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

MAY 19, 2024

Once the site of an Indian boarding school, where the federal government attempted to strip children of their tribal identity, the Native American Community Academy now offers the opposite: a public education designed to affirm and draw from each student’s traditional culture and language. Credit: Sharon Chischilly for The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 25, 2023

This story also appeared in Mind/Shift But teaching wasn’t the only thing on Snyder’s plate. And she was running for the school’s governing board. 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

JUNE 7, 2021

Lower teaching quality offset gains that might have been achieved from the smaller classes. Class size reductions are unlikely to lead to sizable increases in student learning,” the authors of that 2012 study wrote. Changing how teachers teach can sometimes be more powerful than how many students are in the classroom.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 4, 2020

They’d spent the past decade grappling with declining enrollments and weakening support from state governments. At worst, institutions under financial stress can fold — sometimes overnight, as government and accrediting oversight fails to prevent precipitous closures that throw students’ lives into disarray.

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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 was recently the subject of an experiment involving 684 students to see if this approach actually teaches kids the reading and writing skills and the content they need to succeed in school.

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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. ” Reboot aims to increase the teaching of critical thinking in schools and by parents at home.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 6, 2022

After attending the district’s schools and inheriting a love of teaching from her mother, she went to college and put her degree to work in her hometown. The Nollie Jenkins Family Center led a fight against school-based corporal punishment here in rural Holmes County from 2012 to 2018, when a new superintendent asked for a policy change.

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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.) Youth are saying ‘this isn’t something I can teach myself, I need more direct instruction.’ ”.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 17, 2017

Since its launch in 2012, the city’s high school graduation rate has climbed 15 points, to 64 percent, according to New York State education department figures , the highest rate the city has achieved in more than a decade. Margaret Moberg teaches her first-grade class at the Stanley Makowski Early Childhood Center.

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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. Back at Onalaska High, Kaylene Kenny teaches a class that’s all about ensuring students know their options. Kenny’s been teaching at Onalaska High School for seven years. Census data. The median age declined from 36.6

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 20, 2023

When colleges and boot camps team up, the colleges typically just put their name on the programs while the boot camp companies recruit students, develop curricula and teach classes. Make School didn’t have to disclose any ongoing information about its financials to the federal government or the accreditor. Credit: Amanda J.

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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 Kenneth Wong said the fact that Mississippi’s Department of Education has not backed away from its recommendation for a state takeover adds an important and interesting element to this governance model.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Senior James Lopes, wearing a green sweatshirt, listens to William Frey teach a lesson on polynomials, rational trigonometrics, exponential and logarithmic functions at the Calculus Project’s summer leadership academy program at Boston University. Their friends weren’t in the class,” she said. They rarely had a teacher of color.”

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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. After a year of teaching there, he’d come to believe that he could help any student get into college. 1 Photo: Cheryl Gerber for The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Our governments need to be working in partnership with tech companies to put ‘the Netflix of online learning’ into action,” she said. “I What we wanted to be able to do is teach educators the psychology of stress, the biology of stress and evidenced-based strategies to manage stress, for themselves and for their kids,” he said.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 26, 2019

They helped me get ready for college — not only improving my math skills, but also teaching me how to seek out resources for help. I landed two on-campus jobs — one as a mentor to new Fatherhood recruits, and one as a Civic Fellow working with the college’s government relations manager. Going to college has made my life so much better.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

In keeping with that spirit, the evenings are designed to be far more interactive than a typical curriculum night, in which teachers run through what they’ll be teaching that year. Related: Parents, it’s not your job to teach Common Core math when helping with homework. Photo: Caralee Adams for The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

At each level of analysis, he concluded that the state legislature’s slap-hazard approach to education was “irrational” and resulted in policies unrelated to “teaching children.”. The success or failure depends on the crucial next steps of the various branches of government – the executive, legislature, and judiciary.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 12, 2017

“I give the kids access to all the tools pretty much right off the bat,” said Eric Bredder, with a sweeping gesture taking in the computer workstations, 3-D printers, laser cutters and milling machines, plus a bevy of wood and metalworking tools that he uses while teaching computer science, engineering and design classes.

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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

APRIL 15, 2019

Jared Maymon, a Nichols College junior and a student government vice president, has become convinced that Nichols will survive. Engelkemeyer conceded that it still takes time to change an academic culture that has enjoyed an almost uninterrupted supply of students since she started teaching in 1990. DUDLEY, Mass. —

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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

OCTOBER 6, 2016

From 1987 to 2012, it doubled, far outpacing the growth in the numbers of students and faculty. I will be very honest: It took a while for the campuses to catch up that we weren’t having separate governance,” Sciple said. “It They’re still not easy, she said. “I It does take a few years to change a culture.”.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 28, 2016

Two experts associated with NAEP’s National Assessment Governing Board (Mary Lynne Bourque and Susan Loomis) made it clear in 2001 that NAEP’s “proficient achievement level does not refer to ‘at grade’ performance.” In abusing language this way, the government misleads the American people. Proficiency is a much higher standard.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 11, 2023

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. Many students are raised by grandparents who remember the government forcing Native children into boarding schools.

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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. Related: Just as it wants students to speed up, government won’t pay for summer courses. A quarter of college students work full time. “A Her professors liked her. She asks questions all the time.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 16, 2017

In the past, student work has ranged from the cutting edge to the routine, from creating a measuring tool that uses lasers to estimate the length of great white sharks to teaching officials in Longmont, the district’s main city, how to better use smartphones in their jobs. million in 2012) from the federal Education Department.

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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

APRIL 18, 2016

Osborn, who graduated from Clinton in 2005 and returned five years ago to teach history at the high school, said the benefits of Clinton’s plan stuck out to him even as a kid. In 1977, the federal government sued Clinton to force it to rejoin the Hinds County district, arguing that its secession had impeded broader integration efforts.

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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. “Unfunded mandate after unfunded mandate is not making teaching a chosen career.”

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 11, 2017

Now, with computer-assisted teaching allowing for tailored exercises and online lessons, it is making a resurgence. 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.

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Political Science Now

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

He began attending in the APSA Teaching and Learning Conference in 2008 and served as a track moderator starting in 2011-2014 for the Diversity, Inclusiveness, and Equality Track. He also served on the Teaching and Learning Conference Program Committee from 2012 through 2017, helping to organize the structure and content of the meetings.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 16, 2019

The data from the earlier survey is available in a detailed 2012 report by the U.S. Rural schools were the most likely to have a full-time specialist on hand to teach music, federal data shows. percent — percentage of secondary school teachers who primarily teach art or music. Department of Education. percent in 1966 to 8.5

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 17, 2018

Related: How the federal government abandoned the Brown v. The federal government has played a role in the growth of these charters by granting charter startup grants to schools without considering whether they will lead to increased segregation. Related: Teaching kids how battles about race from 150 years ago mirror today’s conflicts.

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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. Many teachers are skeptical of yet another in what seems like a series of endless “reforms” from the state government. In lower level classes, some would have to repeat the whole course.

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Steven V. Miller

OCTOBER 22, 2024

New Naratif) I am teaching a quantitative methods class for students in international relations, which presents its own assorted challenges. One thing that I think might help students is teaching around replication. Lower values = more rebellion, or more violent contestation without clear control by the South Vietnamese government.

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