The Hechinger Report

MARCH 16, 2021

Until middle school, when a U-46 administrator — Wells’ friend’s mother, also Black — noticed that April’s grasp exceeded her classes’ reach. She coached Wells on how to talk with her middle school counselor. Wells spoke up for herself and got into honors classes, where she remained through high school.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Now they are demanding a greater role in school policy and the decisions that shape their educations. Other school districts are also trying to elevate student voices in education policy and avoid “tokenism,” as Cristina Salgado puts it. In 2012, it became the first U.S. Credit: Alison Yin for The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 1, 2017

When Mary Fair became a teacher in 2012, her classes often contained a mix of special education students and general education students. Although she earned a bachelor’s degree and teaching certificate in math instruction for both elementary and middle school, she never had to take a class about students with disabilities.

Middle School 99

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Digital Promise

JUNE 15, 2016

Teaching quality has been defined as “instruction that enables a wide range of students to learn” ( Darling-Hammond, 2012 ), and it is the strongest school-related factor that can improve student learning and achievement ( Hanushek, 2011 ; Nye, Konstantopoulos, and Hedges, 2004 ; Rivkin, Hanushek, and Kain, 2005 ).

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

She dreamed of attending a historically black school out of state, maybe Spelman College or Clark Atlanta University.1 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. Plus, she had little to lose.

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Charter School Psychology High School Private School 111

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 25, 2023

She would also lead an upcoming meeting on the school’s finances, including how to spend federal pandemic relief dollars. And she was running for the school’s governing board. The Boston Teachers Union Pilot School, where Snyder has worked since 2012, is a “teacher-powered” school.

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Charter School Government Sociology Social Studies 139

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 29, 2019

As first period gets underway at Cambridge Street Upper School, veteran math teacher Stephen Abreu leads a small-group discussion. But the conversation isn’t about middle school algebra, and Abreu isn’t talking to students. 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

JUNE 6, 2022

His time in elementary school preceded both Johnson’s leadership at Collins Elementary and Duty’s in the district. Almost a decade after the fact, the elementary school’s paddling system remains clear in Damion’s mind: “You got colors,” he explained, “green, yellow, red. “The research does not support that at all,” she said.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 11, 2017

Moheeb Kaied, a seventh-grader this fall, shows a visitor how he checks his academic progress using a monitoring website that one of the teachers at the school developed. NEW YORK — Few middle schoolers are as clued in to their mathematical strengths and weakness as Moheeb Kaied. Photo: Kyle Spencer.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 6, 2016

“This benefits the school system, it benefits the community,” Foose said. “It After attending PUC Schools for middle school and part of high school, he returned to PUC Schools to coach high school soccer. It benefits the students and their families.”. How it works.

Social Justice 111

Social Justice Charter School High School Public School 111

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

Galt is sufficiently suburban to locate its district office in a strip mall next to an AutoZone, but rural enough that a tractor flattens the dirt track at McCaffrey Middle School. While the number of schools using the method isn’t tallied anywhere, the number of tests taken could serve as a loose proxy for interest in it.

Elementary School 95

Elementary School Psychology K-12 Private School 95

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. He also wants more information from the state, which has not published the rules by which schools will be evaluated.

High School 70

High School Social Studies Leadership Tradition 70

Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

In 2012, the district was one of 16 U.S. “There’s research that’s been there for years that says to simply retain our children and put them right back in the same program that they failed the previous year is pointless,” says Gordon Dean, principal at Twin Towers Middle School. is three years.

K-12 85

K-12 Elementary School Middle School Tradition 85

Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

In 2012, the district was one of 16 U.S. There’s research that’s been there for years that says to simply retain our children and put them right back in the same program that they failed the previous year is pointless,” says Gordon Dean, principal at Twin Towers Middle School. “I’m not there like I feel like I should be.”.

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K-12 Elementary School Middle School Tradition 72

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 6, 2016

In Rachael McIlvaine’s eighth-grade science class at West Middle School here, a chatty but focused group of three takes turns closing their eyes, dipping a plastic spoon into a foil roasting pan and fishing for M&M’s, trying to capture as much candy as they can. Attendance improved among middle and high school students. “We

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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.” Still, the Commission held, the majority of Greenville’s citizens — planters, business folks, community members — all understood that they were better off with diverse, unified public schools. By 1977, the U.S.

Middle School 111

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 12, 2017

King-Morris, who is black, places her own racial identity low on the list of qualities that make her a good school leader. 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.

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K-12 Leadership Elementary School Public School 106

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 14, 2020

They said that giftedness could also be creativity, and found that a high IQ score did not necessarily correspond with leadership, professional accomplishment or even success in school. Charles Parish outside New Orleans began talent development in 2012. Psychologists later poked holes in that definition.

Education 145

Education Elementary School High School Public School 145

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

That means that students at these schools — where only 15 percent of students are black or Hispanic, compared to almost 70 percent citywide — are getting almost $18 million more this year than they would have without the bonus, according to Department of Education data. Kids called in ‘Broken Tech,’ ” she said.

High School 64

High School Leadership Tutoring Public School 64

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. Then, in mid-May 2023, a member of the school board told Grimes that it would not be renewing his contract, which was to end in June 2024.

High School 145

High School K-12 Professional Development Heritage 145

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 11, 2018

Students who’ve received in-school suspensions at Pacific Middle School in the Highline School District spend their day in Matthew Burman’s classroom. Highline Public Schools Superintendent Susan Enfield, about the district’s high teacher turnover rate. In 2012-13, 10.4 percent from 2012-13 to 2014-15.

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Elementary School Middle School Civics Public School 106

The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2020

A high school social studies book, also used in Texas, says of rising temperatures, “Some critics say that this warming is just part of the Earth’s natural cycle,” though, in truth, there’s overwhelming consensus among climate scientists that the current warming is due to human activities. Credit: Courtesy of Beatriz López.

Teaching 137

Teaching Middle School Humanities High School 137

The Hechinger Report

JULY 12, 2016

In 2012, the U.S, ranked 35th among developed economies in pre-primary or primary school enrollment for 3- to 5-year-olds, according to the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), an international economic association. “I think we value our children less than other nations do,” said Arne Duncan, the former U.S.

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Elementary School K-12 Research Economics 80