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.”. Students who serve on the committees learn how to research, organize and identify solutions to issues in their schools, said Salgado. In 2012, it became the first U.S.

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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

JUNE 17, 2018

This was clearly no ordinary public school. A driveway circling a landscaped pond led them to the school’s main hall. Lake Oconee’s amenities are virtually unheard of in rural Georgia; and because it is a public school, they are all available at the unbeatable price of free. Lake Oconee Academy is a charter school.

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Digital Promise

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

For example, South Fayette Township School District implemented computational thinking projects at every grade level, and Piedmont City School District uses competency-based learning so students can work at their own pace. Yet as schools break away from traditional models of education, new challenges emerge.

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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 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 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. The cries for reform won out, leading to the dismantling of New Orleans’ school system, eventually resulting in a nearly all-charter school district.

Charter School 95

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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

APRIL 17, 2017

The Windsor Locks High School freshman belongs to the first cohort of students going through middle and high school under a new system. Traditional grades no longer exist, children get extra help based on their individual learning needs and classrooms run very differently. Windsor Locks Public Schools parent Cheryl Picard.

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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

JANUARY 29, 2017

Sonja Brookins Santelises, chief executive officer of Baltimore City Public Schools. 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.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

The researchers began by studying Florida because of its vast data trove and the ability to link years of birth records with school records. This study analyzed families who started having kids between 1994 and 2002 and sent them to public schools between 2002 and 2012.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

In 1970, when the courts ordered schools to desegregate and controversies over busing erupted across the country, white parents in Coahoma County fled the public system for private segregation academies, calling it “school choice.”. Related: Are rural charter schools viable in Mississippi? he Brown v.

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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. When we say every, we mean every.”.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 15, 2018

Startups and established tech companies are providing a crash course in entrepreneurship, sending engineers and designers into public schools to mentor students. 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.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 16, 2021

Segregating public school children on the basis of race or ethnicity is inherently suspect,” he wrote in his 2013 decision. He hired Wells to overhaul the gifted program in November 2012 even before the judge issued his ruling. Segregating public school children on the basis of race or ethnicity is inherently suspect.”

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 22, 2016

They say their concerns have fallen on the deaf ears of the state, which removed the city’s school board more than a year ago. Charter schools are tuition-free, independently operated public schools. And parents say Highland Park’s once-proud school district has collapsed, hastened by four years under state control.

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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. Marisa Bier is the Program Director for the Seattle Teacher Residency, with 22 years experience in teacher preparation and public education.

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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

JANUARY 28, 2019

The IT staff at Nome Public Schools would have strongly discouraged this kind of lesson just two years ago, lest it strain the bandwidth shared by the district’s 720 students and 100 staff members. Starting in 2012, an idea floated around Alaska that seemed sort of preposterous. A plan to link Alaska to the world.

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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

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. To that end, Capital City’s high school counselors have made tracking students after graduation a priority. The results they cite are promising.

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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.

Middle School 76

Middle School Leadership Professional Development Charter School 76

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. Come to school in America and your language gets stomped away.”.

High School 112

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 20, 2019

The economic futures of African Americans without a high school diploma are especially bleak. In 2012, 57 percent of ”minority” students (almost all African American) graduated from Avoyelles Parish high schools, lower than the percentage of adults with a diploma. In Avoyelles, these trends have become deeply entrenched.

Charter School 85

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 18, 2016

Board of Education mandated the end of segregated schooling, Mississippi’s children still largely attend schools identifiable by race. And for Mississippi’s black children, nearly half of whom live in poverty , that usually means being stuck in schools that are subpar. Beth Raney, parent in Clinton. No silver bullet.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 6, 2018

In Colorado, rural districts have worked together to offer more AP courses by creating video conference classrooms, where kids at one high school can watch courses taught by a teacher at a neighboring school. Some of the more time intensive virtual programs have shown poor outcomes.

Tutoring 89

Tutoring High School K-12 Charter School 89

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 10, 2016

Educators prefer to call the new exams assessments, because they’re so different in form and format from traditional standardized tests. Related: What the country can learn from Boston about bringing the arts back to public schools. It’s a parity thing.”. Yet access to arts education remains unequal.

Education 75

Education Elementary School High School Critical Thinking 75

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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K-12 Elementary School Middle School Tradition 85

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 8, 2017

Hurricane Katrina upended many of this city’s customs and institutions, but arguably no change has been more indelible than the transformation of New Orleans’s public schools. The state, in turn, put most of the city’s historically black schools into the hands of a new class of leaders, many of them white transplants.

High School 59

High School Charter School Public School Cultures 59

Education Elements

JUNE 8, 2016

At that time, the only schools we could find that were innovating as whole school models were charters. Our investments were small but in the 2011–2012 school year, the Gates Foundation, the Broad Foundation and the Charter School Growth Fund made combined grants in this space of some $40 million. and Oakland, CA.

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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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K-12 Elementary School Middle School Tradition 72

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 23, 2020

This period of social distancing is giving us a glimpse of what it’s like when a school is shuttered permanently, a tragedy tens of thousands of families have had to deal with over the last two decades. Like the coronavirus, the impact of permanent school closures disproportionately hit Black and urban neighborhoods.

Economics 144

Economics Archiving Tradition Government 144

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2019

The two had spent nearly seven years designing a new kind of high school meant to address the needs of students who didn’t thrive in a traditional setting. Resnick and Duffy had spent countless hours shepherding this school through the political thickets that all new public schools face.

Charter School 111

Charter School Project-Based Learning High School Public School 111

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. The same report showed that only 7 percent of principals were Hispanic compared to 24 percent of public school students. “We

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K-12 Leadership Elementary School Public School 108

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 19, 2020

The year-round system began gaining popularity in the 1980’s, according to David Hornak, executive director of the National Association for Year-Round Education and superintendent of Holt Public Schools, in Michigan. Families plan reunions or vacations, schools host band or athletic camps, and teenagers and teachers take summer jobs.

Tutoring 143

Tutoring K-12 Economics High School 143

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

And it’s made these gains without the wholesale turnover in staff that often characterizes school turnaround efforts. Juarez is now a destination school,” said principal Juan Ocon. 84 percent of this Chicago high school’s students graduate on time and 52 percent of them now go to college, an 11-point increase from 2012.

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