The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 6, 2025

In New Zealand, where schools operate far more independently than traditional public schools in the United States, it would be the job of principals like Rodgers to determine how best to teach the countrys math standards. Related: Widen your perspective. Our free weekly newsletter consults critical voices on innovation in K-12 education.

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Education Elements

DECEMBER 29, 2020

I got started with this tradition of predictions in 2010 after reading Disrupting Class, a book by Clayton Christensen and Michael Horn. In their book, they predicted that by 2019, 50% of all high school courses will be online in some blended learning model.

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ED Surge

JULY 18, 2024

Another program brings students and families to campus for a day to learn about university traditions and how to get involved on campus. In 2019, I probably would have heard from parents and students, ‘It's annoying,’ ‘It's hard to get here,’ ‘How could you possibly require this in-person orientation?”

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ED Surge

JANUARY 11, 2022

In addition, I worried about whether we would meet our students' academic, emotional, and social needs, especially for students that attend a non-traditional school. Throughout the pandemic, discussions about supporting students have centered on traditional, comprehensive schools.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 3, 2020

We may not know how much wider, though, because methods and data we’ve relied on for decades to measure student progress — standardized tests and traditional grades — may not be available this year. More than ever, we need leadership that values sharing and applying best practices across the country.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 19, 2021

The strategy of adding career and technical education is being quietly rolled out by several traditional higher education institutions, including a growing number of liberal arts colleges that are responding to student and parent demands for a return on their tuition investment by adding practical training that has proven value to employers.

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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. The charter school, NACA, opened its doors in 2006.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 13, 2024

“We have kids that on our benchmark knowledge assessments are scoring what is the equivalent of second grade, first grade, fourth grade,” said Fisher, who is also a professor and chair of educational leadership at San Diego State University.

High School 145

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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. Vida Mendoza, high school freshman, Oakland, California.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 26, 2021

One morning in 2019, close to 40 educators gathered in a commercial building on the Chicago riverfront that houses the offices of LEAP Innovations. The shift from a traditional ‘sage on a stage’ role to helping students learn at their own pace can be challenging, requiring a lot of professional development for teachers.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 16, 2022

I was always completing tasks for other people—school leadership, district leadership, state officials—at the expense of the students in my care. Attending weekly team planning meetings made me anxious, because usually, that’s where we would learn of the latest effort leadership had come up with. There was the NCELI (N.C.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 5, 2021

By month’s end, there were 665 (including Reilly), which was more than double the college’s June 2019 applications. “We Missouri’s Fast Track Workforce Incentive Grant, created in 2019 to target those 25 and older, has a “clawback” provision so students who don’t fulfill requirements must repay it as a loan with interest.

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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. FRANKENBERG: I don’t think it has to be either-or.

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Political Science Now

JULY 11, 2024

In addition to teaching traditional political science courses, she serves as campaign manager for the campus-wide voter mobilization program Vote Oswego and coordinator of SUNY Oswego’s broader civic engagement efforts. Her research agenda focuses on political science pedagogy, campus-based civic engagement, and pop culture & politics.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Critics respond that replacing traditional A to F grades with new forms of assessments is like a college-level version of participation trophies. Teenagers said that the pressure to get good grades was their biggest cause of stress , a 2019 survey by the Pew Research Center found. “A The Covid-19 pandemic made things even worse.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

In September 2024, EdNCs early childhood team attended The Hunt Institute's 2024 Early Childhood Leadership Summit , which included teams from all 50 states comprised of senior elected officials, gubernatorial staff, mayors, local elected leaders, and key early childhood system leaders.

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ED Surge

MAY 23, 2022

Kang joined NAEYC as chief strategy and innovation officer in 2019, a few months before the pandemic began. But certainly the leadership transition for the nonprofit comes during a period of incredible upheaval—arguably a crisis—in early childhood education. Events and professional development moved to a virtual setting.

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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 As a prelude to discussing leadership, peer pressure and conflict, a Crew of seventh graders at King Middle School in Portland, Maine, played a game called “Instigator.”

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 16, 2021

Gifted education teachers at the National Association for Gifted Children’s 2019 conference work on a toothpick-and-gumdrop tower, an exercise sometimes done in “talent development” classes. Albuquerque students’ artwork and a poem about volcanoes, displayed at the 2019 National Association for Gifted Children conference.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 31, 2019

They have the drive, work ethic and leadership skills to succeed in the classroom. They’ve also demonstrated the leadership skills and work ethic necessary to succeed and contribute in America’s top classrooms. On March 29, 2019, it was reported that Harvard admitted six veterans to its Class of 2023.).

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 21, 2021

Thomas earned her bachelor’s degree in July 2019 though an online program; she is now on her way to an MBA. which owns and operates a group of McDonald’s restaurants in Louisiana, is pictured with her spouse, Larry Thomas, after receiving her bachelor’s degree in July 2019 from Colorado Technical University. Credit: MacLaff Inc.

Education 138

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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. That’s pretty much gone with Summit,” Hinton Sainz said.

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Dr. Shannon Doak

JANUARY 16, 2020

Traditional approaches where students listen, take notes, memorize and regurgitate on a test are no longer a viable means of preparation for our ever-changing world. We are not teachers, we are designers of learning environments. We are not the givers of knowledge, we are the facilitators of learning. Content should no longer be king.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 6, 2018

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. Starting in 2019, the plan is for all Discovery students to do sustainability audits, not just the Eco-Action club.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 15, 2020

The day I first visited The James Baldwin School , I met Nia, a confident young woman whose path to a high school diploma was not what we might call “traditional.” Miriam Entin-Bell is a 2019 graduate of Bard High School Early College Queens. After high school, Smith enrolled at the University of Washington.

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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. Coahoma county schools have been under interim leadership for more than a year. In September 2019, the school office said she had retired.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 29, 2019

By 2019, the school had a student body with some of the biggest challenges in the city. United Teachers of New Orleans President Jim Randels said yearly leadership changes made it hard to plan or carry out improvement efforts, and impacted instruction. Lewis said he’s aware the leadership changes have been frustrating.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 4, 2019

in February 2019. Rainville had to persuade 10 people from the sales leadership team before she could make the change. Analysts say that this “degree inflation,” as they call it, has shrunk opportunities for upward mobility for Americans without four-year degrees. million — The number of job openings in the U.S.

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Economics Civics Research Cultures 112

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

His was a brash mission shared by a new breed of charter school leaders who said they could succeed where traditional neighborhood schools had failed. Brian Beabout, , a former New Orleans teacher who now studies the city’s charter schools as an associate professor of educational leadership at the University of New Orleans.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 14, 2019

That money was part of more than $4 million that Minnesota State allocated in performance-based funding in 2019 to colleges that exceeded their expected outcomes for all students, and for students of color, in particular. Paul College, where 63 percent of students are people of color and half are the first in their families to attend college.

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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. The goal is to stabilize students enough to return to traditional schools, DeVries says. What does Monarch School's leadership think? A 2020 report for the U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 26, 2020

In September 2019 more than half of all ACSI member schools, which account for about 45 percent of all non-Catholic Christian schools in the U.S., In September 2019 more than half of all ACSI member schools, which account for about 45 percent of all non-Catholic Christian schools in the U.S., Enduring legacies.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 4, 2023

HISD leadership is a disaster…. Credit: Joseph Bui for The Hechinger Report In December 2019 Morath, the TEA head, sent a letter to the district announcing that the state was taking over and removing the school board. It failed on a 5-4 vote. On January 3, Gov. Abbott responded with a scathing tweet : “What a joke.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2019

The two had spent nearly seven years designing a new kind of high school meant to address the needs of students who didn’t thrive in a traditional setting. We thought our big contribution could be laying out how to do this in the traditional public school environment,” Resnick said. Photo courtesy of Powderhouse Studios. Theories vary.

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Sapiens

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Mirador opened in 2019 with great pomp as the first and largest industrial copper-gold mine in the country. The courage and bravery that shamanic plants offer—succinctly captured by the Spanish word valor—are prized qualities within Shuar conceptions of personhood and leadership. He dismissed my worries. Hesitantly, I agreed to help.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 9, 2021

The college, whose name in Hebrew means “God with us,” has stared down mortality before under the leadership of a long-serving president and treasurer, both of them nuns, who have come up with the sorts of survival strategies that many schools are scrambling to figure out. You have to really make serious structural changes.”.

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Library Economics High School Research 120

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

That has helped boost undergraduate and graduate enrollment in Georgia Techs Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts by 58 percent since 2019, to 1,884 students in 2023 the most recent period for which the figure is available. He purposely picked leadership instead of humanities for the name of the program, he said.

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