The Hechinger Report

JUNE 25, 2020

The University of La Verne in Southern California has had twice as many traditional undergraduates sign up for the summer as it did last year. Limits on what most institutions offer in the summer result from “laziness and lack of leadership,” Higdon said. Credit: Iris Schneider for The Hechinger Report.

Tradition 140

Tradition Leadership High School Education 140

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.

Social Justice 145

Social Justice Leadership Professional Development Cultures 145

ED Surge

MAY 17, 2023

I met Olga in 2017 when I began coordinating the MEP; since then, I have become the regional director of the largest migrant education region in California. Cecilia talks about her sister, an MEP alumna, who is now a neuroscientist and researcher: “She was shy, and my family was traditional. She knew my sister was special.

High School 105

High School Leadership Tradition Teaching 105

ED Surge

AUGUST 16, 2022

I was always completing tasks for other people—school leadership, district leadership, state officials—at the expense of the students in my care. Attending weekly team planning meetings made me anxious, because usually, that’s where we would learn of the latest effort leadership had come up with. There was the NCELI (N.C.

Teaching 102

Teaching Leadership Lesson Plan Professional Development 102

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 4, 2018

percent in 2017. Also, Massachusetts public schools have been relatively slow to adopt student-centered learning, perhaps in part because traditional teaching approaches seem to work so well here—last year the state’s averages topped the National As sessment of Educational Progress test scores in reading and math. percent in 2017.

Teaching 111

Teaching Oral History High School Sociology 111

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 12, 2023

Each elementary school focuses on a specific area — engineering, math and science, the arts, leadership, or foreign languages, among others. In 2017, Greenville County Schools awarded 601 industry certifications to students. These programs still offer all the traditional classes of a typical school. Whittenberg.

Elementary School 134

Elementary School Education Middle School K-12 134

The Hechinger Report

MAY 13, 2018

Ninth-graders at the Science Leadership Academy work on a group project in science class. Tamir Harper, 18-year-old senior at Science Leadership Academy and founder of a nonprofit that advocates for quality urban education. James Thomas wrote and published a novel for his senior year Capstone project at the Science Leadership Academy.

Project-Based Learning 104

Project-Based Learning Leadership High School Tradition 104

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

These are hot fields in a state with a growing tech sector that employs 12,140 people , but whose existing colleges and universities collectively produced only 103 computer science graduates with bachelor’s degrees or higher in 2017 — the last year for which the figures are available — including just 10 with master’s degrees.

Tradition 121

Tradition Geography High School Civics 121

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 2, 2022

Demand for traditional arts and crafts majors has fallen nationwide, according to the National Association of Schools of Art and Design, while interest in game design and animation have soared; where 30 percent of MECA&D’s students 10 years ago majored in design, now 60 percent do, college data show. Now you can finally see the numbers.

Leadership 132

Leadership Tutoring Cultures Tradition 132

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 2, 2018

Dintersmith points to North Dakota as a place where the people at the top of the state leadership hierarchy are making room for schools to innovate at the local level. And the plan is possible thanks to an education innovation bill that Burgum signed into law in 2017 following strong bipartisan support in the state legislature.

K-12 105

K-12 Leadership Tradition Humanities 105

The Hechinger Report

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. In this poster, the association highlights the fact that traditional methods of finding gifted children often miss children who are low-income, nonwhite or do not speak English at home.

Middle School 125

Middle School High School Elementary School Cultures 125

The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2020

In dozens of interviews, Summit leadership, education researchers, and the people who teach and learn in schools that use Summit agreed that the platform offers a systematic way to achieve the otherwise complicated, messy objective of personalizing learning. But at Rhodes, Christie doesn’t hear complaints like that.

Junior High 128

Junior High Charter School Elementary School Social Studies 128

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.

Education 105

Education High School Tradition Geography 105

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 25, 2018

But at the nation’s most selective schools, where most students follow the traditional pipeline from high school to a degree within four years — and from which many go on to leadership roles in government and industry — veterans like Fendler are an anomaly. In leadership and life, symbolism counts.

Political Science 108

Political Science Sociology High School History 108

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

With 106 years of classroom leadership among them, seven educators over the next two years grappled with a key question: Could you keep the same 6 ½-hour school day, and the same school personnel, but design a radically different learning experience for students? In 2016-2017, it was expanded to the entire school, where it continues.

Elementary School 79

Elementary School Public School Leadership Tradition 79

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.

Charter School 108

Charter School History Library Public School 108

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 26, 2021

At one table, the conversation turned to the growing pains of changing course from the traditional “sage on a stage” teaching model, where a teacher holds forth at the front of the classroom while students listen, to a student-focused, personalized model. “We Credit: Sarah Gonser for The Hechinger Report.

Education 145

Education Charter School Professional Development Tradition 145

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. ?

Economics 143

Economics Sociology Social Justice High School 143

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 23, 2017

Despite the innovative ethos of its tech-world backers, the school’s approach to core subjects was “very traditional,” according to Wesley Davidson, an English teacher at ChiTech. Folks like Laura McBain, director of external relations and the Education Leadership Academy at High Tech High, say standardized tests are the wrong focus. “If

High School 66

High School Project-Based Learning Psychology Charter School 66

ED Surge

MAY 30, 2023

A legislative change in 2017 allowed the college to begin offering bachelor’s degrees for the first time. The residency is similar to traditional student teaching experiences, except it lasts a full year and pays about $30,000. If you’re going to become an effective teacher, you need strong examples,” DeLano says.

Tutoring 139

Tutoring K-12 Education Pedagogy 139

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 15, 2018

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.” The State of Rhode Island Office of the Postsecondary Commissioner practices what it preaches.

K-12 106

K-12 Psychology High School Leadership 106

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. That’s held true in Takoma Park, a Maryland town of 18,000 near Washington, D.C.

Civics 143

Civics Civic Engagement High School Government 143

The Hechinger Report

MAY 5, 2016

But in short order, a whirlwind of leadership turnover — four superintendents in four years — led the partnership to a very public impasse that pitted the school district against its fundraising partner, the alliance. “We I think if you strip away the emotion, the district was saying: ‘We just want you to be a traditional school foundation.

Elementary School 65

Elementary School Library Leadership Tradition 65

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2018

Many of these students got their start in Christopher House’s early childhood program, including 80 percent of kindergarten students in the 2017-18 school year, and more than 40 percent of the elementary students overall. Sign up for our newsletter. Choose as many as you like. Weekly Update. Future of Learning. Higher Education.

Charter School 103

Charter School Elementary School Public School Leadership 103

The Hechinger Report

MAY 4, 2019

In the fall of 2017, he moved to Boston and enrolled in a community college, planning to transfer to a four-year program. Rainville had to persuade 10 people from the sales leadership team before she could make the change. He received an associate degree, hoping to eventually get a bachelor’s and work as a financial adviser.

Economics 112

Economics Civics Research Cultures 112

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 27, 2018

By 2017, the program had five full-time employees, a part-time employee, and over 1,080 cases. “We In December 2017, the longtime director of the state’s Department of Child Services resigned, writing in a scathing letter that without changes to the department, “I fear lives will be lost and families ruined.” Grandparents like Hicks.

Elementary School 111

Elementary School High School Tradition Public School 111

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 5, 2018

Loading… The district made more progress integrating black students after 2008 than it had in the previous 15 years, according to an analysis of school segregation data by Meredith Richards, an assistant professor of education policy and leadership at Southern Methodist University. A strategy with a Montessori in mind.

Private School 60

Private School Elementary School Government Charter School 60

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2019

The two had spent nearly seven years designing a new kind of high school meant to address the needs of students who didn’t thrive in a traditional setting. We thought our big contribution could be laying out how to do this in the traditional public school environment,” Resnick said. Theories vary.

Charter School 107

Charter School Project-Based Learning High School Public School 107

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 14, 2019

Paul was one of three state colleges to receive a state “equity in education” grant in 2017. Compared to their white peers, students of color are more likely to attend low-performing public primary and secondary schools with inexperienced teachers and high leadership turnover. Otherwise, they’re going to be a liability to society.”.

Tutoring 76

Tutoring Economics Sociology High School 76

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 23, 2019

One part of the campus is not open to all: since 2016, a small section of LA High has been occupied by a selective, STEM-focused charter school, Girls Academic Leadership Academy. The “co-location” of charters on the grounds of traditional public schools is increasingly common. Tammy Kim/Hechinger Report.

Charter School 111

Charter School Public School High School Elementary School 111

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 29, 2019

United Teachers of New Orleans President Jim Randels said yearly leadership changes made it hard to plan or carry out improvement efforts, and impacted instruction. Lewis said he’s aware the leadership changes have been frustrating. It was one of the last remaining traditional public schools in the city.

Charter School 89

Charter School Cultures High School Public School 89

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

His was a brash mission shared by a new breed of charter school leaders who said they could succeed where traditional neighborhood schools had failed. Brian Beabout, , a former New Orleans teacher who now studies the city’s charter schools as an associate professor of educational leadership at the University of New Orleans.

Charter School 111

Charter School Psychology High School Private School 111

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 6, 2018

The school district of Horry County, South Carolina, which counts the majority of its 43,800 students as impoverished, opened three net-zero schools in 2017, one in 2018 and has one more under construction. Meanwhile, at New York City’s first net-zero school, the Kathleen Grimm School for Leadership and Sustainability (P.S.

K-12 107

K-12 Elementary School Middle School Advocacy 107

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

New Orleans schools that have embraced some element of restorative justice include Akili Academy, Langston Hughes Academy, Andrew Wilson, KIPP McDonogh 15, Edna Karr, Crescent Leadership Academy and Sci Academy. There are no traditional grade levels at the Net and students may attend class at any time from 8 in the morning to 6:30 at night.

High School 111

High School K-12 Charter School Cultures 111

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 18, 2016

President Obama’s 2017 budget cites the benefits of integration and proposes a $120 million initiative that would provide competitive grants to school districts that are “exploring ways to foster socioeconomic diversity.”. You can usually trace it back to strong civic leadership,” McGraw said. Beth Raney, parent in Clinton.

Junior High 74

Junior High Civics K-12 Economics 74

Digital Promise

OCTOBER 12, 2016

In 2017, Digital Promise and the Kauffman Foundation will be supporting the developing of a common research agenda, instrumentation, and strategies for analyzing the strength and nature of connections in the regional EdClusters networks. Many EdClusters shared pain points but also creative approaches to sustaining their work.

K-12 62

K-12 Government EdTech Economics 62

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 17, 2019

It’s the middle of my first year back in the classroom after a year away as the 2017 National Teacher of the Year. While on my journey, I observed three patterns in particular that I’d like to share: Teacher leadership, social and emotional learning, and fellowship. Teacher leadership. Sign up for our newsletter.

Social Justice 92

Social Justice Leadership Middle School Public School 92