ED Surge

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Teachers are asked to be more than educators to serve as counselors, advocates and role models all while grappling with the same grief and trauma as their students. Her work was not just a job but a mission, and she was relentless in her belief that education should be equitable for all.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 17, 2021

Emily, who loves math and wants to be a pharmacist, said that she’s nervous about how hard the classes may be but that she’s eager for a “better education.” The move is spurring hope among school desegregation advocates who want the exam schools to look more like Boston’s public schools overall.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 15, 2023

No one can deny the pandemic’s devastating impact on America’s public schools. Since March 2020, districts across the country have experienced alarming declines in student achievement in math and reading, a mental health crisis among students and widespread job dissatisfaction among educators. Sign up for Hechinger’s newsletter.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

As our family has been navigating the complexity of supporting our neurodivergent daughter to thrive in our local public school, I’ve found myself drawing up this metaphorical story of three young trees, which has become symbolic for me. Fast forward to this school year. I find comfort in metaphors. Our daughter was one of 3.7

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 14, 2019

I took multiple semesters of musical technique, history and theory as well as music education methods. I’ve developed a very strong opinion about my undergraduate teacher training, and also what teachers typically enter the public education system ready to do. My classes included all varieties of instruments.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 18, 2019

But at the summer camp these students are attending, Native teachers and leaders are leveraging culture-based activities like double ball to engage students more deeply in exploring their Native identities and wellness goals. For example, a school district in Montana is being investigated by the U.S.

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A Principal's Reflections

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

The following is a guest post by Westfield Public Schools Assistant Superintendent Paul Pineiro. Image credit: [link] The fact is they can, but culturally, we may be dissuading them from doing so. 21st Century Education Guest Blog Post Guest Blogger STEM' Underlying the lagging performance of U.S.

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Sapiens

MARCH 11, 2025

An anthropologist plunges into the world of Patagonian heavy metal music in Argentina to explore how the genre relates to language and cultural revitalization. Early Patagonian metal bands such as Aonikenk, Razzia, and Werken established the importance of Indigenous peoples to Patagonian history and culture in their music.

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A Principal's Reflections

JUNE 8, 2014

For many years New Milford High School was just like virtually every other public school in this country defined solely by traditional indicators of success such as standardized test scores, graduation rates, and acceptances to four year colleges. If education is good for one thing it is making excuses not to move forward.

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ED Surge

MARCH 15, 2023

It is not often that we see an overhaul of the furniture in our public school classrooms, let alone in the middle of the school year. Last November, there was an anonymous donation of mobile desk chairs to our school. It was then that I saw the ingrained sense of worth that society has etched into our public schools.

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Thrive in Grade Five

FEBRUARY 2, 2019

Something I’ve noticed is that most states have standards requiring students to learn about Native Americans, both pre-contact cultures and modern citizens. Please keep in mind that each cultural group has varying preferences in regard to language and treatment but there are some universal rules. Do not single out Native children.

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C3 Teachers

MARCH 14, 2025

It became clear that we needed a core resource that was rigorous and culturally relevant and accessible to our student population. With his guidance, we established a cohort model for training teachers, ensuring that educators received the necessary coaching, modeling, and curriculum-writing support to confidently implement IDM.

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A Principal's Reflections

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

Image credit: [link] It was our desire and quest to create a school culture and learning environments that were more reminiscent of the real world that our learners would soon be a part of that drove change in this area. This is fairly significant as we only have 650 students and 53 staff members.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 15, 2020

Higher Education. Leave this field empty if you're human: Ten years ago, Courtney Dickinson wanted to create an innovative public school. She had a teaching degree and while she never got a job as a teacher, she had a lot of ideas about how schools should operate. Pyne Arts Magnet School in Lowell. Weekly Update.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 17, 2022

A mother of four in Florida recently questioned the repeated defense of “parent rights” that Florida Governor Ron DeSantis cited before signing his controversial “Parental Rights in Education” bill, known as the “ Don’t Say Gay bill,” at the end of March. “ ‘Parental rights’? In the past year, a culture war has taken over education.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

The school’s founder, Erika Donalds, hopes this cutting-edge technology can help spread an educational approach that is decidedly old-fashioned. She’s a champion of a model of education that favors students reading classical texts and otherwise focusing on the traditional canons of arts, literature and culture.

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Digital Promise

MARCH 2, 2021

How can school districts create more equitable opportunities and dismantle systemic barriers facing many students, families, and educators? Leaders shared strategies and learned from the Toronto District School Board, where leadership has explicitly centered and invested in equity. Set a clear and explicit vision for equity.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

If you are in the education field, its likely that you are dealing with AI in some way. AI readiness has emerged as a key focus area for forward-thinking educators. As AI becomes more pervasive, educators recognize that these skills are not just for future computer scientists or tech professionals.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

They can be a part of society, said Maureen McGuire-Kuletz, co-director of the George Washington University Center for Rehabilitation Counseling Research and Education. I just wish we could have gotten help while he was still in high school. Students and parents see them immersed in the culture of the school.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Schools also must navigate distrust dating back to the U.S. government’s campaign to break up Native American culture, language and identity by forcing children into abusive boarding schools. AP's analysis does not include data on schools managed by the U.S. AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin Credit: Ross D.

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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. We’re leading these schools.

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Digital Promise

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

Which education challenges are schools and districts prioritizing? Over the past two years, Digital Promise has engaged in a rigorous research process to surface common challenges being tackled in public schools around the country. Survey Results Highlight Priority Education Challenges. Student engagement (#3).

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 19, 2021

While a striking amount of uncertainty remains, experts largely agree on one thing: Pandemic education has exacted the greatest tolls from the children of historically marginalized groups. It also appears that English learners are being particularly adversely impacted by Covid-era schooling. Not only do U.S.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

From halted curriculums to debates at school board meetings, social-emotional learning, or SEL, has quickly become the newest target of America’s ongoing education culture wars. Many who oppose it see SEL as a back door for schools to teach critical race theory. For insiders, this latest target is confusing.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 1, 2025

This story about eighth grade algebra was produced by The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. It was fourth-period Basic Algebra 8 class on a gray October morning at Braham Area High School. Department of Education spokesperson Alberto Betancourt.)

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 6, 2025

As a sector, we are being bombarded with reports of our failings in the teaching of maths, which leaves teachers and principals across the country feeling uncertain of what to do, and how to teach maths effectively, Rodgers wrote in a report to her school community at the end of the sabbatical. Who or what do you trust now? Not any more.

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ED Surge

JULY 1, 2024

The lack of oversight for these alternatives means that curricula and rigor vary widely, and that students don’t experience some of the protections of public school. But in reality, there’s a sweep of reasons parents are attracted to these types of schools. Recently, the network expanded to include high school options.

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A Principal's Reflections

OCTOBER 2, 2014

First, we offer a much-needed framework for the education of diverse learners. Second, we advocate for the development of an action plan for educating the not-so-common learners that is research-based, achievable, and reaches beyond any current educational reform initiative for school improvement. Struggling Learners.

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ED Surge

MARCH 31, 2023

Arts education belongs in every student’s curriculum — and not just because the arts can improve skills in other content areas. Over the years, I’ve used research about how the arts increase math and reading comprehension to defend their existence in the public school curriculum.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 24, 2023

When 15-year-old Ka’iulani Iaea first moved schools, she struggled. Life at her new school started to change for the better when she began learning the music of her Native Hawaiian culture. “It Yet much work remains to be done to leverage music and arts education for overall student achievement and well-being.

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A Principal's Reflections

NOVEMBER 12, 2014

Throughout my life I have either attended, or worked in, a public school, as had my parents. In terms of my own education, I always felt that I was provided with the knowledge and skills to succeed in life. Judy Wilson is such a passionate principal who works tirelessly to create a school that fosters a love for learning.

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Teaching American History

JANUARY 28, 2025

Board of Education , finding segregated schools inherently unequal. Given the deliberate vagueness of the instruction, Southern school authorities delayed compliance. But two years after the decision, more than 350 school districts in nine of the 17 states had desegregated their public schools.

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ED Surge

JULY 7, 2023

language education was published in 2017, with data from less than half of the country’s K-12 schools. While our understanding of language education is incomplete, we know that most K-12 students in American public schools do not have the opportunity to study an additional language to proficiency.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 24, 2022

Some edtech entrepreneurs are eager for Web3 to arrive and change education. It’s an ecosystem that could transform schools—sites for teaching and learning—into marketplaces—sites for buying and selling. Before forging our own ponderous chains, then, let’s explore what Web3 innovators might have in store for education.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

A few schools in Alabama began offering courses in Black history too. Black students would finally be able to learn of African Americans’ historical and cultural contributions and develop an appreciation for our rich heritage and culture. Related: Pop Quiz: What state just banned an AP African American studies course?

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

As an educator creating antiracist classrooms, I have wrestled with how to teach children about race and race relations since far before our country’s recent racial reckoning. And I believe that, to catalyze systemic change and create a better world for our children, we need to elevate race education, not restrict it.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Fewer Black and Brown communities are able to access services for students with disabilities and high-quality instruction for their children in public schools. Black and Brown students with disabilities are among the most marginalized groups in schools. school districts. Related: Special education’s hidden racial gap.

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