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

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

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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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 13, 2020

While many people can trace their family history back to a great-great-great-great grandfather who traveled across the Atlantic Ocean in search of the famed “American Dream,” my ancestors inhabited the lands and waters in the Great Lakes region since the beginning of time itself. We are Anishinaabe peoples, also known as Ojibwe or Chippewa.

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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.” But culture-based education can be a tool of equity and liberation.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 23, 2021

I understand how the dysfunction of the federal government in the early stages of the pandemic crippled states and localities and their ability to respond. But here in New York City, Mayor de Blasio used a bare-bones school reopening as a prop to claim success. But the mayor said he isn’t yet sure about the high school kids.

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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

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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ED Surge

MARCH 5, 2024

Ken Futernick brings together people who disagree deeply on issues that are most dividing school communities these days — such as teaching about gender and sexual identity or about the history of racism in America. So there's an elementary school in Stockton, California. And he records the conversations.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 27, 2018

They created multicolored posters to explain what different departments of local government do, from sanitation to human resources. For this experiment, the researchers spent years developing four separate project-based units on history, geography, economics and civics. Back in the classroom, they discussed their ideas for improvement.

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ED Surge

APRIL 12, 2023

Even more astonishing, five of my former students decided to become high school history teachers, just like me: Paula Katrina Camaya : a former Chicago Public Schools educator currently teaching civics and humanities at Evanston Township High School (ETHS) in Evanston, Illinois. History class.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 25, 2023

It was the first lesson in a school week that would take her kids through memoir writing, an introduction to division and research on Indigenous history, each activity carefully curated by Snyder. She would also lead an upcoming meeting on the school’s finances, including how to spend federal pandemic relief dollars.

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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

NOVEMBER 18, 2018

million people that is less diverse than America, and that has a history very different from our own? As we traveled through Finland, we met with top government officials, education professors, classroom teachers and elementary-school students. Why should we bother to learn from a small country of just 5.5

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

More than a decade ago, the Mexican government sought to ramp up a parental involvement program in schools with large indigenous populations, which have faced a long history of discrimination and poverty. There were fewer suspensions and expulsions at the schools where the parent information sessions took place.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 16, 2019

And indeed, 51 percent of David Douglas high school students currently enrolled in a music class qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, compared to 66 percent at the high school as a whole. Typically, high schools have lower poverty levels than elementary schools because parents are older and able to earn more.).

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

Total enrollment: 1,200 students 2 In-person enrollment: About 80 percent at the start of the year, 85 percent at the end 3 Total cases, 2020-2021 school year: 47 in students, 25 in staff 4 13 elementary school students (Austin Elementary School) 19 middle school students (Austin Middle School) 15 high school students (Austin High School).

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Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

EdClusters are local communities of practice that bring together educators, entrepreneurs, funders, researchers, and other community stakeholders (families, local government, nonprofits) to support innovative teaching and learning in their region. All of this work is enveloped in the history of the region.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

In part because of an accident of scientific history, however, this essential assistance has been far more available to kids who score higher on IQ and other cognitive tests. government in 1977 asked that schools look for a “severe discrepancy between levels of ability and achievement” when screening children for learning disabilities.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 8, 2023

Despite the presence of a nearby government school, Sodi’s son and two daughters study at the Assembly of God Church in the Indian border town of Rupaidiha, where Sodi himself once studied. Hindi, the medium of instruction there, is easier for Awadhi speakers to comprehend than the Nepali used at the local school.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 17, 2019

The program at UWT was spearheaded by student government leaders who reached out to the housing authority and K?z Daniel Eatherly, the University of Washington-Tacoma student government director of legislative affairs, led a push for the university to help its homeless students find housing. z Development, a private developer.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 26, 2022

The story by John Woodrow Cox follows 10-year-old Uvalde survivor Caitlyne Gonzales as she seeks to heal from the horrors of the May massacre she witnessed in her elementary school classroom. Do you love history? If you said yes to either, you should definitely check out Puppet History. Do you love puppets?

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

Rather than being challenged, he was allowed to use a teacher-made study guide while taking exams at his California high school. One time, a teacher gave his special education world history class all of the answers to their final exam. He said he never had to study or actually learn anything to get an A.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 6, 2020

She currently works a clerical job for a government agency and drives cabs intermittently, while trying to launch a holistic wellness business. Although her family has moved many times, Johnson has up until now managed to maintain some stability in school for Mikaela. Academically, Mikaela held her own in middle school.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 17, 2018

That limits the salary she can earn at a community center like the Y and prohibits her from working in the higher-paying public pre-kindergarten sector, where the qualifications required of a preschool teacher are similar to those needed to teach elementary school. By 2015, almost 75 percent had bachelor’s degrees ).

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 28, 2022

But after the episode at the hospital, the threat assessment team determined that AJ was an ongoing safety threat due to a history of “concerning behaviors,” according to the state investigation, which was prompted by a complaint Richmond filed with the Colorado Department of Education. The district decided to ban him from in-person classes.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 12, 2017

Josh Walton, principal, Walton Middle School, in sAlbemarle County, Virginia. Still in its early stages, this ambitious project relies on a little-known public resource — a slice of electromagnetic spectrum the federal government long ago set aside for schools — called the Educational Broadband Service (EBS).

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 5, 2018

This story about school segregation was produced by The Texas Tribune , a nonprofit, nonpartisan media organization that provides free news, data and events on Texas public policy, politics, government and statewide issues. Beard is black and had two kids go through Longview schools. It was reprinted with permission.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 22, 2018

Among reasons a school might leave the network: the fee, which starts at about $50,000 a year for new schools that need a lot of support and drops to about $15,000 for more seasoned members; a new principal who wants to champion his or her own approach, or simply a poor fit. Chris Berdik/The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 2, 2016

law — what makes it a unique and hopeful case — it’s unclear anyone in government will be watching to make sure it achieves its goal. The district is awaiting the results of state achievement tests from the 2015-16 school year, the first full year of consolidation. One county, two districts worlds apart.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 23, 2016

1 is guaranteed 15 hours a week of free child-care or preschool for 38 weeks a year, or 570 hours total, paid for by the national government. “We Apparently, so do most parents, 94 percent of whom take the government up on its offer of free education starting at age 3, according to government data. Like the U.S.,

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 19, 2023

After a few hours, the elementary school called: Come pick up your son, they told her. Around lunchtime, the middle school called: Come get your daughter, they told her. Suddenly, she had four young children to care for by herself, with only government cash assistance to live on. He was no longer enrolled, they said.

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Studies Weekly

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Jigsaw Strategy Oct. February 26, 2024 Lesson 5: Who Can Run For Office February 26, 2024 Lesson 6: How Do We Choose Leaders?

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 23, 2018

Onalaska High School’s mascot is the Loggers, a nod to the historic logging family who founded this rural town in Southwest Washington. Onalaska, situated roughly halfway between Seattle and Portland, is proud of its history. Historic photos of lumber yards hang in the high school lobby. “I I like a small town.

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Studies Weekly

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

history, in 1801 and 1825. who wanted a voice in government] Weekly Assessment: Have students write a paragraph on the following: Should the president be elected directly by the people? When this happens, each state gets one vote. The representatives from each state have to decide together which candidate will get the state’s vote.

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Studies Weekly

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Bradshaw wishes more teachers would teach civics and history through Studies Weekly. “Students love having success with their work, and Studies Weekly lays a good, solid foundation for learning such skills.” Sadly, many teachers simply overlook the importance of social studies in a student’s development.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 18, 2016

Even as poverty rates have grown in the district of about 5,000 students, Clinton has consistently remained an academic powerhouse in a state where many schools are still separate and unequal. Related: In Mississippi schools, access to technology lacking, uneven. One night after this policy was announced, Belue’s house was egged.

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