The Hechinger Report

MAY 19, 2024

Once the site of an Indian boarding school, where the federal government attempted to strip children of their tribal identity, the Native American Community Academy now offers the opposite: a public education designed to affirm and draw from each student’s traditional culture and language. The charter school, NACA, opened its doors in 2006.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 2, 2018

He spent the 2015-2016 school year traveling to schools in all 50 states and he discovered that teachers, when trusted and supported, often innovate on their own. Dintersmith points to North Dakota as a place where the people at the top of the state leadership hierarchy are making room for schools to innovate at the local level.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 13, 2018

Ninth-graders at the Science Leadership Academy work on a group project in science class. Tamir Harper, 18-year-old senior at Science Leadership Academy and founder of a nonprofit that advocates for quality urban education. James Thomas wrote and published a novel for his senior year Capstone project at the Science Leadership Academy.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 23, 2022

After the disruption of the pandemic, people in the field of education are more open to rethinking traditional ways of doing business in order to better serve students. That’s where federal leadership comes in.” Subscribe today! Department of Labor’s Employment and Training Administration (ETA).

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

The collaborative is primarily funded by the Nellie Mae Foundation, which is among the supporters of the Hechinger Report, and, since its formation in 2016, regularly brings together researchers and education experts to share findings and disseminate them to schools. Sometimes, the students had clear roles and rotated the leadership role.

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Political Science Now

JULY 11, 2024

In addition to teaching traditional political science courses, she serves as campaign manager for the campus-wide voter mobilization program Vote Oswego and coordinator of SUNY Oswego’s broader civic engagement efforts. Her research agenda focuses on political science pedagogy, campus-based civic engagement, and pop culture & politics.

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Civic Engagement Teaching Civics Political Science 68

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 1, 2019

In 2016 the Mastery Collaborative began hosting anti-bias workshops for teachers and staff, spurred by member schools’ ongoing interest in culturally responsive education practices. This may be a missed opportunity. It was launched in 2015 out of a recognition that schools adopting mastery-based principles were often doing so in isolation.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

So far, eight of its 13 traditional schools have hired teacher-leaders who not only put their great teaching to use in front of students, but also coach their colleagues to spread their best practices. Next year, the remaining five schools will do the same.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

At their best, college athletics inculcate exactly the leadership, interpersonal and teamwork skills that employers are asking for. These engagements disproportionately attract younger alumni who are difficult to reach using traditional athletics fundraising approaches, such as donor seating programs at football and basketball games.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 29, 2024

But traditional internships are not universally accessible. “At Not everybody is a traditional 18- to 22-year-old student,” Churches said. In the semester-long course, volunteers from employer partners coach and mentor a small cohort of students on career skills, including leadership, problem-solving and communication.

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Government Tradition Professional Development Critical Thinking 138

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Some school districts, local governments and nonprofit groups across the country have galvanized this youth activism by giving students opportunities to participate in leadership roles and democracy in ways that go beyond civics classes and student government.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

With 106 years of classroom leadership among them, seven educators over the next two years grappled with a key question: Could you keep the same 6 ½-hour school day, and the same school personnel, but design a radically different learning experience for students? In 2016-2017, it was expanded to the entire school, where it continues.

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Digital Promise

MARCH 13, 2017

Many Opportunity Youth have had traumatic experiences within the traditional school setting, and often these educational struggles are rooted in undiagnosed learning differences. With CAST, we have created the Learning Differences Leadership Cohort of Fellows.

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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.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

Of the district’s nearly 91,000 students, 69 percent were considered economically disadvantaged during the 2016-17 school year. In 2016, the Obama administration highlighted it with a report that it called “an unprecedented look at a hidden educational crisis.”. Photo: Tara García Mathewson/The Hechinger Report.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 12, 2016

On September 21-23, 2016, Digital Promise and the U.S. Department of Education hosted the 2016 Education Innovation Clusters Convening (#EdClusters16) in Providence, R.I., Sean Duffy (@dearmrduffy) September 23, 2016. rdaley0001 (@rdaley98) September 22, 2016. Joseph South (@southjoseph) September 22, 2016.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2017

Institutions including Lebanon Valley College face demographic shifts, constrained family incomes, student preferences toward professionally oriented majors over some of the traditional liberal arts, and rapid technological change. Chamber of Commerce Foundation as saying that “employers have ‘less and less confidence’ in traditional degrees.”

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

In Louisiana, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Texas, dozens of taxpayer-funded public charters enroll far more white students than any of the traditional public schools in their areas. Coahoma county schools have been under interim leadership for more than a year. Southwest Georgia S.T.E.M.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2020

Since 2016, when the couple launched an LLC to coordinate much of their charitable giving, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative has committed $142.1 Teachers in other schools have found the shift to project-based learning to be a massive, unwanted change from traditional instruction. million in grant support for the Summit Learning Program.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 4, 2018

Texas A&M University at Texarkana has one of the lowest retention rates of public higher-education institutions; 55 percent who started in 2012 were gone by 2016. Eboni Zamani-Gallaher, a professor of higher education policy, organization and leadership at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign College of Education.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 27, 2016

The ( Mississippi Adequate Education Program (MAEP) is short by $172 million statewide for 2016-17. This tendency gives conservative legislators, adverse to big-government, further ammunition to deny adequate funding to traditional districts like JPS. To their credit, JPS has shown an ability to do more with less.

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Charter School Public School Social Justice High School 108

Digital Promise

JANUARY 22, 2016

Every year, The School Superintendents’ Association (AASA) awards the title "Superintendent of the Year" to exceptional leaders who work to identify and implement these solutions so students can succeed through leadership for learning, communication, professionalism, and community involvement.

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Charter School Project-Based Learning Critical Thinking Public School 41

The Hechinger Report

MAY 5, 2016

But in short order, a whirlwind of leadership turnover — four superintendents in four years — led the partnership to a very public impasse that pitted the school district against its fundraising partner, the alliance. “We I think if you strip away the emotion, the district was saying: ‘We just want you to be a traditional school foundation.

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Elementary School Library Leadership Public School 75

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. Sign up for our newsletter. Weekly Update.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 29, 2017

While a humanities class such as English costs a college just $52 per student credit, a respiratory therapy class costs $265 , according to a 2013 report by the Institute for Higher Education Leadership & Policy. Equipment and trained instructors in some specialty fields can be prohibitively expensive for a college.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 2, 2019

This close relationship with county leadership gives schools a direct connection with local businesses, allowing them to be nimble and responsive to employers’ needs. After she earns her license, she’ll enter a heavily male-dominated trade: As of 2016, 97.9 percent of electricians are male. I’ll always be able to find good work’.

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Education High School Tradition Geography 110

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 16, 2021

Education Department civil rights data, University of Wisconsin-Whitewater professor Scott Peters found that on a state level “equity got worse” in gifted education from 2016 to 2018, with underrepresentation of Hispanic children in a majority of states and of Black students in three-quarters of states, he wrote in an email.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 29, 2019

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. Lewis said he’s aware the leadership changes have been frustrating.

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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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Charter School Elementary School Public School Political Science 99

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

His was a brash mission shared by a new breed of charter school leaders who said they could succeed where traditional neighborhood schools had failed. When he got into Middlebury College, a selective school in Vermont, Barnes felt confident he would earn a degree by 2016. Statistics are only true until someone bucks them.

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Charter School Psychology High School Private School 111

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 23, 2019

One part of the campus is not open to all: since 2016, a small section of LA High has been occupied by a selective, STEM-focused charter school, Girls Academic Leadership Academy. The “co-location” of charters on the grounds of traditional public schools is increasingly common. Tammy Kim/Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 9, 2017

Yet multiage advocates say the traditional approach of dividing students into single grades based on an arbitrary birthdate range is illogical. Advocates say the traditional approach of dividing students into single grades based on arbitrary birthdate ranges is illogical.

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Elementary School Psychology Tradition Professional Development 74

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 6, 2018

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. Meanwhile, at New York City’s first net-zero school, the Kathleen Grimm School for Leadership and Sustainability (P.S.

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K-12 Elementary School Middle School Advocacy 111

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

There, Meghan McFadyen asks kids in her mixed fourth- and fifth-grade classroom who have “Presence” among their top strengths to help peers, because in theory no performance anxiety will block them from taking leadership positions. And Seamons weaves strengths into the sixth-grade curriculum. in English language arts and from 25 to 35.9

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Elementary School Psychology K-12 Private School 96

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 28, 2019

Rural Alaska Native communities are grappling with the existential effects—erosion, loss of important food sources like seals, and fear that the traditions they’ve fought to sustain over centuries will slip away. New state leadership will likely shape the future of rural broadband, but in what ways is yet to be determined.

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

— Digital Promise (@DigitalPromise) February 9, 2016. To turn things around, Middletown decided to go beyond the school district’s traditional role in addressing poverty, and tackle it head-on. But for a traditional public school district, the breadth of its work to reduce the educational effects of poverty is extensive.

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Studies Weekly

MARCH 15, 2024

Preschool programs are also not subject to the same limitations as the traditional public school system, so some states can fund private or faith-based pre-K programs. Preschool prepares children for the structured learning programs, social interactions, and schedules of traditional K-12 schooling. 2016, January 6). Barnett, W.

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