The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

We must do this through teaching, learning and advocacy — as well as social activism and civic engagement. That makes it even more important to fight for justice within the American K-12 educational system and ensure that our students learn the truth. I have trained in, taught and led educator preparation programs. This is dire.

Civic Engagement 119

Civic Engagement Civics Education K-12 119

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 30, 2018

The already converted policymakers, school leaders and teachers ready to transform traditional schooling came to this annual conference last week from around the world to share a common refrain: Out with the old. Photo: Austin Haeberle. NASHVILLE, Tenn. – No more simply “sitting on your butt in class,” as one educator put it. Getty Images.

Advocacy 95

Advocacy K-12 Tradition Economics 95

ED Surge

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Monarch School, a public-private K-12 school, is an arrangement between the San Diego County Office of Education and a local nonprofit. The goal is to stabilize students enough to return to traditional schools, DeVries says. And getting homeless students to show up to school has been an elusive goal for many districts.

K-12 121

K-12 Advocacy Leadership Tradition 121

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 24, 2024

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: The pandemic underscored the stark differences in pay, working conditions, and respect between K-12 educators and child care teachers in many communities.

K-12 131

K-12 Advocacy Leadership Tradition 131

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.

K-12 109

K-12 Elementary School Middle School Advocacy 109

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 17, 2017

Traditional grades no longer exist, children get extra help based on their individual learning needs and classrooms run very differently. Picard’s older children went through the traditional education system and she can see a difference. “I Read more about K-12. Not, ‘We did this to you.’ ”.

K-12 103

K-12 Advocacy Tradition Public School 103

ED Surge

MAY 20, 2024

But these days, about 5 to 6 percent of all K-12 students are homeschooled, which means that model has received very little attention compared to charter schools, considering that about 7 percent of students attend those, she adds. She had also worked in public schools before launching Mysa.

Public School 118

Public School Civics K-12 Private School 118

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 3, 2024

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. Like traditional charter schools, cyber charters are publicly funded but independently run schools approved by the state Department of Education.

Charter School 82

Charter School Tradition Advocacy K-12 82

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

In June, the city of Memphis, Tennessee, lost funding for 1,000 pre-K slots due to an expiring federal grant. Under pressure to invest in education, Mayor Jim Strickland announced the city would commit $6 million toward pre-K funding, though that amount would not completely offset the lost federal funds.

Government 76

Government K-12 Advocacy Leadership 76

ED Surge

MAY 23, 2022

Just as often, though, it’s not a K-12 school the educators are leaving for. The other is creating belonging at NAEYC, a professional and advocacy organization with nearly 60,000 members across its 52 affiliates. “I This predicament is not rare. So Kang is listening. That’s one of the two priorities weighing heavily on her mind.

K-12 103

K-12 Advocacy Leadership Professional Development 103

Anthropology News

OCTOBER 7, 2024

SEE Learning is a K-12 curriculum developed through a collaboration between Emory University and His Holiness the Dalai Lama, the spiritual leader of the Tibetan people.

Heritage 98

Heritage Anthropology Education K-12 98

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 27, 2016

The most dramatic place to see this is in kindergarten through grade 12, where Hispanics make up nearly a quarter of enrollment nationwide, up from 16 percent in 2000. The number of Hispanics of all ages will more than double while the number of whites will decline by 8 percent. He agreed there’s room for concern, however.

K-12 104

K-12 Advocacy Government Leadership 104

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 29, 2020

In recent years, the group’s advocacy has led to changes in the district’s graduation requirements, to align them with admissions requirements for California’s university systems, and an expansion of funding for an after-school meal program that had been cut by the school board. Every year the group chooses an issue to focus on.

Civics 143

Civics Civic Engagement High School Government 143

ED Surge

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

King, consultant for research, policy and advocacy at the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education. Efforts that seem to be working have had a common ingredient: close ties between colleges and local K-12 school districts.

K-12 98

K-12 Teaching Advocacy Classroom Management 98

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 10, 2018

So far, MS 2, , as the school is nicknamed, has personalized its core academic courses by using the Summit Learning Platform, an online resource that has replaced traditional whole-group classroom instruction. Students log into Summit to learn new content and complete assignments, turning to teachers for support along the way.

Education 104

Education Charter School Middle School Advocacy 104

ED Surge

JULY 19, 2023

And then when you go into more affluent communities or communities where there's stronger advocacy, you're gonna see projects and you're gonna see stories and you're gonna see kids sharing their own voices. “And we're gonna see, unfortunately, a lot of spreadsheets that have numbers and yellow and red cells,” Gonzalez says.

Educational Technology 86

Educational Technology EdTech Education Heritage 86

Edthena

MAY 29, 2024

A big benefit for David is that AI Coach can scale across the district’s teaching community overcoming traditional constraints like timing and logistics. He reflected on his transition from skepticism to advocacy, emphasizing the importance of staying current with technology to enhance educational practices.

Professional Development 110

Professional Development Advocacy Leadership Tradition 110

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 23, 2019

Michael is a senior at Vertus High School , an all-boys charter school in the Rochester City School District whose hallmark is a program that blends online classes with more traditional classroom teaching. For his part, though, Michael appreciates the opportunity to work faster than traditional classrooms allow.

Charter School 111

Charter School Advocacy Middle School High School 111

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

The model stems from an idea laid out in a paper almost a decade ago by Emily Ayscue Hassel and Bryan Hassel, co-presidents of Public Impact, an education advocacy organization. Next year, the remaining five schools will do the same.

Elementary School 111

Elementary School Advocacy Cultures Public School 111

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. Equal opportunity goes in all directions.

Charter School 94

Charter School Advocacy Public School Tradition 94

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 27, 2016

Both fully online (virtual) schools and blended learning schools included in the report tended to fare worse than traditional schools on state assessments of quality. They took issue with the report’s methodology, saying that high turnover rates in online schools make it difficult to compare these schools to more traditional models.

K-12 51

K-12 Charter School Advocacy Tradition 51

The Hechinger Report

MAY 17, 2016

Trace Pickering, associate superintendent of the Cedar Rapids Community School District, founded Iowa BIG, a district program that gives students an alternative to the traditional school day. Students at Iowa BIG are dramatically stronger than their traditional high school peers in those areas. It backfires on you.”. Parents like that.

Lesson Plan 90

Lesson Plan Tradition Advocacy High School 90

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 24, 2016

And ESSA could serve as a catalyst to super-charge new ways to educate children without tying schools to the old model that had students marching in lock-step through kindergarten and the subsequent 12 grade levels. “We Six New Hampshire schools have no grade levels – a traditional hallmark of just about every school. “It’s

Education 105

Education Advocacy Leadership Education Policy 105

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 11, 2018

It’s not until the second-period bell rings, however, that you begin to see how different this is from a traditional psychology course. Learning by doing is more effective in the long term to produce mastery, but that’s not what happens in a traditional AP class.”. “If I’ve done the traditional cookie-cutter lab classes,” she said.

Teaching 107

Teaching Education Psychology High School 107

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

The growth has largely been driven by advocacy from white, affluent families, as well as by districts responding to an influx of immigrant students. At the same time, he believes dual-language programs in majority-black classrooms can embrace students’ cultural and linguistic backgrounds, engaging them in ways traditional schools haven’t.

Elementary School 111

Elementary School Charter School Advocacy Public School 111

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 17, 2018

The principal reason their institutions are pushing dual-credit programs, administrators said in a survey , is that, with traditional enrollments plummeting , it gets high school students on the hook and helps recruit them. It’s an innovation that’s increasingly crucial to colleges, too.

Tutoring 96

Tutoring High School Archiving K-12 96

The Hechinger Report

JULY 30, 2018

We can’t keep structures that would allow us to fall back into a more traditional system,” said Steiner. “If Some school leaders insist that competency-based education can survive and even thrive within grade levels, or a modified version of them. Others, however, echo Northern Cass superintendent, Cory Steiner. “We Nor are seniors.

Tradition 111

Tradition Charter School High School Cultures 111

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 18, 2017

The most dramatic place to see this is in kindergarten through grade 12, where Hispanics make up nearly a quarter of enrollment nationwide, up from 16 percent in 2000. The number of Hispanics of all ages will more than double while the number of whites will decline by 8 percent. He agreed there’s room for concern, however.

Research 69

Research K-12 Archiving Advocacy 69

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 13, 2017

Hoffman Early Learning Center , which opened in 2015, currently hosts federally funded Head Start programs that provide free pre-K programs to qualifying low-income families with 3- and 4-year-olds. There’s a historical and cultural tradition of going where your family has been,” she said. Urban Institute analysis from 2015.

Education 90

Education Charter School Private School Advocacy 90

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 26, 2016

Hillary Clinton’s silence on K-12 education seemingly corresponds with a new chorus of criticisms. But the singularly bland names, including Strong Economy for Growth and Education Reform Now Advocacy, give no hint of who is writing the checks.”. The report found: “A new $2.3 Well, black folk shouldn’t have to say it, either.

Charter School 45

Charter School K-12 Advocacy Tradition 45

The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2020

Those efforts allowed the district of 520 schools and educational centers to transition relatively smoothly from traditional learning to distance learning when the school system shut on March 16, Carvalho said. By mid-April, about 111,000 devices and 11,000 hotspots had been distributed, he said.

Charter School 130

Charter School Middle School Tutoring Advocacy 130

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.

Advocacy 79

Advocacy High School Social Studies Tradition 79

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 10, 2017

based education reform advocacy group. But in a more traditional setting, it is a very teacher-focused, teacher-driven type of instruction.”. And for Trout, the kindergarten teacher at Middletown, New York, her work reveals an instructional shift that goes beyond buzzwords like personalized learning — or the flash of new technology.

Education 102

Education Educational Technology Elementary School Advocacy 102

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 19, 2019

Kathryn Toppan switched to a 1-4 scale even before the administration required it, finding it “less arbitrary” than the traditional 1-100. To build public support for the changes, the foundation also gave smaller grants to youth and immigrant advocacy groups in the districts. Nearly half the enrollees are students of color.

High School 111

High School Tradition Cultures Advocacy 111

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 21, 2019

Within each subject, schools identified learning targets, clearly explaining what students would need to demonstrate in order to be considered “proficient” — a shift away from the traditional system’s emphasis on logging seat time to earn credits and progress. considered passing. Elizabeth Hewitt for The Hechinger Report.

Tradition 96

Tradition High School Professional Development Social Studies 96

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

And eighth-grade co-teachers Abby Jolma and Toni Giebel let kids sit on wobbly chairs — short stools with a curved base — yoga balls, or traditional chairs while they learn math and science. At least we’re at the table now,” said Carly Wright, advocacy director for SHAPE. “It They need it so bad.”.

Elementary School 109

Elementary School Middle School Charter School Humanities 109

The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2020

The online platform includes a project-based curriculum for science, social studies, math and English language arts for students in grades four through 12, along with additional content in those subjects that students can tackle at their own pace. Nearly 400 schools use the Summit Learning Program across 40 states.

Junior High 134

Junior High Charter School Elementary School Social Studies 134