The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 15, 2020

When it comes to education spending, middle-income Americans typically don’t put their money where their mouth is. How often do we hear politicians and parents wax poetic about education being the great equalizer? It’s impossible for education to be an equalizer if budgets don’t meet every kid’s needs. It’s a long time coming.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

From the presidential campaigns to local races, Democrats and Republicans both acknowledged that our early care and learning systems are not functioning for families, educators or their communities. Child care vouchers Much like North Carolina, Ohio has been offering families publicly-funded vouchers to pay for private school for decades.

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ED Surge

MARCH 29, 2024

For James Singewald, a typical week goes something like this: Learn about the history of boarding schools in an Indigenous Studies class. At least 30 colleges closed in 2023, according to an analysis by the State Higher Education Executive Officers Association. Yet Sitka isn’t exactly a higher education desert.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 29, 2019

Higher Education. But black and white students there are still learning in classrooms that often look like Brown vs. Board of Education never happened. Most of the town’s black children are enrolled in public schools. Most of the town’s black children are enrolled in public schools. Future of Learning. Proof Points.

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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

MAY 21, 2024

district court judge determined the school system had “knowingly assigned” students to schools by race and ordered it to desegregate based on the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision that “separate but equal” schools were unconstitutional. Families and officials have also worked together to educate realtors.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Muslim Homeschool and Education , a private Facebook group, now has more than 22,000 members, while another, Successful Muslim Homeschooling , has been followed and liked more than 13,000 times. Since 2015, Kelly Tudor, in Texas, has run a Facebook group for Indigenous home-school families. They’re average.”. You learn better.”.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 5, 2016

Kenna Kast, grandmother of three, wants to send her grandson Jacob to a private school that serves autistic students, but cannot afford it. But she was relieved of the duty when Jacob graduated from his Head Start preschool program and enrolled in a Durant Public School District elementary school. Public-school Failures.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

I visited Colleton County High School in 2017 and was thoroughly impressed with students’ deep engagement in their courses, many of which were project-based as part of the New Tech Network. Secretary of Education Dick Riley later wrote a column on this school and Scott’s Branch High School in Clarendon County.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 14, 2024

Of the nearly 10,000 students enrolled at Brookdale Community College in central New Jersey, about 17 percent are still in high school. Some of them travel to the campus during the school day to take courses in introductory English, history, psychology and sociology.

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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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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

APRIL 24, 2023

Hirsch, who developed the curriculum used in these schools and whose 1987 book Cultural Literacy inspired the common core standards movement in American education. The schools catered to middle and upper income families; median family income exceeded $114,000 at three of the suburban schools. However, U.S.

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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

MAY 6, 2024

It was one of the most significant days in the history of the U.S. Board of Education that schools segregated by race did not provide an equal education. Students could no longer be barred from a school because of the color of their skin. Even the ‘white’ schools in L.A. Supreme Court. I dug into U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 2, 2016

. — They called it “River City,” singled out half a century ago as a beacon of hope for school integration in the South. Did the town’s good-intentioned integration plan succeed in bringing a deeply divided community together to improve education for both black and white students? Board of Education decision in 1954. “If

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 19, 2024

Even if they taught in schools for 25 years, they would still earn less than teachers right out of college in Bentonville, who were making $48,755 a year. In the span of 15 days in early 2023, the state legislature passed a massive education bill, which went into effect that fall. But Siebert’s timing was good. Reisma said.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 30, 2020

While private high schools can often afford to employ staff like Ward who are devoted exclusively to helping students plan for college and their futures, these jobs are rare at public schools. Ward, 51, began her education career at Bucknell University, her alma mater, where she spent seven years working in admissions.

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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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ED Surge

MARCH 15, 2023

Last November, there was an anonymous donation of mobile desk chairs to our school. For context, these mobile desk chairs were all the hype in the mid-2010s, popping up in every private school or innovation academy that screamed flexible seating. This is the public education they deserve. I was ecstatic.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 14, 2020

The children in America’s gifted education programs don’t look like the overall school population. In this series, The Hechinger Report examines racial inequity in gifted classes and what schools are doing to fix it. And, if it is, will teachers receive the support they need to succeed? “I In Washington, D.C.,

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

But a troubled school system is nothing new in a state that has long failed to provide all of its children with an equal, integrated education. For almost as long, over a half century, black families in Holmes County have taken to the courts and organized to challenge the conditions in their children’s schools. In Alexander v.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

A teacher in training darted among students, tallying how many needed his help with a history unit on Islam. The education profession is both of those. School leaders in Mesa stress they would never force teachers to participate on a team; the district only plans to expand the model to half of its schools. MESA, Ariz. —

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Reaching students across public and private school systems and alternative educational settings, the CompuGirls program is keenly focused on helping students develop the skills needed to become the next generation of technology innovators and community leaders from various ethnic, cultural and economic backgrounds.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 9, 2017

Bowie, 24, dropped out of Georgia State after financial problems derailed him from his dream of becoming a history teacher. And many, like Bowie, may want to go back to school but can’t because they’ve defaulted or they fear of sliding further into debt. In grade school, Bowie and his younger brother were their mother’s pride and joy.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 4, 2018

In history, students might pick historical characters and analyze major events of their era from the character’s perspective. Revere’s school district is one of the leaders in Massachusetts in advancing student-centered learning, which is surprising on multiple levels. Related: Is the new education reform hiding in plain sight?

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 4, 2020

Now, with the added pressures of the coronavirus pandemic, the fabric of American higher education has become even more strained: The prospect of lower revenues has already forced some schools to slash budgets and could lead to waves of closings, experts and researchers say. This story also appeared in NBC News. Colleges in Crisis.

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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

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 31, 2020

Most districts didn’t budget in a way that allowed comparisons of school-level spending. They reported only districtwide averages, making disparities across districts the primary fodder for conversations about educational inequities. School officials are often surprised by their own spending trends, once they see them.

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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

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. Board of Education decision. And it’s not okay. There is no U.S

Elementary School 91

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2018

Mitch Askew, a history teacher at Flagstaff High School, marches with his two-year-old son. Together, they took jobs in Colorado, Haiti, and, eventually, Flagstaff, Arizona, where, in 2009, Askew enrolled in a master’s program in history at Northern Arizona University, and Jennie got a job teaching science at a local middle school.

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K-12 Public School History Tutoring 98

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 18, 2017

Related: I got to choose private schools, but will vouchers really help other kids make it? Although I have done my share of hard work, I had the good fortune to begin my upward climb in a well-to-do suburb, with two highly educated, well-employed parents.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 21, 2020

We look at our health issues, educational issues … all of this stuff comes back full force to poverty. We look at our health issues, educational issues … all of this stuff comes back full force to poverty,” Jefferson said. Public schools in Holmes County will start school online next month.

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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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Elementary School Public School High School Government 145

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 5, 2018

Ted Beard, a longtime Longview Independent School District board member, watched the football players race across the field and wondered how long the commitment to integration would last. The district is at a pivotal moment now that a federal court has released it from decades-long supervision of its policies for educating students of color.

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