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MARCH 17, 2021

Emily, who loves math and wants to be a pharmacist, said that she’s nervous about how hard the classes may be but that she’s eager for a “better education.” The move is spurring hope among school desegregation advocates who want the exam schools to look more like Boston’s public schools overall.

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NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Like learning to read by third grade, taking eighth grade math is a pivotal moment in a child’s education. Algebra in eighth grade is a gateway to a lot of further opportunities,” said Dan Goldhaber, an economist who studies education at the American Institutes for Research, in a recent webinar. Department of Education.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 15, 2018

A majority of recessionary budget cuts to education have been restored. National Center for Education Statistics, National Spending for Public Schools Increases for Second Consecutive Year in School Year 2014-15. Last week, the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), an arm of the U.S.

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OCTOBER 29, 2024

In exchange, residents would qualify for in-district tuition and trigger a long-term plan to build out college facilities in this rural stretch of Texas, which is positioning itself to tap into the economic boom flowing into the smaller communities nestled between Austin and San Antonio. percent — falls to about half of the state rate.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 24, 2018

. There is a widespread view in education that poor parents are trouble: They don’t spend enough time reading to children, monitoring their homework, attending school events or helping teachers. Educators, at times, complain bitterly about them, and many policies have been designed to address these issues.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

Supporting Hanna was just one reason why my family and I decided I would enroll in a tuition-free online charter school program beginning in fifth grade and why, as a high school junior, I’m still there, as is Hanna and her twin, Morgan. For reaching my personal academic and career goals, online public school has been the right fit.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

percent fewer public school students a decade from now. “If it does come true, we’re going to see massive changes,” said Mike Griffith, a school finance specialist at the Education Commission of the States, a think tank that aims to inform education policy. “Nobody is talking about this.”

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Sapiens

MARCH 11, 2025

I had initially planned to focus on Indigenous language revitalization in public schools, but it soon became clear that spaces like Calfunaos recording studio carried just as much value for Patagonians looking to reconnect with Indigenous languages and cultures.

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A Principal's Reflections

OCTOBER 2, 2014

First, we offer a much-needed framework for the education of diverse learners. Second, we advocate for the development of an action plan for educating the not-so-common learners that is research-based, achievable, and reaches beyond any current educational reform initiative for school improvement. Struggling Learners.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 12, 2022

The morning after the news broke, however, Asian American educators across the country largely had to show up for work as if nothing out of the ordinary had happened. In one Philadelphia-area public school district, a K-8 teacher recalled, “We had an online morning meeting every day, and still, nothing was said in that morning meeting.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 7, 2014

It goes without saying that parents who shell this money out believe that their children will be getting a better education in exchange for all that money. In fact, in several grades, students with similar demographic backgrounds did better in math when they attended public schools. But what if they’re wrong?

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

They can be a part of society, said Maureen McGuire-Kuletz, co-director of the George Washington University Center for Rehabilitation Counseling Research and Education. I just wish we could have gotten help while he was still in high school. That was the hope. If you got in early, then some challenges later on would not exist.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 18, 2021

After years of discussion, New York City announced in October 2021 that it is overhauling gifted and talented programs, eliminating the testing of thousands of 4-year olds and the city’s separate education system of schools and classrooms for students who score high on this one test.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 8, 2025

Down the hall, culinary students chop and saute in the schools commercial kitchen, and in another room, cosmetology students snip mannequin hair to prepare for the states natural hair stylist license. adults have a lot of confidence in higher education, according to a 2024 Gallup poll. Department of Education.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 23, 2022

Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Future of Learning newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every other Wednesday with trends and top stories about education innovation. Subscribe today! The next step is for people to think about how this blurring can happen at scale, he said.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 18, 2018

We are two American public-school dads who just returned from a fact-finding trip through Finland. We wanted to see what the United States could learn from an education system that consistently receives top marks from UNICEF , the OECD and the World Economic Forum. Photo: William Doyle.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

AUGUST 5, 2015

Public schools conflict with all of those, don’t they? Citizens and communities generally like and strongly support their schools. ignore legal requirements to timely establish school funding levels that would allow districts to adequately plan and budget. So you’ve got a challenge.

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ED Surge

MARCH 5, 2025

To right the ship, families, schools and future employers must work together to prioritize a meaningful investment and evidence-based approach in developing a diverse and technically skilled workforce who can thrive in a rapidly changing economic landscape.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 31, 2016

Hob Bryan, D-Amory, described the joint meeting between the House and Senate Education Committees yesterday. “Antiquated, confusing, inefficient, unreliable, unpredictable. ” House Speaker Philip Gunn said at the Mississippi Economic Council’s annual Hob Nob on Oct. ” he asked.

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ED Surge

JULY 7, 2023

language education was published in 2017, with data from less than half of the country’s K-12 schools. While our understanding of language education is incomplete, we know that most K-12 students in American public schools do not have the opportunity to study an additional language to proficiency.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Rider oversees career and technical education in Allen Parish, a region of rural Louisiana known for pine forests and the state’s largest casino. The 4,000-student school district offers classes in agriculture and health sciences, courses in coding and welding, and internships at the local hospital and the district offices.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

With nerves and excitement, millions of young Americans are back in school after years of pandemic disruption. At the same time, questions of effectiveness and inclusion across our education system reveal deep cause for concern. Our education system is failing to educate the next generation to face the challenges of our times.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 16, 2020

What if our hope that public education can erase inequality is in vain? If these things were true, how would what we ask of schools — and how we measure their success — change? Related: What if public schools never reopen? This flies in the face of common sense and human history, deBoer argued.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 14, 2019

I took multiple semesters of musical technique, history and theory as well as music education methods. I first was assigned to an elementary school in a middle-class suburb of Philadelphia. Then I got to a middle school in the same district in a neighborhood with kids who were less economically advantaged. I struggled.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 12, 2024

Board of Education, rejecting legal racial segregation of public schools. The decision appeared to pave the way for equal educational opportunities for every child and integrated classrooms where students from all backgrounds could prepare to thrive in their communities, careers and lives.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Historically, career and technical education (CTE) was seen as a dumping ground for students who weren’t considered college material. A two-tier educational system tracked predominantly low-income students and students of color into career and technical classes, then known as vocational education. Perkins Act.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 14, 2018

Nettie explains to her daughter the meaning of the high court’s ruling in the Brown Vs. Board of Education case that segregation in public schools is unconstitutional. In education, America does everything but equity.” Most states cut education spending in the 2008 recession. Photo: Bettmann/Getty Images. “In

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 13, 2017

Many middle-class families are scared to send their children to schools with low-income children of color. Board of Education , that mandated desegregation in schools, and after 25 years of education reform, white families aren’t flocking to neighborhood schools or charters with black children.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 6, 2020

Related: OPINION: When Black parents benefit from school choice, it doesn’t perpetuate racism. Overt racism like this is, I hope, less prominent in today’s public-school classrooms than it was 30 years ago in my own — if for no other reason than no one can ever again claim that a Black person can’t become president of our country.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 1, 2020

It’s the largest school district in the country and at the epicenter of the coronavirus pandemic. That’s why all eyes are on the New York City Department of Education’s next move. What will happen to more than a million public-school students in the fall of 2020? Will schooling resume as normal?

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 1, 2021

America’s public schools have enormous energy, infrastructure and transportation needs, which make them an essential component of any plan to improve the nation’s overall infrastructure. Yet the role schools can play — both in economic recovery and in addressing climate change — is often overlooked.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 8, 2019

This week marks National Arts in Education Week , a time for us to highlight the transformative power of the arts in education. Arts education for all students is fundamental to a well-rounded education. No matter the path, arts education provides a way to creative careers of the future.

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ED Surge

MAY 8, 2024

In a time when technological advancements shape our daily lives and drive economic growth, focusing on STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) education in K-12 schools is not just a trend but a necessity. Minecraft Education ’s blocky world became the undisputed champion of engagement.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 14, 2020

The time has come for the very foundations of our country, good and bad, to face a reckoning; we’re dealing with long-standing racial disparities and injustices while trying to attain equity and equality, and the educational system is where it starts. Both perpetuate economic disparities and racial injustice. I wholeheartedly agree.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

From the presidential campaigns to local races, Democrats and Republicans both acknowledged that our early care and learning systems are not functioning for families, educators or their communities. It's just serving the same kids in the private schools whose parents are higher incomes and who had already chosen to send their kids there.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Schools in the bottom quarter of all schools in a given jurisdiction were not ranked, but simply identified as being in the bottom quarter. Although USN&WR has proclaimed itself “the global authority in education rankings,” a healthy degree of skepticism is appropriate. Even “global authorities” can screw up!

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 9, 2018

The average performance of the nation’s fourth- and eighth-graders mostly held steady in math and reading from 2015 to 2017, now marking a decade of stalled educational progress, according to the results of a test released Tuesday. The NAEP scores showed stellar gains within the traditional public school system.

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