The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

In some places, this now includes reshaping what “back-to-school” means, as districts attempt to schedule the academic year around extreme heat. Unexpected school closures can leave parents scrambling for child care, and in some cases might send students to homes that are also hot and un-air conditioned.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 19, 2024

One report documented that U.S. students did not make progress in catching up in the most recent 2023-24 school year and slid even further behind in math and reading, exacerbating pandemic learning losses. If you don’t show up to school, you’re not likely to catch up. children are academically and that merits coverage.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 13, 2021

As part of a $4 billion initiative called Race to the Top, the federal government tried to persuade states to measure the performance of teachers, rank them, pay bonuses to the best teachers and fire the worst ones. Research documented giant student achievement improvements in Washington, D.C.,

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Teaching American History

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

This inspired Lindblom to design an elective sophomore course on the same three periods, using many of the primary documents she’d studied in the TAH seminar. It would give them time to think about American principles while learning to read primary documents. The game illuminated the primary documents Thrailkill read to prepare for it.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 18, 2020

Eli’s mom, Alice Stuart, contacted the school in January 2020 to launch the process to formally evaluate her child for dyslexia and dyscalculia, a math disability. Boston Public Schools, for instance, began the school year with nearly 1,800 students waiting on assessments, school district officials say.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

public school teachers with a similar education. Additionally, District of Columbia public school teachers are paid more based on experience, and they also receive a pay bump, or a salary step increase, each year. Because child care is not primarily funded by the federal government, the quality and cost vary by state.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

In addition, the recent UNESCO report entitled “An Ed-Tech Tragedy” documented vast inequality from pandemic-related reliance on technology during remote online learning, and concluded that lower-tech alternatives such as the distribution of schoolwork packets or delivering lessons via radio and televisionmight have been more equitable. “The

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 17, 2018

Rather than try to understand why parents might opt out of state testing, the federal government simply threatened states that high opt-out rates could affect their federal funding. Rather, it is more subdued, and is focused on public schools, which despite their status as public institutions, rarely open themselves up to public scrutiny.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 27, 2024

The federal government would eventually give schools almost $190 billion to reopen and to help students who fell behind when schools were closed. Tutoring became a leading solution for academic recovery and schools contracted with outside companies to provide tutors. Tutoring companies bid and the terms varied.

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Cult of Pedagogy

JANUARY 21, 2024

As a reminder, the opposite of standardized tests are bespoke assessments: teacher-designed individual assessments for every one of their students every time they want to document their learning. Testing Wars in the Public Schools: A Forgotten History. First Class: The Legacy of Dunbar, America’s First Black Public High School.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

In the latest study , published in January 2023, children who went to preschool were far more likely to go to college within a couple years of graduating high school. Earlier research has also found long-term benefits from preschool. But those were tiny preschool programs for low-income children dating back to the 1960s and 1970s.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

million public school children enrolled in special education in the United States, 13 percent of all public school students. Since then, the department has eliminated 72 guidance documents that dealt with the rights of special education students. We could get no one to listen or do what was needed.”. There are 6.6

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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. In the early 1970s, Lester, known in court documents as Larry P.,

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

“No, we don’t have parity,” said Richard Ingersoll, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania, who has been documenting changes in the teaching labor force. million public school teachers in the U.S. Their first 2012 report tracked changes from 1987 through 2008. This 2015-16 data shows that 20 percent of the 3.8

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 6, 2022

The median income is about $33,000 and almost a quarter of the population is considered to be living in poverty, a poverty that is concentrated in households sending children to the county’s public schools, where the vast majority of students qualify for free and reduced-price lunch. Some in town think schools should use it more often.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 27, 2023

When Iowa Wesleyan University announced in March that it would close, its biggest creditor was a federal government agency that had loaned it $26 million and then — in an attempt to help the university survive —softened the terms and extended the repayment period. A score of less than 1.5

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 17, 2018

This was clearly no ordinary public school. A driveway circling a landscaped pond led them to the school’s main hall. Lake Oconee’s amenities are virtually unheard of in rural Georgia; and because it is a public school, they are all available at the unbeatable price of free. Lake Oconee Academy is a charter school.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 17, 2019

Related: How the federal government abandoned the Brown v. Rebecca Sibilia, EdBuild’s CEO, cites a few reasons for the accelerating school breakaway movement. In racially diverse parts of the country like Alabama, the desire of white parents to move their children into whiter, wealthier schools has been the driving factor, she said.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

Because of this diagnosis, an individualized education plan (IEP) — documents detailing Colson’s special needs, and a plan for how his school would help him reach his potential — was already in place when Colson arrived for his first day of school. That year, the school didn’t ask her to take any end-of-course exams.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

But sure enough, when I looked at his Individualized Education Program, the legal document that outlines how his disabilities would be accommodated, there was an entry calling for 15 minutes of support a year. Would I mind, she asked, if she took herself off of the roster of people providing him services?

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

Many had seen their schooling interrupted by the chaos back home; some had experienced gang violence or human trafficking. The Louisiana High School Athletic Association requires all student-athletes to present some proof of age — a birth certificate or official immigration papers — along with a social security number.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 19, 2019

Decades of research have documented that students of color, particularly black children, are disproportionately classified by schools as having disabilities. million public school students in the U.S. The federal government foots only a small part of the bill, leaving localities and states to pay for the rest.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 30, 2021

Linda Reksten, R-Polson, noted that during her years as a public school superintendent, it sometimes took the state six weeks just to process an applicant’s fingerprints. Anderson has worked at Greenfield School for nearly a decade. The school was going to take a hit because of something that was out of our control.”

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 22, 2016

million people live in places where state officials took over entire districts or individual schools in the past six years, according to News21 data collected from state government agencies. They say their concerns have fallen on the deaf ears of the state, which removed the city’s school board more than a year ago. More than 5.6

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 17, 2022

Just under 60 percent of the students are English language learners, and just over 60 percent have been deemed socioeconomically disadvantaged, though that’s an undercount according to the school’s staff who say many of their families are also undocumented or under-documented. Credit: Marissa Leshnov for the Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 22, 2018

As a prelude to discussing leadership, peer pressure and conflict, a Crew of seventh graders at King Middle School in Portland, Maine, played a game called “Instigator.” While no guidelines on classroom technology govern the network, according to Berger, there is a shared wariness of anything that might undermine EL’s collaborative ethos.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 8, 2016

Five and six year old children are inheritors of poverty’s curse and not its creators,” Johnson told his audience as he explained that the federal government would be, for the first time, funding education and health services for children living in poverty in the form of a public preschool program. Photo: Lillian Mongeau.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 30, 2018

Noble Minds is not the only school in New Orleans that has put a greater emphasis on serving all students, including those with disabilities, in recent years. The state-run Recovery School District governed most of the charter schools in New Orleans at the time. It’s overseen by the state school board.).

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Political Science Now

JULY 16, 2024

In Zambia, education in Catholic versus secular primary schools decreases support for progressive gender attitudes. Across Latin America, citizens who attend private versus public schools have less support for the social contract. public comments and voter turnout) and local political institutions (e.g.,

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 15, 2016

But there’s a problem: Basic data that might inform ways of solving pressing education problems weren’t included in the final document because the state did not make the data available. She notes that while data from the index show that public school enrollment rose six percent, the Data Center still could not determine why.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Last year, a similar data breach of the Los Angeles school district led to thousands of students’ psychological records uploaded to the dark web. In 2020, Baltimore County Public Schools was hit with a cyberattack that disrupted the district’s remote learning programs, froze its operations and cost the school system nearly $10 million.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Despite promising in 1974 to cover nearly half the extra cost for schools to provide special education, the federal government has never done so.) Her requests for translated copies of legal documents largely went unanswered, she said — until a principal told her that the translation was too expensive. In 2020, the U.S.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 9, 2022

By displaying the posters and photos of the teachers holding them up along the main hallway, my hope was that our trans students knew that despite what was happening in the state government, our staff and school would affirm and celebrate them. Unfortunately, this right is not adequately afforded to our transgender students.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

But convincing data on nine-year-olds’ test performances quickly heightened concerns about what schools can do to help students catch up once they are all back learning in person. These scores reiterate the vital importance of this school year to help students recover and thrive,” Weingarten said in a statement.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2019

Leave this field empty if you're human: Personalized learning argues that the entrepreneurial nature of the knowledge economy and the gaping need, diversity and unmanageable size of a typical public school classroom are ill-served by the usual arrangement of a teacher lecturing at a blackboard. The George W.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 12, 2023

When the debate over teaching race-related concepts in public schools reached Kimberly Tilsen-Brave Heart’s home state of South Dakota, she decided she couldn’t in good conscience send her youngest daughter to kindergarten at a local public school.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 2, 2024

Students miss hundreds of thousands of school days each year for subjective infractions like defiance and disorderly conduct, a Hechinger investigation revealed. He added that the department monitors discipline data for special education disparities and works with school districts on the issue. It’s like she’s not in control.”

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