The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 28, 2019

A 10th grader, above, answers a question in one of those classes, which offers black history and culture along with social-emotional lessons and academic and college advice. The post Some evidence for the importance of teaching black culture to black students appeared first on The Hechinger Report. “It shows that it works.”

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Digital Promise

JULY 12, 2022

A year ago, the American Rescue Plan provided billions of dollars in federal relief for K-12 education. Verizon Innovative Learning Schools have been doing just that since 2014. Many districts used these funds to purchase devices for every student.

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 14, 2016

Beginning in fall 2014, the students and teachers at Burbank Elementary School in Hayward, California, embarked on a new and ambitious program to integrate arts across the curriculum. In the remote village of Nanwalek, Alaska, the K-12 school was planning to improve its slow, satellite-provided Internet connection.

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 11, 2017

In this session, participants will explore a new way to use the latest research in K-3 math and reading to understand strategies for reaching all learners in the classroom and with edtech. The future sustainability of maker learning programs in K-12 depends on administrators getting involved and making systemic changes to schools.

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Digital Promise

MAY 30, 2019

HP Spotlight Schools are also characterized by a school culture in which risk-taking and instructional innovation are supported by leadership. EPS launched their one-to-one computing initiative in 2014, and now all students in grades 2 through 12 have an HP convertible touch laptop and access to the Microsoft 365 suite.

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 8, 2019

They are connecting across cultural and national borders to promote global awareness and tolerance. In 2014 the FCC modernized the E-Rate program to make it more affordable for schools and libraries to upgrade their internet connection speeds. Students are designing, making, coding, composing, animating, and publishing.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 6, 2016

693 — Number of newly certified bilingual teachers in 2014-15. million children are classified as English Language Learners, only 693 new bilingual teachers were certified in the 2014-15 school year. million — Number of English language learner students in California in 2014-15 (22 percent of total student population).

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 4, 2023

In 2014, a state law prohibited districts from forcing students to transfer if they were recommended for expulsion but won their expulsion hearing. According to the district, Capital City School — her destination — is “a voluntary K-12 independent study school characterized by its friendly, nurturing and safe environment.”

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 7, 2018

The proportion of overage students — those who have been retained for at least one grade — hovers around 40 percent for New Orleans high school students, according to an analysis of 2014 data by researchers at Education Research Alliance for New Orleans, which is based at Tulane University. Sign up for our newsletter.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

Jenifer Fox — who wrote the book “Your Child’s Strengths” and in 2014 helped create The Delta School in Wilson, Arkansas, which uses the strengths approach — went further, calling it “the magic bullet.”. Jon Burt, who heads Gallup’s K-12 education consulting arm, said that each year over 1 million students in the U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 21, 2016

students graduating from the K-12 system are college and career ready, Common Core has ramped up academic expectations that schools everywhere, including those in Kentucky, are still far from meeting. Sonja Brookins Santelises, vice president of K-12 policy at the Education Trust. Scores have been edging up ever since.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2022

At the start of the pandemic, only 12 percent of low-income students , and 25 percent of all students, in Oakland’s public schools had devices at home and a strong internet connection. When he taught at Castlemont in 2014, the school had only one Chromebook cart. “To Credit: Javeria Salman/ The Hechinger Report. “We It’s social work.”.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 4, 2018

In 2014, the U.S. Department of Education released guidance to help schools improve disciplinary practices and policies and to promote positive school cultures. There are also alarming disparities for boys, students with disabilities and English language learners. I am disheartened that U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 10, 2017

Both serve students from pre-K through grade 8, many from low-income households. Overall, Seton says it now partners with 12 Catholic schools in six states, each with a similar demographic profile. Therese Catholic Academy, in the Madrona neighborhood, made the transition five years ago. Matthew DeBoer, principal, St.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

Many argue that our culture discourages girls from excelling at math. Almost 5,000 of them were women who eventually had at least one child by 2014 and were regularly interviewed. “Boy bias is in the culture. Jackie Mader/The Hechinger Report. Their children’s performance in mathematics was also assessed.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Because Hispanic students make up 43 percent of the state’s K-12 enrollment and are less likely to have outside learning supports, the results are clearer about how effectively schools teach reading, according to the coalition. “We Six newsrooms joined together to report on the problem and find solutions for America’s reading problem.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 19, 2016

693 — Number of newly certified bilingual teachers in 2014-15. million children are classified as English Language Learners, only 693 new bilingual teachers were certified in the 2014-15 school year. million — Number of English language learner students in California in 2014-15 (22 percent of total student population).

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 28, 2019

She rattled off students’ responses as they popped up on the smartboard in a colorful word cloud: “Forced relocation, reduced population, disease, warfare, cultural destruction … wow, that’s a powerful term.”. As a result, the district is finally within sight of the FCC’s 2014 target speed, she said.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

In 2014, schools had a new way to give students free breakfast and lunch, paid for by Uncle Sam. Participation in the federal lunch program is used to track student poverty rates. Photo: Tovin Lapan. Related: In 6 states, school districts with the neediest students get less money than the wealthiest. percentage points — from 51.2

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 31, 2017

In 2014, the U.S. In 2014, the U.S. Connecticut’s Department of Education reports that preschool through second-grade suspensions and expulsions dropped by nearly one third since the 2014-15 school year — from 2,365 children then, to 1,674 last school year. Photo: Sarah Gonser.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 13, 2017

Hoffman Early Learning Center , which opened in 2015, currently hosts federally funded Head Start programs that provide free pre-K programs to qualifying low-income families with 3- and 4-year-olds. In addition, 84 percent of students enrolled in public school were deemed economically disadvantaged in 2014.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 5, 2019

Black Student Union students say the school tells them durags perpetuate gang culture, but they say the durag ban unfairly continues the criminalization of black men. Durags are used to create the wave hairstyle. Photo by Sarah Reingewirtz/MediaNews Group/Pasadena Star-News via Getty Images. Late last year, U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

In the Henry County Schools district, individual schools have been applying to be part of a personalized learning initiative since 2014. In Mesa County, a focus on improving school culture and climate has been at the core. In Henry County, the shift to personalized learning has been focused on increasing student agency.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 18, 2018

So while the proportion of graduates from predominantly nonwhite urban schools who go to college stayed flat between 2014 and 2015 — the last period for which the figures are available — for graduates of predominantly nonwhite rural high schools, it declined. The factors behind these dire outcomes are also getting worse.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

Nationally, 76 percent of white students in special education who exited high school in 2014-15 earned a traditional diploma. where there is just one school district, 77 percent of white students with special needs who exited during the 2014-15 school year left with a diploma, while just 57 percent of their black and Latino peers did.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 4, 2019

In 2014, the labor market analysis firm Burning Glass Technologies tried to capture the extent of degree inflation. He already makes $65,000 a year, a rebuke to a culture and an economy that exalts a bachelor’s degree as the gold standard for upward mobility while young adults stagger under the weight of the nation’s record $1.5

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

Though Wilson has maybe a dozen African American male teachers on its K-8 staff, only one of them teaches within Wilson’s primary school, in the second grade. We’re not trying to force anyone into teaching,” said Kristyna Jones, who co-founded BE2T in 2014. What can you tell me about it?’ Photo: Jacob Carroll for the Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

The culture of attendance is huge,” Burnett said. “If At the first tier, schools are supposed to be fostering a positive culture of attendance for all students and collecting consistent data to track absenteeism. The culture of attendance is huge. Danielle Burnett, truancy prevention social worker at Alamosa Elementary School.

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Elementary School Public School Cultures Leadership 100

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

Sanders, who is African-American, first presented the idea for a dual-language program at Houston to the District of Columbia Public Schools in 2014. At the same time, he believes dual-language programs in majority-black classrooms can embrace students’ cultural and linguistic backgrounds, engaging them in ways traditional schools haven’t.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 9, 2017

Last year, 23 percent of the school’s third-graders passed the state reading test, up from 0 percent in 2014. We have been able to develop a culture where they learn that there are people here to support them,” said Jackson. We have been able to develop a culture where they learn that there are people here to support them.

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Cultures Charter School Public School Teaching 93

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 18, 2018

These historic national protests should be seen as a call to improved social studies education and a culture that supports student voice and political participation. Give students the know-how so they can respond to, or engage in, the protests effectively. This should not be a one-off happening.

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Civics Social Studies Critical Thinking History 86

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 28, 2017

Government Accountability Office found the percentage of all schools with racial or socio-economic isolation grew from 9 percent to 16 percent from 2001 to 2014. These segregated schools uphold the values, racial hierarchies and cultural norms of the people who created them.

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Economics Geography Civics History 82

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 18, 2018

But Goldstein, who helped create a hands-on manufacturing course at Randolph Union in 2014, says “retention is much easier than recruitment.” For most educators, it’s a cultural shift, and one that comes with additional, often uncompensated, work. It’s better to be out here than sitting behind a desk listening to a teacher talk.”.

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High School Economics Tradition Public School 107

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 28, 2019

Teaching ranks among the most stressful professions, according to Gallup research from 2014, in which about half of teachers reported high daily stress at work, tying medical professionals for the most-stressful jobs. Does teacher stress contribute to student academic and behavior struggles, or is it the other way around? “I

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Elementary School Professional Development Classroom Management Teaching 111

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 6, 2017

They may need to learn to assume a new manner of speaking, navigate a new culture and demonstrate new behaviors. They may not have a network of peers or family who can support them when they struggle with finances or challenging academic workloads. But this segregation doesn’t exist only in New York City.

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Civics Middle School Leadership Public School 76

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 12, 2017

In the meantime, they have been testing the reach and reliability of the Carters Mountain signal, while also creating the network’s backbone — burying 12 miles (of a planned 85 miles) of fiber-optic cable to ferry huge amounts of high-speed data between school-based transmitters, receivers and servers, and regional data hubs.

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Library Middle School High School Government 105

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 23, 2016

Some question whether the government would do any better at universal preschool than it does with universal K-12 education. Still, England shares many cultural and economic similarities, certainly more than the Scandinavian countries often cited as having ideal educational systems. and the U.K. weren’t that different.

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