ED Surge

MAY 5, 2023

According to a report published in 2017 by the Economic Policy Institute, large urban districts spend approximately $20,000 on every new hire. Preparing School Leaders Improved working conditions and community building starts with leadership.

Leadership 145

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 1, 2019

In 2017, while speaking at the National Association for College Admissions Counseling conference, University of Southern California’s Director of the Race and Equity Center Shaun Harper pointed out , “Your profession is 80 percent white. Does this include calling out flagrant abuse and discriminatory practices?

Social Justice 111

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 16, 2020

According to a 2017 study by Harvard University researchers, Stony Brook — one of 64 campuses in the State University of New York system — sends more than 51 percent of its low-income students into the highest 20 percent of income levels. (The Photo by Matt Krupnick for The Hechinger Report.

Leadership 104

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 29, 2017

Around the country, Education Innovation Clusters (EdClusters) are working to address one of education’s pressing challenges – the deep inequity that persists in learning, opportunities, and leadership. You can learn more about this work at the upcoming 2017 Education Innovation Clusters Convening.

Education 106

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 16, 2021

By 2017-18, the most recent data available , the district was 54 percent Hispanic — and its gifted classes were 48 percent Hispanic. The district, which is 8 percent white, went from having 38 percent white gifted enrollment in 2015 to 28 percent in 2017 , according to federal data.

Middle School 131

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 6, 2019

The chasm between what high-income parents can and do invest in pursuit of chosen public-school placements and what less economically advantaged parents are able to access exposes the problems of our system. Related: End of desegregation offers lessons for current education reformers.

K-12 111

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 4, 2019

In the fall of 2017, he moved to Boston and enrolled in a community college, planning to transfer to a four-year program. Using a four-year degree as a proxy for employability shuts out the most economically vulnerable job seekers. Rainville had to persuade 10 people from the sales leadership team before she could make the change.

Economics 112

Economics Civics Research Cultures 112

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Erin Roberts, a teacher leadership specialist. Southwest Primary was an elementary school until 2017, when the district converted it to serve pre-K through second grade students, at the same time turning nearby Longview Elementary into a school for third through fifth grades only. She pointed to the “p” again. Puh,” he enunciated.

Elementary School 145

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Previous researchers conducted a similar analysis in 2017 with whole school districts instead of individual schools. “Growing at this rate allows most students to catch up to grade level during their time in school,” concluded the report , which was released in September 2024.

Charter School 145

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 5, 2021

But now a convergence of factors — a dwindling pool of traditional-age students, the call for more educated workers and a pandemic that highlighted economic disparities and scrambled habits and jobs — is putting adults in the spotlight. In late 2017, she was laid off. that pay college tuition for adults. ? His counselors reached out.

Economics 144

Economics Sociology Social Justice High School 144

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 12, 2023

Each elementary school focuses on a specific area — engineering, math and science, the arts, leadership, or foreign languages, among others. In 2017, Greenville County Schools awarded 601 industry certifications to students. But the approach has taken hold in totally different business landscapes, too.

Elementary School 139

Elementary School Education Middle School High School 139

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

For students from low-income families, graduating from college is an important way to climb the economic ladder. In a 2017 survey of about 240 college admissions leaders, more than half said that when they’re looking at applications, community service experience serves as a tiebreaker in choosing whom to admit.

High School 143

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

The performance of minority students on standardized tests at Ridgeview historically has lagged behind that of white students, according to staff, who note that black and Hispanic students are much more likely to come from economically disadvantaged backgrounds.

Middle School 111

Middle School Leadership Charter School High School 111

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 14, 2019

With people of color expected to make up a quarter of the state’s population by 2035, these gaps represent an economic threat to Minnesota; unless more residents get to and through college, there won’t be enough qualified workers to fill the jobs that require a post-secondary degree or certificate. Will jobs go begging?

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 11, 2019

Two national studies out this year similarly find that poor students become more racially or economically isolated from middle-class peers, at small levels of magnitude, when their districts allow charters to proliferate unchecked. Voters might recognize informed leadership, if or when it appears on the campaign trail.

Charter School 98

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 10, 2017

Freshman Kylee Elderkin works on an assignment in English class at Nokomis High School in Newport on Friday, June 2, 2017. Mary Nadeau, principal of Nokomis High School in Newport, poses for a photo in a hallway of the school on Friday, June 2, 2017. Elderkin says she used to routinely miss key skills and do poorly on tests.

Education 0

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 28, 2019

Phase one was completed in 2017 and cost a reported $250 million. And the FCC’s 2017-18 target speed for schools is 10 times greater than the 2014 target, or 1 megabit per second per student, which the agency recommends is best for remote instruction and heavy video collaboration. Mareesa Nicosia for The Hechinger Report.

Social Studies 103

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2018

Families often need support in this part of the state, an area struggling to keep up with the economic growth of the high-tech Triangle region, the metropolitan home of the state capital, Raleigh, about an hour away. In 2017 , 88 percent of Edgecombe children and 72 percent of Nash children were in the highest-quality setting available.

K-12 107

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 2, 2019

The county-based programs for high schoolers are so popular that of the nearly 30,000 young people who applied for spots in the programs in 2017, only about 13,000 students received a seat. If that employment picture doesn’t change soon, some experts say, it could hamper economic growth.

Education 110

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 6, 2019

New Jersey’s program provides money and support services to 13,449 students from educationally and economically disadvantaged backgrounds in 42 programs from community colleges to Rutgers, the state flagship. Tichavakunda, an assistant professor of education leadership at the University of Cincinnati. They have an average GPA of 3.2

Education 111

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 21, 2019

Rabalais dreamed of a diverse campus that would cater to his diverse neighborhood and draw kids from across the racial and economic chasms that have long divided New Orleans. The problem with the Recovery School District is that they are used to telling us what’s going to happen,” Rabalais explained back in 2017.

Charter School 101

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 23, 2019

But the neighborhood just to the north, Hancock Park, is 71 percent white, with a median income of $85,000; the student body, meanwhile, is 79 percent Latino, 12 percent African-American, 7 percent Asian, and 64 percent “economically disadvantaged,” drawn from Koreatown, Mid-City, and neighborhoods farther afield. Tammy Kim/Hechinger Report.

Charter School 111

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Political Science Now

AUGUST 1, 2024

She has also developed the following readers: Women in Politics, American Public Policy and the current Anthology, Social Justice Movements ©2017, Cognella Academic Publishing and the 2nd edition, Social Justice Movements ©2023. degrees in economics and political science from Cerritos College, and a B.A. in public policy and M.A.

Political Science 55

Political Science Social Justice Pedagogy Sociology 55

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 You are prone to the priorities of leadership when you are in service to a district.”.

Elementary School 75

Elementary School Library Leadership Public School 75

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 6, 2018

Much of the advocacy for net-zero buildings has focused on environmental and economic incentives. The school district of Horry County, South Carolina, which counts the majority of its 43,800 students as impoverished, opened three net-zero schools in 2017, one in 2018 and has one more under construction.

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K-12 Elementary School Middle School Advocacy 111

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 18, 2016

Instead of attending neighborhood schools with students of the same race and economic status, as most children do in Mississippi, Osborn went to school with an even mix of black and white classmates, some from the town’s wealthy subdivisions and others from Clinton’s poorer areas. They’re also extremely successful.

Junior High 76

Junior High Civics K-12 Economics 76

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

In 2017, a group of four educational nonprofits partnered with two local universities, Xavier and Loyola, to land a $13 million federal grant that will produce 900 “highly effective, culturally competent teachers from diverse backgrounds” by the year 2020, according to one of the partners, New Schools for New Orleans. It’s not a stop.

Elementary School 109

Elementary School Public School Teaching Cultures 109

Digital Promise

OCTOBER 12, 2016

In 2017, Digital Promise and the Kauffman Foundation will be supporting the developing of a common research agenda, instrumentation, and strategies for analyzing the strength and nature of connections in the regional EdClusters networks.

K-12 78

K-12 EdTech Government Economics 78

Political Science Now

JULY 16, 2024

This roundtable discussion builds upon research published in the APSA edited volume Teaching Civic Engagement Across the Disciplines (2017) and promises to serve as a unifying effort to confront the democratic challenges our campuses and country likely will face this election. Trojahn et al.

Political Science 55

Political Science Civics Civic Engagement K-12 55

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 26, 2020

Chen, who was hired as the school’s first principal of color in late 2017, said a better description might have been “exclusive,” and not just because of the $12,500 to $20,500 tuition, but because of the cultural rigidity that clearly delineated outsiders and insiders. This story also appeared in ESPN. Hard it is. Gant developed the A.C.E.

Private School 125

Private School K-12 Economics Public School 125

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 17, 2020

It has almost become de rigueur among chancellors and presidents in selling the value of their universities to the larger community to say that we are engines of economic development, and there’s scant evidence to support that.”. The economic development argument is tenuous at best and probably even less than tenuous,” Levine said.

Government 130

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 4, 2023

Another law passed in 2017 incentivized districts to contract with outside entities, including charter school managers, to assume control of schools that aren’t meeting state standards. HISD leadership is a disaster…. That new rule tipped it from a D to an F under an A-F rating system Abbott had signed into law in 2017.

Charter School 98

Charter School High School Professional Development Government 98

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 21, 2017

The successes of the recent movies Girls Trip and Hidden Figures and the economic and cultural power of the Essence Music Festival are testaments to the power of black women. The pace of their educational gains, the political leadership and styling of the women behind the Women’s March and Rep.

K-12 84

K-12 Economics Cultures History 84

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Fourth graders in the state from almost every racial and economic background improved their scores on the exam. She resorted to an English major and returned to Holmes County in the summer of 2017 with her bachelor’s degree. Holmes senior Justice Grisby completes a review sheet on factors of production in her economics class.

Private School 143

Private School High School Public School Charter School 143

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Some iterations of President Joe Biden’s economic plan have included the Reopen and Rebuild America’s Schools Act, which would dole out $130 billion to repair schools over the next decade. A school board seated in 2017 hired a superintendent, Nikolai Vitti, a dynamic career school administrator currently drawing plaudits.

High School 122

High School Public School Elementary School Government 122

Political Science Now

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Cambridge University Press published her first book, Rivalry and Revenge: the Politics of Violence during Civil War in 2017. At Duke, he is the founder (and sometimes director) of the Modeling Economic and Political Systems Focus program (MESS) and the Decision Science program.

Political Science 72

Political Science Economics Social Science Government 72

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 20, 2025

Piloted in 2017 at 11 high schools, the model has expanded to all 15 of the districts main high schools. A lack of access to work-based learning can actually limit the career prospects and economic mobility of youth and adults, said Kyle Hartung, associate vice president for education at the nonprofit Jobs for the Future.

Middle School 136

Middle School High School Leadership K-12 136