Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

Elizabeth Forward School District leaders, for example, knew it was time to innovate when local employers informed them the district had hundreds of entry-level coding jobs that needed to be filled. Community Engagement and Advocacy. Integrating with the Maker Movement.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

Edgecombe County Public Schools in rural North Carolina has long had trouble filling all of its open teaching positions. 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.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 18, 2020

That’s why as a community organizer for Stand for Children and a product of Portland Public Schools myself, I welcomed the district’s decision earlier this month to discontinue the presence of SROs. Forty-five percent of public schools nationwide had at least one SRO in the 2017-18 school year.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 18, 2020

A good student with dreams of working in neuroscience, Eli, a 17-year-old junior who uses the pronouns they and them, did very well in middle school and was accepted to a competitive magnet high school. But at the new school, Eli struggled with more challenging coursework and shorter deadlines.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 28, 2024

In January 2018, I signed up to work as a substitute teacher at a public school in Columbus, Ohio. When I showed up, I wore what I thought was professional attire for a school teacher, including a long-sleeved shirt and dress pants. I also wore my hijab, which is a symbol of my faith and tradition in the Muslim community.

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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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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

In August 2020, Amanda Nemergut was looking for alternatives to in-person public school for her three daughters. Her other two girls, in third and fifth grades, would be home on alternating days under the school’s hybrid schedule. Many parents, unaware of the history of virtual charters, continue turning to these schools.

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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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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.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 11, 2023

Buffalo Public Schools assigned more than 2,200 long-term suspensions over those five years, the highest of any district that provided data. Rochester City School District recorded the second most, with 854. How do you expect me to do well in school? It just tortures a person’s mind.” That’s not what happens.”

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Tutoring Middle School High School Economics 116

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 14, 2020

During a pandemic, when there’s no uniform way of counting attendance, Hedy Chang, director of the advocacy group Attendance Works, has seen districts rethinking some of these rules, with their ability to do so varying on state flexibility. But Gray had already been having issues with her sons’ school.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 19, 2023

When the regular public school he attended several years ago closed during the pandemic, Bradley switched to remote learning. Becoming an Outsider It would be hard to identify a single cause of Bradley’s school avoidance, according to his mother, Deirdre. But it began in middle school, around the seventh grade.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 20, 2017

Ray heads up Future Ready Librarians, part of Future Ready Schools — a network for sharing education technology solutions, which is sponsored by the Alliance for Excellent Education, a Washington, D.C.-based based education advocacy group. “It Getting kids reading is still a huge part of what we do here.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 7, 2023

Last fall, nearly 80 percent of third grade students in Metro Nashville Public Schools performed below the passing benchmark. If school teachers are just now reacting to it, then I question whether or not it’s being taken seriously. Melissa Knapp, Harpeth Valley Elementary’s literacy coach, observes a first grade class.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 8, 2016

In the Austin Independent School District in Texas, administrators recognize that same value for their native Spanish speakers who enter the public schools without English fluency. In Boston Public Schools, Superintendent Tommy Chang has placed an emphasis on culturally and linguistically inclusive schools.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Hechinger and AZCIR obtained, through public records requests, data from 150-plus districts and charter networks that educate about 61 percent of Arizona’s 1.1 million public school students. Of those, 1 in 5 were out-of-school suspensions. Related: When typical middle school antics mean suspensions, handcuffs or jail.

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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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The Hechinger Report

JULY 30, 2019

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. Although 12 percent of public school students attended a high-poverty school in 2000, this figure rose to 20 percent by 2011.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

New York City’s Department of Education is the latest public school system to require that U.S. The program will be piloted this fall at selected schools and fully rolled-out in over 1,800 schools by the spring. of all district students) enrolled in a K-12 New York City Public School in 2021-2022.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Advocacy focused on math disabilities has been less widespread than that for reading disabilities. Credit: Image provided by Made for Math Still, schools may be resistant to assessing math disabilities, or unaware of their prevalence. There is also a deep-seated societal belief that some people have a natural aptitude for math.

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Tutoring Elementary School Advocacy Teaching 140

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Figures now available down to the school district show the consequences of homelessness policy that doesn’t address race directly. Nationally, Black students were 15 percent of public school enrollment but 27 percent of homeless students in 2019-20. In 36 states and Washington, D.C., So we haven’t even named the problem.”.

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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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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 6, 2022

The median income is about $33,000 and almost a quarter of the population is considered to be living in poverty, a poverty that is concentrated in households sending children to the county’s public schools, where the vast majority of students qualify for free and reduced-price lunch. Some in town think schools should use it more often.

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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.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 11, 2023

But I’m not going to waste my time, my money on uniforms, for him to go to a school where he’s just going to fail.” Related: PROOF POINTS: A third of public school children were chronically absent after classrooms re-opened, advocacy group says For people who’ve long studied chronic absenteeism, the post-COVID era feels different.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 11, 2016

Martin Middle School in Dillon dates to 1896 and was still in use when then-Senator Barack Obama visited in 2007 during his presidential campaign. Martin Middle School, part of which dated to 1896 and was still in use. The growth in the graduation rate at Dillon High School over four years. Photo: Alan Richard.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 1, 2016

Under the fiscal 2017 budget, approved by lawmakers in April, allocations for the state’s public schools will still be about $172 million below what is considered full funding, according to figures from the state Department of Education. Brown plans to study elementary education with a focus on middle schools.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Kentucky, where the students interviewed for this article attend public school, has a version of the civics test policy, which the state passed in 2018. Joining In Peter Jefferson, a senior at Henry Clay High School, a public school in Lexington, Kentucky, is active in politics, especially for someone who is not yet 18 years old.

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Civics Education Government K-12 118

The Hechinger Report

JULY 13, 2021

Dawn Lineberry, a sixth grade math teacher at Jackson Middle School in Guilford County, North Carolina, noticed that some of her students were struggling with long division. Principal Angela McNeill of Eastern Guilford Middle School said that students had lost ground in multiplication, division and problem solving.

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Tutoring Middle School K-12 High School 141

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

As the principal of a multicultural, socioeconomically diverse public school in San Francisco, I’ve seen seventh and eighth grade classes where only one or two students had their cameras on. Yet over Thanksgiving break, a former student of ours, who had moved on to high school, died by suicide. Then I heard from my district. “We

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Middle School Advocacy Public School High School 140

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Educators participate in an advocacy workshop led by Virginia teachers on preserving social studies state standard revisions at the annual National Council for the Social Studies conference in Nashville. Glenn Youngkin.

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Social Studies Teaching Civics Advocacy 142

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.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 27, 2022

By 2021, it had committed to its most ambitious goal yet: overhauling the way Fairfax County Public Schools teaches students to read and supports struggling readers. Symone Walker, co-chair of Arlington’s NAACP education committee, sent a similar letter to Arlington Public Schools as the one that engendered change in Fairfax.

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High School Elementary School Public School Social Justice 145

The Hechinger Report

MAY 29, 2020

Katherine Gallagher Robbins with the Center for Law and Social Policy, an advocacy group for low-income families, said that while schools aren’t viewed as child care providers in the traditional sense, elementary and middle school campuses do function as a “work support” for parents. The analysis projects $9.6

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Advocacy Tradition Economics Public School 144

The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2022

But critics say the bill’s language is so vague that it will lead many schools and teachers to over-correct, avoiding anything that might anger a parent. Anita Carson, a middle school science teacher in Lake Alfred, Florida, said she’ll keep talking to the LGBTQ students who come to her for support, even if it costs her a job.

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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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Education K-12 Advocacy Government 128

ED Surge

MAY 2, 2022

She was outside supervising a group of students during a mask break at her middle school in South Berwick, Maine, when she felt a sense of overwhelming dread. In a RAND survey of nearly a thousand former public school teachers, nearly two-thirds of those who left during the pandemic said their salary was a factor.

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