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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The Hechinger Report

JULY 1, 2022

The program uses taxpayer dollars to help rural families who live far from a public school attend a private school instead. Up for debate now is what the broader effects of the ruling might be, as well as its impact on public school funding. Credit: Stefani Reynolds / AFP via Getty Images.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

I learned truths about European imperialism and the humanness before slavery — how colonists from all over Europe stuck their flagpoles into African soils, controlling nations and influencing heritage for centuries. Humanizing pre-colonial history catapulted a spiritual reckoning and unlocked a familiar wholeness for me. King, Ph.D.,

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 29, 2019

Higher Education. Leave this field empty if you're human: You won’t see separate drinking fountains when you visit the Mississippi Delta town of Indianola. But black and white students there are still learning in classrooms that often look like Brown vs. Board of Education never happened. Future of Learning. Proof Points.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 19, 2023

This summer, a coding class offered by a private school in Austin, Texas, was led by an unusual teacher. The PreK-8 school, Paragon Prep, offered a series of optional, self-paced, video lessons that were automatically generated from a textbook. Longtime leaders in online education say they’re bracing for a marketing onslaught.

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ED Surge

JUNE 15, 2022

As educators, mental health professionals, and authors of a new book on helping students cut through stress and pave the way to purpose, we’ve spent our careers supporting students to manage their mental health and reach their potential. It is educators themselves reaching out for our help. In education, we’ve done the exact opposite.

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Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

Over the last 10 months our team has collaborated with an advisory council of 12 teachers of color representing districts from the League of Innovative Schools , public charter schools including an early childhood center, and private schools across the country. In the district, students of color makeup 44.4

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

This story was produced by The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education, in partnership with the Huffington Post. Read the whole series, “ Willing, able and forgotten: How high schools fail special ed students,” here. Credit: Melissa Lyttle for HuffPost.

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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

MAY 11, 2020

Education wasn’t, and the consequences are dire. Related: Coronavirus opens doors to rethinking education. We are at serious risk of failing to properly educate millions of students this year because we have designed education around schools and systems, as opposed to designing around the learner.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

Bugging kids about homework, after asking the inevitable “How did school go today?”. On Thursday, cries of rage and disappointment followed the last-minute announcement from Mayor Bill de Blasio and Schools Chancellor Richard Carranza that most children would wait at least another week to return to school buildings.

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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 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

MARCH 12, 2018

When teachers are unqualified or underqualified, student scores on standardized exams are lower, and students are more likely to require remedial education. Higher Education. That can be difficult when working full time, said Ben Burnett, dean of the William Carey University School of Education. Weekly Update.

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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

JANUARY 15, 2020

Higher Education. Leave this field empty if you're human: Ten years ago, Courtney Dickinson wanted to create an innovative public school. She had a teaching degree and while she never got a job as a teacher, she had a lot of ideas about how schools should operate. Sign up for the Future of Learning newsletter.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 16, 2021

For many early adolescents — and not a few of their teachers — middle school isn’t about choice and agency, “it’s about surviving,” said Melissa Wantz, a former educator from California, with more than 20 years’ experience. The notion that middle schools are misaligned with the needs and drives of early adolescents is hardly a new one.

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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. million cut.

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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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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

OCTOBER 15, 2019

There are 60,000 fewer public education jobs than there were before the recession began in 2007, according to an analysis of the latest Bureau of Labor Statistics jobs report by the think tank Economic Policy Institute. A shortfall of more than 300,000 jobs in public education. Problem was, that was a myopic view of the world.

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Cult of Pedagogy

APRIL 2, 2023

In too many cases, what happens in schools today doesn’t look much different than it did decades ago: seat work, memorization, and regurgitation of a discrete body of knowledge and skills. “So it’s not just creativity in the sense of like the arts, but it’s more like, okay, you know something about the human heart. .”

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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

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

The education profession is both of those. Fourlis and others also see team teaching as a way to set their schools apart as a new universal voucher program in Arizona goes into effect, potentially drawing more families and teachers away to private schools. It is inflexible, and it is isolating.”.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 23, 2021

Yet, she said, “there is still a push from school leaders that ‘We want 100 percent of our students to apply to college.’ ”. The situation has school counselors feeling stuck, said Mandy Savitz-Romer, a senior lecturer at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and expert in school counseling. “We

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 26, 2023

Here, find recommendations for articles, books and podcasts that have resonated with us — some related to education and others that extend beyond. But I somehow missed that he published a new, different kind of book in 2021 — “ The Anthropocene Reviewed ,” a collection of personal, contemplative, funny and deeply human essays.

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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

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

OCTOBER 1, 2018

Ebony McGee, a Vanderbilt University associate professor who studies diversity in education, in her office at Vanderbilt’s Peabody College. where he’s now an associate professor of education and on a faculty that is 58 percent black. Sign up for our Higher Education newsletter. Higher Education. Weekly Update.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 18, 2018

Kids go to school to get an education, and in part to increase their future job opportunities, not limit their parents’ prospects in the process. But how they get to school is a crucial, underappreciated detail that can make a world of difference to the communities where schools are located. Higher Education.

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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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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

DECEMBER 3, 2016

Joan of Arc School in New Orleans. All toddler and pre-K classrooms in the state that receive any public money are observed at least twice a year to determine their educational quality. Revisions of the rating system began earlier this year, but the Department of Human Services halted the work this summer.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2020

How Schools Are preparing – and Not Preparing – Children for Climate Change,” reported by HuffPost and The Hechinger Report, a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. When Rebecca Brewer started teaching high school biology 20 years ago, it seemed like everyone trusted science.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 18, 2017

I recently heard a fellow from one of the Woodrow Wilson Foundation’s programs speak about her research on the impact of racial stigma and stereotypes on African Americans’ sense of agency, worth and humanity. Related: I got to choose private schools, but will vouchers really help other kids make it?

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 29, 2018

What they lack is college-educated relatives, counselors, role models or mentors to make sure they take the courses and meet the deadlines they need to, or who encourage them to think about their further educations. Fewer than one in five children of parents without higher educations end up getting degrees. Higher Education.

High School 101

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