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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ED Surge

OCTOBER 19, 2023

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. Bradley would miss school here and there, but the growing tally of absences worried his mom.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 11, 2023

And the effects of online learning linger: School relationships have frayed, and after months at home, many parents and students don’t see the point of regular attendance. For almost two years, we told families that school can look different and that schoolwork could be accomplished in times outside of the traditional 8-to-3 day.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2023

Instead of taking traditional or legal pathways,” she said, “there’s a pattern that the easiest solution is to remove a student rather than deal with the underlying issues.” “We are speaking about an equal right, an equal opportunity to access education,” said Sabrina Bernadel, legal counsel at the National Women’s Law Center.

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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.

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Digital Promise

MARCH 5, 2020

As a former librarian and district leader, I found that success was the best form of advocacy—when the great work of librarians is shared and documented, good things follow for students and library programs. Competency-based performance is not the same as traditional professional development.

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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. Next year, the remaining five schools will do the same.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 11, 2018

. — On a recent winter morning at Tesla STEM High School, juniors in Kate Allender’s first-period AP Psychology class are busy preparing for an upcoming unit test, reviewing notes on topics like behaviorism and confirmation bias. I’ve done the traditional cookie-cutter lab classes,” she said.

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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. Christina Rodriguez teaches a math lesson at Bloomfield Middle School. No one taught her these strategies. Photo: Jackie Mader.

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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. Rebecca Newburn, middle school science teacher.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Public Integrity’s analysis also found that students with disabilities have higher rates of homelessness than the rest of their peers in every state except Mississippi, suggesting that a significant share of students who already require additional support attend school uncertain of where they will sleep that night. is shown on Oct.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Virtual for-profit charter schools got started in the early 2000s, as the companies that run them seized on a business opportunity in online education pioneered by traditional public schools a half-decade earlier. Murphy teaches business education at a middle school in a neighboring county. Stride Inc.,

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

Middle school students at Kaleidoscope Academy, a district charter school in Appleton, Wisconsin, are constantly moving. 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.

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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

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, 2018

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

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ED Surge

AUGUST 28, 2024

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. She then informed me that it would be my first and last day at the school before I left to go to my classroom.

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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. That’s pretty much gone with Summit,” Hinton Sainz said.

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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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Dangerously Irrelevant

JANUARY 24, 2023

And so it begins… I am on sabbatical in Spring 2023, unpacking deeper learning in elementary and middle schools. If there is an inquiry- and problem-based learning school that serves grades K-8 that you think I should try and visit, or if you’d like to learn more about what I’m doing and learning, please get in touch!

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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. Too often in this country, we’re sticking to the middle and mediocrity.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 6, 2024

Her daughter loves school, she said, and her son in middle school can’t wait to try out for the soccer team. The school’s logo is a torch like that on the Statue of Liberty, and there’s a school tradition of holding up clenched fists to show unity and pride.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 6, 2020

. “… many Black families are choosing charter schools, where achievement gaps between Black and white students are closing, and longstanding systemic racism is being dismantled by an underlying belief that all children from all backgrounds are deserving and capable of academic success.” What makes them different?

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 29, 2020

Meanwhile, more than 800 traditional child care facilities were closed statewide. Almost half of the centers that closed their doors accept child care certificates meant to help low-income families as they work, train for a career or go to school. More than 800 traditional child care facilities have shut down in Mississippi.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2019

Two years ago, Isaac Paine Elementary won a competitive grant from the Rhode Island Office of Innovation to become a showcase “lighthouse school,” part of a statewide push to bring tech into education. For decades, nonprofit advocacy groups and corporate donors have targeted K-12 education for intervention.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

Fuller’s stance on school choice has created unlikely alliances with deep-pocketed conservatives and has put him at odds with mainstream civil rights advocates, but his work is impacting a younger generation of black school leaders striving to create culturally relevant institutions for the students they serve. The trade-off.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 17, 2023

Because of the pandemic and the timing of Meryl’s death, the family was not able to have a traditional funeral. Because of the pandemic and the timing of Meryl’s death, the family was not able to have a traditional funeral. Because of the pandemic and the timing of Meryl’s death, the family was not able to have a traditional funeral.

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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. So how can we improve conditions for our students?

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 21, 2017

At the meeting, a special education teacher had recommended taking the boy out of Martin Elementary School, in a town 10 miles southwest, and placing him in Georgia’s Network for Educational and Therapeutic Support, or GNETS, a statewide system for children with “emotional and behavioral disorders.”. Photo: Jesse Pratt Lopez.

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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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The Hechinger Report

JULY 6, 2016

Maria, 13, left rear, is a student at Morton Middle School. Matias’s daughter Maria, a student at Morton Middle School, grew up in Mississippi and speaks English with a southern drawl. “I When Hernandez, the school translator, is too busy to help, Herring sometimes resorts to using a translation app on her smart phone.

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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. School staff passed out cake with fluffy white icing. But after Taheem began sixth grade at Bayard Middle School this year, everything began to fall apart. She was with a 26-year-old man thought to be in a gang.

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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.

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