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.,

Advocacy 88

Advocacy Government Public School High School 88

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2020

Faced with the unprecedented challenge of lengthy school closures because of coronavirus, the nation’s roughly 13,000 public school districts are scrambling to cope. At Miami Northwestern Senior High School, Julian Negron, left, and Jerrell Boykin, right, load laptops for distribution to students, on March 30, 2020.

Elementary School 86

Elementary School Tutoring Public School Charter School 86

The Hechinger Report

MAY 26, 2019

The kids worked at tables surrounded by craft supplies, 3-D printers and woodworking tools in the maker space of Corte Madera School, a public school for grades 4 to 8 nestled in the San Mateo County hills. Other students were making their own videos, about foreshadowing, metaphor and other literary devices.

Education 111

Education Project-Based Learning Charter School Tradition 111

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2021

Federal and state governments have allocated extra money for mental health services and school districts across the country are scrambling to beef up supports. Superintendent Rico Munn made mental health a priority when he came to Aurora Public Schools in 2013. If you need help in math, you go get a tutor.

Tutoring 140

Tutoring Middle School Elementary School High School 140

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 22, 2018

Young gets the utility of online lesson plans geared to math standards and targeted to students at any level. Indeed, this year, the district’s new math curriculum is aligned with units from the web-based Khan Academy, and Young started directing students to the site’s online videos and lessons for extra practice or new challenges.

Middle School 111

Middle School Library Elementary School Tradition 111

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 10, 2023

Related: Why a team approach to teaching is taking hold And despite federal laws ensuring that employers treat mental health conditions just as they do physical health concerns , many state and local government workers, including teachers, have health plans that limit treatment or have strict preauthorization policies.

Teaching 91

Teaching Elementary School Middle School Lesson Plan 91

ED Surge

APRIL 15, 2022

Governments and development organizations have financed material distribution without similar investments in training educators on how, when and why to use these tools. Many governments invested in sharing resources for teachers during the pandemic but these were largely confined to the school or regional level.

EdTech 122

EdTech Tutoring Lesson Plan Professional Development 122

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

And it’s made these gains without the wholesale turnover in staff that often characterizes school turnaround efforts. Juarez is now a destination school,” said principal Juan Ocon. 84 percent of this Chicago high school’s students graduate on time and 52 percent of them now go to college, an 11-point increase from 2012.

Geography 95

Geography High School Charter School Cultures 95

The Hechinger Report

JULY 31, 2021

For four hours a day, five days a week, classes capped at 12 students met for intensive lessons at three elementary schools, cycling through small-group time with a teacher and independent work targeting learning needs. Students work on a math activity in a Boston Public Schools classroom. Bracey Harris. Back to the top.

Elementary School 117

Elementary School K-12 Middle School High School 117

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 20, 2018

Haw River Elementary School decided to add after-school clubs, eliminate some teacher assistant positions, add more teachers, and reduce class sizes. They also added a school support coach to help teachers improve their lesson plans and use more data to track students’ progress.

Elementary School 92

Elementary School Charter School K-12 High School 92

The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2019

Kristen Danusis, a former school psychologist who became the principal in 2013, tells me that many of her students live “off the grid,” in households that earn little regular income. Charter schools are the bluntest incarnation of education reform and have long enjoyed bipartisan support. Yet, inside Isaac Paine, tech abounds.

K-12 109

K-12 Charter School Middle School Elementary School 109

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 4, 2020

The federal government suggests states pay child care providers less than market rate, at the 75th percentile. Another lived on government assistance. After Katie went to sleep, she would spend her evenings on paperwork and lesson plans she hadn’t completed during the day. Often, she didn’t leave until after 7:00 p.m.

K-12 131

K-12 Lesson Plan Public School Government 131

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 6, 2024

The school district, like many around the country, struggled early on to accommodate the rising numbers of English learners, who were dropping out at high rates, being pushed into special education classes and showing little academic progress. Alonzo attended Russellville schools from 2008 to 2013. Related: Become a lifelong learner.

High School 145

High School K-12 Professional Development Heritage 145

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 20, 2019

The county’s ability to raise local funds for the schools to supplement the state money it receives is minimal — it’s 96th among 100 counties in property values, according to an analysis by the Public School Forum of North Carolina.

High School 111

High School Elementary School Middle School Lesson Plan 111

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 7, 2018

history, first in Portland, Oregon, and later at the Harvest Collegiate High School, a small public school in New York City. The DePaul center strives for verisimilitude: It even brought in two mediators from the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service, the government agency that helps resolve worker-manager conflicts.

Education 85

Education Economics Civics History 85

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 27, 2020

Implementing distance learning for schools like Hopi High would have been difficult even under the best of circumstances — the school is located on a vast reservation where families often lack access to internet and computers. By comparison, only around 30 percent of BIE schools were doing the same.

Government 131

Government High School K-12 Public School 131

The Hechinger Report

MAY 4, 2017

Last August, despite some opposition, Bowling Green opened a new high school dedicated solely to immigrants and refugees, adjacent to Warren Central High School in the poorer section of town. There were bombings that people “just had to get used to” as the conflict between the government and ISIS spread.

High School 85

High School K-12 History Heritage 85

MPSA

MARCH 30, 2022

The political science teaching world was abuzz with ideas about how to get students to roll up their sleeves, get involved in government at the local level, and prepare for lives of civic engagement. My new plan was to create a course in which students learned to be educated, thoughtful, registered, frequent voters.

Civics 52

Civics Civic Engagement Teaching Political Science 52

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

Last year, eight years after Siyuja graduated, the K-8 school still did not offer pre-algebra, a course that most U.S. public school students take in seventh or eighth grade, if not earlier. So far, the settlements have brought new staff to Supai, and the BIE had to reconstitute the school board.

Education 103

Education Elementary School Government K-12 103

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 15, 2017

Hundreds of oil-and-gas-centric lesson plans are now available at the click of a mouse. The programs occupy a gray area between corporate sponsorship and promotion at a time when climate science has increasingly come under siege at the highest levels of government. The idea caught on.

K-12 70

K-12 Education Elementary School Charter School 70

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

It would either create “the blueprint” for outside political interests to enact a complete takeover of local public schools, he said, or “the blueprint for how to stand up to it.” A middle school reading program would be altered because the books, one board majority member said, were too “doom and gloom.”

Education Policy 143

Education Policy Education Advocacy Social Studies 143

Zinn Education Project

JANUARY 9, 2024

Coming out of the end of slavery, Black people made their freedom dreams manifest in attempts to own property, to negotiate their own labor agreements, to build institutions, to take their role in governance, both in state legislative houses as well as in Congress. And I’m not even sure she actually was asked; it wasn’t a leading question.

Primary Sources 52

Primary Sources History K-12 Economics 52