The Hechinger Report

MAY 19, 2024

Today, it enrolls roughly 500 students from 60 different tribes in grades K-12, bolstering their Indigenous heritage with land-based lessons and language courses built into a college preparatory model. The school also tracks college completion rates, with 59 percent of the class of 2012 finishing within six years.

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Digital Promise

JUNE 12, 2019

Over the last 12 years, the school system has undergone major upheavals. To ensure access to high-quality educational experiences at the high school level, students enrolled in Grades 9-12 were provided tuition to attend one of two neighboring high schools. In 2012, students in Grades 7-8 followed suit.

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ED Surge

JUNE 14, 2023

This year marks the first time since 2012 that a majority of undocumented high schoolers who are graduating won’t be able to apply to the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, known simply as DACA, according to a new report from the immigrant advocacy group FWD.us. They have the right to this education thanks to Plyler v.

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Digital Promise

APRIL 25, 2019

In 2012, the National Research Council released A Framework for K-12 Science Education , a consensus report that outlined how research in the learning sciences should inform the development of a new set of science standards.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 29, 2017

Some states hadn’t collected data since 2012, and some states didn’t have any remediation data available to share. At the same time, K-12 education systems across the country are focusing more than ever on producing “college-ready” students. But without better data, it’s hard to tell whether any of this is working.

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Anthropology.net

AUGUST 19, 2024

1 Fonseca-Azevedo, K., & Herculano-Houzel, S. Journal of Archaeological Science , 44 , 12–21. Nature Ecology & Evolution , 6 (12), 2016–2028. Ramaswamy, K., Siegmund, K. Metabolic constraint imposes tradeoff between body size and number of brain neurons in human evolution. link] 4 Preece, R.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 5, 2022

In 2012, the panel issued a joint statement asserting that calculus should not be the “ultimate goal of the K-12 mathematics curriculum.” A handful of states — Ohio , Oregon and New Jersey among them — are piloting high school data science courses or adding them to their K-12 math standards.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 10, 2024

Economists estimate that 120,000 elementary, middle and high school teachers lost their jobs between 2008 and 2012. State laws in California and New York still require that layoffs be carried out by seniority, according to TNTP, a nonprofit focused on improving K-12 education, and Educators for Excellence.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 29, 2019

And when the chance presented itself to lead Cambridge Street in 2012, he made his intentions clear. “I Russell Thompson teaches a statistics class at Boston’s Henderson K-12 Inclusion School. History teacher Samuel Texeira has been a mentor for young black students at Henderson K-12 Inclusion School.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 15, 2018

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. Andrea estimated she has worked at least 10 to 12 jobs since graduating from college six years ago. Before that, she worked as a packer in various warehouses in the Midwest.

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K-12 Psychology High School Leadership 111

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. Since the Say Yes Buffalo launch in 2012, the city’s high school graduation rate has climbed 15 points, to 64 percent.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 10, 2021

To an extent, yes, hold K-12 accountable, but now they’re your students. You can’t continue focusing on K-12 and what they didn’t do.”. What are you going to do?” Ortiz-Licon said. The financial challenges.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 5, 2016

The decline in black high school graduates is anticipated to be 6 percent between 2012 – when 480,000 graduated – and 2032. The projected enrollment declines are “related to overall declines in births and student enrollments in K-12.”. .

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 16, 2018

Students engage in creative activities on the playground at Pre-K 4 SA North Education Center in San Antonio, Texas. SAN ANTONIO, Texas — By the end of the school year, the playground at Pre-K 4 SA North Education Center looked like a dreamscape of “DIY Outdoor Learning Spaces.” Photo: Bekah McNeel for The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 27, 2017

Dental checkups are one of the many non-academic activities the 17-year-old senior does at school in between anthropology, English 12, and economics. percent of the 87 students who arrived in 2012 as freshmen graduated on time, nearly matching the city’s four-year graduation rate of 72.6 Last year, 72.4

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 20, 2017

Chun’s district is at the forefront of a national movement to turn K-12 librarians into indispensable digital mavens who can help classroom teachers craft tech-savvy lesson plans, teach kids to think critically about online research, and remake libraries into lively, high-tech hubs of collaborative learning — while still helping kids get books.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 29, 2020

She was hired as the student voice specialist at Chicago Public Schools in 2012 to oversee the district’s newly created “student voice committees.”. In 2012, it became the first U.S. Other school districts are also trying to elevate student voices in education policy and avoid “tokenism,” as Cristina Salgado puts it.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 6, 2016

The changes at San Diego State and in other colleges’ math classes are similar to components of the Common Core Standards for Mathematical Practice — the movement driving change at the K-12 level in the 40-plus states that have adopted it — which also place an emphasis on asking students to communicate their reasoning and construct arguments.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 21, 2016

students graduating from the K-12 system are college and career ready, Common Core has ramped up academic expectations that schools everywhere, including those in Kentucky, are still far from meeting. Sonja Brookins Santelises, vice president of K-12 policy at the Education Trust. Scores have been edging up ever since.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

In the majority black and Latino pre-K-12 school of roughly 1,000 students, 74 percent of whom come from low-income households, 100 percent of graduating seniors are accepted to college, officials said. The school serves grades pre-K to 12, providing a cohesive educational experience. The results they cite are promising.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MARCH 17, 2015

Sunday, June 28, 12:30pm to 3:30pm EDT (Eastern Daylight Time). is widely recognized as one of the nation’s leading experts on K-12 school technology leadership issues. Supporting effective technology integration and implementation: 2012 ISTE Leadership Forum #isteLF12. Date / time. Standards addressed. Presenters.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 3, 2016

Once an English learner becomes proficient at English, her achievement data moves out of the English learner tributary into the “mainstream” designation of all K–12 students. One important reform is the creation of an “ever English learner” category to track outcomes for these students over the course of their entire K–12 education.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 14, 2016

If you have 12 cookies and four friends, how can you give an equal number of cookies to each friend? You can have the same 12 cookies, but if you divide by ¼, the old approach won’t work. There’s no relationship between how many math courses K-8 teachers take and the achievement of their students.”. It’s a change in thinking.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

The proportion of students in kindergarten through 12 th grade nationwide that is Hispanic has increased to 25 percent from 19 percent since 2003, while the black, non-Hispanic population has dropped to 16 percent, and the white, non-Hispanic population, to 50 percent from 59 percent. In 2000, about one in 12 Hickory residents was Hispanic.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 13, 2017

Students in 2012 working in the Yuma, Arizona, Carpe Diem charter school. In 2012, the first school, in Yuma, Arizona, posted what seemed like promising early results. The student-to-teacher ratio was unusual: 226 students to five teachers and four teacher aides in 2012 at the Yuma school.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 16, 2019

The historically majority-white district, which served 14,150 K-12 students, 61 percent of whom qualified for free or reduced-price lunch in the 2018-19 school year, has seen a recent influx of immigrants from around the world. The data from the earlier survey is available in a detailed 2012 report by the U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2019

Sam Brownback’s controversial 2012 tax cuts that limited the available dollars for capital construction, renovations and repairs and contributed to a chaotic restructuring of school funding. million in 2012. million to build a new K-8 facility failed by a margin of 62 percent to 38 percent.

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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. NN: Thank you so much for your time today. CC: Well said. They saw growth.

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K-12 Middle School EdTech Community Engagement 77

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

Their first 2012 report tracked changes from 1987 through 2008. That’s up from 17 percent non-white teachers and 44 percent non-white students in 2011-12, the school year in the previous report. And it’s a staggering 162 percent increase in the number of non-white teachers since 1987, when there were only 290,000.

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Elementary School Public School Teaching Government 106

ED Surge

JULY 27, 2023

A large number of K-12 teachers and college professors have decided to simply ban the use of ChatGPT and other new AI chatbots when completing assignments. A recent survey of 1,000 K-12 teachers found that 61 percent predicted that ChatGPT will have “legitimate educational uses that we cannot ignore.”

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K-12 Teaching History Humanities 98

Digital Promise

DECEMBER 3, 2018

STEM has been a darling of policymakers and the education world in recent years, and humanities sometimes the bear , with K–12 schools across the country sticking “STEM” into their names. The trade-off is the uncertain path to a first job, and that can be terrifying.”.

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Political Science K-12 Humanities History 74

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 11, 2019

Red Wing High laid off its full-time college adviser in 2012 amid budget cuts. The school has two full-time school counselors, but in 2012 laid off a staffer whose sole focus was guiding students to college or other post-secondary options. When she got to high school, nobody disabused the ace student of that notion.

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High School Charter School Library Private School 111

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 17, 2017

In 2012, Windsor Locks Public Schools was designated as an Alliance District — one of the 30 lowest-performing districts in Connecticut. Read more about K-12. Sturgis said there is no “typical” district that chooses competency education. It may be harder, but Giannelli believes her son will be better off for it.

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K-12 Advocacy Tradition Public School 102

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 6, 2016

According to 2012 National Center for Education Statistics data, black men represent approximately 2 percent of all teachers, which is the same percentage of Latino men. Schools and students need more male teachers of color, but we certainly don’t need schools to be more paternalistic. A case for more male teachers of color is easy to make.

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K-12 Economics Teaching Tradition 63

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 15, 2018

Education spending hit a high of $11,621 on average per student in 2008-09 before budget cuts kicked in, and sank to a low of $11,019 in 2012-13. Its Democratic Governor, Jerry Brown, convinced voters to raise taxes for education in 2012. During 2014-15, each student was educated on $11,454, on average. See adjacent graph.).

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Public School Economics Government High School 110

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 31, 2019

This focus on access to high-quality preschool was born out of a larger city-wide plan to transform schools, introduced in Cleveland in 2012. That plan identified preschool as an important first step to improve K-12 education.

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K-12 Advocacy Professional Development Government 79

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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