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 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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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 1, 2025

Our free weekly newsletter consults critical voices on innovation and inequality in K-12 education. At Pillager Public School District, 100 miles northwest of Braham in another rural town, eighth grade Algebra I has played out much the same way. Related: Eliminating middle school math tracks often sparks outrage.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 6, 2025

Our free weekly newsletter consults critical voices on innovation in K-12 education. 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.

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Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Given the rapid advances in AI and the momentum in the education field to understand how these technologies can support teaching and learning, last year the Gates Foundation launched a pilot initiative to provide funding to test new AI ideas that are in support of equitable K-12 mathematics outcomes. Check out last week’s post here.

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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. Culture-based education provides a path to healing.

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Teaching American History

MARCH 11, 2025

She thought she could help repair a disconnect between what some worry is happening in public schools and what she knows actually happens. Understanding the Reality of Public Education During her more than twenty years teaching government at the general and AP levels, Messick has certainly seen changes. This surprised voters.

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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. Another agitated mother worried, “How am I going to tell my 12-year-old?”.

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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. In his apparent attempt to cancel African American culture, Gov.

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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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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.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 6, 2020

But black men account for only 2 percent of all teachers in American public schools. Why has this happened, and how does it affect black male students in their K-12 academic journeys? Board, there were 82,000 black teachers in American public schools. We need more black male teachers in public schools.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 18, 2023

While districts scramble to fill vacancies, schools must do a better job not only hiring diverse teachers, but also keeping them on board. When children have exposure to school leaders from a variety of cultures, they do better both in K-12 classrooms and in our communities.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 29, 2019

They’re known as cultural proficiency seminars and attendance is mandatory. But they say the discussions are helping them to become better educators within a system in which predominantly white staff teach in schools with significant numbers of black and Latino students. Fernandez, principal, Cambridge Street Upper School.

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Digital Promise

MAY 13, 2021

Efforts to enhance these relationships should include culturally responsive teaching and creating a sense of belonging to ensure that each student can participate at the fullest level. Be laser focused on building strong and lasting relationships among students and teachers, students and their peers, and teachers and parents/caregivers.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 17, 2021

As districts across the United States consider how to get student learning back on track and fortify parent interest in public schools, they’re asking the same question as Steve Joel: What should we keep after the pandemic? Leveraging such changes long term could be a matter of public school survival.

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ED Surge

JULY 7, 2023

As an English language teacher in an international primary school and a language learner myself, I often think about how many K-12 students in the United States are given the opportunity to study another language in school. however, with insufficient and lagging data from schools, this research has its limitations.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 12, 2022

In one Philadelphia-area public school district, a K-8 teacher recalled, “We had an online morning meeting every day, and still, nothing was said in that morning meeting. schools in recent years. This plays out in all facets of society, but seeps into classrooms, school hallways, staff meetings and principals’ offices.

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ED Surge

MAY 30, 2023

public schools, in addition to completing the long-standing requirement of student teaching for a semester. “We It started off as a way to bring high-impact tutoring to elementary school students in northeast Washington, D.C. Sodani, director of the Institute for Innovation in Education at the university’s School of Education.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 4, 2016

Ryan’s situation is unusual, both because he is attending public school and because he arrived here alone. for middle or high school because their parents had been planning for it from before their birth. A small, but growing, number attend public schools. My reaction was, ‘That’s weird.’ I didn’t understand.’”.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 8, 2024

Chris Nelson teaches preschool in rural Vermont, just a few miles from the Canadian border, but not in the school or child care center most people think of when they imagine state or locally funded pre-K. For many rural families especially, the barriers of paying for and getting their children to a pre-K program are just too great.

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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 Prop 28 also provides extra funding to schools in historically under-resourced communities. Nearly 4 million U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 21, 2023

For educators at Clayton County Public Schools in suburban Atlanta, the question is a crafty way to entice middle schoolers — many Cardi B and hip-hop fans among them — into a math lesson about ratios and proportions. Bringing a “culturally responsive” framework to math instruction was a major focus of the educators’ convention.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 10, 2023

When the constitution of the state was written, there was no idea that such an exemption could apply to two of the top landlords in New York City,” said Assemblyman Zohran K. Assemblyman Zohran K. He noted that 80 percent of first-year CUNY students are graduates of New York City public schools, and a majority are students of color.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

It would be decades before the most elite schools reached gender parity. And gender bias still lingers in American education , from pre-K through college. If women now outperform men in high school and apply to college in greater numbers, isn’t that just a tribute to their grit and determination? And why should we care?

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ED Surge

JUNE 22, 2023

That means that without knowing it, many underrepresented high school students may be further disadvantaged if they want to pursue a science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) career. For example: Public schools are less likely to have college counselors. The decision provoked lawsuits and cultural scraps over “woke” math.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 7, 2022

As an Asian American, my lived experience and this research make me firmly believe that we must do a better job of teaching Asian American history and culture in the U.S. — not only to foster more understanding and tolerance, but also to show the beauty and complexity of cultures often neglected. There are signs of progress.

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Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

“Voice, agency, and influence are ours to give and receive,” says Debora Collins, assistant superintendent for student learning at Albemarle County Public Schools in Virginia. Matthew Wheelock Innovation Program Director, University of Virginia Curry School of Education.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Lawmakers across the country are advancing legislation banning the instruction of certain concepts related to race in public schools. And they must teach from content written by authors of color that includes the experiences of children of all racial and cultural backgrounds. Yet this work faces many obstacles.

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ED Surge

JULY 1, 2024

About 5 to 6 percent of all K-12 students are homeschooled, according to Johns Hopkins University’s Homeschool Hub , a collection of homeschooling research and resources. 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.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 9, 2021

There are clear examples of communities working together across K-12 schools, colleges, and nonprofit organizations to prioritize the needs of first-generation college-goers. Related: ‘It’s just too much’: Why students are abandoning community colleges in droves. The solutions are not theories.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 19, 2020

Our nation’s Founding Fathers had a pluralistic view of K-12 schooling. Espinoza helps restore the founders’ view of K-12 education, and Justice Alito’s concurring opinion in particular calls out the history of anti-Catholic bias of Blaine amendments. A recent U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 19, 2016

Mooresville Graded School District, near Charlotte, North Carolina, has become a national leader over the last decade in using digital learning tools to improve student achievement. The Hechinger Report spoke with Edwards about Mooresville’s successes and how they could be replicated in other public schools.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 25, 2018

When I was a student, as the child of Mexican immigrants, I felt pressure to leave my own stories and experiences outside to fit into my classrooms’ cultures. I saw the same dynamic at play when I first became a teacher at Patrick Henry Elementary , a majority-Latino public school in Chicago. They stand out.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 10, 2024

public school student population is less than half white. State laws in California and New York still require that layoffs be carried out by seniority, according to TNTP, a nonprofit focused on improving K-12 education, and Educators for Excellence. But many states still permit it, including Texas.

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Digital Promise

APRIL 16, 2019

People who speak another language score higher on tests and think more creatively , have access to a wider variety of jobs , and can more fully enjoy and participate in other cultures or converse with people from diverse backgrounds. Scarce in Schools. Yet, according to the U.S percent of students enrolled in a foreign language course.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 10, 2024

In December, the Finnish Ministry of Education and Culture described the predicament as “extremely disconcerting.” American schools can learn valuable lessons from Finnish education, both positive and negative. This global phenomenon emerged about 12 years ago, but is playing out differently worldwide.

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