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

Mendoza’s involvement in civic participation started in middle school, when she signed up for the All City Council Student Union, a student-led group sponsored by the Oakland school district that gives students a voice in school district decision-making. In 2012, it became the first U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

Educators throughout the state soon copied the model established by Hollenbeck and Milliken in their local schools. It’s outdoor school. Mike Shinkle, aka Kodiak, shop teacher at Crook County Middle School. In part, they said they were thinking of other districts without the long outdoor school history of Crook County.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

But letting kids learn through play is hard to grasp for educators who have been trained to follow the rules and structure of a traditional school setting, said Peg Drappo, who runs the pre-K program in Watertown City School District in New York. In Oklahoma, playful learning has support from lawmakers as well.

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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. They controlled for student demographics and achievement before high school. Photo: Kathleen Lucadamo.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 16, 2016

Ron Smith (left), a middle school network superintendent in Oakland, speaks to Jaime Aquino of New Leaders during a “learning walk” at a local middle school. It was almost the end of first period at Bret Harte Middle School when the five superintendents descended on math class. Photo: Jackie Mader.

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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. We don’t question why students come to school to learn academics,” said Laina Cox, Capital City’s middle school principal. And I see SEL the exact same way.”.

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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. But Moheeb defended his school’s approach.

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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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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 16, 2019

All students are exposed to music starting in elementary school; by middle school nearly half (44 percent) have picked up an instrument, according to district data. For example, 97 percent of Poe Middle School students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, according to the state, and 58 percent play an instrument.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 11, 2023

“For almost two years, we told families that school can look different and that schoolwork could be accomplished in times outside of the traditional 8-to-3 day. Families got used to that,” said Elmer Roldan, of Communities in Schools of Los Angeles, which helps schools follow up with absent students.

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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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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 6, 2016

Educators throughout the state soon copied the model established by Hollenbeck and Milliken in their local schools. It’s outdoor school. Mike Shinkle, aka Kodiak, shop teacher at Crook County Middle School. In part, they said they were thinking of other districts without the long outdoor school history of Crook County.

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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

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

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

About half of its students did not complete high school and all seven of its schools were classified by the state as “in need of improvement.” ” To turn things around, Middletown decided to go beyond the school district’s traditional role in addressing poverty, and tackle it head-on.

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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.

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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. I prefer the traditional system.”. Related: High school should be more like preschool.

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

Middletown School District, a #DPLIS member, works to erase the look and feel of poverty: https://t.co/OcFbxT9ygG 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.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 22, 2016

And parents say Highland Park’s once-proud school district has collapsed, hastened by four years under state control. In 2012, the district was in “financial freefall,” according to a news release quoting then-state Superintendent Mike Flanagan. Not long after the district consolidation legislation, Drew’s high school was closed. “It

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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. At his middle school, he says he felt discouraged from speaking Spanish in the building.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 8, 2017

When they returned to New Orleans four years later, Hales enrolled him at KIPP Believe, a middle school that was established the year after the hurricane by a national charter school chain focused on getting black and Latino students to and through college. The school already had basketball, baseball and lacrosse.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 12, 2017

Yet in 2012 only about 10 percent of public school principals were black while 16 percent of public school students were black, according to a 2016 U.S. Still, that diversity is necessarily limited by the lack of diversity in the teacher workforce — the primary talent pool for future school leaders.

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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. Too often in this country, we’re sticking to the middle and mediocrity.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 18, 2016

“It was overwhelming,” Jesús “Nacho” Aguilar, 23, told me as we sat at a table in the basement of the University of Texas-Austin with a group of Roma High School graduates who now live in Austin and San Antonio. “It When I attended the high school graduation for Jesús’ class, 88 of my 131 former students picked up a diploma.

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MPSA

MARCH 30, 2022

The National Conference on Civic Learning and Democratic Engagement (NCCLDE) produced a report in 2012 featuring numerous examples of Americans teaming up to make a difference in their communities. As with the civic engagement curriculum, the new lessons in informed voting did not replace the more-traditional material in the course.

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Civics Civic Engagement Teaching Political Science 52

The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2020

When Darling-Hammond looked around recently for school districts with online education plans that California might learn from, hurricane- and flood-prone districts in southern Florida stood out, she said. The Miami-Dade school district, for example, adopted a plan back in 2012 to close the digital divide.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 6, 2024

Her daughter loves school, she said, and her son in middle school can’t wait to try out for the soccer team. The school’s logo is a torch like that on the Statue of Liberty, and there’s a school tradition of holding up clenched fists to show unity and pride.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 13, 2018

As traditional blue-collar industries decline across the country, the casualties of automation and offshoring, they are increasingly being replaced by skilled service jobs such as those in health care, information technology and finance, according to research by the Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 1, 2022

He has been with the district since June 2012. Credit: Image provided by the School District of Philadelphia. My eighth grader, he does not possess the ability to be at middle school with almost 40 kids in his classroom and focus. Katina Harris is a Richmond native who has worked in the school district for 14 years.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

After her husband took a job that would keep him on the road most of the time, Williams moved back in with her parents in 2012 to save money. Her daughter, 12, and two sons, 11 and 10, started school, and Williams got a job in medical billing in Jasper, 30 minutes from Birmingham. Gardendale also cited Shelby County v.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 15, 2017

API’s vice president of communications delivered a special presentation to the board in 2012 on marketing strategies. By 1954, DuPont had trained 600 oil-industry workers to deliver the show-and-tell in classrooms, with 40 assigned to New York’s 230 middle schools and high schools. Go out there and make a difference.”.

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ED Surge

APRIL 22, 2025

An estimated 67,000 children from active-duty military and civilian families attend the DoDEAs 161 schools worldwide. While traditional school districts have not rushed to comply with the presidents executive orders because they have local control over their curricula, DoDEA has fallen in line since it is part of a federal agency, Sykes said.

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