The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 17, 2018

He was on the student council and debate team, took Advanced Placement classes in history and chemistry, speaks four languages, worked a corporate internship and played three sports: soccer, basketball and track. Konate graduated second in his class from The English High School in Boston with a 4.5 grade-point average.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 27, 2019

Hanushek, an economist, believes that the inability to close the achievement gap shows the failure of our education policies to help the poor, especially the $26 billion a year the federal government spends on Title I funding on poor schools and for Head Start preschool programs. Sign up for Jill Barshay's Proof Points newsletter.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 12, 2016

Fifteen years ago, Brenda Cassellius was an assistant principal at a Minneapolis high school when a local reporter asked her about the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB), the brand-new congressional overhaul of federal education policy. That data has become a valuable tool for educators, policy makers and researchers.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 23, 2016

Nursery schools, which have a long history in England, have also been tapped to help improve the quality of care offered at all of the settings available to parents under the universal plan. This is even more remarkable when contrasted with the economics of child care in the U.S.: think tank. and the U.K. weren’t that different.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

So it and other schools in the region have started trying to recruit Hispanics, who — like Barrera Cantu — increasingly want college educations. Liberal arts colleges are in crisis,” said Doug Sofer, professor of history at another of these schools, Maryville College in Tennessee. based research organization focusing on Hispanics.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 30, 2018

In New Orleans, 81 percent of public school students are economically disadvantaged, according to data from the Louisiana Department of Education. Audrey Watters, author of a forthcoming book on the history of education technology. Where there’s money, that fuels the fire,” said Barbot.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2023

In Norfolk, Virginia, the juniors and seniors enrolled in an African American history class taught by Ed Allison were working on their capstone projects, using nearby Fort Monroe, the site where the first enslaved Africans landed in 1619, as a jumping off point to explore their family history.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 9, 2017

Parker Charter Essential School in Devens, Massachusetts, believe multiage education fosters cooperation and collaboration between students, like these ninth- and 10th-graders working together on a Holocaust-related history project. Photo: Stuart Miller. DEVENS, Mass. — It looks like a typical class in a suburban high school.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 5, 2021

But now a convergence of factors — a dwindling pool of traditional-age students, the call for more educated workers and a pandemic that highlighted economic disparities and scrambled habits and jobs — is putting adults in the spotlight. But in the midst of his studies, he stumbled and had to retake an economics course.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 18, 2016

Here is something worse than the current racial tensions in New Orleans and other cities: The outcomes caused by racial biases in our policing, schooling practices and stark economic inequality between black and white families. Secretary of Education, is thankful for attending diverse schools and attributes those schools to his advancements.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

In addition to breaking up cliques, on a more systemic level, school districts have to push for integrated schools to counteract the social isolation of entire communities caused by education policy. Educators and policy makers still have opportunities to teach and apply the ethic that we’re all in this together.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 21, 2019

Rabalais dreamed of a diverse campus that would cater to his diverse neighborhood and draw kids from across the racial and economic chasms that have long divided New Orleans. Celeste Lay, a Tulane political science professor who studies education policy, sees a pattern in who is succeeding in this new era.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

The bill, known as the Promoting Real Opportunity, Success, and Prosperity through Education Reform (PROSPER) Act, would also make more money and regulatory flexibility available to for-profit colleges, many of which have been cited for high costs, low graduation rates and a history of taking advantage of low-income students and military veterans.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 12, 2020

history will see it that way. Most education policy experts recognize that the $13.2 billion the CARES Act allocated for K-12 education is woefully inadequate. Most education policy experts recognize that the $13.2 billion the CARES Act allocated for K-12 education is woefully inadequate.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 2, 2017

Emmanuel: There’s this feeling from some on both sides of the political spectrum that an economic version of affirmative action could sidestep a lot of the problems that have come with having explicitly racialized programs, but it’s key to look at the University of Texas at Austin, which just had its admissions program upheld by the Supreme Court.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 8, 2017

It’s an accident of history that allowed all of these same issues in the United States to emerge in South Africa at such a pitch.”. Seán Muller, an economist at the University of Johannesburg, says politicians promise students and their families that college is a step up the economic ladder — but don’t want to pay for it.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 24, 2021

This proposal would increase the amounts available for public preschool, mental health counselors, special education services and teacher training, among other educator priorities. “We’re Department of Education was created in 1979 by former President Jimmy Carter, who appointed a judge, Shirley Hufstedler, to lead it. “Let’s

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 18, 2017

DeVos should know that taking away real income, job opportunities and community development resources from the people who need it most in exchange for the hope of “choice” is foolish, educationally and economically. And yet the harm segregation does to white children is also part of Brown ‘s history. It’s also immoral.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

I traveled to England to see how that country has managed to provide subsidized or free care and education for all of the country’s 3- and 4-year-olds. I dug into the history and research on Head Start. and a timeline of the major early education policy changes dating back to the late 19 th century.

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AUGUST 4, 2023

Backers of the takeover of Houston Independent School District say it’s needed to improve performance in a few schools in low-income neighborhoods that have a history of poor academic outcomes. The reason I say Houston might be pointing in this direction is because the Houston school district itself is not struggling.”

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

I don’t think this is a new era but a repetition of history,” she said. Unlike in Pakistan with its long history of military coups, her parents remind her, in America, no matter the winner or loser, there is peace. Education policy also worries her. I don’t think this is a new era but a repetition of history.”.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

But experts say as the economic crisis decimates state tax revenue and forces states to slash budgets, it’s more and more likely the nation won’t have enough teachers to staff schools even once reopening is safe. History from a teacher working in another district. Fernando Valenzuela, a substitute teacher in Las Vegas.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 18, 2016

Private banks and colleges would make those decisions together, Sam Clovis, a co-chair of Trump’s campaign and an economics professor at Iowa’s Morningside College, said in an interview. Anthony Carnevale, director, Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce. China and other economic rivals add them.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 12, 2024

In 2020, in the early days of the pandemic, Trump signed the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security, or CARES, Act, which allotted an additional $3.5 history and race Both Trump and Vance have attacked critical race theory and advanced concerns that K-12 teachers are stirring anti-white bias among students.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 9, 2016

But its becoming even easier through the thin veil of choice rhetoric to see choice policies have found ways to primarily deconstruct the “monopoly” on public schools – not address structural inequalities that generate disparate educational outcomes. Just like Trump said, “ What do you have to lose?

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