The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 16, 2020

This flies in the face of common sense and human history, deBoer argued. Another potential answer is offered in a second new book, How to Educate a Citizen: The Power of Shared Knowledge to Unify a Nation , by E.D. Related: What if public schools never reopen? Hirsch, Jr. Refreshing those ideals may offer one path forward.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 5, 2021

But now a convergence of factors — a dwindling pool of traditional-age students, the call for more educated workers and a pandemic that highlighted economic disparities and scrambled habits and jobs — is putting adults in the spotlight. Traditional institutions have treated adults “as a kind of afterthought,” he said.

Economics 144

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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. Though there are no hard numbers, educators acknowledge the total is miniscule.).

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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

MAY 30, 2018

Pane predicts that if the personalized learning trend continues, it could upend traditional notions of what a classroom looks like. “I Audrey Watters, author of a forthcoming book on the history of education technology. Where there’s money, that fuels the fire,” said Barbot.

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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

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Traditional arts ensembles like marching band and big band don’t necessarily resonate,” said superintendent Paul Gausman, a musician and long-time music educator. It’s part of our history, but as we bring kids in from other countries [we should offer] more popular ensembles in other countries.”.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 21, 2024

In Pasadena, Dufford said, it has been tradition for established families not to send their children to public schools. “So Having lived through the desegregation order, Hirahara, who is now an award-winning mystery writer , wishes more people knew about the history of the city’s schools.

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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. To Simmons, the separate program is a figurative foot in the door, impeding the district’s plan for a cohesive education system. The same court ordered Longview to integrate both its faculty and students.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 23, 2016

Redcliffe leaders, in the long tradition of English nursery leaders, believe children learn best when they are taking the lead and exploring the world on their own, complete with the risks that independence carries like, say, a bump on the head from a wooden swing. And, as recently as the mid-1990s, the early education policies of the U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

In August, more than 300 students started the school year in the first traditional school run directly by the New Orleans school district since 2019. Celeste Lay, a political science professor at Tulane University who studies education policy. “I 6, 2024, is the district’s first new, traditional school in nearly two decades.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2024

Marissa Bellenger, one of Cassanello’s graduate students, was warned by a visiting professor teaching a lecture course on American history for which she is a teaching assistant. “He “If I were a lecturer, and I see what’s going on in Tallahassee,” he said, “I would say, ‘Maybe I don’t teach that concept.’”

Sociology 129

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ED Surge

APRIL 18, 2023

But neither the endorsement of powerful entities nor the enactment of new education policies assures that the push to create a skills-based education system will run like, er, clockwork. There are challenges as basic as defining what, exactly, counts as a “skill.” I think the testing industry is very nervous,” he says.

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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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ED Surge

OCTOBER 26, 2022

BREAK MY SOUL", in particular, reflects my work as a public high school history teacher as I have had my own renaissance navigating the toxic landscape that further marginalizes educators struggling to hold on to their humanity while teaching.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 11, 2017

I prefer the traditional system.”. 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.

High School 73

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

You’re not supposed to close and leave students in the lurch,” said Kevin Kinser, a Pennsylvania State University education professor who heads Penn State’s education policy studies department. Jim Rawlins, admissions director, University of Oregon. But we’re not set up to deal with mass closures.”.

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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.

Charter School 96

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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.”

American History 145

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 17, 2023

Because of the pandemic and the timing of Meryl’s death, the family was not able to have a traditional funeral. Because of the pandemic and the timing of Meryl’s death, the family was not able to have a traditional funeral. Because of the pandemic and the timing of Meryl’s death, the family was not able to have a traditional funeral.

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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

AUGUST 4, 2023

Backers of the takeover of Houston Independent School District say it’s needed to improve performance in a few schools in low-income neighborhoods that have a history of poor academic outcomes. If ever there was a school board that needs to be taken over and reformed it’s HISD.”

Charter School 98

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 18, 2017

Charter schools on average don’t distinguish themselves from their traditional school peers. At the same time, charter schools tend to undermine an education innovation that has proven to work: racial and economic integration. And yet the harm segregation does to white children is also part of Brown ‘s history.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 25, 2016

At the state level, funds that were targeted for local education agencies are diverted to vouchers for individual children, a sharp loss in the funding that states historically have provided to school districts. Money is siphoned from traditional public schools and towards a diverse array of unregulated for-profit and private providers.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

In 2008, the school helped pilot UNESCO’s “Breaking the Silence: The Transatlantic Slave Trade Education Project,” a resource for educators that addresses the history and scope of slavery. UNESCO also develops educational tools on topics such as gender equality, global citizenship, education in emergencies, and climate change.

Human Rights 126

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 9, 2016

But its becoming even easier through the thin veil of choice rhetoric to see choice policies have found ways to primarily deconstruct the “monopoly” on public schools – not address structural inequalities that generate disparate educational outcomes. Related: Why the presidential election matters for immigrant students.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 12, 2024

Ariel Gilreath School choice Expanding school choice through private-school vouchers has been a key part of Trump’s education policy, but he had little success in getting his most ambitious efforts passed by Congress. One early accomplishment came via the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017. Nirvi Shah Teaching about U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

[Donald Trump] The time has come to reclaim our once great educational institutions from the radical left, and we will do that. Jon] Let’s begin by separating Trump’s campaign rhetoric from political reality and exploring how likely changes in higher education policy will affect you. Kirk] Mitchell Sounds hopeful.

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