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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The Hechinger Report

MAY 19, 2024

Once the site of an Indian boarding school, where the federal government attempted to strip children of their tribal identity, the Native American Community Academy now offers the opposite: a public education designed to affirm and draw from each student’s traditional culture and language. Credit: Sharon Chischilly for The Hechinger Report.

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ED Surge

APRIL 8, 2024

In August 2019, she opened Miss Tiffany’s Early Childhood Education House, a child care center run in her home in Weirton, West Virginia. She got up early and stayed open late to accommodate people who worked 12-hour shifts and needed to drop kids off as early as 5 a.m. But then the permitting and construction process grew complicated.

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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. Things … the government does affect us, but we can’t vote,” she said.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 12, 2024

The current level of political polarization is having a chilling effect, making civics education into a third rail, according to Holly Korbey, an education reporter and the author of a 2019 book on civics education, “Building Better Citizens: A New Civics Education for All.” “We

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

In a report publicly released in October 2020 , the Government Accountability Office (GAO) counted 99 school data breaches over the past four years, from July 2016 to May 2020, that compromised the personal information of thousands of students in kindergarten through high school. The GAO counted that as one incident.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Shareef’s mother saw a TV commercial for a program that offered 12 weeks of training for technology careers, tuition-free. The federal government alone runs dozens of training-related programs, and state and nonprofit programs abound, too. Then the coronavirus pandemic hit and Shareef was laid off. But what happened next has not.

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ED Surge

JULY 28, 2022

The center worked with the National Indian Child Care Association to analyze 184 tribal child care plans submitted to HHS for the 2019-2022 fiscal year. There are a handful of government offices—like the Bureau of Indian Affairs in the Interior Department and HHS—that would need to collaborate on the issue, Smith says.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 16, 2019

In 2019, he got a job with a general contractor building food carts. More than half of students qualified for free or reduced-price lunch in 180 of the 623 districts honored with the “Best Communities for Music Education” award in 2019. In 2019, six of seven had that honor. 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

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

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Related: California helps college students cut their debt by paying them to help their communities Students with foster care backgrounds often must overcome hurdles rooted in their K-12 education. In 2019, California passed legislation meant to replicate the Jovenes model, and the number of students served has grown.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 1, 2022

Colleges with at least 25 percent Latino enrollment are designated as Hispanic-serving Institutions, or HSIs, by the federal government and are eligible for certain grant programs to further Latino student success. But the Latino population in the United States continues to increase.

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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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ED Surge

MAY 3, 2024

A 2019 investigation by Vice found that at least 21 states use natural language processing to grade students’ written responses on standardized tests. Still, some educators and parents alike felt blindsided by the news about auto-grading essays for K-12 students.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

About 85 percent of high school graduates in 2019 had taken at least one course in career and technical education, or CTE. Due to student privacy concerns, a number of states fail to connect their K-12 school and workforce data sets. In 2018, Congress increased annual funding for CTE, which now exceeds $1.4

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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. Because it is just one assessment.” There shouldn’t be any talk about retention.”

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 27, 2020

With emergency child care options varying so much across the country, many parents who work in healthcare do not have access to a government-run child care program for essential workers. A maximum of 12 children are allowed in each room, with at least one adult. Presley is now going to the pre-K Center full time, and is happy there.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 13, 2021

million public-school students — or nearly 1 in 5 of all students in the country — attend a rural school , according to a November 2019 report from the Rural School and Community Trust. Many of the recently funded government efforts have been aimed at convincing people who grow up in these towns to stay and teach. Across the U.S.,

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ED Surge

MAY 23, 2022

Just as often, though, it’s not a K-12 school the educators are leaving for. Kang joined NAEYC as chief strategy and innovation officer in 2019, a few months before the pandemic began. This predicament is not rare.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Most early college high schools are small public schools, housing grades nine to 12 just like traditional public high schools, though some extend five years. Sometimes a single class, such as 11th grade “algebra II” or 12th grade English, can earn a student credit toward both high school and college. Department of Education.

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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

AUGUST 29, 2018

With federal funding, it encourages partnerships across K-12, higher ed and business sectors. The new law takes effect in 2019, and over the next six years, the government has designated $1.3 The act was first passed in 2006, to support career preparation programs.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 9, 2023

At least 43 percent of young children in Hawaii were watched by friends or relatives in 2019. The state lost 12 percent of its child care spots during the pandemic. Hawaii has been largely focused on expanding pre-K for 3-year-olds and constructing pre-K facilities — investing $200 million last year toward efforts to do so.

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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

MARCH 2, 2023

Students not only build cities, they create governments, infusing civics into the curriculum, too. It’s a way of reimaging classroom practice, weaving creative thinking into the entire K-12 curriculum and connecting many subjects to cities built by students, with the help of educators she wishes were also thought of as artists.

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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. When dress codes reinforce white norms, being black becomes a violation.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 29, 2019

But they’re often unattainable for the state’s lowest-income students and students of color, who tend to be clustered in severely struggling K-12 schools. After 13 years of being failed by the state’s K-12 system, lower-income students are punished a second time by Louisiana’s higher education funding system.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 29, 2019

The average performance of the nation’s fourth and eighth graders mostly declined in math and reading from 2017 to 2019, following a decade of stagnation in educational progress, according to the results of a test released on Oct. The one exception was fourth-grade math, with the average score rising by one point between 2017 and 2019.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

“In social studies, there might be more area for debate as far as what’s the best route that a government might take to mitigate the issue.”. It’s part of an international movement to try and make change that grew out of the Youth Climate Strikes of 2019.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 5, 2019

During a John Muir High School walkout protesting the school’s ban on durags on Wednesday, February 20, 2019, Dylan Wilson, 15, shows his 360 wave hairstyle, created after months of wearing a durag. Durags are used to create the wave hairstyle. Photo by Sarah Reingewirtz/MediaNews Group/Pasadena Star-News via Getty Images.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 19, 2019

In 2016, 12 percent of black children across the nation received services at school for disabilities ranging from emotional disturbances to physical disabilities to intellectual impairment. Morgan presented his research findings at a conference of the Society for Prevention Research in May 2019.). Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 18, 2022

Although the federal government sent a massive influx of money to help schools troubleshoot , it left districts to grapple with how best to use the funds. The experts told them they should “get to the heart of the science of reading,” said Kimberly Davis, principal of the pre-K to grade 8 school.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 10, 2019

The latest research comes from the Reboot Foundation, which released a study in June 2019 that shows a negative connection between a nation’s performance on international assessments and 15-year-olds’ self-reported use of technology in school. That’s the equivalent of a year of education or an entire grade level.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 27, 2019

Hanushek, an economist, believes that the inability to close the achievement gap shows the failure of our education policies to help the poor, especially the $26 billion a year the federal government spends on Title I funding on poor schools and for Head Start preschool programs. Sign up for Jill Barshay's Proof Points newsletter.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

“We don’t need to panic,” said Cory Koedel, a University of Missouri economist who presented his preliminary findings at a conference of the National Center for the Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Education Research (CALDER) in January 2019. “If percent of the students are in public assistance programs.

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Political Science Now

JULY 16, 2024

In Peru, access to university education changes the types of local politicians who get elected to office and how they govern. Rethinking Citizen Competence in Democratic Theory and Practice Thursday, September 5, 12:00pm – 1:30pm Roundtable Participants : (Chair) Simone Chambers, University of California, Irvine (Presenter) John S.

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