ED Surge

DECEMBER 20, 2023

School policies that racialize traditional Black hairstyles as unkempt and unprofessional have placed targets on Black students that not only impact their self-esteem but also their ability to engage with their academic studies. From the time I was a child, social norms governed my hair. The issue is not Black hair.

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K-12 Cultures Government Tradition 96

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 16, 2019

It was clear to me that, in most cases, if your school was just a traditional neighborhood school, located in a poor neighborhood and/or not classified as a focused school for high-performing students, funding and educational opportunities were scarce.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 18, 2019

These Native American children are learning to play double ball , a traditional indigenous game, or at least that seems to be the focus of their activity. In general, Native students in K-12 public schools in the United States experience higher-than-average rates of suspension, expulsion and school-related arrests.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2021

Instead of waiting for the federal government to address the student debt crisis or better hold schools accountable for tuition rates, let’s turn to the industry itself to tackle these challenges. One of my favorite mantras is: Those closest to the problem are closest to the solution.

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K-12 Government Research Tradition 104

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 6, 2020

He likes the self-paced curriculum that allows students to complete a course in significantly less time than at a traditional school. 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.

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ED Surge

MAY 23, 2022

Just as often, though, it’s not a K-12 school the educators are leaving for. The announcement led to a “lengthy and transparent national search” for Rhian Evans Allvin’s successor, says Ann McClain Terrell, NAEYC’s governing board president. This predicament is not rare.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 25, 2017

ExCEED Network Schools Charter Management Organization, a new group led by principals and Orleans Parish school district staff, has withdrawn its applications to convert New Orleans’ last five traditional schools to charters. They must answer to government bodies for academic, financial and organizational performance.

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Tradition Charter School Government Elementary School 40

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. We risk missing an opportunity if we simply spend the money in the same traditional ways. We now have the potential to make a once-in-a-generation investment in our schools.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Some school districts, local governments and nonprofit groups across the country have galvanized this youth activism by giving students opportunities to participate in leadership roles and democracy in ways that go beyond civics classes and student government. Things … the government does affect us, but we can’t vote,” she said.

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Civics Civic Engagement High School Government 140

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 18, 2021

After 18 years of running her business out of a small, 10-foot by 12-foot room off the back of her house, she used federal funds to double the size of the classroom and add a bathroom. Cisneros has run a child care program out of her home by herself for 12 years. You watch this and I’m thinking, this is a no brainer,” Renner said.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 9, 2023

They amble down to a basement classroom that mimics a traditional school or center-based program, with multiple teachers for the dozen children, a structured routine and thoughtfully designed activity centers, each of which includes a poster for caregivers with instructions and tips to encourage exploration and learning.

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Digital Promise

NOVEMBER 12, 2014

This blog post is part of a series that highlight different stakeholders' perspectives on purchasing practices for K-12 personalized learning tools. When I think about how the adoption and acquisition of technology is changing in K-12 education, it brings to mind the well-known Sydney Harris cartoon.

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K-12 Pedagogy Library Professional Development 76

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 29, 2018

She read an article about the Brooklyn high school and learned that students there spend six years instead of the traditional four but they graduate with an associate degree along with their high school diploma – all for free. With federal funding, it encourages partnerships across K-12, higher ed and business sectors.

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K-12 Tradition High School Government 60

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.

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Charter School Research K-12 Education 62

ED Surge

APRIL 10, 2023

Among the biggest barriers to making after-school programming more robust and widespread are insufficient government funding, staffing shortages, and in some areas, a lack of transportation. Eighty-seven percent of parents surveyed also support public funding for these programs.

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Tutoring K-12 Charter School Leadership 107

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. The average GPA for 10 th through 12 th graders who participate in music here is 3.35.

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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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K-12 Middle School Tutoring Cultures 79

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 5, 2018

In a number of states, including Louisiana, adult education — which ranges from basic literacy to vocational training to high-school equivalency testing — is lumped with technical and community colleges, separate from the K-12 system. The goal with the first two groups was to help them earn a traditional diploma, if possible.

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High School K-12 Tutoring Elementary School 54

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. There was nothing like this.

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Charter School Heritage K-12 Education 115

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 15, 2019

Charter schools are given broad flexibilities from rules and regulations governing traditional public schools, such as how they spend their budgets or decide who to hire. Still, when charter schools see promising academic gains, educators in traditional public schools tend to cry foul. 1 to wait an entire year to start school.

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Charter School Tradition Public School Government 78

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 9, 2016

In 1978, just a few years before Helgeson’s birth, the American Indian Religious Freedom Act became law, finally affirming the right of country’s indigenous people to access sacred sites, worship in traditional ceremonies and use materials they consider sacred artifacts, like eagle bones, that are restricted to non-Indians.

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K-12 Cultures High School Psychology 62

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 27, 2018

They created multicolored posters to explain what different departments of local government do, from sanitation to human resources. “This study shows that a well-designed project-based curriculum might be more effective than traditional instruction.” Jackie Mader/The Hechinger Report.

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Project-Based Learning Historic Sites Civics Social Studies 111

The Hechinger Report

JULY 31, 2021

billion in federal K-12 aid. Summer Rising, run as a partnership among the Department of Education, the Department of Youth & Community Development and local community-based organizations, is attempting to replace traditional summer school this year — and perhaps permanently. South Carolina has received a total of about $3.3

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Elementary School K-12 Middle School High School 111

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 10, 2018

“Charter schools can do more with less” is a common refrain of school choice advocates, who criticize traditional public schools for wasting money. There is not a superintendent or school leader in either charter or traditional schools who shouldn’t want $48,000 added back to the value of homes in majority black school districts and cities.

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Charter School Primary Sources Social Justice Museum 96

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 29, 2020

They work with two students at a time in a special class that follows a Saga Education curriculum tailored to the needs of each student and aligned with their school’s curriculum for their traditional math class. The study assigned 2,718 boys in ninth and 10th grade across 12 schools either to get the tutoring or not.

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Tutoring Research Education Policy Government 139

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 8, 2018

High school graduation rates have soared in recent years, hitting a new record of 84 percent for 2015-16 in the most recent federal government count, but there are still millions of Americans who didn’t get a diploma in high school. Map created by Jill Barshay/Hechinger Report.

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High School Government Economics Tradition 98

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 23, 2016

1 is guaranteed 15 hours a week of free child-care or preschool for 38 weeks a year, or 570 hours total, paid for by the national government. “We Apparently, so do most parents, 94 percent of whom take the government up on its offer of free education starting at age 3, according to government data. Like the U.S.,

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Government Economics K-12 Elementary School 62

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 5, 2019

The federal government and the Department of Education need to start taking their responsibility for prohibiting discrimination seriously and crack down on schools that punish black people for their hair and hair styles. Durags are used to create the wave hairstyle. Related: Denver teachers are next to take to the picket line.

Charter School 103

Charter School Human Rights Government High School 103

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 22, 2018

Only 53 percent of women in their twenties who first became mothers when they were teenagers completed a traditional high school degree, according to a January 2018 report released by the nonprofit research organization Child Trends. By contrast, 90 percent of women who did not give birth as teens obtained a traditional high school diploma.

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Tradition High School Government Humanities 68

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 26, 2019

In her decades at the traditional high school, she saw her students becoming increasingly aimless and disengaged. As part of the program, the freshmen engage in intensive community-building exercises, including tending to animals, learning to rock climb, running a restaurant — and coaching each other as they run for student government.

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Project-Based Learning Lesson Plan High School Tradition 91

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 Tradition 64

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

Since 2012, when the government exhorted more écoles maternelles to open their doors to 2-year-olds, the rate of participation in France’s “priority education networks”—networks of schools that serve heavily low-income, immigrant communities that are targeted for extra social support—has steadily risen.

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Teaching Education Government Tradition 66

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Leslie Muldoon, executive director of the National Assessment Governing Board, which jointly oversees the the test along with NCES, called the bleak score report “frustrating and difficult to understand” because of all the efforts to improve education. Related: National test scores reveal a decade of educational stagnation.

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Education Charter School Government Tradition 78

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.).

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K-12 Government EdTech Economics 67

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 17, 2018

The principal reason their institutions are pushing dual-credit programs, administrators said in a survey , is that, with traditional enrollments plummeting , it gets high school students on the hook and helps recruit them. Leave this field empty if you're human: Among those standards is the one that governs who provides these classes.

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Tutoring Archiving High School K-12 85

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

Many schools rely on counting noses at traditional Back-to-School nights or parent-teacher conferences to gauge whether parents are engaged in their children’s learning. nitially, Malik relied on traditional meetings to get parent feedback. Photo: Caralee Adams for The Hechinger Report. One that centered on listening.

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Research Library Community Engagement Tradition 145

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

“I’m not recruiting right now,” proclaimed Densen — founder of Bricolage Academy, a charter school that currently serves kindergarten through third grade, but will eventually be a K-12 school. “I I believe Bricolage is a school for all kids, but not all adults.”.

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Charter School Pedagogy K-12 Public School 57