The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 31, 2018

When there aren’t enough teachers trained to teach students with disabilities, we fail the vulnerable students who most need educators’ help. I witnessed this need firsthand during my 20-year tenure as Maryland’s state superintendent of schools. Fellowship graduates are consistently in demand by school systems in Maryland and beyond.

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ED Surge

MARCH 29, 2024

Attend student government meetings. At least 30 colleges closed in 2023, according to an analysis by the State Higher Education Executive Officers Association. But Outer Coast need not be an outlier in higher education, believes its executive director, Bryden Sweeney-Taylor. Yet Sitka isn’t exactly a higher education desert.

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ED Surge

MAY 20, 2024

The idea is that having smaller school sizes enables students to develop much deeper relationships at school, says Siri Fiske, founder of Mysa School. Mysa’s tuition costs parents who don’t receive aid around $20,000 a year, comparable to what it costs the government to educate a student in a public school.

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ED Surge

MARCH 27, 2024

As school boards prepare to approve their budgets for the fall, many are grappling with how to make up for the yawning chasm left by the loss of federal pandemic-relief dollars. In many cases, that means educator layoffs are coming.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 29, 2020

What would a decision in Espinoza’s favor really mean for school choice and public education? When states choose to operate a program that involves public (or publicly governed) financing of private service providers, can the state choose to exclude religious providers? It’s been nearly two decades since the U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 9, 2018

The average performance of the nation’s fourth- and eighth-graders mostly held steady in math and reading from 2015 to 2017, now marking a decade of stalled educational progress, according to the results of a test released Tuesday. The NAEP scores showed stellar gains within the traditional public school system.

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ED Surge

MARCH 31, 2022

We’re familiar with the higher education headlines. The world’s complexity has been catapulted to a new level, and higher education is feeling the repercussions like never before. Soaring operational expenses and shrinking government support has led to higher attendance costs for students, and as a result, to lower enrollment numbers.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Her private school in Toronto, Ontario, had made the transition admirably well, she thought, but she wondered what online tools existed to supplement her studies, and how she’d find the best options. Our governments need to be working in partnership with tech companies to put the Netflix of online learning into action,” she added. “I

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 14, 2020

The time has come for the very foundations of our country, good and bad, to face a reckoning; we’re dealing with long-standing racial disparities and injustices while trying to attain equity and equality, and the educational system is where it starts. I’ve never run a school or earned a Ph.D. I wholeheartedly agree. I am not a scholar.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Supreme Court’s decision striking down affirmative action in college admissions last June fueled heated debates and raised questions about the distribution of opportunities to attend highly selective education institutions. So why are we unwilling to recognize that great leaders can and do come from a wide variety of educational backgrounds?

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 4, 2020

They’d spent the past decade grappling with declining enrollments and weakening support from state governments. How higher education’s own choices left it vulnerable to the pandemic crisis. Even in the case of orderly closings, students’ educations can be significantly disrupted — many drop out and never finish their degrees.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 16, 2017

Department of Education and proposed federal funding cuts announced last month, we must remain resolute about strengthening education: improving the lowest-performing schools, growing a talented teaching force, and better preparing students for college, career and life. Amid concerns being raised about the direction of the U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

A timeless routine, now broken by massive human failures: a raging pandemic, fires and floods fueled by climate change, and, in New York, a twice-delayed reopening debacle in the nation’s largest public-school system that is enraging parents, confusing educators and leading to increasing despair that school as we once knew it will never return.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Research shows that their expected future earnings and public subsidy savings more than offset the cost of these expensive small high schools. Some solutions in education are expensive. Take early college high schools, which give students a head start on their college degrees but cost about $3,800 extra per student.

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Anthropology News

JULY 17, 2024

Black youth experiences at a progressive low-fee private school in a postapartheid city illuminate the politics and limits of aspiration. Founded in 2004, Launch is a network of eight low-fee private schools serving grades eight through twelve across four of South Africa’s nine provinces.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

She also didn’t allow Kailani to use her headphones while working independently in class, something permitted in her special education plan to help her focus, according to Kailani. These students didn’t move out of state, and they didn’t sign up for private school or home-school, according to publicly available data.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Brandeis accepted 44 percent of male applicants compared to 36 percent of female applicants in 2012-2013, according to data the university reports to the federal government. While enrollment in higher education overall fell 2.5 But private institutions have an exemption that allows them to use gender as a factor in admissions.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 2, 2016

The new students came to Starkville, a diverse district with a mix of 30 percent white and 65 percent black students, from East and West Oktibbeha County Schools, which were almost entirely black. Related: Is consolidation the answer for Mississippi’s struggling schools? Related: Schools in the poorest state become even poorer.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 2, 2019

Basically, private institutions should be free to have affirmative action, but it should be prohibited at public institutions. A public institution — a government institution — must be held much more strictly to “objective” admissions than private. Unequal treatment by government is inescapable.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 30, 2018

“We do attract a number of families of kids that have special needs because of the environment that we provide and we do attract a number of parents that have had issues at schools, in particular with discipline,” Triplett said. That number is expected to grow as more students are evaluated, according to the school’s COO, Kristine Barker.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 27, 2024

Even before her son started kindergarten, Ashley Meier Barlow realized that she might have to fight for his education. Instead, the educators told Barlow that they wanted her son to attend a classroom across town meant for children who are profoundly impacted by their disabilities. “If

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 18, 2016

Here is something worse than the current racial tensions in New Orleans and other cities: The outcomes caused by racial biases in our policing, schooling practices and stark economic inequality between black and white families. Secretary of Education, is thankful for attending diverse schools and attributes those schools to his advancements.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 11, 2020

Online education was unlikely to work well for him. out of school (public and private) due to coronavirus. That’s when the online comments started to single out kids who, like Daniel, were in the district’s special education program, Amirault said. Before now, the most he’d done on a video call was to wave to grandma.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 18, 2021

As the coronavirus pandemic swept the country in March 2020, she first lost her job as a cook and food server at a private school in Savannah, Georgia. These programs simplify access to assistance for families in crisis while simultaneously addressing the root causes of poverty, including a lack of educational opportunities.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Department of Education. Private schools will tell their students to apply to 20” universities and colleges, said Cynthia Blair Tognotti, a private college counselor in Northern California. All of these things threaten to further widen class and race divides in American higher education. Credit: Beth J.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 5, 2019

Stewart Lockett (right, grey shirt) leads a meeting of the student government executive team in late January. His team is the most diverse student government the university has ever had. He dug through the bottom drawer and pulled out a student government flyer from five years earlier. Casey Parks/The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

For a variety of reasons, racial and ethnic diversity is lacking in far too many schools, both here in New York City and around the country. Yet I also have friends who’ve chosen more integrated neighborhoods and schools for their kids. government also acknowledges. Related: How the federal government abandoned Brown v.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 31, 2019

There is no excuse for the continued absence of veterans at America’s top schools. Top private schools are a great value. The education and networks they offer are second to none, and for veterans, the majority are actually less expensive than comparable public institutions. Now is a great time to apply. Armed Forces.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Since around 2019, Detiege says she’s contacted district officials, spoken at meetings, and posted on local Facebook pages with one goal: moving the first day of school to after Labor Day. climate change is influencing discussions about how, and when, kids are educated. Related: Interested in climate change and education?

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 16, 2017

Students study for classes at a government school on the edge of the Thar Desert. Your kids will have a better life if they are educated. Desert’’ for his knowledge of this area, also gives tours of the golden forts and palaces of Rajasthan when he isn’t teaching or pushing villagers to keep children in school.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

He never received extra help or special education services from his Houston-area school district. When Odegard was the first student in his school to solve a complex murder mystery puzzle, one of them said he must have guessed. I compensated for my reading and spelling problems by staying up until 1 or 2 a.m.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 11, 2018

Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Higher Education newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every Thursday with trends and top stories about higher education. But that’s not happening quickly enough to offset the staggering cost of higher education. Subscribe today!

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 6, 2022

Collins Elementary School, in southeastern Mississippi, paddled students more times than almost any school in the country in 2017-18, the last year for which there is national data. Johnson is the principal of Mississippi’s Collins Elementary School, where the paddle remains a staple of the educational experience.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

AUGUST 26, 2017

What Durflinger describes is frequently a difficult task and it’s not altogether clear that we’re navigating an appropriate balance between school concerns and students’ constitutional rights, particularly when our youth express themselves off campus. The Supreme Court said in West Virginia State Board of Education v.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 11, 2019

Headed to Pittsburgh to discuss education on Saturday, Dec. 14, Democratic presidential aspirants would do well to avoid echoing the claims of their donors and speak instead to evidence on what improves schools. ” Take Elizabeth Warren’s recent attack on charter schools. public education. Corey Booker (D-N.J.)

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 18, 2016

Their questions highlight a deep gulf many low-income, first generation students face as they attempt to navigate the mysterious world of higher education. Zar-Kessler and her colleagues have made it their mission to bridge that gulf for the 310 high school students at Match, who are selected by lottery and commute from all over Boston.

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ED Surge

JULY 14, 2022

So badly, it seems, that the state is no longer requiring some educators to have a bachelor’s degree before they enter the classroom—merely that they be working toward one. Under SB 1159 , schools can recruit people without college degrees to their “school-based preparation programs” so long as candidates are enrolled in bachelor’s programs.

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