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. She says by making cultural proficiency mandatory, “leadership is signaling that this work is important.

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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.”. Along with orientations and admission seminars open to all students, there is also an institute for leadership development specifically for Black and Latino students. “We

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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

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Some school districts, local governments and nonprofit groups across the country have galvanized this youth activism by giving students opportunities to participate in leadership roles and democracy in ways that go beyond civics classes and student government. In 2012, it became the first U.S.

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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. As Williams and her classmates moved away in the summer of 2012, Marcovitz expected they’d all have “a happy ending with college.” The air smelled familiar.

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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. When the district won federal Race to the Top funding in 2012, Schauer expanded the strengths program. Photo: Gail Cornwall for The Hechinger Report. take one of that company’s quizzes.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 8, 2019

“For the first time, we know that there are benefits for kids,” said Jody Spiro, director of education leadership at the Wallace Foundation. 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. First, the numbers.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

Charter School opened in 2016 on the former campus of the shuttered Randolph Southern School, a private school that had not enrolled a single black student in 2012, the last year for which enrollment numbers are available. Schools superintendent Dennis Dupree came to the city 12 years ago, promising innovation.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 16, 2016

“It’s not as if the principal had particular tasks taken away from their role,” said Ellen Goldring, professor of education policy and leadership at Vanderbilt University. 75 percent of principals think their job has become “too complex,” according to a 2012 survey. These new tasks were added.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 19, 2019

The only thing most everyone agrees on is this: The roll out of the 2012 law, LD 1422, was a disaster, plagued by insufficient funding and inadequate guidance from the top. Portland’s district leadership has said it plans “ to stay the course with its transition to a proficiency-based diploma,” regardless of changes in the law.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 18, 2016

In 2012-13, black students accounted for more than 90 percent of enrollment at over a quarter of the schools in Mississippi, according to federal and state school district data compiled by Jake McGraw, public policy coordinator at the Mississippi-based William Winter Institute for Racial Reconciliation and editor of the blog Rethink Mississippi.

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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. Maine is the pioneer,” said Chris Sturgis, co-founder of CompetencyWorks , a national organization that advocates for the approach in K-12 schools. “I Kylee Elderkin, student, Nokomis Regional High School.

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

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 9, 2017

In 2012, city officials became convinced that the school could not improve and began the process of shutting it down. City officials say that getting the right leadership in place has been the most important step to getting the schools on the road to improvement. It has roughly 225 students; 99 percent are low-income.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 6, 2016

The Alumni Teach Project was launched in 2012, when two alumni finished college and followed up on their 2008 PUC graduation-day-letter job offers (PUC started including the letters with students’ diplomas in 2007). This prompted Rodriguez and the other co-founder of PUC Schools, Jacqueline Elliot, to formalize the program.

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

The majority of K-12 students in the U.S. In 2012, the district was one of 16 U.S. ” Initially, K-8 teachers were asked if they wanted to opt in to blended learning environments, which mix online and face-to-face instruction. We’re the ones that provide their reinforcement, the safe place, the continuity.

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

The majority of K-12 students in the U.S. In 2012, the district was one of 16 U.S. Initially, K-8 teachers were asked if they wanted to opt in to blended learning environments, which mix online and face-to-face instruction. We’re the ones that provide their reinforcement, the safe place, the continuity. is three years.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 11, 2017

The Young Women’s Leadership School of Astoria educates girls who may become the first in their families to go to college. In late 2012, educators at the school were trying to think big. In addition to fulfilling Common Core requirements, assignments are designed to help students learn critical thinking and workplace skills.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 28, 2019

Starting in 2012, an idea floated around Alaska that seemed sort of preposterous. New state leadership will likely shape the future of rural broadband, but in what ways is yet to be determined. “If they do go to school outside of Nome, or go to work outside of Nome, they’ve had some exposure to different cultures, different places.”.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 5, 2016

Before, the state already had two voucher programs: the 2012 Dyslexia Therapy Scholarship for Students with Dyslexia Program, and in 2013, the Speech-Language Therapy Scholarship for Students with Speech-Language Impairments.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

Berry said that consistent leadership and high expectations helped the district improve under state control. Two additional districts, taken over in 2012, registered a decline in third-grade math scores immediately after the state took control. In this file photo, Tate County algebra teacher Molly Berry teaches parabolas to her class.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 6, 2016

A study by Brett Lane, president and founder of the Institute for Strategic Leadership and Learning, an education research and policy consulting firm, reported that the percentage of students in the district proficient in math increased by over 50 points and in reading by over 40 points between 1996 and 2008. Fair funding.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 12, 2017

Instead, she cites her 12 years of teaching, her rigorous principal training through the nonprofit New Leaders program, her propensity to foster teacher leadership and her willingness to listen. According to the 2016 report on diversity among educators , in 2012, only 7 percent of teachers were black, while 8 percent were Hispanic.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 19, 2020

About 4 percent of K-12 students, or roughly 3 million, attend year-round schools, according to Hornak. In 2012, Socorro, a low-income district, was lagging behind other districts in Texas on new state assessments of academic readiness, despite using the model. Harlandale ISD offices in south San Antonio.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 21, 2017

The pace of their educational gains, the political leadership and styling of the women behind the Women’s March and Rep. 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.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 2, 2016

Good leadership and good will” had created a district where “not one school was left with an all-black student body.” Black and white students shared school leadership positions and leads in the class plays. The private school now has a manicured campus and around 700 students, K-12, the vast majority white, 1.6

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 27, 2016

That dramatic transformation took four years of summer learning academies, college-preparation programs, scholarship coaching, and leadership workshops, all provided by area nonprofits, plus a 3.8 grade-point average and enough financial aid to cover all of her tuition for at least her first year.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2019

Somerville Mayor Joseph Curtatone sat on the school committee, and he’d been the one to suggest they consider designing a new public school in the first place, back in 2012. Andre Green, a school committee member, worried that district leadership wouldn’t have the time or energy to commit to Powderhouse, given their other responsibilities.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 18, 2017

That dramatic transformation took four years of summer learning academies, college-preparation programs, scholarship coaching, and leadership workshops, all provided by area nonprofits, plus a 3.8 grade-point average and enough financial aid to cover all of her tuition for at least her first year.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

Since 2012, when the department began publishing complete information on how schools are funded, the group of 13 schools has received more than $100 million from the bonus. Students who are learning English, for example, bring an extra 12 to 55 cents on the dollar. Kids called in ‘Broken Tech,’ ” she said.

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Studies Weekly

APRIL 29, 2024

In 2016, Ko was honored by the National Women’s History Museum for success and leadership in business. He was CEO and “Chief Yahoo” until his departure in 2012. Start a 60 day FREE trial for Studies Weekly Online to gain access to K-6 social studies curriculum, primary source videos, and more. Inc, according to ilctr.org.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 27, 2018

Between 2012 and 2016, the number of kids in foster care around the country rose by 10 percent. The leader, Mary Beth Bonaventura, said she was responding to budget cuts, leadership changes and complacency over outmoded technology. Indiana’s foster care intake has more than doubled since 2001 , the sharpest increase in the nation.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 7, 2019

The two-hour course combines sports with exercises in leadership and goal setting, with the hope that each girl will identify a way that she wants to make history and change the world. But since 2012 that number is up by 9 percent — a bright spot for a sector that lost 19 percent of its overall enrollment during that time.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 20, 2019

obert Roark, the son of a coal miner, became principal of Leslie County High School in 2012 after most of the mines had closed. Under Roark’s leadership, Leslie County High School has made a remarkable turnaround. Photo: John Flavell for The Hechinger Report. We want your questions.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 6, 2024

But as Grimes’ star rose statewide, according to local educators and residents, his relationship with city leadership started to unravel. Whenever we need something, we simply ask for it and they do their best to get it for us,” Martínez said of his district’s leadership. secretary of K-12 education in the Obama administration.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 11, 2018

Teachers say, ‘I know more about my students than ever before,’ ” says Alexandria Haas, the principal of this pre-K-6 school. Highline Superintendent Susan Enfield joined the district in 2012 after serving as interim superintendent in Seattle. In 2012-13, 10.4 percent from 2012-13 to 2014-15. Progress was swift.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2020

In the review of the 32 textbooks, which are used in California, Florida, Oklahoma or Texas, we found that at least 12 included descriptions of climate change that were superficial or contained errors. Another four of the science books did not discuss the topic at all.

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