ED Surge

JANUARY 10, 2022

The Great Renegotiation is coming for schools. According to national data, schools are not facing greater teacher vacancies this year than in years past. But if you’re reading this article—if you’re engaged enough in education to be reading EdSurge—you probably don’t believe that data. And for good reason. So let’s imagine.

Teaching 145

Teaching Elementary School K-12 Advocacy 145

The Hechinger Report

MAY 14, 2018

A number of recent articles have highlighted the value of career and technical education (CTE) at the individual and system levels. Students need more exposure, more support and more direction, starting as early as elementary school. Wes McEntee works on a manufacturing machine at Vermont Technical College.

Education 111

Education Advocacy Elementary School Humanities 111

The Hechinger Report

MAY 8, 2023

Here she is training math teachers on how to teach children to solve word problems at an elementary school in Brooklyn, New York. They launched a website , an advocacy group and an auxiliary group for teachers. Credit: Jill Barshay/The Hechinger Report How does a revolution start? Sometimes, it’s a simple question.

Advocacy 145

Advocacy Research Elementary School Teaching 145

The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2019

In tiny Foster, Rhode Island, teachers at Captain Isaac Paine Elementary School use high-tech methods to teach a largely rural, off-the-grid population. Down Route 6, not far from the Shady Acres Restaurant and Dairy, is Captain Isaac Paine Elementary School. Tammy Kim, for The Hechinger Report. PROVIDENCE, R.I.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 17, 2017

In 2008, a few years after Hurricane Katrina, school officials in Louisiana asked aspiring charter-school leader Andrew Shahan to consider taking over the failing Dr. Charles Drew Elementary School in New Orleans’ Upper 9th Ward.

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Charter School Elementary School Leadership Advocacy 78

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 17, 2018

When schools use child protective services as a weapon against parents. A New York City parent named Gabriela — who is going by her middle name for this article because her case is still ongoing and she fears retaliation — knows the type of havoc that a call to ACS can wreak on a family.

Charter School 111

Charter School Public School Advocacy Humanities 111

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

It hit us like a ton of bricks,” said Laura Foster, a local mother who helped create the progressive advocacy group the Ridge Network to fight the right-wing dominance of Pennridge’s schools. One elementary school principal declared it was as if Adams had “asked Alexa to ‘Show him curriculum.’”

Education Policy 143

Education Policy Education Advocacy Social Studies 143