A Principal's Reflections

FEBRUARY 26, 2012

We need to have our students play and exercise more and take advantage of more authentic learning experiences and get them out of INDUSTRIAL age K-12 assembly line classrooms. What is the federal government doing to help us get the students where they need to be? Reauthorizing ESEA? It isn’t enough.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

The SSDS gathers information about school system capabilities and infrastructure for leveraging education data in six domains: governance, leadership and vision, technology and infrastructure landscape, implementation fidelity, procurement and impact on educational environment.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

While staff absences are rarely seamless in any setting, in K-12 schools, there is at least a system designed to support such occurrences. But the question is not just about creating a pool of substitute teachers the way K-12 school districts do, she adds. It is a scramble, he says, and its a painful one.

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Sapiens

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

They wrote about Abena—and Akaina, a young girl in Eastern Africa living 3,000 years from today—to help teach K–12 students about possibilities for a sustainable future. This world and character , inspired by the Afrofuturism movement , was dreamed up by archaeologists Amanda Logan and Katherine Grillo.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 6, 2025

Our free weekly newsletter consults critical voices on innovation in K-12 education. Reading Recovery was criticized for not providing enough explicit instruction in decoding words; New Zealand is set to end government funding of the program.) Who or what do you trust now? Related: Widen your perspective. We all want to fix it.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 25, 2024

Nearly 1,400 public K-12 schools from across the country responded to the survey. NCES Commissioner Peggy Carr said in a news release that while the percentage of schools saying it was difficult to fill positions decreased — down 5 percentage points from 79 percent last year — “there’s still room for improvement.”

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ED Surge

APRIL 19, 2023

By investing strategically in areas of greatest need, K-12 schools can make the most of COVID relief funds and support student success for years to come. By implementing these strategies, procurement officers can play a vital role in building a stronger education system for all. Get started today.

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ED Surge

JULY 19, 2024

That’s particularly the case in K-12 classes, where teaching materials may be hard to parse, according to the preprint of a research article that argues that many of these students have to figure out how to access basic documents on their own, outside of school. While not new, the obligations in the rule have become pressing.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

And we've done it in a way that is consistent with the voucher program that [Republicans] love in the K-12 system. State match to local investments A partnership between local and state governments with revenue from sin taxes like those on gambling is expanding access to child care for those who need the most help.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

It felt like the right time for the federal government to have an explicit focus on this — and one that is cross cutting,” Hamm tells EdSurge. They leave for K-12 or other educational systems that will pay them a fair wage and provide benefits.” government. She adds: “This has been a longstanding problem.

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TCI

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Responding to these concerns, the federal government increased funding for K-12 civics and history education funding from $7.75 Put more emphasis on writing, argumentation, problem analysis, and making connections between core content and current events. million to $23 million as grants available to states.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 23, 2025

Recent federal data on school enrollment adds more detail to the picture we have about falling numbers of students in the nations public K-12 classrooms. Most of the countrys 100 largest districts by enrollment have seen declines since the 2019-20 school year.

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ED Surge

APRIL 10, 2024

Education has had a wobbly relationship with the still-evolving presence of generative AI in schools — with some school districts banning it only to reverse course. It can save teachers time by automating tasks , while also causing headaches as an accomplice to cheating students.

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ED Surge

MAY 8, 2025

Colorado rolled out its free, universal pre-K program in the fall of 2023. Something is going wrong and there is a concern that its a cousin of the attendance problem that has kept students out of K-12 classrooms. And quality in pre-K programs across the nation remains uneven.

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ED Surge

MAY 9, 2025

Most education experts agree that to make dual enrollment work, K-12 schools, higher education institutions and state governments must work together to improve access to the courses and ensure that all students can take advantage of them.

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Studies Weekly

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Lesson 12: Election and Electoral College (Grades K-3) Oct. 12, 2020 • Studies Weekly Background Knowledge for Teachers: In the beginning of the United States, the Founding Fathers didn’t want a direct election for the new president and vice president. At the time, many people lived in distant rural areas.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

In June, the city of Memphis, Tennessee, lost funding for 1,000 pre-K slots due to an expiring federal grant. Under pressure to invest in education, Mayor Jim Strickland announced the city would commit $6 million toward pre-K funding, though that amount would not completely offset the lost federal funds.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 8, 2020

Sadly, though, the reality is that millions of Americans — in rural and urban areas alike, and including many underrepresented minorities — lack the reliable broadband connections needed to access postsecondary and K-12 education in a nation that remains in partial lockdown. Schools get creative.

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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 21, 2021

We already have good evidence that school and college rankings can distort normal educational processes , reinforcing social hierarchies that govern who enrolls in a school , how those students are treated and what happens to them thereafter. The trouble is, it doesn’t work.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

million students don’t have reliable internet connectivity in their homes, according to Digital Bridge K-12, an initiative from EducationSuperHighway, a nonprofit. “So, the majority of their kids — almost a hundred students —missed out on this opportunity to engage with their teachers, because they simply didn’t have the tools.”.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 13, 2023

The three countries share more than a common language: For several decades, their governments forcibly removed Indigenous children from their families and relocated them to distant boarding schools. This is the one area left in the federal government, unfortunately, that is very much bipartisan,” she said of Native American issues.

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ED Surge

MAY 1, 2024

That’s why it’s so important to bring everyone together, including educators from both K-12 and higher education, edtech suppliers, non-profits and government organizations, to ensure the solutions we build benefit all.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Four-year-old children who attended public pre-K in Tulsa, Oklahoma, in 2005-06 were far more likely to go to college within a couple years of graduating high school than children who did not attend, according to a 15-year study of 4,000 students. The advent of universal preschool for all children is more recent. It is a path,” said Gormley.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 14, 2024

Wages for early childhood workers already lag far behind those of their K-8 colleagues who have similar credentials. There is one bright note: State and local governments are offering models of innovation and glimmers of hope in the face of such a dire challenge. times higher than other teachers. Washington, D.C.,

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

Pre-K students play a game with teaching assistant Johnni Hoene during recess at Zion Lutheran School in Seymour, Indiana. The report looked at quality measures and access to pre-K to determine how cities stack up and then awarded bronze, silver and gold medals based on these factors. Pre-K “should be absolutely universal.

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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.

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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

APRIL 22, 2024

To address such students’ needs, community colleges typically enroll them in noncredit, remedial or developmental classes so that they can gain and demonstrate proficiency in areas they didn’t master in K-12. At the same time, community colleges are struggling to meet the growing mental health needs of today’s students.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

Some teacher educators have pushed back at me on this point, asserting that it is the job of the K-12 system to have provided this basic knowledge. These efforts are scattershot, however, and a great approach to providing specialized science knowledge rarely crosses over into something similar for history or government.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 28, 2024

Zoom was even free for K-12 schools for a time. Under pressure from the end of federal relief money and declining student enrollment, some K-12 school districts now have to make tech cuts. At the end of September, federal relief dollars for K-12 schools are scheduled to sunset , though the U.S. The result?

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 1, 2021

More than half of our school districts have multiple failing building systems, according to a recent government report. The K-12 Climate Action commission co-chaired by former Secretary of Education John B. With 480,000 school buses, mostly diesel, public schools operate the largest mass transit fleet in the country.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

No school governance model is predominant. It’s also clear that the laws governing school improvement must be revisited and strengthened. Charles Barone is Education Reform Now’s vice president of K-12 policy, and Rianna Saslow is Education Reform Now’s senior policy analyst, K-12.

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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. Credit: Sharon Chischilly for The Hechinger Report.

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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 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

JANUARY 24, 2023

As advocates for music and arts education, we see an opportunity to continue to hold school and government leaders accountable, and to lock in investment in music and the arts as we build healthy, resilient communities. Prop 28 also provides extra funding to schools in historically under-resourced communities.

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