The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 11, 2020

There’s no shortage of ideas among the state’s legislative body when it comes to addressing education: Lawmakers filed more than 200 bills focused on K-12 schools last year. Leave this field empty if you're human: Related: Online prekindergarten access and funds for school counselors among bills proposed in Mississippi this year.

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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. . Department of Health and Human Services deems “affordable.” But,” she added, “what if higher-income kids are needed to make pre-K more productive for disadvantaged kids?” .

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 22, 2018

In K-12 and college classrooms across the country, some educators are enacting at least partial device bans, some are advocating for teaching style changes (fewer lectures, for example) and still others are seeking help from the technology itself. But true multitasking is a myth. Our brains focus on one thing by shutting out others.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 4, 2020

Since that last recession, as enrollment declined by about 12 percent , according to the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center, federal data shows that universities and colleges nationwide increased their number of employees by 5 percent. percent from 2009 to 2017, a period during which the S&P 500 index gained 11.2

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2018

Related: Speaking kids home language in pre-K could provide a lifelong advantage. Jennifer Hammett, a Nashville resident and mother of four, has been involved in the playgroups since her oldest son, now 12, was a toddler. Pre-K [the state program] or full-time care and they see the value once they have participated in a playgroup.”.

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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 ESSA lists music as one of the subjects meant to constitute the “well-rounded education” that Congress says it expects the country’s K-12 schools to provide.

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JULY 30, 2024

Since 2017, the gap between job openings and hires has been widening, with the number of educators leaving outpacing those entering the profession. K-12 teachers also report the highest levels of burnout in any U.S. By teaming up with tech, we can provide the perfect blend of human touch and digital dexterity in the classroom.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 8, 2018

About five million K-12 students in the United States do not speak English fluently, and their numbers are growing fast. In 2017, the education research firm Eduventures issued a report about 175 institutions with some level of CBE, even if just a course or two. The April issue’s theme was “Nontraditional learning.”

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 18, 2017

Principals lack the experience and expertise in early childhood education that is needed as pre-K programs expand in public elementary schools and that could inhibit their ability to manage and support pre-K teachers, according to a new report. Photo: Jackie Mader/The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 21, 2018

Leave this field empty if you're human: The District of Columbia and twenty-nine states, including Mississippi, require at least 180 days of instruction each year. Georgia, for example, has different requirements for grades K-3, 4-5, and 6-12. hours per day for grades 3-12. That bill was also proposed in 2017.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 14, 2019

More than 13,000 more students failed the algebra Regents exam in the most recent 2017-18 school year compared to the previous year, pushing the failure rate up from 25 percent to 30 percent, according to a December 2018 report by education policy consultant David Rubel. .” ” Sign up for Jill Barshay's Proof Points newsletter.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 29, 2020

Leave this field empty if you're human: Recent college graduates, working as Americorps members, serve as Saga’s tutors. The study assigned 2,718 boys in ninth and 10th grade across 12 schools either to get the tutoring or not. Sign up for the Future of Learning newsletter. Choose as many newsletters as you like. Weekly Update.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

I visited Colleton County High School in 2017 and was thoroughly impressed with students’ deep engagement in their courses, many of which were project-based as part of the New Tech Network. See page 90 of this 2017 report by the Rural School and Community Trust, where I serve on the board.) Former Gov.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 4, 2023

According to the district, Capital City School — her destination — is “a voluntary K-12 independent study school characterized by its friendly, nurturing and safe environment.” She was forced to change schools as a punishment for bringing to school knives and pepper spray that she considered protection against off-campus threats.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 6, 2020

Several Senate leaders are backing a proposal to provide pre-K to a quarter of the state’s 4-year-olds by 2022. Leave this field empty if you're human: Related: OPINION: Five lessons on how states can invest in high-quality child care and early education. More than 83 percent of respondents indicated they supported public pre-K.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 27, 2018

data cited in the lawsuit, between 2012 and 2017, only about half of requests for sports team from schools that had more than 90 percent black and Latino students were approved, whereas about three-quarters of such requests were approved for schools whose student bodies were 10 percent or less black and Latino students. The P.S.A.L.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 9, 2020

An earlier 2017 study found that the diagnosed children had worse reading scores in eighth grade than the undiagnosed. Those who were diagnosed with ADHD during those early elementary years subsequently received lower behavioral ratings from teachers in fifth grade than similar children who were undiagnosed. Choose from our newsletters.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

So 2017, right? Leave this field empty if you're human: “They might not be called a fidget spinner but it’s the same thing,” said Paulo Graziano, director of the S.E.L.F.-Regulation A student plays with a fidget spinner at school. Three research studies find that the objects detract from learning. Weekly Update.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 29, 2017

(Starting in the summer of 2017, BCCC will only have two levels of remedial math.) A student who places into the lowest-level English course might still struggle with something as elementary as subject-verb agreement, said Melvin Brooks, associate dean of English, Humanities, Visual and Performing Arts at BCCC.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 23, 2019

Between 2000 and 2017, room and board costs for students living off campus rose 24 percent at public four-year universities after inflation, according to data from the National Center for Education Statistics analyzed by The Hechinger Report. 59 percent of households headed by an undergraduate or graduate student were “rent burdened” in 2017.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 24, 2017

Subconsciously, we turn to our teachers to make us better human beings and we look forward to experiences that they will give us. Student interviews were carried out during the 2015-2016, 2016-2017 and 2017-2018 school years. Because you see the student more, if not the same amount, as they see their parent. Let me just quit.”

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 26, 2018

In January 2017, the Department of Education issued guidance informing local education officials about the need to produce public “report cards,” with data about student achievement, graduation rates and other indicators in concise “language that parents can understand.” Higher Education. Mississippi Learning.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 2, 2020

In the end, the researchers had an estimate of how much each high school boosted soft skills, based on how ninth graders answered surveys from 2011 to 2017. Sign up for Jill Barshay's Proof Points newsletter. Choose from our newsletters. Weekly Update. Future of Learning. Higher Education. Mississippi Learning. Proof Points. Early Childhood.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 5, 2017

James Lawrence, a 2017 graduate of the Traip Academy in Kittery, Maine, holds wooden duck decoys he made for an art credit his senior year. James Lawrence planned to open his own welding business after his 2017 graduation from the Robert W. Photo courtesy of Susan Johnson. Traip Academy in Kittery, Maine. Weekly Update.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

The idea behind the Muñiz Academy, named for the longtime principal of Boston’s first dual-language elementary school (the Rafael Hernandez K-8 school), was that many Hispanic students would do better in schools that support their cultural background and, with it, the Spanish language. That demands flexibility on the part of teachers.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 6, 2018

In 2017, the average score on all AP exams in Mississippi was a 2.2, In 2017, several companies opened so-called “online high schools” that turned out to be no more than diploma mills. In 2017, the average score on all AP exams statewide was a 2.2, Some of the more time intensive virtual programs have shown poor outcomes.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 23, 2018

A so-called collaborative robot, programmed to work with humans at the Prent Corporation, a packaging company, it looked cute, not intimidating. And “that kind of worker is now going to get you the 10-, 12-dollar job that doesn’t pay the bills.”. JANESVILLE, Wis. — That kind of work environment doesn’t exist any longer,” he says.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 3, 2018

The company hired Ryan Baker, director of the Penn Center for Learning Analytics , and another data scientist to mine the data and create a national snapshot of technology use for the 2017-18 school year. A report was released in November 2018. For example, students who visited Varsity Tutors more frequently had higher reading scores.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 22, 2017

She was “shocked,” she says, to find that out of 878 potentially relevant studies published between 1992 and 2017, only 36 directly compared reading in digital and in print and measured learning in a reliable way. The question is to what extent can we mimic human understanding?”. You cannot stack it up.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 27, 2018

Karriem Bennet, senior at Warren Easton High School in New Orleans, reads her letter at a campaign rally protesting cuts to Louisiana’s merit scholarship program, TOPS, on April 4, 2017, at the Peoples Health New Orleans Jazz Market. Photo: Cheryl Gerber. Others confessed they planned to drop out after the eighth grade. Weekly Update.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 14, 2018

In December 2017, in response to an Associated Press report that showed charters were more segregated than traditional schools, the National Alliance for Public Charters essentially said , research be damned; that it was not their concern. — segregation, knowing that federal policy got us into this mess and only federal policy can get us out.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 11, 2019

Leave this field empty if you're human: Why do most middle schools have seven or eight periods of 45 to 60 minutes each? Sign up for the Future of Learning newsletter. Choose as many newsletters as you like. Weekly Update. Future of Learning. Higher Education. Mississippi Learning. Why does lunch tend to last 45 minutes?

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The Hechinger Report

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. Leave this field empty if you're human: It’s easy to argue about this extensive and muddy body of research. Early Grade Retention and the Human Capital Development of English Learners.”

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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.”. Sign up for our newsletter. Weekly Update.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 23, 2019

Leave this field empty if you're human: “Playing a game of insults, that’s all well and good,” said Jennifer Dean, an educational consultant and former English teacher who has a Ph.D ” Sign up for Jill Barshay's Proof Points newsletter. Choose from our newsletters. Weekly Update. Future of Learning. Higher Education.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 18, 2022

To make sure the content is exciting and relevant to kids, classroom libraries are stocked with culturally relevant books that represent Columbus’ diversity (the principal reported that 38 percent of students are Hispanic, 27 percent are Black, 17 percent are Asian, and 12 percent are white). Credit: Caralee Adams for The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 11, 2019

Leave this field empty if you're human: Martin Credé, a social psychologist at Iowa State University, has been particularly outspoken. ” Credé first published his analysis of all the grit studies he could find and laid out the problems in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology in 2017. . Choose as many as you like.

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