The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

The proportion of students in kindergarten through 12 th grade nationwide that is Hispanic has increased to 25 percent from 19 percent since 2003, while the black, non-Hispanic population has dropped to 16 percent, and the white, non-Hispanic population, to 50 percent from 59 percent. In 2000, about one in 12 Hickory residents was Hispanic.

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But that perception might be overly simplistic, according to a new working paper from the National Bureau of Economic Research. STEM has been a darling of policymakers and the education world in recent years, and humanities sometimes the bear , with K–12 schools across the country sticking “STEM” into their names.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

Since 2012, U.S. from 36th to 19th in the 2012 international rankings. The researchers conducted the same experiment in Shanghai, China, where students had posted the highest scores in the world on the actual 2012 PISA test. An educated workforce is supposedly a big predictor of a country’s income and annual growth.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 6, 2016

According to 2012 National Center for Education Statistics data, black men represent approximately 2 percent of all teachers, which is the same percentage of Latino men. When it comes to women dominated education, the economic and social advancement of black men can and should come out of an agenda focused on women’s equity.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 11, 2017

This kind of experience may be common at New Jersey’s most selective and wealthiest suburban high schools, but McGee graduated from North Star Academy College Preparatory High School in Newark, where 84 percent of the students are economically disadvantaged and 98 percent are black or Latino.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 16, 2019

These findings held even when economic status and IQ were taken into account. But a 2012 report on the subject from the University of Alabama suggests some solutions. The study was published online in the journal JAMA Psychiatry in June 2019. 1,271 per year – amount inattentive kindergarten boys fail to earn as adults.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 27, 2018

For this experiment, the researchers spent years developing four separate project-based units on history, geography, economics and civics. The curriculum development was the subject of a 2012 paper.)

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 10, 2020

That’s what they called it in Maine, where, in 2012, state officials mandated that every district adopt it, and then, in 2018, abandoned the requirement. Among them, just under 12 percent were considered economically disadvantaged, slightly more had some type of learning disability and 4 percent were English learners.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 6, 2016

Results from Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), a test in reading, mathematics, and science administered every three years in about 70 countries by the Paris-based Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. On PISA, U.S. The top performing nations include Singapore, Hong Kong, Canada, Finland, and Estonia.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 17, 2017

Mississippi schools saw increases in proficiency rates on state tests in math and reading for students in grades 3-8 over the course of six school years, with “significant decreases” in achievement gaps between racial/ethnic and economic subgroups, according to a new report.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 10, 2019

The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development ( OECD ) first detected a negative relationship between computer usage in schools and student achievement on its 2012 tests known as PISA, or Program for International Student Assessment, which are taken by high school students around the world every three years.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 10, 2017

That’s due to a new teaching approach here called “proficiency-based education,” that was inspired by a 2012 state law. Maine is the pioneer,” said Chris Sturgis, co-founder of CompetencyWorks , a national organization that advocates for the approach in K-12 schools. “I Kylee Elderkin, student, Nokomis Regional High School.

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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 23, 2016

This is even more remarkable when contrasted with the economics of child care in the U.S.: Some question whether the government would do any better at universal preschool than it does with universal K-12 education. Rowena Phair, Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. think tank. and the U.K.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 29, 2019

In addition to its reputation as an international powerhouse in the field of economics and a home to multiple Nobel Laureates, the school has grounds that are designated as an official botanic garden. The University of Chicago moved its economics department into the former home of the Chicago Theological Seminary.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

In 2012, the William Penn Foundation donated $1.5 Detroit: In Detroit, private funding from the PNC Foundation has brought supplies, field trips, and services like support programs for parents to some pre-K classrooms in public schools. million to help the district hire a management consultant and restructure the district.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 9, 2016

The rest of MSD’s 238 children are K-12 students. From 2010 to 2012, the average age of enrollment at the school was 14, Edwards said, but now the increase from the birth to 4 program means that the average is lower. Related: How Mississippi got an award for education.

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The Hechinger Report

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. When you think about the future economics of the world, it’s not an English world.”. That’s what made it difficult,” she says.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 17, 2018

Down the road at Greene County’s other public schools, 12 percent of students are white and 68 percent are black; there isn’t a piano lab and there are far fewer AP courses. The charter opened on the former campus of a private school, which, according to data provided to the federal government in 2012, didn’t enroll a single black student.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 3, 2017

The Muñiz Academy opened in 2012 as one of Massachusetts’ first “innovation schools,” free from many district policies and granted flexibility with its curriculum, budget, school schedule and annual calendar, among other things. But bilingual education isn’t the school’s only innovation.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 29, 2019

But they’re often unattainable for the state’s lowest-income students and students of color, who tend to be clustered in severely struggling K-12 schools. These numbers are striking in a state where, overall, 45 percent of public school students are white, 43 percent are black and 70 percent are economically disadvantaged.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 7, 2016

In 2011-2012, the university had 52 teaching interns. She says retaining teachers is as much a problem as attracting them if not more so because the decline of manufacturing jobs in her area has created a downward economic spiral, and teachers want to live where their spouses can find jobs. This year there may be as few as 19.

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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. Related: Ranking countries by the worst students.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 27, 2016

But a new report from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) finds that applied-math instruction, or the way it is actually taught in classrooms, may not be serving students well.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 28, 2019

Starting in 2012, an idea floated around Alaska that seemed sort of preposterous. The organization is preparing recommendations for how Alaska districts can economically upgrade their networks, said Sophia Green-Robinson , EducationSuperHighway’s state engagement manager. A plan to link Alaska to the world.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

Since 2012, when the government exhorted more écoles maternelles to open their doors to 2-year-olds, the rate of participation in France’s “priority education networks”—networks of schools that serve heavily low-income, immigrant communities that are targeted for extra social support—has steadily risen. It’s bureaucratic.”.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 12, 2017

In the meantime, they have been testing the reach and reliability of the Carters Mountain signal, while also creating the network’s backbone — burying 12 miles (of a planned 85 miles) of fiber-optic cable to ferry huge amounts of high-speed data between school-based transmitters, receivers and servers, and regional data hubs.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 12, 2016

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. That data has become a valuable tool for educators, policy makers and researchers. Some of ESSA’s accountability provisions are similar to what NCLB required.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 20, 2019

Jacobs became principal at the school, which serves grades 7 through 12, last fall and has been a teacher and administrator for more than 20 years in Avoyelles Parish. The economic futures of African Americans without a high school diploma are especially bleak. she called to another as the bell rang.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 19, 2020

In the small district, 88 percent of schoolchildren are economically disadvantaged and almost 75 percent are at risk of dropping out. In the Harlandale district, 88 percent of schoolchildren are economically disadvantaged and almost 75 percent are at risk of dropping out. This story also appeared in Mind/Shift.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 11, 2017

Economic Growth. UNESCO reports that to achieve and accelerate continuous economic growth, at least 40% of the population must be taught to read and write. 12) In fact, a single, brief exposure to good reading material can result in a lifelong love affair with books. Allington 2012. The payoff for society is even greater.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 6, 2022

When she started at a new school in the fall of 2012, she breezed through the timed math tests. Hernandez, for example, was taking her 12 th grade math class via Zoom in her family’s living room when her father returned from work hours early, visibly upset. This story also appeared in USA Today.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 21, 2017

The successes of the recent movies Girls Trip and Hidden Figures and the economic and cultural power of the Essence Music Festival are testaments to the power of black women. Black women are reclaiming spaces with their perspectives, creativity, political savvy, sexual power and economic influence. percent), exceeding Asian women (8.7

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 27, 2016

The most dramatic place to see this is in kindergarten through grade 12, where Hispanics make up nearly a quarter of enrollment nationwide, up from 16 percent in 2000. The number of Hispanics of all ages will more than double while the number of whites will decline by 8 percent.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 18, 2017

The most dramatic place to see this is in kindergarten through grade 12, where Hispanics make up nearly a quarter of enrollment nationwide, up from 16 percent in 2000. The number of Hispanics of all ages will more than double while the number of whites will decline by 8 percent.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 20, 2019

They ran into an economic wall that has hit communities of color the hardest, but which has also blocked many residents of this 98 percent white county. obert Roark, the son of a coal miner, became principal of Leslie County High School in 2012 after most of the mines had closed. Photo: John Flavell for The Hechinger Report.

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