The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Credit: Austin Anthony for The Hechinger Report Speaking comes naturally to most children, being a gift of human evolution, but reading and writing are inventions that must be consciously and painstakingly learned. Because human brains are organized in diverse ways, some people’s reading circuits end up being inefficient.

Psychology 145

Psychology Elementary School High School Humanities 145

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?

Charter School 88

Charter School Advocacy Leadership Humanities 88

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 28, 2018

Leave this field empty if you're human: “It matters who’s enrolled at flagships, because they tend to go on to be leaders in their states, particularly in politics and in business,” said Andrew Nichols, director of higher education research and data analytics at The Education Trust, an advocacy group that focuses on college access.

Advocacy 104

Advocacy High School Cultures Leadership 104

The Hechinger Report

MAY 29, 2020

Some low-income prospective students now are working to help their families, said Yolanda Watson Spiva, president of the advocacy group Complete College America; others are seeing record unemployment rates and wondering whether there will be any jobs for them, even with degrees. “It’s going to affect them for a really long time.”.

High School 112

High School Charter School Advocacy Research 112

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 29, 2018

Leave this field empty if you're human: Nearly half of first-generation students who did continue went to community colleges, which spend less per student than many public primary and secondary schools , and where the odds of ever graduating are also comparatively low. Sign up for our newsletter. Choose as many as you like. Weekly Update.

High School 82

High School Charter School Economics Leadership 82

The Hechinger Report

JULY 4, 2018

There’s a $32 million glass-fronted complex near completion that will house the nursing program and administrative offices, and a new $11 million recreation center that will also have a lab to study kinesiology, or human movement. TAMU-Texarkana may be the smallest of the system’s 11 campuses, but it’s been growing steadily. Weekly Update.

High School 97

High School Tutoring Education Policy Leadership 97

Zinn Education Project

JANUARY 15, 2024

Sign Up to Host an Event Leadership These events are coordinated by the Zinn Education Project (coordinated by Rethinking Schools and Teaching for Change), Black Lives Matter at School , and the African American Policy Forum. Interested in adding your organization as a co-sponsor?

Teaching 52

Teaching Historic Sites Archiving Museum 52

Dangerously Irrelevant

AUGUST 24, 2015

Since I get to work with you more this year than in the past, I thought I would share a few of my leadership beliefs… Intentionality. We must address the leadership and contextual factors that surround and infuse our work. Autonomy is a fundamental human need. (I Our work needs to be deep in meaning and rich in purpose.

Leadership 106

Leadership Advocacy Economics Humanities 106

Edthena

MAY 29, 2024

Embracing AI to improve teacher performance Initially apprehensive about AI, David shared his journey of embracing it as a tool for educational leadership and improving teacher performance. “I knew I had to transform my practice if I was going to help teachers transform their practice,” David said.

Professional Development 110

Professional Development Advocacy Leadership Tradition 110

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. But, I still want to be president, too. Weekly Update.

Oral History 94

Oral History Advocacy Cultures Leadership 94

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

Leave this field empty if you're human: “Too often in this country, we’re sticking to the middle and mediocrity,” said Elissa Stein, a former PTA co-president at Brooklyn Tech, the Fort Greene specialized high school with more than 5,500 students, who now runs an advisory service for public school parents. “The Sign up for our newsletter.

High School 51

High School Leadership Tutoring Advocacy 51

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 8, 2021

“Betsy DeVos has been a total disaster for students’ civil rights for four years as Education Secretary and gets no credit now for resigning 13 days before inauguration,” The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights , the nation’s largest and oldest civil rights coalition, said in a tweet.

Advocacy 129

Advocacy Education Private School Leadership 129

Teaching American History

MAY 28, 2024

By then, Muir had been writing articles advocating conservation—and, to the extent possible, preservation of virgin wilderness—for fifteen years, but he had never attempted to form a political advocacy group. These only distanced humanity from nature’s soul-healing influences.

Archaeology 52

Archaeology American History Advocacy Leadership 52

The Hechinger Report

MAY 8, 2023

As a pediatric speech-language pathologist, I often find myself in settings where discussing Palestine, or even mentioning my identity as a Palestinian American, presents more challenges than when I worked in the field of human rights and law. My advocacy for Palestine is professional suicide,” Sawsan Jaber said.

K-12 98

K-12 Education Advocacy Human Rights 98

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

But the National Charter Collaborative, a nonprofit designed to create and support opportunities for charter school leaders of color, has to date identified more than 400 single-site schools in which people of color either lead the school and/or make up at least 30 percent of the board and leadership teams, according to CEO Kim Smith.

Charter School 98

Charter School Private School Heritage Social Justice 98

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 6, 2022

Covington County Superintendent Babette Duty chalks those cases up to human error. Certainly, as long as human beings are running schools, you’re going to have that possibility,” she said, adding that the goal is to have policies and procedures in place that uphold the law and protect kids, while keeping parents informed.

Elementary School 144

Elementary School Government Public School Human Rights 144

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

It hit us like a ton of bricks,” said Laura Foster, a local mother who helped create the progressive advocacy group the Ridge Network to fight the right-wing dominance of Pennridge’s schools. If we don’t make the most of this chance,” he said, “we’re not going to get another one.” “It

Education Policy 140

Education Policy Education History Advocacy 140

The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2020

A high school social studies book, also used in Texas, says of rising temperatures, “Some critics say that this warming is just part of the Earth’s natural cycle,” though, in truth, there’s overwhelming consensus among climate scientists that the current warming is due to human activities. It’s much stronger than a hypothesis,” wrote another.

Teaching 128

Teaching Middle School Humanities Social Studies 128

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

Meg Simons, digital strategy manager at the progressive advocacy group People for the American Way, said that the strong showing of protestors in Philadelphia so motivated many older members of her 40-year-old organization that they started Grandparents For Truth to counter Moms for Liberty. Well, we are all learning. It is OK to learn.

Archiving 108

Archiving Heritage Advocacy Public School 108