The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Across the San Carlos Unified School District, 76 percent of students were chronically absent during the 2022-2023 school year, meaning they missed 10 percent or more of the school year. Velma Kitcheyan, a third grade teacher at Rice Intermediate School, instructs her students Tuesday, Aug. He was one of many.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

What does the declining birthrate mean for elementary, middle and high schools across the country? percent fewer public school students a decade from now. Full high school projections extend further through 2028 in the WICHE data. The number of high school students is expected to fall by 6.8

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 3, 2022

The organization, Attendance Works, believes that the number of students missing at least 18 days* of school a year doubled to 16 million in 2021-22 from 8 million students before the pandemic. 27, 2022 blog post. It may be a full year before we will have national data on student absences during 2021-22 from the U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 13, 2025

That research has been instrumental in persuading lawmakers to increase funding to help schools accommodate students with disabilities, in some cases hiring extra special education teachers for every class. Roughly 15 percen t of U.S. Scores declined in some states.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Another fan of the program, Linda Mauriello, runs the transition and work-based learning program at Boonton Public Schools in northern New Jersey. Staff from community-based organizations come to school to train students on how to build relationships at work, create resumes and set career goals.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 29, 2025

In 2022, when the first postpandemic results came back, the nations report card revealed historic declines in math performance, as well as declines in reading scores for fourth and eighth graders. This is a tough call that we have here as a nation to turn this back around, and it clearly is going to take time Carr said during a call Tuesday.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 1, 2025

On the National Assessment of Educational Progress, a national test done every two years, Minnesota fell from second place among the 50 states in 2009 on eighth grade math scores to eighth place in 2022 , the latest year of available data. Related: Widen your perspective. Not all districts dislike the policy.

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ED Surge

MARCH 19, 2025

In the 2021-2022 academic year, the Ohio Department of Education and Workforce found more than 43,000 individuals with active teaching credentials were not employed as teachers or staff members in a public school.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 13, 2024

Linda Brown was a third grader in Topeka, Kansas, when her father, Oliver Brown, tried to enroll her in the white public school four blocks from her home. Still, schools remain significantly less segregated than they did before and immediately after the Brown decision. When she was denied admission, Oliver Brown sued.

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ED Surge

MARCH 5, 2025

Before these tools, as anyone who attended school before the age of the Internet would gladly attest, finding specific information took far more time and effort and typically involved a trip to the library. With the omnipresence of Google, all our questions about the world became answerable in minutes.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

This story also appeared in Mind/Shift The latest warning sign comes from college admissions test maker ACT, which compared students’ ACT test scores with their self-reported high school grades between 2010 and 2022. Grade inflation accelerated after 2016 and intensified during the pandemic, as schools relaxed standards.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

In reading, especially, students are even further behind than they were in 2022, the analysis shows. Public Schools Chancellor Lewis Ferebee. But a new analysis of state and national test scores shows the average student remains half a grade level behind pre-pandemic achievement in both reading and math.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 12, 2022

That concern now appears well-founded as we’re starting to see evidence that remote school and socially distanced instruction were profoundly detrimental to their reading development. Children in kindergarten when the pandemic broke out in the spring of 2020 are now roughly eight years old and in third grade this 2022-23 school year.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 29, 2022

Even before the pandemic began, more than 1 in 3 high school students reported persistent feelings of sadness or hopelessness. 88 percent of college students polled in a January 2022 survey by TimelyMD, a higher ed telehealth provider, said there’s a mental health crisis at colleges and universities in the United States.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

It has resulted in more than a billion dollars leaving the public school system and actually not serving additional kids in private schools, Jones said. It's just serving the same kids in the private schools whose parents are higher incomes and who had already chosen to send their kids there. Classrooms were closing.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

The district has indicated that it will likely vote to close four public schools due to insufficient funds. If this happens, other districts will probably follow: The state’s recent universal voucher expansion has predictably accelerated the diversion of money from public to private schools.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 10, 2024

Economists estimate that 120,000 elementary, middle and high school teachers lost their jobs between 2008 and 2012. The vast majority of school districts used seniority as the sole criteria for determining which teachers were laid off, according to a 2022 policy brief published in the journal Education Finance and Policy.

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ED Surge

JUNE 25, 2024

The movement to keep smartphones out of schools is gaining momentum. Just last week, the nation’s second-largest public school system, Los Angeles Unified School District, voted to ban smartphones starting in January, citing adverse health risks of social media for kids. And the U.S.

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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. And in 2022, 36 states enacted policies promoting career training for high schoolers, college students, and adults, according to Advance CTE , a professional organization for state CTE leaders.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 18, 2021

As districts address unfinished learning, evaluate student growth, and re-engage school communities during the 2021-2022 school year, data equity can highlight where support is needed and help schools better support students’ experiences and needs. Abby Wolf IT Strategy Process Analyst, Minneapolis Public Schools.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Credit: (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu) The number of kindergartners in public school plunged during the COVID-19 pandemic. Concerned about the virus or wanting to avoid online school, hundreds of thousands of families delayed the start of school for their young children. school system. Wednesday, Nov. on Friday Nov.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 6, 2024

Detailed view of the red line segment in the chart above, “Average White-Black Segregation, 1968-2022.” In many cases, either white or Black families flocked to different charter schools, leaving behind a less diverse student body in traditional public schools. They went from 7.6

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

In 2022-23, approximately 134,000 students who were enrolled in New York City’s public schools identified as English Language Learners, yet the United Federation of Teachers reported that the school system had fewer than 3,000 certified bilingual educators.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

More than one out of four students is chronically absent from school. Credit: Getty Images Why is it that only 15 percent of public school leaders say they’re “extremely concerned” about student absences, according to a recent Education Department survey? This question gnawed at me as I wrote my Feb.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

She lives on it — in a district-owned, newly constructed apartment complex occupied exclusively by the teachers and staff of Jefferson Union High School District. It’s an approach that is gaining momentum among public school districts nationwide. We kept hearing, ‘It’s not because we don’t want to work here.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

Families in Arizona can now withdraw their children from public schools and receive state funding to cover private school tuition. Franklin/Associated Press A Hechinger Report analysis of dozens of private school websites revealed that, among 55 that posted their tuition rates, nearly all raised their prices since 2022.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 19, 2024

High schoolers at NACA graduate at much higher rates and tend to outperform their peers in Albuquerque Public Schools — which authorizes the charter — and throughout New Mexico. Those conversations prompted Albuquerque Public Schools to authorize NACA as its first charter. An investigative report released by the U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 13, 2022

11, 2022, in Athens, Ala. 11, 2022, in Athens, Ala. It has some unintended consequences down the road that in the immediacy of us trying to perhaps fix a staffing challenge for the 22-23 school year has greater or more taxable consequences down the line potentially,” she said. 11, 2022, in Athens, Ala.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 25, 2024

Flash forward a few decades, and in 2022, I observed four teachers and 135 freshmen – all in one classroom. The number of students assigned to a team of teachers tops 20,000 kids – an estimate from ASU that doubled from fall 2022. Team teaching has expanded in Mesa, Arizona’s largest school district, and around the country.

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ED Surge

MAY 9, 2022

Last spring, we looked to summer with hopes that the 2021-2022 school year would be different, easier, better. Students returned to their school buildings, we had months of lower COVID rates and some of kids’ favorite learning strategies—like group projects, stations and flexible seating—came back. In many ways it was.

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ED Surge

MARCH 14, 2023

White was compiling a list of every public school district superintendent in the country, she began to notice something peculiar. For the 2022-23 school year, women make up about 28 percent of the American superintendency. Several years ago, when Rachel S. There were a lot of Marks and Scotts and Daves,” she says.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 24, 2024

Shiva Rajbhandari was elected to the Boise School District Board of Trustees in 2022 while still a senior in high school. He is an advocate for mental health services, a Green New Deal for public schools and better working conditions andsupport for staff.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 13, 2024

Patty Topliffe, who teaches social studies at Woodstock High School in Vermont, said teaching vocabulary and other literacy skills to her students helps them understand primary source documents. Credit: Image provided by Patty Topliffe Poor reading skills are a nationwide issue. It is mostly targeted on those early grades,” Neuman said.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 10, 2024

Finland is now one of the leaders in using digital devices at school, ranking sixth overall in the 2022 PISA study. On average, Finnish teenagers reported spending more than four hours on digital devices during the school day. Copper Island is careful about what it borrows from Finnish education, however.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

The 2022 NAEP scores are out and reading in fourth and eighth graders fell since 2019 by three points; some 68 percent of public school fourth graders can’t read at a proficient level. Re OPINION: “ A call for rejecting the newest reading war ” (Nov. 18 letter to the editor.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 19, 2024

Following the 2022 Hechinger/AZCIR report, an Arizona lawmaker twice proposed bill s that would have done the latter. In the 2022-23 school year, Georgia’s Gwinnett County Public Schools banned suspensions for attendance-related reasons. Some districts have acted on their own.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Recently, a partnership between the Minnesota Services Cooperative and Bloomboard offered Saint Peter Public Schools an opportunity to pilot a micro-credentialing program with district-level incentives that has been received positively by educators thus far.

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