The Hechinger Report

APRIL 26, 2019

I wouldn’t put my parents through this just to go to school in the United States.” SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Desirée Morales Díaz didn’t choke up when she recounted how her high school counselor hadn’t heard of the common application, the form widely used by college admission offices on the mainland. And that’s when I said no.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 16, 2022

The problem begins in elementary school, with mathematical content that does not enable children to see mathematical connections and coherence. Another factor is the dearth of opportunities for elementary school math teachers to deepen their understanding of the content they teach. Take fractions as an example.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 5, 2018

Laci Hargrove, 18, who fell short of the high school credits she needed to graduate, moved straight from high school to a HiSET-prep program that also provides her with needed social supports. When Laci Hargrove turned 16, she was a sophomore in high school with nowhere near the credits she needed for her grade level.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Four-year-old children who attended public pre-K in Tulsa, Oklahoma, in 2005-06 were far more likely to go to college within a couple years of graduating high school than children who did not attend, according to a 15-year study of 4,000 students. But in high school, an advantage for the preschoolers re-emerged.

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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. 1/2) Hi [first_name]. We’re narrowing in on where nudging is useful.

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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

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. Strong preschool experiences matter.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 2, 2023

Her two youngest, both attending Vancouver’s Washington Elementary School, had struggled with remote learning and still lagged their peers in basic math and reading. Her older kids loved their high school sports teams and she couldn’t imagine uprooting them. “‘Oh Please don’t make us go to another school.

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ED Surge

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. Later on, as I went into middle and high school and was wondering what I wanted to do in my career, I would think about teaching, and Ms.

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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. It blows my mind.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 23, 2021

Or any robust reopening at all — at least at the high school level. I go to The Beacon School , a high school of roughly 1500 students in Manhattan. I’m glad it was an option for kids who felt like they really needed it, but it was hardly substantial; the schools closed again in late November. .

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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.”

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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. Integration.

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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

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

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

Related: Confessions of an all-white teacher in an urban school. Their photos this week are showing a mix of children from all different ethnic backgrounds, no easy task to achieve in New York City, where close to half the elementary schools are 90 percent black and Hispanic. government also acknowledges.

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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

APRIL 13, 2021

Many of the recently funded government efforts have been aimed at convincing people who grow up in these towns to stay and teach. She graduated high school, got as far as Bismarck, North Dakota, and then returned home to care for her sickly grandmother. And then, in 2015, Daniels noticed an opening to teach special education.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 19, 2024

Elementary school students in grades two to six were making slow progress, and remained behind. One high school math teacher told me that she thinks learning failed to recover and continued to deteriorate because schools didn’t rush to fill the gaps right away. One is phonics.

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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

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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ED Surge

MARCH 31, 2023

Kennedy’s support for the arts was admirable, but unfortunately, due to a number of societal factors, it wasn’t enough to increase arts education offerings for students in public schools. As a music teacher and the coordinator for the Academy for the Fine Arts at Governor Thomas Johnson High School, I consider myself fortunate.

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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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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 20, 2017

Related: LISTEN: In this Kentucky town, refugees can choose a separate high school. Far too many schools preach, rather than practice, democratic ideals. From elementary school on, we are told both implicitly and explicitly that our opinions either shouldn’t or can’t be voiced. Where did we go wrong?

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

But in other regions of the country, districts are grappling with a need for air conditioning that didn’t exist when school buildings were first constructed. Nationwide, an estimated 41 percent of districts need to update or replace HVAC systems in at least half of their schools, according to a 2020 report from the U.S.

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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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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

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

This story also appeared in Arizona Center for Investigative Reporting State leaders promised families roughly $7,000 a year to spend on private schools and other nonpublic education options, dangling the opportunity for parents to pull their kids out of what some conservatives called “ failing government schools.”

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Trombone players in the David Douglas High School Marching Band march in the Starlight Parade in downtown Portland in June. He’s setting aside most of the money for college, but some goes to feed a school-year habit he just can’t kick: playing the trombone. Anna Medina, a high school flutist in Portland, Oregon. “We

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 18, 2018

This, though, is rapidly changing — we visited a high school in Helsinki that is as diverse as any American high school.) As we traveled through Finland, we met with top government officials, education professors, classroom teachers and elementary-school students. However, the U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 28, 2022

“My son has always really liked school because he really does like that interaction with his peers and other children his age,” said Richmond. “So Maryland mother Veronica’s son was banned from attending his high school after the school district concluded he posed a threat. Credit: Valerie Plesch for the Hechinger Report.

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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

JUNE 14, 2022

which we published last Monday in partnership with the Mississippi Center for Investigative Reporting, focuses on Collins Elementary School in the Covington County Public Schools in southeastern Mississippi. Related: ‘State-sanctioned violence:’ Inside one of the thousands of schools that still paddle students.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

A student leaps during a game at Horizons Elementary School. Florida and Rhode Island now mandate 20 minutes of recess time a day for elementary school students. It sends a message: The federal government does believe [physical education] should be part of a student’s education; it should be part of the school day.”.

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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

DECEMBER 6, 2022

That leaves schools in much of the country, including Arizona, free to punish most students for missing learning time by forcing them to miss even more. Yet the scope of that practice is largely hidden: The federal government doesn’t collect detailed data on why schools suspend students, and most states don’t, either.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 17, 2022

A few months earlier, she’d heard about a family shelter inside an elementary school gym. Only families with a child enrolled in the San Francisco Unified School District could be admitted, and Mateo was a high school junior. “I They are more likely to change schools and be chronically absent.

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