The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 18, 2020

Eli Clark has been waiting nearly a year for their high school to complete an evaluation that would determine special education services. Eli’s mom, Alice Stuart, contacted the school in January 2020 to launch the process to formally evaluate her child for dyslexia and dyscalculia, a math disability. It just makes me so crazy.”.

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Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

Pioneering districts in the League of Innovative Schools are at the forefront of incorporating computer science education in K-12, leading large-scale initiatives to integrate coding and computational thinking into their curricula. Community Engagement and Advocacy. Relevance to Students. Integrating with the Maker Movement.

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Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

As the COVID-19 pandemic upended nearly every aspect of life, how school districts leveraged technology, engaged students in powerful learning, and supported learners and their families fundamentally shifted. This year’s League of Innovative Schools cohort is demonstrative of that innovation. Shaler Area School District.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 10, 2018

“Personalized learning” is among the most discussed initiatives in education today. Most schools nationwide say they’ve implemented personalized learning, to some degree. Higher Education. And a number of schools in Washington, D.C., Others have combined grade levels to best meet the needs of students. Future of Learning.

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ED Surge

MAY 28, 2024

But there's a lot of variation in how schools decide who’s ready for algebra, leading to fewer low-income students, rural students or English learners taking this course in middle school. It’s an inefficiency in the education system, leaving talent on the table, he says, adding: “Doing nothing is going backward.”

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ED Surge

MAY 20, 2024

As Black womxn educators, we have a connection with education that is ancestral. A question Black womxn educators must ask themselves when centering their healing is who you are and where you come from? This is still a prevalent theme for Black womxn in education. African communities built cities, states and kingdoms.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 1, 2021

Peyton’s testimony is an example of “action civics,” a growing, if controversial, trend in American education of which Massachusetts is the undisputed leader. Peyton Amaral, an eighth grader at Morton Middle School in Fall River, Mass., Students in the eighth grade Action Civics class at Morton Middle School in Fall River, Mass.,

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 13, 2021

When suddenly propelled into distance learning last spring, educators rose to the challenge to meet the needs of students and families. In fact, the coach at Andover Middle School in Miami, Florida, created a flexible schedule to allow teachers to book learning consultations, classroom visits, and one-on-one instruction.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 24, 2021

Indeed, many advocacy groups, including the Learning Policy Institute and Ed Trust , are recommending extending learning time next year. I haven’t heard about many school districts announcing longer schedules yet but I was curious to learn what research evidence shows for students at schools that have extended the day or lengthened the year.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Computer science has a wider footprint in schools than ever before, but there are differences when it comes to who has access to computer courses and who’s enrolling. Elementary school girls make up nearly half of computer science students, but that percentage falls to 44 percent in middle school and 32 percent in high school.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 13, 2024

Szoo is part of a long-running rise in the number of women getting higher educations, even as the number of men has been declining — a trend beginning to hit even male-dominated fields such as engineering and business. Department of Education.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

Fewer than 20 percent of high school students knew that simply looking at one photo online is not enough research to gauge if something is really happening. And among middle school students, 80 percent did not understand that “sponsored content” on a news organization’s website is paid advertising.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

As a math educator at the high school and middle school levels, I lived for the moments when students’ furrowed brows ever-so-slightly began to unfold and smiles emerged. Those “aha” moments were often accompanied with a gleeful, “I get it!” The brain makes sense of the world, and mathematics, through culture.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Pandemic closures provided some students with a chance to notice how stressed they are at school, says Jayne Demsky, founder of School Avoidance Alliance, an advocacy group that provides professional training to schools. Not all clinicians even know how to treat school avoidance.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

But then we still have some that wanna be on their phone, they wanna be on their Chromebook here at school, so they isolate themselves.” Some approaches include “advocacy centers” where students are coached through strong emotions with activities like yoga, breathing exercises or calming music. I always think of it as Maslow's.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 6, 2020

“… many Black families are choosing charter schools, where achievement gaps between Black and white students are closing, and longstanding systemic racism is being dismantled by an underlying belief that all children from all backgrounds are deserving and capable of academic success.”

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 23, 2019

It seems to work: Vertus says that 71 percent of its students pass their Regents exams, required by the state of New York for graduation, compared to 38 percent in the Rochester City School District. schools today. Yet it doesn’t have a consistent script and every school does it differently.

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Digital Promise

MARCH 5, 2020

As a former librarian and district leader, I found that success was the best form of advocacy—when the great work of librarians is shared and documented, good things follow for students and library programs. That said, it’s often difficult to effectively tell the story about how librarians make a difference for students and colleagues.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 28, 2024

Still, despite these challenges, I believe my story is important — not only to create a better understanding of Muslim culture and Muslim women’s identity, but also to build a more welcoming educational environment for Muslim educators and students. Yet again, I was met with apprehensive and displeasing looks.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 8, 2023

Sarah Powell, an assistant professor of special education at the University of Texas at Austin, is one of the founders of the science of math movement. Here she is training math teachers on how to teach children to solve word problems at an elementary school in Brooklyn, New York. Sometimes, it’s a simple question. They are analogous.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 3, 2024

Abdullah is part of a growing number of Black, brown, and low-income Philadelphians turning to cyber charters because they see them as a safe and flexible educational option for their families. Nearly 60,000 students statewide were enrolled full time in cyber charters in 2023-24, according data from the Pennsylvania Department of Education.

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Catlin Tucker

JUNE 4, 2020

Educators may be looking for resources they can lean on as they navigate these complex issues with their students who understandably have a variety of feelings about what is taking place in our country. The Center for Racial Justice in Education has a collection of resources to guide conversations about race, racism, and racialized violence.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Future of Learning newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every Wednesday with trends and top stories about education innovation. Edgecombe County Public Schools in rural North Carolina has long had trouble filling all of its open teaching positions.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 7, 2023

But some educators say the expectations Tennessee has set for its students are too high. A report from the education nonprofit NWEA suggests they’re struggling more than older students because the pandemic struck when they would have been learning foundational reading skills in kindergarten. The research on retention is mixed.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 1, 2017

. — When Mary Fair became a teacher in 2012, her classes often contained a mix of special education students and general education students. Placing children with and without disabilities in the same classroom, instead of segregating them, was a growing national trend, spurred on by lawsuits by special education advocates.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 19, 2023

A high school senior with long curly hair who participates in a vocational program, Bradley spends about half the day at culinary school and then half in “at-home instruction” through a nearby high school run by a statewide public education service. It’s changed his attitude about school.

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 16, 2019

There are a number of excellent online learning opportunities designed specifically for educators. include: Computational Thinking for Educators from Google (15-30 hours). Introduction to Programming with Scratch in Education from University of Northern Iowa (20-30 hours). Scratch educator meetups. high school curricula.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 26, 2019

Approximately 77 percent of the more than 3,827,000 teachers in public elementary and secondary schools in the U.S. during the 2015-16 school year were women, according the data compiled by the National Center for Education Statistics. Between 2005 and 2017, public schools in the U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 11, 2023

As a result, thousands of students across the state have been kept out of school for a month or more, cut off from their peers and receiving just an hour or two of instruction per day. A bill recently introduced for the fifth consecutive state legislative session would ban suspensions of more than 20 school days under most circumstances.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

Middle school students at Kaleidoscope Academy, a district charter school in Appleton, Wisconsin, are constantly moving. Everyone has a physical education class, called “phy-ed” here, at least twice a week. Florida and Rhode Island now mandate 20 minutes of recess time a day for elementary school students.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 20, 2017

The stereotypical library can seem like a vestige, making it an easy target when budgets are tight, according to Mark Ray, Vancouver’s director of innovation and library services, “but we want libraries to be the lynchpin of education transformation.” based education advocacy group. “It Sign up for our newsletter.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 18, 2020

For Black and Brown students, though, the negative effects of having SROs in schools are disproportionately higher. Middle-school suspension rates are double the national average in urban school districts, with schools often suspending more than a third of their Black male students.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 1, 2017

Matthew has been home-schooled for the last year. This story was produced by The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education, in partnership with the Huffington Post. Candace Cortiella, the director of The Advocacy Institute. Who is in Special Education?

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 8, 2016

In 50 elementary schools, according to officials, these students now take classes in Spanish and English with an ultimate goal of achieving academic proficiency in both languages by middle school. Supporters of bilingual education, however, say these numbers are proof only that the waiver process is overly cumbersome.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 21, 2022

States oversee the spending of a smaller $12 billion slice of this money and the law expressly requires them to spend 1 percent of it, or $120 million, on after-school programs. Another 5 percent of the state money is to be spent on overcoming learning loss, which can also be used on after-school programs. The post PROOF POINTS: $1.5

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Experts say early educators are key to developing early math knowledge and noticing potential delays in math. Nobody uses the proper term for it, it’s not diagnosed frequently,” said Sandra Elliott, a former special education teacher and current chief academic officer at TouchMath, a multisensory math program. 17 at 8 p.m.

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Tutoring Elementary School Advocacy Teaching 140

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.

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