The Hechinger Report

JUNE 13, 2022

As young people, families and educators near the end of yet another hectic pandemic school year, new research studying the early impact of remote learning offers a sobering look at experiences and outcomes, including interrupted and incomplete learning. Young people and educators have been telling us what they need. Ngounou, Ed.L.D.,

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 8, 2018

billion a year, collectively, in foregone tuition, according to a review of 1,669 institutions by the Educational Policy Institute. For many faculty, this new role requires a culture shift. And that overcame all institutional cultures.”. Financial and other realities are forcing this to change. That’s $13.3

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 24, 2016

When it comes to influencing education policy and cultivating innovative schools, all eyes are on the states. Six New Hampshire schools have no grade levels – a traditional hallmark of just about every school. “It’s It’s really a cultural shift,” said Virginia Barry, New Hampshire’s commissioner of education.

Education 111

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 21, 2023

There are cultural forces that are making pracademics at the forefront of discussions,” said Teri-Lisa Griffiths, a former youth worker who now teaches criminology at Sheffield Hallam and has co-edited a new book about pracademics. They can perpetuate bad habits and cultures as well as good, in fields such as law enforcement, for example.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 1, 2019

It will emphasize the development of social and emotional skills and cultural competency as part of the curriculum. The first such schools opened during the 2015-16 school year with flexibilities more typically granted to charter schools, even though these schools fall under the oversight of the traditional school district.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 6, 2022

“Then this terrible thing happened that forced people to try online education who would have probably resisted it for another decade. If there is a takeaway that’s clear now, it’s that the shift in teaching culture has opened folks up to technology more.”.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Traditional arts ensembles like marching band and big band don’t necessarily resonate,” said superintendent Paul Gausman, a musician and long-time music educator. There is no society, there is no human culture, without the arts.”. If we dug up a buried culture, we’d still find their art. The arts are the arts.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 30, 2018

Pane predicts that if the personalized learning trend continues, it could upend traditional notions of what a classroom looks like. “I Faith Boninger, a researcher at the National Education Policy Center in Boulder, Colorado, pointed out that while students can learn basic concepts from personalized learning software, it’s isolated learning.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 29, 2019

It’s a problem contributing to a widening skills gap in rural communities across the country: Not only are rural high school graduates less likely than their urban and suburban counterparts to go to college; higher education institutions in many of these places aren’t training them to fill the jobs that are their regions’ lifeblood.

High School 103

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 21, 2024

In Pasadena, Dufford said, it has been tradition for established families not to send their children to public schools. “So She was stunned to find out that none of the families had actually heard such comments. It was the first time she had spoken to a group of parents who hadn’t been warned away.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 14, 2019

Others have revamped remedial education, a major stumbling block for students who are forced to repeat subjects they should have learned in high school. Many are taking steps to diversify their faculty and staff and training them in “cultural competency.”. Rethinking remedial education. They are still behind .

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 23, 2016

Redcliffe leaders, in the long tradition of English nursery leaders, believe children learn best when they are taking the lead and exploring the world on their own, complete with the risks that independence carries like, say, a bump on the head from a wooden swing. And, as recently as the mid-1990s, the early education policies of the U.S.

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A Principal's Reflections

JANUARY 26, 2020

At the forefront is developing and sustaining a culture that imparts purpose, meaning, relevance, ownership, and various paths that cater to both the strengths and weaknesses of all students. A more practical approach is to be more diligent as to the specific strategies that help learners master it in ways beyond just traditional means.

Pedagogy 521

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

In August, more than 300 students started the school year in the first traditional school run directly by the New Orleans school district since 2019. The pre-K-8 school, named after New Orleans cultural and civil rights icon Leah Chase , came together in just a handful of months. It was a crazy, terrible time,” said Lay.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2024

Related: Culture wars on campus start to affect students’ choices for college Certainly, it’s easy to spot worry on campuses. “I refuse to kowtow to attempts to have me not teach what is the accepted and documented evidence within my field,” he said. Last semester, he taught a course, “Beyond the Binary.”

Sociology 127

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ED Surge

APRIL 18, 2023

But neither the endorsement of powerful entities nor the enactment of new education policies assures that the push to create a skills-based education system will run like, er, clockwork. There are challenges as basic as defining what, exactly, counts as a “skill.” I think the testing industry is very nervous,” he says.

K-12 144

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 17, 2016

High quality options for African American students should have transparent accountability structures, sound disciplinary policies and outcomes and encourage diversity. Education reformers have built their platform and careers on the value of accountability. Related: Do black students really need college to get high paying jobs?

Charter School 111

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 26, 2022

During my career, I have obtained three degrees in education and social policy, cultural and educational policy studies and learning sciences — not to mention, I am currently working on a doctoral degree, as we speak.

Teaching 102

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 28, 2021

Experts point to a confluence of factors for this, including poverty, culture, trauma and a lack of comprehensive sexual health education. “My Programs that help teenage mothers stay in school can make a big difference to the education and life outcomes for both the adolescents and their babies. Latina teens in the U.S.,

High School 117

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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.

Library 143

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 12, 2023

This story also appeared in The Nation “I knew that the public school system would not benefit my child without the important and critical history and culture of Indigenous people being taught,” said Tilsen-Brave Heart, a member of the Oglala Lakota Nation. I want my children to know who they are,” said Tilsen-Brave Heart. “I

American History 145

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Anthropology News

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

In time, Keyla felt comfortable enough with me to seek help outside the traditional tutoring role of the program. As a sixth-generation Californian currently raising a seventh generation, I look to participate in making change in language-education policy here.

Tutoring 52

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 6, 2023

The event often felt like a pep rally for options beyond traditional school districts, where enrollment fell in the pandemic and is expected to drop another five percent by 2031. John Bailey, Daniel Buck and Joel Rose talk about AI in education at a Harvard Kennedy School conference.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 28, 2022

And at the end of the 20th century, groups like the Eagle Forum left a growing imprint on education policy in the state. “It People who in that time wanted to have books make a ton of money for them as public school adoptions had to understand: That was not an educational process.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 10, 2023

It’s about the viability of public education in their community. The national infection facing public schooling—the tug-of-war between education professionals and extremist culture warriors—has brought chaos and damage to West Bonner County. This is not hyperbole. As he put it, “I broke into the club.

Elementary School 141

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 25, 2016

At the state level, funds that were targeted for local education agencies are diverted to vouchers for individual children, a sharp loss in the funding that states historically have provided to school districts. Money is siphoned from traditional public schools and towards a diverse array of unregulated for-profit and private providers.

Charter School 112

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

For years, the Three Rivers Local School District , which includes Taylor High School,has relied on UNESCO, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, to help broaden minds in a school environment that library media specialist Marney Murphy describes as “sheltered.”.

Human Rights 123

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 12, 2024

Ariel Gilreath School choice Expanding school choice through private-school vouchers has been a key part of Trump’s education policy, but he had little success in getting his most ambitious efforts passed by Congress. Vance, meanwhile, made education culture war issues central to his 2022 run for Senate.

K-12 127

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

[Donald Trump] The time has come to reclaim our once great educational institutions from the radical left, and we will do that. Jon] Let’s begin by separating Trump’s campaign rhetoric from political reality and exploring how likely changes in higher education policy will affect you.

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