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. They say college should not be a time for a lot of survey courses.

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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. I miss meeting kids from all over the city.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 7, 2023

Melissa Knapp, the literacy coach for Harpeth Valley Elementary School, answers a first grade student’s question. Third graders work through a reading assignment at Harpeth Valley Elementary School in Nashville. The school is trying to keep the pressure of the new law away from students. We have to do more.”

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 18, 2019

Native American parents at Havasupai Elementary School in Arizona are suing the federal government and the Bureau of Indian Education for failing to educate their children, practicing excessive exclusionary discipline, violently restraining students and denying the community’s federally protected right to participate in school decision-making.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 16, 2017

Aaron Thompson and Peyton Stilwell, both 4, race a car around a track in their Head Start classroom, which is housed in a public elementary school in Caldwell, Idaho. And, due to the wording of the Idaho constitution, McFarlane and his team can’t even use any of the district’s state K-12 funding for the 4-year-olds they serve.

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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

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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Digital Promise

APRIL 16, 2019

Government Accountability Office, nearly one in four Foreign Service officers do not meet the language proficiency requirements that they should meet to do their jobs. Scarce in Schools. Part of the problem I see is that so few students in the United States – just 20 percent – study a foreign language at the K-12 level.

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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. Driving east along the two-lane highway that bisects her hometown, Daniels passes an “Entering Poplar” sign just before arriving at the K-12 school complex she once attended.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2019

This story about teacher pensions is part of the series Districts in Debt , which examines the hidden financial pressures challenging American schools. Glenn Gustafson, CFO of the Colorado Springs School District, talks to Christina Butcher, the interim principal of Queen Palmer Elementary School. COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 5, 2023

Some 3,200 students, many of them the first in their families to attend college, are participating in the inaugural year of the New Deal-esque program , in service jobs in K-12 education, food insecurity and climate mitigation. When she was in elementary school, “it seemed like no one cared,” Warren said.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

It’s Time for All Schools to Learn How to Support Neurodivergence At the start of this school year, there were about 7.3 million students in public K-12 schools in the United States who qualified for special education services. In 2023, the federal government invested $15.5

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 20, 2017

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. Related: Inside the oil industry’s not-so-subtle push into K-12 education.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 15, 2017

Many working-class families in this manufacturing city across the Wabash River from Purdue University cannot afford to send their children to private pre-kindergarten, nor can they rely on government-funded programs — like Head Start and subsidized childcare — which serve a fraction of eligible children. Throughout the U.S.,

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ED Surge

MARCH 31, 2023

I’ve even made the case that for some students, a music, art, dance or drama class might be the only thing bringing them to school each day. All of these points are true, but they fall short of explaining why the arts truly belong in every student’s K-12 curriculum.

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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. Matthew Wheelock Innovation Program Director, University of Virginia Curry School of Education.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 16, 2019

Not even the 100-degree weather deterred the three “parent ambassadors” from delivering their message to families: They should bring their young children to the Vivian Adams Early Childhood Center to have their development assessed and have them enrolled in pre-K. Half of its residents are out of work, and the city government is skeletal.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 17, 2019

In a survey, 12% of community college and 9% of university students reported they were homeless. “I’ve The program at UWT was spearheaded by student government leaders who reached out to the housing authority and K?z The housing authority pays K?z I’ve been doing awesome ever since,” said Gorder. “I

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 25, 2018

On My Way Pre-K student Vivian Kimberlin, 5, plays during recess at Zion Lutheran School in Seymour, Indiana. The structured program and veteran staff appealed to Kimberlin, as did the faith-based instruction, he said, sitting in the school’s bright lobby one recent morning after dropping his kids at their classroom.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 6, 2019

State and federal governments, educators, parents, entrepreneurs and billionaires are all seeking solutions to this problem. AARP’s Experience Corps , which engages older adults in tutoring elementary-aged children in high-need elementary schools, shows similar results for older children. Read more about early education.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 18, 2021

After 18 years of running her business out of a small, 10-foot by 12-foot room off the back of her house, she used federal funds to double the size of the classroom and add a bathroom. Cisneros has run a child care program out of her home by herself for 12 years. You watch this and I’m thinking, this is a no brainer,” Renner said.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 10, 2020

student population today participate in tutoring, it has historically been reserved for the monied elite and is often cost-prohibitive for children like Victor, who attends an elementary school where three in four students receive discounted meals. government to follow suit by dramatically expanding AmeriCorps.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 9, 2023

The state lost 12 percent of its child care spots during the pandemic. Tūtū and Me and Keiki Steps get most of their funding from the federal government, an amount set aside for Native Hawaiian Education programs, as well as from foundations and other private donors.

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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

JUNE 17, 2018

The guide also noted that starting in elementary school, all students take Spanish, art and music classes. The high school, which enrolls less than 200 students, has been able to offer as many as 17 Advanced Placement courses. Related: How the federal government abandoned the Brown v. Board of Education decision.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2022

At the start of the pandemic, only 12 percent of low-income students , and 25 percent of all students, in Oakland’s public schools had devices at home and a strong internet connection. Jesimiel Merida-Islas, then in fifth grade, at Think College Now elementary school in May 2021. The homework gap isn’t new.

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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

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

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

DECEMBER 28, 2022

Meanwhile the pressure schools face to prevent violence is real: In 2022 there were 285 school-shooting incidents in which a gun was brandished or fired, or a bullet hit school property, the most of any year since at least 1970, according to the K-12 School Shooting Database compiled by the Naval Postgraduate School.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Just past the rusty roof of the building across the road, we could see the top of Regjeringskvartalet, a cluster of government offices, the target of that car bomb. The government’s view isn’t that child care is a place to put children so parents can work, or even to prepare children for the rigors of elementary school.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 18, 2018

As we traveled through Finland, we met with top government officials, education professors, classroom teachers and elementary-school students. How can the United States improve its schools? Make child and teacher well-being a top priority in all schools, as engines of learning and system efficiency.

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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

APRIL 3, 2019

On a muggy fall morning, pre-K teacher Ruth Shows inspected the work of students in her classroom, stepping over a cluster of little learners sprawled on the carpet. Quitman’s pre-K success should have wide-ranging implications for Mississippi, where early results of the state’s tiny program are promising. ?. QUITMAN, Miss. —

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2016

Students attend a summer session at Lyon Elementary School near the city of Clarksdale in the Mississippi Delta. No amount of mentoring can repair the damage done to black youth in Flint, Michigan who’ve been drinking lead-poisoned water because of malign government neglect. Photo: Jackie Mader.

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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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Studies Weekly

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Grades K-3) February 26, 2024 The post Flipgrid and Studies Weekly first appeared on Studies Weekly. February 26, 2024 Lesson 5: Who Can Run For Office February 26, 2024 Lesson 6: How Do We Choose Leaders? February 26, 2024 Lesson 5: Who Can Run For Office February 26, 2024 Lesson 6: How Do We Choose Leaders?

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