The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 6, 2025

In New Zealand, where schools operate far more independently than traditional public schools in the United States, it would be the job of principals like Rodgers to determine how best to teach the countrys math standards. Related: Widen your perspective. Not any more.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 3, 2016

This week, as we celebrate Digital Promise’s fifth anniversary , we also welcome the districts who are part of the 2016-2017 cohort of the League of Innovative Schools. Steve Webb, chair of the League Advisory Committee and superintendent of Vancouver Public Schools , kicks us off. Compton Unified School District.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 3, 2018

High school students from Jackson Public Schools gather to discuss ways to improve district schools at Jackson Convention Complex in Mississippi last week. It contains some truly painful findings about Jackson schools, including the district’s lack of advanced placement and college prep courses at the high school level.

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Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

Richland School District Two will launch summer classes in high school credit CS and coding instruction in summer 2017 to compensate for limited teacher-led instruction during the traditional school year. Forging meaningful partnerships with institutions of higher education. Coordinating with the private sector.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 5, 2017

The League of Innovative Schools, Digital Promise’s flagship network of forward-thinking leaders of our nation’s school districts, is honored to welcome 13 districts into the 2017-2018 cohort, bringing the League’s membership to 93 districts in 33 states. Copper River School District , AK. Lakota Local Schools , OH.

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ED Surge

MAY 8, 2024

EdSurge: What experiences laid the foundation for your role as a leader in STEM education in NYC Public Schools? Since 2015, CS4All has worked diligently to ensure that all public school students in New York City learn computer science, emphasizing students who identify as girls, Black and LatinX.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 17, 2021

The number of eighth graders who said they read 30 minutes or more a day, besides homework, declined by 4 percentage points between 2017 and 2019. In survey questions that accompany the NAEP test, eighth graders reported how much time they spent reading outside of school. Credit: Photo by Allison Shelley for EDUimages.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 13, 2024

Linda Brown was a third grader in Topeka, Kansas, when her father, Oliver Brown, tried to enroll her in the white public school four blocks from her home. Meanwhile, from 2000 to 2022, the percentage of white students attending a school that is 90 percent or more white fell from 44 percent to 14 percent. One legacy of Brown v.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 22, 2018

But at school, she was labeled truant. “I One out of every ten New York City public school students lived in temporary housing in 2017, according to a sobering October 15 article by The New York Times. public school students was highest in city school districts at 3.7 in 2017. .

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 27, 2020

According to the most recent federal data from the 2018-19 school year, there are now almost 118,000 school counselors in U.S. public schools and, more importantly, just 430 students, from kindergarten through 12th grade, for each school counselor. Nevada bucked the national trend.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 22, 2020

On Day 5 of New Hampshire’s public school closings, Zoey Stack, age 5, Owen Stack, age 6, and Liam Stack, age 10, begin their schoolwork over breakfast (with chocolate milk!). Off camera, their mother, Erica Stack, supervises while preparing to teach her own school class online. Jon’s family has three.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 12, 2024

Board of Education, rejecting legal racial segregation of public schools. Department of Education from 2015 to 2017 This story about Brown v. Board of Education and school segregation was produced by The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education.

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ED Surge

JULY 7, 2023

language education was published in 2017, with data from less than half of the country’s K-12 schools. While our understanding of language education is incomplete, we know that most K-12 students in American public schools do not have the opportunity to study an additional language to proficiency.

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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

JUNE 6, 2022

Collins Elementary School, in southeastern Mississippi, paddled students more times than almost any school in the country in 2017-18, the last year for which there is national data. Johnson is the principal of Mississippi’s Collins Elementary School, where the paddle remains a staple of the educational experience.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Those are four of the top five emotions K-12 teachers reported feeling back in 2017 — well before the pandemic and 18 months of unfinished learning, trauma and economic instability. Schools and districts must help educators foster their own social and emotional competencies. Frustrated. Overwhelmed. There are different approaches.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

It has resulted in more than a billion dollars leaving the public school system and actually not serving additional kids in private schools, Jones said. It's just serving the same kids in the private schools whose parents are higher incomes and who had already chosen to send their kids there.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

This began with the elimination of an independent agency that performed comprehensive school district audits , ensuring accountability for the $10 billion that state and local taxpayers now invest annually in public schools. But today, charter schools are an afterthought in Massachusetts.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

today, nearly double the number in 2017. Forest school — also known as nature school, forest kindergarten and outdoor school — isn’t a new idea; such schools have existed in the United States since the mid-1960s, but interest has increased in recent years. When many U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

In Nevada, just 4 percent of students who took a career-oriented science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) course in the 2019-20 school year — 88 students total — were Black, even though Black students make up more than 11 percent of the state’s public school enrollment.

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Digital Promise

MARCH 31, 2017

The League of Innovative Schools team had the opportunity to visit multiple districts in the first quarter of 2017 — and we have so much more to see! While the highlights of each of these visits are vast, below are five amazing schools we visited in League districts that are educating students in creative, forward-thinking ways.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 14, 2022

which we published last Monday in partnership with the Mississippi Center for Investigative Reporting, focuses on Collins Elementary School in the Covington County Public Schools in southeastern Mississippi. The fact is, most schools don’t use it. Even in districts that allowed it, many school principals chose not to.

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ED Surge

JUNE 1, 2023

Education researchers have long kept an eye on the changing demographics of public schools, some looking at the potential for those shifts to shepherd in inequity as ethnic groups migrate or fluctuate in size. The chart compares racial and ethnic makeup of the residents within each school district (not only students) from 2009 to 2021.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 22, 2020

The study tracked a group of 4,700 assistant principals, who constitute the main recruiting ground for principals, from 2001 to 2017 in Texas. In 2018-19 , almost 14 percent of the state’s 8,500 school principals were Black, 24 percent were Latino and 60 percent were white. million public school students).

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 9, 2021

“Community partnerships help us understand the school districts’ perspective, and in our culture, in the Valley, parent engagement is really important as well.”. The seamless transition for students from high school to college is paying off: In the 2017-18 school year, 23 percent of dual-credit students went directly to South Texas College.

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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. Segregating public school children on the basis of race or ethnicity is inherently suspect,” he wrote in his 2013 decision. He ruled that the gifted program was discriminatory.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 13, 2021

They looked at student achievement in math and reading as well as high school graduation rates and college enrollment in 44 states that adopted teacher evaluation systems by 2017. For the same reason, school districts with a high proportion of charter schools fared better too. In a half-dozen states, it worked very well.

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Digital Promise

APRIL 16, 2019

begin language study in middle or high school. Only 58 percent of middle schools and 25 percent of elementary schools offer a foreign language in 2008, according to a 2017 report by the Commission on Language Learning, which was formed in response to a request by Congress to look deeper into foreign language learning in the United States.

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Digital Promise

JUNE 9, 2016

Many more public school districts are rethinking how students learn and how teachers teach. No longer is “innovation” reserved for a select few charter and private schools. Yes, we still hear from the media about public schools’ alleged failures to effectively use electronic devices. million students.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 8, 2023

Credit: Camilla Forte/The Hechinger Report Gates was among the scores of high school students who accepted an invitation to visit Malcolm X College, a community college in Chicago, as part of a program run jointly with the Chicago Public Schools. Women now make up about 58 percent of U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 27, 2018

The complaint states that 17,323 black and Latino teens attend a school with no PSAL teams at all. The P.S.A.L. funds teams for about 45,000 student-athletes citywide. According to P.S.A.L.

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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. That could come next year.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 4, 2021

To prove his point, Jackson studied more than 150,000 ninth graders in Chicago public high schools from 2011 to 2017. He picked Chicago because the school system annually surveys students about their social and emotional skills. I think what we’re showing here is that they do require attention.”.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 12, 2023

As a former public-school teacher, I know that my students sometimes acted out when they didn’t receive the additional educational supports they needed. Nevertheless, during the 2017-18 school year, the CRDC reported, 69,492 students received corporal punishment, on top of 92,479 students in 2015-16.

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Digital Promise

MARCH 21, 2022

Gupta ran successful campaigns to raise several million dollars in funding for programs supporting Chicago’s public schools. “I She was selected to the 2020 class of the Leadership Greater Chicago Fellowship and to the 2017 class of Allstate Foundation’s Greater Good Fellowship for nonprofit leaders.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 18, 2020

Between 2017 and 2019, K12 spent on average $37.4 This moment will permanently change how the general public, school districts and regulators think about our business,” Davis said. The company also plans to spend more advertising dollars to reach prospective students and parents through websites such as Facebook and YouTube.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

1, 2017, Agape Community Development Center of Canton Public Schools, the Greenwood School District, Grenada School District and the Starkville-Oktibbeha School District will receive $247,250 annually the next three years. Starting Jan.

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