The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 5, 2023

I hear frequently from those in business that younger employees, directly out of K-12 or higher education, are looking for direction. The rigid structure of the traditional K-12 education system leaves little room for students to engage in real-world problem-solving scenarios.

K-12 129

K-12 Advocacy High School Tradition 129

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 136

Charter School Heritage K-12 Education 136

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

These dangerous culture wars will wreak havoc on education and education policy for years to come. Earlier, the complete misrepresentation and misunderstanding of critical race theory signaled a disregard for the Black community and contempt for the importance of students learning about all people and cultures. The students.

Civic Engagement 130

Civic Engagement Education Civics K-12 130

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 26, 2020

Our district decided to start grades K-2 in person and grades 3-12 virtually. Cultural and social relevance. Music teachers need your advocacy and your help. But this school year brings a new kind of uncertainty, not just for us, but for every teacher, administrator and district across the nation.

K-12 145

K-12 Advocacy High School Cultures 145

ED Surge

MAY 5, 2023

Tacy Trowbridge Lead for Global Education Thought Leadership & Advocacy Adobe What importance does creativity play when it comes to college and career pathways? How can infusing creativity in the K-12 setting help them when they leave our institution? It gives them a stronger self-identity and voice to tackle challenges.

Advocacy 113

Advocacy K-12 Critical Thinking Project-Based Learning 113

ED Surge

MAY 20, 2024

But for Fiske, of Mysa, the popularity of alternatives to public school actually raises a concern: She fears that her approach to microschooling could be eclipsed by politics and cultural war clashes. While popular in some conservative circles, classical learning isn’t traditionally a byword for culture war politics.

Public School 133

Public School Civics Private School K-12 133

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 7, 2022

Now, a new annual report about attitudes toward Asian Americans from the advocacy organization LAAUNCH has provided some disturbing answers to some of these questions. As an Asian American, my lived experience and this research make me firmly believe that we must do a better job of teaching Asian American history and culture in the U.S. —

American History 111

American History History Teaching Primary Sources 111

ED Surge

JANUARY 10, 2022

Elementary schools could have “one day where younger kids engage with experiential learning with partner organizations,” suggests Scott Goldstein, founder of a teacher advocacy organization in Washington, D.C. We can get more creative with school employees, too. And so does not retaining or hiring qualified teachers.

Teaching 145

Teaching Elementary School K-12 Advocacy 145

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 10, 2021

Feliza Ortiz-Licon, chief policy and advocacy officer at Latinos for Education, a nonprofit group, said that administrators and educators who want to address racial disparities in college completion need to look at the entire system and take responsibility for their part in it. “To What are you going to do?” Ortiz-Licon said.

K-12 145

K-12 Advocacy High School Leadership 145

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

history instruction include an Asian American and Pacific Islander K-12 curriculum. She is a high school senior, a Queens native, and a K-drama fan. of all district students) enrolled in a K-12 New York City Public School in 2021-2022. It’s about my connection with family members and my culture.

History 109

History Heritage K-12 American History 109

Anthropology News

OCTOBER 7, 2024

SEE Learning is a K-12 curriculum developed through a collaboration between Emory University and His Holiness the Dalai Lama, the spiritual leader of the Tibetan people. However, among community members, the relevance of linguistic diversity to the continuity of Tibetan Buddhist culture is a topic of considerable debate.

Heritage 98

Heritage Anthropology Education K-12 98

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

So college has become more like the K-12 experience, where we are teaching them how to be adults in the world.”. Those are not necessarily skills that they’re learning in K-12 education.”. Those are not necessarily skills that they’re learning in K-12 education.”. That should not shock anyone.

K-12 134

K-12 Political Science Tutoring Advocacy 134

ED Surge

JULY 19, 2023

public schools raise questions about whether curricula and edtech are staying culturally relevant. It’s not enough for a school to simply offer these students computer science classes — teachers like Noriega are working to tear down the invisible mental and cultural barriers that keep Latino students from considering the field altogether.

Educational Technology 98

Educational Technology EdTech Education Heritage 98

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 3, 2024

But her motivations are also deeply personal, cultural, and, in some ways, unique to Philadelphia. 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. For science class, they head to a museum. That is a huge problem.”

Charter School 96

Charter School Tradition Advocacy K-12 96

ED Surge

MAY 23, 2022

Just as often, though, it’s not a K-12 school the educators are leaving for. The other is creating belonging at NAEYC, a professional and advocacy organization with nearly 60,000 members across its 52 affiliates. “I This predicament is not rare. So Kang is listening. That’s one of the two priorities weighing heavily on her mind.

K-12 104

K-12 Advocacy Leadership Professional Development 104

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

The model stems from an idea laid out in a paper almost a decade ago by Emily Ayscue Hassel and Bryan Hassel, co-presidents of Public Impact, an education advocacy organization. They’d also had a hard time supporting the many early-career teachers who dominate their staffing pool and saw Opportunity Culture as a way to do that better.

Elementary School 111

Elementary School Advocacy Cultures Public School 111

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 27, 2016

The most dramatic place to see this is in kindergarten through grade 12, where Hispanics make up nearly a quarter of enrollment nationwide, up from 16 percent in 2000. But clearly there is a college-going culture among the Hispanic population.”. But Hispanic college-going is, in fact, on the rise, Strohl pointed out.

K-12 111

K-12 Advocacy Government Leadership 111

ED Surge

MAY 24, 2023

In the wake of the Atlanta Spa shootings and a surge in violence against Asian Americans throughout the pandemic, Illinois made history by becoming the first state to mandate that Asian American history be taught in public K-12 schools beginning in the 2022-23 school year.

Inclusive Curriculum 104

Inclusive Curriculum American History Primary Sources Professional Development 104

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

School administrators will have to explicitly address the racial biases and stereotyping that stifle black educators’ professional growth, argue researchers Ashley Griffin and Hilary Tackie in a new report from The Education Trust, a national nonprofit advocacy organization. We become the representative for all of those children.”.

Advocacy 109

Advocacy Cultures Economics Research 109

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

Godfrey Rivera is the co-director of the Autism Initiative Project at Sinergia, a bilingual nonprofit that provides community, advocacy, and outreach for parents of children with autism, especially those who don’t speak English. The nonprofit offers workshops, one-to-one advocacy, and a monthly Spanish-speaking support group for families.

Advocacy 102

Advocacy Cultures Elementary School Research 102

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2022

At the start of the pandemic, only 12 percent of low-income students , and 25 percent of all students, in Oakland’s public schools had devices at home and a strong internet connection. It’s just been exacerbated by the pandemic,” said Rebeca Shackleford, the director of federal government relations at All4Ed, an education advocacy nonprofit.

High School 120

High School K-12 Public School Library 120

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 24, 2017

I also definitely want to be heavily involved in advocacy for young black youth, or, for youth in general, and just promoting student leadership. I feel like school should be a place where I can learn about their culture and where they came from and for them learn about mine. I want to use my master’s degree to change that.

Oral History 101

Oral History Advocacy Cultures Leadership 101

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 8, 2016

In Boston Public Schools, Superintendent Tommy Chang has placed an emphasis on culturally and linguistically inclusive schools. In California, Shelly Spiegel-Coleman is executive director of Californians Together, an advocacy organization focused on improving educational opportunities for students learning English.

Multicultural Education 111

Multicultural Education Social Justice Elementary School Advocacy 111

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 24, 2016

And ESSA could serve as a catalyst to super-charge new ways to educate children without tying schools to the old model that had students marching in lock-step through kindergarten and the subsequent 12 grade levels. “We It’s really a cultural shift,” said Virginia Barry, New Hampshire’s commissioner of education.

Education 111

Education Advocacy Leadership Education Policy 111

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 23, 2019

Tanji Reed Marshall, a former teacher and current researcher at The Education Trust, an education research and advocacy organization, recently studied how frequently teachers offer students choices in the classroom. Sidebar: Personalizing school culture with ‘preceptors’. The results – very seldom – were not entirely surprising.

Charter School 111

Charter School Advocacy Middle School High School 111

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

The growth has largely been driven by advocacy from white, affluent families, as well as by districts responding to an influx of immigrant students. At the same time, he believes dual-language programs in majority-black classrooms can embrace students’ cultural and linguistic backgrounds, engaging them in ways traditional schools haven’t.

Elementary School 112

Elementary School Charter School Advocacy Public School 112

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 18, 2017

The most dramatic place to see this is in kindergarten through grade 12, where Hispanics make up nearly a quarter of enrollment nationwide, up from 16 percent in 2000. But clearly there is a college-going culture among the Hispanic population.”. But Hispanic college-going is, in fact, on the rise, Strohl pointed out.

Research 72

Research K-12 Archiving Advocacy 72

The Hechinger Report

JULY 30, 2018

But as the movement against seat-time learning grows, more schools nationwide will be grappling with grade levels, deciding whether to keep them or to hack through thickets of political, logistical and cultural barriers to uproot them. Others, however, echo Northern Cass superintendent, Cory Steiner. School District.

Tradition 111

Tradition Charter School High School Cultures 111

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

That’s because Hispanic families often don’t participate in public assistance programs even when they’re poor enough to qualify for them — either because they don’t want to call attention to their immigration status or because of cultural opposition to receiving government handouts.

Advocacy 105

Advocacy Government Public School Humanities 105

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 2, 2016

Arnett also said that schools must be ready to foster a shift in classroom instruction and, on a larger scale, a change in school culture towards technology in the classroom. In order to target these deficiencies, LPS launched a new math course to help students who were performing below grade level get back on track.

Advocacy 71

Advocacy Classroom Management Elementary School Public School 71

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

The majority of that money went to K-12 schools — institutions serving primarily non-Indigenous people. The uniformity and scale of the state logging — and the prioritization of profit and yield — do not align with the tribes’ forestry plans, which are tied to cultural values and use of land, Incashola said.

Government 90

Government Public School K-12 Cultures 90

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 13, 2017

Hoffman Early Learning Center , which opened in 2015, currently hosts federally funded Head Start programs that provide free pre-K programs to qualifying low-income families with 3- and 4-year-olds. There’s a historical and cultural tradition of going where your family has been,” she said. Urban Institute analysis from 2015.

Education 86

Education Charter School Private School Advocacy 86

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 6, 2017

“The bad news is we’re not seeing a lot of innovation or discussion around personalized learning,” said Claire Voorhees, national policy director for the Tallahassee, Florida-based Foundation for Excellence in Education, an advocacy group for personalized learning. Yet, that idea didn’t play out in most states’ first-year ESSA plans.

Advocacy 83

Advocacy High School Social Studies Tradition 83

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

In just a few short years, the school has managed to create a culture in which going to college is becoming the norm rather than the exception. Principal Kaplet found it difficult to create a culture of academic achievement when her school’s most motivated learners were spending the bulk of their time on a college campus. Rural ones.

High School 94

High School Social Studies Leadership Political Science 94

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 19, 2019

Nearly a decade in, the culture of competence is deeply ingrained in the district; most of today’s high schoolers have never experienced anything different. To build public support for the changes, the foundation also gave smaller grants to youth and immigrant advocacy groups in the districts. In college, you can’t,” said Beaulieu.

High School 111

High School Tradition Cultures Advocacy 111

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 16, 2016

College Possible is one of many college advocacy groups hoping that technology will jumpstart the slow growth of low-income students in higher education. Abdi was at the top of her class, and Collins had worked with about 200 students like her in a new virtual advising program by College Possible , a nonprofit founded in 2000.

Social Justice 75

Social Justice Advocacy High School Cultures 75

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

According to a 2015 report by the advocacy non-profit Child Care Aware, the average cost of center-based infant care in Louisiana—one of the four poorest states in the nation—was roughly $110 a week in 2014. percent of Louisiana’s at risk families with 1-year-olds received childcare assistance, leaving nearly 39,500 families in the lurch.

Primary Sources 83

Primary Sources Advocacy Government Education 83