The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 20, 2016

We live in a world where our library begins with G,” Wineburg said, for Google, and the Common Core’s push for evidence-based reasoning falls flat if students trust everything that pops up in their Google search results.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 15, 2017

Many working-class families in this manufacturing city across the Wabash River from Purdue University cannot afford to send their children to private pre-kindergarten, nor can they rely on government-funded programs — like Head Start and subsidized childcare — which serve a fraction of eligible children. Throughout the U.S.,

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K-12 Library Elementary School Government 82

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 4, 2020

Some members of the institution’s own governing board were surprised when they were confronted with these facts. That does not include athletic facilities, dorms, dining halls, libraries or labs. In a system of shared governance, they’re also served by keeping the faculty content. Other spending, too, continued to go up.

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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

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

So college has become more like the K-12 experience, where we are teaching them how to be adults in the world.”. Those are not necessarily skills that they’re learning in K-12 education.”. Those are not necessarily skills that they’re learning in K-12 education.”. That should not shock anyone.

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K-12 Political Science Tutoring Advocacy 136

ED Surge

MAY 2, 2024

Designers tried to borrow tropes from video games, and in the demo, Ed enthusiastically says, “Alberto, you met your goal today,” and points to even more resources he could go to, including links to “Read a book,” “Get tutoring,” or “Find a library near me.” James Wiley, a vice president at the education market research firm ListEdTech.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2019

Half a million people have left Puerto Rico in the last decade, first after the government cut services in a scramble to try and pay back its $123 billion in debt and then in response to the catastrophe of Hurricane Maria. Compared to 2010, nearly 250,000 fewer children attend K-12 public schools in Puerto Rico today, a decline of 45 percent.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 16, 2019

In addition to employing qualified elementary, middle and high school music teachers, David Douglas offers inexpensive instrument rentals ($25 per year), a library of musical scores, connections to reduced-price or free private lessons and a closet of free marching band uniforms and orchestra dress blacks, among other necessities.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 6, 2020

Part of Altus Schools, a network of K-12 alternative charter schools in Southern California, it even won recognition from the federal government for its operation. The Charter School of San Diego is one of the schools using that program, yet its educational model has drawn praise.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 11, 2018

In total, the homework gap hits some 12 million school-aged kids nationwide, according to a 2017 congressional report, “ America’s Digital Divide.”. Over three decades, the government gave away more than 2,000 spectrum licenses to school districts and education nonprofits, primarily in urban areas.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2022

After schools went remote in 2020, Jessica Ramos spent hours that spring and summer sitting on a bench in front of her local Oakland Public Library branch in the vibrant and diverse Dimond District. OAKLAND, Calif. Credit: Javeria Salman/ The Hechinger Report. “We Oakland’s partnership, known as #OaklandUndivided , launched in May 2020.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 21, 2017

They stayed at the library working until closing time because they didn’t have laptops. Moises has his own laptop, bought for him by the nonprofit that helped him apply to college, but he was also at the library till they kicked him out most nights. I never thought I’d be in a library for two hours every day.”.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

The local McDonalds advertises $13 an hour — $12 at the Piggly Wiggly. But at the state and federal level, child care has been treated like a political afterthought, cast aside as a nice-to-have in a country that has long viewed child care as a “family problem,” not a government one. In Wisconsin, monthly payments were cut in half.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 18, 2019

Some rural districts have started building their own broadband networks, and many others had hoped to follow their lead using a chunk of bandwidth long ago set aside by the federal government for educational purposes. Few would argue that EBS worked as intended. This is not a field of dreams scenario.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 25, 2017

The public library but it has a 30-minute computer use limit and, as a young woman, you don’t feel comfortable there late at night. “Although 70 percent of America’s teachers assign homework to be completed online, more than five million families with school-age children do not have internet connectivity at home.” Weekly Update.

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Zinn Education Project

JUNE 6, 2024

These past few months I have been working with educators whose Rainbow Library books have been seized by administrators. These same funders of over a hundred partners are behind Project 2025, a 900-page, conservative extremist mandate to roll back civil rights at all levels of Federal government. Why should we all be alarmed?

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Teaching Social Justice Library Heritage 86

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

By 2016, almost 70 percent of Edmondson’s students received a free or reduced-price lunch and came from low-income families; the school was eligible to receive Title 1 funds from the federal government. The six-week session, conducted in Spanish, her primary language, was held at the Loveland Public Library.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 12, 2017

Still in its early stages, this ambitious project relies on a little-known public resource — a slice of electromagnetic spectrum the federal government long ago set aside for schools — called the Educational Broadband Service (EBS). Josh Walton, principal, Walton Middle School, in sAlbemarle County, Virginia. It just wouldn’t be fair.”.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 11, 2018

Across the United States, it’s become increasingly rare for schools to serve K-12 students under one roof. The Vermont state government has prodded school districts to merge. The Vermont state government made the case for Act 46 based on two main rationales: saving money and improving educational quality. Rural ones.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 18, 2022

Although the federal government sent a massive influx of money to help schools troubleshoot , it left districts to grapple with how best to use the funds. The experts told them they should “get to the heart of the science of reading,” said Kimberly Davis, principal of the pre-K to grade 8 school.

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Elementary School K-12 Economics Tutoring 124

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

Student protesters from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Florida demand government action on firearms. No one is confused about why we have public fire departments or libraries: We all understand their mission for the public good. Photo: Mike Stocker/TNS via ZUMA Wire. How are we doing in that department? Not so well.

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Steven V. Miller

JANUARY 12, 2022

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

Students line up with their books for library in a kindergarten class in Maine. government also acknowledges. Related: How the federal government abandoned Brown v. This school’s demographic make-up has changed dramatically in the past decade, over 70 percent of its students are English Language Learners.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 16, 2017

Students study for classes at a government school on the edge of the Thar Desert. About 65 percent of India’s students attend similar government schools, many with dismal outcomes. Photo: Kim Palmer for The Hechinger Report. Your kids will have a better life if they are educated. Photo: Kim Palmer for The Hechinger Report. With over 1.3

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Heritage Government Economics High School 85

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 17, 2018

A student walks past the Bender Library on the American University campus in Washington, D.C. Leave this field empty if you're human: Among those standards is the one that governs who provides these classes. Choose as many as you like. Weekly Update. Future of Learning. Higher Education. Mississippi Learning.

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Tutoring High School Archiving K-12 97

Digital Promise

OCTOBER 12, 2016

Rhode Island also emphasized the importance of involving state government in their efforts (the Rhode Island Office of Innovation, led by former Office of Educational Technology Director Richard Culatta, has been a key partner in EduvateRI). Check out a short video highlighting some of their work here.). edclusters16.

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K-12 Government EdTech Economics 79

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 29, 2019

But after a year, Woods realized that his college experience just wasn’t the same as that of his classmates who made friends in the dorms, hung out in the dining halls and stayed late into the night at the libraries. He’s active in student government and his fraternity. He decided to take out even more money to join them.

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K-12 High School Civics Government 76

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2016

Lillian Agard looks on as her 3-year-old granddaughter Siena paints and colors at the art table during free choice at the Y’s pop-up preschool in the Hillview library in East San Jose. Just an hour earlier, this room in the Hillview neighborhood library of East San Jose, California, was completely empty. Photo: Kathryn Baron.

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Library Museum Lesson Plan Government 75

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 22, 2018

PORTLAND, Maine — On a recent fall morning in the library of King Middle School here, four seventh-grade girls interviewed an immigrant from Peru named Luis Millones, now a Spanish professor at Colby College. A Crew of seventh graders at King Middle School in Portland, Maine, plays a conflict-resolution game called “Is This Seat Taken?”

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Middle School Library Elementary School Tradition 111

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 21, 2017

It is also a time for teachers and students to examine the school curriculum and library. For example, third graders in San Marcos, California assessed their own school library and took steps to ensure it was more representative. Are children of color represented in all aspects of life in the U.S., history standards ?

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History Elementary School Library Civics 75

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

Leave this field empty if you're human: Sitting on the floor of their library, the dozens of students dressed in red and navy blue were an eager audience. The New Zealand government explicitly warns families against picking schools based on only national standard results. Choose as many as you like. Weekly Update. Future of Learning.

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Charter School Leadership Library Private School 97

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 11, 2016

They’ll share in $100 million from foundations and the government for mentoring programs that now reach nearly 10,000 students in 30 communities. But when the new building opened in 2015, the school district didn’t have enough money for her to order new library books. They need a lot more, she said.

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Middle School High School Government Advocacy 76

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

Funded by a $15 million state grant awarded to the Ohio Appalachian Collaborative and shared among its member districts, Meadowbrook decided to convert their seldom-used library into Colt College, a facility built for its dual-enrollment program. Today, the school counts 11 teachers on staff who are certified to teach college classes.

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High School Social Studies Leadership Political Science 98

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 28, 2017

The reading room of the Library of Congress in Washington D.C. Foundations, the federal government and universities have invested hundreds of millions of dollars in doing research on almost everything in the field of education. Photo: The Washington Times/ZUMAPRESS.com.

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Research Education Library Professional Development 58

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 3, 2016

She points out, however, that they do get a period of music, art, physical education or library time every day. The state and federal government has to give us the resources that we need.”. Namely, she is looking to give her kids a recess period, which has also been linked to higher achievement. But that’s easier said than done.

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Elementary School Charter School Tradition Education Policy 79

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

student at the University of Chicago and one of the authors of a study released earlier this year on the privacy and security challenges facing K-12 education. Related: ‘Don’t rush to spend on edtech’ The federal government is starting to step in.

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K-12 Library EdTech Government 135

ED Surge

MAY 1, 2024

When pueblos in New Mexico looked into running fiber into Jemez Day School, a K-6 school run by the Bureau of Indian Education, they were launching a complicated process. During the pandemic, students at Pine Ridge’s 23 K-12 schools relied on hot spots. Early on, the U.S. Early on, the U.S. Merrill felt she had to move fast.

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K-12 Government Library Public School 119