The Hechinger Report

JUNE 24, 2018

That’s about $1,000 more than the national average per pupil spending in K-12 , as calculated by the National Center for Education Statistics. . Department of Health and Human Services deems “affordable.” But,” she added, “what if higher-income kids are needed to make pre-K more productive for disadvantaged kids?” .

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Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has been following the situation — with eyes, especially, on the early care and education workforce, says Katie Hamm, deputy assistant secretary for early childhood development at the department’s Administration for Children and Families (ACF). She adds: “This has been a longstanding problem.

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MAY 23, 2022

And though the struggles in early childhood education are largely systemic, it’s the individual, humanizing, heart-wrenching stories that are more likely to change public perception and, eventually, shift policy. Just as often, though, it’s not a K-12 school the educators are leaving for. This predicament is not rare.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

history instruction include an Asian American and Pacific Islander K-12 curriculum. She presented her “witness testimony” as a Chinese war victim, accusing her classmate, who played Genghis Khan , of crimes against humanity. She is a high school senior, a Queens native, and a K-drama fan. It felt silly.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 24, 2020

Leave this field empty if you're human: In some cash-strapped Mississippi school districts, families only have to drive one county over to see what a well-resourced school district looks like. Sign up for our Mississippi Learning newsletter. Choose as many as you like. Weekly Update. Future of Learning. Higher Education. Mississippi Learning.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

Students are coached in self-assessment, reflection and self-advocacy through a daily reflective writing process, in which they review their goals for the day, discuss what worked and what didn’t work, and then identify next steps for their academic progress. Related: Must a classroom be high-tech to make personalized learning work?

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ED Surge

MAY 24, 2023

In the wake of the Atlanta Spa shootings and a surge in violence against Asian Americans throughout the pandemic, Illinois made history by becoming the first state to mandate that Asian American history be taught in public K-12 schools beginning in the 2022-23 school year.

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MAY 29, 2024

He reflected on his transition from skepticism to advocacy, emphasizing the importance of staying current with technology to enhance educational practices. . “When we first started talking about AI, it kind of was one of those scary things… but it’s about how the tool helps me as a professional deepen my work,” he said.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 13, 2016

As an educational leader in your community, you are in a unique position to mitigate against the harmful effects of anti-LGBTQ rhetoric and policy proposals while promoting acceptance, compassion, and humanity. Grades K-5) and Safe Space Kit (Grades 6-12) can be downloaded and shared.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 13, 2018

The advocacy groups are calling for greater state oversight of these facilities, which were the topic of an investigation last month by The Hechinger Report/HuffPost. Pennsylvania is failing our most vulnerable children, and PA-DHS and PDE [the state departments of human services and education] must work together to fix this.”.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 10, 2018

Last week iNacol, a leading advocacy organization, released a detailed report called Designing for Equity: Leveraging Competency-based Education To Ensure All Students Succeed , which has specific suggestions for policies and practices that can help accomplish this. Sign up for the Future of Learning newsletter. Weekly Update.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 4, 2017

Our Voice Nuestra Voz, a non-profit education advocacy group in New Orleans, analyzed the school performance scores data and found that approximately 15,000 students attend these failing schools. And failure is trending. This all sounds familiar. Sign up for our newsletter. Choose as many as you like. Weekly Update. Future of Learning.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

Godfrey Rivera is the co-director of the Autism Initiative Project at Sinergia, a bilingual nonprofit that provides community, advocacy, and outreach for parents of children with autism, especially those who don’t speak English. The nonprofit offers workshops, one-to-one advocacy, and a monthly Spanish-speaking support group for families.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 27, 2019

Advocacy groups like Competency Works promote a paradigm shift that includes customized schedules. graduate of Fairfield University, I advocate for a resurgence of the endangered humanities. They argue: “Students cannot advance simply by showing up to class on a sufficient number of days and earning a grade just above failing.”.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 24, 2017

I also definitely want to be heavily involved in advocacy for young black youth, or, for youth in general, and just promoting student leadership. Subconsciously, we turn to our teachers to make us better human beings and we look forward to experiences that they will give us. I want to use my master’s degree to change that.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 23, 2018

Leave this field empty if you're human: The Center for American Progress report found that 66 percent of children enrolled in Head Start in Mississippi live in rural areas, where 55 percent of Head Start child care centers are located. Sign up for our Mississippi Learning newsletter. Choose as many as you like. Weekly Update.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 8, 2016

Ángel Díaz, 16, works on an assignment in his Spanish-language humanities class at Margarita Muñiz Academy in Boston. In California, Shelly Spiegel-Coleman is executive director of Californians Together, an advocacy organization focused on improving educational opportunities for students learning English. Photo: Tara García Mathewson.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 17, 2018

Leave this field empty if you're human: Among those standards is the one that governs who provides these classes. The purpose of a K-12 education is to offer a solid foundation for these young people, yet we’re saying they should come to school for only half the time,” Huidekoper said. Choose as many as you like. Weekly Update.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

Department of Health and Human Services. At least we’re at the table now,” said Carly Wright, advocacy director for SHAPE. “It Leave this field empty if you're human: “The goal is to get kids moving throughout the school day,” Hillman said. In the U.S., Sign up for our newsletter. Choose as many as you like. Weekly Update.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

Leave this field empty if you're human: Many sounded alarms that $16 billion a year in federal aid for low-income students could be misdirected to not-so-poor schools. Sign up for Jill Barshay's Proof Points newsletter. Choose as many as you like. Weekly Update. Future of Learning. Higher Education. Mississippi Learning. Proof Points.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 17, 2018

Down the road at Greene County’s other public schools, 12 percent of students are white and 68 percent are black; there isn’t a piano lab and there are far fewer AP courses. Leave this field empty if you're human: By June of 2005, Jackson had left the district. At Lake Oconee Academy, 73 percent of students are white. Weekly Update.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 1, 2018

Jennifer Pokempner, director of child welfare policy at Juvenile Law Center, a legal advocacy group in Philadelphia, said the Seita program is “seen as a model.” The office collaborates closely with Michigan’s Department of Health and Human Services to ease the transition to college for foster youth.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 25, 2019

Leave this field empty if you're human: “The certificates made students attend school less,” said Robinson, clearly dismayed by what her experiment had wrought. The advocacy organization Attendance Works encourages schools to reward good attendance. Sign up for Jill Barshay's Proof Points newsletter. Weekly Update.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 1, 2017

Candace Cortiella, the director of The Advocacy Institute. And that’s not the case,” said Candace Cortiella, the director of The Advocacy Institute, a nonprofit based in Washington, D.C., Leave this field empty if you're human: The accuracy of these numbers, though, is fuzzy. that works on behalf of people with disabilities. “A

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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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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

All students with disabilities need to develop strong self-advocacy and communication skills to make sure they’re getting the supports they’re due, especially in the sink-or-swim real world. Students with other disabilities, such as autism, may have trouble knowing how to act in social situations. Sign up for our newsletter. Weekly Update.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 30, 2018

Most states have something on the books to encourage competency-based options, but only about a half-dozen have loosened seat-time dictates enough to dispense with grade levels, according to Matt Williams, chief operating officer and vice president of policy and advocacy for the personalized-learning nonprofit KnowledgeWorks. Weekly Update.

Tradition 111

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 23, 2019

Leave this field empty if you're human: It’s not too often people announce big problems solved. EducationSuperHighway’s advocacy supported the district’s efforts perfectly. Sign up for the Future of Learning newsletter. Choose as many newsletters as you like. Weekly Update. Future of Learning. Higher Education. Mississippi Learning.

Advocacy 65

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 15, 2017

Leave this field empty if you're human: Lord acknowledged that he struggled himself to get answers out of Kate about what she wanted for her future; he said he needed the help of professionals to crack the puzzle. Sign up for our newsletter. Choose as many as you like. Weekly Update. Future of Learning. Higher Education. Mississippi Learning.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

GRANITE, Utah — On a recent winter afternoon, the scene inside Dobrila Hasic-Botic’s preschool classroom in Granite, Utah, seemed typical of a high-quality pre-K. Leave this field empty if you're human: The model has elicited spirited accolades from pro-business conservatives and centrist Democrats.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

According to a 2015 report by the advocacy non-profit Child Care Aware, the average cost of center-based infant care in Louisiana—one of the four poorest states in the nation—was roughly $110 a week in 2014. percent of Louisiana’s at risk families with 1-year-olds received childcare assistance, leaving nearly 39,500 families in the lurch.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Jefferson was struck by how much of an impact this could have on K-12 schools in Kentucky. Later on, Ta opened an email from their school that mentioned the Kentucky Student Voice Team, a state-level group that was started in 2012 to bring students into the advocacy process. The amendment is up for a vote this election.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Meghan Whittaker, director of policy and advocacy at the National Center for Learning Disabilities. I don’t think anyone’s going to say that what we were doing worked or was equitable,” said Meghan Whittaker, the director of policy and advocacy at the National Center for Learning Disabilities. Here’s why they’re not.

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DECEMBER 6, 2023

Email Address Choose from our newsletters Weekly Update Future of Learning Higher Education Early Childhood Proof Points Leave this field empty if you’re human: In recent years, division over how social studies should be taught has plagued school districts around the country.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

student at the University of Chicago and one of the authors of a study released earlier this year on the privacy and security challenges facing K-12 education. We’ve been saying this is a five-alarm fire for the last two years,” he said.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 28, 2022

In the spring of 2022, after enduring a string of 10-day quarantines, James, a human resources director, and her husband, an employment attorney, decided to pull their son out of child care to try to keep the family healthy before the birth of their second child. “We Credit: Image provided by Mitch Meyer.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 9, 2022

When Texas’ House Bill (HB) 25 went into effect earlier this year, banning transgender students from participating in K-12 sports, I invited teachers at my middle school to stop by my classroom to help with a project to reaffirm our school’s support for trans students. But I want them to live.

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