The Hechinger Report

JUNE 6, 2018

Nationwide, K-12 schools are leading a fledgling “net-zero” building boom that has grown from a few proof-of-concept structures a decade ago to hundreds of buildings completed or under construction. Much of the advocacy for net-zero buildings has focused on environmental and economic incentives.

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K-12 Elementary School Middle School Advocacy 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). csk8 Twitter chats (K-8 CS teachers chat about designated topics on the 1st & 3rd Wednesdays of each month at 5pm PT / 8pm ET). middle school curricula.

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K-12 Advocacy Professional Development Middle School 91

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 7, 2023

Credit: Lily Estella Thompson for The Hechinger Report This year, Harpeth Valley flagged just 12 third graders as needing extra reading support, but the requirements of the expansive Tennessee law could put far more students at risk of retention. Third graders work through a reading assignment at Harpeth Valley Elementary School in Nashville.

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Tutoring Elementary School K-12 Advocacy 132

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 20, 2017

Chun’s district is at the forefront of a national movement to turn K-12 librarians into indispensable digital mavens who can help classroom teachers craft tech-savvy lesson plans, teach kids to think critically about online research, and remake libraries into lively, high-tech hubs of collaborative learning — while still helping kids get books.

Library 111

Library K-12 Digital Resources Advocacy 111

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.

Civics 112

Civics Advocacy Elementary School Middle School 112

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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Charter School Tradition Advocacy K-12 97

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2019

John Brazeal, chief financial officer at Fox C-6 School District, at Fox Middle School in Arnold, Missouri. This story about school bonds is part of the series Districts in Debt , which examines the hidden financial pressures challenging American schools. In a separate case, Kansas City-based George K.

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K-12 Middle School Elementary School Government 89

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

New York City’s Department of Education is the latest public school system to require that U.S. history instruction include an Asian American and Pacific Islander K-12 curriculum. The program will be piloted this fall at selected schools and fully rolled-out in over 1,800 schools by the spring.

History 112

History Heritage K-12 American History 112

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 10, 2018

And a number of schools in Washington, D.C., For example, at the Howard University Middle School of Math and Science, on the university’s campus, 78 percent of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch and about half are considered “at-risk.”

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Education Charter School Middle School Advocacy 109

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. Credit: Alison Yin for The Hechinger Report.

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Civics Civic Engagement High School Government 143

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 23, 2019

It seems to work: Vertus says that 71 percent of its students pass their Regents exams, required by the state of New York for graduation, compared to 38 percent in the Rochester City School District. The LEAP Learning Framework urges schools to personalize learning in multiple ways. Here it feels totally different,” he said.

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Charter School Advocacy Middle School High School 111

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 18, 2016

That’s a feat a surprising number of high school graduates fail to accomplish. Half a million, or about one in four, show up on campuses each fall not ready to take college courses in math or English, according to the advocacy organization Education Reform Now.

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High School K-12 Advocacy Middle School 76

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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Elementary School Advocacy Cultures Public School 111

The Hechinger Report

JULY 1, 2016

. — This fall, students at Enterprise Attendance Center in the small city of Brookhaven may get to draw, paint and make crafts in an elementary art class — the first the school has had in 12 years. Nancy Loome, executive director and founder of the Parents’ Campaign, a nonprofit and grassroots education advocacy organization.

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K-12 Elementary School Advocacy Global Connections 69

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.

History 105

History Charter School Archiving Advocacy 105

The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2020

At Hall Middle School, in nearby Marin County, science teacher Rebecca Newburn said the disruptions to learning have forced her to streamline lessons and prioritize the content and skills that are most important. Rebecca Newburn, middle school science teacher.

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Charter School Middle School Tutoring Advocacy 129

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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Elementary School Middle School Charter School High School 109

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. Both programs aim to make students fully bilingual. Both feature instruction in two languages.

Multicultural Education 111

Multicultural Education Social Justice Elementary School Advocacy 111

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.,

High School 89

High School Advocacy Middle School Education Policy 89

The Hechinger Report

JULY 30, 2019

Looking at the number of students utilizing these programs provides insight into the challenges schools face. A high-poverty school is defined as one in which 75 percent of students are eligible for the NSLP. And the number of students in these schools is on the rise. For a 1,000-student high school, it means $1.2

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Advocacy Middle School High School Economics 99

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 11, 2018

“When these kids go off to college there have been lots of studies that say they’re not prepared with the communication, critical thinking and collaboration skills they need,” said Denise Pope, a senior lecturer at Stanford’s Graduate School of Education and a co-founder of Challenge Success, a nonprofit education advocacy group.

Teaching 107

Teaching Education Psychology High School 107

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 16, 2017

(From left to right) Sixth graders Mia DeMore, Maria DeAndrade, and Stephen Boulas make a number line in their math class at Walsh Middle School in Framingham, Massachusetts, one of 132 “Basecamp” schools piloting the Personalized Learning Platform created by the Summit charter school network. Photo: Chris Berdik.

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Charter School Middle School Project-Based Learning Elementary School 85

The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2020

A network of charter schools in California and Washington developed the Summit Learning Program for their students almost a decade ago; the model got a boost in 2014 from Facebook engineers after Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, visited a Summit middle school.

Junior High 133

Junior High Charter School Elementary School Social Studies 133

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.

Tradition 111

Tradition Charter School High School Cultures 111

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 21, 2017

“We can’t leave behind families who need more assistance to close that financial gap,” said Ian Rosenblum, the executive director of Education Trust–New York, a nonprofit education advocacy group that published a report about the Excelsior Scholarship. Moises began skipping school. I should have a master’s by now,” she said.

Library 95

Library Tutoring Government K-12 95

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

“In rural areas there’s often not the tax base you find in an urban or suburban school to fund additional programs,” said Lavina Grandon, co-founder and board president of Rural Community Alliance, a nonprofit school advocacy organization.

High School 97

High School Social Studies Leadership Political Science 97

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 19, 2020

On the Friday before spring break at Meigs Middle School, special education teacher Matt Coe was busy preparing new lessons for his students now that schools were set to close due to the coronavirus crisis. We are a small rural school with only 270 students. Credit: Photo courtesy Arkansas PBS.

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Library Advocacy Middle School High School 145

The Hechinger Report

MAY 8, 2023

While every school is different, Palestinian teachers are often vilified, diminished or made unwelcome. To gain more insight into our experience, I reached out to my network of Palestinian American K-12 educators. My advocacy for Palestine is professional suicide,” Sawsan Jaber said.

K-12 121

K-12 Education Advocacy Human Rights 121

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.”

Advocacy 111

Advocacy K-12 Humanities Teaching 111

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 1, 2017

In contrast, James K. Meanwhile, in “Mississippi: Portrait of an American State,” the chapter about the Civil Rights Movement lists 17 key figures students should know: 12 white men — a majority of them segregationists — four black men and one black woman. Neither are the laws they challenged , Mississippi civil rights activist T.R.M.

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K-12 Social Studies History Archiving 97

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.

High School 69

High School Leadership Tutoring Public School 69

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. About 19 percent reported anxiety.

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K-12 Charter School Middle School High School 145

The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2019

It was the latest big-fix trend in K-12 education, and Gist, a favored daughter of Silicon Valley philanthropists, offered up the nation’s smallest state as a laboratory mouse. For decades, nonprofit advocacy groups and corporate donors have targeted K-12 education for intervention.

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K-12 Charter School Middle School Elementary School 110

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 6, 2023

About 3,500 people attended the conference, among them K-12 and higher ed educators who teach the subjects that constitute social studies — including history, civics, geography, economics, psychology, sociology, anthropology, philosophy, law and religious studies. Glenn Youngkin.

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Social Studies Teaching Civics Advocacy 142

The Hechinger Report

MAY 29, 2020

Nearly 200,000 Mississippians with children between ages of 6 to 12 work. Through the Families First Corona Response Act federal aid package, some workers staying at home to care for their children can receive up to 12 weeks of paid leave. Nearly 200,000 Mississippians with children between the ages of 6 to 12 are working parents.

Advocacy 144

Advocacy Tradition Economics Public School 144

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 9, 2024

Our free weekly newsletter consults critical voices on innovation and inequality in K-12 education. Washington students will graduate knowing how to speak, read and write in both Spanish and English, joining a growing number of dual-language immersion schools in California. Related: Widen your perspective.

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Elementary School Education K-12 History 121

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 6, 2024

Public colleges couldn’t admit students without immigration documents and, even though, under federal law, K-12 schools are required to serve students regardless of citizenship status, the Alabama legislation also called for school districts to collect information on their students’ citizenship status.

High School 145

High School K-12 Professional Development Heritage 145