The Hechinger Report

JULY 14, 2019

I was trained and licensed to be a music teacher in the traditional American way. Almost all of what I just described was traditional. Incredibly traditional. 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.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 31, 2018

The vast majority of Saridis’s students are Latino, and at the Margarita Muñiz Academy in Boston, a dual-language high school in Boston Public Schools, connecting the curriculum to their culture is a top priority. Tapping into students’ cultures in the curriculum fits, logically, into efforts to personalize learning.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 18, 2019

These Native American children are learning to play double ball , a traditional indigenous game, or at least that seems to be the focus of their activity. In general, Native students in K-12 public schools in the United States experience higher-than-average rates of suspension, expulsion and school-related arrests.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 18, 2024

As an English language learner in southern New England, she navigated linguistic and cultural barriers to build a life that nurtured her family and sustained her Portuguese heritage. These tastes and smells are etched in my memory, a reminder of her dedication to keeping traditions alive and passing them down to the next generation.

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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

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 4, 2025

Her developmental disability prevented her from attending a traditional college, but she took courses online and became a librarians assistant at a public library in Long Island. Another fan of the program, Linda Mauriello, runs the transition and work-based learning program at Boonton Public Schools in northern New Jersey.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 1, 2025

Algebra teacher Rick Riccio demonstrates scientific notation during a class at Braham Area High School in Minnesota. 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. Not all districts dislike the policy.

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Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Greenfield Union School District (California). Gwinnett County Public Schools (Georgia). Highline Public Schools (Washington). Hudson City School District (New York). Kansas City Public Schools (Missouri). Linden Public School District (New Jersey). Community Schools (California).

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

In this interview with EdSurge, Black discusses Dangerous Learning, how challenges to traditional public school education enforce rather than dissolve political divisions, and the unexpected successes hidden in the sad history of anti-literacy. But religious ethics are not enough to create a public school system.

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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

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. What’s also becoming well-known is the essential role of traditional and Indigenous ecological knowledge in the effort to cope with the climate crisis.

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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

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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Digital Promise

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Rodriguez stressed exploring alternative pathways and assessments to traditional instruction. Pajaro Valley School District determined that when students are engaged in learning connected to their interests, outcomes improved. Still from U.S. million students served over time.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 1, 2024

Our nation’s public school population is changing, fueled by growth in the number of multilingual learners. public school enrollment in 2020, up from 8.1 One Alabama town is trying to change that We can help address this problem by creating a highly trained, skilled and culturally competent educator workforce.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 20, 2021

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. Illinois has developed culturally responsive teaching and leading standards with the goal of attracting and retaining more teachers of color.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Minneapolis Public Schools (Minnesota) already uses data to inform decision-making in more than 70 schools across the city, but they wanted to find best practices for interoperability to link different systems together for more accurate and timely data. Abby Wolf IT Strategy Process Analyst, Minneapolis Public Schools.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 12, 2023

But the latest national study from a Stanford University research group calculates that students, on average, learned more at charter schools between the years of 2014 and 2019 than similar students did at their traditional local public schools. It was the pits,” she said and charter school advocates were “pissed.”

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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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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

Edgecombe County Public Schools in rural North Carolina has long had trouble filling all of its open teaching positions. So far, eight of its 13 traditional schools have hired teacher-leaders who not only put their great teaching to use in front of students, but also coach their colleagues to spread their best practices.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 28, 2024

In January 2018, I signed up to work as a substitute teacher at a public school in Columbus, Ohio. When I showed up, I wore what I thought was professional attire for a school teacher, including a long-sleeved shirt and dress pants. I also wore my hijab, which is a symbol of my faith and tradition in the Muslim community.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 24, 2023

Hirsch, who developed the curriculum used in these schools and whose 1987 book Cultural Literacy inspired the common core standards movement in American education. In this study, the researchers copied a method used by charter school researchers. Some postponed starting kindergarten that year.

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 13, 2021

Here is a non-exhaustive list of some of these shifts in coaching and how they have contributed to cultures of continuous growth and changes in how the instructional technology coaching role is perceived: The shift to distance learning has removed many logistical and scheduling challenges coaches previously faced in a traditional school day.

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Artifacts Middle School Advocacy Lesson Plan 141

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. We now have a real chance to disrupt traditional grading practices in schools, districts and even higher education. I believe this is wrong. How can we fail young people during a pandemic?

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 15, 2019

Leave this field empty if you're human: Charter schools serve just 6 percent of the nation’s public school students, but they have prompted bitter debates about educational priorities – and fair competition – particularly in cities that have a lot of them. Massachusetts now has 41 innovation schools.

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ED Surge

MAY 10, 2022

But you wouldn’t know it by looking at the makeup of public-school teachers, who are overwhelmingly white. And the understanding of the students of color and their experience in school, and whether or not that’s been an experience of belonging, of trust, of identity, where students can be their authentic self.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 27, 2019

start in Culture Park, in nearby Gentilly, and the cuts continued the next day at his shop, in adjacent Treme. Thank goodness for people like Mercadel, who refuse to allow conformity, practicality and efficiency to suck away the enthusiasm for the first day of school. Still, cuts are integral to the first day of school tradition.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 3, 2024

But her motivations are also deeply personal, cultural, and, in some ways, unique to Philadelphia. Abdullah was an intern for a school guidance counselor in West Philly before having children and was struck by the exhausted teachers, the unappetizing cafeteria food, and the students’ cursing and bad behavior.

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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. Yet there remains a huge shortage of special education public school teachers across most U.S. school districts. Community scholar and activist Leroy F.

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Education Public School Middle School Tradition 116

ED Surge

APRIL 8, 2022

This can lead to difficulties with retention, but can also affect the quality of teachers in public schools. Not only do teachers earn less than other professionals, but in most school districts their salary increases are not dependent on performance. Public Schools have been using their “ IMPACT plus ” model for over a decade.

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Public School Cultures Teaching Economics 114

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 8, 2019

Increasingly, we’ve seen young people asking for more opportunities to engage in quality work-based learning experiences while they’re in high school via increased learning opportunities in career and technical education. Related: COLUMN: Departure of ‘Fame’ high school principal is victory for arts education and student power.

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Education Civics Critical Thinking Cultures 103

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 24, 2020

The coronavirus pandemic has made it clear that schools are lifelines for children not just during the school year but also during the summer months. Traditionally, schools are able to reach a portion of students through the U.S. Yet, our schools remain closed. But, nationwide, the 3.76 Camps have been canceled.

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Tradition Cultures Public School High School 106

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 23, 2020

This period of social distancing is giving us a glimpse of what it’s like when a school is shuttered permanently, a tragedy tens of thousands of families have had to deal with over the last two decades. Like the coronavirus, the impact of permanent school closures disproportionately hit Black and urban neighborhoods.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 24, 2022

Should local communities determine how education gets funded and who has access to public schools —or should the federal government intervene? The Crypto, Culture, & Society DAO is also an experiment in building an educational institution directed by learners, not administrators. And what are they learning about?

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Education EdTech Government Tradition 126

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 26, 2016

Other stories in the series look at schools that are recruiting from their own alumni to increase diversity and a traditional teacher education program focused on recruiting Hispanic teachers. This is a very culture-heavy city and the more teachers you have who know that culture, the better the schools will be,” said Walton.

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Charter School Public School Cultures Teaching 111

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2024

But Boaler’s popularity and influence have made her a focal point in the current math wars, which also seem to reflect the broader culture wars. In the last few months, tabloids and conservative publications have turned Boaler into something of an education villain who’s captured the attention of Elon Musk and Texas Sen.

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