The Hechinger Report

APRIL 11, 2018

Instead of packing up to leave, students migrate over to the room’s pathology lab, well-appointed with microscopes, replicas of human skulls and anatomical models of internal organs. When 16-year-old junior Marion Valcorza first arrived at the school she found a much different experience than what she was accustomed to. “I

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

She presented her “witness testimony” as a Chinese war victim, accusing her classmate, who played Genghis Khan , of crimes against humanity. Although students seemed to enjoy the school-wide production, Zeng was embarrassed. The students were asked to role-play during class. She couldn’t quite put her finger on what was wrong with it.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 1, 2017

We have kids leaving high school with diplomas they think are worth something, and in many cases they actually aren’t.”. 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., Weekly Update.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

And they must provide transportation so children can remain in the school they attended before they became homeless, even if they’re now outside the attendance boundaries. The entrance to Bella Vista Middle School in Murrieta, Calif., Advocacy groups and researchers , too, have surfaced examples. is shown on Oct.

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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. Ángel Díaz, 16, works on an assignment in his Spanish-language humanities class at Margarita Muñiz Academy in Boston.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 8, 2021

As a middle schooler, Alan says he was bullied relentlessly even as he was repeatedly suspended. And while the pandemic closed middle schools across the country, it doesn’t appear to have shutdown school discipline. Middle school, that’s when you’re figuring out how to be a human,” Gallegos said. “We

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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.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 26, 2023

Getting to middle school, where I had a counselor, Mrs. Bennett — God rest her soul — she was a Black woman who told me, “You really need to be in the advanced courses.” And that was another real experience that showed me what advocacy can do. So it’s advocacy that really changed my life. And I said, “Sure.”

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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.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 1, 2017

Lesseig, who is now a research associate at the Center for Educational Research and Evaluation at the University of Mississippi, noted, for instance, that the text presented Vardaman, the turn-of-the-century governor who supported lynching, as a “normal human being.”. That was far from the worst grade in the 2011 report.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

It also includes two highly competitive early college high schools, Bard Manhattan and Bard Queens , and two newer schools, Millennium Brooklyn and the NYC iSchool, both of which screen students based on middle school grades and test scores. Sign up for our newsletter. Choose as many as you like. Weekly Update.

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The Hechinger Report

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. Glenn Youngkin.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Still, the path was winding and not limited to school. When Ta was in middle school — when the country was embroiled in the 2020 presidential election and reeling from COVID-19 — political questions seemed suddenly relevant for them. While Ta is too young to vote in this election, they are highly engaged in politics.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 8, 2020

Just before this crisis began, Arizona was poised to spend millions more on boosting its thin roster of counselors, thanks in part to the advocacy of students like Kumar. Without it, what little mental health support schools can offer students may fray further in the coming months. Department of Health & Human Services.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2019

Leave this field empty if you're human: Personalized learning argues that the entrepreneurial nature of the knowledge economy and the gaping need, diversity and unmanageable size of a typical public school classroom are ill-served by the usual arrangement of a teacher lecturing at a blackboard. Choose as many as you like.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

They went door-to-door recruiting participants for a parents council to elicit community input in the day-to-day operations of the school. Two weeks before school started,” said Fuller, “the superintendent, Lee McMurrin, moved the principal to another school and brought in a middle school principal. The trade-off.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 17, 2023

Credit: Lily Estella Thompson for The Hechinger Report Following Meryl’s death, Ketron decided to continue her daughter’s advocacy. The law also limits instruction on and discussion of human sexuality and gender identity in schools. courses in middle school and high school, he said. Some families have sued.

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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.

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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. schools, Brian Klosterboer, an attorney with the ACLU of Texas, said there are signs the problem is getting worse. Yet as the culture wars play out in U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2022

But when LGBTQ students take note of the “I’m Here” sticker on the back of his school ID, or his “We are ALL HUMAN” T-shirt, and come to him for advice or guidance, Woods is happy to provide it. “I am very cautious about a lot of things,” said Woods, a special education teacher in Palm Beach County, Florida, who teaches science. “I

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 6, 2022

Children who shouldn’t be paddled are paddled anyway, usually when parent letters get lost, or because school officials don’t check their lists before doling out corporal punishment, a problem documented both inside and outside Covington County. Covington County Superintendent Babette Duty chalks those cases up to human error.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 6, 2016

In the window of a Morton Catholic outreach center, a sign in both Spanish and English seeks recruits: “Hang live birds for processing in a humane manner. Maria, 13, left rear, is a student at Morton Middle School. Hang 26 live birds per minute for slaughter.”. The twin 3-year-olds are Lucia and Yohana. Photo: Ben Stocking. “We

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 19, 2019

His favorite books are in the “Diary of a Wimpy Kid” series, about a kid who’s starting middle school. Leave this field empty if you're human: Despite all his struggles emotionally, he remained on track academically. School staff passed out cake with fluffy white icing. He clutched the program from her funeral in class.

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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.

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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. One elementary school principal declared it was as if Adams had “asked Alexa to ‘Show him curriculum.’”

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

He’s the president of Heterodox Academy, a nonpartisan advocacy group of academics working to counteract what it sees as a lack of viewpoint diversity on college campuses, especially when it comes to political diversity. I recently sat down with John Tomasi. Jon: With a presidential election looming.

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