The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 4, 2020

To support herself (she moved in with an older brother) in high school she worked 30 hours a week at an Arby’s next to a weed-studded field in a retail park, earning $8.20 forcing a choice: Go to school exhausted or skip classes and learn the material on her own. She lost her mother at age 8. She closed, at 1 a.m.,

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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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Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 31, 2017

Like many teachers, I would tap into the the Library of Congress, which would give me tips for teaching with primary sources , including quarterly journal articles on topics such as integrating historical and geographic thinking. We could engage in government simulations at GovGames or iCivics or Cyber Nations.

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Digital Promise

JUNE 30, 2020

But not everyone has reaped the benefits of Nashville’s economic growth equally, particularly among the approximately 55,000 adults without high school degrees. Nashville Public Library. Nashville Public Library. Collaborating Organizations. Nashville Adult Literacy Council. YWCA of Nashville. Service Delivery Partners.

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ED Surge

MARCH 2, 2022

When high school senior Cameron Samuels started attending school board meetings in the Houston suburb of Katy last year, they were typically one of only a few voices—and at times the only voice—speaking in support of student access to LGBTQ materials. We packed the room full,” Samuels says of the board meeting.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Brown loves — and has long loved — learning about history, civics, geography and government, in part because he had teachers who brought infectious energy and enthusiasm to those lessons. Later on, as I went into middle and high school and was wondering what I wanted to do in my career, I would think about teaching, and Ms.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 15, 2024

Department of Education promise, and many are calling for an urgent push for help, including through legislation and a marshalling of resources from institutions like libraries and groups such as AmeriCorps. “I Still, if they can’t fill out the form and the government can’t turn the forms over to schools in time, it’s game over.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 5, 2019

Stewart Lockett (right, grey shirt) leads a meeting of the student government executive team in late January. His team is the most diverse student government the university has ever had. He dug through the bottom drawer and pulled out a student government flyer from five years earlier. Casey Parks/The Hechinger Report.

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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. Emmet Yepa Jr.,

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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. It blows my mind.

High School 144

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Cult of Pedagogy

JANUARY 21, 2024

The group purposefully uses language to help the public understand that drugs belong to one of two categories: those that are approved for consumption by a government agency and those that are not. Testing Wars in the Public Schools: A Forgotten History. First Class: The Legacy of Dunbar, America’s First Black Public High School.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 8, 2024

As the start of the school year approaches, high schools, colleges and universities across the country are figuring out how to help young people navigate the 2024 elections during these highly polarized and contentious times. The work of local government directly affects the lives of those in their communities.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 28, 2022

Fifth graders in California’s Cajon Valley Union School District learn about many careers, including how the stock market works. Gio’s focus on the future is part of “The World of Work,” a curriculum that begins in kindergarten and continues through high school. Credit: Liz Willen/The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2021

Adoption rates have been low so far for the Emergency Broadband Benefit, and the Emergency Connectivity Fund had a short application window during schools’ summer vacation. We have such close relationships with other city agencies, and local libraries and community centers. But there is only so much that the schools can do.”.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 25, 2017

. Imagine you’re in high school. If any of these were isolated assignments that might be fine because you could likely do them during lunch or right after school. But in most cases, high school students today have several of these assignments made concurrently. Sign up for our newsletter. Weekly Update.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 17, 2023

The pair spent time reading at the library and volunteering, and Witchet remembers the sweeping views he took in during visits to Dennison’s high-rise office. They were also less likely to have been disciplined in school for misbehavior (like hitting or bullying). What do you see for yourself?’”

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Zinn Education Project

JUNE 11, 2024

Source: Library of Congress Juneteenth — June 19th, also known as Emancipation Day — is one of the commemorations of people seizing their freedom in the United States. This beautiful tradition of Black freedom should be taught in school. Dancer at Juneteenth celebration in Washington, D.C. Photo by Carol M. But We Can’t Teach?

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 27, 2023

When Iowa Wesleyan University announced in March that it would close, its biggest creditor was a federal government agency that had loaned it $26 million and then — in an attempt to help the university survive —softened the terms and extended the repayment period. A score of less than 1.5 Rowan University in New Jersey was loaned $26.4

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 17, 2024

In a study she co-authored of an unusual program that gives college scholarships to both high school students and their parents in Toledo, Ohio, the Institute for Policy Research found that students and parents alike performed at or above average , despite what Sommer noted were financial challenges and limited academic preparation.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Before the pandemic, Albalicia Espino often took her 6-year-old daughter Sara to the West Dallas Library. On special occasions, they’d make the trip to downtown Dallas, where the towering library building has a dedicated children’s floor. Parents of young children are worried. The pandemic halted those treasured visits. “I

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Teaching American History

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Czarnecki, a 2022 graduate of the Master of Arts in American History and Government program, wrote the paper for a “Great Texts” course taught by Professor Stephen Tootle on John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath. Lomax hoped the young men would bring back audio documents for the Archive of American Folk Song at the Library of Congress.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 25, 2023

Research has become “increasingly clear” that career exploration should begin no later than middle school, said Maud Abeel, associate director at the nonprofit Jobs for the Future, who oversees the Possible Futures career exploration curriculum. Many of us were maybe awkward teenagers.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 12, 2017

Eric Bredder (second from left), a teacher at Monticello High School, confers with students using the CNC milling machine, one of several computer-guided fabrication tools used by his classes. Josh Walton, principal, Walton Middle School, in sAlbemarle County, Virginia. Photo: Michael Craddock. CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. —

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 4, 2023

I teach at Zama American Middle-High School , a Department of Defense school in Kanagawa, Japan. Department of Defense Education Activity (DoDEA) dependent schools are run by the U.S. schools more broadly. Related: Schools on U.S. He also serves as a member of the National Assessment Governing Board.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 2, 2021

People hired through the programs also tend to stay on the job longer; such programs can also broaden a company’s culture by attracting employees, including workers of color, whose life experiences are outside the high school-to-college career arc common in white-collar workplaces. Her aim then was a law degree. pursuing bachelor’s?and

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Sophia Joffe, a high school senior who launched a database for enriched remote learning, at her family’s home in Thornhill, Ontario, Canada. Guiding high school peers through online learning maze. Credit: Brett Gundlock for The New York Times. I don’t understand why that isn’t happening — now.”.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2022

. — After schools went remote in 2020, Jessica Ramos spent hours that spring and summer sitting on a bench in front of her local Oakland Public Library branch in the vibrant and diverse Dimond District. As of February, the city had provided nearly 36,000 laptops and more than 11,500 hot spots to low-income public school students.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

Students line up with their books for library in a kindergarten class in Maine. This school’s demographic make-up has changed dramatically in the past decade, over 70 percent of its students are English Language Learners. NEW YORK — This time of year, social media feeds are teeming with back-to-school pictures.

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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

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

She’d be a senior right now, preparing for graduation in a few months, probably leading her school’s modern dance troupe and taking art classes. This story also appeared in The Associated Press Instead, Kailani Taylor-Cribb hasn’t taken a single class in what used to be her high school since the height of the coronavirus pandemic.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

Student protesters from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Florida demand government action on firearms. Here’s something to think about when you hear people question whether student protests are appropriate: We seem to have forgotten as a nation why we created public schools. Not so much. Not so well.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 6, 2022

Yet students at Collins Elementary join the increasingly isolated ranks of those legally paddled at school. One is in college and two are in high school in another district. Collins Elementary School inhabits a single-story brick building with a “little free library” in the front yard and a “discovery garden” in the back.

Elementary School 145

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

“We should have had a phased reopening all along, planned out in June,’’ tweeted Robin Lester Kenton, vice president of marketing and communications at the Brooklyn Public Library. “I I am about to have a panic attack trying to manage all of this, while working full time.”.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 21, 2017

They stayed at the library working until closing time because they didn’t have laptops. Moises has his own laptop, bought for him by the nonprofit that helped him apply to college, but he was also at the library till they kicked him out most nights. I never thought I’d be in a library for two hours every day.”.

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ED Surge

MAY 2, 2024

Designers tried to borrow tropes from video games, and in the demo, Ed enthusiastically says, “Alberto, you met your goal today,” and points to even more resources he could go to, including links to “Read a book,” “Get tutoring,” or “Find a library near me.” The stakes here are going to be pretty high if you get it wrong,” he says.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

At a time when other higher education institutions are closing or merging because of a decline in the supply of high school graduates, the Roux is among a small but largely unnoticed number of new colleges that are opening. Some are focusing on high-demand disciplines such as technology, health and alternative energy.

Tradition 130

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ED Surge

AUGUST 12, 2022

This week, the Aspen Institute announced its 2022 Ascend fellows, a cohort of 22 individuals hailing from a range of disciplines including medicine, research, entrepreneurship, government and policy, and nonprofit leadership and advocacy. With Covid, we’ve lost so many of our elders who are libraries of language and cultural information.

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