The Hechinger Report

APRIL 7, 2022

The last bell of the school day is when the work truly begins for staff at the Wisconsin Youth Company. Kids in about two dozen elementary schools across Dane County and Waukesha County in Wisconsin empty out of classrooms at the end of the day and make their way to gyms, cafeterias or media centers.

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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. How could school work if teachers only taught 4 days out of a 5 day school week? At elementary schools, we’d have to get rid of the 1 teacher/1 class/5 days equation.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 13, 2021

At first glance, the binders incorporating a whole year of learning at the Parker-Varney elementary school in Manchester look a little like Candy Land, the beloved game of chance where players navigate a colorful route past delicious landmarks to arrive at a Candy Castle. At the Parker-Varney elementary school in Manchester, N.H.,

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Elementary teachers report more anxiety when it comes to teaching math, which can make it harder to teach struggling learners. Advocacy focused on math disabilities has been less widespread than that for reading disabilities. Experts say that there are ways that all schools can make math instruction more accessible.

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Tutoring Elementary School Advocacy Lesson Plan 128

ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

The Yale survey of more than 300 undergrad and graduate students ages 18 to 35 found that students who participate in “collective action” — like involvement in advocacy groups or educating others about climate change — report lower levels of climate anxiety than those who only take part in individual actions like recycling or saving energy.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

Edgecombe is still a rural district with a high-poverty student body, but a new staffing model has made its schools newly desirable for teachers who want to be school leaders without leaving the classroom. Each school that embarks on creating an Opportunity Culture does so in a unique way, based on its needs.

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ED Surge

MAY 18, 2022

Tommy Sheridan, the deputy director of the National Head Start Association (NHSA), a nonprofit advocacy and professional support organization for Head Start, was hearing stories about just how challenging it is to be in early childhood education right now. The median elementary school teacher salary in the U.S.

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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.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

For example, when presented with a tweet made from a liberal advocacy group, half of the students judged the tweet without bothering to click the link to read the source of information presented to advance the advocacy group’s claim. And that work must begin early, the authors say – in elementary school, ideally.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 24, 2023

The special education system can be “incredibly difficult for everybody,” said Ramona Hattendorf, director of advocacy for the Arc of King County , which promotes disability rights. Then everything is exacerbated when you bring language into the mix.” There’s also an issue of context.

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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.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

Teachers Ivonne Kendrick and Milagro Nuñez lead preschool students at Houston Elementary School in a song during a time of “música y movimiento.” In Ivonne Kendrick’s classroom at Houston Elementary School, 3-year-olds sit cross-legged in a circle, listening to their teacher sing about the fall season. WASHINGTON, D.C. —

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2019

Since 2006, the share of California Hispanic 19-year-olds with a high school diploma has increased from 74 percent to 86 percent, according to the Campaign for College Opportunity, a California advocacy group. There’s still work to be done.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 14, 2018

Students need more exposure, more support and more direction, starting as early as elementary school. Finally, and perhaps most importantly, we — policymakers, parents, students, advocates, members of the media and all other stakeholders — must broaden our language, our advocacy and our understanding of what college is.

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Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

Community Engagement and Advocacy. For instance, Indian Prairie School District held a four-hour Maker Day to garner community support for computational thinking and maker learning in elementary schools. . … Now we combine everything we do with objects and the ability to have an emotional connection with a device.”.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 25, 2021

One Oregon advocacy organization reported receiving calls from nearly 280 parents about shortened school days from September 2016 to December 2018. One advocacy organization reported receiving calls from nearly 280 parents about this issue from September 2016 to December 2018, according to the complaint.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 7, 2019

Having long focused on readying students for college, school systems are beefing up their career-and-technical programs amid a growing push to more closely align the skills students accumulate in school with workforce needs. A few school districts are even testing career-readiness programs at the elementary level.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

During her first couple of years of elementary school “her nervous system was like a pressure cooker because she wasn’t being given appropriate help,” Chittenden said. She held it together all day at school and then would explode.” Often these schools also use the discrepancy model to determine whom to admit.)

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Psychology Elementary School High School Humanities 145

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 8, 2016

In the Austin Independent School District in Texas, administrators recognize that same value for their native Spanish speakers who enter the public schools without English fluency. Nearly half of BPS students first learned a language other than English, with more than 75 languages represented across the city’s schools.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 6, 2018

. – Dressed in pastel pink and green for an early spring day, second-grader Katherine Cribbs was learning about energy on a virtual field trip – to her own school. Dozens of these ultra-green schools are going up in every sort of district – urban and rural, affluent and lower income, blue state and red state. RELATED: Psst!

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2022

It’s just been exacerbated by the pandemic,” said Rebeca Shackleford, the director of federal government relations at All4Ed, an education advocacy nonprofit. The Oakland Reach, a parent-led advocacy group that works with underserved communities, also joined the partnership. The homework gap isn’t new.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 28, 2022

According to Cornell, studies show students receiving special education services have lower rates of suspension in schools with threat assessment protocols than they do in schools not using them. Peter Mosby is principal at Rock Ridge Elementary School in a suburb of Denver.

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High School Elementary School K-12 Advocacy 103

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

A student leaps during a game at Horizons Elementary School. Florida and Rhode Island now mandate 20 minutes of recess time a day for elementary school students. At least we’re at the table now,” said Carly Wright, advocacy director for SHAPE. “It Lillian Mongeau/The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2020

As the struggle continues, a few overarching lessons learned — about equity, expectations and communication — are now helping schools navigate this crisis on the fly. Blaney Elementary School in Elgin, S.C., Credit: Kershaw County School District. Volunteers from Sherrelwood Elementary School in Westminster, Colo.,

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 19, 2023

After a few hours, the elementary school called: Come pick up your son, they told her. Around lunchtime, the middle school called: Come get your daughter, they told her. She had yet to register the youngest girl, who was entering kindergarten. He was no longer enrolled, they said. She doesn’t have a class schedule.

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Public School Economics High School Advocacy 79

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 12, 2017

Thousands of Mississippi’s third graders will sit in front of computers later this month to take the statewide reading test, but the eyes of teachers and administrators at Finch Elementary School will be intensely focused on a dozen students at this Wilkinson County school.

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Tutoring Elementary School Advocacy Classroom Management 77

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 20, 2017

Ray heads up Future Ready Librarians, part of Future Ready Schools — a network for sharing education technology solutions, which is sponsored by the Alliance for Excellent Education, a Washington, D.C.-based based education advocacy group. “It Traci Chun, teacher-librarian at Skyview High School, Vancouver, Washington.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 1, 2016

Nancy Loome, executive director and founder of the Parents’ Campaign, a nonprofit and grassroots education advocacy organization. In Mississippi, she said, there is debate about how much more resources schools require, but few dispute that there is a need. “We Clinton school officials have also delayed large purchases.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 17, 2022

Wilson, 47, started taking courses in 2019, a few months before the pandemic hit and just before he lost his job as an elementary school music teacher. A report published Thursday by the Student Borrower Protection Center , a nonprofit advocacy group focused on student debt, attempts to quantify the scope of this problem.

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Sociology Research Advocacy Digital Resources 103

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

In a survey conducted by Educators for Excellence, a teacher-led advocacy group, gun violence ranked as teachers’ No. 1 school safety concern. Lockdown instructions posted in Nivia Vizurraga’s elementary school classroom. She currently teaches K-5 special education at an elementary school in Reseda, California.

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Teaching Elementary School Charter School Advocacy 46

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 11, 2023

Related: When typical middle school antics mean suspensions, handcuffs or jail The educational options available to suspended students often pale in comparison to what they would get in the classroom. The state requires that alternative instruction must be “substantially equivalent” to what the student would get in a regular classroom.

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Tutoring Middle School Economics High School 96

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 2, 2016

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.

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Advocacy Classroom Management Elementary School Cultures 59

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 9, 2016

Two days before graduation at the Mississippi School for the Deaf, the 10 seniors are on their class trip to Dallas, and the elementary school is having its awards day program. The rest of the student body does what any other school does in the festive penultimate days of an academically rigorous school year: winds down.

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K-12 Elementary School Advocacy Economics 66

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.

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Advocacy High School Social Studies Tradition 71

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 26, 2019

It’s help teachers need: In 2016 , about 50,000 preschoolers were suspended at least once, and at least 17,000 were expelled, according to the Center for American Progress, a Washington-based liberal research and advocacy institute, which arrived at the estimate based on data from the 2016 National Survey of Children’s Health.

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K-12 Humanities Advocacy Psychology 111

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 3, 2016

Related: How one innovative school district has closed gaps on harder Common Core tests. A hallway at Franklin Elementary school lined with tiny lockers and student art. Photo: Emmanuel Felton. There’s tremendous poverty in all four cities, but there’s tremendous wealth in New York City.

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Elementary School Charter School Tradition Advocacy 69

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 70