The Hechinger Report

MAY 19, 2024

(School officials said the decline is due to incomplete data.) Younger students attend the K-8 campus on the former boarding school site, while the high school is located in a gleaming new tower nearby at the Central New Mexico College. No language class, nothing,” Joshua said of his previous school. Emmet Yepa Jr.,

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 20, 2023

Now she only attends school one day a week for two hours, and hasn’t attended a full day in over two years, instead spending much of her time at her mother’s bakery or at the local library. But schools receive federal and state money for kids with disabilities that they should use for training and staffing, advocates say.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2022

. — After schools went remote in 2020, Jessica Ramos spent hours that spring and summer sitting on a bench in front of her local Oakland Public Library branch in the vibrant and diverse Dimond District. As of February, the city had provided nearly 36,000 laptops and more than 11,500 hot spots to low-income public school students.

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AUGUST 12, 2022

This week, the Aspen Institute announced its 2022 Ascend fellows, a cohort of 22 individuals hailing from a range of disciplines including medicine, research, entrepreneurship, government and policy, and nonprofit leadership and advocacy. With Covid, we’ve lost so many of our elders who are libraries of language and cultural information.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 7, 2020

In the midst of such disruption — with hastily prepared classes delivered remotely, and without professors’ office hours, libraries or advisors — students were demanding the option to pass or fail their courses this semester, instead of getting letter grades. This story also appeared in PBS Newshour. Many universities and colleges agreed.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 17, 2018

A student walks past the Bender Library on the American University campus in Washington, D.C. At a time when parents, politicians and universities all want more students to go to college and graduate on time, the idea of letting them take college courses while in high school seems a great solution. a former assistant U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

These students are increasingly the children of parents who helicoptered them through elementary, middle and high school or who didn’t go to college themselves and can’t provide much help with it. This is increasingly true among high school graduates less accustomed to forging their own paths, he said.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 30, 2018

In a lone building flanked by farmland, the Northern Cass School District is heading into year two of a three-year journey to abolish grade levels. By the fall of 2020, all Northern Cass students will plot their own academic courses to high school graduation, while sticking with same-age peers for things like gym class and field trips.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 19, 2021

For low-income kids it’s really hard for programs to run in person,” said Jodi Grant, executive director of Afterschool Alliance, a nonprofit advocacy group. “It She said it’s frustrating that the concerns of after-school and child care providers are not being heard in the same way as other businesses.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 21, 2017

They stayed at the library working until closing time because they didn’t have laptops. Moises has his own laptop, bought for him by the nonprofit that helped him apply to college, but he was also at the library till they kicked him out most nights. “We I never thought I’d be in a library for two hours every day.”.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

Meadowbrook High School students entering the school’s Colt College center, where they can take tuition-free college courses without leaving the campus. Turning around struggling high schools is the toughest work in education reform. Related: The high school grads least likely in America to go to college?

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 6, 2022

Yet students at Collins Elementary join the increasingly isolated ranks of those legally paddled at school. One is in college and two are in high school in another district. Collins Elementary School inhabits a single-story brick building with a “little free library” in the front yard and a “discovery garden” in the back.

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ED Surge

MARCH 10, 2023

It’s an undertaking from the United Negro College Fund (UNCF), a philanthropy that supports HBCUs through scholarships to students, grants to higher ed institutions and advocacy for educating African Americans. Called HBCUv , the project aims to roll out a pilot product this fall.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 23, 2019

When EducationSuperHighway launched, the Perry-Lecompton school district, in a rural area outside of Topeka, Kansas, still had laptop carts that teachers had to reserve if they wanted students to use computers in their classrooms. EducationSuperHighway’s advocacy supported the district’s efforts perfectly.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 21, 2019

Senior Remi Savard is part of the last class at Montpelier High School that experienced the system before the school’s switch to a proficiency-based model. Remi Savard is one of the last students at Montpelier High School who remembers what class was like before the school switched to a proficiency-based model three years ago.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 23, 2019

Angie Perez and some of her classmates are studying together in a covered plaza that connects a classroom building with the law library at St. It’s a sunny afternoon beneath a clear blue sky, and they appear surprisingly upbeat considering they’re slogging through the notoriously tough first year of law school. MIAMI GARDENS, Fla.

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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 But next fiscal year is already clouded by uncertainty.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 20, 2023

COVENTRY, England — When she finished high school, Helen Kinchin got what was supposed to be a temporary job, after which she planned to go to college. Credit: Aaron Law for The Hechinger Report The library, for instance, has only books connected to the subjects of the classes. Media and performance courses meet here.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 11, 2016

Half a dozen of the 4,100 students in Dillon gathered in a conference room at Dillon High School and said they’re proud of their school and community, which is near the North Carolina border 70 miles northwest of Myrtle Beach. The growth in the graduation rate at Dillon High School over four years.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 10, 2016

LIVERPOOL, England — Covering much of one wall of Paul Richards’ office at the Calderstones School is an impressive collection of thank-you notes. Many are from students Richards, in his role overseeing the equivalent of the American junior and senior grades of high school, has successfully prodded into college.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 22, 2016

Cal students in the Doe Library at UC Berkeley. People with college degrees earn about $1 million more over their lifetimes than those with only high school diplomas, and are far more likely to have jobs they enjoy. percent increase in the number of high school students interested in applying. Of course you do!

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 19, 2020

A lot of our kids don’t have internet access,” said Coe, who knows students who routinely head to the library or the town’s McDonald’s to get online. The Federal Communications Commission estimates that about 21 million Americans lack broadband access, with an independent research group indicating the actual number is twice as high. “We

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2022

Michael Woods doesn’t tell his high school students that he is gay. Michael Woods, a high school teacher in Florida, worries that LGBTQ students will no longer come to him for support. A high school classroom in Seminole County, Florida. This story also appeared in USA Today. “I I enjoy keeping my job.”.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Meanwhile, Federal Communications Commission Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel has proposed a pilot cybersecurity program, which would run separately, but in tandem, with the FCC’s E-Rate program, which was created in the early 1990s as a way to provide affordable internet for schools and libraries.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 12, 2021

Gabrieli, who is also a lecturer at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, wondered aloud why entire transcripts are being withheld if students owe money only for a single course or a semester, or for library fines or parking tickets. And a coalition of advocacy groups in New York is pushing for legislation there like California’s.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 26, 2023

And that was another real experience that showed me what advocacy can do. So I was able to take algebra, for example, in eighth grade, which put me on the trajectory to make it all the way to statistics past calculus once I got in high school. So it’s advocacy that really changed my life.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 5, 2022

She started the Black Student Union at the middle school and formed enduring friendships with several colleagues and Lusher families. One of Talbott’s daughters graduated from Lusher in 2021; the other still attends the high school. Talbott experienced microaggressions at times.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2020

This disparity in home computer and internet access, dubbed the “homework gap,” was a slow-burning problem for most districts in the days when schools were in session and students could get online at libraries, after-school programs, coffee shops and other community gathering spots. Coronavirus gave many just days.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 26, 2022

He’s encountered subs in the hallway, looking for the library or a place to make copies of classwork. Several states that previously required substitutes to have a bachelor’s degree lowered that threshold and now allow candidates with only a high school diploma to apply for emergency certification.

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Zinn Education Project

JANUARY 15, 2024

In Pasadena, Maryland, organizers invited people to a banned books “photo booth” at a local library. Decatur High School staff member Jennifer Young said at the #TeachTruth, Jennifer Young. For your event, school, library, office: print this poster. They also made the link to mass incarceration.

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Zinn Education Project

JANUARY 2, 2025

Host an information table at a public site (such as a library, bookstore, or farmers market) or organize a gathering at a historic site. Host an information table at a public site (like a library, bookstore, museum, festival, or farmers market) or organize a gathering at a historic site. Sign up today. The group can be any size.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 17, 2023

Simply being able to post the sign-up sheet in school was a victory of sorts. For two years, the club, known as PRISM (People Respecting Individuality and Sexuality Meeting), gathered in the town’s public library, because its dozen members couldn’t find a faculty adviser to sponsor it.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 1, 2017

In Mississippi Studies, a required high school course, “Mississippi: The Magnolia State” is commonly used. The teachers learned about the Tougaloo Nine , a group of students from historically black Tougaloo College in Jackson, who staged read-ins at the white-only Jackson Municipal Library in 1961. For the study of U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 21, 2017

Two students share a computer as they prepare for their geometry final at Northridge High School, in Greeley, Colo. — Inside a high-ceilinged library at Northridge High School here, seniors are typing on 16-year-old laptops donated by a local Rotary Club. GREELEY, Colo. They have to learn early.”.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Jaelyn Deas and her four best friends shared everything, including late-night study sessions in the library at San Jose State University and a never-ending preoccupation with how they’d pay for their tuition there. “It took a burden off my shoulders,” Deas says. Photo: Alison Yin for The Hechinger Report. SAN JOSE, Calif.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 24, 2024

WILDWOOD, Missouri — A middle school student in Missouri had trouble collecting images of people’s eyes for an art project. A high school junior couldn’t read analyses of the Greek classic “The Odyssey” for her language arts class. The Markup requested records from 26 school districts.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 19, 2019

While he was in elementary school, Taheem’s classrooms were clearly under-resourced, with a constant shortage of pencils and classroom floors so damaged that wood slabs were gouged out. Bayard Middle School, when he arrived there, had a library, but no librarian, so most of the day it’s a dark, unused room. spends less.

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