The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 6, 2016

Nationally, 18 percent of teachers are people of color — including African-Americans, non-white Hispanics, Native Americans and Asians — according to the authors of an August 2016 report published by the Brookings Institution. Research has documented other ways that a teacher’s race can impact student performance.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 6, 2022

The city itself has had a scrappy commitment to existence in its 123-year history, surviving the boom and bust of the timber industry that first gave it life and weathering the 21st century with a fairly steady population of about 2,500. Johnson started at Collins in 2016 as an assistant principal and took the top job in 2020.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 15, 2018

Fifth graders Davonayshia Hollis, left, and Denaya Rippey, review a group entrepreneurial project for a parent-approved music device, developed in a mentorship program, Thursday May 19, 2016, at Brooklyn’s P.S. 307 in New York. Work-based learning is an instructional approach to classroom teaching that connects it to the workplace.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 29, 2019

Now she wants others to learn that history. Funding for McDonogh 35, New Orleans’ last noncharter school, fell from $15,594 per student in 2008-09 to $11,651 per student in 2016-17. Spending fell from $15,594 per student in 2008-09 to $11,651 per student in 2016-17, the most recent state data available.

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Becoming a History Teacher

JUNE 11, 2024

Meanwhile the ‘combined effect of promotion of more inexperienced teachers and the greater experience of those leaving, meant leaders on a whole were less experienced in 2016 than in 2010’ (DfE,2022, 48). School leadership in England 2010 to 2020: characteristics and trends, [link] DfE (2024). International Journal of Learning.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

Last week, in a letter addressed to the “KIPP Team and Family,” the executive leadership of the powerful charter school network announced the dismissal of one of its co-founders, Mike Feinberg, stemming from a sexual abuse allegation by one of Feinberg’s students from the late 1990s. Students need their own hashtag.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2016

As part of an alternative teacher-licensing program designed to attract high-performing college graduates to the profession of teaching to groom their leadership skills, TFA teachers in Mississippi hardly ever start as education majors. History in West Tallahatchie High School, 20 minutes south of Clarksdale, in the Mississippi Delta.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

And from 2013 to 2016, the number of its graduates enrolling in associate or bachelor’s degree programs rose dramatically, from 28 percent to 47 percent, according to school officials. 47 percent of graduates at Meadowbrook High School in rural Ohio enrolled in associate or bachelor’s degree programs in 2016, up from 28 percent in 2013.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 18, 2017

Every time a teacher calls on a boy to be in a leadership position without offering a similar opportunity to a girl, or laughs off sexist jokes or doesn’t intervene when someone is being bullied, or objectified, those students are absorbing that these behaviors are ok, that they are normal. It may start small.

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Living Geography

NOVEMBER 17, 2024

This is part of what is called curriculum leadership. A reference point for this is Michael Gove's 'infamous' and deluded claim from 2016 that people had 'had enough of experts' though a recent visit to a private dentist for complex root canal treatment confirmed that I'd rather have asked him than a local plumber.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2018

The other program, the Honors College, has existed for decades; in 2016 it retooled its admissions strategy to attract students with a wider range of academic interests. The HLLC is one of two on-campus programs offering ambitious students from the Newark area a reason to stay close to home. Future of Learning. Higher Education.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 5, 2019

Last fall, after the university’s admissions team worked to craft a more intentional recruiting plan, officials say they enrolled the most diverse freshman class in LSU’s nearly 160-year history. In 2016, 44 percent of Louisiana’s high school graduates were black. Percentage point change, 2015–2016. Flagship institution.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 21, 2019

In 2016, Rabalais, a well-connected, self-described charter school proponent, had learned that the Gentilly Terrace Elementary School would be closing its doors at the end of the school year — making the campus a blank canvas for a new kind of school. Frank Rabalais, Gentilly Terrace resident.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

When he got into Middlebury College, a selective school in Vermont, Barnes felt confident he would earn a degree by 2016. When he got into Middlebury College, a selective school in Vermont, Barnes felt confident he would earn a degree by 2016. Photo: Cheryl Gerber for The Hechinger Report. psychology class.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 23, 2019

Morales started out as an elementary-school teacher, then switched to academic counseling, which she’s done at LA High for the past eleven years; Martinez worked there, too, teaching history and social studies, until six years ago, when he was transferred to another high school in the district.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 6, 2016

Derrick Fields, 9, works on his assignment during a Spanish-language history lesson at Sherman Elementary School in San Diego, California. This was pretty normal stuff for a fourth grade history lesson, except for one thing: The entire lesson — from the textbooks to the teacher’s instructions to the students’ short essays — was in Spanish.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 9, 2017

Parker Charter Essential School in Devens, Massachusetts, believe multiage education fosters cooperation and collaboration between students, like these ninth- and 10th-graders working together on a Holocaust-related history project. Photo: Stuart Miller. DEVENS, Mass. — It looks like a typical class in a suburban high school.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 5, 2018

But Beard and others know the district has yet to overcome the deep disparities that have defined so much of its history. percent of white students graduated ready for college English and math in 2016, according to state data, compared with a dismal 23 percent of Hispanic students and 16 percent of black students.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 5, 2016

Kast has a long history of distrust with the district, alleging physical and verbal abuse and racial discrimination against her grandchildren by teachers there—her grandchildren are all half-black, and Kast is white. The nurse pulled out her grandson’s hospital attendance log. Public-school Failures. But Beard sees her daughter’s improvement.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 8, 2016

Reviews of the program conducted in 2016 by the Administration for Children and Families, the federal governing body for Head Start, found nothing to correct. Many times during the course of its history it’s been underfunded and run into issues of quality,” Lombardi said. billion figure, would have to increase 25-fold.

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Teaching American History

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Before touring History Colorado Center’s exhibit, The Sand Creek Massacre: The Betrayal That Changed Cheyenne and Arapaho People Forever , in Denver this summer, I had never heard of Silas Soule. Ray Tyler The post The Sand Creek Massacre appeared first on Teaching American History. Morrow disappeared forever.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 2, 2016

Good leadership and good will” had created a district where “not one school was left with an all-black student body.” But what’s more, a 2016 Stanford study found that poverty is rising faster in predominantly minority schools than in white schools. Black History was added, busing was provided. By 1977, the U.S.

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Teaching American History

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Her vision, leadership, and bravery made possible the integration of Central High School in 1957. Not only is Bates important to the history of Central High’s integration, she is also a significant figure in the national Civil Rights Movement. In his recent history of the modern Civil Rights Movement, historian Thomas E.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 23, 2019

While the university’s grim history has been known for years, it was only in 2015 that Georgetown President John DeGioia announced the formation of a Working Group on Slavery, Memory, and Reconciliation to “establish a dialogue on Georgetown’s historical ties to the institution of slavery.” It’s been a long time coming.

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ED Surge

APRIL 12, 2023

Even more astonishing, five of my former students decided to become high school history teachers, just like me: Paula Katrina Camaya : a former Chicago Public Schools educator currently teaching civics and humanities at Evanston Township High School (ETHS) in Evanston, Illinois. History class during the 2014-2015 academic year.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 17, 2020

In fact, academic institutions accounted for only 6,639 of the 304,126 patents granted in 2016, the last year for which the figure is available, or 2 percent of the total , according to the National Science Board, which described patenting by academic inventors as being “relatively limited.”. “It

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Sapiens

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

The courage and bravery that shamanic plants offer—succinctly captured by the Spanish word valor—are prized qualities within Shuar conceptions of personhood and leadership. For instance, in 2016, Shuar demonstrators burned down a mining camp located on Indigenous land. But only we can make history when we fulfill our visionary dreams.”

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 26, 2020

But like many Christian denominations grappling with historical racism , its preference throughout the 1970s and ‘80s was to ignore that history, Gross said, not to address it. The Southern Baptist Convention , Presbyterian Church in America , and the United Methodist Church have all publicly apologized for their racist histories.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 4, 2023

Backers of the takeover of Houston Independent School District say it’s needed to improve performance in a few schools in low-income neighborhoods that have a history of poor academic outcomes. HISD leadership is a disaster…. Abbott responded with a scathing tweet : “What a joke.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 21, 2017

The pace of their educational gains, the political leadership and styling of the women behind the Women’s March and Rep. It also reflects disparities between women and men in the workforce: Films directed by women receive 63 percent less distribution, according to a 2016 Hollywood Reporter analysis.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 4, 2020

D ozens of colleges and universities have closed since 2016 as institutions confront rising expenses and dwindling government support. Losing a college is “like a death,” said Heather Maietta, a professor of higher education leadership at Regis College in Massachusetts who has studied the impact of college closures.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 28, 2023

In the meantime, the checkered history of school reform did not seem top of mind for students from Coolidge. In 2016, XQ Institute spent more millions on a public awareness campaign to promote its ideas about reforming education, papering its branding on buses and bus stops. teens won’t arrive for a while.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 20, 2019

Its number of residents has dropped every year since then, decreasing 30 percent by 2016. In 2016, Leslie collected just 60 percent of what residents owed, further cutting into what the schools received. Under Roark’s leadership, Leslie County High School has made a remarkable turnaround. We want your questions.

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Studies Weekly

APRIL 29, 2024

We hope students of Asian or Pacific Islander heritage share their experiences and their cultural traditions with their peers, and teachers include the contributions of Asian and Pacific Americans to our collective history in lessons this month. Mostly forgotten by history, thousands of Chinese immigrants, who came to the U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 9, 2021

Despite this history, Brown, like many of his colleagues, said a bill requiring schools to provide suicide prevention education to students was legislative overreach. Birkholz believes state leadership is necessary. history or a specific take on biology. Ultimately, the bill failed.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Detroit made front page news in 2016 when the teachers walked out to draw attention to the dilapidated condition of some of the schools. By the time the final emergency manager pulled out in 2016, the district was broke. Credit: Elaine Cromie for The Hechinger Report. Credit: Elaine Cromie for The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 27, 2020

Sometimes I walk or ride by rundown houses or empty lots filled with weeds and I think, ‘There’s a history back there. Sometimes I walk or ride by rundown houses or empty lots filled with weeds and I think, ‘There’s a history back there. Instead, he just operates with quiet leadership.”. That question is personal. 8 on her list.

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