The Hechinger Report

APRIL 7, 2023

Credit: Lily Estella Thompson for The Hechinger Report This year, Harpeth Valley flagged just 12 third graders as needing extra reading support, but the requirements of the expansive Tennessee law could put far more students at risk of retention. Because it is just one assessment.” But the older law left retention decisions up to districts.

Tutoring 105

Tutoring Elementary School K-12 Advocacy 105

ED Surge

JANUARY 10, 2022

Without a significant change in the economics of education, changing the grammar of schooling is actually the most realistic approach. 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.

Teaching 145

Teaching K-12 Elementary School Advocacy 145

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 26, 2023

Yet, nationwide, there was just one school psychologist for every 1,127 K-12 students in 2020-21, a ratio well below the 500 students to one psychologist recommended by the National Association of School Psychologists. The shortages of school social workers and counselors are just as bad. Related: School counselors keep kids on track.

Psychology 97

Psychology K-12 Economics High School 97

Digital Promise

APRIL 16, 2020

Staying connected to students is especially critical for those whose families may be feeling the pandemic more acutely, whether family members are first responders or socio-economic factors make them particularly vulnerable. Emphasizing digital equity and advocacy. Connecting with families.

Library 109

Library K-12 Pedagogy Advocacy 109

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 30, 2018

We have to engage in a movement,” Susan Patrick, CEO of the nonprofit advocacy group known as iNACOL (International Association for K-12 Online Learning), told the cheering crowd of 3,000 true believers. No more simply “sitting on your butt in class,” as one educator put it. Why are we so stuck in an age-based, grade-based era?

Advocacy 88

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Educators can be good at teaching and bad at teaching reading, said Kate Walsh, president of the National Council on Teacher Quality (NCTQ), an advocacy group that studies teacher preparation. About 30 percent of students are white, 26 percent are Black, 24 percent are Hispanic and 12 percent are Asian.

Elementary School 145

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

In June, the city of Memphis, Tennessee, lost funding for 1,000 pre-K slots due to an expiring federal grant. Under pressure to invest in education, Mayor Jim Strickland announced the city would commit $6 million toward pre-K funding, though that amount would not completely offset the lost federal funds.

Government 65

Government K-12 Advocacy Leadership 65

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 6, 2018

Nationwide, K-12 schools are leading a fledgling “net-zero” building boom that has grown from a few proof-of-concept structures a decade ago to hundreds of buildings completed or under construction. Much of the advocacy for net-zero buildings has focused on environmental and economic incentives.

K-12 107

K-12 Elementary School Middle School Advocacy 107

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

The majority of that money went to K-12 schools — institutions serving primarily non-Indigenous people. Kunesh, a descendant of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, has authored two bills that returned state land to tribes, each with a decade or more of advocacy behind it. The state of Montana, for example, manages 5.2

Government 70

Government Public School K-12 Cultures 70

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 9, 2020

NEW YORK — Countless ideas about getting students to and through college have come from policymakers, lawmakers and any number of advocacy groups. But what if a solution comes from students themselves?

Advocacy 82

Advocacy Economics High School Education 82

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. Related: How do we stop the exodus of minority teachers?

Advocacy 99

Advocacy Cultures Economics Research 99

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 23, 2018

Norphlet-Thompson said that in Mississippi’s rural, under-resourced, economically challenged communities, Head Start is critical for providing child care as well as medical care that children may not otherwise receive.

Advocacy 56

Advocacy Economics Humanities Research 56

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. In addition, 84 percent of students enrolled in public school were deemed economically disadvantaged in 2014. This effort does that.

Education 80

Education Charter School Private School Advocacy 80

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 9, 2016

The cuts endanger the school’s unique mission of equipping its students with the language skills and self-advocacy that enriches their Deaf identity, the school’s administrators and teachers say. The rest of MSD’s 238 children are K-12 students. Related: How Mississippi got an award for education.

K-12 66

K-12 Elementary School Advocacy Economics 66

Zinn Education Project

JANUARY 15, 2024

Area Educators for Social Justice has secured the following co-sponsors for this year, in addition to the co-host, the African American Civil War Museum and Memorial.

Teaching 52

Teaching Historic Sites Archiving Museum 52

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 10, 2017

Maine is the pioneer,” said Chris Sturgis, co-founder of CompetencyWorks , a national organization that advocates for the approach in K-12 schools. “I There was a sense that we needed to swing for the fences to make the economic transition the state needs to make.”. “In Kylee Elderkin, student, Nokomis Regional High School.

Education 0

Education K-12 High School Economics 0

The Hechinger Report

JULY 30, 2019

Bob Casey (D-PA) tweeted , “No child should have to imagine the horror of being ripped away from their parents because their family is struggling economically.” Although 12 percent of public school students attended a high-poverty school in 2000, this figure rose to 20 percent by 2011. percent of their white counterparts.

Advocacy 77

Advocacy Middle School High School Economics 77

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

were underfunded by $580 billion in federal dollars alone — money that was specifically targeted to support 30 million of our most vulnerable students,” says a new report published by the education advocacy nonprofit, the Alliance to Reclaim Our Schools. “Between 2005 and 2017, public schools in the U.S.

Advocacy 70

Advocacy Public School Government Economics 70

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 3, 2016

It’s very difficult to compare Rochester, Buffalo and Syracuse to New York City,” said Billy Easton, executive director of the Alliance for Quality Education (AQE), a left-leaning education advocacy group. They don’t have the choice to, say, tax real estate developers to fund their schools.”

Elementary School 69

Elementary School Tradition Charter School Advocacy 69

ED Surge

JANUARY 26, 2023

That little girl went on to study math and economics in college, then became a math teacher and a teacher-coach. And that was another real experience that showed me what advocacy can do. So it’s advocacy that really changed my life. It seemed to her that Nicole, a Black girl, was being ignored by her teacher, a white woman.

Advocacy 105

Advocacy K-12 Humanities Pedagogy 105

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 18, 2016

Half a million, or about one in four, show up on campuses each fall not ready to take college courses in math or English, according to the advocacy organization Education Reform Now. That’s a feat a surprising number of high school graduates fail to accomplish.

High School 75

High School K-12 Advocacy Middle School 75

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 24, 2020

The 41-point gap between the percentage of students living in poverty in Claiborne and Hinds County isn’t just one of the largest in the state, it’s the fourth widest in the country, according to an update of a 2016 report from the nonprofit EdBuild released this week that highlights economic segregation.

Economics 90

Economics Advocacy Humanities Education 90

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. The number of Hispanics of all ages will more than double while the number of whites will decline by 8 percent.

K-12 104

K-12 Advocacy Government Leadership 104

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. The number of Hispanics of all ages will more than double while the number of whites will decline by 8 percent.

Research 57

Research K-12 Archiving Advocacy 57

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

Phoenix Union received around $12 million from the first coronavirus stimulus bill, according to Gestson. White students could lose four to eight months of learning by June 2021, and students of color could lose six to 12 months, according to a McKinsey & Company report published in December. billion for K-12 education.

Public School 125

Public School K-12 Government High School 125

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 6, 2023

About 3,500 people attended the conference, among them K-12 and higher ed educators who teach the subjects that constitute social studies — including history, civics, geography, economics, psychology, sociology, anthropology, philosophy, law and religious studies.

Social Studies 127

Social Studies Teaching Civics Advocacy 127

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 9, 2018

But when she compared the end-of-year test scores of low-income children who had attended preschool to those who hadn’t, she found that low-income preschoolers who had attended preschool classes with peers from other economic strata performed the best. Elizabeth Cascio, Dartmouth College economist.

Advocacy 111

Advocacy Economics Government Humanities 111

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 1, 2017

They were among 450 students, teachers, preachers, child advocates and social justice activists from across the country who gathered for the Children’s Defense Fund’s 23rd Annual Samuel DeWitt Proctor Institute for Child Advocacy Ministry. They get a deeper understanding of advocacy,” she said.

History 78

History Teaching Social Justice Advocacy 78

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 17, 2018

Down the road at Greene County’s other public schools, 12 percent of students are white and 68 percent are black; there isn’t a piano lab and there are far fewer AP courses. She enrolled her daughter, Nevaeh, in pre-K at Greensboro Elementary School just as Lake Oconee Academy was getting off the ground.

Charter School 112

Charter School Tradition Public School K-12 112

The Hechinger Report

MAY 29, 2020

Nearly 200,000 Mississippians with children between ages of 6 to 12 work. Through the Families First Corona Response Act federal aid package, some workers staying at home to care for their children can receive up to 12 weeks of paid leave. Stapleton stayed at home with Kvian as state officials rolled out the next phase of reopening.

Advocacy 139

Advocacy Tradition Economics Public School 139

ED Surge

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

In fact, it is unconstitutional for K-12 schools there to spend their state funding on children under age 5. And an estimated 28 percent of families need child care but can’t access it, a gap that prevents some parents from working and bolstering the economic well-being of their families.

Education 122

Education Government K-12 Advocacy 122

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 21, 2017

One in five Greeley residents lives below the poverty level, and the school district is trying to upgrade its technology to give students an economic boost. Keith Krueger, chief executive officer of the Consortium for School Networking, a technology advocacy group, calls the digital divide in the US “the civil rights issue” of our time.

K-12 82

K-12 Library High School Elementary School 82

The Hechinger Report

JULY 7, 2016

In a separate reminder of the link between accepting federal money and following anti-discrimination regulations, the Obama administration threatened to withdraw that aid from public K-12 schools and colleges and universities in states that ban people from using bathrooms corresponding to their preferred gender identity. “As

Government 50

Government Human Rights K-12 Advocacy 50

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

“The average amount of tuition is going to be more than the actual voucher, not to mention transportation and uniform costs,” said Nik Nartowicz, state policy counsel for Americans United for Separation of Church and State, a legal advocacy group. It makes complete economic sense,” Lewis said. “If This doesn’t help low-income families.”

Private School 145

Private School Heritage Tutoring K-12 145

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Fourth graders in the state from almost every racial and economic background improved their scores on the exam. A study from University of California, Berkeley economist Rucker Johnson suggests exposure to integrated schools among other reforms, such as high-quality pre-K and equitable school funding, can help disrupt the cycle of poverty.

Private School 137

Private School High School Public School Economics 137

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

To raise those funds Fuller often relies on a network of conservative school choice allies he has cultivated over the years, despite their support for social and economic policies that contribute to black impoverishment. It’s a strategy Fuller views as a necessary contradiction, but that others say has undermined his credibility.

Charter School 100

Charter School Private School Heritage Social Justice 100

The Hechinger Report

JULY 1, 2019

A pre-K class at Elsie Whitlow Stokes Community Freedom Public Charter School in Washington, D.C. Schools will improve when we remove racist policies and practices that throttle educational and economic growth and invest instead in black communities and people. Photo by Evelyn Hockstein/For The Washington Post via Getty Images).

Charter School 74

Charter School K-12 Economics Advocacy 74