The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

As New York City public school students head back to school this week, the days when officers in the city’s police department could arrest students for minor misbehavior may finally be over. Johanna Miller is director of the education policy center at the New York Civil Liberties Union.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 12, 2024

Only 10 percent of public school principals nationwide are Black , which helps explain why hiring and retaining Black teachers has been so problematic. Fenwick notes that policy efforts today must acknowledge and deal with the relics of that “systematic dismissal of Black educators from public schools.”

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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.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2023

million public school teachers are white, but over half of their students are Black, Hispanic, Asian, Native American and mixed races. Public school teachers are overwhelmingly white but most students are not. Chart from the website of the National Center for Education Statistics. Condition of Education.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

In August 2020, Amanda Nemergut was looking for alternatives to in-person public school for her three daughters. Her other two girls, in third and fifth grades, would be home on alternating days under the school’s hybrid schedule. Many parents, unaware of the history of virtual charters, continue turning to these schools.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 29, 2020

Constitution even though some families sent their children to religious schools. The court issued its ruling in June 2002, and, two months later on the first day of school, traditional public schools in Ohio opened as usual. Espinoza will not unwind public-school spending requirements. The post OPINION: U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 28, 2019

Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Future of Learning newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every Wednesday with trends and top stories about education innovation. 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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The Hechinger Report

JULY 14, 2020

Simón López, the Coordinator of Special Education at the Sarah Greenwood Elementary School for Dual Languages, is calling attention to the failure of Boston Public Schools’ dual language programs to accept students with certain types of disabilities – a violation of the spirit, at least, of state and federal laws.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 7, 2017

states roll out the 2015 Every Student Succeeds Act under an administration hostile to public education, these states must support the development of excellent, nurturing teachers who provide a rich learning experience. Remove certification requirements that discourage both teacher diversity and excellence.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

T he numbers were supposed to shed light on what was happening in public schools. In a 2016 survey by Harvard’s Center for Education Policy Research, 94 percent of middle school math teachers said they analyzed student performance on tests in the prior year, and 15 percent said they spent over 40 hours on this kind of data analysis.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

“The average amount of tuition is going to be more than the actual voucher, not to mention transportation and uniform costs,” said Nik Nartowicz, state policy counsel for Americans United for Separation of Church and State, a legal advocacy group. That concerns Joshua Cowen, a professor of education policy at Michigan State University.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Shouldn’t we be far more interested in outputs, such as how schools contribute (or not) to student learning and development? I chose New York City middle schools to illustrate this point because New York publishes a lot of data on its public schools. Related: Do U.S. colleges reinforce or reduce inequality?

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OCTOBER 17, 2016

First, that charter schools are subject to the same transparency and accountability standards as public schools. Second, that public funds are not diverted to charter schools at the expense of the public school system. Are charter supporters suggesting that they are beyond accountability?

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

This story also appeared in The Associated Press Instead, Kailani Taylor-Cribb hasn’t taken a single class in what used to be her high school since the height of the coronavirus pandemic. She vanished from Cambridge, Massachusetts’ public school roll in 2021 and has been, from an administrative standpoint, unaccounted for since then.

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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.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 30, 2020

Public school students who are poor depend on schools for regular meals, for health/counseling services, for safe spaces. School and college administrators need to dig into relatively deep pockets to reallocate funds to address housing, food and other insecurities that school and campus closures create.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 12, 2023

As a former public-school teacher, I know that my students sometimes acted out when they didn’t receive the additional educational supports they needed. Before working in education policy, Kostyo taught middle and high school math and science — and was recognized as a high school Teacher of the Year by his peers in 2015.

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JULY 30, 2024

Yet in their approach to this task, they are also responsible to administrators, parents, school boards—and, increasingly, to state and federal courts. West, “The Supreme Court as School Board Revisited.” The court reasoned that it is proper for schools to uphold standards of civil speech during school activities.

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JULY 19, 2024

It updated Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act, the law that requires state and local governments to supply equal opportunity — including in services like public schools, community colleges and public universities — for people with disabilities. The revised national edtech plan from the U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 18, 2020

Problems such as low graduation rates , dismal student achievement and high student turnover at many K12 schools are the result of a business model that prioritizes keeping down the costs of educating students, said Neil Campbell, director of innovation for K-12 Education Policy at the Center for American Progress, a left-leaning policy institute.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Related: What if public schools never reopen? Education policy over the last half century has mostly been predicated on the assumption that schooling is a singular mechanism for reducing poverty and advancing equity at scale. This flies in the face of common sense and human history, deBoer argued.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 1, 2019

“It was disheartening for me to recognize the flaws in the educational reform movement and the role that I had played in the inequity of how we educate black and brown kids.”. Kimberly Neal, Innovation Fellow in Indianapolis Public Schools. “It Kimberly Neal, Innovation Fellow in Indianapolis Public Schools.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 18, 2024

In surveys, Americans typically express strong support for their local teachers and schools even if they don’t hold favorable views about the nation’s public schools as a whole, Bertrand noted.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 20, 2017

education policy? For schools, the student perspective is integral to a more complete picture of the system. In these ways, students can bring added value to both education policy and practice. Yet our schools, intentionally or not, often advance a sense of learned-helplessness.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 27, 2024

Although the idea is relatively new in education, many schools tried a different version of it – evaluating and paying teachers based on how much their students’ test scores improved – in the 2010s. School districts sent out requests for proposals from online tutoring companies. Tutoring companies bid and the terms varied.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 28, 2019

Elizabeth Warren released a federal education policy proposal that recognizes a fundamental truth about students: Kids don’t live in schools, they live in communities. Education policy that ignores neighborhood conditions misses the point of why we ultimately go to school — to improve our community.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 21, 2024

More than 27,700 school-age youth live in Pasadena , Altadena and Sierra Madre , the communities served by the district, but only about half of them attend public school. Pasadena High School. In Pasadena, Dufford said, it has been tradition for established families not to send their children to public schools. “So

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Cult of Pedagogy

JANUARY 21, 2024

Testing Wars in the Public Schools: A Forgotten History. First Class: The Legacy of Dunbar, America’s First Black Public High School. Uneducated Guesses: Using Evidence to Uncover Misguided Education Policies. [link] Reese, W. Harvard University Press. Stewart, A. Chicago Review. Princeton University Press.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 17, 2020

“Those losses are tending to be more pronounced for children of color, or children living in poverty, than for white children or children living in greater privilege,” said Katherine Prince, vice president of strategic foresight at KnowledgeWorks , a national education policy organization. Now a middle school technology teacher at S.P.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 7, 2022

The Hechinger Report spoke to two additional families in the district, and reviewed eight additional examples of parents who said their children have lost recess as a punishment in Minneapolis Public Schools over the past decade, provided as public testimony and letters in support of the new legislation.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 27, 2023

But there is no college here and no public school. Many residents, Black and white, aren’t troubled by Issaquena’s lack of public schools because the population is so small. In rural school districts across the country, consolidation is a common cost-saving measure. In 1952, the U.S. Credit: Eric J.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

Jackson Public Schools entered into an agreement with a private foundation, the City of Jackson, and the Governor’s office to improve its schools. The future of Jackson Public Schools is now in the hands of a coalition that includes representatives from Gov. Photo: Terrell Clark for The Hechinger Report.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 26, 2022

The next month, Arizona Governor Doug Ducey signed into law a measure that allows any person enrolled in a degree-granting program to teach in public schools. In the 2021-2022 academic year, students of color represented approximately 63 percent of the public school populations in Arizona and Florida.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 1, 2023

Education policy should be top of mind as state policymakers continue their legislative work this spring. After unprecedented learning loss, growing disparities in educational outcomes and overall public dissatisfaction, the time is right for an education overhaul. He currently serves as the CEO of KnowledgeWorks.

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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. But public schools don’t look like the public. John King, the first African American to be appointed as the U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 6, 2016

Charters like PUC Schools and district school systems across the country are facing a common problem: Even though students of color represent half of the public school student population, the teacher workforce is still overwhelmingly white. Related: How do we stop the exodus of minority teachers?

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 2, 2016

Kids tell parents on Saturday that they want to go to school. Mary Bolt, Boston Public Schools preschool teacher. Boston Public Schools preschool teacher Mary Bolt looks on as Jason DePina Jr., If we were drilling them and doing worksheets, they wouldn’t be saying that.”. Later, there’s story time.

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