ED Surge

OCTOBER 4, 2023

When Mayra Valtierrez talks about the students in New Mexico public schools who are learning English, one thing becomes clear: It’s an incredibly diverse population. The data covers 10 years, starting with 2010-11 through the 2019-20 school year. Parsing education data into snack-sized servings. Data from the U.S.

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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. About 95 percent of Algodones' students are Native American, and the school strives to affirm their identity.

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ED Surge

MARCH 27, 2025

Theyre part of Samsungs Solve for Tomorrow tech competition for public middle and high school students, and winning means big prize money for their schools to purchase more tech tools. Even today, many businesses expect students coming out of high school to have the skill to be able to use these tools in the workplace.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 24, 2018

Yet, economic segregation, which is more pronounced among families with children, also creates public school districts where affluent families predominate. This can lead to trouble in schools, but of a distinct kind. to understand how parents decide where to live and send their children to school.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 14, 2019

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. Here’s what is missing in music education: cultural and social relevance. Related: A summer program uses the arts to combat the achievement gap.

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ED Surge

APRIL 24, 2025

The oldest of the cohort born from 1997 to 2012 are in their mid- to late 20s and taking heat for chafing against workplace culture in ways that come off as entitled (sound familiar, millennials?). For millennials, about 11 percent of people ages 16 to 19 left school without a degree.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

BOSTON — When the Boston Public Schools opened the Margarita Muñiz Academy in 2012, it was a first-of-its kind dual-language high school meant to address issues faced by the city’s growing Hispanic population. The Muñiz Academy is an open-enrollment school, so administrators can’t restrict who attends.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 17, 2022

In the past year, a culture war has taken over education. As the latest Ipsos polling suggests , unlike Republican culture war legislators, most parents feel that schools do a “good job” keeping them informed about the curriculum; less than a quarter say that they have too little say about it. percent to 16.1

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ED Surge

MARCH 26, 2025

It was at this school that I saw tracking firsthand, and students knew who was in gifted programs and who was in lower-level classes. Like any other middle school student, I was on a rough journey of self-discovery. This positive ripple effect strengthens families and communities, fostering a culture of achievement and aspiration.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Sallie Holloway Director of Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science for Gwinnett County Public Schools, Georgia Recently, EdSurge spoke with Sallie Holloway , the Director of Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science for Gwinnett County Public Schools. Our classes still use the same standards.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 1, 2019

Students from LaGuardia High School for Music & Art and Performing Arts perform ’42nd Street.’ On a personal level, I care deeply about the school she led, formally known as Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts. ’ on March 19, 2018 in New York City.

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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. By no means was my pubic schooling perfect and when I look back there were many instances that presented opportunities for improvement.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 29, 2018

On the verge of finishing high school, Allison Dinsmore doesn’t know yet what she’ll do after she graduates. It’s a few months before she’ll graduate from Newark Memorial High School and Allison Dinsmore doesn’t have a plan for what will happen after that. .” NEWARK, Calif. —

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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. The social emotional needs of students are at an all-time high.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

So, imagine my excitement when I began noticing high schools across the South adopting electives in African American studies and history. A few schools in Alabama began offering courses in Black history too. In his apparent attempt to cancel African American culture, Gov. Martin Luther King Jr.,

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 26, 2019

I wouldn’t put my parents through this just to go to school in the United States.” SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Desirée Morales Díaz didn’t choke up when she recounted how her high school counselor hadn’t heard of the common application, the form widely used by college admission offices on the mainland. And that’s when I said no.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 6, 2025

In New Zealand, where schools operate far more independently than traditional public schools in the United States, it would be the job of principals like Rodgers to determine how best to teach the countrys math standards. Ulrike Matthews gives a fraction lesson to her class at May Road School in Auckland, New Zealand.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

Matt and the school’s 21 other students — many of whom, like Matt, abused drugs for years — face a daily struggle to stay clean. Independence Academy is one of 33 so-called recovery schools in the United States, public high schools that serve students whose lives and educations have been derailed by drug abuse.

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Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

When we first visited the school that is the focus of our forthcoming book, “Navigating Conflict: How Youth Handle Trouble in a High-Poverty School,” back in 1995, students were free to move about campus during lunch and other free periods and a culture of trust prevailed. Effective Leadership. Read the original article.

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Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Please join us in welcoming the following new districts to the League of Innovative Schools: ASU Preparatory Academies. Brigantine Public School District. California Area School District. Clear Creek Independent School District. Cleveland City Schools. Columbus Municipal School District.

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Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Please join us in welcoming the new 2022-2023 cohort of the League of Innovative Schools! Abington School District (Pennsylvania). Anaheim Union High School District (California). Castleberry Independent School District (Texas). Capital School District (Delaware). Eastern York School District (Pennsylvania).

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Teaching American History

MARCH 11, 2025

Teaching government at Hilliard Darby High School in Ohio (a suburb of Columbus), Amy Messick helps students understand how our constitutional system works. One former student who appreciates what he learned from Messick now serves on the school board for the district in which Messick teaches. Some of them encourage her.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Fairfax High School in Phoenix 14 years ago, she had three Master’s degrees and four teaching certificates. Jenkins said one of the reasons she has been teaching in the Phoenix Union High School District, one of 30 public school districts here, for so long is that she doesn’t feel alone. PHOENIX, Ariz.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 24, 2024

Related: Do fraught school board meetings offer a view of the future? I ran for the Littleton Elementary School District governing board while I was 17, and was elected while finishing out my senior year of high school. She’s also an advocate for the Green New Deal for public schools.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

In the 1970s and 80s, groups of primarily white, Christian fundamentalists drove a surge in the number of home-schooling families around the country. As they pulled their children out of public schools, they also worked to dismantle state and local regulatory hurdles that kept kids in brick-and-mortar institutions.

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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. There was nothing like this.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 27, 2021

The research projects, by high schoolers at the Metropolitan Regional Career and Technical Center in Providence, commonly known as the Met High School, or more simply as “the Met,” involved much more than a typical term paper. How can the Providence public schools improve education for high school ESL/ELL Latinx students?” “How

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 24, 2023

Life at her new school started to change for the better when she began learning the music of her Native Hawaiian culture. “It Metro Nashville Schools invested alongside the Save The Music Foundation to ensure that high schools across the district provide instruction and classroom space for music technology, production and songwriting.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 29, 2018

Through Teach for America, he was assigned to teach in a charter school. After Katrina, the state legislature had wrested control of New Orleans’ public schools from the local school board and turned most of the schools into charters. He sees football as a piece of New Orleans culture that shouldn’t be sacrificed.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

I urge fellow superintendents from all racial, ethnic and cultural backgrounds to act now. That’s what we are doing inWaukegan public schools in Illinois, which serve a diverse population of about 14,000 students from preschool through high school, near Lake Michigan, about 10 miles south of the Wisconsin border.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 23, 2017

Our jobs require us to seek out solutions that will help our students reach new heights so they can get the most out of the hours they spend in school. Among the many solutions we have tried, one has proven transformational: teachers across schools learning from one another. The partner was the Jeremiah E.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 1, 2023

As part of a new program, every third grader in Albuquerque Public Schools spends a day at the Los Padillas Wildlife Sanctuary just outside the city. Credit: Steven Henley/ Albuquerque Public Schools And, as recently noted in a review of the potential impact the education sector can have on U.S. or name another tribe.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Years ago, when Woodfin attended Union Public Schools from kindergarten through eighth grade, she sat in fairly homogenous classrooms. Woodfin recalled her peers as predominantly white, a legacy of families moving to the suburbs as Tulsa schools desegregated during the 1950s. I don’t know why you’re doubting yourself.”

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 12, 2021

In Chicago, only 42 percent of public school graduates enrolled in four-year colleges in 2019. If we can help these students reframe their relationship to the process of learning in high school, we have the opportunity to enhance their social mobility — and, quite possibly, ensure the survival of higher education.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 6, 2020

During my sophomore year of high school, I experienced something completely unprecedented and, until that year, I hadn’t realized how vital it was to my self-esteem, self-identification and self-growth. But black men account for only 2 percent of all teachers in American public schools. Before Brown v.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 8, 2017

NEW ORLEANS — It was homecoming week, and for the first time there was a buzz in the halls of KIPP Renaissance Charter High School about Friday’s big football game. Students were discussing plans to go, and alumni were coming by the school in the city’s 9th Ward to buy tickets. Photo: Emmanuel Felton/The Hechinger Report.

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 14, 2019

Please join us in welcoming the new 2019-2020 cohort of the League of Innovative Schools! Chesapeake Public Schools. Hampton Township School District. Lake Washington School District. Lynwood Unified School District. Menlo Park City School District. Orange Unified School District.

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