The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 18, 2018

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. million people that is less diverse than America, and that has a history very different from our own? Why should we bother to learn from a small country of just 5.5

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 27, 2018

For this experiment, the researchers spent years developing four separate project-based units on history, geography, economics and civics. In a history unit, teachers and students can choose which historical sites to write about in their postcards. The curriculum development was the subject of a 2012 paper.)

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 28, 2019

“The United States is in the midst of the second largest immigration wave in its history.” ” The study , still a draft paper circulated by the National Bureau of Economic Research in January 2019, is titled, “An Extra Year to Learn English? .

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 16, 2021

Then, from the side of the school, the “big kids” came running, spilling from their modular middle school in headphones and hoodies to line up behind the younger children. Meanwhile, secondary school enrollment numbers were shrinking, while elementary enrollments were exploding, due to the postwar baby boom.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Four years ago this month, one of the most devastating wildfires in Oregon’s history erupted across the southern portion of the state. As the COVID pandemic raged, leaving children out of schools and away from regular routines and social interactions, the fire only magnified the disruption. Their households were filled with stress.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 19, 2021

It’s also opened jobs for young men from Worcester high schools at grocery stores and at Amazon, FedEx and other delivery companies, said Lynnel Reed, head guidance counselor at University Park, nearly two-thirds of whose students are considered economically disadvantaged. There’s more distractions for guys. Department of Education.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

A description of the parent program experiments and its results were published in a working paper, “ Promoting Parental Involvement in Schools: Evidence From Two Randomized Experiments ,” circulated by the National Bureau of Economic Research in October 2020.

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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.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

Students participate in morning workshops in advance of national May 1 “Day Without Immigrants” rallies, learning also about the labor rights history of May Day rallies worldwide. But at Muñiz, she was learning subjects like history and math in Spanish. Economically, he sees the vast promise of a bilingual workforce.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 21, 2024

After starting elementary school in the late 1960s, Naomi Hirahara and three other girls formed a clique called the C.L.A.N., But the moms in the community who support public schools have organized to create a more equitable and diverse educational landscape. This story was produced by The 19th and is reprinted with permission.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 23, 2019

Morales started out as an elementary-school teacher, then switched to academic counseling, which she’s done at LA High for the past eleven years; Martinez worked there, too, teaching history and social studies, until six years ago, when he was transferred to another high school in the district.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

It’s unfair, it’s discriminatory, and it disadvantages already economically disadvantaged kids,” said Jack Fletcher, co-founder of the Texas Center for Learning Disabilities in Houston and one of the first scientists to question the discrepancy model’s validity. She held it together all day at school and then would explode.”

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 19, 2021

It’s a scene that is replicated across the seven elementary schools and two high schools in this agricultural community of around 13,500 in California’s Central Valley. Students in a transitional kindergarten class at Washington Elementary, a K-8 school in the Lindsay Unified district, work in small groups.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 11, 2023

Related: When your disability gets you sent home from school In 2021-22 alone, the 17 school districts that provided data issued more than 1,600 long-term suspensions, an average of nine per school day. City School District of Albany meted out 280. Prior to his suspension, Martinez enjoyed school.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 25, 2016

Dee, then a Swarthmore College economics professor, saw slight improvements in reading and math test scores when black and white non-Hispanic students were assigned to teachers of the same race. When you look at the history of this nation, inequity has affected African-American students the longest,” said Delgado.

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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. It looks like a typical class in a suburban high school. Photo: Stuart Miller. DEVENS, Mass. —

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 22, 2018

Among reasons a school might leave the network: the fee, which starts at about $50,000 a year for new schools that need a lot of support and drops to about $15,000 for more seasoned members; a new principal who wants to champion his or her own approach, or simply a poor fit.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 6, 2020

It’s going to further disrupt kids whose lives and learning processes have already been upended by school closures.”. Academically, Mikaela held her own in middle school. She was inducted into her school’s honor society and selected for a trip to visit civil rights landmarks in Memphis during Black History Month.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 2, 2016

Lee Brand, a local pastor and member of the school board, says the town limits are a stark line. This economic divide was mirrored in the school system. Before consolidation, Oktibbeha County School district enrolled just 856 students, 96 percent of whom received free and reduced-price lunch, a federal measure of poverty.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 19, 2023

After a few hours, the elementary school called: Come pick up your son, they told her. Around lunchtime, the middle school called: Come get your daughter, they told her. A school social worker summarized the encounter: “Discussed students’ attendance history, the impact it has on the student and barriers.

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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. Hurley has been teaching nursery classes for 20 years at this state-funded school that we would call a public elementary school.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 18, 2016

Instead of attending neighborhood schools with students of the same race and economic status, as most children do in Mississippi, Osborn went to school with an even mix of black and white classmates, some from the town’s wealthy subdivisions and others from Clinton’s poorer areas. They’re also extremely successful.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 25, 2016

There is a combination of a moral imperative and an economic imperative,” said Paul Davidson, president of Universities Canada, the principal association of Canadian universities. An economic imperative worth $90 billion in Saskatchewan alone, according to the Gabriel Dumont Institute of Native Studies. Then, of course, there’s money.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

At a moment in our national history when we pay far too little attention to the extraordinary, transformative impact of teachers and education on our children and youth, families, and communities, it is worth taking the time to celebrate education and educators as we begin the new school year. Valerie Smith.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 23, 2018

Onalaska High School’s mascot is the Loggers, a nod to the historic logging family who founded this rural town in Southwest Washington. Onalaska, situated roughly halfway between Seattle and Portland, is proud of its history. Historic photos of lumber yards hang in the high school lobby. “I I like a small town.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 21, 2016

On Kentucky’s previous state tests, tied to its old standards, over 70 percent of elementary school students scored at a level of “proficiency” or better in both reading and math. By spring 2015, 54 percent of Kentucky elementary school students were proficient in the English language arts and 49 percent were proficient in math.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 12, 2017

On one of these towers, the Albemarle County schools have hung base stations that link to broadband internet beamed up from the roof of a nearby elementary school. Explaining why requires some history. Marie Vinel uses the internet to teach the history of “Cinco de Mayo” to her Spanish class at Walton Middle School.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Jigsaw Strategy Oct. February 26, 2024 Lesson 5: Who Can Run For Office February 26, 2024 Lesson 6: How Do We Choose Leaders?

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 15, 2016

Both girls, who are being identified by only their first names to protect their privacy, also have a history of finding trouble. Last school year, 17-year-old Kiara got into a fight at school, over a Facebook post about a boy. Latune says it all started in middle school. It wasn’t her first fight either.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 19, 2018

Related: How one Mississippi elementary school improved to an A rating. 184 teaching positions in Jackson Public Schools are being filled by long-term subs. Indeed, the Jackson Public Schools serve many students with great needs, and many are behind academically. A lot of the kids are behind socially and educationally.”.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 12, 2016

President Bush promotes his “No Child Left Behind” education agenda during a visit to Kirkpatrick Elementary School in Nashville, Tenn., ESSA leaves too much accountability up to the states, they argue, with little history to suggest that it’s warranted. Monday, Sept. Photo: AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 30, 2018

While every classroom has students of varying abilities, this problem is often more acute in schools with high levels of poverty. In New Orleans, 81 percent of public school students are economically disadvantaged, according to data from the Louisiana Department of Education. Deciding what’s best for the nation’s schools.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 26, 2020

When schools come back after the coronavirus, black teachers are once again more likely to be lost to the budget cuts and health problems following in its wake. Related: Teachers could retire in droves by the time schools reopen. According to 2015 research by Adam C.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

History students. For the full 90-minute block period students discussed, jotted down notes, and exclaimed in both horror and shock as they learned about a sliver of our country’s hidden history. Paradoxically, teaching people’s history leaves more room for hope than any other educational framework. Here are just a few.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

The problem is that many American elementary schools aren’t doing that. The basic assumption that underlies typical reading instruction in many schools is that learning to read is a natural process, much like learning to talk. . ” But this research hasn’t made its way into many elementary school classrooms.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 26, 2023

Malaysia Robertson, 9, outside of the closed Washington Elementary School in Kenner, La., Washington Elementary School in Kenner, La., Credit: Christiana Botic for The Hechinger Report A “watch for children” sign outside of the closed Washington Elementary School in Kenner, La.,

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 11, 2018

Border Crossers trainers Ben Howort and Ana Duque are both former elementary school teachers. The C3 framework — the three Cs refer to college, career and civic life — includes curriculums in civics, economics, geography and history. Photo: Sarah Gonser for The Hechinger Report. “I

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