The Hechinger Report

MARCH 5, 2018

Chancellor Antwan Wilson of DCPS during a visit at the Washington Metropolitan High School. Public Schools, agreed to leave his post last month after news broke that he had flouted his own school enrollment policy. Wilson and his wife felt that the performing arts school his eldest child attended wasn’t a good fit.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 5, 2018

A final section of the forecast points to existing schools and educational programs that offer glimpses of the future. The I Promise School , for example, a joint initiative of the LeBron James Family Foundation and the Akron Public Schools, offers wraparound services with whole-child development in mind.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 22, 2016

These aren’t undergraduate economics majors. Their endowment holdings alone add up to nearly half a trillion dollars and they have an annual economic impact of $1 trillion and employ nearly 4 million people, the Progressive Policy Institute reports. Rutgers University hosts a branch of the county public library.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 30, 2020

A grassroots coalition of business and civic leaders came together with a resolve to fix these problems by alternately helping and compelling educators to greatly improve their results. High school graduation rates in Mobile are way up, from 55 percent before 2011 to 86 percent in 2018. Dauphin Street in Mobile, Alabama.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 18, 2016

Instead of attending neighborhood schools with students of the same race and economic status, as most children do in Mississippi, Osborn went to school with an even mix of black and white classmates, some from the town’s wealthy subdivisions and others from Clinton’s poorer areas. They’re also extremely successful.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 17, 2017

As an in-school family support specialist, Stubbe serves as a liaison between students, families and a number of health, legal and academic support services provided by local community organizations. The Say Yes promise of universal free college tuition to all Buffalo public school graduates has grabbed public attention.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 19, 2016

You can gain the same skills — critical thinking, civics, writing — through different content that feels more relevant.”. We’re a land grant public institution with a commitment to our state and our city, and that’s the talent we should be cultivating,” said Nancy Cantor, who has been chancellor at Rutgers-Newark for two years.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

If these programs can succeed in their mission to expand the teaching workforce, experts say they could fulfill two critical needs: easing the teacher shortage and bolstering economic development in the Mississippi Delta. Beforehand, my mind was everywhere … worrying about how I’m going to take care of my babies.”.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 18, 2018

We are two American public-school dads who just returned from a fact-finding trip through Finland. We wanted to see what the United States could learn from an education system that consistently receives top marks from UNICEF , the OECD and the World Economic Forum. Singapore has launched a series of Finnish-style school reforms.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

Indeed, a recent study in the 2017 Mississippi Economic Review found that districts with the worst teacher shortages have a weak local property tax base, a high percentage of black students and are disproportionately located in the Delta. Starting teachers in Mississippi make between $34,000 and $39,000 , depending on their education level.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

The best civics lesson requires you to leave the classroom. to discuss how public education will adapt to a rapidly changing world. The panel I spoke on responded to the work of Andreas Schleicher, education director for the intergovernmental Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). Related: Go vote.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 17, 2021

The move is spurring hope among school desegregation advocates who want the exam schools to look more like Boston’s public schools overall. But the temporary change has also been met with outrage: Some say eliminating the tests could destroy the very backbone and utility of exam schools.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

These gaps are often blamed on racial and economic segregation. Perhaps that’s why some observers have connected Feiler’s exhibition about the past to the racial-educational gap of today , particularly noting the contemporary lack of adequate resources for public schools and the “school-to-prison pipeline.”

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 24, 2018

With economic segregation in the United States worsening, there is likely to be a growing number of school districts where poor children, and poor parents, predominate. Yet, economic segregation, which is more pronounced among families with children, also creates public school districts where affluent families predominate.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Sessions examined ways educators can navigate state laws that limit conversations on race and other difficult topics, as well as how they can develop the high quality materials and instruction those attending said was vital to preparing students for civic life.

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

To fix this, we need to deepen our investments in civics and history instruction, bolstered by an emphasis on critical thinking skills. Only one-third of native-born Americans can correctly answer the basic civics questions required of naturalized individuals to achieve U.S. We are not setting our children up for success.

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

The effect is the same — forging partnerships with the city and local organizations to invest in the economic development of the community,” she said in a statement. Civic project’ or ‘land grab’? A lawsuit briefly halted the Bollinger plan because judges agreed it was not a “civic project.”

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Diane Ravitch

MAY 9, 2023

The textbooks are for elementary and middle school social studies classes as well as civics, economics, U.S. The Legislature last year passed what the governor dubbed his “stop woke” act that outlaws the teaching of the concept in public schools. history and world history courses.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 7, 2018

They were juniors at Niles West High School, an economically diverse school serving approximately 2,500 students in the Chicago suburbs. million in state funds for a three-year pilot that would incorporate labor history in civics, economics and history classes, along with simulations like those run by the DePaul center.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 11, 2018

Without social studies, we lose the civic mission of public schools,” said Stephanie Serriere, a former early-grade teacher who is now an associate professor of social studies education at Indiana University-Purdue University Columbus. “But Serriere said C3 is being used across the country.

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DECEMBER 7, 2016

It is just one of a slate of waivers approved by lawmakers, including class size, teacher preparation time, hiring and firing rules, and others, allowing traditional public schools to operate with the same educational requirements as their area charter schools. Constitution, and quizzes to teach civics.

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OCTOBER 29, 2019

Both he and his mother loved to practice their photography skills among the long-slung red-brick buildings clustered around the school’s tidy quad. Woods thought about going away to college, but he believed attending a local public school would save his family money. He was exactly the kind of student Nicholls hoped to attract.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 26, 2018

In 2014, white students became the minority in our public schools (partly a result of white students’ overrepresentation in private schools). And a way to prevent numerical power from converting into political and economic power is to see the majority of its public students as “its,” as workers, not citizens.

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Zinn Education Project

APRIL 2, 2024

Most notably, Prentiss was a key player in the civil rights struggle for school desegregation in Cleveland during the late 1970s. In 1978, a court ordered the desegregation of Cleveland public schools. Prentiss organized a group called Black Community Leaders for Peaceful School Desegregation.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 5, 2017

They better look like the public school students they allegedly serve. Nonprofits that take money from wealthy donors who aren’t serious about taking on the values of the communities they fund are a major reason why the rich continue to hold on to more power than they deserve while urban schools stay in reform mode.

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Political Science Now

JULY 16, 2024

Engaging Citizenship introduces foundational concepts in political science through the lens of citizenship, democracy, and civic engagement, highlighting the relevance of the discipline to students’ lives and encouraging them to become engaged and empowered citizens. McHugh, Merrimack College (Discussant) Richard M.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

DETROIT — Taking a trip down memory lane from the sidewalk in front of Western International High School, former civics teacher Keith Johnson shared the school’s ghost story, a tall tale about a child who died in a 1935 fire there. That money represents the biggest investment in Detroit’s public schools in decades.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 25, 2021

Author Andrea Gabor called the violence a “Sputnik moment for teaching civics.”. As Americans survey the damage to our democracy, how much can we blame schools for the vast divide between how different groups understand our shared history? Should we expect schools to develop engaged and responsible democratic citizens?

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JULY 12, 2017

On the heels of a significant late June Supreme Court ruling that seemingly opens the doors for increased funneling of public taxpayer dollars to religious schools, parochial school leaders are urging leaders of the Trump administration as well as state lawmakers across the country to expand school voucher programs.

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