The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 9, 2016

Virtual charter schools can give students who are falling behind in traditional schools a chance to find success in an alternative learning environment. But can virtual charter schools fully replace the traditional face-to-face school experience? Fordham Institute, doesn’t think the current virtual school model can do that.

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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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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.”. The committees are different from traditional student government, she said, because any student can join. In 2012, it became the first U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

In addition to traditional academic grades, student report cards include marks from 1 to 4 on qualities such as organization, timeliness and accountability. The school serves grades pre-K to 12, providing a cohesive educational experience. The results they cite are promising. I knew this was for me.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 17, 2017

Traditional grades no longer exist, children get extra help based on their individual learning needs and classrooms run very differently. Picard’s older children went through the traditional education system and she can see a difference. “I Read more about K-12. Not, ‘We did this to you.’ ”.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 27, 2018

“This study shows that a well-designed project-based curriculum might be more effective than traditional instruction.” It’s a lot more involved than tacking on a project to a traditional unit of study by assigning students, for example, to make shoebox dioramas about a book they’ve read.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 10, 2020

But the outgoing superintendent, Cyndy Taymore, is four years into an effort to fundamentally rethink traditional schooling here. That’s what they called it in Maine, where, in 2012, state officials mandated that every district adopt it, and then, in 2018, abandoned the requirement. Last year, Melrose served about 3,900 students.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 17, 2018

It’s where districts and schools decide to spend their money,” Worth, a veteran educator who has also taught in Greene County’s traditional public schools, explained. 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.

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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

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

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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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 19, 2019

Kathryn Toppan switched to a 1-4 scale even before the administration required it, finding it “less arbitrary” than the traditional 1-100. 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.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 1, 2018

According to state data, the number of young people in state juvenile justice facilities dropped from 901 at the end of 2012 to 386 in 2017. In 2016, 45,567 young people were held in facilities nationwide, down 20 percent from 2012.) Some District 428 students earn double the number of credits common in a traditional academic year.

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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. According to U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

Often, students struggling in these subjects find ways around taking them in traditional high schools, and, lacking the mandatory prerequisites, are ineligible to take advanced math and science classes in college. Information was based on surveys of 12th graders in 2012 in North Carolina and 2013 in Texas. Photo: Kathleen Lucadamo.

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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

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

In Louisiana, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Texas, dozens of taxpayer-funded public charters enroll far more white students than any of the traditional public schools in their areas. Schools superintendent Dennis Dupree came to the city 12 years ago, promising innovation. Southwest Georgia S.T.E.M.

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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. His was a brash mission shared by a new breed of charter school leaders who said they could succeed where traditional neighborhood schools had failed.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

Many schools rely on counting noses at traditional Back-to-School nights or parent-teacher conferences to gauge whether parents are engaged in their children’s learning. nitially, Malik relied on traditional meetings to get parent feedback. Photo: Caralee Adams for The Hechinger Report. Photo: Caralee Adams for The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

This study analyzed families who started having kids between 1994 and 2002 and sent them to public schools between 2002 and 2012. It’s tough for researchers to figure out which families harbor more traditional, sexist beliefs and which might be more egalitarian.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 2, 2019

Foxworth-Carter’s ties to Carver reflect a strong high-school alumni tradition in New Orleans that was basically put on hiatus for nearly a decade as the city went through high-profile school reforms. Wearing bright-orange t-shirts, they held signs reading, “Hands Off Carver! We Deserve Respect!”. Related: Held back, but not helped.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 22, 2018

. Back in 2012, Maine was a trailblazer in something called proficiency-based education, in which students would be required to master specific skills and educational topics to progress and graduate from school. Schools are now free to continue teaching, grading and graduating students the traditional way.

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

The majority of K-12 students in the U.S. ” To turn things around, Middletown decided to go beyond the school district’s traditional role in addressing poverty, and tackle it head-on. In 2012, the district was one of 16 U.S. We’re the ones that provide their reinforcement, the safe place, the continuity.

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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

MARCH 6, 2018

Still, as more rural schools look to virtual programs for help, there’s little evidence that online learning is equal to or can exceed outcomes from traditional in-person instruction, and some experts are urging caution — along with greater attention to quality. Some of the more time intensive virtual programs have shown poor outcomes.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 11, 2017

Moheeb is part of a new program that is challenging the way teachers and students think about academics, and his school is one of hundreds that have done away with traditional letter grades inside their classrooms. 442 moved away from the traditional system, it lost seven teachers. The year M.S. We needed students to be more engaged.”.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 4, 2017

But opponents of the proposed reforms said scores were used to justify the overturning of a black-run system, to fire black teachers, disempower a traditional district and profit from a public good.

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

The majority of K-12 students in the U.S. To turn things around, Middletown decided to go beyond the school district’s traditional role in addressing poverty, and tackle it head-on. In 2012, the district was one of 16 U.S. The district’s intent, however, is not to hold students back in the traditional sense.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

A study in 2012 by scholars at New York University of three middle schools that were earlier adopters of Teach to One in 2010-11 found mixed results. Even after adjusting for family income and other student characteristics, the students in the Teach to One classrooms didn’t improve more than students taught in the traditional way.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 11, 2016

This model demands more resources than those available to a traditional high school, but given that the typical high school dropout costs the state an estimated $300,000 over their lifetime , Cesene argues that the math is elementary. Related: Presentations and portfolios take the place of tests for some students. high schools?

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 27, 2016

There are, of course, larger, longer term costs to consider, like the larger toll the traditional vehicle may take on the environment and the health of those living around it. But most people would agree, over the long term, with all things being equal, the innovative electric car is a better way of getting around.

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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

MAY 16, 2016

75 percent of principals think their job has become “too complex,” according to a 2012 survey. A 2012 survey found 75 percent of principals think their job has become “too complex.” Between 2008 and 2012, the same survey found job satisfaction among principals decreased nine percentage points, from 68 percent to 59 percent.

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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.

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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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Digital Promise

MAY 8, 2019

K., & Pashler, H. How can the increased use of technology in both formal and informal settings help teachers and students leverage the benefits of distributed practice? I think technology can absolutely be a boon for distributed practice. His research addresses the application of cognitive psychology to improve learning and memory.

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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. It allows us to open up the conversation.”.

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