The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Agua Fria Union High School District had just 6 percent of in-school suspension days assigned because of attendance problems in 2021-22, compared with 40 percent in 2017-18. is an alternative school that welcomes students who didn’t find the behavioral or academic support they needed in traditional schools. So why would I go?”.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 10, 2020

Since 2017, students in Mineola have been introduced to coding through unplugged classes in pre-K, and by first grade, have been allowed to take the devices home. In a pre-K class at Hampton Street students worked on learning the letter L by cutting it from paper or fashioning it from clay. Otherwise, we’re not doing our job.”.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 2, 2018

The method of transforming K-12 schools that he advocates in his latest book, What Schools Could Be: Insights and Inspiration from Teachers across America , is of the grassroots variety. Small steps lead to big change, he says. Northern Cass was the first district to apply.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 16, 2019

It was clear to me that, in most cases, if your school was just a traditional neighborhood school, located in a poor neighborhood and/or not classified as a focused school for high-performing students, funding and educational opportunities were scarce. Between 2005 and 2017, U.S. Sign up for our newsletter.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 12, 2023

Related: Blurring the lines between K-12, higher ed and the workforce. But the increasing focus on industry needs in K-12 has also drawn criticism. In 2017, Greenville County Schools awarded 601 industry certifications to students. These programs still offer all the traditional classes of a typical school.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 15, 2018

Andrea estimated she has worked at least 10 to 12 jobs since graduating from college six years ago. An inter-agency taskforce that includes the Rhode Island’s Governor’s Office launched PrepareRI in 2017 “to create a K-12 education system that is aligned with the demands of colleges and employers.”

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Pedagogy to Share

AUGUST 21, 2023

Buttrey, K. Inclusion, engagement, and Nearpod: Providing a digital alternative to traditional instruction. Kentucky Teacher Education Journal , 8 (1), 1–12. A review of Nearpod – an interactive tool for student engagement. Journal of Applied Learning & Teaching , 2 (2), 95–97. W., & Yue, W. McClean, S., & Crowe, W.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2019

For her son’s 12-month appointment, Eakins took Corbin to a different pediatrician, who immediately agreed with her concerns. But comprehensive programs like the one in Dysart are a rarity, especially in a state where public pre-K is not yet widely available for all students, let alone children with disabilities.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 22, 2020

Still asleep, Brady Stack and Cameron Stack, ages 12 and 14, respectively, plan to begin their lessons later in the morning. Brian Stack is principal of Sanborn Regional High School in Kingston, New Hampshire, and co-author of Breaking With Tradition: The Shift to Competency-Based Learning in PLCs at Work (2017).

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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. “It’s one more thing on top of everything else.”.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 6, 2018

Nationwide, K-12 schools are leading a fledgling “net-zero” building boom that has grown from a few proof-of-concept structures a decade ago to hundreds of buildings completed or under construction. But the K-12 schools leading the net-zero charge are uncovering major educational benefits as well.

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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. With more college students now considered nontraditional than traditional, higher education institutions have been scrambling to shift their models to better meet their needs.

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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. 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.”

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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

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! School districts are not the only entities hiding their racism behind laws that provide cover.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 17, 2018

It’s where districts and schools decide to spend their money,” Worth, a veteran educator who has also taught in Greene County’s traditional public schools, explained. 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.

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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

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.

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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

JANUARY 29, 2020

They work with two students at a time in a special class that follows a Saga Education curriculum tailored to the needs of each student and aligned with their school’s curriculum for their traditional math class. The study assigned 2,718 boys in ninth and 10th grade across 12 schools either to get the tutoring or not.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2019

Compared to 2010, nearly 250,000 fewer children attend K-12 public schools in Puerto Rico today, a decline of 45 percent. They say gentrification has sped up in the past few years; the average income in Santurce rose by almost 20 percent between 2010 and 2017.

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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.) BCCC has also pared down some of its remedial courses from 16 weeks to 12 or eight. Programs and experiments like these take considerable time and energy — as well as more money than traditional remedial courses — for colleges to run.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

His comments at the 2017 meeting were ineffective: The board had already approved the charter’s application before they opened up public comment, according to MCSA’s minutes. “We Johnson was opening outside the traditional public system not to create some kind of segregated fiefdom but because that’s where she knew how to run a great school.

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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. The goal with the first two groups was to help them earn a traditional diploma, if possible.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Efforts that seem to be working have had a common ingredient: close ties between colleges and local K-12 school districts. Rebecca Hines consented to lead its relaunch in 2017, but on her terms. “I To stay attuned to the needs of those schools, Hines tries to build and maintain strong relationships with local school leaders.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 29, 2020

The committees are different from traditional student government, she said, because any student can join. The turnout for 16- and 17-year-olds in local elections between 2013 and 2017 averaged roughly 42 percent, compared with 20 percent overall, according to data from the city clerk’s office. In 2012, it became the first U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 17, 2016

AltSchool – a California-based chain that promises to use technology to help teachers provide personal-fit lessons for its students – will share its proprietary technology in 2017 with three independent schools in Virginia and Florida, it announced Tuesday.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 6, 2018

Still, as more rural schools look to virtual programs for help, there’s little evidence that online learning is equal to or can exceed outcomes from traditional in-person instruction, and some experts are urging caution — along with greater attention to quality. In 2017, the average score on all AP exams in Mississippi was a 2.2,

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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. 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? Little to nothing.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 8, 2020

The $26-million school opened in 2017 with a central goal: to make kindergarten here more playful and joyful. While students have lots of time to play, they also learn traditional and rigorous academic material during the school year. A state law mandated full-day kindergarten starting in the 2017-18 school year.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 11, 2019

We know that education reform is far from simple: Charter schools modestly accelerate the learning of students from poor and working-class families, relative to their peers who attend traditional campuses. But these small and selective campuses also worsen inequality. Related: COLUMN: Support for charters in 2020 elections comes at a price.

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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. And they are popular: Of the almost 30,000 teenagers who applied for spots in New Jersey’s vocational programs in 2017, only about 13,000 received seats.

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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

DECEMBER 10, 2018

“Charter schools can do more with less” is a common refrain of school choice advocates, who criticize traditional public schools for wasting money. There is not a superintendent or school leader in either charter or traditional schools who shouldn’t want $48,000 added back to the value of homes in majority black school districts and cities.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 30, 2020

About 6 percent of today’s immigrants are children and 26 percent of all children in the country in 2017 had at least one immigrant parent , according to the Migration Policy Institute, a think tank dedicated to studying migration and immigration trends. percent in 2017 , according to the Migration Policy Institute.

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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. Many of the other studies zoomed in on aspects of e-reading, such as eye movements or the merits of different kinds of screens.).

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2019

In a traditional long-term bond the interest would be close to $100 million,” Funk says. Adding tech to the regular budget is simply not possible, according to East Side officials who note that California ranks 41st among states in per-pupil spending when adjusted for the cost of living, according to a 2017 study.

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