The Hechinger Report

JUNE 18, 2018

That law, known as Act 77, “opened up learning beyond the four walls of the traditional classroom,” says John Fischer, who was a deputy secretary of the Vermont Agency of Education at the time. “It Some students were learning well in a traditional classroom, and for others, it wasn’t working for them.”.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 30, 2018

A 2015 RAND study , which looked at 62 schools that had received various Gates Foundation-funded grants for personalized learning, found gains of 11 percentile points in math and 8 in reading. Pane predicts that if the personalized learning trend continues, it could upend traditional notions of what a classroom looks like. “I

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Virtual for-profit charter schools got started in the early 2000s, as the companies that run them seized on a business opportunity in online education pioneered by traditional public schools a half-decade earlier. Related : The pandemic’s remote learning legacy: A lot worth keeping. Stride Inc., formerly K12 Inc.,

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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

JANUARY 23, 2019

on day four of the strike, Nadia Morales, a counselor at Los Angeles High School, and Pedro Martinez, a social-studies teacher at Eagle Rock High School, prepare their children for the day. The “co-location” of charters on the grounds of traditional public schools is increasingly common. At 7 a.m., Tammy Kim/Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2019

The two had spent nearly seven years designing a new kind of high school meant to address the needs of students who didn’t thrive in a traditional setting. We thought our big contribution could be laying out how to do this in the traditional public school environment,” Resnick said. in a splashy competition.

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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. They helped shape our country into what it is today. Inc, according to ilctr.org.

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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. When Mississippi’s legislature voted in 2016 to let students cross district lines to attend charter schools, she was ready.

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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).

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 5, 2018

In 2016 schools earned the 25-point incentive for a total of only 41 students citywide; the 2017 total was worse, a mere 17 students. The goal with the first two groups was to help them earn a traditional diploma, if possible. They’re behind in a traditional school setting. They’ve either been suspended or expelled.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 27, 2016

Tianna’s social studies project aimed to refute the “dominant narrative” that racism is largely dead in the United States. And are they particularly valuable for students who have struggled in traditional high school classes? “You’re doing fine,” another student assured her. Fordham Institute.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 7, 2018

It is patently a form of terrorism meant to intimidate communities, enforce racist traditions and maintain racial hierarchies. The Alabama social studies curriculum , for instance, doesn’t really explain or even mention lynching. Lynching is an open wound made fresh by the extrajudicial killings that occur seemingly every day.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 16, 2020

Douglass student Ivyierra Washington into a traditional Garifuna dress. Martinez pointed the students toward a hut filled with traditional Garifuna clothes, and Endiah slinked behind as the other girls ran toward a rack of gingham dresses. Two months later, she left New Orleans for Washington, D.C. From left, Frederick A.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 7, 2016

It is just one of a slate of waivers approved by lawmakers, including class size, teacher preparation time, hiring and firing rules, and others, allowing traditional public schools to operate with the same educational requirements as their area charter schools. In 2013, 7,758 were enrolled, and in 2016 that number fell to 3,944.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

130,000 — number of signatures on petition to put outdoor school funding initiative on the 2016 ballot. Part of the magic of Crook County’s outdoor school comes from its time-honored traditions: French toast on Wednesday mornings; skits on Thursday nights; camp names. Just one representative voted “no.”

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 6, 2016

130,000 — number of signatures on petition to put outdoor school funding initiative on the 2016 ballot. Part of the magic of Crook County’s outdoor school comes from its time-honored traditions: French toast on Wednesday mornings; skits on Thursday nights; camp names. Just one representative voted “no.”

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 9, 2024

Voters banned it again in 1998, only reversing the latest prohibition in 2016. California has removed the official barriers to offering this type of instruction since 2016, and the state now champions bilingualism and biliteracy, encouraging all students to strive for both. Her home state could have kept pace with Texas. But it didnt.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

He started teaching social studies at Blythewood High School in Richland 2, a school district in the Midlands, in 2005, the same year the school was founded. “I After the 2016 presidential election in which Donald Trump was declared winner, that feeling has gotten more intense for educators, he said. Tackling Teacher Shortages.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 28, 2019

NOME, Alaska — Before they got down to business for the day, students in Devin Tatro’s social studies class were offered a quiet moment of self-reflection: On this golden fall afternoon at Nome-Beltz Junior/Senior High School, were they feeling chipper, distressed or somewhere in between?

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 6, 2017

Between September 2016 and June 2017, the number of licensed work-based learning coordinators in Vermont increased from 38 to 53. Eurich also earned credit in economics, part of the social studies curriculum at Harwood, which meant he graduated with a full four years of social studies credit on his diploma.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 21, 2017

Not only did Caleb never return to his local school, but he learned little throughout his elementary, middle and high school years — which included hundreds of hours struggling through computer lessons in math, science and social studies. The report sought to gauge how the online lessons reached “struggling learners.”

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 4, 2023

Related: Inside an ‘underground lab’ for far-right education policies Nationally, takeovers are relatively rare: Between 1988 and 2016, states took control of 114 school districts, about four per year. At least three studies have found that takeovers don’t increase academic achievement. Being in the news has motivated students too.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

In the fall of 2016, students will be able to take up to six online classes (usually considered a full load of coursework) while remaining enrolled. “Most parents want their kids to go to school. They want them at school learning. It’s their identity.”. Ken Grover, principal of Innovations Early College High School in Salt Lake City.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

It had no textbooks for math, science or social studies. A year later, the Nations Report Card found Native students in traditional public schools performed much better than those in BIE schools. About 92 percent of Native students attend traditional public schools and 8 percent attend BIE schools.)

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Zinn Education Project

JANUARY 9, 2024

He did it at Tuskegee in 1906, and in his remarks which were covered in the New York Times , he said such things as Today, you graduates of Hampton are continuing a tradition of law-abiding Black men, because at this college something like 6,000 graduates have come from here, but only two have proven to be criminals.

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