The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 1, 2021

Under a first-in-the-nation law that took full effect this year, students from across the state must take part in at least two “student-led, nonpartisan civics projects” — one in eighth grade, and another in high school. Peyton Amaral, an eighth grader at Morton Middle School in Fall River, Mass., Credit: Christopher Blanchette.

Civic Engagement 142

Civic Engagement Civics Teaching Middle School 142

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

ED Surge

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

As a math educator at the high school and middle school levels, I lived for the moments when students’ furrowed brows ever-so-slightly began to unfold and smiles emerged. In one of the lessons , students accessed the Agriculture Department’s Food Access Research Atlas to locate food deserts in their city.

Cultures 136

Cultures Civic Engagement Civics Pedagogy 136

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 13, 2024

The number of college-educated women in the workforce has now overtaken the number of college-educated men, according to the Pew Research Center. Women who go to college are also 7 percentage points more likely than men to graduate , the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center reports. Szoo has plans to get a Ph.D.

Middle School 142

Middle School Leadership Advocacy Cultures 142

The Hechinger Report

MAY 8, 2023

The researchers begrudged the lack of attention math gets in schools compared to reading, but suddenly their rival discipline – reading – was providing a role model for action. At the time, the debate over why schools ignored the science of reading dominated education news. Timed tests?

Advocacy 145

Advocacy Research Elementary School Teaching 145

ED Surge

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Districts have taken a wide range of approaches, as documented by the Manpower Demonstration Research Corporation, a nonprofit that studies how government policies impact low-income families. Any student seen doing a good deed, like picking up trash in the hallway, is given a “Stinger Buck” that can be spent on prizes.

Cultures 140

Cultures Junior High Middle School Tutoring 140

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.

Charter School 111

Charter School Advocacy Middle School High School 111

ED Surge

MAY 20, 2024

With EdSurge Research and the Abolitionist Teaching Network , we piloted a model for healing affinity spaces centering Black women’s healing while being in community with one another. Researchers have connected the knowledge and values of Black feminism with culturally congruent mental health resources for Black women.

Education 128

Education Heritage Tradition Teaching 128

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

Middle school students at Kaleidoscope Academy, a district charter school in Appleton, Wisconsin, are constantly moving. Thirty years of focus on increasing academic minutes in the school day has resulted in reduced recess and physical education time at many schools. APPLETON, Wisc.

Elementary School 108

Elementary School Middle School Charter School High School 108

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. The ability to incorporate religious and cultural practices into their education was a major reason why their mom enrolled them in cyber charter school.

Charter School 94

Charter School Tradition Advocacy K-12 94

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 21, 2022

(Technically, the after-school category also includes extending the school day, but I’m not seeing many examples of schools requiring all of their students to stay late into the afternoon.). Working parents may welcome the additional, free childcare options or a safe, supervised place for their tweens to hang out after school.

Museum 98

Museum Tutoring Advocacy Elementary School 98

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

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 104

History Charter School Archiving Advocacy 104

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 7, 2023

Research says if students are behind in reading by the end of third grade, they are unlikely to ever catch up with their peers. The research on retention is mixed. If school teachers are just now reacting to it, then I question whether or not it’s being taken seriously. Because I email, I call.

Tutoring 129

Tutoring Elementary School K-12 Advocacy 129

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 18, 2020

schools since 1999, SROs intervened successfully in only three instances , according to the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service. For Black and Brown students, though, the negative effects of having SROs in schools are disproportionately higher. In 197 instances of gun violence at U.S. That’s a 1.5 percent success rate.

High School 116

High School Advocacy Public School History 116

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

“What [Stride] and Connections (Pearson) have figured out is that it is less expensive to advertise and recruit more students than improv[e] the quality of their schools so that students would stay and learn.” Gary Miron, an education researcher who co-authored a National Education Policy Center report on for-profit charter schools.

Charter School 140

Charter School Education Policy Public School History 140

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 1, 2017

Although she earned a bachelor’s degree and teaching certificate in math instruction for both elementary and middle school, she never had to take a class about students with disabilities. Some research shows as many as 85 percent of students with disabilities can master general education content if they receive educational supports.

Middle School 98

Middle School Professional Development Teaching Advocacy 98

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.

Education 138

Education Advocacy Public School High School 138

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 16, 2023

“It’s not the fault of schools. I think it has to do with the amount of resources schools have to provide intervention to children, and reading takes priority over math.” Lynn Fuchs, research professor at Vanderbilt University Covid exacerbated the nation’s problem with math achievement.

Tutoring 140

Tutoring Elementary School Advocacy Teaching 140

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. Extensive research shows that is not right. Both programs aim to make students fully bilingual.

Multicultural Education 111

Multicultural Education Social Justice Elementary School Advocacy 111

The Hechinger Report

JULY 30, 2019

Competent district leaders know the pervasiveness of poverty in schools demands deeper, more compassionate solutions than shaming. Researchers and school leaders have long used eligibility for free or reduced-price lunch under the National School Lunch Program (NSLP) as a proxy for measuring the level of poverty in a school or district.

Advocacy 96

Advocacy Middle School High School Economics 96

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 87

High School Advocacy Middle School Education Policy 87

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. That’s the argument Summit makes.

Junior High 131

Junior High Charter School Elementary School Social Studies 131

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 6, 2022

The consequences can extend beyond high school, researchers have found , with suspensions linked to lower college enrollment rates and increased involvement with the criminal justice system. Related: When typical middle school antics mean suspensions, handcuffs or jail. They need to be where they’re supposed to be.”.

Tutoring 106

Tutoring High School Middle School Elementary School 106

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-12 111

K-12 Elementary School Middle School Advocacy 111

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.

Civics 143

Civics Civic Engagement High School Government 143

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.

Charter School 83

Charter School Middle School Project-Based Learning Elementary School 83

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2023

Related: Some kids have returned to in-person learning only to be kicked right back out Rosalind Crawford moved her five young boys, all in elementary and middle school, to Jennings, just north of St. In the 2015-2016 school year, Black students lost 103 days of learning per 100 students, 82 more days than their white peers.

Middle School 98

Middle School Charter School Advocacy Tradition 98

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

In Capistrano Unified, a 44,000-student school district in southern California, the rate of homelessness among Latino students was roughly 24 percent in recent school years compared to about 2 percent among the rest of the student body. after watching her son leave for school, Oct.

Advocacy 87

Advocacy Government Public School High School 87

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 6, 2022

Research findings leave room for debate about just how bad corporal punishment by teachers is for kids, especially in the United States. Still, researchers say they can draw parallels. She has also analyzed data about corporal punishment use in schools. The research does not support that at all,” she said.

Elementary School 145

Elementary School Public School High School Government 145

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

Meadowbrook High School students entering the school’s Colt College center, where they can take tuition-free college courses without leaving the campus. Turning around struggling high schools is the toughest work in education reform. Research found that a $3.5 Photo: Amadou Diallo/The Hechinger Report . SPECIAL REPORT.

High School 95

High School Social Studies Leadership Political Science 95

The Hechinger Report

JULY 1, 2016

Nancy Loome, executive director and founder of the Parents’ Campaign, a nonprofit and grassroots education advocacy organization. Nearly 30 percent of school-age children here, those from 5 to 17 years old, come from low-income families, according to U.S. Brown plans to study elementary education with a focus on middle schools.

K-12 67

K-12 Elementary School Advocacy Global Connections 67

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 93

Library Tutoring Government K-12 93

The Hechinger Report

JULY 7, 2019

Juliet Basinger, a rising seventh grader at Laing Middle School in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina, demonstrates the capabilities of a drone she built in the school’s Fab Lab. At the state level, Maine passed a law two years ago to expand career-and-technical education to middle schools. PLEASANT, S.C.

Middle School 112

Middle School Elementary School High School Advocacy 112

ED Surge

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Challenging the Gentrocacy Compared to test scores and academic performance, people often forget about how vital civic development is, says Jilli Jung, a postdoctoral researcher at Stanford University. Schools have the potential to foster really effective citizens, Jung says. Still, the path was winding and not limited to school.

Civics 124

Civics Education Government K-12 124

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 8, 2021

Middle school is when most American children age into the criminal justice system — every state allows for the prosecution of children as young as 12, though most set the threshold earlier, or not at all — and suspension from school is predictive of incarceration later in life. Credit: Paul Ratje for The Hechinger Report.

Middle School 143

Middle School High School Elementary School History 143

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.

Tutoring 141

Tutoring Middle School K-12 High School 141