The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

“One of the great paradigm shifts that has occurred with colleges that are really making headway is they no longer consider the students to be broken who come to them,” said Sugar, who was a co-founder of the advocacy group Complete College America.

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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, 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. All three schools that started using the model last year met or exceeded growth expectations.

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Elementary School Advocacy Cultures Public School 111

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. You can simply create the time and space for students to learn before or after school, or during lunch.

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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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ED Surge

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. Some providers are offering new benefits to existing employees, such as mental health counseling.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 17, 2017

The Windsor Locks High School freshman belongs to the first cohort of students going through middle and high school under a new system. Windsor Locks parents routinely refer to these communication and self-advocacy skills in describing the impact of the model, which ties into a more systemic shift in the district.

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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

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. It’s going to have to be built in as a new baseline of entry into the profession,” said Pace.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 26, 2023

Bennett asks the boy what type of music is his favorite (country, he says), and tells him he used to play bass in a high school band; he had hair down to his shoulders. Related: School counselors keep kids on track. They head back to Bennett’s office, where the student calms down by strumming on a guitar.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 19, 2019

Ragan Toppan, a junior at Deering High School, took part in a walkout last fall to protest a change in the school’s grading policy. This past fall, Ragan Toppan, 16, walked out of her Algebra II class at Deering High School to protest her school’s recent switch to standards-based grading.

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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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Leadership Charter School Cultures Social Studies 145

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 15, 2017

Read the whole series, “ Willing, able and forgotten: How high schools fail special ed students,” here. BRUNSWICK, Maine — Kate Lord didn’t have a plan when she graduated from Brunswick High School in 2014. Experts and advocates say that high schools can do more to help improve the situation, though.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2020

Schools also have access to professional development gatherings in the fall and spring, a Summit “success manager” assigned to their schools and online support, all at no cost. Since 2017, Summit has revised its middle and high school curriculum and teachers routinely say it’s high-quality.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 28, 2016

Richard was one of the brightest kids in his high school class. Nick, 19, had an A average in high school and is now in the college’s honors program, where he currently has a 3.14 Classes have also discussed self-advocacy, including if, when and how to disclose a disability. Photo: Rita Obeid. STATEN ISLAND, N.Y.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2020

At Miami Northwestern Senior High School, Julian Negron, left, and Jerrell Boykin, right, load laptops for distribution to students, on March 30, 2020. Miami-Dade County Public Schools has distributed some 100,000 tablets and other mobile devices, and more than 11,000 smartphones that double as Wi-Fi hot spots.

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Elementary School Tutoring Public School Charter School 87

C3 Teachers

MARCH 30, 2022

As a former high-school social studies teacher and professional development specialist, I have found that connecting with cultural centers (e.g., Essentially, teacher candidates learned that service-learning with a cultural center can balance inquiry with advocacy as a means to learn civic engagement.

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Studies Weekly

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Du Bois’ advocacy extended across the world through many Pan-African conferences and an appeal to the United Nations to recognize the suffering of Black Americans, according to the NAACP. He encouraged his readers to be proud of who they were and to see “Beauty in Black.”

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

The three-year pilot would provide $200 million to schools and libraries eligible for the E-Rate program to use toward hiring cybersecurity experts and beefing up school network security. Atlanta’s Aina said school districts aren’t usually able to pay top dollar for cybersecurity professionals.

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K-12 Library EdTech Government 134

The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2019

For decades, nonprofit advocacy groups and corporate donors have targeted K-12 education for intervention. They began to highlight “virtual learning,” and approved the creation of a virtual charter high school; they tapped private organizations to help implement tech-heavy personalized learning. This would soon change.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 5, 2016

Grant Callen, president of “school choice” advocacy group Empower Mississippi, speaks before a crowd at the Capitiol at the beginning of National School Choice Week in February. John Moore, R-Brandon, likens Medicaid expansion to school privatization. Photo: Imani Khayyam. Photo: Imani Khayyam.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 6, 2024

Looking back, our high school has crowned a Latina Homecoming Queen, as voted by the student body and has recognized the first Latino Valedictorian. In his first four-year term, he had closed three high schools because of falling enrollment and a budget shortfall he inherited.

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High School K-12 Professional Development Heritage 145

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 9, 2024

Dual-language students have been found to score higher than their peers on both math and English language arts exams by middle school. They also get higher scores on the ACT in high school, setting them up to be more competitive in college admissions. But startup costs for dual-language programs are expensive.

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Elementary School Education K-12 History 116

Zinn Education Project

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

” While this piece was written primarily for adult education, an adaptation for middle and high school teachers is included at the end of the document. public school educators — see press release Petition to Encourage Jackson Reed High School (in Washington, D.C.)

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Teaching K-12 Human Rights Social Justice 52

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 11, 2016

“The challenges in rural communities are very real—funding, teacher recruitment and retention, access to technology, poverty, ever-changing expectations, and professional development and support,” U.S. These issues, though national, are often felt first, deepest and longest in rural schools.”. Secretary of Education John B.

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Middle School High School Government Advocacy 76

The Hechinger Report

JULY 19, 2017

Homeschool advocates and practitioners have overcome opposition from the National Education Association; they’ve cleared the restrictions, regulations and other hurdles erected by state or local school officials; and they’ve developed a network of support for parent-instructors who otherwise have little access to professional development.

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K-12 Private School Charter School Advocacy 84

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 26, 2017

School readiness at the start of kindergarten can affect a child’s ability to read by third grade. Kids who read by third grade are more likely to graduate from high school. People who graduate from high school have higher earnings and are less likely to end up in jail. And it works.

Economics 92

Economics Government Advocacy Professional Development 92

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 9, 2025

Now, Brooke, a fifth grader, is thriving at the charter school, her parents say, and each day receives 90 minutes of specialized reading instruction alongside a small group of other students. Related: A lot goes on in classrooms from kindergarten to high school. Keep up with our free weekly newsletter on K-12 education.

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