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OCTOBER 29, 2024

In exchange, residents would qualify for in-district tuition and trigger a long-term plan to build out college facilities in this rural stretch of Texas, which is positioning itself to tap into the economic boom flowing into the smaller communities nestled between Austin and San Antonio.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

Supporting Hanna was just one reason why my family and I decided I would enroll in a tuition-free online charter school program beginning in fifth grade and why, as a high school junior, I’m still there, as is Hanna and her twin, Morgan. For reaching my personal academic and career goals, online public school has been the right fit.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

What does the declining birthrate mean for elementary, middle and high schools across the country? percent fewer public school students a decade from now. Economic uncertainty apparently has this side effect.) According to one set of projections, it could mean 8.5 “Nobody is talking about this.”

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 7, 2014

They found that after controlling for the known effects of demographics, particularly wealth and social class, private schools (and independently run charter schools) demonstrated no advantage over public schools. Nobody disputes that schools full of rich kids do better. But what if they’re wrong?

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A Principal's Reflections

SEPTEMBER 11, 2016

This past year five of the top 100 public schools in America were from NJ. Instead of celebrating and strengthening a great public education system, Governor Christie has taken a dumfounding approach with his agenda. Historically NJ is typically number one or two. This only strengthened my resolve.

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A Principal's Reflections

OCTOBER 2, 2014

Second, we advocate for the development of an action plan for educating the not-so-common learners that is research-based, achievable, and reaches beyond any current educational reform initiative for school improvement. Nonetheless, we contend that a concentration on the enhancement of teaching skills and strategies is not enough.

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ED Surge

MARCH 5, 2025

To right the ship, families, schools and future employers must work together to prioritize a meaningful investment and evidence-based approach in developing a diverse and technically skilled workforce who can thrive in a rapidly changing economic landscape.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Another fan of the program, Linda Mauriello, runs the transition and work-based learning program at Boonton Public Schools in northern New Jersey. Staff from community-based organizations come to school to train students on how to build relationships at work, create resumes and set career goals.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 12, 2024

Board of Education, rejecting legal racial segregation of public schools. The link between education and economic opportunity has only increased. And our democracy is desperately in need of shared knowledge and understanding across cultural, racial, economic and geographic lines. Just 12 percent oppose.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 1, 2021

America’s public schools have enormous energy, infrastructure and transportation needs, which make them an essential component of any plan to improve the nation’s overall infrastructure. Yet the role schools can play — both in economic recovery and in addressing climate change — is often overlooked.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 21, 2021

At least that is the conclusion I reached after looking at data on more than 400 traditional public middle schools in New York City, where the rankings are dominated by students’ absolute proficiency levels. Shouldn’t we be far more interested in outputs, such as how schools contribute (or not) to student learning and development?

Middle School 145

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ED Surge

MAY 8, 2024

In a time when technological advancements shape our daily lives and drive economic growth, focusing on STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) education in K-12 schools is not just a trend but a necessity. EdSurge: What experiences laid the foundation for your role as a leader in STEM education in NYC Public Schools?

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 9, 2023

This story also appeared in Mind/Shift In the past decade, the population of elementary, middle and high school students in Massachusetts dropped by 42,000 while the number of school employees grew by 18,000. In Connecticut, public school enrollment fell 7 percent while staffing rose 8 percent. Follow the money.

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Studies Weekly

MARCH 10, 2025

Most of these immigrants traveled from Ulster a province in northern Ireland to escape religious persecution and economic hardship. However, the first big wave of Irish immigrants came in the early 1700s, according to Catherine B. Shannon from Westfield State College.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 23, 2020

This period of social distancing is giving us a glimpse of what it’s like when a school is shuttered permanently, a tragedy tens of thousands of families have had to deal with over the last two decades. Like the coronavirus, the impact of permanent school closures disproportionately hit Black and urban neighborhoods.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 14, 2020

This can have a long-term impact; the rigor of high school courses has been found to be the No. In Rockville Centre, tracked classes also led to racial and economic segregation in a high school where a fifth of the nearly 1,100 students are Black or Latino and the rest of the student body is nearly entirely white.

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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

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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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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

Research also shows that schools with high poverty rates and large numbers of Black and Latino students have the greatest difficulties finding qualified substitutes to cover classes. Jack Raba, a recent Cheshire Public Schools graduate, works with 7th grader Cody Persico at Dodd Middle School. I don’t think so.”

Middle School 141

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Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Maritime High School in Des Moines, Washington—a collaborative project between the Port of Seattle , the Northwest Maritime Center , Duwamish River Cleanup Coalition , and Highline Public Schools —welcomed its inaugural freshman class this month. You can also read more about Highline Public Schools in their Innovation Portfolio.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Going through public schools in a small Massachusetts city, I had some great teachers. I majored in economics as an undergraduate. Students I worked with told me they were going to school only because I was there, and that my presence made them feel welcome. Related: Why we could soon lose even more Black Teachers.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 22, 2020

Housing segregation in Louisville has declined somewhat in recent years, but the city is still divided and Black Louisvillians are left out of economic opportunities ; Black poverty in the city and its surrounding county is three times that of white poverty. The Black community also has to have economic opportunities outside of education.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 16, 2020

Jamie Matus, a former New York City public school teacher who now lives in Dubai, immediately organized a homeschooling group for more than 30 of her children’s classmates after the American School of Dubai shut down earlier this month due to virus concerns. “I Photo by Jamie Matus).

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Digital Promise

JULY 7, 2015

Jane is the associate superintendent for instruction at Lincoln Public Schools , Neb., a member of the Digital Promise League of Innovative Schools. Who are the people that enable a school system to bridge theory and practice? Baltimore County Public Schools. District of Columbia Public Schools.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 30, 2020

Economic disparities across education systems mean some students have access to laptops, to regular internet access, to printers. Public school students who are poor depend on schools for regular meals, for health/counseling services, for safe spaces. Related: Coronavirus is poised to inflame inequality in schools.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

AUGUST 5, 2015

Public schools conflict with all of those, don’t they? Citizens and communities generally like and strongly support their schools. ignore legal requirements to timely establish school funding levels that would allow districts to adequately plan and budget. So you’ve got a challenge.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

But significant gaps also exist between other student groups, such as those who are and are not economically disadvantaged and students who have disabilities and those who do not. The second-largest achievement gap among subgroups exists between students who are economically disadvantaged and those who are not.

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The Hechinger Report

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.

Middle School 104

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 25, 2024

Many public school counselors have told me that their students are frustrated and waiting until next year to apply. This has serious implications for the future workforce, economic mobility for individuals, economic stability for communities and America’s ability to compete on a global stage. The culprit?

Economics 140

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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. Schools and districts must help educators foster their own social and emotional competencies. There are different approaches.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 27, 2021

“How can historically marginalized students pursue meaningful paths and healthy careers after high school?” “How How can the Providence public schools improve education for high school ESL/ELL Latinx students?” “How And all come from groups that are marginalized because of race, gender or low socio-economic status.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2021

But overcoming the pandemic-driven economic crisis will require much more than good intentions and billions in new spending. An economic recession is now making this worse. It’s no surprise that all eyes are turned to Washington as the nation claws its way out of a recession and scrambles to distribute vaccines. They had to.

Civics 116

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The Hechinger Report

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.

Elementary School 130

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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

DECEMBER 3, 2023

But they’re cropping up across the country, particularly in places where families aren’t limited to their neighborhood school zone, according to Andrew Maxey, a member of the board of trustees of the Association for Middle Level Education, or AMLE, an organization that supports middle school educators.

Middle School 137

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 27, 2023

This support, through a program set up to promote rural economic development and from the federal agency that works the most with rural places, underscores how important local universities and colleges are to those communities — and the vulnerability of a growing number of them. Iowa Wesleyan, for example, had an estimated $55.1

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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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