Digital Promise

APRIL 16, 2019

Government Accountability Office, nearly one in four Foreign Service officers do not meet the language proficiency requirements that they should meet to do their jobs. Part of the problem I see is that so few students in the United States – just 20 percent – study a foreign language at the K-12 level. Yet, according to the U.S

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 24, 2018

That’s about $1,000 more than the national average per pupil spending in K-12 , as calculated by the National Center for Education Statistics. . Yet, with few exceptions, families earning $88,000 a year — right in the middle of the middle class — get no government help to cover the cost of educating their 4-year-olds.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

In a report publicly released in October 2020 , the Government Accountability Office (GAO) counted 99 school data breaches over the past four years, from July 2016 to May 2020, that compromised the personal information of thousands of students in kindergarten through high school.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 25, 2018

On My Way Pre-K student Vivian Kimberlin, 5, plays during recess at Zion Lutheran School in Seymour, Indiana. In early spring 2017, a friend told him that Zion Lutheran School (where regular pre-K tuition is $6,410 per child annually) was accepting 4-year-olds through a state grant program that provides free tuition for low-income parents.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 11, 2018

The Tax Cut and Jobs Act of 2017 expanded the use of these plans to cover kindergarten through twelfth grade expenses. Between 2010 and 2017, there was a 30 percent increase in the number of 529 accounts, which now total 13 million, according to the Pew report.

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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. Things … the government does affect us, but we can’t vote,” she said.

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Anthropology News

OCTOBER 7, 2024

SEE Learning is a K-12 curriculum developed through a collaboration between Emory University and His Holiness the Dalai Lama, the spiritual leader of the Tibetan people. In 2017, Tibetan parents in Vancouver decided to organize efforts to care for their heritage language.

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The Hechinger Report

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. Traditional pensions differ from 401(k)-style retirement plans because they guarantee retirees a set amount of money annually for life. percent to 20.4.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 27, 2020

That marks the fifth straight year of growth in the number of school counselors, bringing the student-to-counselor ratio down to the lowest level since the federal government began counting counselors more than 30 years ago. which decreased its student-to-school-counselor ratio 15 percent from 560-to-1 in 2017–18 to 474-to-1 in 2018–19.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

So college has become more like the K-12 experience, where we are teaching them how to be adults in the world.”. Those are not necessarily skills that they’re learning in K-12 education.”. Those are not necessarily skills that they’re learning in K-12 education.”. That should not shock anyone.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

Ever since enslaved blacks arrived on the shores of the English colony of Virginia in 1619 , white legislators at various levels of government have designed laws to explicitly control and suppress black people. School districts are not the only entities hiding their racism behind laws that provide cover.

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The Hechinger Report

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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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 7, 2023

Credit: Lily Estella Thompson for The Hechinger Report This year, Harpeth Valley flagged just 12 third graders as needing extra reading support, but the requirements of the expansive Tennessee law could put far more students at risk of retention. Because it is just one assessment.” There shouldn’t be any talk about retention.”

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

Since 2007, Mississippi has attempted to raise the bar for students; as a result, the state has succeeded in posting some of the greatest score increases on the NAEP , according to a new report by the National Assessment Governing Board, which examines the steps Mississippi took to go from flailing to becoming a leader in NAEP score improvement.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 3, 2019

On a muggy fall morning, pre-K teacher Ruth Shows inspected the work of students in her classroom, stepping over a cluster of little learners sprawled on the carpet. Quitman’s pre-K success should have wide-ranging implications for Mississippi, where early results of the state’s tiny program are promising. ?. QUITMAN, Miss. —

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2019

Half a million people have left Puerto Rico in the last decade, first after the government cut services in a scramble to try and pay back its $123 billion in debt and then in response to the catastrophe of Hurricane Maria. Compared to 2010, nearly 250,000 fewer children attend K-12 public schools in Puerto Rico today, a decline of 45 percent.

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ED Surge

JULY 14, 2022

Starting this month, Indiana K-12 schools will be able to hire adjunct teachers who don’t have teaching experience but do have at least four years of experience in their subject area. Some districts around the country are switching to four-day weeks in a bid to staunch teacher burnout and attract applicants.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 29, 2020

The study assigned 2,718 boys in ninth and 10th grade across 12 schools either to get the tutoring or not. For context, average education spending in the United States in 2017 was $12,201 per pupil, ranging from a low of $7,179 in Utah to a high of $23,091 in New York, according to U.S. Census Bureau data.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 16, 2019

The increase included $753,687 more than was spent in 2017-18 for accompanists, instruments, travel, entry fees and uniforms, among other essentials. The federal government collects data on the fine arts only about once every 10 years and it tells us more about who is teaching music than which students have the opportunity to play it.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 26, 2018

In addition, federal and many local governments are advocating for policies that would make educational data — similar to what Zuberi saw on the California School Dashboard — more accessible, transparent and helpful to parents. She is hoping to see a change from state and local governments.

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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. Maine is the pioneer,” said Chris Sturgis, co-founder of CompetencyWorks , a national organization that advocates for the approach in K-12 schools. “I Photo: Gregory Rec/Portland Press Herald.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 17, 2018

Down the road at Greene County’s other public schools, 12 percent of students are white and 68 percent are black; there isn’t a piano lab and there are far fewer AP courses. Related: How the federal government abandoned the Brown v. Of the dozen or so prospective families in attendance, all were white except for one South Asian couple.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 11, 2018

In total, the homework gap hits some 12 million school-aged kids nationwide, according to a 2017 congressional report, “ America’s Digital Divide.”. Over three decades, the government gave away more than 2,000 spectrum licenses to school districts and education nonprofits, primarily in urban areas.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 8, 2018

Artwork decorates the government-run nursery classroom at Badock’s Wood Primary School in Bristol, England. caring for young children has long been considered the responsibility of individual families, not the government. We were established to escape government tyranny. Photo: Lillian Mongeau. Britain says ‘yes’. In the U.S.,

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 12, 2020

The typical participant is not a super star on the football field or in student government. . According to a 2017 study from the Give a Note Foundation and the Country Music Association, over 90 percent of U.S. Marching bands also draw in kids with various learning differences, including those with high-functioning autism.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

The end product is an August 2017 working paper, “ Education Technology: An Evidence-Based Review ,” published by the National Bureau of Economic Research with clear tables on which technology improves learning and which doesn’t. The federal government, through the U.S. A 2017 study in eight U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

New York City, for example, began offering its 1 million public school students free breakfast and lunch in 2017. Yet only half of these eligible schools in Missouri chose to participate because the federal government doesn’t reimburse for the full cost of the meals until more than 62.5 percentage points — from 51.2

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 5, 2019

The federal government and the Department of Education need to start taking their responsibility for prohibiting discrimination seriously and crack down on schools that punish black people for their hair and hair styles. Durags are used to create the wave hairstyle. Related: Denver teachers are next to take to the picket line.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 29, 2019

The average performance of the nation’s fourth and eighth graders mostly declined in math and reading from 2017 to 2019, following a decade of stagnation in educational progress, according to the results of a test released on Oct. The one exception was fourth-grade math, with the average score rising by one point between 2017 and 2019.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 10, 2018

The Lincoln Institute for Land Policy found that local governments provide nearly half of the funds for local school districts. The think tank the Urban Institute found that local governments receive around 30 percent of their funding from property taxes , a combined sum of $473 billion across all U.S. localities.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 13, 2018

In a 12-month period in 2016-17, more than one of every four Mississippi households with children — 25.8 That rate is the highest of any state in the nation, and over 7 percentage points higher than the 2017 national average. The southeast and southwest regions experienced the highest rates of food shortage between 2008 and 2017.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 23, 2016

1 is guaranteed 15 hours a week of free child-care or preschool for 38 weeks a year, or 570 hours total, paid for by the national government. “We Apparently, so do most parents, 94 percent of whom take the government up on its offer of free education starting at age 3, according to government data. Like the U.S.,

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 5, 2018

In a number of states, including Louisiana, adult education — which ranges from basic literacy to vocational training to high-school equivalency testing — is lumped with technical and community colleges, separate from the K-12 system. My grades were perfect. But I was a chatterbox.”. Teachers might tell me to go to school,” she said.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 17, 2019

One night in 2017, Leslie Williams saw a post on Facebook about a meeting later that evening at Gardendale City Hall. Related: How the federal government abandoned the Brown v. Leslie Williams grew up in the North Smithfield community where she currently lives with her children. Photo: Tamika Moore for The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 18, 2022

Although the federal government sent a massive influx of money to help schools troubleshoot , it left districts to grapple with how best to use the funds. The experts told them they should “get to the heart of the science of reading,” said Kimberly Davis, principal of the pre-K to grade 8 school.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 1, 2018

According to state data, the number of young people in state juvenile justice facilities dropped from 901 at the end of 2012 to 386 in 2017. In Illinois, District 428 awarded 73 high school diplomas in 2017, up from 65 in 2013 when there were twice as many juveniles in the system and their average stay was longer.

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Political Science Now

JULY 16, 2024

In Peru, access to university education changes the types of local politicians who get elected to office and how they govern. Rethinking Citizen Competence in Democratic Theory and Practice Thursday, September 5, 12:00pm – 1:30pm Roundtable Participants : (Chair) Simone Chambers, University of California, Irvine (Presenter) John S.

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