The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 29, 2020

Tutors, few of whom went to school for teaching or math, are trained on both the academic and relationship-building aspects of their jobs with two coaching sessions per week and daily informal observations that inform the coaching. Those results will be published in a forthcoming paper. Census Bureau data.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

It’s troubling then, to be faced with signs of a teaching profession in decline — with alarming teacher shortages , fewer college students choosing to become teachers and many current teachers not recommending that others enter the profession. And current shortages are finally beginning to spur an embrace of broader conceptions of teaching.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

When the federal government released its revised edtech plan last month, it was laying down its hope for a future that delivers on effective instruction for students. The plan was first released to fulfill the Improving America’s Schools Act of 1994 and last revised in 2016.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

OCTOBER 24, 2022

See the map below from NCES ( or make your own ), which shows that most states are trying for their children to achieve NAEP’s Basic level, not Proficient: Once again, in the words of Tom Loveless, former director of the Brown Center on Education Policy at the Brookings Institution, “ Proficient on NAEP does not mean grade level performance.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 12, 2023

So when Parks learned during a conference for student-government leaders about a program that teaches young adults to offer mental health support to their peers, she thought it would work well at Marshall—and even beyond, at colleges throughout West Virginia. The Bandana Project started at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Longer term, state leaders are trying to improve internet infrastructure across the state, said Sarah Armstrong Tucker, chancellor for the West Virginia Higher Education Policy Commission. Aaron Thompson Yet just because people can access technology doesn’t mean they know how to use it effectively for teaching and learning.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 17, 2020

She drives over an hour each way to teach world history at LaGrange High School in Lake Charles. She turns on gospel music — a ritual she’s had since she began teaching 28 years ago — and sanitizes all surfaces. Related: Teaching among the ashes: ‘It’s not just your house that’s burned, it’s everyone’s’.

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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. The new federal law, called the Every Student Succeeds Act, provides money and guidance for states to pursue new models of education. Department of Education has the power to accept or reject state plans.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 20, 2023

When colleges and boot camps team up, the colleges typically just put their name on the programs while the boot camp companies recruit students, develop curricula and teach classes. Make School didn’t have to disclose any ongoing information about its financials to the federal government or the accreditor. Credit: Amanda J.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 22, 2020

Emanuelle Sippy, a rising senior at Henry Clay High School in Lexington, Kentucky, and student director of the Prichard Committee Student Voice Team, another organization involved in the campaign, views student participation in education policy as mandatory. “We Related: As we talk about reopening schools, are the teachers okay?

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

She has ADHD and says the white teaching assistant assigned to help her focus in her new class targeted her because she’s Black, blaming Kailani when classmates acted up. Each student represents money from the city, state and federal governments. She teaches dance to elementary school kids now. on Tuesday, Jan.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 15, 2017

Bristol, who examines national, state and local education policies that affect the recruitment and retention for teachers of color in schools, has been much in demand lately to talk about his research. In addition, Khalil says Howard University and other MSIs are in competition with alternative route teaching certificate programs.

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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

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 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

APRIL 9, 2018

” Related: Teaching kids not to be scared of math might help them achieve. 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 must do better for all children.”

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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

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

AUGUST 28, 2017

You want to teach your fellow teachers the error of their ways, but you’ve seen the consequences of speaking out: termination, transfer and blackballing. 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.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2019

We’re doing a disservice if we’re not teaching the next generation how to use technology. Using computers and online resources in the classroom is part of a growing trend in education. San Jose mayor Sam Liccardo also faults the state’s hyper-local control of its education system. “We

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Even more alarming is that these programs provide minimal instruction on how to teach students with diverse needs, such as those with dyslexia.

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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

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Rural schools were the most likely to have a full-time specialist on hand to teach music, federal data shows. The federal government collects data on the fine arts only about once every 10 years and it tells us more about who is teaching music than which students have the opportunity to play it. It’d be nice to know that.”.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 10, 2017

That’s due to a new teaching approach here called “proficiency-based education,” that was inspired by a 2012 state law. Five of the state’s 124 high schools are on target to hand out the new diplomas next spring, according to a spokesperson for the Maine Department of Education, while others have barely started to make the transition.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 28, 2023

questions about how much flexibility educators and students really have to redesign their schools come up regularly, according to Hoffman, the district leader. After all, schools are governed by plenty of federal and district policies intended to ensure that they impart a rigorous education.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

Though the faculty teach the courses and the universities control admission standards and confer the graduates’ degrees, much of the work of building and managing the courses is done by the companies. It’s a simpler, more profitable market that also has an unlimited source of debt financing courtesy of the federal government.”.

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ED Surge

MARCH 24, 2022

This pattern is not unique in education policy spaces. To be clear, this lack of teachers testifying was not the fault of educators. Whatever the Governor’s intention, you cannot adequately address the teaching shortage crisis when teachers have such a small voice in the process. Apply to a teaching policy fellowship.

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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

MAY 2, 2024

Robert Cassanello at the University of Central Florida in Orlando — one of the nation’s largest campuses with 70,000 students — warned in red ink on the syllabus for his graduate seminar on the Civil Rights Movement (as for all courses he teaches) that he “will expose you to content that does not comply with and will violate” anti-DEI laws.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 27, 2024

Once a Public Servant, Always a Public Servant Plenty of former educators hold public office today, including at the federal level, such as Sen. Jahana Hayes of Connecticut, a former high school history and government teacher. Arguably the highest form of service is to teach every day. Chad King Wilson Sr.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 27, 2022

So when the secretary employed a video game metaphor to declare, “It’s time to level up education in this country,” he had IRL—in real life—priorities in mind. More resources to make teaching jobs attractive and sustainable. More mental health support for students. More engagement with families and parents.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 15, 2022

Our current predominant school design is akin to a traditional telephone: a simple two-way system of delivery wherein teachers teach and students learn. The more school systems that apply for these grants, the greater the benefit to our nation’s education as a whole. Community schools are more like smartphones.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2019

In tiny Foster, Rhode Island, teachers at Captain Isaac Paine Elementary School use high-tech methods to teach a largely rural, off-the-grid population. Danusis and her teaching staff practice personalized learning, an individual-comes-first approach, usually aided by laptops, that has become a reformist calling card in education.

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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. “Unfunded mandate after unfunded mandate is not making teaching a chosen career.”

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

ITT Educational Services, one of the largest operators of for-profit technical schools, ended operations at all of its ITT Technical Institutes recently, citing government action to curtail the company’s access to millions of dollars in federal loans and grants, a critical source of revenue. It’s the worst of all worlds.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

The Higher Education Act, first passed in 1965 and revised perodically, regulates how the federal government financially assists postsecondary institutions and students. Schools “know that pretty much regardless of what they charge, students are going to be able to find the loans from the federal government.”.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 28, 2017

Critics counter that years of teaching experience and academic course credits are correlated with better teaching. But some academic studies indicate minimal payoff from post-tenure teaching experience and additional academic course credits. Even after five years of teaching, the junior teacher only earns 54 percent as much.

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