The Hechinger Report

MAY 20, 2016

Board of Education, the landmark case that put in motion the Civil Rights Movement and remains a poignant moment in American history. The 1954 United States Supreme Court decision declared “separate but equal” unconstitutional and required the integration of those schools that were segregating students. The post From Brown v.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 12, 2022

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. They serve and engage daily with a wide range of diverse student populations—including those most negatively affected by racial and economic disparity in the U.S.

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

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

It has resulted in more than a billion dollars leaving the public school system and actually not serving additional kids in private schools, Jones said. 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. It includes $26.25

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 12, 2021

In Chicago, only 42 percent of public school graduates enrolled in four-year colleges in 2019. If we can help these students reframe their relationship to the process of learning in high school, we have the opportunity to enhance their social mobility — and, quite possibly, ensure the survival of higher education.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Related: What if public schools never reopen? This flies in the face of common sense and human history, deBoer argued. He also taught civics at Democracy Prep Public Schools, a network of high-performing charter schools based in Harlem, New York. Fordham Institute.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 21, 2024

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 High School. In Pasadena, Dufford said, it has been tradition for established families not to send their children to public schools. “So

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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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Political Science Now

AUGUST 5, 2024

Corwin Award is presented annually by the American Political Science Association (APSA) to honor the best doctoral dissertation in the field of public law. Lucien Ferguson is the 2023-2025 Drinan Visiting Assistant Professor at Boston College Law School. APSA thanks the committee members for their service: Dr. Christine L.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 17, 2024

My grandparents knew education was the pathway out of low wages and difficult working conditions, hence why my grandfather decided to work as a janitor at a public school to land a steady job. Redefining the American Dream In class, we learn that Mexico, Central America and South America each struggle socially and economically.

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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.”. 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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ED Surge

DECEMBER 14, 2022

But Wilson, a Democrat from Florida, hopes to turn that around—starting today—with the introduction of the American Teacher Act, a bill that would establish a federal minimum salary of $60,000 for all public school teachers. Teachers in the U.S. Teachers in the U.S. Even he recently updated his resume, the first time in 10 years.

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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

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. Come to school in America and your language gets stomped away.”.

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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. In this sense, the strike was as much about an ideological question as a labor dispute: Who is the public being served by public education?

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Marginal Revolution

JANUARY 19, 2024

Think of this as a sequel to Kyle Harper’s tract on Roman plagues and their political import , this look at the Antonine plague and its impact has both good history and good economics. It is also highly readable. Carrie Sheffield, Motorhome Prophecies: A Journey of Healing and Forgiveness.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

For most of history, women had very little educational opportunity, and the college spots available to them were in gender-segregated schools with fewer resources. It would help to recruit more male teachers, who now represent less than a quarter of public school teachers. And why should we care?

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 7, 2016

It is just one of a slate of waivers approved by lawmakers, including class size, teacher preparation time, hiring and firing rules, and others, allowing traditional public schools to operate with the same educational requirements as their area charter schools. My degree is in psychology but I’m teaching history!

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2018

That lack of attainment is perhaps not surprising: Until last year, Newark’s public schools had been under state control since 1995, when a state investigation revealed school environments that “virtually assure academic failure.” All of the program’s courses revolve around a central theme: local citizenship in a global world.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 21, 2019

Rabalais dreamed of a diverse campus that would cater to his diverse neighborhood and draw kids from across the racial and economic chasms that have long divided New Orleans. He wanted a school in which he, a white, middle-class New Orleans native, would feel comfortable enrolling his young children. But there was a big problem.

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The Hechinger Report

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. Serriere said C3 is being used across the country.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 11, 2019

Los Angeles is home to nearly 300 charter schools, more than any other school system in the nation, drawing one-fifth of all kids out of its traditional public schools. Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) is the nation’s second-largest school district after New York City. public education.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 15, 2018

In San Antonio, the CAST schools are also one prong of a larger effort by a local school district to promote integration in one of the most economically segregated cities in the country. One year in, that approach to economic integration, dubbed “diversity by design,” is working. My mom was shocked,” Toney said, laughing.

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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

JULY 17, 2017

As an in-school family support specialist, Stubbe serves as a liaison between students, families and a number of health, legal and academic support services provided by local community organizations. The Say Yes promise of universal free college tuition to all Buffalo public school graduates has grabbed public attention.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 18, 2016

Here is something worse than the current racial tensions in New Orleans and other cities: The outcomes caused by racial biases in our policing, schooling practices and stark economic inequality between black and white families. But public schools don’t look like the public.

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ED Surge

JULY 13, 2023

Failure to do so would have dire consequences, causing widespread economic impact and exacerbating the existing strain on the child care system. They also represented the single largest infusion of federal funds to the child care sector in U.S. Source: Impact of Stabilization Grants on Family Child Care , 2022.

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ED Surge

JULY 24, 2023

To begin to answer this question, EdSurge recently spoke with Sharif El-Mekki, CEO of the Center for Black Educator Development, a prominent teacher pipeline that pushes for greater educator diversity in public schools, and Meheret Woldeyohannes, the director of external affairs for that organization. It's a good segue. And it's not.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

NEW ORLEANS — Six years ago, author and creative writing teacher Anne Gisleson was looking for a school for her 4-year-old son, Otto, who attended a private Lutheran preschool in her Bywater neighborhood. But for kindergarten, she wanted him to attend a public school, with kids from all backgrounds and neighborhoods.

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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. Related: Want your child to receive better reading help in public school?

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

to discuss how public education will adapt to a rapidly changing world. The panel I spoke on responded to the work of Andreas Schleicher, education director for the intergovernmental Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). The event brought more than a hundred people to Seattle, Wash.,

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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

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

Stevens, for example, wants to know why advocates are so eager to believe that a public school system that hardly leads the international pack can be expected to offer high quality preschool programs. “I On the one hand, we do spend billions each year on public preschool. … I dug into the history and research on Head Start.

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Zinn Education Project

JUNE 6, 2024

The goal is to raise awareness about how anti-history education laws and book bans — and their chilling effect — threaten any chance of an informed and engaged democracy. It is important to understand] the concept of how you suppress people to exploit them economically. Here are highlights from the remarks.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

If they have school-age children, the residents of the ornate homes tend to send them to private schools outside the neighborhood. David Spring, a college professor in Washington state who helped to found an organization called Coalition to Protect Our Public Schools, questions AVID’s data. But AVID does have its critics.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 19, 2018

Thompson, 69, came out of retirement to teach English after learning that Jackson Public Schools were looking for help in local classrooms. The interim school superintendent of Jackson, Mississippi, where Thompson lives, issued a plea to retired teachers to come back. Longtime educator Hymethia W. Hymethia W.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 19, 2021

While the pandemic still took its toll, adapting to online learning was smoother in Lindsay due to its preexisting infrastructure and history of adaptation. But the community began to suffer economically after several major employers, including what was once the largest olive processer in the world, shut down in the early 1990s.

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