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

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 Many multilingual students face ongoing challenges and discrimination in public school. These students made up 10.3 percent of U.S. percent in 2000.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 11, 2018

Enoch Jemmott, right, is a New York City public high school senior struggling with his own college applications while helping his peers in the film “Personal Statement.” Related: Reality check: After years of tough college prep high school seniors grapple with gaps in financial aid. Source: VIMEO. BROOKLYN, N.Y.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 27, 2020

According to the most recent federal data from the 2018-19 school year, there are now almost 118,000 school counselors in U.S. public schools and, more importantly, just 430 students, from kindergarten through 12th grade, for each school counselor. Nevada bucked the national trend.

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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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ED Surge

JULY 19, 2024

That’s particularly the case in K-12 classes, where teaching materials may be hard to parse, according to the preprint of a research article that argues that many of these students have to figure out how to access basic documents on their own, outside of school. But there’s a push to change that.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 9, 2021

.” The following day, July 28, nonprofit test maker, NWEA, issued a more detailed report, which not only confirmed that students, on average, learned a lot less than usual during the pandemic, especially in math, but also documented how low-income, Black and Latinx students were falling further behind academically.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Georgetown University’s Edunomics Lab documents the divergence between the growth of school staff and students. Retrieved from [link] The stats on school staffing might seem like a violation of the laws of supply and demand. In Connecticut, public school enrollment fell 7 percent while staffing rose 8 percent.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

public schools? Congressional watchdogs recently attempted to get a handle on the cyber security problem in schools. He counted 458 data breaches in school districts; 315 involved the unauthorized release of student data. Levin documented that more than a million student records have been affected, not thousands.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Unlike public school districts, universities are not legally required under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) to identify students with disabilities or cover evaluation costs. I embarked on a mentally exhausting pursuit for academic accommodations that made me doubt my belonging and ability to succeed at my school.

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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

MARCH 27, 2023

From my perspective you could find and replace ‘DCPS’ [DC Public Schools] for basically any major school system right now,” tweeted Ben Speicher, the principal of a charter school in Philadelphia. The shift in post-HS [high school] plans is a real uncovered story right now.” public school students are Black.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 9, 2023

Public schools are online just as much as their students, it seems, with profiles across social media. It’s that sharing of student photos, especially those with identifying information, that has researchers questioning what the implications may be for student privacy and whether it’s ethical for schools to post pictures at all.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 4, 2023

In 2021, the team published “ Suspending Our Future: How inequitable disciplinary practices disenfranchise Black kids in California’s public schools ,” calling for transfers to be treated like other forms of exclusionary discipline and require clear public reporting.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 1, 2022

The Court ruled that Maine’s exclusion of religious schools from a state tuition program was “discrimination against religion.” The program uses taxpayer dollars to help rural families who live far from a public school attend a private school instead. The tuitioning programs are not vouchers.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 22, 2020

That doesn’t come close to reflecting the demographics of the nation’s 50 million public schoolchildren who are 46 percent white, 15 percent Black, 28 percent Latino and 6 percent Asian. For one, researchers have documented that Black principals are often better at attracting and retaining Black teachers.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 26, 2021

What’s less clear is whether starting school later in the morning will prompt kids to sleep more and consequently learn more during the school day. A new study in Minnesota documents what happened to 18,000 students in grades 5 through 11 after four school districts postponed the start of the school day by 20 to 65 minutes.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 4, 2020

But, too often, gifted and talented programs create separate tracks that end up creating segregated systems within schools. For instance, Seattle Public Schools began offering advanced courses in the 1980s through its “Individual Progress Program” to prevent white families from leaving the district. Public Schools did years ago.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

However, neutral observers have also found strong evidence of high school grade inflation. Department of Education documented rising grades on high school transcripts between 2009 and 2019, while 12th grade math scores fell on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP). grade points from 3.02 in 2010 to 3.32

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

In August 2020, Amanda Nemergut was looking for alternatives to in-person public school for her three daughters. Her other two girls, in third and fifth grades, would be home on alternating days under the school’s hybrid schedule. For 12 years we’ve been documenting their disastrous outcomes, and they’re just resilient.”.

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 8, 2019

Still, huge gaps exist in educational outcomes, high school graduation rates, college readiness and workforce advancements based on race, class, and geography. Technology, and especially the internet and mobile devices such as tablets and smartphones, has become ubiquitous in our daily lives and affordable even to our public schools.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 13, 2024

Patty Topliffe, who teaches social studies at Woodstock High School in Vermont, said teaching vocabulary and other literacy skills to her students helps them understand primary source documents. Patty Topliffe teaches social studies at Woodstock High School in Brown’s district.

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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

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Research documented giant student achievement improvements in Washington, D.C., For the same reason, school districts with a high proportion of charter schools fared better too. Charter school staff provided a second pool of teachers for the public schools to hire away.

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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. Sara Mead, deputy superintendent of early learning for the D.C.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 18, 2024

Alberto enrolled in suburban Aurora Public Schools as a fourth grader, and has learned enough English that his teachers hide their smirks when he makes a particularly witty, and inappropriate, pun. But when it comes to schools, requirements under the U.S. without legal documentation to access a basic education.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 20, 2023

Public school choice appeared to increase overall arrests and days incarcerated for young men in Charlotte, North Carolina, according to a study by three economists, “ Does School Ch o ice Increase Crime? The researchers only looked at how public school lotteries affected criminal activity.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 12, 2023

She filed an appeal with the school board seeking to remove the textbooks in Robinson’s class, accusing him of teaching the concept of critical race theory and saying his course was aligned with The New York Times’ 1619 Project, both of which are now banned by the state’s board of education.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 31, 2017

Tulsa Public Schools uses visualizations to make it easy for teachers to look at student data and put their insights to use in the classroom. Over the last couple years, the Tulsa Public Schools district has shifted from using data purely for accountability purposes to using it as a strategic asset to improve students’ learning.

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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

FEBRUARY 24, 2019

When asked if I wanted to work with the organization in my school as a peer counselor, I said “yes.” ” (My experience is documented in the film Personal Statement.) Related: LA’s school counselors strike back. We need more college counselors in public schools to close the college guidance gap.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 3, 2019

“These patterns of segregation layer on top of residential segregation that’s been documented for a very long time,” Greenberg said. Home-based programs are 30 percent more segregated than center-based programs, which include private preschools and public school-based pre-K programs.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 18, 2020

That’s why as a community organizer for Stand for Children and a product of Portland Public Schools myself, I welcomed the district’s decision earlier this month to discontinue the presence of SROs. Forty-five percent of public schools nationwide had at least one SRO in the 2017-18 school year.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 17, 2018

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. These attitudes are also reflected in public opinion polls that document growing skepticism about the importance and usefulness of standardized tests.

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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

JANUARY 26, 2021

LEAP is a nonprofit organization that trains schools and teachers to use personalized learning in their classrooms. The day’s professional development for these Chicago Public Schools teachers, alumni of the program, was a refresher, a way to strengthen their teaching practice, share ideas and return to the classroom newly inspired.

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ED Surge

JUNE 5, 2023

EdSurge senior reporter Emily Tate Sullivan won a top journalism prize this month for her work documenting the chronic, national problem of low teacher pay in the United States. It explores why nearly 1 in 5 American public school teachers have to work a second job outside of the classroom to make ends meet.

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