The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 9, 2022

in 2012 to 16.9% CU Boulder reported that its Precollegiate Development Program actively recruited first-generation students from 25 middle schools and 18 high schools. Seventy-two percent, 510, of the middle and high school students enrolled in the program for 2020-21 were Latino.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 12, 2017

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

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 25, 2023

It was the first lesson in a school week that would take her kids through memoir writing, an introduction to division and research on Indigenous history, each activity carefully curated by Snyder. She would also lead an upcoming meeting on the school’s finances, including how to spend federal pandemic relief dollars.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 29, 2019

As first period gets underway at Cambridge Street Upper School, veteran math teacher Stephen Abreu leads a small-group discussion. But the conversation isn’t about middle school algebra, and Abreu isn’t talking to students. And when the chance presented itself to lead Cambridge Street in 2012, he made his intentions clear. “I

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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. Photo: Kyle Spencer.

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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

JUNE 6, 2022

The city itself has had a scrappy commitment to existence in its 123-year history, surviving the boom and bust of the timber industry that first gave it life and weathering the 21st century with a fairly steady population of about 2,500. Sometimes, schools even force children to choose. Credit: Rory Doyle for The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 17, 2021

Over 100,000 high school students were enrolled in 165 competitive, academically selective schools in 30 states, most of which used exam results for admissions, researchers Chester Finn Jr. and Jessica Hockett found in 2012. Related: Is it time to stop segregating kids by ability in middle school math?

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 6, 2016

Many of the people who signed the petitions, which popped up at beer festivals, outdoor stores and nature centers throughout the state, attended outdoor school themselves as children. Oregon has a long history of offering overnight, outdoor learning programs as part of the regular school year schedule. It’s outdoor school.

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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.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 6, 2016

“This benefits the school system, it benefits the community,” Foose said. “It After attending PUC Schools for middle school and part of high school, he returned to PUC Schools to coach high school soccer. It benefits the students and their families.”. How it works.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

Students participate in morning workshops in advance of national May 1 “Day Without Immigrants” rallies, learning also about the labor rights history of May Day rallies worldwide. But at Muñiz, she was learning subjects like history and math in Spanish. Photo: Tara García Mathewson/The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 11, 2017

Down the hall from Adler, English teacher William Putnam could not feel more differently about the 2012 state law requiring school districts to move to a system focused on skill acquisition rather than course completion. I was in middle school when they started it,” said junior Tyler McVey, 17, “and it was junk.”.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2021

A 2012 report by the Center for Applied Linguistics that looked at effective programs for English-language learners praised Fort Worth’s program for incorporating proven effective teaching methods — such as cooperative learning environments, extended instruction time and multi-year plans to guide students.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 22, 2016

And parents say Highland Park’s once-proud school district has collapsed, hastened by four years under state control. In 2012, the district was in “financial freefall,” according to a news release quoting then-state Superintendent Mike Flanagan. Not long after the district consolidation legislation, Drew’s high school was closed. “It

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 8, 2017

When they returned to New Orleans four years later, Hales enrolled him at KIPP Believe, a middle school that was established the year after the hurricane by a national charter school chain focused on getting black and Latino students to and through college. White students affectionately called the school “Rebelville.”.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Since the information was being filtered through history and politics lessons, it meant he was learning about how an amendment changed women’s right to vote or how Andrew Jackson was able to mobilize the popular vote in the 19th century. “I Still, the path was winding and not limited to school. That’s how he got involved.

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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. Black History was added, busing was provided.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Before Rockville Centre detracked math in the ninth and 10th grades, for example, it added support math classes in middle school so that all students graduated eighth grade having completed algebra. Public Schools closed its gifted and talented programs. Wells Middle School, D.C.’s

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 18, 2017

Last fall, the folks at iCivics anticipated a 20 to 30 percent bump in game plays, in line with what happened in the election year of 2012. Tim Matthews, a middle school history teacher outside Boston, uses iCivics games to teach the Constitution, which his class calls “the rulebook.”

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

The teenagers attend high schools and middle schools in the lowest-scoring school district in the state of Mississippi, West Bolivar Consolidated. Two of his core courses — English and history — were delivered online. “I and I can’t do it with a computer [teaching me],” McKenzie said.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

That means that students at these schools — where only 15 percent of students are black or Hispanic, compared to almost 70 percent citywide — are getting almost $18 million more this year than they would have without the bonus, according to Department of Education data. Kids called in ‘Broken Tech,’ ” she said.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2020

When Darling-Hammond looked around recently for school districts with online education plans that California might learn from, hurricane- and flood-prone districts in southern Florida stood out, she said. The Miami-Dade school district, for example, adopted a plan back in 2012 to close the digital divide.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 1, 2022

Sharahn Santana , African American history and English teacher at Parkway Northwest High School. He has been with the district since June 2012. Credit: Image provided by the School District of Philadelphia. Credit: Image provided by Richmond Public Schools. Eighteen months of virtual worked for some students.

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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.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 13, 2018

There’s no question that CTE has a dark history of tracking low-income and minority students,” said Kate Blosveren Kreamer, deputy executive director of Advance CTE, a nonprofit that represents state leaders responsible for career and technical education. Those numbers directly affect the bottom line at Manchester Tech.

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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. The subject line read: “Living history.”. Before the coronavirus shutdown, middle school Principal Laina Cox works with students at Capital City Public Charter School in Washington D.C.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 15, 2017

By the 1960s, the American Petroleum Institute was looking to shake its reputation as a “monopoly which reaped excessive profits” and set out to cultivate a network of “thought leaders” that included educators, journalists, politicians and even clergy, according to an organizational history copyrighted by API in 1990. The idea caught on.

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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

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

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. I don’t think this is a new era but a repetition of history,” she said. I don’t think this is a new era but a repetition of history.”. Trump had won. “I

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ED Surge

APRIL 22, 2025

District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, arguing that the Defense Departments actions infringe upon the students First Amendment rights to obtain information, particularly about their own identities and history. Black History Month was canceled. A Queer History of the United States, a book about LGBTQ+ people in U.S

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