The Hechinger Report

APRIL 12, 2017

Learn a simple advocacy technique that gets members of the community involved in a relevant legislative/policymaking process. Have students read Ensuring Equity: The Future of TOPS or a news article that explains how TOPS funding is inadequate to fully meet the program’s needs. Objectives: Change the qualifications for TOPS.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 17, 2017

Of the dozen or so school leaders interviewed for this article, not one had a definitive answer for why the projections were so inflated. Results from 2016 show that two of its four K-8 charters had some scores in the 70s in either English or math and one of the others was a few points shy of 70 percent proficiency.

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Digital Promise

JULY 14, 2016

This article originally appeared on the Indiana Resource Center for Autism website. To read more research-based articles on autism, visit the Indiana Resource Center for Autism website. . Anderson Ryan, K., It is reprinted with permission from the Advocate, the magazine for the National Autism Society of America. .

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Kentucky, where the students interviewed for this article attend public school, has a version of the civics test policy, which the state passed in 2018. Jefferson was struck by how much of an impact this could have on K-12 schools in Kentucky. The amendment is up for a vote this election.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2019

It was the latest big-fix trend in K-12 education, and Gist, a favored daughter of Silicon Valley philanthropists, offered up the nation’s smallest state as a laboratory mouse. For decades, nonprofit advocacy groups and corporate donors have targeted K-12 education for intervention.

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Digital Promise

JULY 28, 2016

This article originally appeared on Usable Knowledge from the Harvard Graduate School of Education. So much of environmental study has been about advocacy for the outdoors, or nature ed. To read more research-based articles on education, visit Usable Knowledge. The pond is alive with birdsong and duck sounds.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 17, 2018

She’d carefully chosen the K-8 institution, a magnet school across town from her single-family house on Chicago’s West Side, for its academic rigor and diverse student body. She blamed his school, and the investigators from the state’s child welfare agency they’d sent to her door.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 21, 2017

The students are all in a science and engineering program, one of 12 career tracks designed by the 21,878-student district that encompasses Greeley and nearby Evans, a small river town with a growing Hispanic population. They had been asked to fashion an advertising campaign for their school’s sports teams, the Wolverines.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 6, 2016

Disclaimer: Harrison-Henderson, a former journalist, wrote several articles for The Hechinger Report before she worked for the state.). He has a tiny office at the Scott Central Attendance Center, a K-12 school just outside Forest, the county seat. “I I have to struggle for all the resources I get,” he said.

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Zinn Education Project

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Teaching Resources Lessons and Articles About K–12 Lessons and teaching stories on Palestine and Israel from Rethinking Schools and the Zinn Education Project website. The spring 2024 issue offers a collection of articles and other resources on teaching about Palestine-Israel amid the growing attack on social justice education.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 21, 2017

Whatever the Justice Department decides to do, disability advocates are prepared to pursue the GNETS case as a class action lawsuit if necessary, said Alison Barkoff, advocacy director at the Center for Public Representation , a public-interest disability law firm. The truth of it is, we know how to educate these kids.

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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. Pennridge leaders declined to respond to questions for this article.) We lost eight of 18 classroom teachers in one summer.”

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

But once she left the K-8 school at the top of her grade, Siyuja stopped feeling so smart. Last year, eight years after Siyuja graduated, the K-8 school still did not offer pre-algebra, a course that most U.S. But then they left, and most of the other teachers soon followed, during the 2011-12 school year, she recalled.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 1, 2019

A pre-K class at Elsie Whitlow Stokes Community Freedom Public Charter School in Washington, D.C. Another facet of these pervasive problems is a criminal justice system that imprisons more black Americans, who made up only 12 percent of the U.S. Photo by Evelyn Hockstein/For The Washington Post via Getty Images).

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