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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

JANUARY 2, 2023

Researchers randomly assigned 21 elementary and middle schools to receive arts education first and watched what happened to 8,000 of their students in grades three through eight. They compared them with 8,000 students at 21 other schools that had to wait and didn’t get the extra arts for at least a couple years.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Either way, the reality is that competitiveness starts early and competition shows up in many ways in schools. As an elementary school student, I remember sitting “criss cross applesauce” among my peers during the end-of-the-quarter awards ceremonies, hoping my name would be called. Personally, I have always enjoyed competition.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 13, 2021

million public-school students — or nearly 1 in 5 of all students in the country — attend a rural school , according to a November 2019 report from the Rural School and Community Trust. At just below 75 percent, Montana has the highest share of rural schools of any state. Across the U.S., Daniels went for it. “I

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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

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

Middle school students at Kaleidoscope Academy, a district charter school in Appleton, Wisconsin, are constantly moving. 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. APPLETON, Wisc.

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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

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 18, 2018

As we traveled through Finland, we met with top government officials, education professors, classroom teachers and elementary-school students. Reduce the homework load in elementary and middle schools to no more than 30 minutes per night, and make it responsibility-based rather than stress-based.

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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. In middle school, that number drops to 78 hours. When I taught in elementary schools, I was greeted by excited, engaged students.

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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

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

DECEMBER 22, 2018

A Crew of seventh graders at King Middle School in Portland, Maine, plays a conflict-resolution game called “Is This Seat Taken?” Curtis Chapin, a Crew advisor and language arts teacher at King Middle School in Portland, Maine, reviews the “Crew Contract” signed by each member. Chris Berdik/The Hechinger Report.

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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. begin language study in middle or high school. Knowledge of foreign languages is also vital to America’s national security and diplomacy. Yet, according to the U.S

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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

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

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 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

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

Parent and special education advocate Sri Hatharasinghe-Gerschler recalls teachers telling her she’d never go to college when she was in middle school in the mid-1990s. Hatharasinghe-Gerschler had been diagnosed with a reading comprehension disability in elementary school.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 21, 2018

Students at a charter school near Washington, D.C. In middle school, I had a dress code and they always dress coded people,” a Washington, D.C, Dress coded” is what happens when a school administrator or teacher issues someone a dress code violation. Photo: Astrid Riecken For The Washington Post via Getty Images. “In

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 30, 2021

She’d been teaching Spanish to elementary and middle school students, but he felt she was ready to take charge of a classroom of her own. He even had one available: The sixth-grade teacher was set to retire at the end of the school year. That problem is also common nationally.

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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. In middle school, administrators wanted to cut back the number of hours of speech therapy Tyrone received from one and a half hours a week to half an hour per week. Weekly Update.

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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

The federal government funds $10 billion in Head Start programs for low-income children directly, but they reach only about a third of children ages 3 to 5 living in poverty. Half of its residents are out of work, and the city government is skeletal. With extra support, he is now earning honors in his middle-school classes.

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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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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

One was Melissa Yarborough, a teacher at Navarro Middle School in Houston’s East End, which is home to one of the city’s historically Latino neighborhoods. While not targeted as a failing school, her campus became “NES-aligned,” meaning her principal opted into the New Education System. Map by Nadia Tamez-Robledo for EdSurge.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 11, 2023

Families got used to that,” said Elmer Roldan, of Communities in Schools of Los Angeles, which helps schools follow up with absent students. Since the 2012 shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut, Negrón, who grew up in Puerto Rico, had become convinced mainland American schools were dangerous.

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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 school district, in partnership with Mississippi State University, has plans for a new school for sixth and seventh graders. One county, two districts worlds apart.

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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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Digital Promise

JUNE 15, 2016

Teacher authority to make decisions regarding curriculum, the processes of their own learning, and aspects of school governance. In the first year, 26 teachers responded, and six years later, the school was still continuing the program. Focus on Student Learning. Continuous Teacher Learning. Lesson study.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

On a sunny Monday in August, Parkinson, along with two students and an assistant principal, went to visit Bucklands Beach Primary School to talk to the sixth-year students there. The students would soon be making their final selection for middle school; although many had already put in applications for BBI, not all had done so.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 22, 2016

million people live in places where state officials took over entire districts or individual schools in the past six years, according to News21 data collected from state government agencies. The only solution to save the Highland Park School District was to take control of the system entirely, state officials concluded.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

Williams was just 14 when Marcovitz told her she could be part of something historic at Sci Academy, the charter high school he was opening on the east end of town. Most still read at an elementary school level. And some of her high school classmates had reached the middle class even though they’d dropped out of college.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 7, 2025

Middle schools now have waiting lists for the sport. And at Longfellow Elementary School, students stretched yarn across makeshift looms made out of toilet paper rolls, stitching the arms of an octopus or crafting a snake during knitting club. Each school is essentially left to deal with violations on its own.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 8, 2021

As a middle schooler, Alan says he was bullied relentlessly even as he was repeatedly suspended. And while the pandemic closed middle schools across the country, it doesn’t appear to have shutdown school discipline. Middle school, that’s when you’re figuring out how to be a human,” Gallegos said. “We

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 4, 2024

On the line, Kelly Rodriguez explained that she wanted to move her 6-year-old from a private school to a public one for first grade, but only if a seat opened up at Sunset Elementary School, near their house on San Francisco’s predominantly white and Asian west side. The same goes for middle and high school options.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2019

In tiny Foster, Rhode Island, teachers at Captain Isaac Paine Elementary School use high-tech methods to teach a largely rural, off-the-grid population. Down Route 6, not far from the Shady Acres Restaurant and Dairy, is Captain Isaac Paine Elementary School. Tammy Kim, for The Hechinger Report. PROVIDENCE, R.I.

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