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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Digital Promise

AUGUST 2, 2017

This article originally appeared on Usable Knowledge from the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Ethical dilemmas abound in education. Should middle school teachers let a failing eighth-grade student graduate, knowing that if she’s held back, she’ll likely drop out? Read the original version here.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

President-elect Donald Trump looks on as Betsy DeVos, his nominee for Secretary of Education, speaks at the DeltaPlex Arena, December 9, 2016 in Grand Rapids, Michigan. There are some things that can get you uninvited to a black family reunion — and tap dancing to the news that Betsy DeVos is the next Secretary of Education is one of them.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

The school used to be a source of pride for the city’s black community, a stepping stone to middle-class achievement as its graduates went on to become doctors, businesspeople and win election to Congress. In 2016 not a single child at “North,” as locals call it, tested proficient in math according to the state’s education department.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Denial of ongoing racial injustice and attacks on social justice-oriented remedies and protections. A Department of Education that favors the 10 percent of students in private schools over the 90 percent in public schools. Attempts to deny women the basic right to choose what happens with their own bodies.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 8, 2017

President-elect Trump promised to put school choice at the top of the new administration’s agenda. And he backed it up by choosing longtime choice advocate Betsy DeVos to lead the Department of Education. Related : Will “school choice on steroids” get a boost under a Trump administration? .

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 9, 2021

I’m really stressed,” she said the night before the school year began. Generations of educators can remember the nerves that accompanied their first year in the classroom, when inevitable missteps feel like crises and burnout pushes some out of the profession altogether. In a few cars, she spotted some of her students. Amia, a St.

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