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. This flies in the face of common sense and human history, deBoer argued.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 25, 2022

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

JUNE 20, 2017

education policy? In these ways, students can bring added value to both education policy and practice. Too many of us students feel we have no power to shape our environment, resulting in a vicious cycle where students don’t share our perspectives and educators don’t seek them out. Australia offers a sneak peek.

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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 district also offers courses like Digital Audio Production, History of American Pop and AP Music Theory.

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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. I dug into the history and research on Head Start. This post also appeared on Education Week.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 17, 2016

Ignoring the deep history between civil rights organizations and organized labor, reformers have charged the NAACP with working alongside unions as if corporate America has done black folk many favors. “If If we’ve learned anything from the history of black education, it is that dual systems don’t work.”.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 28, 2019

The tool that helped identify the gaps in the first place is called the Knowledge Map , developed at the Johns Hopkins Institute for Education Policy based on the value of content knowledge. In the United States, schools tend to focus on helping students develop concrete skills, like finding the main idea in a paragraph.

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Becoming a History Teacher

JUNE 11, 2024

Photo by Frans van Heerden on Pexels.com More experienced teachers in mentoring roles are often, as demonstrated by the teacher at the beginning of this blog, able to be more speculative about the pressures of school and education policy. Gore, J., & Thomas, K. Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education , 34 (1), 95–113.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Board of Education cases actually began. I had not learned of this fascinating portion of our state’s history until after graduating from the University of South Carolina. Related: ‘We’ve failed them’: How South Carolina education policy hurts ‘Dreamers’ — and costs taxpayers. Later, I became a professional writer.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

So it and other schools in the region have started trying to recruit Hispanics, who — like Barrera Cantu — increasingly want college educations. Liberal arts colleges are in crisis,” said Doug Sofer, professor of history at another of these schools, Maryville College in Tennessee. based research organization focusing on Hispanics.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 4, 2019

The causes of the gender wage gap in education are complex and rooted in a long history of women making less than men in every profession, even ones where women have traditionally worked. Julia Rafal-Baer is Chief Operating Officer of Chiefs for Change , a bipartisan network of state and district education chiefs.

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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.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 28, 2017

In the aftermath of the white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, VA, President Barack Obama tweeted a Nelson Mandela quote: “No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin or his background or his religion…” The tweet became the most liked in the history of Twitter. Sign up for our Higher Education newsletter.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 23, 2016

Nursery schools, which have a long history in England, have also been tapped to help improve the quality of care offered at all of the settings available to parents under the universal plan. Some question whether the government would do any better at universal preschool than it does with universal K-12 education.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 30, 2016

For the first time in history, our public schools are majority minority. Catherine Brown is the vice president of education policy at the Center for American Progress. Fortunately, this round of interest in integration is sparking in a new context.

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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. Sign up for Jill Barshay's Proof Points newsletter. .

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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. Secretary of Education, is thankful for attending diverse schools and attributes those schools to his advancements.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 6, 2016

Michael Hansen, senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and director of the Brown Center on Education Policy, is among a number of experts who say minority students may be underperforming because they don’t have role models in positions of authority — people who are helping them, and who also look like them.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 12, 2016

Fifteen years ago, Brenda Cassellius was an assistant principal at a Minneapolis high school when a local reporter asked her about the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB), the brand-new congressional overhaul of federal education policy. That data has become a valuable tool for educators, policy makers and researchers.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 9, 2017

Parker Charter Essential School in Devens, Massachusetts, believe multiage education fosters cooperation and collaboration between students, like these ninth- and 10th-graders working together on a Holocaust-related history project. Photo: Stuart Miller. DEVENS, Mass. — It looks like a typical class in a suburban high school.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 30, 2018

Higher Education. Leave this field empty if you're human: Kailei Whitaker, 12, said she likes learning from a computer more than learning from a teacher because she can focus better. Audrey Watters, author of a forthcoming book on the history of education technology. Sign up for our newsletter. Choose as many as you like.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 11, 2017

Having teachers who feel that way, especially influential veterans, is a poor start to creating a new system, said Erika Stump, a research associate at the Center for Education Policy, Applied Research and Evaluation at the University of Southern Maine.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 5, 2018

But Beard and others know the district has yet to overcome the deep disparities that have defined so much of its history. Since 2017, most pre-K and kindergarten students in Longview have begun their education at East Texas Montessori Prep, a $31 million, 150,000-square-foot building in the middle of the district. “We

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2016

History in West Tallahatchie High School, 20 minutes south of Clarksdale, in the Mississippi Delta. ” During the 2011-12 school year, about 43 percent of teachers in Mississippi were newcomers to their schools, with fewer than four years of experience at their current place of employment. The Horn Lake, Miss., native taught U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 21, 2019

They complain that competition remains the central tenet of New Orleans’s education system, and that local control has only given more affluent families yet another advantage. Celeste Lay, a Tulane political science professor who studies education policy, sees a pattern in who is succeeding in this new era.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 11, 2016

At the new Dillon Middle School, eighth-graders in Teresa Stephens’ South Carolina history class looked to the future of their community. “On On some things we get a good education,” said Alexus Davis, sitting with her class at long tables in the school’s media center.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2023

In Norfolk, Virginia, the juniors and seniors enrolled in an African American history class taught by Ed Allison were working on their capstone projects, using nearby Fort Monroe, the site where the first enslaved Africans landed in 1619, as a jumping off point to explore their family history.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 12, 2023

This story also appeared in The Nation “I knew that the public school system would not benefit my child without the important and critical history and culture of Indigenous people being taught,” said Tilsen-Brave Heart, a member of the Oglala Lakota Nation. And so they just don’t, so there is no Native history being taught.”

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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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ED Surge

APRIL 18, 2023

In higher education, the proposition of valuing skills but not necessarily degrees has gained support among influential leaders from the White House to the C-suite of major employers. There are challenges as basic as defining what, exactly, counts as a “skill.” If we had that,” he asks, “wouldn’t we be living in a very different America?”

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 28, 2022

“I learned way more than I ever wanted to learn about textbooks, and way more than I ever wanted to learn about Alabama politics,” said Robert Norrell, a former University of Alabama history professor and textbook publisher. Robert Norrell, a former University of Alabama history professor and textbook publisher.

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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.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Before officially launching Vermilion in March, Adams had worked for his alma mater, Hillsdale — a private Christian college in Michigan dedicated to “classical” education, hard-right political advocacy, and spreading its education model nationwide. Then there was the curriculum. Chaikin did not respond to a request for comment.)

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 12, 2020

history will see it that way. Most education policy experts recognize that the $13.2 billion the CARES Act allocated for K-12 education is woefully inadequate. Most education policy experts recognize that the $13.2 billion the CARES Act allocated for K-12 education is woefully inadequate.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 24, 2017

With her money, she has gained access to politicians and influenced education policy throughout the country. Learn from history, and resist. DeVos is the billionaire philanthropist who said it’s possible her family has given upwards of $200 million to mostly Republican causes.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 18, 2017

“…when we talk about Brown, we too often mark the impact of the decision on black children, without taking stock of the damaging effects of segregated education on white children. And yet the harm segregation does to white children is also part of Brown ‘s history. They’re so bad that many Republicans don’t favor them.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 2, 2017

The vast majority of applicants are admitted through the Top 10 percent program, which grants automatic admission to, well, actually the top 8 percent of graduates at all Texas high schools, but what we see there is white and Asian students are still greatly overrepresented compared to the Texas K-12 population overall.

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