The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

In part, they said they were thinking of other districts without the long outdoor school history of Crook County. Attendance at outdoor school statewide has been uneven. The post Will voters guarantee these public school kids a week in the woods? appeared first on The Hechinger Report.

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A Principal's Reflections

OCTOBER 14, 2012

Two of my Social Studies teachers were recently invited to Washington DC on October 4, 2012, to deliver a model lesson that illustrated the effective use of technology. The following is a guest post by Rebecca Millan who attended with her colleague Nicolette Perna. For more information on this event check out the summary provided by ISTE.

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ED Surge

APRIL 2, 2024

It was an unmitigated disaster in Maine,” Eyler admits, referring to a 2012 state law mandated that schools move to “proficiency-based” grading (a flavor of standards-based grading). Meanwhile, some schools have successfully made the switch, such as Santa Fe Public Schools.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

The low-income school district near downtown Los Angeles, with a student body that is 84 percent Latino and 14 percent Black, now has a graduation rate of 93 percent, compared with 58 percent when Brawley took the job in 2012. Public Schools Chancellor Lewis Ferebee.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Years ago, when Woodfin attended Union Public Schools from kindergarten through eighth grade, she sat in fairly homogenous classrooms. Woodfin recalled her peers as predominantly white, a legacy of families moving to the suburbs as Tulsa schools desegregated during the 1950s. Any questions?” her teacher invited.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

.” Ingersoll and his colleagues at the Consortium for Policy Research in Education analyzed teacher and school principal surveys , administered every four or so years by the federal government, to paint a picture of the teaching force and highlight trends. Their first 2012 report tracked changes from 1987 through 2008.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 5, 2024

From 2012-2018, nearly 2,800 preservice teachers within one of the largest teacher preparation programs in Texas responded to an essay prompt, “Explain why you decided to become a teacher.”

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 17, 2017

As an in-school family support specialist, Stubbe serves as a liaison between students, families and a number of health, legal and academic support services provided by local community organizations. The Say Yes promise of universal free college tuition to all Buffalo public school graduates has grabbed public attention.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 12, 2018

At my next job, recruiting teachers for KIPP LA Public Schools , I found many of the same obstacles. We at Great Public Schools Now were also delighted to see that many organizations were also thinking creatively about how to keep their best teachers after they’d been hired. “As natives and minorities in their proposals.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 9, 2024

In 2012, Brookline High saw more Black students score as advanced on the state Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System Math test than ever before; 88 percent of those students had participated in the Calculus Project. At the time of publication, there were no open investigations against Milton Public Schools.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 19, 2024

High schoolers at NACA graduate at much higher rates and tend to outperform their peers in Albuquerque Public Schools — which authorizes the charter — and throughout New Mexico. Those conversations prompted Albuquerque Public Schools to authorize NACA as its first charter.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 18, 2021

That’s less than 4 percent of the city’s public school population and below the national average where almost 7 percent of students are tapped for gifted and talented programs. Meanwhile, Black and Hispanic students make up more than 65 percent of the public school system but win only 16 percent of the gifted seats.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 27, 2018

The complaint states that 17,323 black and Latino teens attend a school with no PSAL teams at all. The P.S.A.L. funds teams for about 45,000 student-athletes citywide. According to P.S.A.L.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Other school districts are also trying to elevate student voices in education policy and avoid “tokenism,” as Cristina Salgado puts it. 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.

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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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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 10, 2024

Economists estimate that 120,000 elementary, middle and high school teachers lost their jobs between 2008 and 2012. The vast majority of school districts used seniority as the sole criteria for determining which teachers were laid off, according to a 2022 policy brief published in the journal Education Finance and Policy.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 10, 2020

At no point in recent memory has Melrose Public Schools been failing. But the outgoing superintendent, Cyndy Taymore, is four years into an effort to fundamentally rethink traditional schooling here. Cyndy Taymore, superintendent of Melrose Public Schools. Last year, Melrose served about 3,900 students.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MARCH 24, 2020

If you and your school(s) would like to be featured in the Coronavirus Chronicles series, get in touch ! Coronavirus Chronicles 001 – Greene County Public Schools. Supporting effective technology integration and implementation: 2012 ISTE Leadership Forum #isteLF12. See also the complete list of episodes.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Huinker led a math education revolution in the district when, between 2004 and 2014, almost every teacher in Milwaukee Public Schools received this type of training. In the early 2000s, she saw a grant from the National Science Foundation as a possible solution for Milwaukee’s public schools.

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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. Before Hurricane Katrina, just half of New Orleans public school students earned a high school diploma , and few went on to succeed at a university.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Stephanie Hinton, director of early childhood in Oklahoma City Public Schools. Much of the impetus for the shift in Oklahoma City comes from Stephanie Hinton, who started overseeing pre-K through second grade at Oklahoma City Public Schools a few years ago. “This isn’t just about play.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

Since 2012, U.S. from 36th to 19th in the 2012 international rankings. The researchers conducted the same experiment in Shanghai, China, where students had posted the highest scores in the world on the actual 2012 PISA test. The researchers also saw a smaller bribery bump among lower-achieving students at a public school.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 6, 2022

The median income is about $33,000 and almost a quarter of the population is considered to be living in poverty, a poverty that is concentrated in households sending children to the county’s public schools, where the vast majority of students qualify for free and reduced-price lunch. Some in town think schools should use it more often.

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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

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

Jackson Public Schools entered into an agreement with a private foundation, the City of Jackson, and the Governor’s office to improve its schools. The future of Jackson Public Schools is now in the hands of a coalition that includes representatives from Gov. In 2012, the William Penn Foundation donated $1.5

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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. Susan Myers, superintendent, Atchison Public Schools. . Related: Switching sides in the teacher wars.

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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.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 1, 2019

Between 2005 and 2012, a teacher-led approach to drilling down to analyze what was missing, called Strategic Inquiry, identified that students across New York City were lacking the writing strategies necessary to communicate complex ideas. And it’s not the fault of teachers. Again, there is no magic bullet.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2024

. “No sé por qué dudas de ti misma” Hace años, cuando Woodfin asistió de kinder hasta octavo grado en Union Public Schools , ella estudió en aulas bastante homogéneas. Credit: Shane Bevel del The Hechinger Report Unión Public Schools, en cambio, ha intentado encontrar un término medio. “¿Alguna pregunta?”,

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 4, 2017

Well, in New Orleans, 30 of 72 public schools (or 41 percent) have just received a “D” or an “F” grade, according to the Louisiana Department of Education. In New Orleans, 30 of 72 public schools (or 41 percent) have just received a “D” or an “F” grade — approximately 15,000 students attend these failing schools.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2016

For students of color to matriculate successfully through college to return and teach means that schooling truly added value to a system that apparently rejects black and brown talent. Black students certainly need to have role models of smartness.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

The New Orleans public school system is unlike any other in America. All but a few of the 80 public schools operate as charters, which private organizations run using public funds. So last year, Carlos and others asked the new English Language Learner coordinator, Ann Holleman, if they could start a school squad.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 11, 2023

In public schools, there are state standards … and to some extent that probably constrains the creativity of educators,” said Fagen. The 15-month tuition-free program focuses on enrolling educators in “high-needs” middle and high schools. More than 150 teachers have graduated from the program since it started in 2012. “I

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 5, 2016

But she was relieved of the duty when Jacob graduated from his Head Start preschool program and enrolled in a Durant Public School District elementary school. As part of his special-education program at the new school, Jacob was still entitled to continue his weekly therapy sessions. Public-school Failures.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 26, 2016

Cedrick Gray, superintendent of Jackson Public Schools.n JACKSON — When Cedrick Gray took the reins as superintendent of Jackson Public Schools in 2012, he had three preliminary goals attached to his three-year, $200,000 contract. y Photo: Imani Khayyam.

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Digital Promise

MARCH 6, 2017

In 2012, our research group at the Brain and Creativity Institute at University of Southern California began a five-year study that did just that. A third group of children were from public schools and community centers in the same areas of Los Angeles. Impact of Music Training on Child Development.

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Psychology Research Public School Education 105

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 6, 2016

Charters like PUC Schools and district school systems across the country are facing a common problem: Even though students of color represent half of the public school student population, the teacher workforce is still overwhelmingly white. Related: How do we stop the exodus of minority teachers?

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