ED Surge

MAY 28, 2024

That left the family to decide whether to make him repeat the class in ninth grade — and potentially disadvantage him by preventing him from taking calculus later in high school — or to have him push through. Julie Lynem’s son had taken algebra in eighth grade, but hadn’t comprehended some of the core concepts.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

That’s according to the latest State of Computer Science Education report , released last week by the Code.org Advocacy Coalition, Computer Science Teachers Association, and the Expanding Computing Education Pathways Alliance. Girls, for instance, make up just one-third of high school computer science students nationally.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 1, 2021

Under a first-in-the-nation law that took full effect this year, students from across the state must take part in at least two “student-led, nonpartisan civics projects” — one in eighth grade, and another in high school. Peyton Amaral, an eighth grader at Morton Middle School in Fall River, Mass.,

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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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The Hechinger Report

JULY 13, 2021

Dawn Lineberry, a sixth grade math teacher at Jackson Middle School in Guilford County, North Carolina, noticed that some of her students were struggling with long division. Principal Angela McNeill of Eastern Guilford Middle School said that students had lost ground in multiplication, division and problem solving.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 18, 2016

Paola De La Torre Macias and Brian Torales, who started college this fall already having completed remediation courses while still in high school. Stephanie Lewis and one of her students both cried when he graduated in the spring from South Pittsburg High School in Tennessee, where she teaches English.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 13, 2024

When Szoo excelled at math in high school, she got her share of ridicule, too — though it was slightly more subtle. “I As in Szoo’s case, the disparity begins in high school, where classes in subjects such as math, engineering and computer science “are still pretty gendered,” said Mynatt.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

As the principal of a multicultural, socioeconomically diverse public school in San Francisco, I’ve seen seventh and eighth grade classes where only one or two students had their cameras on. Yet over Thanksgiving break, a former student of ours, who had moved on to high school, died by suicide. Then I heard from my district. “We

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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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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 29, 2022

But other districts, like the Schenectady City School District near Albany, New York, are ramping up social work services to address the need, including a relatively new program targeting kids who land in trouble for the sometimes destructive reactions to the trauma they’ve experienced.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 12, 2024

During my first year as principal of a Mississippi middle school, I fought to recruit Black teachers and retain the ones I already had on my campus. We provided statewide access to training and tutoring for assessments in partnership with our teacher advocacy organizations and focused on building community among Black educators.

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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!”

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Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

The Python courses have supported students transitioning into International Baccalaureate (IB) and Advanced Placement (AP) pathways and exist at all three high schools. For instance, in East Irondequoit Central School District , students learn coding vocabulary and algorithms in the second grade and programming in the fifth grade.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 23, 2019

While Vertus High School doesn’t assign homework, Clovis Meikle, 17, says he works on his online classes at home to get ahead in advance of basketball season. Before Michael Mota goes to sleep each school night, the 17-year-old lies in bed thinking through his plan for the next day. Tara García Mathewson/The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Mendoza’s involvement in civic participation started in middle school, when she signed up for the All City Council Student Union, a student-led group sponsored by the Oakland school district that gives students a voice in school district decision-making. Who is the school board really representing?

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 18, 2020

While protesters march for racial justice and Americans call for an end to police brutality, we must not overlook the role that our schools play in our nation’s systemic injustices. No children should have to walk school hallways afraid that a gun will be pulled on them by an SRO before they reach class. So, where do we go from here?

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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. But at the new school, Eli struggled with more challenging coursework and shorter deadlines. Eli Clark, high school junior, Austin, Texas. Nearly two months went by.

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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. But it began in middle school, around the seventh grade.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 27, 2022

The committee pushed to change the admissions system for the prestigious Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology magnet school, for instance, to broaden access for Black and Hispanic students. By middle school, Jackson said, he started to despair of ever catching up. “It Seventh grade was pivotal.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 7, 2023

In Indiana, third grade students who were retained were more likely to perform better in math and language arts immediately after retention, and the improvements continued into middle school, according to a study published last year. Lucy Kells, parent While reading is a strong predictor of later school struggles, so is poverty.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 3, 2024

Nearly 15,000 of Philadelphia’s more than 197,000 students attended a virtual cyber charter school last year — a 55 percent increase since the 2020-21 school year. 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.

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Catlin Tucker

JUNE 4, 2020

The resources are organized by: Early childhood/elementary Middle school/high school Black Lives Matter 13 Guiding Principles. It has a collection of creative and artistic activities for kids, including an advocacy poem, talking points for families, and collage activity.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 20, 2017

Traci Chun, a teacher-librarian at Skyview High School in Vancouver, Washington, and junior Ulises Santillano Tlaseca troubleshoot a 3D printing job in the library’s maker space. Traci Chun, a teacher-librarian at Skyview High School in Vancouver, Washington, is all done with shushing. based education advocacy group. “It

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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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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 6, 2022

The consequences can extend beyond high school, researchers have found , with suspensions linked to lower college enrollment rates and increased involvement with the criminal justice system. Dysart High School students describe routine suspensions for getting to school late.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 11, 2018

Kate Allender, of Tesla STEM High School, has designed a course integrating AP Psychology with a hands-on study of forensics. At most high schools, however, the book learning and hands-on experiences are kept separate. Christine Lee, a 17-year-old junior at Tesla STEM High School. REDMOND, Wash. —

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 16, 2019

Online communities include: CSforAllTeachers (a virtual community of practice, for all teachers from Pre-K through high school who are interested in teaching CS). middle school curricula. high school curricula. Advocate to bring CS to your school. Scratch educator meetups. Start a club.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 11, 2023

He was a sophomore at Long Island’s Brentwood High School, a few days before Thanksgiving in 2019, when he made a post on Snapchat late one night about hiding an AK-47 at Area 51 in Nevada. How do you expect me to do well in school? BRENTWOOD, N.Y. Steven Martinez’s life was turned upside down by an ill-conceived joke.

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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. At least we’re at the table now,” said Carly Wright, advocacy director for SHAPE. “It Today, middle and high schools are still the least likely to have daily physical education or recess.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

There was something about the way history was taught at Staten Island Technical High School that disturbed Kellen Zeng, 18, of Staten Island. When she moved to and went to high school in Staten Island, where the population is less than 10 percent Asian American, her school remained more than half Asian.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2020

Jamar McKneely (background) tours a science and technology event at Edna Karr High School, one of the schools in his InspireNOLA charter school network. Credit: Photo: Shandrell Briscoe for InspireNOLA Charter Schools. Rebecca Newburn, middle school science teacher.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 8, 2023

They launched a website , an advocacy group and an auxiliary group for teachers. I worry that the science of math is so focused on rote memorization,” said Dykema, a middle school math teacher. “I The researchers continued to meet almost every month during 2021 as their campaign gained momentum.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 30, 2019

In 2009, students from low-income families dropped out of high school at five times the rate of their high-income classmates. There is a substantial achievement gap in kindergarten-readiness between children from high- and low-income families. For a 1,000-student high school, it means $1.2

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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. Related: Learning while you earn in college.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

The numbers were stark: The online charter students lost the equivalent of 72 days of learning in reading and 180 days of learning in math, based on a 180-day school year. Murphy teaches business education at a middle school in a neighboring county. Advocates want to move toward funding virtual schools based on performance.

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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. The same is true of the Muñiz Academy, which opened in 2012 as the city’s first such high school.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 11, 2023

But I’m not going to waste my time, my money on uniforms, for him to go to a school where he’s just going to fail.” Related: PROOF POINTS: A third of public school children were chronically absent after classrooms re-opened, advocacy group says For people who’ve long studied chronic absenteeism, the post-COVID era feels different.

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