The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

In 2016, The School for Creative Studies, in Durham, North Carolina, prevented black students from wearing traditional head wraps, or geles , a symbol used to represent the students’ connection with Africa — during Black History month, no less!

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

A Google search led him to the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, a state flagship school with prize-winning economists and a history of indigenous activism. And in 2017, barely a fifth of American Indian and Alaska Native adults ages 18 to 24 were enrolled in college, the lowest of any subgroup.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Education policy leaders at the federal level and beyond were exploring the growing role of competency-based education and non-traditional providers —and calls were growing for stronger connections between universities and the world of employment. To start off, it’s worth thinking back to 2016. But these are by far the exception.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 7, 2017

1 best primary school system in the world, according to the World Economic Forum’s Global Competitiveness Report 2016-2017. ET) on The History Channel. Doyle is also a 2015-2016 Fulbright Scholar and 2017 Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center Resident Fellow. Related: What do we invest in the country’s youngest?

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

One of the draws to credentialing programs is that they afford learners unparalleled flexibility while requiring a considerably smaller investment of time than traditional degree programs. 1EdTech inherited Open Badges from Mozilla in 2017. Courses don’t always provide such transparency around these competencies.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 12, 2020

They also aim to open traditional students’ eyes to the stigmas and systematic barriers to employment former prisoners like Omar face. Though he has experience managing fast-food restaurants, he struggled to get even lower-paying work as a cook or cashier after his release from prison in 2017. But that’s not how business works.

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Anthropology News

OCTOBER 7, 2024

The Tibetan community in Vancouver includes approximately 700 people, more than 200 of whom migrated from four settlements in Arunachal Pradesh, India, to Canada through a federal refugee resettlement program between 2013 and 2017. In 2017, Tibetan parents in Vancouver decided to organize efforts to care for their heritage language.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 30, 2022

A study in The Journal for Community Health found that the rate of death by suicide among Black girls ages 13 to 19 rose 182 percent between 2001 and 2017. Creating positive school climates in which Black students’ identities are celebrated beyond Black History Month and Juneteenth. These numbers demand action.

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ED Surge

MAY 5, 2023

With enrollment in traditional teacher education programs declining nationwide in the past few years, it is drying up at an alarming rate. According to a report published in 2017 by the Economic Policy Institute, large urban districts spend approximately $20,000 on every new hire. The teacher pipeline is no longer leaking.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 19, 2021

While the pandemic still took its toll, adapting to online learning was smoother in Lindsay due to its preexisting infrastructure and history of adaptation. The new approach threw out many traditional facets of education such as the A-F grading scale and time-based learning in which students advance to a new grade level each year.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 4, 2023

Even more disciplinary transfers likely occur when students are counseled to voluntarily switch from one traditional school to another. Ricky has a history of behavior problems in school, leading to detentions, Saturday school and occasional suspensions. Especially coming off of two years of catastrophic disruption to kids’ education.”

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 25, 2018

“I don’t like to lead with this about myself,” he said during a discussion group on Thucydides’ history of the Peloponnesian War, “but I’m a veteran and I’ve been to war.”. Maybe, just maybe, if [those] students were sitting in English and history class with men and women whom the U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 18, 2018

From Greensboro lunch counters to Tiananmen Square, youth have led significant campaigns for social and political change throughout history. Students are left with an impression of civic life as one of memorizing and adopting mainstream practices presented in history books. It’s the epitome of a teachable moment.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Spokespeople from the schools say the criticism doesn’t reflect the fact that they often enroll students who are struggling academically, are enrolled for short periods, and have a history of changing schools frequently, a metric shown to hurt academic performance. They also say they are taking steps to improve retention and graduation rates.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 8, 2018

For the 2017-18 school year, they broke up Vista’s freshman class of almost 700 students into six self-contained “houses.” At the beginning of the 2017-18 school year, freshman history teacher Matt Stuckey, one of the school’s most experienced personalized-learning practitioners, told students that change wouldn’t happen all at once.

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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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The Hechinger Report

MAY 13, 2018

PHILADELPHIA — In a city that’s struggled to meet the educational needs of many of its children, especially its most vulnerable ones, a select group of district high schools is shunning the traditional classroom model in which teachers dispense knowledge from the front of the room and measure progress with tests.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 4, 2019

At IU Northwest in 2017, Latinx students like Perez had a six-year graduation rate of just 28 percent, while the graduation rate for white students was 35 percent. From 2008 to 2017, the share of Latinx students at this commuter school of roughly 4,000 rose from 13 percent to 22 percent — the highest of any public university in the state.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 30, 2018

We can’t keep structures that would allow us to fall back into a more traditional system,” said Steiner. “If Northern Cass’s reforms rely on North Dakota’s 2017 decision to let districts apply for waivers from requirements such as hours of instruction. Others, however, echo Northern Cass superintendent, Cory Steiner. “We

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

Students participate in morning workshops in advance of national May 1 “Day Without Immigrants” rallies, learning also about the labor rights history of May Day rallies worldwide. But at Muñiz, she was learning subjects like history and math in Spanish. Photo: Tara García Mathewson/The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 30, 2018

A 2017 study by the RAND Corporation found that 17 percent of teachers in the personalized learning schools surveyed said they devote a least a quarter of class time to tutoring students one-on-one, compared to just 9 percent of teachers surveyed nationwide. Around three-quarters of the schools in the 2017 RAND study were charter schools.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 15, 2018

Think learning art and history by shadowing a curator in the summer months or learning the physics of sound through an internship with a sound engineer. The state is creating new ways students can receive high school and college credits: through internships as well as through traditional career and technical programs.

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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. ? Reilly’s first day is Aug.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

The Teagle grant supported course-sharing and online module development at more than 35 institutions and organizations, and engaged more than 180 faculty and staff between 2014 and 2017. Here is what we learned: Student learning in hybrid and traditional classrooms is comparable. At a minimum, we wanted to ensure we were doing no harm.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

Then, in May 2017, a friend told her about a new Delta-based nonprofit, Regional Initiatives for Sustainable Education (RISE), which offered tutoring for the Praxis. William Carey University in Hattiesburg joined RISE’s efforts to help teachers become certified in October 2017. Her eyes welled with tears as she recalled the struggle.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2020

Those efforts allowed the district of 520 schools and educational centers to transition relatively smoothly from traditional learning to distance learning when the school system shut on March 16, Carvalho said. Half of the 20 most destructive wildfires in state history have occurred since 2015.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 23, 2019

Morales started out as an elementary-school teacher, then switched to academic counseling, which she’s done at LA High for the past eleven years; Martinez worked there, too, teaching history and social studies, until six years ago, when he was transferred to another high school in the district. Tammy Kim/Hechinger Report.

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Anthropology 365

APRIL 11, 2023

Paleoanthropology is a scientific discipline dedicated to illuminating our evolutionary history. 2017) Paleoanthropologists’ business is in death. Unsuspecting students from all backgrounds learn about the selection pressures that shaped our evolutionary history. ” Elife 6 (2017): e24232. From (Hawks et al.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 12, 2017

Yarmouth High School science teacher Catie Wooten goes over an action plan for a mock press conference with a students in a science class at Yarmouth High School on Wednesday, May 31, 2017. The mock press conference was in response for a disease outbreak that students had researched. We’re not having to drastically change.”.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2023

Louis, Missouri, she had a long history of disrupting her classes and getting into confrontations with teachers. Instead of taking traditional or legal pathways,” she said, “there’s a pattern that the easiest solution is to remove a student rather than deal with the underlying issues.” A seventh grader at a charter school in St.

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MPSA

OCTOBER 12, 2021

They created the entry on Settler colonialism in Canada , describing the important history of the displacement and mistreatment of Canada’s indigenous populations by European settlers. While many students choose to tackle one of Wikipedia’s equity gaps, others focus on improving more traditional content. Helaine has a Ph.D.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 29, 2019

Now she wants others to learn that history. It was one of the last remaining traditional public schools in the city. When the charter group took over the historic Eleanor McMain High School in 2017, the school still had a colorful mural that had been added to by each graduating class since 1986.

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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. Traditional arts ensembles like marching band and big band don’t necessarily resonate,” said superintendent Paul Gausman, a musician and long-time music educator.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 5, 2018

But Beard and others know the district has yet to overcome the deep disparities that have defined so much of its history. Since 2017, most pre-K and kindergarten students in Longview have begun their education at East Texas Montessori Prep, a $31 million, 150,000-square-foot building in the middle of the district.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 16, 2018

Massachusetts is turning that traditional model on its head by having many schools combine rigorous academics with hands-on career training, now called “career and technical education.” English teacher Justin Bilton and history teacher Jason Stark created and team-teach the class. It’s my best chance to do what I want.”.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 6, 2022

We asked for disciplinary data capturing in-school and out-of-school suspensions, expulsions and transfers that: Spanned the 2017-18, 2018-19, 2019-20, 2020-21 and 2021-22 school years. Included the reason for each disciplinary action. Noted, for suspensions, how many days the punishment lasted.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

Those students stayed at the top of my mind as I considered another phenomenon taking shape in the early 2000s: the failure of traditional hiring processes to identify the qualities that are most needed at work today. The status quo was protected by layers of tradition, incentives and habits of behavior.

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