its gifted elementary school program altogether, and Seattle is considering phasing out gifted classes. Report it here.”.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 18, 2016

Instead of attending neighborhood schools with students of the same race and economic status, as most children do in Mississippi, Osborn went to school with an even mix of black and white classmates, some from the town’s wealthy subdivisions and others from Clinton’s poorer areas. They’re also extremely successful.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 11, 2023

Families got used to that,” said Elmer Roldan, of Communities in Schools of Los Angeles, which helps schools follow up with absent students. Since the 2012 shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut, Negrón, who grew up in Puerto Rico, had become convinced mainland American schools were dangerous.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 9, 2016

Two days before graduation at the Mississippi School for the Deaf, the 10 seniors are on their class trip to Dallas, and the elementary school is having its awards day program. The rest of the student body does what any other school does in the festive penultimate days of an academically rigorous school year: winds down. .”

Elementary School 71

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 23, 2016

Hurley has been teaching nursery classes for 20 years at this state-funded school that we would call a public elementary school. This is even more remarkable when contrasted with the economics of child care in the U.S.: Rowena Phair, Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. think tank. and the U.K.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 20, 2019

Liza Jacobs, principal of Marksville High School. The economic futures of African Americans without a high school diploma are especially bleak. In 2012, 57 percent of ”minority” students (almost all African American) graduated from Avoyelles Parish high schools, lower than the percentage of adults with a diploma.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 12, 2017

On one of these towers, the Albemarle County schools have hung base stations that link to broadband internet beamed up from the roof of a nearby elementary school. The hardware on the towers then blasts that connection about 10 miles into the valley below.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 17, 2018

The guide also noted that starting in elementary school, all students take Spanish, art and music classes. The high school, which enrolls less than 200 students, has been able to offer as many as 17 Advanced Placement courses. In 2016, Southwest Georgia STEM Charter School launched in Randolph County.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 12, 2016

President Bush promotes his “No Child Left Behind” education agenda during a visit to Kirkpatrick Elementary School in Nashville, Tenn., Before NCLB, states were not required to break out test scores by socio-economic status, ethnicity, English language proficiency or whether students received special education services.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 14, 2020

More than 30 years ago, Rockville Centre began a gradual but determined effort to do away with gifted classes in its elementary schools as well as many of the tracked classes at the middle and high schools. This can have a long-term impact; the rigor of high school courses has been found to be the No. In Washington, D.C.,

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 22, 2020

In between those two jobs, Cardona had the distinction of being the youngest principal in the state at age 28, was named principal of the year in 2012, and served as co-chairman of the Legislative Achievement Gap Task Force. That’s all while getting married, parenting two children and earning a doctorate at UConn’s Neag School of Education.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 21, 2017

One in five Greeley residents lives below the poverty level, and the school district is trying to upgrade its technology to give students an economic boost. Third grade students at Meeker Elementary school share an iPad in a blended learning class in Greeley, Colorado. The national average is about $12,000 per student.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 18, 2020

As grateful as my students are to have me, I feel an equal gratitude: for my tenure-track position, for my enthusiastic students and for my family, which includes my 8-year-old daughter and my wife, who shares my passion for education and who is training to become an elementary school teacher. For three years, U.S. in Spanish.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 12, 2016

Carrie Giddings works with a student on her sight words during the last week of school at Kruse Elementary School in the Poudre School District in Colorado. In 2012, the U.S, Peggy Barnstorff, an occupational therapist at Eyestone Elementary School in the Poudre School District in Colorado works with a student.

Elementary School 80

Elementary School K-12 Research Economics 80

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2017

The four-year graduation rate was up to 82 percent in 2016 , an improvement from 74 percent in 2012 and close to the national average of 83 percent. But in Greenville, where about 40 percent of the population lives below the poverty line, the high school graduation rate is just 62 percent , one of the lowest in the state.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 26, 2018

Little of the economic boom that has transformed St. Leave this field empty if you're human: At Gordon Bush Elementary School, pass rates on state tests more than tripled last year. high schools? Evan Krauss, East Side Aligned’s director, struggles with how its work can transform the city without economic development.

Community Engagement 93

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