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JUNE 6, 2022

Children who shouldn’t be paddled are paddled anyway, usually when parent letters get lost, or because school officials don’t check their lists before doling out corporal punishment, a problem documented both inside and outside Covington County. Covington County Superintendent Babette Duty chalks those cases up to human error.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

But in other regions of the country, districts are grappling with a need for air conditioning that didn’t exist when school buildings were first constructed. Nationwide, an estimated 41 percent of districts need to update or replace HVAC systems in at least half of their schools, according to a 2020 report from the U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 2, 2016

It’s about improving education for all kids,” said school district Superintendent Lewis Holloway. John Jones asks a question to his students in AP Human Geography on August 18, 2016. Jones came to Starkville High in 2015 from East Oktibbeha County High School. And the Department of Justice bought into that.”. Hope and faith. “We

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 27, 2024

For generations, intelligence tests have played an outsize role in America, helping at times to control who can join the military and at what rank; who can enroll in the nation’s most elite private schools, and even who can be executed under federal law. In addition to systemic and policy changes, we also need a shift in mindset.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 11, 2019

Voicing the concerns of charter-school proponents after protesting at a Warren rally in Atlanta last month, parent-activist Sarah Carpenter pointed out during a meeting that followed the protest that Warren had sent one of her children to private school. Wise governments reward families who strive to propel their children.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 18, 2017

I recently heard a fellow from one of the Woodrow Wilson Foundation’s programs speak about her research on the impact of racial stigma and stereotypes on African Americans’ sense of agency, worth and humanity. Related: I got to choose private schools, but will vouchers really help other kids make it?

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Credit: Austin Anthony for The Hechinger Report Speaking comes naturally to most children, being a gift of human evolution, but reading and writing are inventions that must be consciously and painstakingly learned. Because human brains are organized in diverse ways, some people’s reading circuits end up being inefficient.

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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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ED Surge

DECEMBER 26, 2023

But I somehow missed that he published a new, different kind of book in 2021 — “ The Anthropocene Reviewed ,” a collection of personal, contemplative, funny and deeply human essays. The essays start off sardonically but become increasingly earnest and reflective. So Babb’s book wasn’t published until 2004.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 21, 2018

Restrictions on some designs, shorts, dyed hair and other asinine rules governing what students can wear give educators permission to harass, discriminate and pull students out of class when they slip up. Paired with harsh discipline, these rules set students up to miss valuable instruction time. Sign up for our newsletter. Weekly Update.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 17, 2018

In cities where many of the public schools almost exclusively serve African-American children, these disproportionally white charters are the only racially diverse schools. Related: How the federal government abandoned the Brown v. Jackson says a coalition of Reynolds allies took over the school board in 2005.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 25, 2018

It helped that Pence had support from the business community and from Democratic lawmakers, who got on board only after legislators removed a proposal that would have made the pre-K pilot in effect another entry point into the K-12 private school voucher system. Sign up for our newsletter. Choose as many as you like. Weekly Update.

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Teaching American History

DECEMBER 12, 2023

For secondary and post-secondary government and political science educators, we are proud to recommend our CDC volume, Religious Liberty: Core Court Cases. That means developing a skill that is hard to come by for many students of government and politics: namely, seeing that strong arguments exist on both sides of controversial issues.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2018

Standardized testing has constrained teacher autonomy and creativity, and charter and private schools have competed more aggressively for government funds. The strikes are thus partly about reclaiming a sense of professional pride and middle-class stature. She’ll miss the classroom, but will double her take-home pay.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 31, 2020

District administrators are committed, as is the school board, and even the county government has embarked on an equity mission for the broader community. Uriburu said this is the first time the Black and Latino communities have teamed up to advocate for better schools, and they are very clear about their right to make demands.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos believes the key to improving schools in the United States is simple: Let parents choose where to send their children. Giving parents choices beyond the school closest to home would open the door to innovation and put pressure on traditional schools to improve, these advocates argue.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 30, 2018

The entire system — the only public school system in America made up almost entirely of charter schools — had a wake-up call in 2010, when the Southern Poverty Law Center sued the Louisiana Department of Education over New Orleans charter schools’ treatment of students with disabilities. There aren’t other options,” he said.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

Over the years Plessy’s namesake school has managed to achieve more diversity than most in New Orleans, but is now struggling to retain upper middle class, white families, according to Ben McLeish, the president of Plessy’s governing board. New Orleans has always been a deeply divided school system.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2018

The schools too often operate like educational black holes, failing to help kids earn relevant credits. Students complain of being kept on campus when they could be attending neighborhood schools. And government oversight is lacking. The education department declined further interview requests.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 20, 2018

The Restart program relies on the premise that schools know what is best for their students and should be granted flexibility to make changes. The principles of the model are similar to those that govern charter schools. Leave this field empty if you're human: “We just feel our kids need to be with us more. Weekly Update.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

This story is the third of a three-part series that examines how other countries approach the idea of school choice. Read about school choice in New Zealand and Sweden. Parents are freed from financial constraints and can pick a school in which their child will thrive, leading to improved academic outcomes for all children.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 2, 2018

A central theme of both books is public school desegregation, a cause that Meredith risked his life to achieve in Mississippi. While doing this, I sent my son to intensely segregated New York City schools. They were private schools. Private school seemed the only option, and a hugely expensive one.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 7, 2019

Leave this field empty if you're human: Paula Howard teaches in a Republican stronghold in north Mississippi, along the Tennessee border. Related: After years of neglect, Mississippi takes baby steps to boost school readiness. Nathan Shrader, chair of the Department of Government and Politics at Millsaps College in Jackson.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 1, 2022

My coping mechanism to respond to some of the uncertainty in the larger system is appealing to government or quasi government agencies as well as personal physicians that can help me just know that I’m doing the right thing. Maranda Seawood, student support specialist at Washington Elementary School. I just don’t.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 19, 2019

Leave this field empty if you're human: Despite all his struggles emotionally, he remained on track academically. He marched in an elementary school graduation ceremony in June 2018, sporting a blue polyester robe while his mom and stepdad clapped and took pictures. Choose as many newsletters as you like. Weekly Update. Proof Points.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 17, 2025

Two days later, he announced that he was sending 500 Bibles to Advanced Placement government classes. Normans Pride organization participated, with its human angels wearing wings lit up in rainbow colors. In early December, the citys mix of liberal and conservative influences shone through the glitz during the parade.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

repeatedly asked DeVos if she believed that all schools that receive public money, including private schools, should meet the same accountability standards. This voucher system has led to a burgeoning industry of mostly for-profit, private schools, also called “free schools.” Tim Kaine, D-Va., Weekly Update.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 26, 2018

While we rubbernecked at the “zero tolerance” immigration policies that have undoubtedly caused trauma to children separated from their families, last week, the White House released a 132-page proposal to restructure the federal government. Government bureaucracies that grow over time can be anathema to innovation and efficiency.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Even though the majority of Americans are against most of what the GOP supports, this election is not just a choice between bigger government or smaller government or conservatism versus progressivism. On whether or not we’re going to restore fundamental human decency to our nation. Gutting of government ethics enforcement.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 9, 2025

His wife, Leslie Johnson-Simmons, said she saw her creative, smart and chatty daughter retreat into herself as she tried to learn to spell like other first graders in her class at a private school in Louisiana. Her parents say she has thrived at the school. She began to clam up, and that wasnt my child, Johnson-Simmons said.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 15, 2017

Perhaps the best example of a government-funded course rating system that is both independent of course providers and comprehensive is GoArmyEd , a service provided by the U.S. Soldiers receiving government tuition assistance fill out course ratings and these, aggregated by school, are posted on GoArmyEd’s online portal for student use.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

With coronavirus cases soaring and schools facing teacher and technology shortages, DeVos has spent the last few months urging public schools to open, under threat of losing federal money, while at the same time calling for immediate relief for private schools. It’s not that parents don’t want options.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

But she promised to work with Congress to do so acknowledging some limits on the presidents authority as Trump seeks to remake the government through executive orders. The federal government is barred by law from setting local curriculum, as Republican Sen. Fund education freedom, not government-run systems.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 12, 2024

Trump also supports efforts to privatize the K-12 school system, including through vouchers for private schools. He has also warned schools that, if reelected, he would cut or eliminate federal funding if teachers or school employees suggest “to a child that they could be trapped in the wrong body.”

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 12, 2024

Walz also required every state agency, including the department of education , to appoint tribal-state liaisons and formally consult with tribal governments. Walz spent part of his early career teaching in small rural schools, including on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota. —

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

Collectively, state and local governments spend far more on education than the federal government does. With federal dollars connected to many rules about how that money can be spent, however, the Education Department does play a significant role in how schools and colleges operate. We tried to explain all of that here.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

20, President Donald Trump has unleashed a flurry of orders and actions designed to reshape the federal governments role in education. At the same time, the Trump administration is attempting to redefine what the federal government considers discrimination in schools and on college campuses. Since taking office Jan.

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