The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 10, 2021

At Northeastern Illinois, only 11 percent of Black students graduated within six years in 2019. In some states, the graduation rate gaps are particularly acute: At every four-year public college in Illinois and Missouri with data available, for example, there was a gap of at least 14 percentage points between white and Black students in 2019.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Some school districts, local governments and nonprofit groups across the country have galvanized this youth activism by giving students opportunities to participate in leadership roles and democracy in ways that go beyond civics classes and student government. Every year the group chooses an issue to focus on.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 24, 2024

In California, Child Care Providers United, which represents more than 40,000 home-based providers, won the right to collective bargaining in 2019 , and last year secured a second substantial reimbursement increase from the state for many home child care providers. Sign up for the Hechinger newsletter.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 19, 2021

The number of undergraduates dropped by nearly 4 percent in the fall compared to the fall of 2019, according to the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center, because of families’ financial circumstances, dissatisfaction with online learning and other reasons. Fifteen U.S. Only 26 percent of working U.S.

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ED Surge

MAY 23, 2022

The other is creating belonging at NAEYC, a professional and advocacy organization with nearly 60,000 members across its 52 affiliates. “I Kang joined NAEYC as chief strategy and innovation officer in 2019, a few months before the pandemic began. So Kang is listening. That’s one of the two priorities weighing heavily on her mind.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 6, 2022

His time in elementary school preceded both Johnson’s leadership at Collins Elementary and Duty’s in the district. In the end, a leadership change paved the way to victory in Holmes County. During the 2019-20 school year, the first year the ban was in effect, corporal punishment rates plummeted statewide.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 19, 2024

According to a 2019 national survey , close to half of American Indian and Alaska Native students reported knowing “nothing” or only “a little” about their cultural heritage. Since its opening in 2006, the charter school has inspired the launch of similar schools in other tribal communities. Credit: Sharon Chischilly for The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 6, 2018

Much of the advocacy for net-zero buildings has focused on environmental and economic incentives. Another net-zero elementary school, also designed by VMDO, is to open in 2019. Meanwhile, at New York City’s first net-zero school, the Kathleen Grimm School for Leadership and Sustainability (P.S.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2020

In dozens of interviews, Summit leadership, education researchers, and the people who teach and learn in schools that use Summit agreed that the platform offers a systematic way to achieve the otherwise complicated, messy objective of personalizing learning. It was a rough shift for many of her teachers and it came with tears and frustration.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

So in 2019, Bates began to push for an individualized education program, or IEP, that would delineate specific reading supports for her older son. Partly through the leadership of parents such as Winston, that’s changing as more families learn about reading disabilities and the extra support a diagnosis can bring.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 16, 2024

Kirk: In 2019, three former Mount Ida students filed a class-action lawsuit against the school’s leaders, claiming they were deliberately misled about the college’s ailing finances. The college leadership has all the cards. Kirk: Are you surprised that Americans have so little faith in higher education? I don’t know.

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Political Science Now

JULY 16, 2024

This roundtable will build upon the recent contributions in this idiom of Chambers (2019), Farrell et al (2022), Niemeyer et al (2023), and Minozzi et al (2023), with participants from the authors of all these papers.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 22, 2020

This story was originally produced in 2019 by our publication partner, the CT Mirror , and is reprinted with permission. His leadership isn’t out there on his shirtsleeve,” said Robert Villanova, director of the executive leadership program at the Neag School of Education at UConn, who worked with Cardona when he was a doctoral student.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 25, 2021

In March 2019, McBride finally succeeded in getting her daughter identified as having an emotional impairment and given an individualized education program, or IEP. One Oregon advocacy organization reported receiving calls from nearly 280 parents about shortened school days from September 2016 to December 2018.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 14, 2023

By senior year, the dream is for students to have recovered from the trauma of homelessness and to have transitioned out, according to the school's leadership. That includes Barbara Duffield, executive director of SchoolHouse Connection, a nonprofit focused on homeless education advocacy. What does Monarch School's leadership think?

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Zinn Education Project

APRIL 2, 2024

Under her leadership they traveled to South Africa, where they visited Robben Island Prison where Nelson Mandela was imprisoned and they visited Soweto. September, 2019. S he lost in 1986 and won in 1990. Prentiss, May 21, 1991. She worked tirelessly to improve education for students of all races. Photo by Deborah Menkart.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

In an interview, Mississippi Superintendent of Education Carey Wright said many factors, including financial need, trouble recruiting teachers, school climate and leadership issues, often converge in districts that are underperforming. Related: Teacher shortages force districts to use online education programs.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 14, 2023

Now, many worry that the district won’t rebound — and will head back into the cycle of rotating leadership, low performance and lack of public trust that existed before the turnaround. Credit: Grace McConnell for The Hechinger Report The strategy was bolstered in 2019 when Gordon attracted a national college-promotion program called Say Yes.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 6, 2022

The collective scramble for new leadership comes at a tense time for school boards. After a stint as interim superintendent beginning in 2019, she was appointed the district’s leader by the Washoe County School Board in April of 2020. Leadership changes like these can create a ripple effect throughout districts.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 6, 2024

But as Grimes’ star rose statewide, according to local educators and residents, his relationship with city leadership started to unravel. Whenever we need something, we simply ask for it and they do their best to get it for us,” Martínez said of his district’s leadership. And even if they can’t, they find alternatives that we can use.”

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2020

High school students have become an increasing force in climate change activism; in 2019, hundreds of thousands of young people skipped school and took to the streets to protest the climate crisis in a global strike. Credit: Courtesy of Beatriz López. The middle school standards do not mention climate change or global warming.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 8, 2021

Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos at a White House meeting, March 18, 2019 in Washington, DC. DeVos “enthusiastically sent our taxpayer dollars to schools that explicitly and actively discriminate against LGBTQ+ students,” Eliza Byard, the executive director of the advocacy group GLSEN , said in a statement.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

We are just saying that it’s for Congress and the executive to resolve these problems, Olson said during a November 2019 hearing before U.S. The BIE hired Vides in 2019 as a kindergarten and first grade teacher. Under his leadership, the BIE has secured some financial wins for its schools. District Judge Steven Logan.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

Students participate in a global walkout for Climate Change in downtown Los Angeles, California on March 15, 2019. Thunberg’s actions led to worldwide protests three days before the United Nations Climate Action Summit in September 2019. Young people, inspired by Greta Thunberg, are calling on politicians to act on climate change.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 7, 2024

Donald Trump’s administration was known for its advocacy of school choice, but that wasn’t something he talked much about on the campaign trail in 2015 or 2016; it only came into focus with his selection of Betsy DeVos as secretary of education. Making things even harder is Harris’ well-known willingness to run away from previous positions.

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