The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 16, 2020

What if our hope that public education can erase inequality is in vain? 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. But what if he’s right?

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 21, 2023

America has pulled back from the brink of denying science in education. We have to place facts, history and science at the heart of our education systems. This was controversial for some, but gay people are a part of American history and life, and California is where Harvey Milk did his activism.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 4, 2019

Education is among the most female-dominated of professions. Yet strikingly few women make it to the top role in America’s state and district education systems. If we want to promote more women into education leadership, it’s incumbent upon us as a nation to stop this pattern of discrimination. A good place to start?

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Fordham Institute found that elementary school students who studied more social studies, including geography, history and civics, scored higher on fifth grade reading tests. Education journalist Emily Hanford has argued that the failure to teach phonics in the early elementary years may be the problem. Credit: Jason Bachman/Flickr.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

The school’s website promised a “rigorous education experience” delivered by highly qualified teachers. the nation’s biggest for-profit operator of charters, enrollment grew by 45 percent, to almost 157,000, and revenues in its general education division rose 37 percent. Nemergut enrolled all three girls. At Stride Inc.,

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

A House bill to revamp the Higher Education Act has moved out of committee for debate, while the Senate is still discussing reform ideas in committee. 4508, becomes law, college affordability would go from bad to worse, say many higher education experts, and students from low-income backgrounds would suffer most.

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Cult of Pedagogy

JANUARY 21, 2024

First, an education leader stands behind a podium with charts and graphs, releases a memo, or otherwise puts the most recent scores out in the world. Teachers and students can point to how the NCLB-related tests have negatively impacted education. Standardized tests are part of the educational landscape, and they’re not going away.

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Becoming a History Teacher

JUNE 11, 2024

They also recognised their mentee’s strengths and the need to give them time to develop aspects of their practice , understanding how important it is for the education ecosystem to attract and nurture new entrants into the profession. Judgementoring and other threats to realizing the potential of school-based mentoring in teacher education.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 17, 2016

Third, charter schools must cease expelling students that public schools have a duty to educate. 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 Education reform is status quo.

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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. Subscribe today! Systemwide, there’s not much emphasis on what students read to practice that skill.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 10, 2022

Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Future of Learning newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every other Wednesday with trends and top stories about education innovation. It’s also designed to help educators see how they’re already applying these concepts in their existing courses. “In

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Secretary of Education Dick Riley later wrote a column on this school and Scott’s Branch High School in Clarendon County. 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. Former Gov. Former Gov.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 12, 2016

President Bush promotes his “No Child Left Behind” education agenda during a visit to Kirkpatrick Elementary School in Nashville, Tenn., But hindsight is a very different vantage point for Cassellius, who is now Minnesota’s commissioner of education. “It Monday, Sept. Photo: AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 2, 2020

The American criminal justice system is filled with individuals from these underserved and marginalized groups, who stand to benefit from receiving high-quality educational opportunities. Our criminal justice system contains the populations whom the Higher Education Act of 1965 (HEA) was originally intended to reach.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 29, 2020

“One cataclysmic event can do it in,” said Renn, a professor of higher, adult and lifelong education at Michigan State University. For them, and for employers who need educated graduates, that means the effects of this crisis will be felt not just for one semester, but for six or more years. Credit: Gregory Shamus/Getty Images.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 25, 2022

But what if the key to expanding educational access comes down to rethinking our concept of smarts and who has them? 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.”

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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. Educators are no different.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 20, 2017

The answer starts in the classroom, where civics education often fails to inspire and engage students. education policy? PISA, the Program for International Student Assessment, compared 15 year-olds in 65 cities from across the world and found that the most successful students are those who feel ownership of their education.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Education policy leaders at the federal level and beyond were exploring the growing role of competency-based education and non-traditional providers —and calls were growing for stronger connections between universities and the world of employment. To start off, it’s worth thinking back to 2016.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 19, 2024

In the span of 15 days in early 2023, the state legislature passed a massive education bill, which went into effect that fall. It is the largest state investment in teacher salaries in Arkansas history, a big deal in a state that ranked 48th in the country for starting pay up until this year. But Siebert’s timing was good.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

This is the final installment in a series about how little the United States invests in the education of young children. 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.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 21, 2023

But with customers getting harder to find, more colleges and universities are going to where the students are: in fast-growing cities that don’t already have a big supply of higher education institutions, such as Phoenix, Austin and Las Vegas. Las Vegas, by comparison, “is for all practical purposes an education desert.

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Living Geography

APRIL 11, 2025

Thanks to Matt from the British Ecological Society for the message he added to my GCSE Natural History blog. The British Ecological Society are supporters of the Natural History GCSE and want to be ready to support with the teaching of this qualification. I'm a former teacher myself and now work on their education policy/project work.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 28, 2016

A new report by the think-tank Education Trust , issued Thursday, excoriates the federal government and state governments for failing to create a college-finance system that focuses both on cost and on completion. Sign up for our Higher Education newsletter. Read more about higher education.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 15, 2017

Bristol, who examines national, state and local education policies that affect the recruitment and retention for teachers of color in schools, has been much in demand lately to talk about his research. Color-blind reform policies haven’t done black folk favors in places like New Orleans, Washington D.C. In 2015, a U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 7, 2024

Gifting myself with an education is a part of my recovery,” said Nomi Badboy, 43, one of three students attending this week’s meeting of the school’s collegiate recovery program. Education is an example of what’s called “recovery capital,” something earned that makes long-term recovery more likely.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 5, 2021

Emily House, executive director, Tennessee Higher Education Commission and the Tennessee Student Assistance Corporation. “It It’s a real barrier,” said Zora Mulligan, the state’s commissioner of higher education.) Laura Perna, executive director, Alliance for Higher Education and Democracy at the University of Pennsylvania.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 28, 2017

Online support groups like #educolor and #hiphoped can provide advice from teachers and educators across the country. Consequently, anti-racist teachers like you and me must organize like-minded educators to form our own community. Sign up for our Higher Education newsletter. I want to be able to include the U.S.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Non-submitters” were more likely than students who submitted applications to have lower educational-occupational aspirations, be racial minorities, have parents who completed lower levels of education and live in communities with lower socioeconomic status — but they were not less academically qualified. Department of Education.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 30, 2016

Not since the 1970s and ‘80s — when many school districts put desegregation busing in place in order to realize the promise of the Supreme Court’s Brown vs. Board of Education decision — has school integration been in the news as much as it has lately. Education Secretary John King has proclaimed school integration a key priority.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 17, 2018

But it’s among the ways critics warn some well-meaning reforms designed to solve the many challenges in higher education are threatening to water down its quality or benefiting students who don’t need help. Every well-intentioned policy carries unintended consequence,” said Chester Finn Jr., Higher Education.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 29, 2019

But they say the discussions are helping them to become better educators within a system in which predominantly white staff teach in schools with significant numbers of black and Latino students. “Am But even advocates for such trainings caution that all they can really do is raise awareness of educators’ personal biases.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 27, 2019

Measuring achievement gaps between rich and poor might seem like a straightforward exercise for education experts. But despite this apparent simplicity, two prominent education researchers have arrived at different answers. Higher Education. Reardon is a professor at the Graduate School of Education. Weekly Update.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 17, 2018

This story was based on data from Tuition Tracker, a tool produced by The Hechinger Report and Education Writers Association for students and their families. For them, after years of escalating college costs and stagnant earnings, the higher educations they desire for their children are conclusively, decisively and categorically out of reach.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 11, 2023

The New York State Education Department does not collect data on suspension lengths, but public records requests to 17 of the state’s largest school districts uncovered more than 6,200 suspensions of more than 20 days from 2017-18 to 2021-22. He had a passion for drawing that made art class his favorite, followed by math and history.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 9, 2019

This means the SAT and ACT are facing what could be the greatest challenge in their histories, which stretch back to the early 20 th century. This is because families with more money usually live in wealthier school districts with more resources and can afford tutors to help with test preparation and other educational assistance.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 17, 2020

She drives over an hour each way to teach world history at LaGrange High School in Lake Charles. “You could look up and see the sky,” she said. Mold started to grow on the walls, and then the second storm let more water in. This story also appeared in Southerly. Her temperature is taken when she arrives, and then she heads to her classroom.

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