The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

In this 2015 photo, fifth graders collaborated on a Rube Goldberg machine in a Pennsylvania elementary school. The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), which administers the PISA tests, is assessing group collaboration because it believes that’s what employers will want more of from workers.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 20, 2020

NEW YORK — When the mayor ordered New York City public schools to close in March to slow the spread of the coronavirus, Daniel Russo broke into tears. Ninety-six percent of children at the Walton Avenue School, a K-5 school in the Bronx he’d founded in 2013, face economic hardship, and about a third are homeless.

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Floyd County and Pikeville educators participated in a series of South Fayette School District classroom visits to observe students work and learn more about computing pathways. At the elementary school, the teams tinkered with the interactive digital stories children created using Scratch, a block-based programming language.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 30, 2017

Black primary-school students who are matched to a same-race teacher performed better on standardized tests and face more favorable teacher perceptions according to recent findings from the German economic research group Institute of Labor Economics. Is it because black teachers are better educators?

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Digital Promise

MAY 15, 2018

Teacher specialization, a model in which teachers specialize in certain subjects and teach them to a rotating group of students, has a negative effect on student scores, attendance, and behavior in an elementary school setting, according to a working paper by Fryer, a faculty member at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

The idea behind the Muñiz Academy, named for the longtime principal of Boston’s first dual-language elementary school (the Rafael Hernandez K-8 school), was that many Hispanic students would do better in schools that support their cultural background and, with it, the Spanish language. Walsh, Boston mayor.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 27, 2018

They created multicolored posters to explain what different departments of local government do, from sanitation to human resources. For this experiment, the researchers spent years developing four separate project-based units on history, geography, economics and civics. Back in the classroom, they discussed their ideas for improvement.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

Third-graders at Alamosa Elementary School in Albuquerque practice reading with first-graders in Carrie Ramirez’s classroom. Danielle Burnett, a truancy prevention social worker in Albuquerque Public Schools, spends her days figuring out why students miss school. Photo: Tara García Mathewson/The Hechinger Report.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

It exists in nature and it is a cornerstone of our economy, but there’s a lack of consensus among psychologists as to whether competitiveness is learned or if it’s instinctual and part of human nature. Either way, the reality is that competitiveness starts early and competition shows up in many ways in schools.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 25, 2018

Tania Figueroa, a fourth-grade teacher at Patrick Henry Elementary School in Chicago. Outsiders may be surprised that the Chicago Public Schools have the fastest academic growth rates in the country, but educators on the ground understand how shifts in strategy can transform outcomes. Sign up for our newsletter. Weekly Update.

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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

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. Tammy Kim/Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 18, 2022

This is one of many multisensory activities Welch uses in her reading intervention class, a 30-minute pull-out session that meets daily at the elementary school. The Brooklyn-based company, which publishes curriculum and assessment programs, works with more than 4,000 school districts in the U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

In Dallas, eighth graders must choose one of five “ endorsements ” to focus on in high school — among them, STEM (science, technology, engineering and math); business and industry; and the arts and humanities. Related: COLUMN — Helping middle schoolers think about a future beyond the pandemic. Try experiencing it under quarantine.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 5, 2019

Reporters at both Politico and Education Week highlighted that the average Latino child doesn’t interact with white children at school as much as he or she used to. By 2010, the nation’s Latino children attended elementary schools where nearly 3 out of every 10 classmates were white, on average, down from 4 out of 10 in 1998.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

After agreeing to take on 10 summer interns from the Prepare Rhode Island program last summer, Cathy Desjarlais, a human resources manager at biotech company Amgen’s Rhode Island site, had reservations about the new interns, apprehensive they would display the behavior issues Butler described. These are also 19th-century skills.”.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 17, 2022

A few months earlier, she’d heard about a family shelter inside an elementary school gym. They are more likely to attend schools with concentrated poverty, and they score significantly lower on state testing than other economically disadvantaged students. They are more likely to change schools and be chronically absent.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

They were encouraged to excel academically and to attend college because they were surrounded by people who believed that education would lead them from poverty and a limited set of life choices to independence, fulfilling work, economic self-sufficiency, and the middle class.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Taylor Hill, a student at Wheatley High School, would experience the change firsthand. Her school is located in Houston’s Fifth Ward neighborhood and serves a student body that is nearly 100 percent classified as economically disadvantaged. They told me that I have to turn my library into a team center.’”

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 8, 2019

Inexperienced teachers, with three years’ experience or less, are clustered in one-third of New Orleans’ schools — most of which have student bodies that are 90 percent black and 90 percent economically disadvantaged. education system’s goal of providing a sound education equitably to all children,” the report concludes.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 2, 2016

It’s about improving education for all kids,” said school district Superintendent Lewis Holloway. John Jones asks a question to his students in AP Human Geography on August 18, 2016. Jones came to Starkville High in 2015 from East Oktibbeha County High School. This economic divide was mirrored in the school system.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 23, 2016

Fifth-graders at Konguta Kool – an elementary school in a small Estonian village – prepare for a math lesson in the computer lab. Estonia had the second smallest gap in performance between its poorest and richest students out of all participating countries known as the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD).

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 2, 2020

For instance, workers with certificates in construction and other blue-collar trades often make more than liberal arts and humanities majors with bachelor’s degrees , the Georgetown Center found. The shorter credentials have already added up to a $5,400 raise. Credit: Ronda Churchill for The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 23, 2018

Heather Guenther, Onalaska High School graduate. While the data is imperfect, school enrollment also tells a story of growth. Elementary school enrollment has climbed the fastest, from 327 students in May 2014 to 391 in May 2018, according to the Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction in Washington.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 19, 2018

Leave this field empty if you're human: JPS has recruited retirees by increasing financial incentives. 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. Sign up for our Mississippi Learning newsletter.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 24, 2019

Meghan Groves, a teacher at Washington-Lee Elementary School, in Bristol, Virginia, leads her first graders in “closing circle,” where they talk about how their day went. Related: A school where character matters as much as academics. Caroline Preston/The Hechinger Report. BRISTOL, Va. — Sign up for our newsletter. Proof Points.

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Studies Weekly

MARCH 15, 2024

Department of Health and Human Services defines affordable child care as no more than 10% of a family’s income; however, the Care Index reports that childcare costs account for as high as 19% of a family’s income in some states. Making Education More Equitable Universal pre-K can give families their economic footing.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

The visit was an opportunity to answer general questions about Intermediate School for all students, to help ensure a smooth transition, and to make a sales pitch for BBI to those who had not yet made up their minds. Sign up for our newsletter. Choose as many as you like. Weekly Update. Future of Learning. Higher Education.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

Paul Morgan, an education professor at Pennsylvania State University, said that the economic disadvantage often faced by black and Latino special-needs children has been exacerbated by the way Congress funds special education. But her success was short-lived: She ended up back at Durham Public Schools in eighth grade. Weekly Update.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 30, 2018

The best teacher is going to be the human teacher. Leave this field empty if you're human: Kailei Whitaker, 12, said she likes learning from a computer more than learning from a teacher because she can focus better. Deciding what’s best for the nation’s schools. However, he said, the teacher is ultimately more important.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 12, 2018

Like many cities across America, Lowell is struggling to find its economic footing as millions of blue-collar jobs in manufacturing, construction and transportation disappear , subject to offshoring and automation. Six months before she graduates, she is not about to hide her feelings: She hates school. Middle school: h-a-t-e-d it.

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Studies Weekly

JANUARY 10, 2024

Excessive screen time is also linked to a decreased interest in reading among elementary school students. At a time when 40% of elementary school students cannot read at a basic level, setting students up for literacy is crucial. Economics of Education Review , 68 , 89–103. Backes, B., & Cowan, J. 2021, May 9).

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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. The human brain isn’t wired to read. “We never looked at brain research.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 30, 2023

But there’s been less attention paid to what math skills students need early in life, to set them up for elementary school in the first place. For early learners, exposure to math concepts can be at the mercy of their family’s economic status or related factors like whether their parents are college-educated.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 23, 2018

In a 2017 study published by the Institute of Labor Economics, an economics think tank, researchers found that low-income black male elementary school students who were paired with a black teacher in the 3rd, 4th, or 5th grades were 39 percent less likely to drop out of high school. Sign up for our newsletter.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 19, 2017

They have created their own vegetable gardens and raised funds to bring plant beds to local elementary schools. A 2013 Mathematica Policy Research study of several EL middle schools found that after three years the EL students had made significant gains in reading and math compared to other middle school students.

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Zinn Education Project

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Kenyon Andrews Elementary School Special Education Teacher, Lubbock, Texas My high school Women’s Studies class students were each given The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks: Young Readers Edition to read in class and at home over two weeks. At the conclusion of the game, we hold a discussion on how the game went.

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