Marginal Revolution

JANUARY 19, 2024

A highly effective and harrowing tale of a lifetime journey from abuse to Christianity: “Carrie attended 17 public schools and homeschool, all while performing classical music on the streets and passing out fire-and-insurance religious pamphlets — at times while child custody workers loomed.” Population is 2.3

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

In some places, this now includes reshaping what “back-to-school” means, as districts attempt to schedule the academic year around extreme heat. 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. Government Accountability Office.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Reopening in School Buildings Hurricane Helene destroyed Burke County’s two largest child care centers, displacing about 250 children from their learning environments and impeding parents from working. These $25,000 grants are being awarded on a rolling basis and should be for “frontline human service needs,” according to the CFWNC website.

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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. public school teachers with a similar education.

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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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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. Victoria was in my U.S.

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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. A quarter of the scores awarded will be reviewed by human scorers. About 20 percent of Texas public school students are English learners, according to federal data, although not all of them are yet old enough to sit for the standardized test.

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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. I've always been in public schools, and I’ve had ups and downs. history, European history, human geography, AP government.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 11, 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: Anna Maria Jack says she isn’t flustered when students bring up fringe science denial theories during her 10th grade Earth science class in the Bronx.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 2, 2024

How do we remove that fear out of AI — the sense that it will replace humans?” In her experience, young Latinos like her 14-year-old son are excited about AI and want opportunities to use it in school. When we hear the word AI, most of us fear it,” Elvir-Ray said. That enthusiasm should be tapped. “I

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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. Despite the victory, Lester was never taught to read, according to the KQED update.

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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

SEPTEMBER 15, 2024

We have schools that are feeding America’s kids, schools are providing child care, they are agents of socialization. It’s really the place where most people in this country interact with government on a day-to-day basis. And I think when it comes to stopping the climate crisis, that’s the ultimate superpower of our schools.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 26, 2022

Unlike the other subs — many of them parent volunteers or people looking for a little extra work — he’s a full-time, salaried employee with health benefits and a long-term contract with Everett Public Schools , north of Seattle. Nearly half of teacher absences went unfilled in the school district last fall.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 24, 2022

It’s a digital world where internet users retain ownership of their online activities—their intellectual property, or IP—which are tracked by blockchains, which help everyone make money without having to rely on governments, institutions or corporations. At least, in theory. That’s not a new ideology within education.

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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. Singapore has launched a series of Finnish-style school reforms. The point, he said, is “the human values and the human principles that one learns in childhood. Photo: William Doyle. education?

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ED Surge

AUGUST 8, 2023

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. And the people who need schooling the most to make social mobility possible still get shafted, essentially.”

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Pedagogy and Formation

APRIL 30, 2024

Foundations for Change in Secular Education While this blog has focused largely on pedagogy in faith-based schools, I've been reminded recently that secular schools face similar challenges with students, and also in relation to teacher development, I think there is more common ground than we might imagine.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 10, 2018

House of Representatives to fund the federal government through September 2018. Related: Can putting the least-experienced teachers in the highest-risk schools ever result in success? We also will invest in producing great school leaders who can support teachers and meet the unique needs of all children. Weekly Update.

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Pedagogy and Formation

OCTOBER 11, 2024

The greatest spiritual influence on our students’ should be parents, youth leaders, School Chaplains and so on. Even in public schools at a time I was not even a Christian, I had to deal with student imaginations being captured through the stories and practices of life. We’re taught and even lured, by visions of the ‘good life’.

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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. school leaders said they’ve been taking for the past few years as they started their own efforts to rethink the city’s schools. Public Schools. In 2018, D.C.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 15, 2019

Leave this field empty if you're human: Charter schools serve just 6 percent of the nation’s public school students, but they have prompted bitter debates about educational priorities – and fair competition – particularly in cities that have a lot of them. Massachusetts now has 41 innovation schools.

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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. public schools practice some sort of lockdown drill according to the National Center for Education Statistics.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

The reasons include a federal law so little-known that people charged with implementing it often fail to follow the rules; nearly non-existent enforcement of the law by federal and state governments; and funding so meager that districts have little incentive to survey whether students have stable housing. In 36 states and Washington, D.C.,

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 29, 2018

2 or later, their child would be the oldest in his class when starting public school (a very good thing from their perspective). Department of Health and Human Services defines ‘affordable’ child care as consuming no more than 10 percent of a family’s income.” If they chose Sept.

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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

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. It has to be a collaborative effort,” says Mark Racine, chief information officer for Boston Public Schools. “I This is essential to access education”.

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 25, 2020

Connecting for Good secured donations of devices and hotspots from local businesses and government agencies, and distributed to families with students. The Kansas City Public Library system made open-access WiFi available 24 hours a day in the parking lots of all branch locations.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Meanwhile, they were more likely to enroll in courses in hospitality and, in the case of Black students in particular, human services. The analysis offers a comprehensive look at data that states will be required to report to the federal government at the end of this year under the Carl D. Perkins Act.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 19, 2021

As humans continue to unleash greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, fires, hurricanes, floods, droughts and heat waves are intensifying, in some cases forcing kids to flee their homes and classrooms and shattering their sense of security. Tay Anderson, a board member and secretary for Denver Public Schools. Climate resilience.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2016

No amount of mentoring can repair the damage done to black youth in Flint, Michigan who’ve been drinking lead-poisoned water because of malign government neglect. Districts in the South accounted for 50 percent of black student expulsions from public schools in the United States. Systems need fixing; students need support.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 27, 2018

While a majority of the nation’s public school students are students of color, fewer than 20 percent of our nation’s teachers are teachers of color — and only two percent are African-American men. Related: When the future of learning prompts uncomfortable discussions. Sign up for our newsletter. Choose as many as you like.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 11, 2019

Leave this field empty if you're human: Delgado Community College in New Orleans, Louisiana, began construction on a new campus in the city’s West Bank community of Federal City in May. billion went toward the rebuilding of New Orleans schools specifically. Sign up for our newsletter. Choose as many newsletters as you like.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 1, 2018

Leave this field empty if you're human: Unlike programs at other colleges and universities, the curriculum focuses on major Western philosophical thinkers and writers via a “great books” program that Montás , who directs Columbia’s Center for the Core Curriculum, considers critical to students’ intellectual development. Weekly Update.

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Digital Promise

JUNE 30, 2020

American Job Center (via Mid Cumberland Human Resource Agency). Metro Nashville Public Schools English Language Office. Strategies for education providers, government agencies, employers, funders, and other stakeholders. Nashville Adult Literacy Council. YWCA of Nashville. Service Delivery Partners. Begin Anew.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

There was some concern that school districts could mistakenly be reclassified as 100 percent low income overnight. New York City, for example, began offering its 1 million public school students free breakfast and lunch in 2017. Some school buildings don’t have many poor kids in them. Choose as many as you like.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 21, 2019

According to the government’s report, education spending rose for the third straight year in 2015-16 to $11,841 per student in kindergarten through 12th grades. Leave this field empty if you're human: These national numbers are just averages. While many states increased financing for schools, others did not. Proof Points.

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