The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

The governor shared his optimism during a visit to Kingdom Life Academy, a small Christian private school in Tyler, where he proclaimed that the House now has 79 “hardcore school choice proponents,” a number slightly above the simple majority the 150-member chamber needs to approve legislation. That’s completely false.

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Anthropology News

DECEMBER 3, 2024

1932–2024 Credit: David Plowden Photo of David Sapir in New Hampshire by David Plowden J. David Sapir, a cultural and linguistic anthropologist, West Africanist, and scholar of folklore and ethnographic photography, died August 31, 2024, at the age of 91. He majored in anthropology at Yale, writing a thesis on African folktales.

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ED Surge

MARCH 27, 2025

Thats up from just 6 percent in 2024. In a survey of more than 1,000 public school teachers done through Samsungs partners at DonorsChoose a whopping 96 percent said AI will become an intrinsic part of education within the next decade. Among the top 50 teams, 42 percent used artificial intelligence to power their inventions.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 8, 2025

The law passed in 2024 alongside a spate of bills aimed at boosting the states labor participation rate, which at 58 percent as of January remained below the national rate of 63 percent. adults have a lot of confidence in higher education, according to a 2024 Gallup poll. Simply put, Alabama wants to get more of its residents working.

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Teaching American History

MARCH 11, 2025

By August 2024 she would complete her degree in the Master of Arts in American History and Government (MAHG ) program, giving her time for such an endeavor. She thought she could help repair a disconnect between what some worry is happening in public schools and what she knows actually happens.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Policymakers across the political spectrum ran for office on child care issues in 2024. 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. Since the program came into effect in April 2024 under Republican Gov.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 19, 2024

They now need nine months of additional school to catch up, according to NWEA’s analysis, released in July 2024. Curriculum Associates did not detect as much deterioration as NWEA, but did find widespread stagnation in 2023-24, according to a report released on August 19, 2024.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

The most recent data is based on tests taken by students in spring 2024. By then, the worst of the pandemic was long past, but schools were dealing still with a mental health crisis and high rates of absenteeism not to mention students who’d had crucial learning disrupted. Public Schools Chancellor Lewis Ferebee.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 6, 2024

Here are five takeaways from their work: The long view shows progress but a worrying uptick, especially in big cities Source: Owens and Reardon, “The state of segregation: 70 years after Brown ,” 2024 presentation at Stanford University. School choice plays a role in recent segregation Why is segregation creeping back up again?

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Much of that debate has centered on funding for public schools, with the fight over school finance often falling to the question of whether older Texans, who are mostly white and less likely to have children enrolled in public schools, are willing to pay for the future of younger Texans, who are mostly Latino.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

In some places, this now includes reshaping what “back-to-school” means, as districts attempt to schedule the academic year around extreme heat. An advertisement reads “115 Outside 63 Inside” at the Acrisure Arena in July 2024 in Palm Desert, California. Credit: Nichole Dobo/ The Hechinger Report Carrie A.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

The Buena Vista Horace Mann K-8 Community School in San Francisco opened its gymnasium to homeless students and their families as part of its Stay Over Program in 2022. It is one example of the many community services that a majority of public schools are now providing, according to a federal survey.

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ED Surge

APRIL 5, 2024

What It Means to Teach in Texas in 2024 I teach in Texas where it seems like every day brings a new nightmare. Being a teacher in Texas in 2024 is finding out that your friends lost their jobs — leaving school districts without librarians when reading scores are declining. It’s hearing people say, “Public schools are failing!”

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 25, 2024

Even the scores of students at Catholic schools, who otherwise weathered the pandemic well, plummeted in eighth grade math. Before the pandemic, arguably, 34 percent of the eighth grade population was on track to pursue advanced math in high school and a future STEM career if they wanted one.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 9, 2023

This story also appeared in Mind/Shift In the past decade, the population of elementary, middle and high school students in Massachusetts dropped by 42,000 while the number of school employees grew by 18,000. In Connecticut, public school enrollment fell 7 percent while staffing rose 8 percent. Follow the money.

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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? But as of February 2024, chronic absenteeism is already 22.9

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 9, 2024

As of May 2024, 31 percent of students in the program identified as Black, 39 percent as Hispanic/Latino, 11 percent as Asian and 7 percent as white, according to program data. A group of rising eighth graders from Newton Public Schools learn how to use different engineering applications at MathWorks headquarters in Natick, Mass.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

The National Center for Education Statistics plans to update this transcript study in 2024. million high school seniors who took the ACT between 2010-22. They attended over 3,800 different public schools. The ACT analysis, published in August 2023 , covered almost 6.9

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 21, 2024

More than 27,700 school-age youth live in Pasadena , Altadena and Sierra Madre , the communities served by the district, but only about half of them attend public school. Pasadena High School. In Pasadena, Dufford said, it has been tradition for established families not to send their children to public schools. “So

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Political Science Now

AUGUST 5, 2024

His research interests are particularly informed by his previous professional experiences in Chicago, where he worked in civil rights and community justice and as a special education teacher in Chicago Public Schools. The post Lucien Ferguson Receives the 2024 Edward S. Shomade of Emory University.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

After law school, Rayome returned to Libby to practice law. Aerial view of Libby on March 19, 2024. Flathead Valley Community College’s Lincoln County Campus in Libby, pictured on June 28, 2024. The landscape of Lincoln County near Eureka on May 29, 2024. She knew she needed to go back to Lincoln County. Conrad Burns.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 10, 2024

“LIFO is not very good for kids,” said Dan Goldhaber, a labor economist at the American Institutes for Research, speaking to journalists about expected teacher layoffs at the 2024 annual meeting of the Education Writers Association in Las Vegas. public school student population is less than half white.

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Cult of Pedagogy

SEPTEMBER 29, 2024

There are some very specific do’s and don’ts that, once we learn them, can make a huge difference in how these kids experience school. The good news is that some schools are already on their way to supporting these kids.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 20, 2024

million followers) welcoming teachers to share their school supply lists, along with a bit of humanizing information like where they live and what they teach, in a Google form. I love buying school supplies. I have two kids, and they're both in public school. Each summer, she creates a post on her Instagram account (1.8

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 9, 2023

As Iris leaves my preschool to begin her K-12 journey in public school this fall, she may have a Black teacher or two at some point who can respond to her in moments like this with a depth of lived experience in ways that I cannot. She is a 2023-2024 Teach Plus Senior Writing Fellow and Teach Plus Senior Policy Fellow.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 9, 2025

Jefferson School District Super Intendent Chad Martin poses for a photo in Rigby, Idaho on Wednesday, Feb. Credit: John Roark Although Idaho does not mandate the use of in-school threat assessment teams, 11 states in the U.S. In 2024, the National Center for Education Statistics reported that 71 percent of U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

public schools required vast support, federal and state government officials appropriated historic levels of help via elementary and secondary school emergency relief funds. The federal funding that is set to expire in 2024 cannot wipe away the adverse learning impacts of the pandemic. They must continue this funding.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 23, 2024

Compounding these challenges, federal pandemic relief education funding (known as ESSER) ends in September 2024. Morale is low for teachers, principals and district leaders.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 22, 2018

But at school, she was labeled truant. “I One out of every ten New York City public school students lived in temporary housing in 2017, according to a sobering October 15 article by The New York Times. public school students was highest in city school districts at 3.7 percent, but was also 2.0

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 1, 2023

One of the few replicated findings in education research is that daily, individualized tutoring during the school day really helps kids catch up academically. The problem is that this kind of frequent tutoring is very expensive and it’s impossible to hire enough tutors for the millions of American public school students who need help.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 4, 2024

Credit: Jill Barshay/ The Hechinger Report / The Hechinger Report For a few weeks in the spring of 2016, nearly all the eighth graders at a small public school affiliated with Columbia University agreed to stay late after school to study math. Of course, students might not see it that way.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Nat Malkus, a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative think tank, calls chronic absenteeism – not learning loss – “the greatest challenge for public schools.” A fellow at Harvard University’s Center for Education Policy Research studied what happened the following 2021-22 school year.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 8, 2024

In a memo released in mid-June to school district superintendents, Vermont Agencies of Education and Human Services indicate that local departments of education can waive the insurance requirement for home-based pre-K programs that are unable or cannot afford to secure the policy recommended by VSBIT.

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Edthena

APRIL 17, 2024

In Spokane Public Schools , a forward-thinking approach to professional development is making waves, under the strategic direction of Nick Lundberg, Title I and Special Programs Coordinator. The program doubled its size for the 2023-2024 school year (to 60 teachers).

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 13, 2021

Whitney Oakley, Guilford County Schools. Last year, researchers at NWEA, an independent nonprofit assessment company, published an analysis of data from the autumn 2020 MAP Growth tests of more than 4 million public school students. On average, Guilford students in the tutoring program received two hours of tutoring each week.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 31, 2023

Yet just 6 percent of these students attend a dual-language school. Maria Meji picks up her 7-year-old son Joangel from his after-school program on Tuesday. Special education students continue to be underrepresented in Boston Public Schools’ dual language programs.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Three years ago, Erin Primer had an idea for a new summer program for her school district: She wanted students to learn about where their food comes from. Primer, who has worked in student nutrition within California’s public school system for 10 years, applied for grant funding from the state to kick off the curriculum, and got it.

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