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JUNE 23, 2022

The JFF report has started conversations in K-12, higher education and the workforce about promoting change at the local level, said Brent Parton, the principal deputy assistant secretary and current acting assistant secretary of the U.S. That’s where federal leadership comes in.”

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

In the last few years, the American education system has been bludgeoned by changes that have upended decades of progress toward better academic, economic and social outcomes for all. That makes it even more important to fight for justice within the American K-12 educational system and ensure that our students learn the truth.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Those are four of the top five emotions K-12 teachers reported feeling back in 2017 — well before the pandemic and 18 months of unfinished learning, trauma and economic instability. Frustrated. Overwhelmed.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

TNTP , a nonprofit based in New York that advocates for improving K-12 education, wanted to identify schools that are the most effective at helping kids recover academically and understand what those schools are doing differently. Everybody is trying to find ways to help students catch up after the pandemic.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

As a result of de jure housing segregation during the 20th century and de facto housing segregation today, coupled with the inequitable and often unconstitutional ways in which public K-12 education is funded, too many black students are concentrated in under-resourced K-12 schools and require developmental courses in college.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Erin Roberts, a teacher leadership specialist. About 30 percent of students are white, 26 percent are Black, 24 percent are Hispanic and 12 percent are Asian. By the end of the tutoring sessions, 12 reached or exceeded grade level on their reading benchmark tests. She pointed to the “p” again. Puh,” he enunciated.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 6, 2018

Nationwide, K-12 schools are leading a fledgling “net-zero” building boom that has grown from a few proof-of-concept structures a decade ago to hundreds of buildings completed or under construction. Much of the advocacy for net-zero buildings has focused on environmental and economic incentives.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

In June, the city of Memphis, Tennessee, lost funding for 1,000 pre-K slots due to an expiring federal grant. Under pressure to invest in education, Mayor Jim Strickland announced the city would commit $6 million toward pre-K funding, though that amount would not completely offset the lost federal funds.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 11, 2018

And yet, a recent study from the World Economic Forum suggests that our chattiest students may be well poised for tomorrow’s world of work — because employers are looking for more than simply the latest technical skills. At the beginning of the program, we asked each student to define “leadership.” Build interdependency.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 6, 2019

Under the guise of meritocracy, the competitive system of K-12 and post-secondary education in the United States has resulted in an environment in which some parents will pursue avenues for their children’s educational advancement “by any means necessary.”. Related: End of desegregation offers lessons for current education reformers.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 12, 2023

Each elementary school focuses on a specific area — engineering, math and science, the arts, leadership, or foreign languages, among others. Related: Blurring the lines between K-12, higher ed and the workforce. But the increasing focus on industry needs in K-12 has also drawn criticism.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2018

Families often need support in this part of the state, an area struggling to keep up with the economic growth of the high-tech Triangle region, the metropolitan home of the state capital, Raleigh, about an hour away. Related: Speaking kids home language in pre-K could provide a lifelong advantage.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 17, 2019

Leave this field empty if you're human: Automation affects workers around the world — nearly half of the employers surveyed by the World Economic Forum last year expected automation would reduce their workforce by 2022. Higher Education. Mississippi Learning. Related: How do schools train for a workplace that doesn’t exist yet?

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 17, 2016

These new skills and knowledge are the new fundamental requisites for K-12 studies, college studies, 21 st century jobs and ensuring lifelong earning in the digital innovation economy. This means that without computer science education, we are not prepared for the economic needs of our future. According to the U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

When the National Association of Colleges surveyed employers and graduating college seniors last year, it discovered a broad disconnect between how each party perceived students’ competencies in areas such as oral and written communication, career management and leadership. These are also 19th-century skills.”.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 5, 2016

We talk about the lack of diversity in technology and dearth of economic opportunities for black and Hispanic young people as a problem now. But in the future, it will be major economic crisis, once people of color become the majority of our workforce. Black prisoners were treated as guinea pigs in the Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment.

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ED Surge

JULY 24, 2023

Students in American K-12 schools are increasingly diverse. Audience Question: So out of curiosity, are we suggesting that there's a shortage of Black teachers currently because the K-12 system that we are indoctrinated in is not the best? And this is a country with deep economic disparities. It's a good segue.

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ED Surge

JUNE 27, 2023

The pay scale is getting closer to the K-12 professional pay scale — not that we pay our K-12 teachers enough, we need to do more there. So it really resounded across the partisan divide, the geographic divide, the economic divide. As you know, there's a lot of overhead [to run an early childhood program].

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 1, 2019

With 20 percent of its 400-plus students diagnosed with a learning disability and about half of its kids coming from families in economic need, McCourt nonetheless outperforms citywide averages on state-mandated Regents exams, graduation rates and postsecondary enrollment. This may be a missed opportunity. The school is thriving.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 9, 2020

There’s so much information and so many personal stories about how the coronavirus has negatively affected the global community from health, economic, psychological and social perspectives. Here are five ways that we can start combating anti-Asian sentiment in schools: . First, do your research. Sign up here for Hechinger’s newsletter.

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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

JUNE 24, 2018

With economic segregation in the United States worsening, there is likely to be a growing number of school districts where poor children, and poor parents, predominate. Yet, economic segregation, which is more pronounced among families with children, also creates public school districts where affluent families predominate.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 6, 2019

In the aftermath, state legislators allocated money to help urban students who weren’t getting a good enough K-12 education to attend and succeed at the state’s colleges. Tichavakunda, an assistant professor of education leadership at the University of Cincinnati. It’s a positive vestige of the riots that roiled Newark in 1967.

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Zinn Education Project

JUNE 6, 2024

Jesse Hagopian , Rethinking Schools editor, co-editor of Teaching for Black Lives, and Zinn Education Project leadership team member Astoundingly, today, almost half of all children in the public schools are in a jurisdiction that has passed a law or policy that bans honest education , about race, about gender, about sexuality.

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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. Make no mistake: All students benefit from having black teachers.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

More than 50 percent are economically disadvantaged. Student circles have not only been transformative in strengthening our classroom communities but also have given students opportunities for leadership, as they have grown to design and facilitate student-led circles. We offer a variety of electives from which students can choose.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 4, 2019

Using a four-year degree as a proxy for employability shuts out the most economically vulnerable job seekers. Rainville had to persuade 10 people from the sales leadership team before she could make the change. The staff at Resilient Coders sees this racial and economic inequality up close. “If I said, ‘That’s got to go.’”.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 10, 2017

Maine is the pioneer,” said Chris Sturgis, co-founder of CompetencyWorks , a national organization that advocates for the approach in K-12 schools. “I There was a sense that we needed to swing for the fences to make the economic transition the state needs to make.”. “In Kylee Elderkin, student, Nokomis Regional High School.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 13, 2020

Dozens of elite college prep programs, from Leadership Enterprise for a Diverse America to the University of Chicago’s Collegiate Scholars Program , have been established across the United States in the last 20 years, each with heartwarming stories of college success.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

The performance of minority students on standardized tests at Ridgeview historically has lagged behind that of white students, according to staff, who note that black and Hispanic students are much more likely to come from economically disadvantaged backgrounds. Related: Out of poverty, into the middle class.

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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

AUGUST 28, 2017

Government Accountability Office found the percentage of all schools with racial or socio-economic isolation grew from 9 percent to 16 percent from 2001 to 2014. Because local unions can reflect the racial attitudes of the confined geographic area, leadership and involvement from the national-level group is almost always necessary.

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Political Science Now

JULY 16, 2024

Rethinking Citizen Competence in Democratic Theory and Practice Thursday, September 5, 12:00pm – 1:30pm Roundtable Participants : (Chair) Simone Chambers, University of California, Irvine (Presenter) John S. The final two papers focus on the equity implications of municipal boundaries and political fragmentation in the U.S. Trojahn et al.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 12, 2016

San Diego: Katie Martin of the University of San Diego’s Mobile Technology Learning Center highlighted the growth of their multi-sector partnerships, supported by Qualcomm and others in the region, to foster learning and innovation regional K-12 districts. Check out a short video highlighting some of their work here.).

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 18, 2016

Twenty-first century goals call for students who will be critical thinkers, creative, flexible, productive, and accomplished in communication, collaboration and leadership. And so too must the teachers of all students, even teachers of our youngest students age 3 and 4.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 11, 2019

Two national studies out this year similarly find that poor students become more racially or economically isolated from middle-class peers, at small levels of magnitude, when their districts allow charters to proliferate unchecked. Voters might recognize informed leadership, if or when it appears on the campaign trail.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 22, 2018

As a prelude to discussing leadership, peer pressure and conflict, a Crew of seventh graders at King Middle School in Portland, Maine, played a game called “Instigator.” That said, EL’s leadership now relies heavily on technology to spread Crew and expeditionary learning concepts more broadly. Chris Berdik/The Hechinger Report.

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