The Hechinger Report

JUNE 6, 2018

Much of the advocacy for net-zero buildings has focused on environmental and economic incentives. Supporting these efforts, the Department of Energy published a how-to report on building net-zero K-12 schools in 2016 and created a “Zero-Energy Schools Accelerator” program to give districts technical guidance. Solve it,” said Becker. “We

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 28, 2019

Debilitating slowdowns and districtwide outages in past years have been so common that some Nome teachers even now prepare two lesson plans per class—one to use if the internet cooperates and one that requires only textbooks. That’s not a given in rural Alaska. Bill Walker pledged to partner with EducationSuperHighway.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

Though New Orleans is 60 percent black and 34 percent white, this demographic is not reflected in its public school enrollment: Overall, enrollment at the city’s schools is about 82 percent black and 85 percent economically disadvantaged. I’d send him the lesson plan the night before.

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Studies Weekly

MARCH 15, 2024

Making Education More Equitable Universal pre-K can give families their economic footing. In the long term, better access to education means increased economic opportunities for families and a more equitable society. 2016, January 6). The benefits of universal quality education reach everyone. References Barnett, W.

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Studies Weekly

JANUARY 10, 2024

Economics of Education Review , 68 , 89–103. Proceedings of the 2016 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2773–2777. Personality and Individual Differences , 115 , 154–158. Backes, B., & Cowan, J. Is the pen mightier than the keyboard? The effect of online testing on measured student achievement. 2021, May 9).

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Some 2,400 districts — from regions synonymous with economic hardship to big cities and prosperous suburbs — did not report having even one homeless student despite levels of financial need that make those figures improbable. Lesson plans for teachers help high school students understand if they qualify.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 26, 2022

In 2016, the district launched a teaching fellowship program to provide yearlong contracts to about 30 aspiring teachers who are placed in its six schools. About 86 percent of the roughly 2,800 Central Falls students are economically disadvantaged , according to state data; 53 percent are Hispanic and 16 percent Black.)

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

Teachers now must use lesson plans, and they finally have a curriculum to use in English, science and math classes. The agency oversees law and justice across Indian Country, as well as agriculture, infrastructure, economic development and tribal governance. A new principal pledged to stay longer than a school year.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 20, 2018

Teachers must teach the N-word, particularly in literature and music, in the context of the history of white supremacy, lynching, economic suppression as well as segregation and discrimination. Related: LeBron is dishing out assists to a local school district in Ohio. They must deconstruct it. But how they use it makes all the difference.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

She didn’t change her lesson plans based on the outcome of the election, but half of her students are Latino, some of them immigrants and many of them children of immigrants. Related: If the anger that propelled Trump’s win is economic, can higher education fix it? Read more about the 2016 Election.

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Zinn Education Project

JANUARY 9, 2024

And as we extend that definition to larger groups of people, as we introduce power, we begin to understand that who gets to decide what those rules are and what those norms are becomes much more complicated, and often an expression of political, economic, and cultural power. They are killed for the crime of their economic success.

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