The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

The National Education Equity Lab offers online courses from professors at top universities to high schoolers in low-income communities. She’s worked side by side with some of the country’s largest donors, including launching and leading Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan’s initial education philanthropy.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 30, 2020

Research on online learning in both K-12 and higher-education settings points consistently to uneven benefits of online learning by student subgroups. Patricia Burch is a professor at the University of Southern California and a co-director of the USC Rossier Center on Education Policy, Equity and Governance.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 16, 2017

Now, with the gold rush long over, the logging industry nearly collapsed and few good jobs left in the area, the local K-12 school graduates fewer than 35 students a year. And, due to the wording of the Idaho constitution, McFarlane and his team can’t even use any of the district’s state K-12 funding for the 4-year-olds they serve.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 11, 2018

The Heritage Foundation, a right-leaning think tank, wants lawmakers to take additional steps: changing the rules for 529 plans to allow families more school choice at the K-12 and help them pay for a bevy of other options. Several education policy experts, however, says these plans — regardless of how they’re used — are flawed.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 25, 2018

The United States ranks ninth — behind Estonia, Canada and the United Kingdom, among others — on the Economist Intelligence Unit’s “automation readiness” index for education policies. Related: With a focus on equity, Estonia has quietly joined ranks of the global education elite.

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That’s the argument made by scholar and author Freddie deBoer in his book, “The Cult of Smart: How Our Broken Education System Perpetuates Social Injustice.” deBoer has taught in both the K-12 and college setting, and he has served as an academic assessment manager at a college.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

While there are many ways to invest in children younger than 5, I chose to focus on preschool since it is the early years program most closely correlated with K-12 education, my primary focus as an education reporter. and a timeline of the major early education policy changes dating back to the late 19 th century.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 16, 2019

The historically majority-white district, which served 14,150 K-12 students, 61 percent of whom qualified for free or reduced-price lunch in the 2018-19 school year, has seen a recent influx of immigrants from around the world. The average GPA for 10 th through 12 th graders who participate in music here is 3.35.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 29, 2020

A randomized controlled trial out of the University of Chicago Education Lab found students who received the tutoring class during the 2013-14 school year learned as much as two additional years’ worth of math than their peers who didn’t get the tutoring. Those results will be published in a forthcoming paper. Census Bureau data.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 23, 2016

1 is guaranteed 15 hours a week of free child-care or preschool for 38 weeks a year, or 570 hours total, paid for by the national government. “We Apparently, so do most parents, 94 percent of whom take the government up on its offer of free education starting at age 3, according to government data. Like the U.S.,

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 21, 2016

Over the course of three years, starting in 2009, Kentucky’s state education commissioner, Terry Holliday, added 50,000 miles to his odometer, crisscrossing the state to bring each of the 173 school districts the message: Kentucky was adopting the Common Core. The government rate at a local hotel was $89 a night.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 17, 2018

“I don’t know anyone who doesn’t want to improve education, but our good intentions can make us unintentionally do the wrong things,” said Frederick Hess, founding director of the education policy studies program at the Washington think tank the American Enterprise Institute. Higher Education. Choose as many as you like.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 17, 2016

Education reformers have built their platform and careers on the value of accountability. The NAACP resolution calls for school districts and the federal government to create structures that hold charter schools to the same standards to which they hold traditional public schools.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

In a wide-ranging opinion, Judge Moukawsher criticized the state legislature’s approach to educational policy on issues ranging from school construction spending to graduation standards. The success or failure depends on the crucial next steps of the various branches of government – the executive, legislature, and judiciary.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 24, 2016

When it comes to influencing education policy and cultivating innovative schools, all eyes are on the states. And ESSA could serve as a catalyst to super-charge new ways to educate children without tying schools to the old model that had students marching in lock-step through kindergarten and the subsequent 12 grade levels. “We

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

But how common is this governance-by-coalition model across the country? Not very, according to Kenneth Wong, director of the Urban Education Policy Program at Brown University. In the past, such takeovers have produced spotty and inconsistent results in struggling Mississippi districts , (The W.K.

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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 Many teachers are skeptical of yet another in what seems like a series of endless “reforms” from the state government. Kylee Elderkin, student, Nokomis Regional High School.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 26, 2018

In addition, federal and many local governments are advocating for policies that would make educational data — similar to what Zuberi saw on the California School Dashboard — more accessible, transparent and helpful to parents. She is hoping to see a change from state and local governments.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 18, 2016

Negative quality of life outcomes and racial strife evidence our failure to learn how to live together, which compromise our national security making diversity a federal education policy issue. The federal government has a very limited set of carrots and sticks to encourage diversity.

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APRIL 9, 2018

that we are comparing apples to apples,” said Peggy Carr, acting commissioner for the National Center for Education Statistics, in a briefing with reporters ahead of the score release. “We are seeing troubling gaps between the highest- and lowest-performing students. We must do better for all children.”

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 27, 2019

Hanushek, an economist, believes that the inability to close the achievement gap shows the failure of our education policies to help the poor, especially the $26 billion a year the federal government spends on Title I funding on poor schools and for Head Start preschool programs.

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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. Sign up for our Higher Education newsletter. Genes may not pass on white supremacy, but education policies certainly do.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2019

Issuing a 30-year bond to finance a new school building makes sense, says Ross Rubenstein, a professor at Georgia State University who specializes in public finance and education policy. San Jose mayor Sam Liccardo also faults the state’s hyper-local control of its education system. “We

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 3, 2016

New York City’s public schools, like those in the state’s other big cities, educate large numbers of (traditionally struggling) poor black and Latino students, and sometimes those students outperform even their white and more affluent peers in Rochester, Syracuse, Buffalo and Yonkers on state tests. In Rochester, for example, just 6.7

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 5, 2018

This story about school segregation was produced by The Texas Tribune , a nonprofit, nonpartisan media organization that provides free news, data and events on Texas public policy, politics, government and statewide issues. Loading… Related: How the federal government abandoned the Brown v. Board of Education decision.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 30, 2017

In addition, aid from the government, merit aid from universities and private programs increasingly provide more benefit for wealthier students with high grade-point averages and top scores on entrance exams.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 11, 2017

Adler, who has taught at the school for 40 years, sees the proficiency-based education mandate from the state as another foolish idea to come down from a state government that doesn’t understand or respect teachers. “It’s the long arm of the state,” she says. ” Photo: Gregory Rec/Portland Press Herald. .”

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 11, 2016

They’ll share in $100 million from foundations and the government for mentoring programs that now reach nearly 10,000 students in 30 communities. Dillon was lucky to have the president personally invested in improving its schools. Only two of the new sites are rural: Indianola, Mississippi, and the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), today, more than 7 million children, or 14 percent of public school students , are entitled to special services and accommodations to help them learn. Meghan Whittaker, director of policy and advocacy at the National Center for Learning Disabilities.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 20, 2020

.” Along with Buttigieg, other Democratic presidential candidates — including Joe Biden, Amy Klobuchar, Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, and Andrew Yang — have proposed fully funding the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA). And yet the federal government ultimately only covers 14.6 percent of the additional cost.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2019

That push officially began in 2014, when Deborah Gist, then the state’s commissioner of education, announced a public-private “innovation partnership” to merge traditional and computerized pedagogy. Sign up for our Higher Education newsletter. The George W.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

With the election over, now is the time for legislators and leaders in states and the federal government to turn their attention back to education. Of course, our leadership problems are exacerbated by our wildly decentralized, 13,000-district, every-leader-for-herself approach to school governance.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 12, 2023

In New Mexico, the state Public Education Department recently adopted standards to improve the teaching of race and ethnicity, a subject that includes Indigenous history and culture. Like other educators, Gorneau emphasized that critical race theory is not being taught in South Dakota schools at the K-12 level.

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to treat and fund early care and education like a public good, in much the same way K-12 is. “If government for some far-off future. Some see it as wrongheaded — a distraction from the real goal of getting the U.S. They’re already here, and employees are already taking advantage of them.

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AUGUST 18, 2023

Especially when I was informed through an array of K-12 educators, academic counselors, and community professionals that jobs such as a college president were reserved from those from more prestigious institutions of higher education.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 14, 2021

The room is on the south wing of the sprawling K-12 education complex in Shoshoni, a town of 649 people. She wanted better teaching conditions and pay for herself (her monthly salary nearly doubled when she moved) and a better education for her girls. The front entrance of the $49 million Shoshoni K-12 School building.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 24, 2021

His bet is that he can harness that energy and use it, along with an unprecedented level of federal cash, to finally fix what ails public education in the U.S. Shoukan Aziz, 12, smiles at her teacher during an in-person day at school in spring 2021. Education Secretary, Miguel Cardona? Not everyone would welcome that change.

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