The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 31, 2019

This focus on access to high-quality preschool was born out of a larger city-wide plan to transform schools, introduced in Cleveland in 2012. That plan identified preschool as an important first step to improve K-12 education. You can read more about PRE4CLE’s work in their five-year report, available here.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 21, 2016

The government rate at a local hotel was $89 a night. Scott Sargrad, managing director of K-12 education policy at the Center for American Progress, said, “Kentucky is a great example what can happen when all stakeholders are involved from the beginning.”. Holliday would start the day at 7:30 a.m. Holliday said.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 27, 2018

They created multicolored posters to explain what different departments of local government do, from sanitation to human resources. The curriculum development was the subject of a 2012 paper.) Arriving with their notebooks, the seven-year-olds jotted down safety problems.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 1, 2018

According to state data, the number of young people in state juvenile justice facilities dropped from 901 at the end of 2012 to 386 in 2017. In 2016, 45,567 young people were held in facilities nationwide, down 20 percent from 2012.) Its implementation has coincided with the rapid rise in course completions and diplomas awarded.

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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. Related: How the federal government abandoned the Brown v. Of the dozen or so prospective families in attendance, all were white except for one South Asian couple.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

But how common is this governance-by-coalition model across the country? 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.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 23, 2016

1 is guaranteed 15 hours a week of free child-care or preschool for 38 weeks a year, or 570 hours total, paid for by the national government. “We Apparently, so do most parents, 94 percent of whom take the government up on its offer of free education starting at age 3, according to government data. Like the U.S.,

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

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. As Williams and her classmates moved away in the summer of 2012, Marcovitz expected they’d all have “a happy ending with college.” The air smelled familiar.

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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.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 10, 2019

Fourth-grade students who reported using tablets in “all or almost all” classes scored 14 points lower on the reading portion of a test administered by the federal government than students who reported “never” using classroom tablets. That’s the equivalent of a year of education or an entire grade level.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 21, 2017

More than a quarter of college students in 2012 had dependents, and 15 percent were single with dependents, according to federal numbers. The underlying fundamental problem is poverty, just like K-12 education,” he said. Related: Just as it wants students to speed up, government won’t pay for summer courses.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

A New Orleans teacher is helping a 12-year student to prepare for a Louisiana state test in this 2015 photo. Ever since the federal government mandated annual testing for U.S. One 2012 study found that instructional quality declined with the rise of high stakes testing, especially in the weeks before the exam.

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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

In 2012-13, black students accounted for more than 90 percent of enrollment at over a quarter of the schools in Mississippi, according to federal and state school district data compiled by Jake McGraw, public policy coordinator at the Mississippi-based William Winter Institute for Racial Reconciliation and editor of the blog Rethink Mississippi.

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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. After 13 years of being failed by the state’s K-12 system, lower-income students are punished a second time by Louisiana’s higher education funding system.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

Edmondson Elementary Principal Trish Malik, who has been at the school since 2012, visits with Cheryl Cook and Michelle Myers, who work on family and community partnerships at the Thompson School District, before a January family event. Photo: Caralee Adams for The Hechinger Report. One that centered on listening.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

The success or failure depends on the crucial next steps of the various branches of government – the executive, legislature, and judiciary. That state legislature has virtually ignored its supreme court’s declaration ( issued in 2012 ) that the education system is unconstitutional. This is exactly what is happening in Washington state.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 28, 2016

Just as an example, in its long-term trend assessment, NAEP reports on results for 9-, 13-, and 17-year olds, but in the national assessment reported this week it focuses on grades 4, 8, and 12. The latest announcement of 12 th -grade NAEP results comes in the form of slick graphics and tables accompanied by lots of official handwringing.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 22, 2016

million people live in places where state officials took over entire districts or individual schools in the past six years, according to News21 data collected from state government agencies. In 2012, the district was in “financial freefall,” according to a news release quoting then-state Superintendent Mike Flanagan. More than 5.6

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

GRANITE, Utah — On a recent winter afternoon, the scene inside Dobrila Hasic-Botic’s preschool classroom in Granite, Utah, seemed typical of a high-quality pre-K. These types of transactions enable private sector companies to be responsive to the requests from local/state government who have limited funding.”.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

But it looked like the teenagers would have to do without the advantages sports participation could bring: The nonprofit that governs Louisiana’s high school sports won’t allow most of the Central American students to play. When the charter management organization New Orleans College Prep took over in 2012, it inherited a troubled school.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 12, 2017

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). Josh Walton, principal, Walton Middle School, in sAlbemarle County, Virginia.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 16, 2017

million in 2012) from the federal Education Department. And in a state widely known for its reluctance to fund government programs, the St. The district has earned both an Investing in Innovation grant ($3.6 million in 2010) and a Race to the Top grant ($16.6

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 11, 2017

Government policy has also contributed to its adoption. In late 2012, educators at the school were trying to think big. But the strategy was not widely used, because it was so labor intensive for teachers. Now, with computer-assisted teaching allowing for tailored exercises and online lessons, it is making a resurgence.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 11, 2017

Adler, who has taught at the school for 40 years, sees the proficiency-based education mandate from the state as another foolish idea to come down from a state government that doesn’t understand or respect teachers. “It’s the long arm of the state,” she says. ” Photo: Gregory Rec/Portland Press Herald. .”

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

That means a family of four with two children survived on $24,008, the income level at which a family is considered to be extremely poor by the federal government. In addition to CCAP and the federal Head Start program, children have access to five public pre-k programs, which enroll 87 percent of at-risk kids in that age group.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 11, 2016

They’ll share in $100 million from foundations and the government for mentoring programs that now reach nearly 10,000 students in 30 communities. The gap in graduation rates between black and white males grew to 21 percentage points in 2012-13, the Schott Foundation for Public Education f ound —although federal data show a narrowing gap.

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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. 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 7, 2016

Some parents and educators felt strongly that the new test would push students to think more deeply, a view shared by Chester, who also served as chairman of the PARCC consortium’s governing board and was a driving force in bringing the test to Massachusetts. Academy in Malden. That’s what Richard Bransfield believes, too.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 6, 2016

But since 2009, according to David Smith, the district’s chief of communications and government relations, the district has had to cut more than $50 million from its already tight budget because of state cutbacks, threatening progress in a district that had seen some significant and surprising gains for its students. Fair funding.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

“I think we all sometimes want to crave a benevolent dictatorship, like Singapore, where they're generally doing good stuff for the people, and it's all orderly, and no one's yelling at each other and there's a high degree of trust in the government,” Khan says. The amendment is up for a vote this election. That’s how he got involved.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 18, 2017

Students are suddenly eager to talk politics and government, but the hyper-partisan reality beyond school walls makes it hard to pull off these discussions in class. Johnson (on screen) overlooks the AP government class of Jo Boggess Phillips in Ripley, West Virginia Photo: Jo Boggess Phillips. President Lyndon B.

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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. Related: Government data single out schools where low-income students fare worst. Sign up for our Higher Education newsletter.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2018

Most elementary school teachers have little scientific background and many say they feel unprepared to teach the subject well, according to a national survey of science and mathematics education conducted by a North Carolina research firm in 2012. Possibly as a result, the average first- through fourth-grade student spent just 2.5

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 2, 2016

A recent government survey showed that segregation by race and class in the nation’s public schools is getting worse, not better. As incentive to integrate, the federal government in the ’60s offered emergency dollars to districts whose desegregation plans were approved. Story continues below video. What did matter was integration.

Middle School 111

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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. Related: Government data single out schools where low-income students fare worst. Sign up for our Higher Education newsletter.

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