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language education was published in 2017, with data from less than half of the country’s K-12 schools. While our understanding of language education is incomplete, we know that most K-12 students in American public schools do not have the opportunity to study an additional language to proficiency.

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APRIL 9, 2018

Fourth-graders didn’t improve in 2017 in either subject. 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. Photo: Jackie Mader/The Hechinger Report.

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MARCH 2, 2020

In February 2020, Jackson presented these early findings at conference of the National Center for the Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Education Research (CALDER) and the paper was circulated by the National Bureau of Economic Research. ” (For a more examples of survey questions, I typed up a bunch here.).

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FEBRUARY 19, 2021

today, nearly double the number in 2017. Forest school — also known as nature school, forest kindergarten and outdoor school — isn’t a new idea; such schools have existed in the United States since the mid-1960s, but interest has increased in recent years. The school also prioritizes economic equity.

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MAY 14, 2018

Nettie explains to her daughter the meaning of the high court’s ruling in the Brown Vs. Board of Education case that segregation in public schools is unconstitutional. Making people upwardly mobile requires providing great schools and dismantling systems that keep students from receiving what they need to be successful.

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begin language study in middle or high school. Only 58 percent of middle schools and 25 percent of elementary schools offer a foreign language in 2008, according to a 2017 report by the Commission on Language Learning, which was formed in response to a request by Congress to look deeper into foreign language learning in the United States.

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MAY 8, 2023

Credit: Camilla Forte/The Hechinger Report Gates was among the scores of high school students who accepted an invitation to visit Malcolm X College, a community college in Chicago, as part of a program run jointly with the Chicago Public Schools. Women now make up about 58 percent of U.S.

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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. Segregating public school children on the basis of race or ethnicity is inherently suspect,” he wrote in his 2013 decision. He ruled that the gifted program was discriminatory.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

BOSTON — When the Boston Public Schools opened the Margarita Muñiz Academy in 2012, it was a first-of-its kind dual-language high school meant to address issues faced by the city’s growing Hispanic population. Related: English one day, Español the next: Dual-language learning expands with a South Bronx school as a model.

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APRIL 27, 2023

This support, through a program set up to promote rural economic development and from the federal agency that works the most with rural places, underscores how important local universities and colleges are to those communities — and the vulnerability of a growing number of them. Iowa Wesleyan, for example, had an estimated $55.1

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NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Some teachers in Hickory Public Schools, where Viewmont Elementary is located, have been focusing more on the science of reading in recent years, spurred in part by the influence of a local education college. Shawn Clemons, director of accountability at Hickory Public Schools.

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MAY 24, 2022

In Chicago Public Schools, for example, data shows that attendance dropped precipitously, especially among Black students. That’s why my district is reimagining high schools with a strong focus on helping students become leaders in their own learning and the learning of others — a pathway to future success and economic mobility.

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This can lead to difficulties with retention, but can also affect the quality of teachers in public schools. Not only do teachers earn less than other professionals, but in most school districts their salary increases are not dependent on performance. Public Schools have been using their “ IMPACT plus ” model for over a decade.

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JUNE 3, 2020

School leaders say that their students, many of whom are low-income, must juggle jobs along with their coursework, lengthening the time it takes them to graduate. They also said local public schools don’t prepare young people for the rigor required for university classes. Part of Ohio’s challenge is cost.

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JANUARY 28, 2019

Six years later, according to one 2017 study , the retained kids weren’t testing any higher than their promoted peers at the same age. ” The study , still a draft paper circulated by the National Bureau of Economic Research in January 2019, is titled, “An Extra Year to Learn English?

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OCTOBER 23, 2018

Photos of the class of 2018 are shown on May 15, 2018, on the Onalaska High School front office wall in Onalaska, Washington. The vast majority of the school’s students — and in 2017, all of them — are accepted into at least one college. 43 — The number of students in Onalaska High School’s 2017 graduating class.

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MAY 6, 2019

The introduction of choice into the public education system in the 1960s and 70s through magnet schools designed with integration goals — followed by an expanding charter school sector and district choice programs — created avenues for parents to actively select public-school settings for their children.

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JULY 15, 2018

In its first academic year, the school entertained dozens of local business leaders as guest speakers and, nearly every week, students welcomed tech employees who serve as mentors. CAST Tech, which opened in fall 2017 with 175 freshmen, is the first of three career-themed public high schools currently planned for San Antonio.

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JUNE 24, 2018

While existing economic segregation means that a universal preschool wouldn’t serve a perfect mix of lower- and upper-income families, it would be more mixed than the current system, which clusters children living in poverty. is a founding member, but just 66 percent of 4-year-olds were enrolled in school here in 2015.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2023

He wouldn’t be allowed back until the next school year. Brentwood Union Free School District gave out 466 long-term suspensions from 2017-18 to 2021-22. Credit: Sarah Butrymowicz/The Hechinger Report New York state allows students to be suspended for up to 180 days — an entire school year.

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OCTOBER 23, 2018

percent higher in 2017 than in 2010 , the year Governor Scott Walker won office and began pushing legislation to hobble unions and cut funding for schools. percent increase nationally, according to the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute. Statewide, inflation-adjusted median wages were just 0.3 That compares with a 1.6

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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. He wanted a school in which he, a white, middle-class New Orleans native, would feel comfortable enrolling his young children. But there was a big problem.

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AUGUST 6, 2020

It’s going to further disrupt kids whose lives and learning processes have already been upended by school closures.”. Housing is everything,” said Melissa Douglas, the liaison for homeless students in the Kansas City Public Schools district. Evictions are rampant and often mark the start of a slide into prolonged homelessness.

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OCTOBER 22, 2020

Black and Latino students were often less likely than their white peers to enroll in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) and information technology classes, according to the analysis, which was based primarily on 2017-18 data. Related: What does ‘career readiness’ look like in middle school?

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JANUARY 28, 2019

The IT staff at Nome Public Schools would have strongly discouraged this kind of lesson just two years ago, lest it strain the bandwidth shared by the district’s 720 students and 100 staff members. Phase one was completed in 2017 and cost a reported $250 million. At that time, a YouTube video took two minutes to buffer.

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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. This year there may be as few as 19.

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DECEMBER 11, 2019

Los Angeles is home to nearly 300 charter schools, more than any other school system in the nation, drawing one-fifth of all kids out of its traditional public schools. Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) is the nation’s second-largest school district after New York City. public education.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2019

Inexperienced teachers, with three years’ experience or less, are clustered in one-third of New Orleans’ schools — most of which have student bodies that are 90 percent black and 90 percent economically disadvantaged. Molière also grew up in the New Orleans area and was educated in its public schools.

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JUNE 18, 2018

Just 10 years ago, he was kicked out of his Vermont public school and finished at an alternative high school in Maine. That’s the “doomsday scenario” Vermont is trying to avoid through programs like Randolph Union’s, says Joan Goldstein, the state’s commissioner of economic development.

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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. UTLA has organized charter-school teachers and sued Alliance College-Ready Public Schools, a local charter network, for union-busting.

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OCTOBER 28, 2019

Education policy that ignores neighborhood conditions misses the point of why we ultimately go to school — to improve our community. Warren’s plan, A Great Public School Education for Every Student , is one of the most comprehensive education policy proposals by a presidential candidate I’ve ever seen.

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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. I’ll always be able to find good work’.

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APRIL 22, 2019

Colorado’s public pension system is one of the most underfunded in the country, with a shortfall totaling an estimated $29 billion in 2017. About half of that comes from school district employee pensions. Cory Koedel, an associate professor of economics and public policy at the University of Missouri.

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JUNE 17, 2018

This was clearly no ordinary public school. A driveway circling a landscaped pond led them to the school’s main hall. Lake Oconee’s amenities are virtually unheard of in rural Georgia; and because it is a public school, they are all available at the unbeatable price of free. Lake Oconee Academy is a charter school.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2017

The working paper, “ Measuring Success in Education: The Role of Effort on the Test Itself ,” was distributed by the National Bureau of Economic Research in November 2017. ” Schleicher heads the education department at the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), which administers the PISA exam.

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DECEMBER 13, 2019

But teachers here say the program, known as Tax-Increment Financing, or TIF, has been a giveaway to corporate developers, and that it is hurting the city’s schools. “We Hilario Dominguez, special education teacher, Chicago Public Schools. Paul, teachers began their contract campaign in 2017 with a rally outside U.S.

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

You know, those things schools should have in their supply cabinets. Unfortunately, school cupboards across the country are bare — or at least underfunded. Between 2005 and 2017, public schools in the U.S. There are bigger budgetary issues behind school supply drives.

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