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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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

AUGUST 11, 2016

Martin Middle School in Dillon dates to 1896 and was still in use when then-Senator Barack Obama visited in 2007 during his presidential campaign. Martin Middle School, part of which dated to 1896 and was still in use. The growth in the graduation rate at Dillon High School over four years. Photo: Alan Richard.

Middle School 76

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 11, 2017

Moheeb Kaied, a seventh-grader this fall, shows a visitor how he checks his academic progress using a monitoring website that one of the teachers at the school developed. NEW YORK — Few middle schoolers are as clued in to their mathematical strengths and weakness as Moheeb Kaied. Government policy has also contributed to its adoption.

Middle School 110

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Digital Promise

JUNE 15, 2016

Teaching quality has been defined as “instruction that enables a wide range of students to learn” ( Darling-Hammond, 2012 ), and it is the strongest school-related factor that can improve student learning and achievement ( Hanushek, 2011 ; Nye, Konstantopoulos, and Hedges, 2004 ; Rivkin, Hanushek, and Kain, 2005 ).

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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.

Advocacy 87

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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. And parents say Highland Park’s once-proud school district has collapsed, hastened by four years under state control. More than 5.6

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 21, 2017

She became homeless when Moises was in middle school, after relatives lost patience with hosting her and her children. Moises began skipping school. More than a quarter of college students in 2012 had dependents, and 15 percent were single with dependents, according to federal numbers. Lina’s youngest was anxious.

Library 96

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 11, 2017

Social Studies teacher Michelle Adler talks to sophomores Maiya Schwartz, left and Emily Terranova about an assignment in an Honors Human Geography class at Gray-New Gloucester High School on Thursday, June 1, 2017. It’s the long arm of the state,” said Adler, who has taught social studies at Gray-New Gloucester High School for 40 years.

High School 70

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 6, 2016

In Rachael McIlvaine’s eighth-grade science class at West Middle School here, a chatty but focused group of three takes turns closing their eyes, dipping a plastic spoon into a foil roasting pan and fishing for M&M’s, trying to capture as much candy as they can. Attendance improved among middle and high school students. “We

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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. Still, the path was winding and not limited to school.

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Civics Education Government K-12 122

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 2, 2016

The black community expressed dismay that all symbols of black accomplishment — plaques, citations, trophies, and class pictures — were removed and tossed aside when the all-black Coleman High School was converted into an integrated middle school. Sacrificing Coleman High School. Story continues below video.

Middle School 111

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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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Civics Education K-12 Primary Sources 90

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 14, 2020

To create racial balance, the district conducted outreach, expanded the attendance zone for the seats reserved for nongifted neighborhood kids and had a “prep program” for students who showed potential for giftedness but fell short of the admissions requirements, retired Olmsted middle school principal Michael Gruber said.

Education 145

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MPSA

MARCH 30, 2022

The National Conference on Civic Learning and Democratic Engagement (NCCLDE) produced a report in 2012 featuring numerous examples of Americans teaming up to make a difference in their communities. Retired U.S. Senator Bob Graham and his co-author Chris Hand published the first edition of their book America: The Owner’s Manual in 2009.

Civics 52

Civics Civic Engagement Teaching Political Science 52

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

The federal requirement for schools to provide extra services to children with disabilities has been around for more than 45 years. More than 7 million children , about 14 percent of all public school students, now receive services.

Education 141

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2020

Like McKneely, some educators, government officials and policy experts around the country say the coronavirus carries lessons for another global crisis of our time, climate change. The Miami-Dade school district, for example, adopted a plan back in 2012 to close the digital divide. Rebecca Newburn, middle school science teacher.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 6, 2024

Her daughter loves school, she said, and her son in middle school can’t wait to try out for the soccer team. Grimes had started to clash with the city’s mayor, David Grissom, who was first elected in 2012, about funding. But discontent among other city leaders surfaced early on, several people told me.

High School 145

High School K-12 Professional Development Heritage 145

ED Surge

JUNE 8, 2023

Aguilar had a secret she was holding close, one that made her college dream seem more impossible the nearer she got to high school graduation. It was before the Obama administration introduced the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program (DACA for short) in 2012 that gave some immigrants who were brought to the U.S.

Education 113

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 1, 2022

He has been with the district since June 2012. Credit: Image provided by the School District of Philadelphia. Maranda Seawood, student support specialist at Washington Elementary School. My eighth grader, he does not possess the ability to be at middle school with almost 40 kids in his classroom and focus.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

After her husband took a job that would keep him on the road most of the time, Williams moved back in with her parents in 2012 to save money. Her daughter, 12, and two sons, 11 and 10, started school, and Williams got a job in medical billing in Jasper, 30 minutes from Birmingham. Gardendale also cited Shelby County v.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 15, 2021

Staring at the faces of the middle school teachers on her computer screen, Principal Laina Cox felt the tears welling up — again. Before the coronavirus shutdown, middle school Principal Laina Cox works with students at Capital City Public Charter School in Washington D.C. The subject line read: “Living history.”.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 15, 2017

The programs occupy a gray area between corporate sponsorship and promotion at a time when climate science has increasingly come under siege at the highest levels of government. API’s vice president of communications delivered a special presentation to the board in 2012 on marketing strategies.

K-12 69

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 12, 2016

In 2012, the U.S, ranked 35th among developed economies in pre-primary or primary school enrollment for 3- to 5-year-olds, according to the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), an international economic association. “I think we value our children less than other nations do,” said Arne Duncan, the former U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2017

In Greenville, Mississippi, a town on the Blues Highway in the Mississippi Delta where every public school student receives free breakfast and lunch, Joan Rowe, director of the local Boys and Girls Club, heard that comment and immediately thought: “They should come down here.” The center faces closure if the Trump budget passes.

Tutoring 112

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

A student group committed to free markets and limited government gave students at Oregon State University in Corvallis, Ore., And while voters aged 18 to 24 broke for the Democrat in 2016 , they did so less enthusiastically than they had done for Barack Obama in 2012 and 2008. a chance to express their thoughts on the election.

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Sociology Political Science Tutoring History 102

ED Surge

APRIL 22, 2025

The list of pulled books mentioned in the complaint was culled from leaked memos, emails and other information circulated within DoDEA school communities as well as news reports. Similarly, the ACLU argues that the agency has methodically removed references to race and gender from its school libraries and classroom lessons.

Government 81

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