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.

Middle School 147

Middle School Artifacts Advocacy Lesson Plan 147

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 15, 2024

Related: Simpler FAFSA complicates college plans for students and families “As much staff as government has, it’s not enough for students right now,” said Yolanda Watson Spiva, president of the national advocacy group Complete College America. She wants colleges to do more to directly help applicants still struggling to fill out the forms.

Advocacy 142

Advocacy Library Government Public School 142

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.

Charter School 137

Charter School Heritage Education K-12 137

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 111

Elementary School Advocacy Cultures Public School 111

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.

Charter School 96

Charter School Tradition Advocacy K-12 96

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 9, 2024

One out of 10 Black students in the eighth grade math scores were scoring basic or above,” saidKristen Hengtgen, a senior policy analyst at the nonprofit advocacy group EdTrust, referring to last year’s National Assessment of Educational Progress, known as the Nation’s Report Card. She did not respond to specific questions.

High School 145

High School Public School Leadership Tutoring 145

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.

Professional Development 22

Professional Development Advocacy Cultures Humanities 22

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.

Charter School 94

Charter School Advocacy Public School Tradition 94

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.

K-12 103

K-12 Advocacy Tradition Public School 103

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.

EdTech 133

EdTech Pedagogy Humanities Advocacy 133

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 17, 2018

This was clearly no ordinary public school. A driveway circling a landscaped pond led them to the school’s main hall. Lake Oconee’s amenities are virtually unheard of in rural Georgia; and because it is a public school, they are all available at the unbeatable price of free. Lake Oconee Academy is a charter school.

Charter School 112

Charter School Public School Tradition K-12 112

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.

K-12 132

K-12 Advocacy Leadership Tradition 132

The Hechinger Report

MAY 15, 2019

In Newark, New Jersey, for example, alumni from Uncommon Schools , which enrolls poor, minority students, are on track to graduate with bachelor’s degrees at rates better than students from affluent families. Second, advocacy groups have gotten really smart about leveraging their interventions to improve graduation rates.

Charter School 99

Charter School Advocacy Private School Tradition 99

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.

Charter School 140

Charter School Education Policy Public School History 140

ED Surge

JULY 19, 2023

public schools raise questions about whether curricula and edtech are staying culturally relevant. Between 2010 and 2021, the share of white non-Hispanic children fell to 45 percent of public school students, while the share of Hispanic children grew to comprise 28 percent. Whose Technology Gets Celebrated?

Educational Technology 98

Educational Technology EdTech Education Heritage 98

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.”.

Civics 143

Civics Civic Engagement High School Government 143

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 90

Education Charter School Private School Advocacy 90

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.

Elementary School 112

Elementary School Charter School Advocacy Public School 112

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.

Education 111

Education Advocacy Leadership Education Policy 111

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.

Advocacy 125

Advocacy High School Middle School Tradition 125

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 28, 2019

Education policy that ignores neighborhood conditions misses the point of why we ultimately go to school — to improve our community. Warren’s plan, A Great Public School Education for Every Student , is one of the most comprehensive education policy proposals by a presidential candidate I’ve ever seen.

Charter School 75

Charter School Education Education Policy Public School 75

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.

Advocacy 92

Advocacy High School Elementary School Tradition 92

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 86

Advocacy High School Social Studies Tradition 86

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 105

Education Educational Technology Elementary School Advocacy 105

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.”.

Advocacy 89

Advocacy Government Public School High School 89

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.

Charter School 68

Charter School Advocacy Public School High School 68

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

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 79

Elementary School Charter School Tradition Education Policy 79

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.”

High School 79

High School Advocacy Tradition Public School 79

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.”.

Junior High 134

Junior High Charter School Elementary School Social Studies 134

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.

High School 69

High School Advocacy Psychology Tradition 69

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.

Charter School 86

Charter School Middle School Project-Based Learning Elementary School 86

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Valles was among the enthusiastic would-be innovators and entrepreneurs I met at least week’s Harvard Kennedy School conference, Emerging School Models: Moving From Alternative to Mainstream. John Bailey, Daniel Buck and Joel Rose talk about AI in education at a Harvard Kennedy School conference.

Advocacy 141

Advocacy Public School Charter School Tradition 141

ED Surge

DECEMBER 14, 2023

The goal is to stabilize students enough to return to traditional schools, DeVries says. Meanwhile, critics allege that the school’s academic outcomes are actually “terrible” compared to homeless students who study at traditional public schools. A 2020 report for the U.S.

K-12 123

K-12 Leadership Advocacy Tradition 123

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.

Advocacy 144

Advocacy Tradition Economics Public School 144

ED Surge

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Hostility towards transgender and gender-expansive students is a common experience in public schools and according to the GLSEN report, LGBTQIA+ students experience higher rates of verbal and physical harassment in schools, as well as discriminatory school policies. So how can we improve conditions for our students?

Education 126

Education K-12 Advocacy Government 126

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.

Charter School 109

Charter School K-12 Middle School Elementary School 109