Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

This piece kicks off a series of conversations among key players in K-12 purchasing. The moderator is Nicole Neal, CEO of Noodle Markets, the nation’s only national marketplace and purchasing platform exclusively focused on K-12 education. As a human being, I hate being sold to. It’s more with processes.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 29, 2017

A similarly wide-ranging 2012 report by Complete College America determined that nearly half of entering students at two-year schools and a fifth at four-year schools were placed in remedial classes in the fall of 2006. BCCC has also pared down some of its remedial courses from 16 weeks to 12 or eight.

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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.) Back in the classroom, they discussed their ideas for improvement.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

Jon Burt, who heads Gallup’s K-12 education consulting arm, said that each year over 1 million students in the U.S. Leave this field empty if you're human: Not so in Galt. When the district won federal Race to the Top funding in 2012, Schauer expanded the strengths program. Photo: Gail Cornwall for The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 10, 2019

Leave this field empty if you're human: “We see a lot of spending everywhere on tablets, computers, counting the ratio of computers per student,” said Helen Lee Bouygues, who founded the Reboot Foundation in 2018. Sign up for Jill Barshay's Proof Points newsletter. Choose as many as you like. Weekly Update. Future of Learning.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 27, 2018

Leave this field empty if you're human: When he asked how many wanted to attend college, almost every hand went up. But the state has seen marked improvement: In 2012 , the percent of adults in Louisiana with at least an associate’s degree had doubled, to almost 30 percent. Sign up for our newsletter. Choose as many as you like.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

Leave this field empty if you're human: In a second analysis of 35 years of national survey data, the researchers found a strong correlation between a young woman’s beliefs about women’s roles and her future daughters’ subsequent math scores. Sign up for Jill Barshay's Proof Points newsletter. Choose as many as you like.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 6, 2018

Gary Miron, an education professor specializing in evaluation, measurement, and research at Western Michigan University’s College of Education and Human Development, is concerned about the rate at which many states are adopting online learning programs, or even making participation in these programs a graduation requirement.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 4, 2017

Leave this field empty if you're human: Demands for a radical overhaul of the Orleans Parish school system in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in 2005 were predicated on low test scores. This all sounds familiar. Sign up for our newsletter. Choose as many as you like. Weekly Update. Future of Learning. Higher Education.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 3, 2016

Sam Gordon, a trained pre-K classroom observer, rates the teacher-student interactions at St. All toddler and pre-K classrooms in the state that receive any public money are observed at least twice a year to determine their educational quality. Sam Gordon, pre-K classroom observer. Joan of Arc School in New Orleans.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

BOSTON — When the Boston Public Schools opened the Margarita Muñiz Academy in 2012, it was a first-of-its kind dual-language high school meant to address issues faced by the city’s growing Hispanic population. The exception is in the two humanities classes students take every day, one in each language.

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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. Leave this field empty if you're human: By June of 2005, Jackson had left the district. At Lake Oconee Academy, 73 percent of students are white. Weekly Update.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

Leave this field empty if you're human: But after three years of learning this way, the Teach to One students in grades six through eight scored no better on New Jersey’s annual math tests than other Elizabeth students who had learned math the usual way with the whole class on the same topic at the same time. 12 of the study.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 16, 2017

Behind the storage unit sits a rectangular wooden box stuffed with bicycle tires filled with Silly Putty to replicate human intestines. As employees, students must comply with the district’s human resources policies and undergo performance evaluations led by a student project leader and an Innovation Center staffer.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 8, 2019

Leave this field empty if you're human: The six districts were New York City; Denver; Charlotte-Mecklenburg, N.C.; More than half of the schools in the six districts hired a new principal between 2012 and 2016, evidence of problematic high principal turnover around the country. Sign up for Jill Barshay's Proof Points newsletter.

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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. Leave this field empty if you're human: TOPS’ windfall disproportionately goes to rich white students. Sign up for our Higher Education newsletter. Choose as many as you like.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

Students study the human body on skeletons, using clay to make organs. Information was based on surveys of 12th graders in 2012 in North Carolina and 2013 in Texas. They don’t have on average very impressive math scores in grade 12. Photo: Kathleen Lucadamo. NEW LONDON, Conn.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

Many had seen their schooling interrupted by the chaos back home; some had experienced gang violence or human trafficking. When the charter management organization New Orleans College Prep took over in 2012, it inherited a troubled school. Nothing we can do to defend that,” Bookman said, to no one in particular.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 11, 2017

While it may work to improve math skills, it is unlikely to help students advance in the humanities, she said. In late 2012, educators at the school were trying to think big. Related: Column: To err is human – and a powerful prelude to learning. Others question its efficacy. We needed students to be more engaged.”.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 3, 2017

The Muñiz Academy opened in 2012 as one of Massachusetts’ first “innovation schools,” free from many district policies and granted flexibility with its curriculum, budget, school schedule and annual calendar, among other things. But bilingual education isn’t the school’s only innovation. Music saved my life.”.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 27, 2016

Sara Morris has served as president and CEO of the Alliance for Education, a Seattle-based non-profit promoting excellence in Seattle Public Schools, for six years and spearheaded the creation and implementation of the Seattle Teacher Residency in 2012. We would argue that we can’t afford not to train teachers this way.”.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 8, 2016

The same is true of the Muñiz Academy, which opened in 2012 as the city’s first such high school. Ángel Díaz, 16, works on an assignment in his Spanish-language humanities class at Margarita Muñiz Academy in Boston. The rest only speak English or are already bilingual. Photo: Tara García Mathewson.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 6, 2016

Elizabeth Pérez, a new teacher joining PUC Schools through the Alumni Teach Project, and her mentor, humanities teacher Joe Garza, during a training session in July. Photo: Jamie Martines. Last year, Mastery started a residency program to train and mentor new teachers as they pursue a master’s degree with Relay Graduate School of Education.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

It’s not that bad,” a counselor the campers called Ivy told the 11- and 12-year-olds, nervous about their upcoming acting debuts. “I Joanna Andaluz, 12, (right) listens as Sunriver Nature Center lead naturalist Kody Osborne (not pictured) talks about and shows off an owl during an evening lesson at Crook County’s outdoor school.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 23, 2016

In 2012, Estonia’s 15-year-olds ranked 11 th in math and reading and sixth in science out of the 65 countries that participated in an international test that compares educational systems from around the world, called the Programme for International Student Assessment, or PISA. “We It has worked.”.

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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. Sign up for our newsletter.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 4, 2016

When the Obama administration issued guidance in 2012** to states and districts to improve school climates, the USDOE and Department of Justice (DOJ) took aim at misuses of suspension and expulsion. Districts and states must give schools additional human power and training to educate students with behavior problems.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 23, 2019

Leave this field empty if you're human: It’s not too often people announce big problems solved. The nonprofit launched in 2012, and when it explored school connectivity data the following year, it found that just 30 percent of school districts had sufficient bandwidth to support digital learning, or 100 kbps per student.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Looking at data from 2003 and 2012 for 448 small private colleges, it found that higher tuition discounts did not correlate with increased low-income or minority student enrollment. Leave this field empty if you're human: While need-based aid has existed in the U.S. Sign up for our Higher Education newsletter. Weekly Update.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 11, 2018

Leave this field empty if you're human: “After he joined, my oldest son began to love coming to school,” said Beijing-born Feili Ye, the mother of two club members. A 2012 National Endowment for the Arts report underscores the benefits of exposure to the arts. But to the parents, it’s worth it. Sign up for our newsletter.

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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,” she says. ” Photo: Gregory Rec/Portland Press Herald.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 6, 2016

It’s not that bad,” a counselor the campers called Ivy told the 11- and 12-year-olds, nervous about their upcoming acting debuts. “I Joanna Andaluz, 12, (right) listens as Sunriver Nature Center lead naturalist Kody Osborne (not pictured) talks about and shows off an owl during an evening lesson at Crook County’s outdoor school.

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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. Leave this field empty if you're human: The model has elicited spirited accolades from pro-business conservatives and centrist Democrats. Sign up for our newsletter.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

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. Department of Health and Human Services, at current funding levels for the Child Care and Development Block Grant, only one out of 10 eligible children will get assistance.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 6, 2016

And then you could see the performance begin to decline as we had to cut back on people, human resources and all kinds of things to support our students.”. And then you could see the performance begin to decline as we had to cut back on people, human resources and all kinds of things to support our students.”. Fair funding.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Jefferson was struck by how much of an impact this could have on K-12 schools in Kentucky. Later on, Ta opened an email from their school that mentioned the Kentucky Student Voice Team, a state-level group that was started in 2012 to bring students into the advocacy process. The amendment is up for a vote this election.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

These stories of resilience and triumph allowed me to see my own humanity as a Black person, something I later realized I desperately needed. I needed to learn about my people in order for me to see my own humanity, and for the students I’ve taught over the past 13 years, I know this to be true.

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