ED Surge

JANUARY 21, 2025

Jami Rhue thought her first stint as a school librarian would be a quick detour in her career as a classroom teacher. But by the time she was heading up her own elementary school classroom in Chicago, she found herself missing the library and longing to teach media literacy again. So it was back to the bookshelves for her.

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Charter School Library Education Lesson Plan 102

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 24, 2023

In early April 2023, I started getting emails and messages urging me to take a look at a fresh reading study in Colorado. The study, a working paper that has not yet been peer-reviewed, came to two dramatic conclusions. schools, especially those that serve low-income children, have moved in the opposite direction. However, U.S.

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Charter School Geography Public School Private School 142

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

Charter School opened in 2016 on the former campus of the shuttered Randolph Southern School, a private school that had not enrolled a single black student in 2012, the last year for which enrollment numbers are available. A junior high principal resigned from the public school to lead it.

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Charter School History Library Public School 109

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2019

Jill Henry, who graduated from Whitmore Lake High School in 1995, left a successful career teaching high school social studies in Wayne, Michigan, to return to her alma mater and help open the new high school in 2006. In the elementary school, art classes were cut. Ben Smith for The Hechinger Report.

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Charter School High School Middle School Elementary School 97

ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Photo courtesy of Montgomery County Public Schools. Name : Chaula Butterworth Age : 54 Location : Rockville, Maryland Role : Paraeducator, general education Current age group : Elementary school, all grades (K-5) Years in the field : Four EdSurge: How did you get here? What brought you to your role as a paraeducator?

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Elementary School Public School Private School Social Studies 117

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 15, 2022

Kami Karr , senior at Redmond High School. Even when we were in elementary school, like with the stock market crash, everyone moved. And then you get into middle school, and then, like, the internet starts becoming a thing. Next year is] going to be another tough year for the schools. …

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Oral History History High School Public School 116

The Hechinger Report

JULY 6, 2016

Luis Antonio Hernandez reads a story about Cinco de Mayo to students in Christy Crotwell’s first grade class at Morton Elementary School. He’s the only full-time translator at the school, which has 152 Spanish-speaking students in its 21 classrooms. Crotwell, at rear, has been teaching at the school for 16 years.

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Elementary School K-12 Teaching Middle School 99