The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 19, 2021

As humans continue to unleash greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, fires, hurricanes, floods, droughts and heat waves are intensifying, in some cases forcing kids to flee their homes and classrooms and shattering their sense of security. School district enrollment is now less than half what it was before the Camp Fire destroyed the town.

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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

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Many school systems are gravely unprepared for a warming world. While there’s no comprehensive data on how many schools lack air conditioning, some 41 percent of school districts responding to a 2020 Government Accountability Office survey reported that the majority of their school buildings needed heating and cooling upgrades.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

Department of Health and Human Services. Despite her stated disinterest, the level of physical activity Anna and her classmates experience during their school day is unusual and probably beneficial. where 31 percent of children between the ages of 10 and 17 are obese , most school children move far too little, experts say.

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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. If she succeeds, it might provide a roadmap for educators on how to re-introduce more science and social studies in elementary school classrooms without sacrificing the basic skills kids need to know.

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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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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. This is her third year in the profession.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Credit: Austin Anthony for The Hechinger Report Speaking comes naturally to most children, being a gift of human evolution, but reading and writing are inventions that must be consciously and painstakingly learned. Because human brains are organized in diverse ways, some people’s reading circuits end up being inefficient.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

It exists in nature and it is a cornerstone of our economy, but there’s a lack of consensus among psychologists as to whether competitiveness is learned or if it’s instinctual and part of human nature. Either way, the reality is that competitiveness starts early and competition shows up in many ways in schools.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 14, 2020

On a crisp day in early March, two elementary school gifted and talented classes worked on activities in two schools, three miles and a world apart. They knew not all their children were especially brilliant — they just wanted to get into the best elementary school in the city. BUFFALO, N.Y. —

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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

MAY 27, 2018

The report also shows that especially for students of color, being taught by a teacher of color can boost academic achievement, high school graduation rates and aspirations to attend college. The benefits of being taught by diverse educators aren’t strictly academic. Sign up for our newsletter. Choose as many as you like. Weekly Update.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 16, 2017

Behind the storage unit sits a rectangular wooden box stuffed with bicycle tires filled with Silly Putty to replicate human intestines. Related: An urban charter school achieves a fivefold increase in the percentage of its black and Latino graduates who major in STEM. Photo: Wayne D’Orio for The Hechinger Report.

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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

AUGUST 21, 2017

This work needs to begin in elementary school, where students’ ideas about their place in the world are shaped. Here are some ways to do that in elementary school classrooms: First and foremost, it is vital that young people have a place to process disturbing news and to be reassured that their lives matter and that they are safe.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

Leave this field empty if you're human: In interviews with 45 parents and students and more than 50 other experts, advocates and lawyers across 34 states and the District of Columbia, families and advocates described systemic problems with special education in high school. Sign up for our newsletter. Choose as many as you like.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 9, 2023

Email Address Choose from our newsletters Weekly Update Future of Learning Higher Education Early Childhood Proof Points Leave this field empty if you’re human: This type of care is especially common in low income communities, among families with limited English proficiency, in immigrant communities and for children with disabilities.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 26, 2022

I find her cartoons , which are often an interpretation of human nature and behavior, fascinating and witty. 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.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 26, 2023

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. The essays start off sardonically but become increasingly earnest and reflective. So Babb’s book wasn’t published until 2004.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 18, 2022

This is one of many multisensory activities Welch uses in her reading intervention class, a 30-minute pull-out session that meets daily at the elementary school. Although the federal government sent a massive influx of money to help schools troubleshoot , it left districts to grapple with how best to use the funds.

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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. Dafne said an elementary school gym isn’t an ideal place to sleep either. We will not fix homelessness until the federal government believes that housing is a human right,” Ronen said. There was one other option.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 16, 2019

Leave this field empty if you're human: Top-notch early learning environments have been shown to improve academic outcomes for the most vulnerable children — even years later. Half of its residents are out of work, and the city government is skeletal. Parents in the new program, based at a local elementary school, say they are pleased.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 9, 2023

One challenge that students face as they advance through grades is that, as they get older, they get less individualized attention from adults at school, she explains. A lot of it can be attributed to coming out of the pandemic, distortion of relationships not just with peers and being pulled out of school for a year, but on family life.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 2, 2016

It’s about improving education for all kids,” said school district Superintendent Lewis Holloway. John Jones asks a question to his students in AP Human Geography on August 18, 2016. Jones came to Starkville High in 2015 from East Oktibbeha County High School. And the Department of Justice bought into that.”.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 21, 2018

Restrictions on some designs, shorts, dyed hair and other asinine rules governing what students can wear give educators permission to harass, discriminate and pull students out of class when they slip up. Schools should have mascots and sports teams and students should represent those colors. Sign up for our newsletter. Weekly Update.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Beyond the professional upheaval, Hensley and Dowda worry about what the absence of a school library will mean for students’ success in elementary school and beyond. They told me that I have to turn my library into a team center.’” I was so stressed, and my stomach was always a knot. I was like, ‘This is horrible.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 23, 2018

Heather Guenther, Onalaska High School graduate. While the data is imperfect, school enrollment also tells a story of growth. Elementary school enrollment has climbed the fastest, from 327 students in May 2014 to 391 in May 2018, according to the Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction in Washington.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

Brown spent years pushing schools to follow the law, after giving up her job doing administrative support work for a government relations firm. The diagnoses should have triggered extra supports at school, but Burns said that much-needed help never materialized. Sign up for our newsletter. Choose as many as you like.

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Psych Learning Curve

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

Writing a strong resumé for robot and human readers (Eye on Psi Chi) Thus, many companies have turned to automated software to help them discriminate among resumés. Six years is the timespan the federal government uses to measure graduation rates.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

The visit was an opportunity to answer general questions about Intermediate School for all students, to help ensure a smooth transition, and to make a sales pitch for BBI to those who had not yet made up their minds. Just about anyone in education would agree schools should be judged on more than just test scores. Weekly Update.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

Many had seen their schooling interrupted by the chaos back home; some had experienced gang violence or human trafficking. The Louisiana High School Athletic Association requires all student-athletes to present some proof of age — a birth certificate or official immigration papers — along with a social security number. “Tú

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 5, 2018

For each student who drops out, high schools earn a zero. Leave this field empty if you're human: In the past, some have viewed Louisiana’s accountability incentives with caution, fearing schools may sit back, knowing that they can push low-performing students into a high-school equivalency program and earn 25 points.

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Psych Learning Curve

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

In a recent article I (Larry) coauthored with my colleagues, A Framework for Race-Related Trauma in the Public Education System and Implications on Health for Black Youth , we outline how the experiences of Black youth are shaped by environments that don’t see their humanity.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 28, 2022

In the spring of 2022, after enduring a string of 10-day quarantines, James, a human resources director, and her husband, an employment attorney, decided to pull their son out of child care to try to keep the family healthy before the birth of their second child. when their school day ends. Credit: Image provided by Mitch Meyer.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 27, 2024

Jahana Hayes of Connecticut, a former high school history and government teacher. They have a lot of insight and experience in how to navigate some of the challenges that go along with large public institutions and the processes that make government happen.” Patty Murray of Washington state, a former preschool teacher, and Rep.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 20, 2018

Students at Barwell Road Elementary School Photo: Alex Granados/EducationNC. Her school, Haw River Elementary in Alamance County, was offering students after-school clubs once a week. They also added a school support coach to help teachers improve their lesson plans and use more data to track students’ progress.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 10, 2023

The study, which was published late last year in Education Sciences and released more widely last week, found that children who attended Tulsa’s Educare program, all of whom live below the poverty line, experienced positive effects that lasted well into elementary school.

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