The Hechinger Report

APRIL 25, 2023

She would also lead an upcoming meeting on the school’s finances, including how to spend federal pandemic relief dollars. And she was running for the school’s governing board. The Boston Teachers Union Pilot School, where Snyder has worked since 2012, is a “teacher-powered” school.

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APRIL 27, 2020

According to the most recent federal data from the 2018-19 school year, there are now almost 118,000 school counselors in U.S. public schools and, more importantly, just 430 students, from kindergarten through 12th grade, for each school counselor.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 2, 2023

The arts have been part of public education almost from the beginning. Nineteenth century education reformer Horace Mann, the father of American public schools, believed that the arts enhanced learning. He made drawing and music part of the Massachusetts curriculum for “common schools.”

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 6, 2020

Housing is everything,” said Melissa Douglas, the liaison for homeless students in the Kansas City Public Schools district. It’s going to further disrupt kids whose lives and learning processes have already been upended by school closures.” Evictions are rampant and often mark the start of a slide into prolonged homelessness.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

While new data suggest students are making a “ ‘surprising’ rebound,” findings also show math and reading levels for elementary and middle school students are nowhere near pre-pandemic levels. Recognizing near the start of the pandemic that U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Every campus in the parish school district sustained damage; internet access has been spotty at best. Residents say the federal government has been slow to respond, and with so much rental housing destroyed , housing options are limited. Now a middle school technology teacher at S.P. Arnett, a public school in Westlake.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 18, 2018

We are two American public-school dads who just returned from a fact-finding trip through Finland. Singapore has launched a series of Finnish-style school reforms. As we traveled through Finland, we met with top government officials, education professors, classroom teachers and elementary-school students.

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ED Surge

MARCH 31, 2023

Over the years, I’ve used research about how the arts increase math and reading comprehension to defend their existence in the public school curriculum. I’ve even made the case that for some students, a music, art, dance or drama class might be the only thing bringing them to school each day.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

In some places, this now includes reshaping what “back-to-school” means, as districts attempt to schedule the academic year around extreme heat. But in other regions of the country, districts are grappling with a need for air conditioning that didn’t exist when school buildings were first constructed. Government Accountability Office.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Brown loves — and has long loved — learning about history, civics, geography and government, in part because he had teachers who brought infectious energy and enthusiasm to those lessons. I did go into an elementary school and I learned that I did not want to be an elementary school teacher. For the most part it's been positive.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 22, 2020

The analysis offers a comprehensive look at data that states will be required to report to the federal government at the end of this year under the Carl D. Yet encouragement from teachers and other school personnel can make a difference. Related: What does ‘career readiness’ look like in middle school? Perkins Act.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

Student protesters from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Florida demand government action on firearms. Here’s something to think about when you hear people question whether student protests are appropriate: We seem to have forgotten as a nation why we created public schools. Not so much. Not so well.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2019

Goyco school in San Juan. Goyco is one of the more than 600 public schools in Puerto Rico that have closed in the past decade. The activists here are part of a growing group of residents mobilizing to turn the empty schools littered across the island into community centers. Photo: Ankur Singh for The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 18, 2020

A good student with dreams of working in neuroscience, Eli, a 17-year-old junior who uses the pronouns they and them, did very well in middle school and was accepted to a competitive magnet high school. But at the new school, Eli struggled with more challenging coursework and shorter deadlines.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 11, 2023

Across party lines, the public supports museums, rating them as one of the most trustworthy institutional sources of information in the nation — more credible than local newspapers, nonprofit organizations and the U.S. government, according to data from the American Alliance of Museums.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 12, 2017

Josh Walton, principal, Walton Middle School, in sAlbemarle County, Virginia. 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).

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 14, 2022

which we published last Monday in partnership with the Mississippi Center for Investigative Reporting, focuses on Collins Elementary School in the Covington County Public Schools in southeastern Mississippi. Related: ‘State-sanctioned violence:’ Inside one of the thousands of schools that still paddle students.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 6, 2022

The median income is about $33,000 and almost a quarter of the population is considered to be living in poverty, a poverty that is concentrated in households sending children to the county’s public schools, where the vast majority of students qualify for free and reduced-price lunch. Some in town think schools should use it more often.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 21, 2018

Students at a charter school near Washington, D.C. In middle school, I had a dress code and they always dress coded people,” a Washington, D.C, Dress coded” is what happens when a school administrator or teacher issues someone a dress code violation. Photo: Astrid Riecken For The Washington Post via Getty Images. “In

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Digital Promise

APRIL 16, 2019

Government Accountability Office, nearly one in four Foreign Service officers do not meet the language proficiency requirements that they should meet to do their jobs. begin language study in middle or high school. Knowledge of foreign languages is also vital to America’s national security and diplomacy. Yet, according to the U.S

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 13, 2021

million public-school students — or nearly 1 in 5 of all students in the country — attend a rural school , according to a November 2019 report from the Rural School and Community Trust. At just below 75 percent, Montana has the highest share of rural schools of any state. Across the U.S.,

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 17, 2019

Students in the community attend Bragg Middle School (pictured here) and Gardendale High School. Related: How the federal government abandoned the Brown v. Rebecca Sibilia, EdBuild’s CEO, cites a few reasons for the accelerating school breakaway movement. Photo: Tamika Moore for The Hechinger Report.

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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. In middle school, administrators wanted to cut back the number of hours of speech therapy Tyrone received from one and a half hours a week to half an hour per week. Weekly Update.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 6, 2022

That leaves schools in much of the country, including Arizona, free to punish most students for missing learning time by forcing them to miss even more. Yet the scope of that practice is largely hidden: The federal government doesn’t collect detailed data on why schools suspend students, and most states don’t, either.

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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.,

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

million public school children enrolled in special education in the United States, 13 percent of all public school students. Parent and special education advocate Sri Hatharasinghe-Gerschler recalls teachers telling her she’d never go to college when she was in middle school in the mid-1990s. There are 6.6

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 22, 2018

A Crew of seventh graders at King Middle School in Portland, Maine, plays a conflict-resolution game called “Is This Seat Taken?” Curtis Chapin, a Crew advisor and language arts teacher at King Middle School in Portland, Maine, reviews the “Crew Contract” signed by each member. Chris Berdik/The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 30, 2019

More than 40 percent of students of color go to high-poverty schools, compared to only 8.5 A similar program, the School Breakfast Program, helps ensure children start the day with a meal. The federal government subsidizes breakfast for close to 12.5 And the number of students in these schools is on the rise.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 11, 2016

Martin Middle School in Dillon dates to 1896 and was still in use when then-Senator Barack Obama visited in 2007 during his presidential campaign. Martin Middle School, part of which dated to 1896 and was still in use. The growth in the graduation rate at Dillon High School over four years. Photo: Alan Richard.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 30, 2021

Linda Reksten, R-Polson, noted that during her years as a public school superintendent, it sometimes took the state six weeks just to process an applicant’s fingerprints. Anderson has worked at Greenfield School for nearly a decade. The school was going to take a hit because of something that was out of our control.”

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 22, 2016

million people live in places where state officials took over entire districts or individual schools in the past six years, according to News21 data collected from state government agencies. They say their concerns have fallen on the deaf ears of the state, which removed the city’s school board more than a year ago. More than 5.6

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 2, 2016

At the start of the 2015 school year, about 800 new students — the majority African-American—from schools in Oktibbeha County prepared for their first year in the newly consolidated Starkville Oktibbeha County Public School District. It’s been a frustrating experience, working with the Department of Justice,” said Hooks.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2018

His father, who’d worked construction himself and was the head custodian at Askew’s small K–12 public school, pointed him in a different direction. The couple went back to Haiti for a year, until they both got job offers from Flagstaff High School. Maybe teaching.”. Askew become a teacher, and his wife, Jennie, became one, too.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 7, 2023

Last fall, nearly 80 percent of third grade students in Metro Nashville Public Schools performed below the passing benchmark. Most governments are doing things in those areas, but what they’re doing is insufficient to be a strong enough intervention to have an effect on the rates at which students learn,” Reville said.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 11, 2023

But I’m not going to waste my time, my money on uniforms, for him to go to a school where he’s just going to fail.” Related: PROOF POINTS: A third of public school children were chronically absent after classrooms re-opened, advocacy group says For people who’ve long studied chronic absenteeism, the post-COVID era feels different.

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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. also known as Community Middle, part of the Albemarle County district.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

JANUARY 28, 2016

All of this is quite complex but the entire 125-year-old system is organized organically by the dabbawalas themselves, not the government or a corporation. The dabbawalas have been profiled by the New York Times and NBC News , among many others, and there is even a Harvard Business School case study about them. .

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