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JUNE 14, 2021

The parent associations at Green Lake and Rising Star elementary schools co-sponsored the event so students at the two schools could meet for the first time. Parents from the Green Lake and Rising Star elementary schools in Seattle meet for a spaghetti dinner in late 2019. Credit: Kam Yee. Credit: Dawn Larson.

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MAY 19, 2022

As a governance tool, these automated transfers also reduce administrative overhead and record-keeping, which can be challenging for education programs in remote locales. where elementary school students can select adventures and collect gifts as a result of learning core skills.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 31, 2020

O’Neal Elementary School, in Elgin, Illinois, none of the third graders could read and write at grade level according to state tests in 2019. Just nine miles away sits Centennial Elementary School, where 73 percent of third graders met grade-level standards on that same test. At Ronald D. Credit: Brian Hill/Daily Herald.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Text messages to parents about their school-aged children led to better grades and attendance. Based on these early successes, education leaders in government and nonprofit organizations sought to bring the power of text messages to hundreds of thousands of students. We’re narrowing in on where nudging is useful.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

In the latest study , published in January 2023, children who went to preschool were far more likely to go to college within a couple years of graduating high school. About 40 percent of the families took advantage of it and chose to send their children to a pre-K program at a public elementary school.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Mackenzie Woll, a second-grade teacher at Abby Kelley Foster Charter Public Elementary School in Worcester, Massachusetts, said diagnostic tests at the start of the year revealed that most of her students were reading at a kindergarten or a first grade level. READ THE SERIES.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 22, 2020

While pre-Ks, elementary schools and some schools for children with complex disabilities reopened in December, there is still no plan to reopen middle and high schools. Many other major school systems remain closed as well. Science in particular is extremely hands-on and almost impossible to grasp virtually.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 1, 2021

Another improves reading comprehension among older elementary school students. Because the government wanted to focus on what works, Sahni only analyzed studies with positive results for students. One helps middle schoolers with math homework. The third is an online algebra course for eighth graders.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 21, 2021

News & World Report released its first-ever rankings of public elementary and middle schools in the United States. Schools in the bottom quarter of all schools in a given jurisdiction were not ranked, but simply identified as being in the bottom quarter. Even “global authorities” can screw up!

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OCTOBER 9, 2023

Brown loves — and has long loved — learning about history, civics, geography and government, in part because he had teachers who brought infectious energy and enthusiasm to those lessons. I did go into an elementary school and I learned that I did not want to be an elementary school teacher.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Franklin/Associated Press Many schools serving Native American students have been working to strengthen connections with families, who often struggle with higher rates of illness and poverty. Schools also must navigate distrust dating back to the U.S. Less than 10 percent of Native American students attend BIE schools.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 5, 2023

Gavin Newsom, whose administration launched the program, has called it a way “to restore the social contract between government and its citizens,” one “that says if you work hard and dedicate yourself in service to others, you will be rewarded with opportunity.” When she was in elementary school, “it seemed like no one cared,” Warren said.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Students at Bessemer Elementary School don’t have to go far to see a doctor. If they’re feeling sick, they can walk in to the school’s health clinic, log on to a computer, and connect with a pediatrician or a family medicine provider. The biggest challenge in launching the clinic was getting parents’ buy-in , he said.

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OCTOBER 24, 2022

Government Accountability Office, the National Academy of Sciences, and the National Academy of Education. If high school students are required to meet NAEP proficient to graduate from high school, large numbers will fail. Loveless noted in 2016 that: Equating NAEP proficiency with grade level is bogus. emphasis added].

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

No matter whether elementary teachers return to physical or virtual classrooms, this will be a year for the history books. What’s less clear is how prepared elementary school teachers are to put these seismic events into context. This is not a problem of higher education’s making, but a failure of public education writ large.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 15, 2024

The virtual version has boomed since the federal government handed schools nearly $190 billion of pandemic recovery aid and specifically encouraged them to spend it on tutoring. Now, some new U.S. studies could offer useful guidance to educators.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 26, 2022

Over the past few months, Nathan Roberts has witnessed dozens of substitute teachers stumble through their first days at Penny Creek Elementary School. Nathan Roberts, a full-time substitute at Penny Creek Elementary School, teaches a class of kindergarteners how to count. Credit: Image provided by Everett Public Schools.

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JUNE 30, 2024

States invested well over $10 billion in pre-K programs in 2022-23, and the federal government invested $11 billion in Head Start. Close to half of all four-year-olds in the U.S. now start their formal education in a public preschool classroom, and this share is steadily growing.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 2, 2023

In the schools without art, 14.5 percent of students in the schools with art. The surveys also found that elementary school students, who made up the majority of the students in the study, were more engaged in school and had stronger college aspirations. percent of students were disciplined compared to only 10.9

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 8, 2022

Shortages were concentrated in low-income schools and certain specialties. Wealthy suburban schools might have dozens of applicants for an elementary school teacher, while schools in poor urban neighborhoods and remote rural areas might struggle to find certified teachers in special education or in teaching students who are learning English.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 20, 2020

Along with Rose, I contacted a middle and an elementary school teacher to see how they are faring. In Wood’s suburban Massachusetts district, elementary school educators were so concerned about their students they held a car parade , driving through streets and shouting greetings from a distance. How will we graduate?”

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

The world’s developed nations are placing a big bet on education investments, wagering that highly educated populaces will be needed to fill tomorrow’s jobs, drive healthy economies and generate enough tax receipts to support government services. local, state and federal governments chose to cut funding for the schoolhouse.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 27, 2020

Goldie Hawn works with a student at Pacoima Charter Elementary School. We ask district leaders, government officials, foundations, corporations and philanthropists with bold visions and deep commitments to the well-being of our children and country: Are you willing and able to help?

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MARCH 5, 2024

But Futernick — a longtime educator who has served as an elementary school teacher, a teacher educator and a leader of a national school turnaround center — aims to keep the dialogues as civil and productive as possible. So there's an elementary school in Stockton, California. And he records the conversations.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 19, 2021

“That is something that school leaders and administrators are going to have to grapple with and start to better plan for.”. The burned remains of the Paradise Elementary school as seen Friday, November 9, 2018, in Paradise, California. Related: The silence of school leaders on climate change. Hot classrooms.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 18, 2020

The immense wealth inequality and chronic public-school underfunding in our city requires a fundamental transformation in the way that wealthy institutions relate [to] surrounding communities.”. A student slides on the ice after school at Nebinger Elementary School in South Philadelphia. million to Boston in 2019.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

Back in April, as schools across the country shifted to online instruction to slow the spread of the coronavirus, Scott Muri saw firsthand just how damaging lack of internet access can be for students and families. He pointed to school districts in Chicago and North Dakota as innovative models to follow.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 12, 2024

They also called education “the most important function of state and local governments,” the “very foundation of good citizenship” and “a principal instrument in awakening the child to cultural values [and] in preparing him for later professional training.” Seven decades later, those words ring truer than ever.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

It draws on listening sessions with more than a thousand educators, students, parents, state and district leaders and advocacy organizations, according to Erin Mote, CEO of education policy nonprofit InnovateEDU, one of several education organizations that collaborated with the government on the plan.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 13, 2020

My tribal nation, commonly known as the Soo Tribe, holds a sovereign-to-sovereign relationship with the United States government. Whether it was from elementary school teachers, elderly white neighbors or history textbooks, the label has always defined me. We are Anishinaabe peoples, also known as Ojibwe or Chippewa.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

and one that “established a government duty to protect citizens from climate change.” Designing for Climate Education Architects designed a rainwater collection system for Springdale Park Elementary School in Atlanta, where it is used as a teaching tool for the students. NPR called it “a first-of-its- kind trial in the U.S.”

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 25, 2023

She would also lead an upcoming meeting on the school’s finances, including how to spend federal pandemic relief dollars. And she was running for the school’s governing board. The Boston Teachers Union Pilot School, where Snyder has worked since 2012, is a “teacher-powered” school.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 7, 2023

“Here at school, we’re trying to not put the pressure at all on the students, but I know our third grade teachers really feel it,” Knapp said. Melissa Knapp, the literacy coach for Harpeth Valley Elementary School, answers a first grade student’s question. Because it is just one assessment.” We have to do more.”

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

Third-graders at Alamosa Elementary School in Albuquerque practice reading with first-graders in Carrie Ramirez’s classroom. Danielle Burnett, a truancy prevention social worker in Albuquerque Public Schools, spends her days figuring out why students miss school. Photo: Tara García Mathewson/The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

A survey of over 20,000 students conducted May through June found that only 39 percent of students said they learned a lot every day while their school building was closed. Summer break gave school leaders time to reflect on the lessons of the spring and create more effective reopening plans for the fall. Credit: Corinne Livingston.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 18, 2019

For example, a school district in Montana is being investigated by the U.S. Native Americans have for too long lived in a country controlled by men who, for nearly 300 years, have consistently “ elevated armed robbery to a governing principle.”

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Since March, the federal government has allocated only a fraction — about a quarter — of the $50 billion in direct-to-child care relief funding that industry advocates say is needed. Some school-age children take a reading break at a Small Wonders School center in Portland, Oregon. Credit: Allison Morton.

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