The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 12, 2023

But some education experts worry the focus on industry qualifications has resulted in schools taking on responsibilities that should fall to businesses, like training workers for specific job duties, to the detriment of a more comprehensive education in schools. Related: Blurring the lines between K-12, higher ed and the workforce.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

Nationally, a dozen other states now offer ESAs, also known as education savings accounts, that incentivize parents to withdraw their kids from the public K-12 system. Then, in 2022, state leaders expanded eligibility to all K-12 students and removed the requirement of initial public school attendance.

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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. If these things were true, how would what we ask of schools — and how we measure their success — change?

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 30, 2018

The already converted policymakers, school leaders and teachers ready to transform traditional schooling came to this annual conference last week from around the world to share a common refrain: Out with the old. In a nutshell, here’s some of what the Mainers have been saying: Stop shoving new ways of education down our throats.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Through All City Council, Oakland students have a louder voice in local education policy than students in many cities, but young people say it’s not enough. The council’s two student directors serve on the Oakland Board of Education in an advisory capacity and regularly meet with their adult counterparts. “I

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 29, 2019

What didn’t come up at “ Public Education Forum 2020: Equity and Opportunity for All ” is that a part of any educational equity platform should be eliminating the politics that give K-12 public-school parents who know how to work the system preferred access to good teachers. Sign up for our newsletter.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 13, 2022

As young people, families and educators near the end of yet another hectic pandemic school year, new research studying the early impact of remote learning offers a sobering look at experiences and outcomes, including interrupted and incomplete learning. million students across the country.

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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

Montana Department of Revenue , those who think that more private learning options should be available to families and those who disagree are squinting to see an outcome that — like it or not — immediately shakes up traditional K-12 schools in the United States. Is change forthcoming? Sign up for our newsletter.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 29, 2017

Hechinger ’s analysis shows that remediation rates have been declining in most states over the last five years, yet often those drops have been small, even as states adopted new K-12 standards aimed at aligning high school graduation requirements and college-readiness standards.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 29, 2020

They work with two students at a time in a special class that follows a Saga Education curriculum tailored to the needs of each student and aligned with their school’s curriculum for their traditional math class. The study assigned 2,718 boys in ninth and 10th grade across 12 schools either to get the tutoring or not.

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Psych Learning Curve

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

We’ve shown in past work that scores from dynamic measures are less affected by student characteristics such as race, gender, or poverty level than are traditional tests. Dynamic Measurement Works across Levels of Schooling Dynamic measurement is not just applicable to young children or the k-12 setting.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 23, 2016

Our staff reporters will provide education coverage from Cleveland and Philadelphia. In most policy areas the Democratic Party and the Clinton campaign want to be seen as the inheritor of the popular sitting president’s legacy, but perhaps no area has divided the party more than K-12 education.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 27, 2016

Too many students in virtual and blended learning schools are performing poorly, according to a new National Education Policy Center report , released last week, by Gary Miron, a professor at Western Michigan University, and Charisse Gulosino, an assistant professor at the University of Memphis. That was the shock for us,” Miron said.

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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

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. Should taxpayers not welcome redress?

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 24, 2016

Today’s preschoolers — the class of 2030 —will still need to be able to read in the traditional sense. Lisa Guernsey is the Deputy Director of the Education Policy program and Director of the Learning Technologies project at New America. . Today’s children and families experience screens and digital media everywhere.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 23, 2018

Seeking inspiration, she turns to her phone where, for the last 10 months, she’s been receiving text messages with simple educational games, tips on how to engage with Katelynn and reminders of simple learning activities they can do together. You’re preparing your child 4 K [Kindergarten]!”). Results thus far are encouraging.

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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

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. In a traditional long-term bond the interest would be close to $100 million,” Funk says. That’s what I think technology can do.”

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

Secretary of Education John B. told educators, policy experts, and students that the next generation of high schools must “give every student an opportunity to have a vision for their own future.” In 2001 we described the reinvention of the traditional high school as the “clarion call of our new century.”

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 6, 2018

Still, as more rural schools look to virtual programs for help, there’s little evidence that online learning is equal to or can exceed outcomes from traditional in-person instruction, and some experts are urging caution — along with greater attention to quality. Some of the more time intensive virtual programs have shown poor outcomes.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 1, 2019

She points to significant gaps in income and educational attainment across racial and ethnic groups. As part of the Mind Trust fellowship, Neal visited the prestigious University of Chicago Lab School, where only 12 percent of students are black or Latino. She found the visit jarring.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 9, 2018

Education Secretary Betsy DeVos has frequently praised the state as a model of “school choice” with a taxpayer-funded voucher program for students to attend private school and many charter school options. The NAEP scores showed stellar gains within the traditional public school system.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 21, 2019

Within each subject, schools identified learning targets, clearly explaining what students would need to demonstrate in order to be considered “proficient” — a shift away from the traditional system’s emphasis on logging seat time to earn credits and progress. considered passing. Elizabeth Hewitt for The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 12, 2018

The Johns Hopkins Institute for Education Policy , where I serve as a research analyst, investigated the country’s strongest models — and lessons learned from abroad — and released a policy report late last month. Sign up for our newsletter.

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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

AUGUST 3, 2016

There is something of an annual tradition among New York City mayors and school chancellors. But the annual celebrating of New York City’s feats ignores deeper differences, say educators and education policy experts, who contend that those upstate cities exist in an entirely different world. Photo: Emmanuel Felton.

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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 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.

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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 9, 2017

That’s because Parker offers what may be the nation’s most ambitious and comprehensive take on multiage education in middle and high school, breaking grades 7 to 12 into three divisions, with each division blending two grades together. Though there are no hard numbers, educators acknowledge the total is miniscule.).

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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. Figure it out,’” Adler said.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 28, 2016

Julia Freeland Fisher is the director of education research at the Clayton Christensen Institute. The National Education Policy Center (NEPC) released a report last week warning that online and blended learning schools are struggling. Public Schools and Miami Dade) have been pursuing blended models for years.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 7, 2016

The report , from the Center for Education Policy Research at Harvard University, found encouraging, but mixed, results for a California-based charter school network and a Maryland school district that used this math program, made by DreamBox Learning. and 3 percentile points better on standardized assessments.

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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

MAY 16, 2016

It’s not as if the principal had particular tasks taken away from their role,” said Ellen Goldring, professor of education policy and leadership at Vanderbilt University. During the 2011-12 school year, only about 21 percent of school districts had a training program for aspiring principals. These new tasks were added.

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