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JANUARY 6, 2025

Clair School since 2016, is hardly alone in worrying about maths. But her report also noted that educators have been let down before by various initiatives that failed to make a change in the countrys math achievement scores. Our free weekly newsletter consults critical voices on innovation in K-12 education. Not any more.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 23, 2022

Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Future of Learning newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every other Wednesday with trends and top stories about education innovation. Subscribe today! The next step is for people to think about how this blurring can happen at scale, he said.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 21, 2021

To start off, it’s worth thinking back to 2016. Education policy leaders at the federal level and beyond were exploring the growing role of competency-based education and non-traditional providers —and calls were growing for stronger connections between universities and the world of employment.

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A Principal's Reflections

NOVEMBER 22, 2015

Here is a reality check for everyone that does not believe in the value of branding in education. Social media has changed the landscape and broadened the concept of branding to education whether you like it or not. Now more than ever educators, leaders, schools, and districts need to begin to think about a brand strategy.

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ED Surge

MARCH 27, 2023

Code Next was launched by Google in 2016 in response to the stubbornly low numbers of people of color working in tech — only 3 percent of Google’s tech employees were Black or Latino back in 2014. It’s significant progress toward the goal of connecting more young people with educational and career opportunities in technology.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Rural young people who aspire to a higher education have long had fewer choices than their urban and suburban counterparts, contributing to far lower rates of college-going. People in rural America already have far less access to higher education than people in cities and suburbs. Kirk: And that situation has been getting worse, Jon.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 29, 2017

The numbers reveal a glaring gap in the nation’s education system: A high school diploma, no matter how recently earned, doesn’t guarantee that students are prepared for college courses. Higher education institutions across the country are forced to spend time, money and energy to solve this disconnect. One of those is Maryland.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 3, 2016

This week, as we celebrate Digital Promise’s fifth anniversary , we also welcome the districts who are part of the 2016-2017 cohort of the League of Innovative Schools. And now, meet the 2016-2017 cohort: Bristol Warren Regional School District. Compton Unified School District. Covina-Valley Unified School District.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 12, 2016

Department of Education on Wednesday, “so long as they maintain a high bar to exit, to allow programs to recruit a more diverse student body while maintaining the requirements for quality preparation as shown by graduation.” Department of Education sought public input about the proposed rules. In a statement, U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

A special education student at South Hills High School takes an online quiz about RNA. The district’s reforms to special education have included making sure students use the same textbooks as their general education peers. They moved special education classrooms to be more centrally located. Sign up for our newsletter.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 8, 2019

This week marks National Arts in Education Week , a time for us to highlight the transformative power of the arts in education. Arts education for all students is fundamental to a well-rounded education. No matter the path, arts education provides a way to creative careers of the future.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 9, 2018

The average performance of the nation’s fourth- and eighth-graders mostly held steady in math and reading from 2015 to 2017, now marking a decade of stalled educational progress, according to the results of a test released Tuesday. The NAEP scores showed stellar gains within the traditional public school system.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 2, 2019

This story is a part of our Map to the Middle Class project, where readers ask questions about educational pathways to financial stability and then we investigate. Andy Smarick, director of civil society, education and work for the nonprofit think-tank R Street. John O’Boyle for The Hechinger Report. and how are they funded?

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 14, 2020

It’s “flipped” because it’s the opposite of the traditional structure in which students first learn from a teacher’s in-class instruction. But like many trends in education, the novelty took hold before the evidence mounted. Flipped classrooms also free up class time for teachers to help students individually, as a tutor does.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 1, 2019

Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Future of Learning newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every other Wednesday with trends and top stories about education innovation. Higher Education. Now Neal is starting over, with support from The Mind Trust, an Indianapolis-based education nonprofit.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 6, 2017

Our nine districts have been considering free or low-cost open educational resources alongside traditional options. All of our districts are members the members of the Digital Promise League of Innovative Schools, an 86-district coalition recognized for innovation and leadership in education.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 22, 2018

. Back in 2012, Maine was a trailblazer in something called proficiency-based education, in which students would be required to master specific skills and educational topics to progress and graduate from school. Schools are now free to continue teaching, grading and graduating students the traditional way.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

These quests might be called “assignments” in a more traditional classroom. But Isaacs doesn’t run a traditional classroom — and not just because his students spend most of their time in a fantasy world. Higher Education. Read high-quality news about innovation and inequality in education at The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 4, 2024

Credit: Jill Barshay/ The Hechinger Report / The Hechinger Report For a few weeks in the spring of 2016, nearly all the eighth graders at a small public school affiliated with Columbia University agreed to stay late after school to study math. For the first eight sessions, half the students had a traditional review class.

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ED Surge

JUNE 24, 2022

Purdue University, which has championed income-share agreements as an alternative to traditional student loans, is hitting the pause button on enrollments into its Back a Boiler program. A switch from ISA servicer Vemo Education to Launch Servicing, which won’t create new income-share agreements but will manage existing ones.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 8, 2018

Red states are where the annual issuance of new high school equivalency diplomas has fallen by more than 50 percent between 2012 and 2016. Specifically, the annual number of test takers who completed one of the three exams has fallen more than 45 percent from more than 570,000 in 2012 to roughly 310,000 in 2016. Data source: Thomas J.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 17, 2018

It’s where districts and schools decide to spend their money,” Worth, a veteran educator who has also taught in Greene County’s traditional public schools, explained. Many charters hire teachers who don’t belong to a teachers union or haven’t gone through a traditional teacher preparation program, for example.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

As the coronavirus pandemic hit the United States in March 2020, many warned that it would increase educational gaps between the haves and the have-nots. Related: How the last recession affected higher education. Students at four-year institutions are more likely to be traditional age, between 18 and 24. Will history repeat?

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

Today, we’re thrilled to congratulate Matt Akin, Superintendent of Piedmont City School District , and Steve Webb and Tom Hagley, Superintendent and Chief of Staff of Vancouver Public Schools , for being named to Education Week’s list of “Leaders to Learn From” in 2016. Congratulations again to these educators!

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 25, 2017

…very little of the work we give students in school provides them with a sense that they are making a contribution to anything other than their own educational progress toward graduation. With very little first-hand experience with personalized learning, many teachers and education administrators have difficulty fathoming its power.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 15, 2020

Capitol remained partially shut down amid the coronavirus pandemic, the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions held a virtual hearing on what schools ought to do. Speaking over a video feed from his home in Silver Spring, Maryland, former Obama administration Secretary of Education John B.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 24, 2018

It’s a practice derived from a movement in education known as restorative justice, an approach to discipline that replaces punishment with repairing harm. Restorative justice, meanwhile, with its emphasis on community, empathy and perspective-taking, may make up for some of the shortcomings of traditional disciplinary action.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 4, 2023

While some educators defend transfers as a gentler alternative to expulsion, critics say these moves have limited or no due process protections and can carry the same problems associated with expulsion by disrupting a child’s education. Student advocates and educators say these moves frequently follow behavior problems.

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ED Surge

MARCH 6, 2024

That meant that bilingual education was out, in favor of English immersion. Parsing education data into snack-sized servings. In seven states, the need for bilingual education teachers is especially dire. Experts say the dearth of bilingual education teachers in the U.S. What Barriers Remain?

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 9, 2018

Mississippi is now relying more on tuition revenue than state and local appropriations to fund public higher education, according to new data from the State Higher Education Executive Officers Association (SHEEO). For the first time ever, the majority of states rely on tuition as the principal source of higher education funding.

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Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

In response to the President’s call for commitments to computer science education for all , 37 school district across the country — from Vermont to Alaska — ­have committed to offering high­ quality computer science (CS) and computational thinking curriculum to over one million students. Building requirements and providing credit.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2018

This story about the foster care and education was produced as part of a series, “Twice Abandoned: How schools and child-welfare systems fail kids in foster care,” reported by HuffPost and The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 15, 2024

Department of Education promise, and many are calling for an urgent push for help, including through legislation and a marshalling of resources from institutions like libraries and groups such as AmeriCorps. It’s a terrible time for anyone who counted on that U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 12, 2023

Email Address Choose from our newsletters Weekly Update Future of Learning Higher Education Early Childhood Proof Points Leave this field empty if you’re human: Late last month, Alabama Gov. The governor told reporters that educators instead need to stick to the “basics of education.” Sign up for the Hechinger newsletter.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 29, 2023

The proportion of high school graduates going directly to college has fallen from a high of 70 percent in 2016 to 62 percent in 2021. Spence’s campaign underscores how glaringly little the higher education industry itself has done to confront the crisis of confidence that is eating away at its business. Air Force.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 11, 2019

While the winners can use the prize money toward the development of their own technologies, organizers hope the funding will launch a new tradition of investing in black tech entrepreneurs and the development of black talent. The percentage of jobs that require low levels of digital skill dropped from 56 percent in 2002 to 30 percent in 2016.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 27, 2018

studied civics in the fall of 2016, they began by exploring a nearby park in Pontiac. It was an effective demonstration of project-based learning , a trend whose roots date back to John Dewey’s educational philosophies and has been spreading through schools across the country over the past five years.

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