The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 1, 2019

Almost all of Tate’s years in public school — from first grade to high school graduation — were spent within the turmoil of newly desegregated schools. Related: How the federal government abandoned the Brown v. Her daughter, Cabrini Cooper, 42, first heard about her mother’s place in history from a great-aunt.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 9, 2023

This story also appeared in Mind/Shift In the past decade, the population of elementary, middle and high school students in Massachusetts dropped by 42,000 while the number of school employees grew by 18,000. In Connecticut, public school enrollment fell 7 percent while staffing rose 8 percent. Follow the money.

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ED Surge

APRIL 12, 2023

While shows like Abbott Elementary – which I especially love as a graduate of Philly Public Schools – try to show teachers as real, dynamic people with complexities and contradictions, few educators get to narrate the true power of the relationships we’ve been able to cultivate with our students. History class.

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Marginal Revolution

JANUARY 19, 2024

Think of this as a sequel to Kyle Harper’s tract on Roman plagues and their political import , this look at the Antonine plague and its impact has both good history and good economics. ” The author is well known in finance, ex-LDS circles, public policy, and right-leaning media, and she has a Master’s from Harvard.

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ED Surge

MARCH 5, 2024

The Healey administration has ushered in a number of other changes, from expanding universal preschool to signing an executive order for a “whole-of-government approach” to child care, calling on various state offices to collaborate with the business community to improve the field. I feel hopeful.”

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 10, 2024

American schools can learn valuable lessons from Finnish education, both positive and negative. In 2016, despite research showing that students who used computers more often at school performed much worse on reading and math PISA tests, the Finnish government announced it would spend millions of euros on ramping up digital learning.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 11, 2023

of public school educators are of Asian descent. The Settler Identity There are many teachers of color that can trace their arrivals - whether voluntarily or forced - back to lands occupied by the United States government. One of the most heartfelt stories I heard was from a fellow Asian educator.

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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

MARCH 12, 2024

Credit: Image provided by Yancy Sanes And yet, there is a broad bipartisan consensus that schools have an obligation to prepare citizens to participate in a democracy. Others have argued that without a robust understanding of the workings of government, “action civics” provides a “sugar rush” without enough substance.

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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. She would also lead an upcoming meeting on the school’s finances, including how to spend federal pandemic relief dollars.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Franklin/Associated Press Many schools serving Native American students have been working to strengthen connections with families, who often struggle with higher rates of illness and poverty. Schools also must navigate distrust dating back to the U.S. government back in the past,” she said. “We

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 11, 2023

She credits a training program through the American Museum of Natural History in Manhattan for preparing her to do so. Across party lines, the public supports museums, rating them as one of the most trustworthy institutional sources of information in the nation — more credible than local newspapers, nonprofit organizations and the U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 22, 2020

Despite mounting evidence that schools are not turning out to be major incubators or vectors of Covid-19 transmission, New York City shut down its public school system in November. Many other major school systems remain closed as well. Even before the pandemic, STEM achievement gaps in K-12 schools were significant.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 20, 2016

Board of Education, the landmark case that put in motion the Civil Rights Movement and remains a poignant moment in American history. The 1954 United States Supreme Court decision declared “separate but equal” unconstitutional and required the integration of those schools that were segregating students. The post From Brown v.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 18, 2022

Chicago Public Schools produced lessons that were broadcast on local radio stations. Questions about what we can learn from the history of education are familiar to Larry Cuban, a longtime education historian and school reformer. Schooling is intricate, and very complex.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 18, 2019

Native American parents at Havasupai Elementary School in Arizona are suing the federal government and the Bureau of Indian Education for failing to educate their children, practicing excessive exclusionary discipline, violently restraining students and denying the community’s federally protected right to participate in school decision-making.

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ED Surge

MAY 24, 2023

In the wake of the Atlanta Spa shootings and a surge in violence against Asian Americans throughout the pandemic, Illinois made history by becoming the first state to mandate that Asian American history be taught in public K-12 schools beginning in the 2022-23 school year.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

The union, Child Care Providers United, represents workers who care for children receiving government subsidies, enabling the professionals to collectively negotiate with the state on matters such as compensation, benefits and working conditions. She just called out of the blue,” said Sanders, “and she goes, ‘Oh, my God, you’ve made history!

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 19, 2020

There is a strong public interest in having an educated citizenry. Related: A charter school faces the ugly history of school choice in the Deep South. In public schools, one daughter was bullied and the other struggled academically. While the U.S. Just as the Court’s 1954 ruling in Brown v.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

Educators have also cited school violence and staffing shortages.And some parents of children with special needs are suing school systems for failing to provide services to their children when schools were closed. Related: An oral history of year three of pandemic schooling. We will be watching closely.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 19, 2023

ATLANTA – It’s unclear to Tameka how — or even when — her children became unenrolled from Atlanta Public Schools. This story also appeared in The Associated Press After more than a year of some form of pandemic online learning, students were all required to come back to school in person.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 8, 2023

Camika Royal knows the Philadelphia school system, and not just because she was a student there in her childhood. Her takeaway: Fights over control of school leadership, including a takeover of Philadelphia schools by the state legislature in 2001, are more about politics than about improving 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. government in 1977 asked that schools look for a “severe discrepancy between levels of ability and achievement” when screening children for learning disabilities.

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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. Hank Drucker is a sophomore at The Beacon School in Manhattan.

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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

SEPTEMBER 19, 2021

In California, some 70 schools had been directly affected by wildfires as of early September, said Kindra Britt, director of communication and strategy with the California County Superintendents Educational Services Association. Students from Greenville will have the option of attending another school in the district unharmed by the fire. “It

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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.” Evictions are rampant and often mark the start of a slide into prolonged homelessness.

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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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ED Surge

AUGUST 28, 2023

This activity was part of a design workshop hosted by DC + XQ, a partnership between the city’s public schools and the nonprofit XQ Institute. Yet measuring whether a redesigned high school is working as intended, and why, is difficult to do. Public Schools. and Why has school not been working? In 2018, D.C.

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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. Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis , 42 (3), 375–392.

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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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ED Surge

JULY 13, 2023

Unlike public schools funded through broad-based taxes, child care programs rely heavily on fees from parents, making it prohibitively expensive for many families and leaving child care workers poorly paid. They also represented the single largest infusion of federal funds to the child care sector in U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 23, 2020

This period of social distancing is giving us a glimpse of what it’s like when a school is shuttered permanently, a tragedy tens of thousands of families have had to deal with over the last two decades. Like the coronavirus, the impact of permanent school closures disproportionately hit Black and urban neighborhoods.

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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. government also acknowledges. There is no U.S

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 31, 2020

If O’Neal had received Centennial’s per-pupil funding, it would have meant an extra $789,905 in its budget: Money that could have covered more — or more experienced — teachers, social workers or home-school liaisons, or paid for new programs to address students’ academic and nonacademic needs. Dixon has three daughters in the district.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Sometimes a single class, such as 11th grade “algebra II” or 12th grade English, can earn a student credit toward both high school and college. Most early college high schools are small public schools, housing grades nine to 12 just like traditional public high schools, though some extend five years.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2020

Like McKneely, some educators, government officials and policy experts around the country say the coronavirus carries lessons for another global crisis of our time, climate change. Across the country in California, worsening fires, floods and droughts have forced some educators to contemplate a school calendar marked by natural disasters.

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