The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 13, 2021

Once considered a boutique form of education overly reliant on technology, competency-based education is increasingly seen as a way to solve a host of problems with traditional schooling, problems that became more apparent when learning went virtual. Beginning in 2018, Parker-Varney teachers met weekly with Joseph to construct the new system.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

He’s worked with kids since 2018 through Wings for Kids, a nonprofit that operates after-school programs in Georgia and South Carolina. While they often value learning, these men don't see much value in the traditional K-12 educational system, Thomas says. They are also practicing how to be a man. Thomas asks.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 14, 2024

That’s significant in an era when college leaders are concerned about attracting and retaining students who may be skeptical about the value of a degree and also worried about the impending “ enrollment cliff ” resulting from fewer Americans of traditional college age coming up in the next few years. That push is evident at Brookdale.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2019

The most recent legislation, passed in 2018, required the state to chip in more money from its general fund. And there’s no relief to come, as the requirements of the 2018 pension bill, approved in the final few minutes of the legislative session last May, start to kick in. “At By 2018, that figure had risen to $1,312.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 5, 2023

More recently, advocates have presented child care as a public good and a right, similar to K-12 education. There remains, still, a Canadian tradition in believing that government is part of the solution.” We expect government to step up,” said Susan Prentice, Duff Roblin Professor of Government at the University of Manitoba.

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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. But the K-12 schools leading the net-zero charge are uncovering major educational benefits as well.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 6, 2020

He likes the self-paced curriculum that allows students to complete a course in significantly less time than at a traditional school. 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. Department of Education brief.

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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.

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 14, 2016

These innovative art programs are the brainchild of Robert Hoang, who joined the Burbank team last year to teach visual arts to K–6 students, and to work with his colleagues to plan arts integration lessons. In the remote village of Nanwalek, Alaska, the K-12 school was planning to improve its slow, satellite-provided Internet connection.

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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

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. These programs still offer all the traditional classes of a typical school. An engineer from Michelin talks to kindergarten students at A.J. Whittenberg.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Mendoza’s older sister, Gema Quetzal, served on the California board of education in 2018-19, enjoying the same voting power as other board members. The committees are different from traditional student government, she said, because any student can join. Other districts and states have also started to promote hands-on civics education.

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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

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

The American Rescue Act is giving $ 123 billion to K-12 schools and districts. We risk missing an opportunity if we simply spend the money in the same traditional ways. Our platform saw a 20 times increase in the number of conversations between educators and families compared to the 2018-19 school year.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 29, 2019

What didn’t come up at “ Public Education Forum 2020: Equity and Opportunity for All ” is that a part of any educational equity platform should be eliminating the politics that give K-12 public-school parents who know how to work the system preferred access to good teachers. We can liken this practice to clientelism.

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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

JANUARY 20, 2020

An earlier draft version was circulated by the National Bureau of Economic Research in 2018.) Related: What 2018 PISA international rankings tell us about U.S. Hotter classroom temperatures and polluted air are affecting children’s brains at school, according to a new body of education research. (AP AP Photo/Nick Ut).

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

In March of 2018, Tenaya Middle School officials in Fresno, California pulled a 14-year-old male student out of class for a haircut with shaved-in designs. Booker’s interest was piqued after 16-year-old New Jersey wrestler, Andrew Johnson, was ordered by a referee in 2018 to cut his dreadlocks or forfeit his match.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 17, 2018

It’s where districts and schools decide to spend their money,” Worth, a veteran educator who has also taught in Greene County’s traditional public schools, explained. 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.

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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. It hasn’t been easy, though. There was no break,” she said.

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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. Would white-collar educators, in 2018, have better results? . — As a boy in rural Idaho, Mitch Askew would tell his father that he wanted to go into the construction business.

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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. The 70-year-old former family and consumer science teacher didn’t end up tutoring in a traditional sense. Bill Haslam and his wife.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 10, 2020

But the outgoing superintendent, Cyndy Taymore, is four years into an effort to fundamentally rethink traditional schooling here. 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. Last year, Melrose served about 3,900 students.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 11, 2018

After all, the rhythm of the traditional classroom doesn’t leave much room for chatting among students, and socializing in class is often viewed as a proxy for poor behavior or inattentiveness. . As a middle school teacher, I often see my colleagues taking pains to keep students quiet during class. Sign up for our newsletter.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

In Louisiana, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Texas, dozens of taxpayer-funded public charters enroll far more white students than any of the traditional public schools in their areas. Schools superintendent Dennis Dupree came to the city 12 years ago, promising innovation. His son now attends Clarksdale Collegiate.).

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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. Related: Youth will determine the outcome of the 2018 midterms. And there are 36 governor races in 2018. Photo: Paul Bersebach/Digital First Media/Orange County Register via Getty Images.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 20, 2020

Many users are underwhelmed and longing for the moment we can return to traditional in-person instruction. In the spring of 2018, more than 100 prospective teachers at the University of Virginia’s Curry School of Education and Human Development took part in an experiment in teaching an unruly classroom.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 22, 2018

Only 53 percent of women in their twenties who first became mothers when they were teenagers completed a traditional high school degree, according to a January 2018 report released by the nonprofit research organization Child Trends. And traditional high school degrees are more likely to lead to college, she said.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 4, 2019

For example, a 2018 study in Illinois found that female teachers make, on average, $2,000 less per year than their male colleagues, and the gap grows to $4,000 at the administrative level. Related: College graduation rates rise, but racial gaps persist and men still out-earn women.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 22, 2018

But after families balked at the new grading systems that accompanied these changes, the Maine legislature retreated and officially eliminated proficiency requirements in the summer of 2018. Schools are now free to continue teaching, grading and graduating students the traditional way. were studying what Maine was doing.

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Digital Promise

MAY 11, 2017

“Flipped” classrooms, where the typical lecture and homework elements of a class are reversed, are used across K-12 and postsecondary education. I-BEST challenges the traditional notion that students must move through basic education or remedial courses before they can start working on certificates or degrees.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 10, 2018

“Charter schools can do more with less” is a common refrain of school choice advocates, who criticize traditional public schools for wasting money. There is not a superintendent or school leader in either charter or traditional schools who shouldn’t want $48,000 added back to the value of homes in majority black school districts and cities.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2019

Nationwide, one out of four teenagers from low-income households lacks access to a home computer and, overall, Latino students have less access than their black and white peers, according to a 2018 survey by the Pew Research Center. In a traditional long-term bond the interest would be close to $100 million,” Funk says.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 22, 2018

Kids in traditional schools sometimes act like they’re on a cruise ship, where they sit on deck and teachers bring them stuff to do,” Berger said. “We The sentiment is echoed by Jason Krause, principal of Denver’s Columbine Elementary School, which joined the EL network in 2018. Ten schools began using the model in 1993.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

Whereas traditional, standardized teaching models work for motivated students, they often leave less motivated or struggling students behind, he says. “A The notion that we can train someone in 2018 for job requirements in 2028 isn’t realistic.”. Fuller, professor of management practice at Harvard Business School.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 26, 2019

But most schools are more like Corte Madera – governed by schedules, academic standards, report cards and other ties to traditional measures of student achievement – and there, the pilot was a mix of triumph and struggle. Traditional testing is simple — a percentage of correct answers equals a letter grade.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 2, 2019

It’s a challenge that administrators of the programs are just beginning to grapple with, and it is emerging as New Jersey faces a legal battle over segregation in its traditional public schools, which are among the most racially divided in the nation. I’ll always be able to find good work’.

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