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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Teaching American History

JANUARY 28, 2025

To make clear that black schoolteachers would serve in equivalent roles to those of white teachers, the Human Relations Committee proposed to school officials that teachers for the entire fourth grade class during the 19661967 school year be drawn from Reid School. For a history of Rosenwald schools, see Thomas W.

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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

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Kathleen Gates, a retired teacher who had taught for many years at Brooksville Elementary School in the Hernando County School District, described preparing for that school board meeting as if she were going into battle. One of Robinson’s fellow panelists at the conference, Hayley McCulloch, a U.S. Florida Gov.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 21, 2017

On Twitter, users add lessons and resources to the #CharlottesvilleSyllabus and #CharlottesvilleCurriculum pages; everything from identity charts to readings on the history of white supremacy to conflict resolution activities. This work needs to begin in elementary school, where students’ ideas about their place in the world are shaped.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

A teacher in training darted among students, tallying how many needed his help with a history unit on Islam. And it resonated with school district leaders, who’d come to believe the model of one teacher lecturing at the front of a classroom to many kids wasn’t working. The school began experimenting with team teaching five years ago.

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Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

“Voice, agency, and influence are ours to give and receive,” says Debora Collins, assistant superintendent for student learning at Albemarle County Public Schools in Virginia. Matthew Wheelock Innovation Program Director, University of Virginia Curry School of Education. This area of Virginia was a hub of the Confederacy.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 14, 2015

Detroit Country Day School, Bloomfield, MI. Avondale Elementary School District, Avondale, AZ. Baltimore County Public Schools, Towson, MD. Taylor County School District, Campbellsville, KY. Riverside Unified School District, Riverside, CA. Riverside Unified School District, Riverside, CA.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 24, 2023

The first was that elementary school students who attended “Core Knowledge” schools – which teach young children a broad core curriculum in many subjects – were better readers. It’s geography; it’s history; it’s science; it’s cooking; it’s athletics, whatever that broad knowledge is about the world we live in.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 17, 2021

After that one morning session, Dunlap, a scientist who grew up in Japan, withdrew Annika from kindergarten at her local public elementary school in Fremont, California. Kindergarten, a foundational grade for young children, is typically the first year of elementary school, even in the 31 states where it isn’t required.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 21, 2024

After starting elementary school in the late 1960s, Naomi Hirahara and three other girls formed a clique called the C.L.A.N., More than 27,700 school-age youth live in Pasadena , Altadena and Sierra Madre , the communities served by the district, but only about half of them attend public school. PASADENA, Calif.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 18, 2019

For example, a school district in Montana is being investigated by the U.S. In general, Native students in K-12 public schools in the United States experience higher-than-average rates of suspension, expulsion and school-related arrests. Culture-based education provides a path to healing.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 17, 2021

In survey questions that accompany the NAEP test, eighth graders reported how much time they spent reading outside of school. The percentage of public school students who said they read 30 minutes or more a day, besides homework, declined by 4 percentage points from 53 percent in 2017 to 49 percent in 2019. First, the numbers.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 23, 2021

When New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio shuttered the nation’s largest public school system last March, I had a feeling the pandemic wasn’t going to be over quickly. My friends assumed schools would be closed for a couple of weeks, maybe a month. But the mayor said he isn’t yet sure about the high school kids.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 13, 2022

Nearly every classroom at Story Creek Elementary School offers sweeping views of the snow-capped Rocky Mountains that surround the Gallatin Valley here in southwest Montana. A bulldozer sits idle during a break on construction of new homes near Story Creek Elementary School in Belgrade, Mont. BELGRADE, Mont.

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Thrive in Grade Five

FEBRUARY 2, 2019

Be careful when teaching the history of the United States. Alison Black, the Director of Indian Education for a public school district in Oklahoma, says, “Tribal sovereignty is a huge issue. I will be the first to admit, I’m guilty of this too. Now that I know better, I do better.

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ED Surge

MARCH 31, 2023

Over the years, I’ve used research about how the arts increase math and reading comprehension to defend their existence in the public school curriculum. 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. How Did We Get Here?

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 6, 2016

Derrick Fields, 9, works on his assignment during a Spanish-language history lesson at Sherman Elementary School in San Diego, California. Last spring, Derrick Fields, 9, sat in his social studies classroom at Sherman Elementary School, learning about the creation of the telegraph. Photo: Lillian Mongeau.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

million students go to public schools in rural areas , more than the combined total of the nation’s 85 largest school districts. Rural students tend to do well in elementary school, but something changes as they get older. And that’s how the students at Campo got a college professor as one of their teachers.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 14, 2019

I took multiple semesters of musical technique, history and theory as well as music education methods. I first was assigned to an elementary school in a middle-class suburb of Philadelphia. Then I got to a middle school in the same district in a neighborhood with kids who were less economically advantaged.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

education problem more painful and paralyzing than persistent gaps in educational outcomes between black and brown students and their white peers, many decades after the Supreme Court’s landmark ruling that racial segregation of children in public schools is unconstitutional. There is no U.S

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 5, 2016

But she was relieved of the duty when Jacob graduated from his Head Start preschool program and enrolled in a Durant Public School District elementary school. As part of his special-education program at the new school, Jacob was still entitled to continue his weekly therapy sessions. Public-school Failures.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Now, eight years later, I am the principal of that same school and I’m proud to say that every student has multiple Black teachers each year, an anomaly given that in the United States, only 7 percent of public school teachers identify as Black according to data from the National Center for Education Statistics.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 20, 2021

One Thursday this fall, a middle schooler in Florida’s Brevard Public Schools received an in-school suspension. Related: They didn’t turn in their work for remote school. For teachers around the country, school discipline during the pandemic has been confounding. Their parents were threatened with courts and fines.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 30, 2020

Students from five Detroit public schools, including Osborn High, brought the case, Gary B. They argued that “decades of state disinvestment and deliberate indifference” had left students struggling to read and attending “schools in name only.”. Snyder, against Michigan’s governor and other state officials in 2016.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 28, 2019

“The United States is in the midst of the second largest immigration wave in its history.” Nationally, there are almost 5 million English learners in public schools, making up almost 10 percent of the public school population, according to the most recent federal data from 2015.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 18, 2018

We are two American public-school dads who just returned from a fact-finding trip through Finland. million people that is less diverse than America, and that has a history very different from our own? Singapore has launched a series of Finnish-style school reforms. Photo: William Doyle. education?

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 6, 2020

Housing is everything,” said Melissa Douglas, the liaison for homeless students in the Kansas City Public Schools district. It’s going to further disrupt kids whose lives and learning processes have already been upended by school closures.” Academically, Mikaela held her own in middle school.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 21, 2019

NEW ORLEANS — Frank Rabalais had big plans for the school just around the corner from his house in Gentilly Terrace, a leafy neighborhood that is one the most racially and socioeconomically diverse corners of the city. The charter school that was closing was 98 percent black. But there was a big problem. Seizing an opportunity.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 11, 2018

Without social studies, we lose the civic mission of public schools,” said Stephanie Serriere, a former early-grade teacher who is now an associate professor of social studies education at Indiana University-Purdue University Columbus. Border Crossers trainers Ben Howort and Ana Duque are both former elementary school teachers.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 13, 2024

Related: Retraining an entire state’s elementary school teachers in the science of reading In recent years, school systems have begun to make changes. This past academic year, all high school English and history teachers received training; this fall, it’s science and math teachers’ turn.

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 14, 2016

Beginning in fall 2014, the students and teachers at Burbank Elementary School in Hayward, California, embarked on a new and ambitious program to integrate arts across the curriculum. One school district stands out as a model of implementation: Loudoun County (VA) Public Schools (LCPS).

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Four years ago this month, one of the most devastating wildfires in Oregon’s history erupted across the southern portion of the state. As the COVID pandemic raged, leaving children out of schools and away from regular routines and social interactions, the fire only magnified the disruption. We take a close look at two of them.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 23, 2019

on day four of the strike, Nadia Morales, a counselor at Los Angeles High School, and Pedro Martinez, a social-studies teacher at Eagle Rock High School, prepare their children for the day. In this sense, the strike was as much about an ideological question as a labor dispute: Who is the public being served by public education?

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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. During her first couple of years of elementary school “her nervous system was like a pressure cooker because she wasn’t being given appropriate help,” Chittenden said.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 13, 2019

Women at William Franz Elementary School yell at police officers during a protest against desegregation at the school, as three black youngsters attended classes at the school for the second day. Related: In a city still struggling with segregation, a popular charter school fights to remain diverse.

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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. Gadd, a former teacher in New York City’s public schools, said, “It’s not a top-down model.

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