The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 12, 2023

Whittenberg Elementary School of Engineering groaned in disappointment when they saw the runny mess. Whittenberg Elementary School of Engineering prepare to drop a paper bag with an egg inside off a railing at the school during engineering week. Related: Blurring the lines between K-12, higher ed and the workforce.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

But this fall, everyone at Viewmont Elementary School is in masks, so she has to listen more intently than usual. Elsewhere in North Carolina, or in any other state in the nation, if you step into an elementary school, you might find three different classrooms teaching students three different ways to read.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 7, 2023

Melissa Knapp, the literacy coach for Harpeth Valley Elementary School, answers a first grade student’s question. Third graders work through a reading assignment at Harpeth Valley Elementary School in Nashville. Parents and teachers have been packing churches , school board rooms and legislative sessions in protest. “I

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 6, 2018

. – Dressed in pastel pink and green for an early spring day, second-grader Katherine Cribbs was learning about energy on a virtual field trip – to her own school. Much of the advocacy for net-zero buildings has focused on environmental and economic incentives. Photo: Chris Berdik for The Hechinger Report. RELATED: Psst!

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ED Surge

JANUARY 10, 2022

Without a significant change in the economics of education, changing the grammar of schooling is actually the most realistic approach. How could school work if teachers only taught 4 days out of a 5 day school week? At elementary schools, we’d have to get rid of the 1 teacher/1 class/5 days equation.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 13, 2021

At first glance, the binders incorporating a whole year of learning at the Parker-Varney elementary school in Manchester look a little like Candy Land, the beloved game of chance where players navigate a colorful route past delicious landmarks to arrive at a Candy Castle. At the Parker-Varney elementary school in Manchester, N.H.,

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ED Surge

JULY 7, 2023

As an English language teacher in an international primary school and a language learner myself, I often think about how many K-12 students in the United States are given the opportunity to study another language in school. however, with insufficient and lagging data from schools, this research has its limitations.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

In five of those cases, schools hiked tuition by more than 20 percent – much higher than even the steep inflation that hit the Phoenix metro area and well beyond what an ESA could cover. Another 14 states offer vouchers, which allow families to direct most or all of their students’ per pupil funding to a private school.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Like Pearl, the district organizes its schools by grade level instead of by neighborhood. Despite the districts’ strong performance, there seems to be little effort to replicate Clinton and Pearl’s carefully planned racial and economic integration efforts. Today, about 28 percent of residents are black and 4.5

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 26, 2017

A behavioral scientist at the Harvard Kennedy School, Rogers has completed a number of experiments measuring the impressive effects of simply mailing parents information about how important school attendance is. While few schools are set up to do this, Rogers’ and Bergman’s work shows they should be. Mississippi Learning.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2019

This story about teacher pensions is part of the series Districts in Debt , which examines the hidden financial pressures challenging American schools. Glenn Gustafson, CFO of the Colorado Springs School District, talks to Christina Butcher, the interim principal of Queen Palmer Elementary School. COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 21, 2018

Two studies on elementary schools published in June 2018 point to the importance giving teachers and students plenty of time to form relationships. Harvard University’s Roland Fryer set out to test just that in an experiment , published in the June 2018 issue of the American Economic Review. Students may learn more.

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Digital Promise

APRIL 16, 2019

Scarce in Schools. Part of the problem I see is that so few students in the United States – just 20 percent – study a foreign language at the K-12 level. begin language study in middle or high school. have a shortage of qualified foreign language instructors at the K-12 level for the 2016–2017 school year.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 2, 2017

The charter school, serving mostly children of color and students from low-income families, received one of the city’s highest ratings for preschool quality. WASHINGTON — Each morning at Van Ness Elementary School, the staff takes turns welcoming children just inside the front doors. “Do Photo: Alan Richard. A high-five?”

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

Industry and education people want to talk about 21st-century skills and soft skills and lump them all together as if we’re talking about something new,” said Grover Whitehurst, senior fellow in economic studies for the Brookings Institution, a Washington think tank. These are also 19th-century skills.”.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 10, 2020

Avery Bencal is a fourth grader at Winthrop Elementary School in Melrose, Massachusetts. This cozy suburb just outside of Boston is home to an idyllic New England downtown and schools that are good enough to draw young families in droves. Cyndy Taymore, superintendent of Melrose Public Schools. MELROSE, Mass.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 3, 2019

On a muggy fall morning, pre-K teacher Ruth Shows inspected the work of students in her classroom, stepping over a cluster of little learners sprawled on the carpet. Quitman’s pre-K success should have wide-ranging implications for Mississippi, where early results of the state’s tiny program are promising. ?. QUITMAN, Miss. —

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 21, 2016

students graduating from the K-12 system are college and career ready, Common Core has ramped up academic expectations that schools everywhere, including those in Kentucky, are still far from meeting. Sonja Brookins Santelises, vice president of K-12 policy at the Education Trust. based research group.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 14, 2021

In classrooms across the country, the first months of school this fall have laid bare what many in education feared: Students are way behind in skills they should have mastered already. What Miller has observed in the first few weeks of the school year is likely taking place in classrooms nationwide, experts say.

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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. Coming back from remote instruction, many of the 575 students at Hardwick Elementary School in Lubbock were lagging in reading, said Principal Kim Callison.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 6, 2016

Galloway Elementary school students clap and spell words after school at Operation Shoestring. JACKSON — After school at Galloway Elementary School, the moms talk about reading levels. Marqueta Washington, whose youngest son is a second grader at Galloway Elementary, says he reads at a 3.9

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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. Finland has a wide range of cognitive diversity among its own students, with a third receiving special-education services at some point in their school experience.

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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.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

spending on elementary and high school education declined 3 percent from 2010 to 2014 even as its economy prospered and its student population grew slightly by 1 percent, boiling down to a 4 percent decrease in spending per student. One could argue that the economy is flourishing just fine with less spending on schools.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 10, 2020

student population today participate in tutoring, it has historically been reserved for the monied elite and is often cost-prohibitive for children like Victor, who attends an elementary school where three in four students receive discounted meals. And yet, while broad swathes of the U.S. Bill Haslam and his wife.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 28, 2019

” 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? But in many urban school districts, from Los Angeles to New York City , the share is much higher. Early Grade Retention and the Human Capital Development of English Learners.”

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 21, 2018

Specific compliments for newly gained skills decorate the walls in a Colorado Preschool Program classroom at Eyestone Elementary School in the Poudre School District. Yet most American children who speak a language other than English at home begin to lag behind in school by fourth grade. Photo: Lillian Mongeau.

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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 Photo: Sarah Gonser for The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 7, 2018

In 2009, just over 50 percent of children entering Immokalee’s six elementary schools were considered “kindergarten ready,” as determined by Florida’s kindergarten screening exam, the Florida Assessment for Instruction in Reading. Underfunding has a particularly harmful effect in Collier County, given the area’s demographics.

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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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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 27, 2020

Rising fourth graders listen as a teacher reads a book at an elementary school summer program in Silver Spring, MD. As the coronavirus closes schools, online platforms are proving to be invaluable, allowing instruction to continue and alleviating the severity of students’ learning loss.

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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

JUNE 9, 2016

Two days before graduation at the Mississippi School for the Deaf, the 10 seniors are on their class trip to Dallas, and the elementary school is having its awards day program. The rest of the student body does what any other school does in the festive penultimate days of an academically rigorous school year: winds down. .”

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 23, 2016

Hurley has been teaching nursery classes for 20 years at this state-funded school that we would call a public elementary school. This is even more remarkable when contrasted with the economics of child care in the U.S.: The child does not speak English at home, she said. He’s never brought a book to show me.” think tank.

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Studies Weekly

MARCH 15, 2024

What is Universal Pre-K? 15, 2024 • By Studies Weekly Universal pre-K is a state policy framework to provide every child with a quality, publicly funded preschool education. What makes a Universal Pre-K Program universal? This gives states more flexibility to fund existing childcare programs rather than create their own.

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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. If she succeeds, it might provide a roadmap for educators on how to re-introduce more science and social studies in elementary school classrooms without sacrificing the basic skills kids need to know.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 21, 2019

In 2016, Rabalais, a well-connected, self-described charter school proponent, had learned that the Gentilly Terrace Elementary School would be closing its doors at the end of the school year — making the campus a blank canvas for a new kind of school. The charter school that was closing was 98 percent black.

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