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

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Related: To fight teacher shortages, some states are looking to community colleges to train a new generation of educators The traditional perception of teachers as the sole arbiters of knowledge, dispensed within school buildings from 8 a.m. for 10 months a year, needs to be expanded. We cannot wait.

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Tutoring Education K-12 Museum 117

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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Cultures Education K-12 Government 100

ED Surge

DECEMBER 11, 2023

The current K-12 education system often minimizes identities and creates a homogeneous group of learners with identical needs and desires. Youth leadership groups such as student councils and student governments can serve in a decision-making capacity beyond basic school culture domains.

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K-12 Education Policy Leadership Economics 107

ED Surge

MAY 20, 2024

Mysa’s tuition costs parents who don’t receive aid around $20,000 a year, comparable to what it costs the government to educate a student in a public school. The idea is that having smaller school sizes enables students to develop much deeper relationships at school, says Siri Fiske, founder of Mysa School.

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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 143

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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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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Charter School K-12 Tradition High School 98

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2019

The reforms have required school districts and other local government agencies to contribute more of their budgets toward paying down the pension debt, while also obligating workers to make financial sacrifices and cutting benefits for current retirees.

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K-12 Elementary School Economics Tradition 102

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

– China’s state-controlled news broadcasters have long been considered somewhat robotic in their daily recitation of pro-government propaganda, and a pair of new presenters will do little to dispel that view. Photo: NICOLAS ASFOURI/AFP/Getty Images.

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Humanities K-12 Civics Professional Development 103

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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K-12 Elementary School Government Research 145

Anthropology News

OCTOBER 7, 2024

SEE Learning is a K-12 curriculum developed through a collaboration between Emory University and His Holiness the Dalai Lama, the spiritual leader of the Tibetan people. The translocal nature of Tibetan diasporic kinship bonds has a history that extends beyond current transnational migrations.

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Heritage Anthropology Education K-12 98

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 27, 2016

The most dramatic place to see this is in kindergarten through grade 12, where Hispanics make up nearly a quarter of enrollment nationwide, up from 16 percent in 2000. Related: Government data single out schools where low-income students fare worst. Sign up for our Higher Education newsletter.

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K-12 Advocacy Government Leadership 104

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Most early college high schools are small public schools, housing grades nine to 12 just like traditional public high schools, though some extend five years. Most of these early college schools are now funded by local and state taxpayers, just as traditional high schools are, along with donations from other foundations.

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High School Research Tradition Tutoring 145

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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K-12 Middle School Government Educational Technology 88

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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K-12 Advocacy Leadership Professional Development 103

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 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 High School Tradition Government 71

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 68

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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K-12 Cultures Interactive Learning Humanities 140

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 89

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 143

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 18, 2016

Match’s charter network, governed by a board of trustees, spans four campuses from pre-K through high school. Related: Government data single out schools where low-income students fare worst. I was a little loose, I talked a lot in class and my tutor called home and told my mom: ‘Michaela got 12 demerits in a day.’

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Tutoring Charter School High School K-12 110

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 Civics Historic Sites Social Studies 111

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 93

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 104

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 103

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

Ever since enslaved blacks arrived on the shores of the English colony of Virginia in 1619 , white legislators at various levels of government have designed laws to explicitly control and suppress black people.

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Charter School Middle School Government High School 145

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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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 68

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 89

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

Brown spent years pushing schools to follow the law, after giving up her job doing administrative support work for a government relations firm. White students with special needs are far more likely to graduate with a traditional diploma than are their black and brown peers. But those racial gaps are much wider in some states.

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Tutoring Tradition Middle School High School 102

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.

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Charter School Human Rights Government High School 106

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

Studies Weekly

APRIL 29, 2024

We hope students of Asian or Pacific Islander heritage share their experiences and their cultural traditions with their peers, and teachers include the contributions of Asian and Pacific Americans to our collective history in lessons this month. They helped shape our country into what it is today. He was arrested after he defied U.S.

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Heritage Teaching Museum K-12 59

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 81

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 65