The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 30, 2018

An impressive track record of hard evidence has made it the only program to earn three levels of competitive grant funding from the federal government since 2010. 2015-16 enrollment data from U.S. But you’ve probably never heard of it. We’re always trying to figure out how to help students with their deficits. News & World Report.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

Accounts of high school students working at hagwons long into the night once prompted the government in Seoul to impose a 10 PM hagwon curfew. More than 35 percent of 2-year-olds, 80 percent of 5-year-olds and 95 percent of middle schoolers attend hagwons.

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Digital Promise

JUNE 15, 2016

Job Embedded Professional Development. Professional Learning Communities. Job-Embedded Professional Development. Above all, it is most important to remember that effective professional-development programs are job-embedded and provide teachers with five critical elements (Darling-Hammond et al.,

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 6, 2020

Part of Altus Schools, a network of K-12 alternative charter schools in Southern California, it even won recognition from the federal government for its operation. The Charter School of San Diego is one of the schools using that program, yet its educational model has drawn praise. Zaire Wallace, a senior at The Charter School of San Diego.

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Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

The group received funding in 2015 for a planning grant from CommerceRI, the commerce corporation of Rhode Island, which allowed the group to grow EduvateRI in earnest. EduvateRI started by drawing people together to share pizza, beer, and powerful ideas for the possibility of an education innovation cluster.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 16, 2019

percent in 2015-16, outpaced only by special education, according to data from the National Center for Education Statistics. The federal government collects data on the fine arts only about once every 10 years and it tells us more about who is teaching music than which students have the opportunity to play it. percent in 1966 to 8.5

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 11, 2016

The challenges in rural communities are very real—funding, teacher recruitment and retention, access to technology, poverty, ever-changing expectations, and professional development and support,” U.S. But when the new building opened in 2015, the school district didn’t have enough money for her to order new library books.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 20, 2019

That’s the number one obstacle,” said Blaine Dauzat, who became Avoyelles superintendent in 2015. In 1967, 13 years after the Supreme Court declared separate schools to be inherently unequal, the federal government charged that the parish had maintained a segregated system. A move to a parish up north can mean an additional $15,000.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 17, 2016

Starting in 2017, Mississippi will give out additional government funds to child care centers that agree to meet new, more challenging state requirements. Employees at child care centers whose licenses renew before mid-year will still need to complete the 15 hours of annual professional development training mandated by the health department.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 14, 2020

million public school students were identified as gifted in 2015-16, about 6 percent of the total school population, according to the federal Department of Education. percent, were considered gifted in 2015-16. School administrators often see gifted education as a frill. Nationally, 3.3 The Hechinger Report’s analysis of U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 4, 2023

Now red-state governors increasingly use the takeovers to undermine the political power of cities, particularly those governed by Black and Hispanic leaders, according to some education experts. “I’ve In other districts where state-appointed boards have taken over, academic outcomes haven’t improved.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 24, 2016

Mississippi is scrambling to qualify for a guarantee of up to $61 million to help families pay for child care after the federal government said the state must do more to train center workers and ensure it is paying centers adequately. The Early Years Network will lose its contract at the end of the year. Mississippi Child Care Crisis.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2018

And that could be why just 38 percent fourth grade students performed at or above proficient on the latest National Assessment of Education Progress for science, which was administered in 2015. employment in 2015, according to the U.S. Such jobs made up 6.2 percent of all U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2019

The allure of helping disadvantaged children has combined with an openness, on the part of government actors, to private partnerships and technocratic fixes, especially those aimed at disciplining teachers. Most districts invest in professional development that’s the least expensive,” she said. The George W.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 10, 2023

Lead teachers at Educare have bachelor’s degrees, the schools offer regular professional development and staff-to-child ratios are kept low. Previous proposals from the federal government aimed at improving access to high-quality early learning opportunities have focused on universal access to preschool.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2020

Like McKneely, some educators, government officials and policy experts around the country say the coronavirus carries lessons for another global crisis of our time, climate change. Half of the 20 most destructive wildfires in state history have occurred since 2015.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 6, 2024

In early 2015, when its superintendent announced his retirement, the district recruited Heath Grimes, then superintendent of the nearby Lawrence County school system, for the job. On May 11, 2015, Grimes was voted in unanimously as Russellville’s new school superintendent. Yet their success matters: Today in the U.S.,

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Political Science Now

JANUARY 9, 2025

Join APSAs Committee on the Status of Community Colleges in the Profession for the professional development virtual workshop, Community College Careers: Applying to Jobs at 2-Year Institutions. He has served APSA as Chair of the TLC Program Committee (2015), and as co-Editor of the Journal of Political Science Education (2016-2022).

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 3, 2019

Back when she arrived in Tulsa from Rhode Island in 2015, she was the last person local teachers would have imagined as their standard bearer. From 2009 to 2015, Gist embarked on an ambitious mission to reform education in a state tiny enough to make it a perfect petri dish for quick and dramatic change.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

Second, it’s governed by high expectations and high standards, grounded in the belief that all children can (and do) learn regardless of who they are or where they live. Rita’s Catholic School in New Orleans, Monday, Aug. Photo: Cheryl Gerber for The Hechinger Report. Equity in education is more important than ever.

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