The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Related: What if public schools never reopen? 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. He also taught civics at Democracy Prep Public Schools, a network of high-performing charter schools based in Harlem, New York.

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Cult of Pedagogy

JANUARY 21, 2024

After all, framed that way, teachers give hundreds of standardized tests a year, even those who do learner-centered assessment, project-based learning, or otherwise collect evidence of student learning in ways that are considered alternative or non-traditional. Testing Wars in the Public Schools: A Forgotten History. Stewart, A.

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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

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

DECEMBER 27, 2023

But there is no college here and no public school. That’s your tradition, that’s just your Southern tradition.” The only educational institution in Issaquena County, Miss., Many residents, Black and white, aren’t troubled by Issaquena’s lack of public schools because the population is so small.

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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

JANUARY 29, 2017

Sonja Brookins Santelises, chief executive officer of Baltimore City Public Schools. A similarly wide-ranging 2012 report by Complete College America determined that nearly half of entering students at two-year schools and a fifth at four-year schools were placed in remedial classes in the fall of 2006. That’s us.”.

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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 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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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 24, 2016

When it comes to influencing education policy and cultivating innovative schools, all eyes are on the states. For 15 years, student test results and graduation rates have served as the main measures of success – or failure – for public schools. Photo: Emily Richmond for The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 16, 2018

A study finds that the new community college degrees enticed students who might otherwise have attended for-profit schools. But they did not harm four-year public universities. (AP “Public four-year programs may actually benefit from the presence of a bachelor’s program at the local community college.”

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

. — On Monday morning, a standing-room-only crowd of 200 gathered at the White House to talk about remaking the American high school. 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.”

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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

JULY 23, 2016

When schools get it right, whether they are traditional public schools or public charter schools, let’s figure out what’s working,” said Clinton to loud boos over the mention of charter schools, which are publicly-funded, independently run public schools that often employ non-unionized teachers.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 21, 2019

He wanted a school in which he, a white, middle-class New Orleans native, would feel comfortable enrolling his young children. The state-run Recovery School District, which assumed control of nearly every public school in the city during the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, already had its own plans for the Gentilly Terrace campus.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 30, 2018

A 2015 RAND study , which looked at 62 schools that had received various Gates Foundation-funded grants for personalized learning, found gains of 11 percentile points in math and 8 in reading. Pane predicts that if the personalized learning trend continues, it could upend traditional notions of what a classroom looks like. “I

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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. Former Mayor Michael Bloomberg said it was proof that his initiative to break up large campuses into smaller, more personal schools was working. Nearly half of Syracuse’s 20,000 students were suspended during the 2013-14 school year.

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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

MARCH 6, 2018

In Colorado, rural districts have worked together to offer more AP courses by creating video conference classrooms, where kids at one high school can watch courses taught by a teacher at a neighboring school. Some of the more time intensive virtual programs have shown poor outcomes.

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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. These new tasks were added. District officials say training and development for those in high-level roles have traditionally been neglected.

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ED Surge

MARCH 25, 2025

Researchers and advocates draw a connection to charter schools, emphasizing that charters offer an example of how choice options might shape up. But while most of the country is absorbed in the relentless changes to education policy emanating from the executive branch, the judicial branch has education on its docket, too.

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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. It’s the first time the district has opened its own school since Hurricane Katrina swept through the city nearly two decades ago.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Valles was among the enthusiastic would-be innovators and entrepreneurs I met at least week’s Harvard Kennedy School conference, Emerging School Models: Moving From Alternative to Mainstream. John Bailey, Daniel Buck and Joel Rose talk about AI in education at a Harvard Kennedy School conference.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2019

Two years ago, Isaac Paine Elementary won a competitive grant from the Rhode Island Office of Innovation to become a showcase “lighthouse school,” part of a statewide push to bring tech into education. Charter schools are the bluntest incarnation of education reform and have long enjoyed bipartisan support.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 10, 2023

It’s about the viability of public education in their community. The national infection facing public schooling—the tug-of-war between education professionals and extremist culture warriors—has brought chaos and damage to West Bonner County. This is not hyperbole.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 12, 2023

When the debate over teaching race-related concepts in public schools reached Kimberly Tilsen-Brave Heart’s home state of South Dakota, she decided she couldn’t in good conscience send her youngest daughter to kindergarten at a local public school. It’s knowledge about culture and history and traditions in language.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 1, 2021

If it’s included in the reconciliation package, it could fund programs like Degrees When Due, the umbrella initiative organized by the Institute for Higher Education Policy that Bishop State was participating in to reenroll students. The program would run from the 2023-2024 academic year, through 2029-2030.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 15, 2022

Department of Education has invited applications for $68 million in grants for community schools, representing almost four times more money than was made available in 2018. And the Biden administration said it aims to dedicate as much as $468 million to community schools in 2023. Community schools are more like smartphones.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 16, 2022

Levine and other college access experts are now on a mission to make the road to college smoother — and ultimately more affordable — especially for families who have traditionally had a harder time accessing higher education. College financial aid officers can help, too, by providing families with more information sooner.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Related: COLUMN: Endangered public schools need federal leadership more than ever. First, we have had a total failure of federal and state leadership on education. Dr. Morgan Polikoff is an Associate Professor of Education at the Rossier School of Education at the University of Southern California.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 4, 2023

But at a packed meeting that December, Houston’s board narrowly voted down a proposal to have the district seek bids from outside entities to run the four schools under the 2017 law. Citizens who spoke almost uniformly opposed the proposal, with many arguing it was the first step in an effort to privatize district public schools.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 28, 2022

And at the end of the 20th century, groups like the Eagle Forum left a growing imprint on education policy in the state. “It People who in that time wanted to have books make a ton of money for them as public school adoptions had to understand: That was not an educational process. “The

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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

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

They support vouchers that would allow public funds to be spent on private schools – even those with religious orientations – and charter schools, which are frequently run by private corporations. Charter schools are public schools because they are funded through tax revenues.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 28, 2025

In response to questions about the fate of the homeschooling data, Education Department spokeswoman Madison Biedermann said that its research arm, the Institute of Education Sciences, is in possession of the data and that it is reviewing how all its contractual activities can best be used to meet its statutory obligations.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 29, 2016

“This is an event that is designed to bring the party together, and there are these sharp divisions between the education reform folks and traditional education people, so it makes sense that they would avoid talking about them beyond generalities,” said Michael Petrilli, president of the Thomas B.

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