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MAY 23, 2020

The campus of Paradise High School, which was damaged in the Camp Fire but survived. How Schools Are preparing – and Not Preparing – Children for Climate Change,” reported by HuffPost and The Hechinger Report, a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. But I can’t.”

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JANUARY 24, 2022

Allen says his family couldn’t afford to send him to college when he finished high school, so he joined the Army and suffered an injury while serving in Afghanistan. They’ll pop into marketplaces, where they can, say, trade lesson plans they’ve created for tokens. Universities are curators of content,” Saraf says.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 30, 2018

In a lone building flanked by farmland, the Northern Cass School District is heading into year two of a three-year journey to abolish grade levels. By the fall of 2020, all Northern Cass students will plot their own academic courses to high school graduation, while sticking with same-age peers for things like gym class and field trips.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2020

But that’s not what is easing the transition to remote learning for schools like Rhodes. 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. Related: The messy reality of personalized learning.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 3, 2016

Some nights, Duggan faced four hours of homework after a day of school and dancing that stretched into the evening, “I would just break down crying and saying, ‘I can’t do this anymore!’ ” she recalled. She was referring to her husband, Fred, who was a poor student and graduated 206th out of 212 in his high school class.

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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

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

Wilson Charter School in New Orleans and quietly made connections with children. Soon, he became an indispensable part of their school day. Black students who have a black teacher in elementary school are more likely to graduate high school and go to college. I’d send him the lesson plan the night before.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2020

At Miami Northwestern Senior High School, Julian Negron, left, and Jerrell Boykin, right, load laptops for distribution to students, on March 30, 2020. Miami-Dade County Public Schools has distributed some 100,000 tablets and other mobile devices, and more than 11,000 smartphones that double as Wi-Fi hot spots.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 17, 2021

A 2015 Stanford study that looked at the performance of students in online charter schools found that the majority lost learning equivalent to a standard 180-day school year. They also learned to develop clear communication plans that allowed students to know exactly how to reach an instructor and get the needed support.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Eventually, the two found housing outside the Temecula Valley Unified School District her son had attended for years. The district introduced programs in the last few years to help schools find more students experiencing housing instability and connect them with assistance.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Some school systems have reported usage rates below 2 percent. It seemed to suggest that high school students could make extraordinary math progress from online homework help. If true, that would be equivalent to doubling the amount of math that a typical high school student learns.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Studies have found that sessions once or twice a week haven’t boosted achievement much , nor has frequent after-school homework help. Effective tutoring sessions are scheduled during the school day, when attendance is mandatory, not after school. Among them are Arkansas, Colorado, Louisiana and Tennessee.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

Turning around struggling high schools is the toughest work in education reform. billion federal program meant to fix the nation’s lowest-performing schools — which focused disproportionately on high schools — did little to improve student achievement. Juarez is now a destination school,” said principal Juan Ocon.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 20, 2018

The program allows some of North Carolina’s lowest-performing schools to have more flexibility like charter schools. Related: A school once known for gang activity is now sending kids to college. Goldsboro High School (Wayne County). Walnut Creek Elementary (Wake County). Rollins Elementary (Vance County).

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2019

Kristen Danusis, a former school psychologist who became the principal in 2013, tells me that many of her students live “off the grid,” in households that earn little regular income. At East Orlo Avenue Elementary, in the East Providence School District, children switch between group activities and individualized assignments.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 7, 2016

Davida Walls never thought she would be teaching high school biology, let alone in the first few months after graduating from college at 22. She is trying to decide whether to become a doctor or a nurse, and plans to apply for a program to train for one or the other this year. Davida Wells is a 22 year-old biology teacher.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

In fact, a SIECUS review found that only 31 states require sex education at any grade level (mostly in middle and high school). For example, zero high schools in Utah taught all 19 topics, while 40 percent of schools in New Mexico did. There were huge differences between states.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 6, 2024

Looking back, our high school has crowned a Latina Homecoming Queen, as voted by the student body and has recognized the first Latino Valedictorian. In his first four-year term, he had closed three high schools because of falling enrollment and a budget shortfall he inherited.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 14, 2018

The website for the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History features a collection of essays, primary sources and teaching materials for educators teaching Reconstruction to students in high school and college. history course at the Capital City Public Charter School in Washington, D.C. “I

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

English teacher Samara Rand goes over a passage with a student in her class at Holmes County Central High School. The high school ranked as one of the lowest performing in Mississippi and Rand, a second-year teacher, often dissects passages with her students. Photo: Rory Doyle for The Hechinger Report. LEXINGTON, Miss.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 28, 2019

NOME, Alaska — Before they got down to business for the day, students in Devin Tatro’s social studies class were offered a quiet moment of self-reflection: On this golden fall afternoon at Nome-Beltz Junior/Senior High School, were they feeling chipper, distressed or somewhere in between? That’s not a given in rural Alaska.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

The trio wept as they recalled Siyujas move as a teenager to a private boarding school 150 miles away in Sedona, Arizona, which shed chosen to attend because the federal agency that runs Havasupai Elementary, the only school in her village, provides no options for high school.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 15, 2017

A similar program in Ohio shows teachers how to “ frack” Twinkies using straws to pump for cream and advises on the curriculum for a charter school that revolves around shale drilling. Hundreds of oil-and-gas-centric lesson plans are now available at the click of a mouse. The idea caught on. We need gas.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Last spring, when the odds seemed far longer, Bob Cousineau, a social studies teacher at Pennridge High School, predicted that whatever happened in his embattled district would become a national “case study” one way or another. Bob Cousineau teaches social studies at Pennridge High School, in Pennsylvania.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

BOSTON — Ajanay Hughes, 15, voted for Hillary Clinton in her school’s mock presidential election Tuesday. Ajanay, a 10th grader at Roxbury Prep High School on Boston’s predominantly black southwest side, said some didn’t show up for class when they heard the outcome of the real election.

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