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.

K-12 108

K-12 Library Classroom Management Government 108

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 109

Charter School History Library Public School 109

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 5, 2021

“It gets people’s attention anytime you say, ‘Free,’ ” said Jimmy Kidd, the director of admissions, who spoke between in-person student orientation sessions in the library of the school’s downtown Louisville campus in late June. In late 2017, she was laid off. After her pay rose by just $1.60

Economics 144

Economics Sociology Social Justice High School 144

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.” With part of the grant money, Vista turned its library into a “learning commons.” Sharing information helped them develop closer relationships with students and better tailor their lessons.

History 98

History High School Teaching Library 98

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. Jaguar Academy is often library-quiet. Nor are seniors.

Tradition 111

Tradition Charter School High School Cultures 111

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

Claudette Bautista, a 2017 Muñiz graduate who now attends Lesley University, was born in the Dominican Republic but spent her K-8 years in Boston, learning in English. Headmaster Dania Vázquez hugs 2017 graduate Claudette Bautista during the Margarita Muñiz Academy’s second graduation ceremony. There should be more schools like it.”.

High School 112

High School Heritage Economics Cultures 112

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 21, 2019

If you brought a pencil to class or not, that would be factored into your grade,” the high school senior said during a study period in the library. It’s not just a tweak in the traditional educational system,” said Pat Fitzsimmons, the Vermont Agency of Education’s proficiency-based learning team leader. percent between 2009 and 2017.

High School 102

High School Tradition Professional Development Social Studies 102

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2019

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. She has lots of ideas: tutoring services, a library, a theater, a kitchen, case managers, social workers. When asked about her hopes for Goyco, Dominguez, the former Goyco student, sat back. “Ay!”

K-12 101

K-12 Middle School Tutoring Public School 101

The Hechinger Report

MAY 5, 2016

Toward the end of Studio Day, visibly exhausted, Velásquez and her classmates gathered around a library table at Adams Elementary School, snacking on popcorn and tangerines. I think if you strip away the emotion, the district was saying: ‘We just want you to be a traditional school foundation. But that’s not how we operate.

Elementary School 75

Elementary School Library Leadership Public School 75

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

In 2017, barely a fifth of American Indian and Alaska Native adults ages 18 to 24 were enrolled in college. which Powell describes as an isolated world of “sacred peaks, spirits and clans” where homelessness, alcoholism and unemployment are as rampant as books and libraries are scarce.

High School 89

High School Library Cultures Government 89

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 21, 2016

Libraries of design goals. As many faculty around the country prepare for the first semester or quarter of 2017, they can perhaps consider moving away from traditional fixed syllabus timelines — even though they are familiar and easy to implement, often just requiring cutting and pasting from earlier courses.

Project-Based Learning 63

Project-Based Learning Library Learning Science Tradition 63

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 16, 2019

In addition to employing qualified elementary, middle and high school music teachers, David Douglas offers inexpensive instrument rentals ($25 per year), a library of musical scores, connections to reduced-price or free private lessons and a closet of free marching band uniforms and orchestra dress blacks, among other necessities.

K-12 105

K-12 Elementary School Middle School High School 105

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. Karen Stephenson on trust-based social network analysis. edclusters16.

K-12 79

K-12 Government EdTech Economics 79

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. Related: One possible solution for the future of career and technical education. Academically, however, ChiTech soon struggled.

High School 84

High School Project-Based Learning Psychology Charter School 84

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 4, 2023

Another law passed in 2017 incentivized districts to contract with outside entities, including charter school managers, to assume control of schools that aren’t meeting state standards. That new rule tipped it from a D to an F under an A-F rating system Abbott had signed into law in 2017. It failed on a 5-4 vote.

Charter School 98

Charter School High School Professional Development Government 98

The Hechinger Report

JULY 2, 2018

Among full-time wage and salary workers, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), union members had median usual weekly earnings of $1,041 in 2017, while those who were not union members had median weekly earnings of $829. In 2017, 7.2 percent) in 2017. percent) than workers who were white (10.6 percent), Asian (8.9

Charter School 89

Charter School Leadership Library Government 89

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 30, 2018

Purvis Thompson poses for a portrait at the Brooklyn Public Library after taking an anthropology class offered by Bard College on October 16, 2018. Bard College has opened a micro-college, offering associates degrees earned by attending classes at the Brooklyn Public Library at Grand Army Plaza. CAROLINE PRESTON.

Library 66

Library Anthropology Sociology Elementary School 66

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 12, 2018

By the end of 2017, Americans owed $1.38 She recently opted to eat lunch in the library, finding it less chaotic than the cafeteria. “I By the end of 2017, Americans owed $1.38 No matter which college he attends, he will join the rising number of students forced to take on heavy debt. trillion in student loans. It was hard.”.

High School 105

High School Geography Middle School Critical Thinking 105

Anthropology 365

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Lisa Henry’s 2017 study found that food-insecure students tend to suffer in silence, making it difficult to identify and intervene. The movement to “decolonize pedagogy” is the process of moving away from representing our disciplines with traditional sources – mostly White men. However, there is more that we can do.

Pedagogy 40

Pedagogy Anthropology Cultures Psychology 40

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 14, 2024

Lindsey Kimery, the coordinator of library services for Metro-Nashville Public Schools, said she has “no hidden agenda other than that reading was my favorite thing.” What I try to convey is that a library is a place for voluntary inquiry.” It just means we have books for those readers, too. This alarmed librarians.

Library 134

Library Heritage K-12 High School 134

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 26, 2017

His computer science courses covered topics like programming, machine learning and artificial intelligence; Chibwe even did a project on recommendation algorithms for an online library. And that prompts a provocative thought: Could credentials replace traditional education? Do we need college? Content and costs vary.

Tradition 106

Tradition Library Cultures Education 106

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Jaelyn Deas and her four best friends shared everything, including late-night study sessions in the library at San Jose State University and a never-ending preoccupation with how they’d pay for their tuition there. “It took a burden off my shoulders,” Deas says. Photo: Alison Yin for The Hechinger Report. SAN JOSE, Calif.

Education 105

Education Tutoring Advocacy High School 105

Society for Classical Studies

JANUARY 1, 2024

From Boys to Men: Rape and Developing Masculinity in Terence’s Hecyra and Eunuchus” (in a 1998 special edition of Helios that Professor James also edited) broke with scholarly tradition by shifting away from the citizen masculine perspective and acknowledging sexual abuse and enslavement as an embodied experience for women.

Pedagogy 52

Pedagogy Social Justice Leadership Teaching 52

The Hechinger Report

JULY 28, 2021

A slim, poised young woman with waist-length hair, Viviana walked past the principal’s office, along the main hallway, and made a left into the building that houses the school library and the daycare. 53 % of teen moms have earned a traditional diploma by their 20s. The girls always ask if the boys will come back, Hall said. (“No,

High School 126

High School Public School Heritage Tradition 126

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 19, 2019

And in the summer of 2017, Taheem’s 16-year-old sister, Naveha Gibbs, was shot and killed in a city a 20-minute drive to the north. Bayard Middle School, when he arrived there, had a library, but no librarian, so most of the day it’s a dark, unused room. Earlier this year, Taheem witnessed a shooting as he was walking to school.

Elementary School 132

Elementary School Middle School K-12 Charter School 132

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 5, 2025

Her experience at the Supai school echoed that of nine Havasupai students who in 2017 sued the federal government for the poor quality of education offered there and a lack of protections for students with disabilities. The school got new computers and a library. The BIE launched a new data system to track student performance.

Education 93

Education Elementary School Government K-12 93

Cult of Pedagogy

MARCH 6, 2025

Most games employ a lot of the cultural tools youd find in oral traditions repetition, solving a puzzle, making connections between things that dont seem to be related.” Another is the Three Round Game shared with us by a teacher named Erin Farley in a comment on our retrieval practice post in 2017. Come back for more.

Teaching 175

Teaching K-12 Pedagogy Social Justice 175

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 27, 2025

She used it to buy books and computers for the library, white boards and printers for classrooms, to beef up a robotics program and build a multipurpose sports court for her students. Yabucoa, a small town in southeast Puerto Rico, was one of the regions hardest hit by Hurricane Maria in 2017. Department of Education grant for $10.5

Education 126

Education Government K-12 Elementary School 126

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

For years, the Three Rivers Local School District , which includes Taylor High School,has relied on UNESCO, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, to help broaden minds in a school environment that library media specialist Marney Murphy describes as “sheltered.”.

Human Rights 131

Human Rights Education Heritage Library 131