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OCTOBER 21, 2021

News & World Report released its first-ever rankings of public elementary and middle schools in the United States. Schools in the bottom quarter of all schools in a given jurisdiction were not ranked, but simply identified as being in the bottom quarter. Related: Do U.S. The correlation is r = -.68

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MARCH 15, 2021

“It’s not once-a-week homework help,” said Jonathan Guryan, an economist at Northwestern University who has evaluated tutoring programs at schools. Far fewer studies find tutoring to be effective for older students in middle school and high school.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2023

About 40 percent of the families took advantage of it and chose to send their children to a pre-K program at a public elementary school. It’s still possible that the families who chose public preschool were more ambitious and motivated than their demographically and economically similar counterparts in the comparison group.

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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. At no point in recent memory has Melrose Public Schools been failing.

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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., More than 27,700 school-age youth live in Pasadena , Altadena and Sierra Madre , the communities served by the district, but only about half of them attend public school. PASADENA, Calif.

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JANUARY 10, 2023

I am a Harvard graduate, nationally recognized advocate for homeless youth and an education professional supporting family engagement in a network of charter public schools. I work for Rocketship Public Schools in Washington, D.C. But instead of failing, I became an “exception.” My story as an exception is celebrated.

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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. Singapore has launched a series of Finnish-style school reforms.

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NOVEMBER 26, 2023

Families in Arizona can now withdraw their children from public schools and receive state funding to cover private school tuition. Franklin/Associated Press A Hechinger Report analysis of dozens of private school websites revealed that, among 55 that posted their tuition rates, nearly all raised their prices since 2022.

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MARCH 2, 2023

Her two youngest, both attending Vancouver’s Washington Elementary School, had struggled with remote learning and still lagged their peers in basic math and reading. Her older kids loved their high school sports teams and she couldn’t imagine uprooting them. Vancouver Public Schools identified 743 students as homeless this year.

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MARCH 20, 2023

Public school choice appeared to increase overall arrests and days incarcerated for young men in Charlotte, North Carolina, according to a study by three economists, “ Does School Ch o ice Increase Crime? circulated by the National Bureau of Economic Research in February 2023.

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APRIL 7, 2023

“Here at school, we’re trying to not put the pressure at all on the students, but I know our third grade teachers really feel it,” Knapp said. Melissa Knapp, the literacy coach for Harpeth Valley Elementary School, answers a first grade student’s question. Because it is just one assessment.”

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FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Raymond Morgigno, Superintendent Pearl Public School District. Part of that buy-in stems from parents’ approval of the way kids are assigned to schools in this largely working-class central Mississippi town. Clinton is one of only two majority-black school districts in the state to earn an A rating.

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OCTOBER 18, 2021

That’s less than 4 percent of the city’s public school population and below the national average where almost 7 percent of students are tapped for gifted and talented programs. Meanwhile, Black and Hispanic students make up more than 65 percent of the public school system but win only 16 percent of the gifted seats.

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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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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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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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JULY 14, 2019

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. That same day at a local middle school, I also observed a room full of students playing in a mariachi ensemble.

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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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FEBRUARY 12, 2021

School-age children should get an hour or more of moderate-to-vigorous physical activity daily, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Advocates for phys ed fear more cuts could be coming, as districts grapple with looming budget cuts stemming from the current economic downturn. Others are trickier.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2017

Jackson Public Schools entered into an agreement with a private foundation, the City of Jackson, and the Governor’s office to improve its schools. The future of Jackson Public Schools is now in the hands of a coalition that includes representatives from Gov. Photo: Terrell Clark for The Hechinger Report.

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FEBRUARY 25, 2018

Tania Figueroa, a fourth-grade teacher at Patrick Henry Elementary School in Chicago. I saw the same dynamic at play when I first became a teacher at Patrick Henry Elementary , a majority-Latino public school in Chicago. Tania Figueroa is a fourth-grade teacher at Patrick Henry Elementary School in Chicago.

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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. Dozens of these ultra-green schools are going up in every sort of district – urban and rural, affluent and lower income, blue state and red state. RELATED: Psst!

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JULY 11, 2018

Without social studies, we lose the civic mission of public schools,” said Stephanie Serriere, a former early-grade teacher who is now an associate professor of social studies education at Indiana University-Purdue University Columbus. Border Crossers trainers Ben Howort and Ana Duque are both former elementary school teachers.

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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

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

The program recruits college-age people of color, particularly African American men, and pays them stipends to work in schools in New Orleans and Baton Rouge. At Wilson, like many of New Orleans public schools, most of the students are black — and it was Albert’s personal mission to reach each of them.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

BOSTON — When the Boston Public Schools opened the Margarita Muñiz Academy in 2012, it was a first-of-its kind dual-language high school meant to address issues faced by the city’s growing Hispanic population. Related: English one day, Español the next: Dual-language learning expands with a South Bronx school as a model.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Plus, Lambert says, some of their families lost work, hurting them economically. Few had early learning experiences prior to starting school, she adds, and even concepts like which direction to turn the pages in a book are foreign to many of them. Many of their parents were experiencing mental health challenges.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 23, 2019

on day four of the strike, Nadia Morales, a counselor at Los Angeles High School, and Pedro Martinez, a social-studies teacher at Eagle Rock High School, prepare their children for the day. UTLA has organized charter-school teachers and sued Alliance College-Ready Public Schools, a local charter network, for union-busting.

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Digital Promise

APRIL 16, 2019

begin language study in middle or high school. Only 58 percent of middle schools and 25 percent of elementary schools offer a foreign language in 2008, according to a 2017 report by the Commission on Language Learning, which was formed in response to a request by Congress to look deeper into foreign language learning in the United States.

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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.

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DECEMBER 13, 2019

But teachers here say the program, known as Tax-Increment Financing, or TIF, has been a giveaway to corporate developers, and that it is hurting the city’s schools. “We Hilario Dominguez, special education teacher, Chicago Public Schools. Related: When school districts can’t raise funds for facilities.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 30, 2022

Students who fail Algebra I (which most kids take in ninth grade) are far less likely to graduate high school on time and attend a four-year college. Math proficiency predicts both an individual’s future earnings and a country’s economic productivity more than skill in other subjects.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 20, 2019

In this file photo, kindergarteners listen as teacher Amy Holland reads on the first day of school at Nancy Ryles Elementary School in Beaverton, Oregon. I attended high-poverty neighborhood public schools. AP Photo/Matt Rourke. By all accounts, I wasn’t supposed to succeed in life.

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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 Public Schools and the D.C.

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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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AUGUST 6, 2020

It’s going to further disrupt kids whose lives and learning processes have already been upended by school closures.”. Housing is everything,” said Melissa Douglas, the liaison for homeless students in the Kansas City Public Schools district. Evictions are rampant and often mark the start of a slide into prolonged homelessness.

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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. Molière also grew up in the New Orleans area and was educated in its public schools.

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