The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

s of color in the humanities and education and we still don’t have great diversity on these faculties. It challenges them – given that they are likely to not have had diversity in their K-12 classroom teachers – to think differently about who produces knowledge. However, there are great numbers of Ph.D.’s

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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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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Currently, I coach teachers across 18 K-12 schools in the Campbell Kapolei Complex Area in Ewa Beach and Kapolei Hawaii. In conversations with teachers and leaders about the current problems in our schools including academic delays and behavioral challenges, COVID-19 is most often pointed to as the culprit.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 29, 2017

Data from 911 two- and four-year colleges revealed that 96 percent of schools enrolled students who required remediation in the 2014-15 academic year, the most comprehensive recent numbers. In Nevada, for instance, 58 percent of the state’s recent high school graduates were placed in these courses in 2014.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 25, 2018

On My Way Pre-K student Vivian Kimberlin, 5, plays during recess at Zion Lutheran School in Seymour, Indiana. In early spring 2017, a friend told him that Zion Lutheran School (where regular pre-K tuition is $6,410 per child annually) was accepting 4-year-olds through a state grant program that provides free tuition for low-income parents.

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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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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 22, 2016

In 2014, Latinos represented 26 percent of students enrolled in K-12 education. Thanks to this program, 75 percent of the class of 2014 had a four-year graduation rate, achieved an average GPA of 3.035, and had a freshman to sophomore retention rate of 95 percent. The median age of Latinos in the U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 16, 2017

Now, with the gold rush long over, the logging industry nearly collapsed and few good jobs left in the area, the local K-12 school graduates fewer than 35 students a year. When the forest funds became too unpredictable in 2014, educators asked residents to back the preschool program directly through a local property tax.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 10, 2017

The biggest takeaway for me,” said researcher Lindsay Weixler, “is the mismatch between decentralized school governance and an optional program like pre-k.”. In New Orleans, just 40 percent of students in a school’s pre-k stayed through third grade, when state testing begins, according to the study.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2019

That push officially began in 2014, when Deborah Gist, then the state’s commissioner of education, announced a public-private “innovation partnership” to merge traditional and computerized pedagogy. For decades, nonprofit advocacy groups and corporate donors have targeted K-12 education for intervention. Weekly Update.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 24, 2018

That’s about $1,000 more than the national average per pupil spending in K-12 , as calculated by the National Center for Education Statistics. . Department of Health and Human Services deems “affordable.” But,” she added, “what if higher-income kids are needed to make pre-K more productive for disadvantaged kids?” .

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

Ava had always felt comfortable at the small, private K-8 school she attended just north of Boston. The suicide rate for children and young adults, ages 10 to 24, rose by 56 percent from 2007 and 2017 and is now the second leading cause of death among teenagers, according to the Department of Health and Human Services.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2021

From 2014 to 2016, Ebola ravaged several West African countries, killing thousands and spreading isolated cases to both Europe and the United States. At the time, one of the Sabeti Lab projects was developing models of disease spread that better accounted for the X factor of real human behavior.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 17, 2017

Baltimore County has become a leader in student data privacy and security, and is one of only 13 districts in the nation to earn a Trusted Learning Environment seal from CoSN, the membership group representing the nation’s K-12 school technology leaders. Sign up for the Future of Learning newsletter. Weekly Update. Future of Learning.

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 18, 2016

For example, after African American students were told that many individuals experience social adversities, and that this is not unique to their ethnicity, students reported fitting in more at school and had better psychological health (12). Sheldon, K. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. L., & Ryan, R. Vansteenkiste, M., Yeager, D.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 8, 2018

About five million K-12 students in the United States do not speak English fluently, and their numbers are growing fast. In 2014, about 50 colleges had either announced or started CBE programs. BLENDED LEARNING Any instruction that blends the use of computers with human teachers. Highlights from Bulletin Board follow.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 29, 2020

Leave this field empty if you're human: Recent college graduates, working as Americorps members, serve as Saga’s tutors. The study assigned 2,718 boys in ninth and 10th grade across 12 schools either to get the tutoring or not. Sign up for the Future of Learning newsletter. Choose as many newsletters as you like. Weekly Update.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 16, 2019

Not even the 100-degree weather deterred the three “parent ambassadors” from delivering their message to families: They should bring their young children to the Vivian Adams Early Childhood Center to have their development assessed and have them enrolled in pre-K. Louis Early Learning Partnership. Choose as many newsletters as you like.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 2, 2014

Something about Jeff Bezos “being a good human being but his hearing isn’t so good.” What if,” Slivka asked himself, “you could build this massively multiplayer online game—but instead of shooting things, you were mastering all of K–12 education—that would motivate kids and allow them to learn at their own pace and their own way?”.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2018

His father, who’d worked construction himself and was the head custodian at Askew’s small K–12 public school, pointed him in a different direction. Arizona’s Republican governor, Doug Ducey, was elected in 2014, after running a campaign based on a promise to cut taxes. Maybe teaching.”. He called it his “20 x 2020” plan.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 22, 2018

In K-12 and college classrooms across the country, some educators are enacting at least partial device bans, some are advocating for teaching style changes (fewer lectures, for example) and still others are seeking help from the technology itself. I need a break.’ ”. Sign up for our newsletter. Choose as many as you like.

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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

JUNE 17, 2018

Down the road at Greene County’s other public schools, 12 percent of students are white and 68 percent are black; there isn’t a piano lab and there are far fewer AP courses. In 2014, the charter was awarded a coveted National Blue Ribbon from the U.S. At Lake Oconee Academy, 73 percent of students are white. Department of Education.

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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. Weekly Update.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 24, 2016

Department of Health and Human Services Office saying that the plan the state submitted in order to receive funds had been conditionally approved. Department of Health and Human Services, said that states are permitted to make changes to their plan, but they must submit an amendment within 60 days of a “substantial change in the program.”

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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

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Leave this field empty if you're human: The study’s author, Jessie Rothstein, and his colleagues at Berkeley found that the quality of K-12 schooling has little bearing on individuals’ ability to earn more than their parents. In a speech at the Harvard Graduate School of Education in 2014, former U.S. Weekly Update.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 4, 2018

In 2014, the U.S. The 2014 federal guidance started that process and helped us hold ourselves accountable to equitable practices, but we have a long road ahead in ensuring that we replace the harsh, punitive practices that continue to exacerbate racial disparities. I am disheartened that U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

Leave this field empty if you're human: The Alcorn School District in north Mississippi, which has been prioritizing literacy in the youngest grades for the past few years, is among several districts examining what initiatives have most helped improve literacy scores. Sign up for our Mississippi Learning newsletter. Weekly Update.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 26, 2019

Leave this field empty if you're human: The kind of leadership and responsibility that shone through EB’s speech is actively encouraged at this unusual program in rural Maine. But since 2014, she says, when the district introduced this new outdoor project-based approach, students’ ambition and sense of identity have dramatically improved.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 16, 2018

Computer science curriculum: Senate Bill 2096 would direct the state Board of Education to develop a mandatory K-12 computer science curriculum, to include instruction on topics like coding and computer programming. Leave this field empty if you're human: Home Economics Curriculum: House Bill 16, authored by Rep. Weekly Update.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 6, 2018

After the three schools consolidated during the 2014-15 school year, the newly formed Holmes County Central High School was able to offer five classes, including AP calculus, English language and English literature. million online courses in 2014-15. In 2014-15, some 2.7 A score of 3 is needed to pass. Department of Education.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 2, 2020

For the older students in the study, the ones who entered ninth grade between 2011 and 2014, researchers saw that students who attended these soft-skills high schools had fewer arrests throughout their high school years and graduated high school in greater numbers. Sign up for Jill Barshay's Proof Points newsletter. Weekly Update.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 18, 2016

Teaching will be one of the last jobs taken away by the robots, because software will never be the same as a human who is thinking about what you’re thinking and can use that understanding to say, `here, let me unlock this for you.’ ”. Andrew Rowland, co-founder and CEO of Classkick. “I I like to focus on the outliers,” Kohn said.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

Leave this field empty if you're human: But after three years of learning this way, the Teach to One students in grades six through eight scored no better on New Jersey’s annual math tests than other Elizabeth students who had learned math the usual way with the whole class on the same topic at the same time. 12 of the study.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 6, 2019

In 2014, the Obama Administration jolted the education world with a report detailing unfair and racist school discipline practices across the country. Leave this field empty if you're human: Early research seemed promising. The Maine study was supported by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, a unit of the U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 3, 2016

On December 31, the resource library, training and all the other resources at what’s known officially as the Grenada Early Learning Advantage Center may vanish when the Mississippi Department of Human Services terminates its contract with the Early Years Network. We really love it and we hate that it’s leaving,” Staten said.

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