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.

Charter School 133

Charter School Heritage K-12 Education 133

ED Surge

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Nearly 80 percent of young children who attend the Lourie Center’s therapeutic nursery program will ascend to a traditional kindergarten setting. While legislative discussions have recently stalled , advocacy efforts continue to mobilize toward an ambitious policy package that would impact millions of little learners and families.

K-12 137

K-12 Education Humanities Advocacy 137

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 15, 2021

A 2020 high school graduate from Marin City, California, Williams had entered an after-school college prep program, Bridge the Gap, when he was in third grade. Angel Vasquez, 2020 high school graduate from Providence, Rhode Island, of his family. “I Kamarree Williams had been on a path to college since before he learned long division.

High School 145

High School Advocacy Economics Research 145

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 3, 2024

Nearly 15,000 of Philadelphia’s more than 197,000 students attended a virtual cyber charter school last year — a 55 percent increase since the 2020-21 school year. In fact, Pennsylvania has quietly become the “cyber charter capital of the nation” according to a report from the education advocacy group Children First PA.

Charter School 90

Charter School Tradition Advocacy K-12 90

Digital Promise

MARCH 5, 2020

As a former librarian and district leader, I found that success was the best form of advocacy—when the great work of librarians is shared and documented, good things follow for students and library programs. Competency-based performance is not the same as traditional professional development. Spring 2020 Submission Window Open.

Library 93

Library Artifacts Advocacy Tradition 93

The Hechinger Report

JULY 30, 2018

By the fall of 2020, all Northern Cass students will plot their own academic courses to high school graduation, while sticking with same-age peers for things like gym class and field trips. We can’t keep structures that would allow us to fall back into a more traditional system,” said Steiner. “If Nor are seniors.

Tradition 111

Tradition Charter School Cultures High School 111

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 9, 2024

One out of 10 Black students in the eighth grade math scores were scoring basic or above,” saidKristen Hengtgen, a senior policy analyst at the nonprofit advocacy group EdTrust, referring to last year’s National Assessment of Educational Progress, known as the Nation’s Report Card.

High School 145

High School Public School Leadership Tutoring 145

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 21, 2019

The shift came to the school ahead of a statewide deadline to have proficiency-based graduation requirements in place for all of Vermont’s 2020 high school graduates. It’s not just a tweak in the traditional educational system,” said Pat Fitzsimmons, the Vermont Agency of Education’s proficiency-based learning team leader.

Tradition 100

Tradition High School Professional Development Social Studies 100

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 26, 2022

Black and Hispanic students and students living in poverty were most likely to have to go without substitutes, according to a 2020 study from the Annenberg Institute at Brown University. They can earn a higher daily rate than traditional substitutes, or put the extra amount toward health benefits. Covid made a bad situation worse.

Elementary School 138

Elementary School High School Public School Advocacy 138

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 27, 2019

It’s that fewer than one in five of adults in the entire surrounding Humphreys County have at least an associate degree, according to census data analyzed by the nonprofit advocacy organization Complete Tennessee. About three-quarters of Colorado jobs will require some education beyond high school by 2020, Baer said.

Advocacy 106

Advocacy High School Economics Tradition 106

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 22, 2023

I do miss having a social life a little bit,” she said of forgoing the traditional long summer break. The University of Minnesota Rochester is relatively small and new — it graduated its first class in 2013 and has 617 undergraduates — freeing it from some of the entrenched traditions that can stifle change in higher education.

Tradition 92

Tradition Advocacy High School Humanities 92

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 11, 2023

“For almost two years, we told families that school can look different and that schoolwork could be accomplished in times outside of the traditional 8-to-3 day. When classrooms closed in March 2020, Negrón in some ways felt relieved her two sons were home in Springfield. Alaska Native students’ rate was higher, 56.5

Advocacy 85

Advocacy High School Tradition Elementary School 85

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 29, 2020

In recent years, the group’s advocacy has led to changes in the district’s graduation requirements, to align them with admissions requirements for California’s university systems, and an expansion of funding for an after-school meal program that had been cut by the school board. Every year the group chooses an issue to focus on.

Civics 143

Civics Civic Engagement High School Government 143

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 9, 2018

Leave this field empty if you're human: La Verne takes more than 250 undergraduate transfer students per year and about 500 older-than-traditional-age adults who also cash in prior credits. Higher Education. Mississippi Learning. That’s just under 10 percent of its enrollment. “Students beat themselves up about this.

Advocacy 107

Advocacy Research Government Tradition 107

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2023

Instead of taking traditional or legal pathways,” she said, “there’s a pattern that the easiest solution is to remove a student rather than deal with the underlying issues.” Schools kick students out but call it a ‘transfer’ In 2020, nearly every school district in the nation was forced to come up with a way of providing education online.

Middle School 98

Middle School Charter School Advocacy Tradition 98

ED Surge

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Although the majority of educator-preparation programs saw no or relatively small enrollment changes in fall of 2020 and fall of 2021, 20 percent of institutions saw a decline in new undergrad enrollment that exceeded 10 percent, according to survey data from the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education. “Our

K-12 98

K-12 Teaching Advocacy Classroom Management 98

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

A 2020 report from the University of California, Los Angeles, found that Black and Latino students who experience homelessness in the state are more than one and a half times as likely to be suspended from school as their non-homeless peers. Advocacy groups and researchers , too, have surfaced examples.

Advocacy 83

Advocacy Government Public School High School 83

All Things Pedagogical

JULY 10, 2024

I am joining you from the traditional land of the Haudenosauneee and Anishinaabe peoples, but I grew up on the traditional land of the Abitibiwini Aki and lived for 30 years on the traditional land of the Mississaugas of the Credit. You should take it; it is a good reflective tool to identify levels of privilege.

Advocacy 40

Advocacy Pedagogy Geography Tradition 40

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 28, 2022

“We knew the pandemic put a huge strain on a system that was already strained, so this is just a continuous struggle that’s been made worse,” said Nina Perez, the early childhood national campaign director for MomsRising, a nonprofit advocacy group that focuses on supporting policies that help women, mothers and families.

K-12 137

K-12 Advocacy Government Elementary School 137

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 10, 2021

They’re pulling a bait and switch on students,” said Yolanda Watson Spiva, president of the advocacy group Complete College America. Dropout rates rose in the fall of 2020 to their highest level since 2012, the Clearinghouse reports. It leads to a malaise on the part of the institutions,” Watson Spiva said.

Government 143

Government Advocacy Tradition History 143

MPSA

OCTOBER 12, 2021

They created the article for Claudette White , Chief Judge of the Quechan and San Manuel Band of Mission Indians Tribal Courts from 2006-2020 and 2018-2020, respectively. While many students choose to tackle one of Wikipedia’s equity gaps, others focus on improving more traditional content.

Political Science 52

Political Science Human Rights History Economics 52

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 6, 2024

By 2000, it had grown to 13 percent, and in 2020, it was almost 40 percent. Russellville’s Hispanic population has grown from close to zero in the late 1980s to nearly 40 percent in 2020. The school’s logo is a torch like that on the Statue of Liberty, and there’s a school tradition of holding up clenched fists to show unity and pride.

High School 144

High School K-12 Heritage Professional Development 144

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

For the most part, they are sort of operating outside of the traditional system and accountability,” said Smith, now the director of the early childhood development initiative at the Bipartisan Policy Center, a nonpartisan think tank. In the 2020 report from the licensing department, the number of abuse case referrals is 48.

Advocacy 105

Advocacy Government Humanities Tradition 105

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 9, 2024

Traditional bilingual education essentially lets students use their first language while they learn English. Student work hung up in a classroom at Washington Elementary School celebrates Mexican food and traditions. Once students become fluent, their schools shift entirely to English instruction, which was the goal all along.

Elementary School 105

Elementary School Education K-12 History 105

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

” Eric Duncan, part of education advocacy organization Ed Trust’s policy team, said Thorne’s story is one echoed by Black male educators nationwide who feel perpetually overlooked. Only around 40 Black male teachers, on net, joined the state workforce each year from the 2016-17 school year to 2020-21.

Education 141

Education Elementary School High School Leadership 141

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 27, 2020

Initially, Honani put some blame on herself as a mother, chiding herself for failing to stay on top of her son’s teachers and deprioritizing traditional schooling during a hectic time. He is growing traditional Hopi corn and beans, squash, melons and potatoes. There was no follow-up.”. Credit: COURTESY OF SAMANTHA HONANI.

Government 136

Government K-12 High School Public School 136

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 3, 2019

But California, with a higher education budget for 2019-2020 of $18.5 Related: Colleges are using big data to track students in an effort to boost graduation rates, but it comes at a cost. billion, is bucking a national trend — most other states are continuing to reduce, not increase, their higher education budgets.

Education 105

Education Tutoring Advocacy Sociology 105

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 9, 2020

In his 2020 State of the Union address, President Donald J. Under the federal Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), all public schools — traditional and charter — are required to provide a free and appropriate education to students with disabilities in the least restrictive environment.

Charter School 91

Charter School Private School Advocacy Public School 91

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 28, 2019

2020 Democratic Presidential candidate Sen. Education advocacy nonprofit Alliance to Reclaim Our Schools found that “[b]etween 2005 and 2017, public schools in the U.S. Her proposal throttles the expansion of charter schools and seeks to impose on them the same accountability and transparency requirements as traditional public schools.

Charter School 73

Charter School Education Education Policy Advocacy 73

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 17, 2023

But in April 2020, during her freshman year, Meryl died by suicide after facing years of harassment over her identity. Because of the pandemic and the timing of Meryl’s death, the family was not able to have a traditional funeral. Rachelle Ketron at her daughter Meryl’s memorial site. Schools are for learning, not indoctrination.”

Library 141

Library Advocacy High School Psychology 141

ED Surge

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Data from the Trevor Project revealed that the organization’s suicide prevention hotline experienced similar increases during the 2021 legislative session , with nearly 4,000 transgender and nonbinary youth crisis interactions—a 150 percent increase over the same period in 2020. So how can we improve conditions for our students?

Education 127

Education K-12 Advocacy Government 127

The Hechinger Report

JULY 20, 2022

I’ve walked through hallways and seen signs promising an education of “Tradition! In addition to funding research, the Bradley Foundation has given at least $31 million to political advocacy on behalf of vouchers. Many of the private schools that clamor to take voucher kids — think about the market here — are desperate for enrollment.

Private School 145

Private School K-12 Charter School Education Policy 145

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 28, 2024

The regulation that took effect this month was meant to replace Trump-era rules set in 2020 that, among other conditions, typically require multiple impartial adults to investigate and respond to allegations of sex-based discrimination. Related: What education could look like under Trump and Vance Eckes said an August 2020 case, Grimm v.

K-12 127

K-12 Advocacy High School Government 127

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 15, 2022

Rodrigues had been traveling the country for weeks, meeting with parent advocacy groups in city after city, and working with them to get their grievances heard and addressed by local school boards. Rodrigues’ organization, the National Parents Union (NPU), launched in January 2020, just before the pandemic upended schools and learning.

Advocacy 126

Advocacy Charter School Political Science K-12 126

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 28, 2020

Edwards is a fellow with Rise , a national nonprofit that builds student advocacy campaigns, through which she learned how to mobilize new, diverse voters. So the organization moved most of its efforts online, harnessing the power of social media through its Instagram account and class Facebook groups.

Civics 89

Civics Civic Engagement Advocacy Research 89

Sapiens

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Supporters of the Virginia Citizens Defense League met at the Freedom Shooting Center in Virginia Beach in 2020 to plan upcoming political actions. This should come as no surprise: The National Rifle Association spends about US$3 million annually on direct gun rights lobbying that supports pro-gun political advocacy.

Heritage 89

Heritage Archiving Cultures Government 89