The Hechinger Report

JUNE 17, 2021

She was not alone: A December report revealed that nearly one in five Nashville public school students was failing at least one class. One Nashville parent was told that her daughter with a disability was failing all her classes as a virtual learner. I believe this is wrong. How can we fail young people during a pandemic?

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Cult of Pedagogy

SEPTEMBER 29, 2024

” Facilities Access When it comes to spaces like restrooms and locker rooms, Edwards says “Every major medical and psychological association would recommend that trans kids and gender-expansive kids access the facilities that match their gender identity.”

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 17, 2019

Montessori schools have a distinguished record of placing the focus on a student’s overall development. Public school teachers should observe a high-fidelity Montessori classroom. The concepts that shape the approach are rooted in the ideas of Maria Montessori.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 31, 2020

On any given day this summer, CUNY junior Nataly Toro goes through a rotating list of around 20 of the 300 recent New York public school system graduates she is being paid to mentor. Many coaches, like Toro, are graduates of the New York City public schools and understand what their younger counterparts are up against.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 20, 2023

Marvin Dunn, a former professor of psychology at Florida International University and a specialist in the state’s Black history, told the Daily Beast on Thursday that the latest African American studies ban “means an insult to me, it means an injury to me.” Here we go again?

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 11, 2021

percent of all public school students, but about 39 percent of students suspended from school. The 2017 Brown Center Report on American Education: Race and school suspensions found that Black students lose up to four times more days of instruction to suspensions than their white peers. Lateness to school.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 8, 2023

Credit: Camilla Forte/The Hechinger Report Gates was among the scores of high school students who accepted an invitation to visit Malcolm X College, a community college in Chicago, as part of a program run jointly with the Chicago Public Schools. He’s supposed to be strong and not show weakness,” Sanders says. “If

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 3, 2020

ASHTABULA, Ohio — Alexis Turner listened carefully as the administrators at the freshman orientation for Kent State University at Ashtabula ticked through the student groups she could join on campus that fall: English Society, Psychology Club, Student Veterans Association. This story also appeared in Eye on Ohio.

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The Hechinger Report

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. My degree is in psychology but I’m teaching history!

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 27, 2024

For generations, intelligence tests have played an outsize role in America, helping at times to control who can join the military and at what rank; who can enroll in the nation’s most elite private schools, and even who can be executed under federal law. Despite the victory, Lester was never taught to read, according to the KQED update.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

Before Hurricane Katrina, just half of New Orleans public school students earned a high school diploma , and few went on to succeed at a university. She’d spent four years at a high school determined to send minority students like her to college. psychology class. Marcovitz couldn’t sit up with her at 3 a.m.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

The array of DOE options for students with special needs — separate schools, in-classroom aides and therapies — all risk exposing immunocompromised kids to infection. The things they can really use — in-home and remote services — have become flashpoints in pandemic resource battles and culture wars. Credit: Kavitha Rajagopalan.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

This is the first incident of its kind coming from the school. But the same article also mentioned that in 2013, two teachers from Manhattan Public School 59 had incorporated the killing and whipping of slaves in a math lesson on subtraction and multiplication. Cummings’ slavery lesson wasn’t only cruel; it was redundant.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 27, 2017

Sylvan Hills Middle School Assistant Principal Monica Blasingame, center, and Principal Artesza Portee, right, discuss “big life goals” with a student as part of a goal-setting exercise in Atlanta Public Schools. public schools. Screenshot of teacher dashboards from Atlanta Public Schools.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 11, 2016

Two years ago, Connecticut’s governor moved to recognize the work of public school paraprofessionals. Related: In a conservative corner of Arkansas, schools welcome immigrants. The American Psychological Association has documented the psychological barriers to academic achievement associated with lower socioeconomic status.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 9, 2017

In this context, school boards look for teachers who have some common and agreed-upon understanding of what should transpire in classrooms. Related: Will high school segregation for refugees lead to better integration? The same may be said for students who move in and out of schools. Sign up for The Report’s newsletter.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

While Burns struggled at a Durham, North Carolina, elementary school, she says she began to catch up academically after she transferred to a middle school in nearby Raleigh. But her success was short-lived: She ended up back at Durham Public Schools in eighth grade. Now I thank God, I didn’t let them skip me up.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 26, 2019

The median household income here is $19,775 , according to the Census Bureau — less than the in-state tuition, fees, room and board for a public four-year university on the mainland, which the College Board reports is $21,370. We don’t have that culture of studying for [the SAT]. Rivera Pichardo for The Hechinger Report. “It

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Political Science Now

OCTOBER 1, 2024

This summer, the American Political Science Association partnered with Montgomery County Public School (MCPS) District’s Summer Rise Program to offer three high school students the opportunity to gain experience in political science knowledge production and higher education non-profits.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 17, 2018

Now, several years later, after pursuing a degree in psychology and taking courses in child development, Foster is more educated about Montessori education and realizes little about the “Montessori garden” actually adhered to Montessori practice. The cultural area introduces students to puzzle maps, flags and globes.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 31, 2024

Nearly half of those dismissals have been for Black students, even though they make up only 17 percent of the public school population. That’s when racial and cultural differences between educators and students can come into play. Bias also plays a role.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

The fact that society is “expecting nurturing, responsive care,” from providers who don’t have enough money to put food on the table, “is really unconscionable,” said Phil Fisher, a psychology professor at the University of Oregon and director of the RAPID-EC project. The economic challenges of child care workers go beyond food insecurity.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

It seems that many considered the people who worked in public schools prior to the storm as collateral damage for the grand New Orleans experiment (another worn-out phrase). Even in death people have value; history and culture remains. Sure, rebuilding school buildings and improving systems are worthy goals after any disaster.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 29, 2022

In a database maintained by the National Center for School Mental Health, roughly 15,000 schools self-report that they have comprehensive school mental health systems. That’s about 15% of K-12 public schools in the United States. School staff need proper training and oversight, he says.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 14, 2020

There was a real culture that ‘We hate school and we hate language,’” Burris said. 77 percent of public school students are economically disadvantaged. Public Schools closed its gifted and talented programs. Public Schools, believes SEM has helped D.C. Out of 29 students, 27 were boys.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Bowman noted, “As dangerous or harmful as they can be, these narratives are designed to be engaging and satisfy deep psychological needs, such as the need for community and understanding. Just six states have guidelines for how to teach media literacy, and only three make it a requirement in public schools.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

The story dominated headlines for more than a year, cost New York City Schools Chancellor Joseph Fernandez his job and opened a new chapter in the culture wars. “Heather Has Two Mommies” has once again become a lightning rod in culture wars: Credit: Candlewick Press/Penguin Random House. Fast forward to 2022.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 26, 2017

But the scandal of a racist principal leading a majority-black school, terrible though it is, should not obscure the bigger picture: We need to examine the porous systems that allow Confederate sympathizers to work in public schools. Related: In high-crime areas, education reform needs to expand outside the classroom.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 16, 2020

Douglass High School in New Orleans, wanted her students to have the same transformative experience she did on a high school trip to Ghana. This year, she took 25 students to Belize, where they learned about the Garifuna and Mayan cultures. Many of those schools were led by white principals and a fleet of white teachers.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2021

Now, new studies warn of the pandemic’s potentially “debilitating effects” on children’s psychological, developmental and educational progress as anxiety, depression and loneliness increased over the last year. Superintendent Rico Munn made mental health a priority when he came to Aurora Public Schools in 2013.

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Maitri Learning

OCTOBER 18, 2022

But, it does not meet the needs of all students, particularly those with dyslexia or who are entering public school following a summer-based preparation program. An alternative is needed that neither sacrifices the deep learning of the student nor the needs of schools to prepare teachers in summer-based courses. Lillard, A.S.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 9, 2016

Knowing his culture and practicing his religion help ground him, Helgeson said. As a teacher at Hays-Lodge Pole High School on the Fort Belknap Indian Reservation in Montana, Helgeson works hard to pass on that cultural knowledge. Many older Baby Boomers here have clear memories of their boarding school days.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 11, 2016

Being Tasered by a school resource officer can also traumatize a child psychologically. We do know, however, that the number of Tasers in schools has risen in the past decade. In 1997 only 10 percent of public schools had police officers; in 2014, 30 percent did. It’s a natural instinct to want to protect children.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 10, 2023

Yet even with teachers, new and veteran, so rattled by pandemic teaching and concurrent culture wars, districts may not be adapting. Using the virtual classroom , teachers in training can work through situations that might be difficult, but in a psychologically safe environment. “They don’t teach you this in college.”

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 21, 2017

The school’s superintendent recently announced that after an investigation by Cincinnati Public Schools, no linkage has been found between Gabriel’s death and bullying. but there are two things they have in common: They are black, and they spend most of their day in school. The streets are mean enough.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 25, 2016

says Title IX is usually associated with sex-based equity in athletics—having girls’ basketball and track teams, for instance, in the male-dominated culture of sports. ” “Its purpose is to inhibit or prevent discrimination based on gender in any program getting public funds,” Sadker told the Jackson Free Press.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 3, 2024

Recent research shows that WOW works: At a time when teen girls’ mental health is in crisis , a 2023 University of Chicago Education Lab randomized control trial found that WOW reduced PTSD symptoms among Chicago Public Schools participants by 22 percent and decreased their anxiety and depression. Only 5 percent of U.S.

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