The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 8, 2018

Red states are where the annual issuance of new high school equivalency diplomas has fallen by more than 50 percent between 2012 and 2016. Their best shot at earning one is passing a high-school equivalency exam, what was known as the GED before 2014 but has now splintered into three exam options: the new GED , the TASC and the HiSET.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Four-year-old children who attended public pre-K in Tulsa, Oklahoma, in 2005-06 were far more likely to go to college within a couple years of graduating high school than children who did not attend, according to a 15-year study of 4,000 students. But in high school, an advantage for the preschoolers re-emerged.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2024

Millions of students left high school with large knowledge and skill gaps that may negatively impact their futures, including their earning potential, according to forecasts by leading economists. In higher education today, a lot is happening to make school leaders feel both energized and daunted.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 19, 2024

Once the site of an Indian boarding school, where the federal government attempted to strip children of their tribal identity, the Native American Community Academy now offers the opposite: a public education designed to affirm and draw from each student’s traditional culture and language. There was nothing like this.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 24, 2023

Life at her new school started to change for the better when she began learning the music of her Native Hawaiian culture. “It Metro Nashville Schools invested alongside the Save The Music Foundation to ensure that high schools across the district provide instruction and classroom space for music technology, production and songwriting.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 1, 2021

Our public-school system — with more than 98,000 schools covering over 2 million acres of land across the country — recently received a D+ on America’s infrastructure report card. More than half of our school districts have multiple failing building systems, according to a recent government report.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 23, 2021

Or any robust reopening at all — at least at the high school level. I go to The Beacon School , a high school of roughly 1500 students in Manhattan. I’m glad it was an option for kids who felt like they really needed it, but it was hardly substantial; the schools closed again in late November. .

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 5, 2018

Laci Hargrove, 18, who fell short of the high school credits she needed to graduate, moved straight from high school to a HiSET-prep program that also provides her with needed social supports. When Laci Hargrove turned 16, she was a sophomore in high school with nowhere near the credits she needed for her grade level.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 12, 2024

Yancy Sanes teaches a unit on the climate crisis at Fannie Lou Hamer High School in the Bronx – not climate change, but the climatecrisis. He is unequivocal that he wants his high school students to be climate activists. “I I need to take my students outside and have them actually do the work of protesting.”

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 11, 2018

. — The previous few months had witnessed a handful of small endings, and now, with the school year drawing to a close, these events were piling up quickly. In February, hundreds had gathered in the school gymnasium for the final basketball games in Chelsea High School history. Michael Dougherty/VTDigger.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 13, 2023

The three countries share more than a common language: For several decades, their governments forcibly removed Indigenous children from their families and relocated them to distant boarding schools. This is the one area left in the federal government, unfortunately, that is very much bipartisan,” she said of Native American issues.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 21, 2021

We already have good evidence that school and college rankings can distort normal educational processes , reinforcing social hierarchies that govern who enrolls in a school , how those students are treated and what happens to them thereafter. Are the USN&WR rankings designed to hold schools accountable for their performance?

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

million students don’t have reliable internet connectivity in their homes, according to Digital Bridge K-12, an initiative from EducationSuperHighway, a nonprofit. Muri, the superintendent, argues that long-term solutions will need to involve both schools and businesses, and use funding from private and philanthropic companies.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 15, 2024

School curricula on civics often fall short. Scores on Advanced Placement government tests are consistently among the lowest across all AP offerings. There are multiple hurdles facing K-12 schools in teaching civics. Middle schoolers and high schoolers can handle broader concepts and ideas.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 11, 2017

Match High School senior Aneudy Polanco celebrates his choice of UMass Amherst with his mother and girlfriend on college ‘signing day.’ This is the final story in an occasional series looking at six members of the senior class at Match High School, a college preparatory charter school in Boston. Photo: Liz Willen.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Many states are also cutting back on K-12 assessments and graduation requirements, despite the fact that they are critical to holding education systems accountable. These states show us that all students can succeed when challenged and supported with high expectations and opportunities to learn.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Fortunately, in light of democracy’s fragility, there has been a steady increase in initiatives from federal and state governments to incorporate civics education in K-12 classrooms. In 2020, California adopted a State Seal of Civic Engagement that high school students can earn upon graduation.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Now they are demanding a greater role in school policy and the decisions that shape their educations. The reality is that in most school governance systems, young people are systematically marginalized … and students play absolutely no role.” Related: Students have their own demands for school reopening.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Other student entrepreneurs have applied their hard-earned wisdom to improving virtual school, too. A team of students from INCubatoredu, a high school entrepreneurship program based in Illinois, reworked their business Trashbots to make robotics and coding accessible and provide hands-on STEM education at home.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

While district policies can provide opportunities for improving student achievement, our results suggest that this impact varies widely and requires strong school-level leadership and effort. No school governance model is predominant. It’s also clear that the laws governing school improvement must be revisited and strengthened.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

Some teacher educators have pushed back at me on this point, asserting that it is the job of the K-12 system to have provided this basic knowledge. These efforts are scattershot, however, and a great approach to providing specialized science knowledge rarely crosses over into something similar for history or government.

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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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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Sheliya then brokered an agreement between local government officials and Airbnb to publish more data on the effectiveness of these types of programs in the city. This work supplies essential questions to hook K-12 students in thematic instruction.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 12, 2018

Leave this field empty if you're human: Ames, Iowa is more than 1,500 miles from Parkland, Florida, but the school shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School felt too close for comfort. Across the country, 3,700 K-12 schools and 900 universities have implemented ALICE Training since the early 2000s.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 26, 2021

But as I’ve helped my daughter, a rising senior in high school, navigate the college search process, I am still struck by both the exorbitant price tags of attending college and the alarming lack of transparency around the value of that education. I’ve spent more than a dozen years at the U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 16, 2022

Key elementary school mathematical ideas must connect with and build on each other as children progress through each grade, something author Hung-Hsi Wu points out in his new book, “ Understanding Numbers in Elementary School Mathematics. ”. And once we’ve addressed the issues in K-12, we need to keep going.

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ED Surge

APRIL 2, 2025

Linking this information to learner attributes helped us support students from different high schools or colleges who needed additional help before the exam. By analyzing this data quickly, we identified students who struggled with specific foundational knowledge areas.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

About 85 percent of high school graduates in 2019 had taken at least one course in career and technical education, or CTE. Due to student privacy concerns, a number of states fail to connect their K-12 school and workforce data sets. Until then, students’ post-high school employment outcomes remain a mystery.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2021

Nationwide, significant progress has been made since March 2020 on closing the digital divide – the chasm between those K-12 learners who have access to reliable internet and computing devices at home and those who don’t. We wanted to be more than just a support mechanism.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 20, 2023

King understood that our rights are not given to us by the government, but are ours by the grace of God,” the governor said. This suppression of Black history is going to become a national thing if DeSantis and people who support him gain control of the federal government and the White House.” There’s nothing objectional.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 11, 2017

Social Studies teacher Michelle Adler talks to sophomores Maiya Schwartz, left and Emily Terranova about an assignment in an Honors Human Geography class at Gray-New Gloucester High School on Thursday, June 1, 2017. Each of Maine’s 124 high schools is required to offer such diplomas to the Class of 2021, next fall’s ninth graders.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Students from City As School high school in New York City think like engineers as they construct a water filtration system. Five groups of high school students worked around tables in Vielca Anglin’s science classroom on a recent afternoon at City-As-School in New York City.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Congressional watchdogs recently attempted to get a handle on the cyber security problem in schools. That’s because there’s no federal requirement for school districts to report data breaches. In this instance, school employees accidentally posted the information. Attacks by cyber criminals were rare, the GAO found.

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Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 13, 2019

Their immersive stories will be screened at the United Nations Headquarters in New York on September 24 and 25, days on which heads of state and government from around the world will gather to comprehensively review progress in the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the 17 SDGs. Related SDGs: Goals 2, 3, 8, 12.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 20, 2016

High School seniors (left to right) Hayley Striegel, Olivia Poplawski, Cheri Zheng-Fredericks and Julie Pignataro look for ways to verify information they’ve encountered on social media. High School social studies teacher. Can high-school kids check the authenticity of an alarming image posted on Facebook?

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 9, 2021

It can now cost tens of thousands of dollars to generate a single K-12 test question. Second, government agencies and research funders should invest in advanced computational methods in operational assessments — not just relegate them to one-off “special studies.”. What did SpaceX do that the government didn’t?

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K-12 Government Critical Thinking Research 130

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. In middle school, that number drops to 78 hours.

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