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JUNE 10, 2024

In 2016, despite research showing that students who used computers more often at school performed much worse on reading and math PISA tests, the Finnish government announced it would spend millions of euros on ramping up digital learning. This global phenomenon emerged about 12 years ago, but is playing out differently worldwide.

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

Meanwhile, Hispanic students accounted for 9 percent of the state’s K-12 students. The 2018 reauthorization of the federal law that governs career and technical education mandated racial data be reported as well. Yet CTE advocates have long had concerns — but little proof — about inequities that lie beneath the surface.

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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

APRIL 22, 2019

The reforms have required school districts and other local government agencies to contribute more of their budgets toward paying down the pension debt, while also obligating workers to make financial sacrifices and cutting benefits for current retirees. By 2018, that figure had risen to $1,312. percent to 20.4.

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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. According to the most recent federal data from the 2018-19 school year, there are now almost 118,000 school counselors in U.S. Nevada bucked the national trend.

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APRIL 16, 2019

Government Accountability Office, nearly one in four Foreign Service officers do not meet the language proficiency requirements that they should meet to do their jobs. 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. Yet, according to the U.S

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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. Related: Youth will determine the outcome of the 2018 midterms. Photo: NICOLAS ASFOURI/AFP/Getty Images.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 25, 2018

On My Way Pre-K student Vivian Kimberlin, 5, plays during recess at Zion Lutheran School in Seymour, Indiana. In early spring 2017, a friend told him that Zion Lutheran School (where regular pre-K tuition is $6,410 per child annually) was accepting 4-year-olds through a state grant program that provides free tuition for low-income parents.

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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. It's a little harder at the national level because you get into the slightly more ideological discussion of what the federal government should or shouldn’t be involved with.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Luke Said, 18, spent the summer of 2018 picking raspberries. million for the 2018-19 and 2019-20 school years, according to numbers requested from the district finance office. In 2018, five of seven made it. Photo: Ariane Kunze for The Hechinger Report. PORTLAND, Ore. Photo: Ariane Kunze for The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 16, 2023

The state’s K-12 Math Personalized Learning Software grant program , created in 2013, requires ed tech companies to train teachers like Pitts on their products and obligates the businesses to credit the state if the licenses are never used. But many of the products weren’t high quality.

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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

OCTOBER 11, 2018

In September, the House Ways and Means Committee passed the Family Savings Act of 2018 , which would allow college graduates to use 529 plans to cover student debt. For one, 529 plans can be costly for federal and state governments, according to the Pew report.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 17, 2019

In a survey, 12% of community college and 9% of university students reported they were homeless. “I’ve The program at UWT was spearheaded by student government leaders who reached out to the housing authority and K?z The housing authority pays K?z I’ve been doing awesome ever since,” said Gorder. “I

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 6, 2020

Part of Altus Schools, a network of K-12 alternative charter schools in Southern California, it even won recognition from the federal government for its operation. Nationwide, high schools offering credit recovery used online courses 71 percent of the time, according to a 2018 U.S. Department of Education brief.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

The American Rescue Act is giving $ 123 billion to K-12 schools and districts. The federal government is seeking expansion of this support. Our platform saw a 20 times increase in the number of conversations between educators and families compared to the 2018-19 school year. We’re in a unique moment in education funding.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

Ever since enslaved blacks arrived on the shores of the English colony of Virginia in 1619 , white legislators at various levels of government have designed laws to explicitly control and suppress black people.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 18, 2021

After 18 years of running her business out of a small, 10-foot by 12-foot room off the back of her house, she used federal funds to double the size of the classroom and add a bathroom. Cisneros has run a child care program out of her home by herself for 12 years. You watch this and I’m thinking, this is a no brainer,” Renner said.

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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. government to follow suit by dramatically expanding AmeriCorps. Bill Haslam and his wife.

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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

APRIL 13, 2021

Many of the recently funded government efforts have been aimed at convincing people who grow up in these towns to stay and teach. Driving east along the two-lane highway that bisects her hometown, Daniels passes an “Entering Poplar” sign just before arriving at the K-12 school complex she once attended.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2018

His father, who’d worked construction himself and was the head custodian at Askew’s small K–12 public school, pointed him in a different direction. Standardized testing has constrained teacher autonomy and creativity, and charter and private schools have competed more aggressively for government funds. Maybe teaching.”.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 17, 2019

The state workforce board’s two main goals are improving the workforce participation rate, which at around 55 percent is one of the nation’s lowest, and increasing the number of people with more than a high school credential, according to its 2018 plan. 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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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 17, 2018

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. Related: How the federal government abandoned the Brown v. Of the dozen or so prospective families in attendance, all were white except for one South Asian couple.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 11, 2018

According to an April 2018 Department of Education report, 18 percent of 5- to 17-year old students in “remote rural” districts have no broadband access at home. In total, the homework gap hits some 12 million school-aged kids nationwide, according to a 2017 congressional report, “ America’s Digital Divide.”.

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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. According to the government’s report, education spending rose for the third straight year in 2015-16 to $11,841 per student in kindergarten through 12th grades. That’s a 2.9 percent from 2013-14.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 31, 2019

That plan identified preschool as an important first step to improve K-12 education. As a result, the number of high-quality preschool programs has increased, with a 32 percent increase between July 2018 and June 2019. Educating officials : PRE4CLE has prioritized advocacy at all levels of the government, according to Kelly.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 10, 2018

House of Representatives to fund the federal government through September 2018. “We are optimistic that Congress will work to fund the government before the deadline, and ask that they also restore this critical funding to support educators.”

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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

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Just past the rusty roof of the building across the road, we could see the top of Regjeringskvartalet, a cluster of government offices, the target of that car bomb. All kindergartens are governed by the same framework and requirements, designed to protect the sanctity of the early years. That’s our ‘Capitol Hill,’” Ullmann explained.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 28, 2022

In 2018 Congress allocated federal funds to train schools on threat assessment. A few weeks after a school shooting in Maryland in March 2018, state legislators passed a law mandating threat assessment teams in schools. Education equity advocates are demanding that the federal government do more to learn the scope of the problem.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

UCI students vote early at the University of California, Irvine on Tuesday, October 30, 2018. Election Day is the most sacred of holidays for a democracy, a time when citizens 18 years and older can select representatives charged with shaping our laws and running our governments. And there are 36 governor races in 2018.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 16, 2018

May 25, 2018 — Coral Springs, Florida — Student activist and Parkland shooting survivor David Hogg demonstrates with other sudents in a parking lot. Governments and schools can provide education that enables students to engage in their communities and contribute to a better world. Photo: Storms Media Group/SMG via ZUMA Wire.

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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. Eric Holcomb. There is power in their synergy.”.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 10, 2018

The Lincoln Institute for Land Policy found that local governments provide nearly half of the funds for local school districts. The think tank the Urban Institute found that local governments receive around 30 percent of their funding from property taxes , a combined sum of $473 billion across all U.S. localities.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 26, 2018

August 15, 2018 — The first day of school at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. government. Photo: Carl Juste/TNS via ZUMA Wire. School systems are failing their students with outdated and inconsequential civics education that is only focused on facts and memorization. Who is in charge of the executive branch?

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