The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 24, 2024

The disparity is rooted in race, class and gender : Child care teachers are more likely to be female, less likely to be white, and more likely to come from lower-income backgrounds than public school teachers. When we started doing online organizing, we would get maybe a week’s worth of work visiting centers done in one day.

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ED Surge

MAY 20, 2024

Mysa’s tuition costs parents who don’t receive aid around $20,000 a year, comparable to what it costs the government to educate a student in a public school. Mysa’s curriculum relies on Common Core, the same national standards as public schools, Fiske says. In contrast, many alternatives to public school are blossoming.

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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.

Elementary School 110

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Digital Promise

APRIL 23, 2019

In our current education system, we continue to see gaps in graduation rates and unequal access to high-quality public schools. While there are certainly exceptions, this human interaction standard can serve as a compass to guide our investments and advocacy. Taking a more critical look at edtech. Let’s start a movement.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 17, 2017

The Windsor Locks High School freshman belongs to the first cohort of students going through middle and high school under a new system. Traditional grades no longer exist, children get extra help based on their individual learning needs and classrooms run very differently. Windsor Locks Public Schools parent Cheryl Picard.

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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

In that role, she visited schools around the city and was shocked by the disparities in school building facilities and resources, she said. She was hired as the student voice specialist at Chicago Public Schools in 2012 to oversee the district’s newly created “student voice committees.”.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 13, 2017

Teachers and school personnel who work with low-income students are more likely to trust their own work and don’t see students as liabilities or risks. If teachers commit to sending their own children to public schools maybe people who pay tuition to alleviate their fears will follow.

Education 79

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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

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

Sanders, who is African-American, first presented the idea for a dual-language program at Houston to the District of Columbia Public Schools in 2014. schools, experts say — up from about 260 in 2000. There are at least 2,000 of these programs in U.S. It’s a common argument, even among educators.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 24, 2016

For 15 years, student test results and graduation rates have served as the main measures of success – or failure – for public schools. Annual test scores in math and reading helped determine the future of teachers’ jobs, classroom funding and, in the most dire cases, whether or not a school remained open.

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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.

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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. By mid-April, about 111,000 devices and 11,000 hotspots had been distributed, he said.

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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

AUGUST 3, 2016

There is something of an annual tradition among New York City mayors and school chancellors. Former Mayor Michael Bloomberg said it was proof that his initiative to break up large campuses into smaller, more personal schools was working. Nearly half of Syracuse’s 20,000 students were suspended during the 2013-14 school year.

Elementary School 65

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 24, 2020

She had started public school and no longer traveled to BMCC with her mother, and didn’t understand why she saw so little of her. “I I would be in school by 9 in the morning, and my aunt would be with the kids so I could stay late and study, but Anjerlin didn’t understand,” Hernandez recalled. “I Plenty of obstacles await.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 19, 2024

Once the site of an Indian boarding school, where the federal government attempted to strip children of their tribal identity, the Native American Community Academy now offers the opposite: a public education designed to affirm and draw from each student’s traditional culture and language. There was nothing like this.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 26, 2022

Unlike the other subs — many of them parent volunteers or people looking for a little extra work — he’s a full-time, salaried employee with health benefits and a long-term contract with Everett Public Schools , north of Seattle. Nearly half of teacher absences went unfilled in the school district last fall.

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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

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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ED Surge

OCTOBER 19, 2023

When the regular public school he attended several years ago closed during the pandemic, Bradley switched to remote learning. But solutions to school avoidance must meet the unique needs of each student. Her work involves separating the student from the school where he or she is experiencing problems. I can feel.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 4, 2017

Well, in New Orleans, 30 of 72 public schools (or 41 percent) have just received a “D” or an “F” grade, according to the Louisiana Department of Education. The cries for reform won out, leading to the dismantling of New Orleans’ school system, eventually resulting in a nearly all-charter school district.

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Charter School Advocacy Public School Tradition 82

Digital Promise

JANUARY 13, 2021

Here is a non-exhaustive list of some of these shifts in coaching and how they have contributed to cultures of continuous growth and changes in how the instructional technology coaching role is perceived: The shift to distance learning has removed many logistical and scheduling challenges coaches previously faced in a traditional school day.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 15, 2021

Community colleges have traditionally been a refuge where recent high school graduates — and adults of all ages — could pick up credits and develop new skills during a poor job market. Enrollment at two-year schools swelled during the downturn a decade ago.

High School 145

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 29, 2016

In the first story, or revelation, the overarching theme is the stunning amount of sharing that went on about this elite group (roughly the top 20 percent of all charter schools, the schools that add roughly a year-and-a-half of learning for every year a student spends there). . Immediately I knew I had heard something important.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

When New York City officials revamped the way public schools were funded more than a decade ago, they emphasized one goal above the others: Making school spending more equitable in the nation’s largest system. But I also believe there are kids who are high achievers who deserve the opportunity to achieve.

High School 50

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 27, 2016

That argument can only help propel support for young Hispanics aspiring to go to college, said Deborah Santiago, co-founder and vice president for policy at the advocacy organization Excelencia in Education. For evidence of that, all people have to do is glance at their local public schools, said Murdock.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 10, 2017

About a decade ago, leaders in this public school district nearly 70 miles northwest of New York City decided to radically change the way they provide education to its diverse and academically challenged student body. based education reform advocacy group. Eastwood, the district’s superintendent.

Education 88

Education Educational Technology Elementary School Advocacy 88

The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2020

Fears about data privacy and screen time, along with concerns about Silicon Valley’s conflicting interests as it pushes into public schools, have battered Summit’s reputation. There have been highly publicized problems in some districts that have adopted the program. But when I look at what’s there, it’s good stuff.”.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 17, 2016

is a very different question than “Are more young adults prepared for success after high school?” high schools? And the answers you get to the latter can depend heavily on whom you ask. But she cautioned that, “this is speculation; it’s hard to know exactly what factors contributed to the change.”

Advocacy 68

Advocacy High School Tradition Public School 68

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2016

And finally, though many juvenile facilities focus almost solely on getting their students to pass high school equivalency tests, Domenici encouraged his students to become confident in their ability to learn and to earn the traditional class credits that they would need in order to return to high school upon release.

Advocacy 55

Advocacy Psychology High School Tradition 55

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 18, 2017

That argument can only help propel support for young Hispanics aspiring to go to college, said Deborah Santiago, co-founder and vice president for policy at the advocacy organization Excelencia in Education. For evidence of that, all people have to do is glance at their local public schools, said Murdock.

Research 54

Research K-12 Archiving Advocacy 54

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 16, 2017

A looming question is whether personalized learning that works in, say, a tight-knit, mission-driven charter school can be reliably translated into traditional district schools with many more students, less flexible schedules, keener standardized-test worries and cultures steeped in established ways of teaching and learning.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 6, 2020

Related: OPINION: When Black parents benefit from school choice, it doesn’t perpetuate racism. Overt racism like this is, I hope, less prominent in today’s public-school classrooms than it was 30 years ago in my own — if for no other reason than no one can ever again claim that a Black person can’t become president of our country.

Charter School 139

Charter School Public School Elementary School Advocacy 139

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 6, 2024

The school district, like many around the country, struggled early on to accommodate the rising numbers of English learners, who were dropping out at high rates, being pushed into special education classes and showing little academic progress. Alonzo attended Russellville schools from 2008 to 2013. Related: Become a lifelong learner.

High School 138

High School K-12 Heritage Professional Development 138

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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K-12 Charter School Middle School Elementary School 95

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 27, 2020

“There was a breakdown in communication in the school and the students,” said Honani, who works as a program manager for The Hopi Foundation. Initially, Honani put some blame on herself as a mother, chiding herself for failing to stay on top of her son’s teachers and deprioritizing traditional schooling during a hectic time.

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