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. Some in town think schools should use it more often. Credit: Rory Doyle for The Hechinger Report.

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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

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. Before Hurricane Katrina, just half of New Orleans public school students earned a high school diploma , and few went on to succeed at a university.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 7, 2016

It is just one of a slate of waivers approved by lawmakers, including class size, teacher preparation time, hiring and firing rules, and others, allowing traditional public schools to operate with the same educational requirements as their area charter schools. In 2011-2012, the university had 52 teaching interns.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 20, 2017

The Beaverton school district, west of Portland, Oregon, is a case in point. In 2012, budget shortfalls led Beaverton to axe more than 40 school librarian positions. But two years ago, embarking on a bond-funded technology push that included a computer for every student, the district had a change of heart.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 5, 2016

But she was relieved of the duty when Jacob graduated from his Head Start preschool program and enrolled in a Durant Public School District elementary school. As part of his special-education program at the new school, Jacob was still entitled to continue his weekly therapy sessions. Public-school Failures.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 15, 2018

Startups and established tech companies are providing a crash course in entrepreneurship, sending engineers and designers into public schools to mentor students. Andrea, who earned her college degree in English literature in 2012, is a temp in a law firm and drives people around on weekday mornings and through the weekends.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 29, 2019

In New York City, the nation’s largest public school system, a $23 million initiative is underway to combat implicit bias, the unconscious attitudes formed about racial and cultural groups different from one’s own. 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

DECEMBER 6, 2016

Charters like PUC Schools and district school systems across the country are facing a common problem: Even though students of color represent half of the public school student population, the teacher workforce is still overwhelmingly white. Related: How do we stop the exodus of minority teachers?

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 23, 2018

Onalaska High School’s mascot is the Loggers, a nod to the historic logging family who founded this rural town in Southwest Washington. Onalaska, situated roughly halfway between Seattle and Portland, is proud of its history. Historic photos of lumber yards hang in the high school lobby. Census data. over that period. “I

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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. Come to school in America and your language gets stomped away.”.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 21, 2016

On Kentucky’s previous state tests, tied to its old standards, over 70 percent of elementary school students scored at a level of “proficiency” or better in both reading and math. Middle and high school students’ scores also dropped. Schools would also be open on Saturdays and through the summer. Graphic: Davin McHenry.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 22, 2016

They say their concerns have fallen on the deaf ears of the state, which removed the city’s school board more than a year ago. Charter schools are tuition-free, independently operated public schools. And parents say Highland Park’s once-proud school district has collapsed, hastened by four years under state control.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

There are critics who contend that instilling social values in students is the purview of parents not schools, and others who fear that SEL could easily be used as yet another way to punish low-income students of color who don’t conform to behavioral norms. The results they cite are promising.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 12, 2017

Vince Scheivert, chief information officer for Albermarle County Schools, gives computer advice to Cassidy Watkins (left) and Madeline Rice, both Burley Middle School students. Photo: Lorenzo Dickerson, Albemarle County Public Schools. Explaining why requires some history. Photo: Andrew Franco.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 8, 2017

Hurricane Katrina upended many of this city’s customs and institutions, but arguably no change has been more indelible than the transformation of New Orleans’s public schools. The state, in turn, put most of the city’s historically black schools into the hands of a new class of leaders, many of them white transplants.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 18, 2016

Even as poverty rates have grown in the district of about 5,000 students, Clinton has consistently remained an academic powerhouse in a state where many schools are still separate and unequal. Board of Education mandated the end of segregated schooling, Mississippi’s children still largely attend schools identifiable by race.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 21, 2017

A former teacher, she has served as associate superintendent of Catholic schools for the Archdiocese of New Orleans since 2012. She takes her seat as the head of the school system — an appointment by New Orleans Archbishop Gregory Aymond — in July. You’re not assigned to a particular school based your address.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2021

As schools try to address widespread learning loss caused by COVID-19 disruptions, particularly for students learning English, those who work at newcomer academies offer lessons in how to quickly identify needs and fill learning gaps so that children can get back on track. Back to Class: How schools can rebound.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 12, 2016

But is it possible there’s something worth saving from what many came to see as a deeply flawed federal approach to public schools? ESSA leaves too much accountability up to the states, they argue, with little history to suggest that it’s warranted. How much of No Child Left Behind’s legacy still lingers on in its successor?

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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. percent of African-American males finish high school on time, even as the national graduation rates reached a record high of 82 percent in 2013-14 (the latest year available).

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Kentucky, where the students interviewed for this article attend public school, has a version of the civics test policy, which the state passed in 2018. Joining In Peter Jefferson, a senior at Henry Clay High School, a public school in Lexington, Kentucky, is active in politics, especially for someone who is not yet 18 years old.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 2, 2016

Ninety-eight percent of Greenville’s 5,300 public school students are black and 94 percent live in poverty. They called it “River City,” singled out half a century ago as a beacon of hope for school integration in the South. Resources are scarce; qualified teachers are hard to recruit and retain. Photo: Jacob Carroll.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 23, 2020

This period of social distancing is giving us a glimpse of what it’s like when a school is shuttered permanently, a tragedy tens of thousands of families have had to deal with over the last two decades. Like the coronavirus, the impact of permanent school closures disproportionately hit Black and urban neighborhoods.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 21, 2017

Nationally, black girls accounted for 45 percent of all girls who were suspended and for 42 percent of girls expelled from K-12 public schools between 2011 and 2012, the highest among all racial/ethnic groups. A higher percentage of black women enrolled in college between 2009 and 2012 (9.7 percent), white women (7.1

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 14, 2020

77 percent of public school students are economically disadvantaged. Many students from higher-income families go to private schools or move to the suburbs to avoid attending schools where a large proportion of students perform below grade level. Public Schools closed its gifted and talented programs.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

And it’s made these gains without the wholesale turnover in staff that often characterizes school turnaround efforts. Juarez is now a destination school,” said principal Juan Ocon. 84 percent of this Chicago high school’s students graduate on time and 52 percent of them now go to college, an 11-point increase from 2012.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 8, 2019

We talked about the shooting at a Sikh temple in Wisconsin in 2012, the murders at a historic black church in South Carolina in 2015, the mosque fires in California, and the synagogue shootings in Pittsburgh and Poway in the past six months. Related: To teach, protect and serve.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 28, 2023

This activity was part of a design workshop hosted by DC + XQ, a partnership between the city’s public schools and the nonprofit XQ Institute. Yet measuring whether a redesigned high school is working as intended, and why, is difficult to do. Public Schools. and Why has school not been working? In 2018, D.C.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

When New York City officials revamped the way public schools were funded more than a decade ago, they emphasized one goal above the others: Making school spending more equitable in the nation’s largest system. Since 2012, 13 of New York City’s most coveted high schools have received more than $100 million in additional funding.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 20, 2019

High school dropouts are much more likely to be unemployed than those with a diploma, and they earn thousands of dollars less per year. Parents know their kids’ only shot at escaping poverty is the county’s public schools. That year, 33 percent of the senior class left school before earning a diploma.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 26, 2018

While such debt can be burdensome, work college graduates typically owed about $10,000 less than graduates from public colleges and about $15,000 less than graduates from private nonprofit schools, according to a 2012 report from the Work Colleges Consortium, the most recent report available. This is who’s coming to college.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

But the young men in Schalette Gudger’s English class at Ron Brown College Preparatory High School, a new all-boys public school in Washington, D.C., The push for a new school designed specifically for boys of color clashes with a simultaneous effort for more integration in this deeply segregated city.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 9, 2016

A school turn-around grant program — funded by the federal government and run by the Montana Office of Public Instruction — may be changing that. Many older Baby Boomers here have clear memories of their boarding school days. We have a hurt, maybe a hate, of all these things with a school system,” Helgeson said.

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Zinn Education Project

JANUARY 10, 2024

history does not risk causing some discomfort for the reader? Young and Jeffrey Sachs explain in the Tulsa World , By wielding censorious punishments on school districts, students, and teachers for imagined violations, [Oklahoma state] has undermined educational freedom on an unprecedented scale. What book that looks honestly at U.S.

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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

Our reporters are spending the year listening to people from across the country who are involved in their local public schools in one way or another. Sharahn Santana , African American history and English teacher at Parkway Northwest High School. William Hite , superintendent of Philadelphia’s public schools.

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