ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

While more than half of high schools nationwide—53 percent, to be precise—offer computer science, disparities in access and participation reveal themselves among traditionally underrepresented groups. Girls, for instance, make up just one-third of high school computer science students nationally.

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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. I first was assigned to an elementary school in a middle-class suburb of Philadelphia. And I was terrified to go to school every day. I struggled.

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NOVEMBER 11, 2018

As a middle school teacher, I often see my colleagues taking pains to keep students quiet during class. 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.

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JUNE 21, 2020

Although Khan Academy was one of the first online learning organizations to promote the idea that kids could learn at home at their own pace, Khan denied the suggestion that working with traditional schools was a significant change in direction, instead calling it “a natural evolution of our work.”. Published with permission. (The

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AUGUST 6, 2020

. “… many Black families are choosing charter schools, where achievement gaps between Black and white students are closing, and longstanding systemic racism is being dismantled by an underlying belief that all children from all backgrounds are deserving and capable of academic success.”

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 12, 2023

The district allows student to attend schools outside of their attendance zones as long as space is available, which means students can opt to continue to follow their chosen career pathway at a middle school with corresponding programs. Next fall, the school district will open a $12.7 Whittenberg.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

As a family, we wanted to spend as much time with her as possible throughout her recovery, which meant reconsidering my traditional elementaryschool schedule. Public school choice allows students like me to personalize education in order to achieve unique goals.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Biologists at the school look at the math taught in traditional calculus courses, he adds, and wonder why it’s even being taught, because the math isn’t practically useful for the field. Kelly has taught a similar modeling course for economics and social sciences for the last few years.)

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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. Fryer convinced the Houston school district to randomly assign 23 elementary schools to adopt specialized teaching for two years, from the fall of 2013 to the spring of 2015.

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MAY 20, 2019

Locations of charter middle schools in Boston. Source: “Can Successful Schools Replicate? Scaling Up Boston’s Charter School Sector,” Sarah Cohodes, Elizabeth Setren, and Christopher R. Research sometimes shows that charter schools are better at raising student achievement than traditional public schools.

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MARCH 1, 2024

Perizzolo, Jacquez and Hernandez are among the eight math teachers of an increasingly popular data science course offered at most schools in the Oxnard Union High School district, an economically diverse school system northwest of Los Angeles, where 80 percent of students identify as Hispanic.

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MARCH 18, 2024

This high failure rate, coupled with labor market needs, has led policymakers to tweak traditional vocational models to make them more flexible. Related: Middle schools are experimenting with themes like math, sustainability and the arts. Now, economic needs are causing a swing back to vocational and career education.

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MAY 24, 2022

That’s why my district is reimagining high schools with a strong focus on helping students become leaders in their own learning and the learning of others — a pathway to future success and economic mobility. Related: OPINION: Career planning in middle school prepares students for better workforce choices.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 15, 2018

When I was in middle school, I remember yearning to have conversations with my peers like the ones I was having at home. We spend the entire year cultivating in them a sense of pride, culminating in their graduation at which they don traditional stoles and are honored as full members of the community. Sign up for our newsletter.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 8, 2019

According to the 2016 World Economic Forum report, “ The Future of Jobs ,” a majority of employers say creativity is one of the most valued qualities they seek in their employees, along with critical-thinking skills and the ability to solve complex problems.

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MARCH 1, 2019

A small division that has served as a conduit for sharing information and best practices among the mastery-based schools is now down to a two-person staff, as department resources have shifted to more publicized efforts like a $23 million-dollar anti-bias training program for teachers. The school is thriving.

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DECEMBER 22, 2018

A Crew of seventh graders at King Middle School in Portland, Maine, plays a conflict-resolution game called “Is This Seat Taken?” Ten schools began using the model in 1993. Kids in traditional schools sometimes act like they’re on a cruise ship, where they sit on deck and teachers bring them stuff to do,” Berger said. “We

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JULY 30, 2024

Credit: AP Photo/Seth Wenig Good teachers are irreplaceable Andreas Schleicher, who oversees PISA for the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, said the student surveys also showed the importance of teachers’ connection to their students. France is responding to its sliding scores by introducing more tracking.

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MARCH 16, 2021

Until middle school, when a U-46 administrator — Wells’ friend’s mother, also Black — noticed that April’s grasp exceeded her classes’ reach. She coached Wells on how to talk with her middle school counselor. Wells spoke up for herself and got into honors classes, where she remained through high school.

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APRIL 28, 2021

Marie Lewis in her classroom at New Providence Middle School in Clarksville, Tennessee. In traditional models of teacher education, teacher candidates largely cover the cost themselves. Credit: Randall Lahann. Sadly, her story isn’t unusual. Related: This may be the best way to train teachers – and yes, we can afford it.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

Brown spent years pushing schools to follow the law, after giving up her job doing administrative support work for a government relations firm. White students with special needs are far more likely to graduate with a traditional diploma than are their black and brown peers. But those racial gaps are much wider in some states.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 29, 2023

Aléshah Brown wasn’t yet in high school when she started having doubts about college. This story also appeared in The Washington Post “Even in middle school, you’re feeling all this pressure and stress about going to college, but no one’s asking you, ‘What do you want to do?’ ” said Brown, of San Antonio, Texas.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 6, 2018

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. Much of the advocacy for net-zero buildings has focused on environmental and economic incentives. When teachers get useful, timely data, they use it.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 11, 2023

And the effects of online learning linger: School relationships have frayed, and after months at home, many parents and students don’t see the point of regular attendance. For almost two years, we told families that school can look different and that schoolwork could be accomplished in times outside of the traditional 8-to-3 day.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 8, 2016

After schools close in June, parents struggle with finding safe, affordable ways to keep their children engaged. a family with two school-age children can expect to pay an average $2,597 per month for child care, according to calculations from the Economic Policy Institute. Consider that in D.C.,

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

Related: English one day, Español the next: Dual-language learning expands with a South Bronx school as a model. When you think about the future economics of the world, it’s not an English world.”. At his middle school, he says he felt discouraged from speaking Spanish in the building. Walsh, Boston mayor.

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JULY 25, 2017

math teacher Leah Alcala witnessed a similar change in middle school and high school students when she began spotlighting what she calls her “favorite errors.” While not everyone in her economically and ethnically diverse classes masters all the math, “what I know for sure is that my kids never give up on my class.”.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 21, 2024

But the moms in the community who support public schools have organized to create a more equitable and diverse educational landscape. They have teamed up with local educational organizations to advocate for the school district, and by extension, for racially and economically diverse schools.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 23, 2016

Estonia had the second smallest gap in performance between its poorest and richest students out of all participating countries known as the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). Private schools, although an increasing threat to public education, are still a relatively small slice of the educational system.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

. — Cleveland native Toni McWilliams didn’t feel like she was putting her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in business administration to good use working as an administrative secretary for a middle school in her hometown. The job, which paid around $19,000, barely brought in enough money to support her two young daughters.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

Many school choice advocates cheered DeVos’ appointment, hoping it would unleash new funding and federal support for more charter schools, private school vouchers and other “choice” options, such as virtual schools and online programs. But research on whether more school choice improves education is mixed.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 2, 2016

Jones came to Starkville High in 2015 from East Oktibbeha County High School. Throughout Mississippi, where there are still 43 open desegregation orders, the process of integrating schools traditionally pitted the courts and the DOJ against school districts. This economic divide was mirrored in the school system.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

A Center for Public Integrity analysis of district-level federal education data suggests roughly 300,000 students entitled to essential rights reserved for homeless students have slipped through the cracks, unidentified by the school districts mandated to help them. The entrance to Bella Vista Middle School in Murrieta, Calif.,

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Digital Promise

JUNE 15, 2016

Leadership is second only to teaching among school-related factors that can improve student achievement, and it tends to show greatest impact in traditionally underserved schools ( Leithwood, Seashore Louis, Anderson, and Wahlstrom, 2004 ). Effective Administrator and Teacher Leadership. 2004; The Wallace Foundation, 2012 ).

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 27, 2016

McChristian went to school in the Jim Hill feeder pattern in Jackson Public Schools, like most all kids in Jackson’s Washington Addition neighborhood, where school is close enough to walk to. He liked school but said it bored him. He says he could communicate but not empathize with his younger classmates.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 23, 2025

Boys get lower grades than girls, on average, in elementary and middle schools. Theyre less likely to graduate from high school. But as things keep falling out of balance, there are impacts on the financial success for men and on economic growth for everybody. And they’re less likely to graduate from high school.

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APRIL 22, 2024

On the international Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) , American 15-year-olds rank toward the bottom of economically advanced nations in math achievement. In 2014, San Francisco heeded that call , mixing different achievement levels in middle school classrooms and delaying algebra until ninth grade.

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