The Hechinger Report

APRIL 13, 2023

Email Address Choose from our newsletters Weekly Update Future of Learning Higher Education Early Childhood Proof Points Leave this field empty if you’re human: By the close of this century, at least half of the more than 7,000 languages spoken today will become extinct – and that’s according to the rosiest of linguistic forecasts.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 8, 2024

Chris Nelson teaches preschool in rural Vermont, just a few miles from the Canadian border, but not in the school or child care center most people think of when they imagine state or locally funded pre-K. For many rural families especially, the barriers of paying for and getting their children to a pre-K program are just too great.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 5, 2023

More recently, advocates have presented child care as a public good and a right, similar to K-12 education. For many years, the province of Quebec has shown the potential benefits of government funding for child care. There remains, still, a Canadian tradition in believing that government is part of the solution.”

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

And nowhere is this conversation more relevant than in K-12 education, where AI holds the promise of revolutionizing how teachers teach and students learn. When it comes to AI, we can’t afford the same wait-and-see approach many governments took to regulating social media. Legislators must begin regulating AI now.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Email Address Choose from our newsletters Weekly Update Future of Learning Higher Education Early Childhood Proof Points Leave this field empty if you’re human: In some states, child care can cost as much as college tuition. On average, child care employees and early educators earn less than half as much as K-12 teachers.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Latino children make up one of the fastest-growing demographics in K-12 education. Just one in 10 tech workers are Latino, and while Latino college students are choosing STEM fields in college more frequently , they earn only about 12 percent of undergraduate degrees awarded in science, technology, engineering and mathematics.

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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. Weekly Update.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 11, 2023

In the summer of 2022 as part of the Voices of Change project, EdSurge Research convened 80 Asian American K-12 educators in a series of virtual learning circles to listen to their stories. Our conversations spanned the gamut of topics that are top of mind for educators in all corners of the U.S. after COVID-19.

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ED Surge

APRIL 8, 2024

She got up early and stayed open late to accommodate people who worked 12-hour shifts and needed to drop kids off as early as 5 a.m. There was enough space — three units and one house — for four classrooms, and as soon as renovation was completed on the first room, she enrolled 12 more kids. The timeline for renovation grew longer.

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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. Being equipped as citizens goes beyond our ability to name the three branches of government or the history of political parties.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 12, 2024

And, emerging best practices in civics education include something called “ action civics ,” in which teachers in civics and government classes guide kids to take action locally on issues they choose. She became passionate about climate justice and the human impact on the environment, and ended up majoring in urban forestry.

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ED Surge

MARCH 31, 2023

All of these points are true, but they fall short of explaining why the arts truly belong in every student’s K-12 curriculum. The arts are core to education and core to life because the essence of being human is creativity, not productivity.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 24, 2018

That’s about $1,000 more than the national average per pupil spending in K-12 , as calculated by the National Center for Education Statistics. . Department of Health and Human Services deems “affordable.” In contrast, attendance at government-funded preschools is the norm in many countries.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Drafted by representatives of K-12 education, higher education, industry and state governments between 2011 and 2013, the standards call for schools to help students build on science knowledge from one year to the next and make connections across disciplines that have historically been approached as completely separate.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 8, 2024

Or students in a human behavior class applying what they’ve learned to encourage cafeteria visitors to waste less food. According to the nonprofit group Second Nature, only about 12 universities are carbon neutral. This is an edition of our climate change and education newsletter. Sign up here. It really comes down to capital.

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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. This is essential to access education”.

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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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ED Surge

MAY 2, 2024

More than 26 members of local and national media were on hand for the splashy announcement (a detail that Carvalho noted in his remarks), and the event also featured a human dressed in a costume of the shiny animated character of Ed, which has also long been a mascot of the school district, for attendees to take selfies with.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 29, 2018

K-12 public education costs about twice this on an hourly basis, in part because public school teachers typically make much more than early childhood center staff, the government doesn’t have the spending constraints of families, and the K-12 dollar figure includes spending on services for students with disabilities.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 25, 2018

On My Way Pre-K student Vivian Kimberlin, 5, plays during recess at Zion Lutheran School in Seymour, Indiana. In early spring 2017, a friend told him that Zion Lutheran School (where regular pre-K tuition is $6,410 per child annually) was accepting 4-year-olds through a state grant program that provides free tuition for low-income parents.

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ED Surge

MAY 3, 2024

Like many AI-related projects, the idea started as a way to cut the cost of hiring humans. Still, some educators and parents alike felt blindsided by the news about auto-grading essays for K-12 students. A quarter of the scores awarded will be reviewed by human scorers.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 16, 2017

Now, with the gold rush long over, the logging industry nearly collapsed and few good jobs left in the area, the local K-12 school graduates fewer than 35 students a year. And, due to the wording of the Idaho constitution, McFarlane and his team can’t even use any of the district’s state K-12 funding for the 4-year-olds they serve.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

The American Rescue Act is giving $ 123 billion to K-12 schools and districts. The federal government is seeking expansion of this support. Last year, over 40 percent of communication from schools to families on our platform concerned ways to access basic human services, like meals, the internet and social welfare benefits.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 4, 2020

Some members of the institution’s own governing board were surprised when they were confronted with these facts. In a system of shared governance, they’re also served by keeping the faculty content. Other spending, too, continued to go up. The university overspent its budget by millions of dollars in each of the last five years.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 17, 2019

Leave this field empty if you're human: Automation affects workers around the world — nearly half of the employers surveyed by the World Economic Forum last year expected automation would reduce their workforce by 2022. As machines become more important, we need to get better at being human. Develop human skills. Weekly Update.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 16, 2019

Not even the 100-degree weather deterred the three “parent ambassadors” from delivering their message to families: They should bring their young children to the Vivian Adams Early Childhood Center to have their development assessed and have them enrolled in pre-K. Half of its residents are out of work, and the city government is skeletal.

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ED Surge

JULY 28, 2022

Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), not from the tribes themselves. There are a handful of government offices—like the Bureau of Indian Affairs in the Interior Department and HHS—that would need to collaborate on the issue, Smith says. Not from the Census Bureau, not from the U.S. During her 16-year career in the U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 15, 2020

Play facilitates cognitive development, said James Coan, a psychology professor at the University of Virginia who studies the neuroscience of human connection. and Natalie Reid Dorn professor of human development at the University of California-Davis. For younger kids, in particular, missing out on play with peers could take a toll.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 10, 2017

The biggest takeaway for me,” said researcher Lindsay Weixler, “is the mismatch between decentralized school governance and an optional program like pre-k.”. In New Orleans, just 40 percent of students in a school’s pre-k stayed through third grade, when state testing begins, according to the study. Mississippi Learning.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 16, 2019

The historically majority-white district, which served 14,150 K-12 students, 61 percent of whom qualified for free or reduced-price lunch in the 2018-19 school year, has seen a recent influx of immigrants from around the world. There is no society, there is no human culture, without the arts.”. The arts are the arts.

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ED Surge

MAY 23, 2022

And though the struggles in early childhood education are largely systemic, it’s the individual, humanizing, heart-wrenching stories that are more likely to change public perception and, eventually, shift policy. Just as often, though, it’s not a K-12 school the educators are leaving for. This predicament is not rare.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 10, 2020

Through their foundation, the couple is paying some 600 college students to tutor K-6 children who were falling behind. The country will be spending the equivalent of roughly $440 million in “catch-up support” for public school students of all ages whose learning took a hit thanks to campus closures, according to a government press release.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 9, 2023

Email Address Choose from our newsletters Weekly Update Future of Learning Higher Education Early Childhood Proof Points Leave this field empty if you’re human: This type of care is especially common in low income communities, among families with limited English proficiency, in immigrant communities and for children with disabilities.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 25, 2018

Leave this field empty if you're human: “Very few countries are taking the bull by the horns when it comes to adapting education systems for the age of automation,” Saadia Zahidi, head of education, gender and employment for the World Economic Forum, said in the report. Those that are have long had a clear focus on human capital development.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 25, 2022

deBoer has taught in both the K-12 and college setting, and he has served as an academic assessment manager at a college. He traces that viewpoint back to the 1983 government report, “ A Nation at Risk ,” which he says coincided with a decline in manufacturing jobs in the U.S. And that's typically uncontroversial.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

More than a dozen states don’t have any language in their science standards about human-caused climate change, according to the National Center for Science Education. It’s more ambiguous as to the causes of climate change, and the human role in causing climate change, than some other states,” she says. They raise cattle.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2018

His father, who’d worked construction himself and was the head custodian at Askew’s small K–12 public school, pointed him in a different direction. Standardized testing has constrained teacher autonomy and creativity, and charter and private schools have competed more aggressively for government funds. Maybe teaching.”.

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