The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 13, 2021

In particular, the suspension of mandated state testing in K-12 schools in 2020 “accelerated the conversation” about alternative assessments that would help educators personalize learning and focus on students’ long-term success rather than year-to-year progress, as measured by current end-of-year tests.

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ED Surge

MAY 8, 2024

In a time when technological advancements shape our daily lives and drive economic growth, focusing on STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) education in K-12 schools is not just a trend but a necessity. I was tasked with providing reading intervention services for at-risk K-8 students.

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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. Much of the advocacy for net-zero buildings has focused on environmental and economic incentives.

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Digital Promise

MARCH 15, 2017

SXSWedu is one of the country’s largest educational technology conferences and, as most of these conferences go, has tended to focus more on the K-12 segment than on adults who are in need of foundational skills to help them advance in the workforce. Turns out, more than you might think. The short answer was yes, sometimes.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 20, 2020

Sefi Roth, an economist at the London School of Economics, is an author of both studies. The study, forthcoming in American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, calculated that every Fahrenheit degree increase in the outdoor temperature over a school year reduced that year’s learning by 1 percent. (An

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 24, 2018

“Only very wealthy people can afford current decent care and education [for young children],” said Richard Brandon, a political scientist recently retired from the University of Washington and co-author of a 2018 National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine report on financing early education.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

A man watches an artificial intelligence (AI) news anchor from a state-controlled news broadcaster, on his computer in Beijing on November 9, 2018. The panel I spoke on responded to the work of Andreas Schleicher, education director for the intergovernmental Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).

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Digital Promise

APRIL 16, 2019

Part of the problem I see is that so few students in the United States – just 20 percent – study a foreign language at the K-12 level. A 2018 study found that this ability to more easily learn a language lasts until about age 17 or 18 – which is longer than previously thought – but then begins to decline. Scarce in Schools.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

In the 2018-19 school year, black students met the state’s interim proficiency targets for English and math in only two districts: Madison County School District and Clinton Public Schools. The district began making plans to use Title I funds to help launch a pre-K program. Today, about 28 percent of residents are black and 4.5

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

In 2018, Congress increased annual funding for CTE, which now exceeds $1.4 Due to student privacy concerns, a number of states fail to connect their K-12 school and workforce data sets. By 2018, the number of industry-recognized credentials students earned, signaling they attained specific job skills, had grown fivefold.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 7, 2023

Credit: Lily Estella Thompson for The Hechinger Report This year, Harpeth Valley flagged just 12 third graders as needing extra reading support, but the requirements of the expansive Tennessee law could put far more students at risk of retention. The retention rate for Mississippi third graders in 2018-19 was about 10 percent.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 21, 2018

Two studies on elementary schools published in June 2018 point to the importance giving teachers and students plenty of time to form relationships. Harvard University’s Roland Fryer set out to test just that in an experiment , published in the June 2018 issue of the American Economic Review. Students may learn more.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

In June, the city of Memphis, Tennessee, lost funding for 1,000 pre-K slots due to an expiring federal grant. Under pressure to invest in education, Mayor Jim Strickland announced the city would commit $6 million toward pre-K funding, though that amount would not completely offset the lost federal funds.

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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. And yet, we have this kind of false segregation of well, that pathway is for kids going to college, and that one is for kids who are just going to start to work.”.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 17, 2019

Leave this field empty if you're human: Automation affects workers around the world — nearly half of the employers surveyed by the World Economic Forum last year expected automation would reduce their workforce by 2022. Higher Education. Mississippi Learning. But that doesn’t mean all students need to go to a four-year college.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 3, 2019

On a muggy fall morning, pre-K teacher Ruth Shows inspected the work of students in her classroom, stepping over a cluster of little learners sprawled on the carpet. Quitman’s pre-K success should have wide-ranging implications for Mississippi, where early results of the state’s tiny program are promising. ?. QUITMAN, Miss. —

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ED Surge

JUNE 27, 2023

The pay scale is getting closer to the K-12 professional pay scale — not that we pay our K-12 teachers enough, we need to do more there. So it really resounded across the partisan divide, the geographic divide, the economic divide. As you know, there's a lot of overhead [to run an early childhood program].

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 27, 2020

According to 2018 study by the U.S. Districts certainly haven’t budgeted for full-fledged summer school, and the threat the economic crisis poses to education funding right now will make finding the money to provide programs more daunting. More recent studies show that the summer is a pivotal period for student learning.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 13, 2022

Economic and workforce development have been disrupted, so proposals that link education and the economy are going to be priorities on governors’ agendas,” said Tom Harnisch, vice president for government relations at the State Higher Education Executive Officers Association, or SHEEO. The Colorado School of Mines. Eric Holcomb.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 27, 2017

Dental checkups are one of the many non-academic activities the 17-year-old senior does at school in between anthropology, English 12, and economics. In 2015, less than half the students in its K-12 school graduated high school. “It It can be a deflection,” said Hill. “You

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Eastern Kentucky University shut down theater, economics and other majors. Spending on higher education fell in 16 of the 20 most rural states between 2008 and 2018, when adjusted for inflation. The Vermont College System was losing $8 million to $12 million a year. million over the next two years; and Iowa State, $11.4

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

“Income segregation creates districts of concentrated poverty or affluence, but high-income black families may be less likely than high-income white families to live in the affluent districts created by income segregation,” according to 2018 research published by the American Sociological Association.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 10, 2020

Through their foundation, the couple is paying some 600 college students to tutor K-6 children who were falling behind. A 2018 report by the Pew Research Center found that 15 percent of U.S. Carr is tutoring through an ad hoc program launched in May by former Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam and his wife.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 11, 2018

And yet, a recent study from the World Economic Forum suggests that our chattiest students may be well poised for tomorrow’s world of work — because employers are looking for more than simply the latest technical skills. Related: ‘Hamilton,’ cultural relevance and the quest to personalize learning. “A Sign up for our newsletter.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 27, 2019

Amarachi Orakwue stands beside her poster summarizing research that she worked on at the Mayo Clinic, taken at the 2018 Biomedical Research Conference for Minority Students in Indianapolis. At UMR, a third of the students are people of color, matching the composition of K-12 students in Minnesota.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 21, 2019

National Center for Education Statistics blog, December 2018. In a December 2018 report , the U.S. In a December 2018 draft paper , “Does school spending matter? Another 2018 study by Jackson found that recessionary budget cuts led to lower test scores. The greater the budget cuts, the more test scores dropped.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

Now, a new October 2018 review of class size research around the world finds at most small benefits to small classes when it comes to reading. The researchers began by collecting 127 high-quality studies on class size reduction from 41 countries from kindergarten through grade 12. In math, it found no benefits at all.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 18, 2022

The Carteret Public School District, in a diverse area of northern New Jersey, cobbled together several strategies at Columbus, which enrolls nearly 700 students, about 75 percent of whom are economically disadvantaged, according to district administrators. Mayling Cardenas, principal, Columbus School, Carteret, N.J.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 30, 2020

High school graduation rates in Mobile are way up, from 55 percent before 2011 to 86 percent in 2018. The economic development people had written the check. In Mobile, as in Dayton, Spartanburg and other cities, poor results from public schools and colleges were perpetuating economic inequality. It’s stronger than a suggestion.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 17, 2018

of Education, 2018. Only 12 of the 67 innovations, or 18 percent, were found to have any positive impact on student achievement, according to a report published earlier in 2018. “We’ve known for the longest time that economic background characteristics swamp any education intervention,” she said. Exhibit 4.6

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 6, 2019

In the aftermath, state legislators allocated money to help urban students who weren’t getting a good enough K-12 education to attend and succeed at the state’s colleges. In the first week of 2018’s summer program, some students used a vending machine at NJIT without permission.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

More than 50 percent are economically disadvantaged. Jordan Weymer is principal of the Donald McKay K-8 School , winner of the 2018 Thomas W. Here, we are the proud educators of the next generation of strivers in a school that is 89 percent Latino, the majority of whom are English language learners. Sign up for our newsletter.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 29, 2019

In addition to its reputation as an international powerhouse in the field of economics and a home to multiple Nobel Laureates, the school has grounds that are designated as an official botanic garden. The University of Chicago moved its economics department into the former home of the Chicago Theological Seminary.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 19, 2018

The key appears to be education because higher educational attainment is associated with economic success, social status, better health, family stability, and life opportunities. Immigrant Groups over the Long Term: The Second Generation and Beyond , a March 2018 working paper by Brian Duncan and Stephen J.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 13, 2020

The paper, “ A Pleasure That Hurts: The Ambiguous Effects of Elite Tutoring on Underprivileged High School Students ,” was published online in the April 2020 issue of the Journal of Labor Economics. Millett said that’s because “the idea of denying a student an opportunity is very hard” but necessary to create a comparison group.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 4, 2019

Using a four-year degree as a proxy for employability shuts out the most economically vulnerable job seekers. John Barros, chief of economic development for the City of Boston, introduces a panel on redefining hiring on March 28 at Wayfair headquarters in Boston’s Back Bay neighborhood. Previously, all had bachelor’s degrees.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 10, 2020

That’s what they called it in Maine, where, in 2012, state officials mandated that every district adopt it, and then, in 2018, abandoned the requirement. Among them, just under 12 percent were considered economically disadvantaged, slightly more had some type of learning disability and 4 percent were English learners.

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