The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

In 2023 and 2024, RAND surveyed more than 3,000 school principals and almost 1,000 math teachers across the country. The educators are part of a specially constructed national sample, designed to reflect all public schools and the demographics of the U.S. Do it before middle school,” said Goldhaber. student population.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

APRIL 3, 2020

Thank you, Mike Berry , for sharing how the Montpelier-Roxbury Public Schools in Vermont are adapting to our new challenges and opportunities. If you and your school(s) would like to be featured in the Coronavirus Chronicles series, get in touch ! Coronavirus Chronicles 001 – Greene County Public Schools.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 23, 2025

An instructional coach for K-5 math teachers in Milwaukee Public Schools in Wisconsin, Robinson can find herself zipping around several of the schools she works with in the city to assist teachers, give workshops or try to help vice principals grasp the nuances of math instruction.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 28, 2020

Thank you, Karen Krisch , for sharing how Marion-Walker Elementary School in Pennsylvania is adapting to our new challenges and opportunities. Coronavirus Chronicles 001 – Greene County Public Schools. Coronavirus Chronicles 007 – Mendon-Upton Regional School District. Episode 027 is below.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 15, 2020

Leave this field empty if you're human: Ten years ago, Courtney Dickinson wanted to create an innovative public school. She had a teaching degree and while she never got a job as a teacher, she had a lot of ideas about how schools should operate. Pyne Arts Magnet School in Lowell. Pyne Arts Magnet School in Lowell.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 23, 2025

Meanwhile, at least five of its neighboring school districts have more students enrolled compared to five years ago, with increases up to nearly 14 percent. The largest enrollment growth since the start of the pandemic came from Idea Public Schools, a charter district in Texas, that reports an eye-popping 55 percent increase since 2019-20.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

These days, almost every math curriculum in early childhood and elementary school includes games, usually a board or dice game, says Yvonne Liu-Constant, a practitioner specialist for Project Zero. Fishers school, Breakwater, is small, with about 180 students and class sizes of around 15 students. Another Word for Fun?

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Schools also must navigate distrust dating back to the U.S. government’s campaign to break up Native American culture, language and identity by forcing children into abusive boarding schools. Less than 10 percent of Native American students attend BIE schools. 1, 2024, at Algodones Elementary School in Algodones, N.M. (AP

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Dangerously Irrelevant

OCTOBER 26, 2022

In my blog post, I also quoted Loveless’ statement that, because the NAEP Proficient standard is so aspirational, “ If high school students are required to meet NAEP proficient to graduate from high school, large numbers will fail. All of which brings us to the concerns that you note in the Denver Public Schools (DPS).

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 13, 2025

That research has been instrumental in persuading lawmakers to increase funding to help schools accommodate students with disabilities, in some cases hiring extra special education teachers for every class. Roughly 15 percen t of U.S. Decades ago, there werent many ways to help children with disabilities.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 3, 2022

The organization, Attendance Works, believes that the number of students missing at least 18 days* of school a year doubled to 16 million in 2021-22 from 8 million students before the pandemic. She also recommends advisory groups for middle and high school students to build connections with faculty.

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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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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 1, 2025

At Braham Area Schools and in other Minnesota districts, an algebra-to-calculus pipeline hasnt materialized. Credit: Patience Zalanga for The Hechinger Report Caden Rivera, a 16-year-old junior, said middle school was the beginning of a math slide for her. I was just really immature and didnt pay attention, she said.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 6, 2020

When I was in fourth grade at an elementary school in Nashville, Tennessee, my teacher held a career day, where my classmates and I were to come dressed for the jobs we hoped one day to hold. Related: OPINION: When Black parents benefit from school choice, it doesn’t perpetuate racism. What makes them different?

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

But this fall, everyone at Viewmont Elementary School is in masks, so she has to listen more intently than usual. Some teachers in Hickory Public Schools, where Viewmont Elementary is located, have been focusing more on the science of reading in recent years, spurred in part by the influence of a local education college.

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ED Surge

MARCH 26, 2025

The summer before I entered the fourth grade, my mother informed me that I would be attending a new school in my same community with one caveat: it was a class in the gifted and talented education (GATE) program. Before that moment, I was blending in with my peers and navigating the typical challenges of elementary school.

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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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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

But it wasn’t indoor recess — play is one of the ways students learn every day in O’Brien’s science and social studies class at Shidler Elementary School. Crystal O’Brien, center, plays with her third grade students during free play time in her classroom at Shidler Elementary School in Oklahoma City.

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A Principal's Reflections

FEBRUARY 7, 2016

My father was an elementary school principal at Alpha Public School and Hatchery Hill School for a total of 30 years. I grew up in a very rural area of Northwestern NJ. Growing up here led to a great appreciation of the outdoors and participation in many different sports.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 19, 2020

I feel so defeated,” the mom wrote as she posted a screenshot of an e-mail she had just received from her young child’s elementary school principal into a parent’s group on Facebook. Seattle Public Schools did the same, publishing a sample schedule for K-3 that would offer live instruction from 7:55 until 2:25 p.m.,

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Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

Richland School District Two will launch summer classes in high school credit CS and coding instruction in summer 2017 to compensate for limited teacher-led instruction during the traditional school year. Forging meaningful partnerships with institutions of higher education. Coordinating with the private sector.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 27, 2020

and Rosa Parks at her Katy, Texas, elementary school in the Houston area. It was definitely painted in the light that ‘these problems are in the past’ and ‘America is the land of the free’ and ‘everyone is equal here.’ ” Ankita Ajith, student at Northwestern University and graduate of Texas public schools.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 24, 2024

I have a closer view of the effects of school board decisions than most school board members. Related: Do fraught school board meetings offer a view of the future? I ran for the Littleton Elementary School District governing board while I was 17, and was elected while finishing out my senior year of high school.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

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. Freshmen at Westwood High School, in Mesa, Arizona, are taught by teams of teachers. The school began experimenting with team teaching five years ago.

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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 2, 2023

A student in an elementary school drops an egg wrapped tightly in paper straws and tape to test whether it can survive a high fall. These and similar scenes from public schools around the country are more than just young learners having fun with recycled materials.

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ED Surge

MAY 8, 2024

EdSurge: What experiences laid the foundation for your role as a leader in STEM education in NYC Public Schools? Since 2015, CS4All has worked diligently to ensure that all public school students in New York City learn computer science, emphasizing students who identify as girls, Black and LatinX.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 10, 2020

Avery Bencal is a fourth grader at Winthrop Elementary School in Melrose, Massachusetts. This cozy suburb just outside of Boston is home to an idyllic New England downtown and schools that are good enough to draw young families in droves. At no point in recent memory has Melrose Public Schools been failing.

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ED Surge

MAY 21, 2024

Heidi Rose, an elementary school teacher in Denver, Colorado, knows that all too well. I was having a hard time functioning and just continually thinking about how far past the point of no return we are,” she says, sitting on a too-small stool at a shared table in her first grade classroom at Lincoln Elementary School.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 5, 2022

The reason that so many children learn separately is that their families reside in different school zones. where fewer than 10 percent of public school students are white , there aren’t enough white children to spread around the city to create more racial balance in classrooms. In many cases, such as in Providence, R.I.,

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

Edgecombe County Public Schools in rural North Carolina has long had trouble filling all of its open teaching positions. So far, eight of its 13 traditional schools have hired teacher-leaders who not only put their great teaching to use in front of students, but also coach their colleagues to spread their best practices.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

JUNE 6, 2020

International Schools Services has a webinar series called Educators Supporting Educators: Transitions to Online Learning , which features conversations with and resources from international school educators. Coronavirus Chronicles 001 – Greene County Public Schools. Related Posts.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 15, 2021

“It’s not once-a-week homework help,” said Jonathan Guryan, an economist at Northwestern University who has evaluated tutoring programs at schools. Far fewer studies find tutoring to be effective for older students in middle school and high school.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

And schools offer tutoring before, during and after school, plus Saturday School and summer programs for the districts 17,000 students, said Superintendent Darin Brawley. To identify younger students needing targeted support, the district now conducts dyslexia screenings in all elementary schools.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

About 40 percent of the families took advantage of it and chose to send their children to a pre-K program at a public elementary school. It’s still possible that the families who chose public preschool were more ambitious and motivated than their demographically and economically similar counterparts in the comparison group.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 2, 2023

Her two youngest, both attending Vancouver’s Washington Elementary School, had struggled with remote learning and still lagged their peers in basic math and reading. Her older kids loved their high school sports teams and she couldn’t imagine uprooting them. Vancouver Public Schools identified 743 students as homeless this year.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 12, 2023

Children from the Northwestern study who received more complaints from their teachers about their behavior were more likely to struggle academically in elementary school. Some states now have policies limiting how frequently public schools can suspend or expel students in early grades, but most states still allow it as an option.

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