The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 21, 2021

At the K-12 level, we have seen how school ratings can boost or depress property values and shift who seeks to enroll in a given school. At the K-12 level, we have seen how school ratings can boost or depress property values and shift who seeks to enroll in a given school. The trouble is, it doesn’t work.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 9, 2023

states have adopted laws or policies requiring personal finance education before students graduate from high school, bringing the total number to 30 states, according to the Council for Economic Education. Experts say it’s a course that doesn’t necessarily have to be taught by a traditional math teacher. Since 2020, nine U.S.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 11, 2023

As education leaders continue to engage in conversations on transforming assessment and accountability for our nation, they must prioritize elevating voices excluded from past education change efforts, including voices of young learners, especially those from communities of color and economically disadvantaged communities.

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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

JUNE 23, 2022

After the disruption of the pandemic, people in the field of education are more open to rethinking traditional ways of doing business in order to better serve students. It’s forcing K-12 to think differently in a way out of necessity,” Parton said. “In Subscribe today!

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 13, 2021

Once considered a boutique form of education overly reliant on technology, competency-based education is increasingly seen as a way to solve a host of problems with traditional schooling, problems that became more apparent when learning went virtual. So far, they’ve committed $400,000 in federal stimulus funds to the multiyear effort.

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ED Surge

MARCH 20, 2024

Teaching creativity and creative thinking in K-12 has always been valued but often challenging to implement. Johnsrud: There are a lot of economic and career opportunities for students to have a very different future than their parents or grandparents did — if they have the assistance of AI. How would you respond to that?

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

Nationally, a dozen other states now offer ESAs, also known as education savings accounts, that incentivize parents to withdraw their kids from the public K-12 system. Then, in 2022, state leaders expanded eligibility to all K-12 students and removed the requirement of initial public school attendance.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 2, 2023

If left unaddressed, these related issues will have ramifications for generations of K-12 students. We have an oversupply of highly qualified educators in some communities and extreme shortfalls in others — often those that have been hollowed out by decades of policy stagnation, economic disinvestment and white flight.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 30, 2018

The already converted policymakers, school leaders and teachers ready to transform traditional schooling came to this annual conference last week from around the world to share a common refrain: Out with the old. Photo: Austin Haeberle. NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Well, there is something of a movement, despite an array of challenges. Getty Images.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2019

Cory Koedel, an associate professor of economics and public policy at the University of Missouri. At the end of the day, it’s just this big item that needs to be paid,” said Cory Koedel, an associate professor of economics and public policy at the University of Missouri who studies public pensions. “If

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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

DECEMBER 16, 2020

If there was ever a time to ask big, heretical questions about American K-12 education, it’s when schooling has been thrown into chaos by a pandemic, and Americans’ faith in institutions, including schools, is at ebb tide. If these things were true, how would what we ask of schools — and how we measure their success — change?

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 12, 2023

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. These programs still offer all the traditional classes of a typical school. Joel Vargas, Jobs for the Future (JFF). “It’s Whittenberg.

Elementary School 139

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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

JUNE 2, 2017

The scene might be typical of many schools, but Van Ness, which this year offered pre-K through first grade, stands out in the nation’s capital because it is an exception to what Robinson-Rivers calls “an unfortunate trend.” pre-K classes skyrocketed into the thousands. pre-K classes skyrocketed into the thousands. A high-five?”

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 20, 2020

Sefi Roth, an economist at the London School of Economics, is an author of both studies. The study, forthcoming in American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, calculated that every Fahrenheit degree increase in the outdoor temperature over a school year reduced that year’s learning by 1 percent. (An AP Photo/Nick Ut).

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

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., to discuss how public education will adapt to a rapidly changing world.

Humanities 111

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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. We must reimagine schools’ goals and their learning culture, and invent new approaches for learning both new and traditional subjects and topics.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 22, 2016

For America to become the world leader in college degrees — and to reap the economic and social benefits that come with that success — we must close the educational attainment gap between Latinos and their white counterparts. In 2014, Latinos represented 26 percent of students enrolled in K-12 education.

K-12 75

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ED Surge

JULY 28, 2023

Out-of-school time programs have played a large role, funneling more girls and youth of color into K-12 STEM education programs that introduce them to the field. And now, as the leader of a nonprofit focused on STEM education for girls of color and gender-expansive youth, I’ve heard directly from young people about these challenges.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 13, 2022

It shows that school closures widened both economic and racial inequality in learning — which was already at unacceptable rates prior to the pandemic. The latest study from Harvard’s Center for Education Policy Research is based on testing data from 2.1 million students across the country.

Social Justice 98

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 17, 2018

It’s where districts and schools decide to spend their money,” Worth, a veteran educator who has also taught in Greene County’s traditional public schools, explained. Down the road at Greene County’s other public schools, 12 percent of students are white and 68 percent are black; there isn’t a piano lab and there are far fewer AP courses.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 14, 2019

I was trained and licensed to be a music teacher in the traditional American way. Almost all of what I just described was traditional. Incredibly traditional. Then I got to a middle school in the same district in a neighborhood with kids who were less economically advantaged. I played in ensembles. I struggled.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 11, 2018

After all, the rhythm of the traditional classroom doesn’t leave much room for chatting among students, and socializing in class is often viewed as a proxy for poor behavior or inattentiveness. A recent study from the World Economic Forum suggests that our chattiest students may be well poised for tomorrow’s world of work.”.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 21, 2018

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. Then Fryer compared test scores of the kids in the “platooned” schools with those in traditional schools in which a main classroom teacher continued to teach most subjects.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 10, 2020

Through their foundation, the couple is paying some 600 college students to tutor K-6 children who were falling behind. A series of recent studies underscores the negative impact the current public health and economic catastrophe has inflicted — and will continue to inflict — on students. Bill Haslam and his wife.

Tutoring 143

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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.

K-12 52

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 28, 2020

Some I spoke with are rethinking the traditional four-year college route altogether, already a path that less than half of high school graduates opt for. Falling endowments, demographic changes and rampant job losses portend a scary time for traditional models of higher education – and a reckoning may come sooner rather than later.

High School 132

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 27, 2018

“This study shows that a well-designed project-based curriculum might be more effective than traditional instruction.” It’s a lot more involved than tacking on a project to a traditional unit of study by assigning students, for example, to make shoebox dioramas about a book they’ve read.

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 9, 2019

Against a backdrop of growing interest in learning coding as an economic driver and computational thinking as a new literacy, this panel discussion will lean into the equity challenge of realistically addressing “computing for all” in K-12 education. Traditional stories rely on 2D technologies like paper or images.

K-12 86

K-12 Geography Humanities Economics 86

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.

Cultures 111

Cultures Leadership Economics Tradition 111

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 8, 2018

“It’s a clear trend,” said Tom Hilliard, a senior fellow at the Center for an Urban Future, which primarily studies economic growth in New York. All three new tests are more rigorous than the old GED and were designed to mirror the changes in traditional high schools with the introduction of Common Core standards.

High School 110

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 6, 2016

According to AASA, The School Superintendents Association only 14 percent of all superintendents are women – a far cry from the 72 percent of all K-12 educators in this country are women. Women teachers aren’t promoted like men.

K-12 71

K-12 Economics Teaching Tradition 71

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

“I’m not recruiting right now,” proclaimed Densen — founder of Bricolage Academy, a charter school that currently serves kindergarten through third grade, but will eventually be a K-12 school. “I Bricolage is part of a new wave of charter schools looking to bake economic and racial diversity into their very DNA.

Charter School 86

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 11, 2019

We know that education reform is far from simple: Charter schools modestly accelerate the learning of students from poor and working-class families, relative to their peers who attend traditional campuses. But these small and selective campuses also worsen inequality. Related: COLUMN: Support for charters in 2020 elections comes at a price.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 18, 2018

That’s the “doomsday scenario” Vermont is trying to avoid through programs like Randolph Union’s, says Joan Goldstein, the state’s commissioner of economic development. In Vermont in 2013 18 percent of economically disadvantaged students dropped out of high school compared to only 3.5 It recognized that learning can occur anywhere.”.

High School 108

High School Economics Tradition Public School 108