The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

We should instead be asking this: Why are we so laser-focused on the graduates of a tiny number of schools, presuming they are the rightful inhabitants of leadership posts in business and government? But those outcomes are not fixed. and that “society would be better if we evolved past the ’traditional’ leader (e.g.,

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Her private school in Toronto, Ontario, had made the transition admirably well, she thought, but she wondered what online tools existed to supplement her studies, and how she’d find the best options. “I Credit: eLearn.fyi. I don’t understand why that isn’t happening — now.”.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Schools across the country are dealing with a severe teacher shortage. That shortage has become so desperate at times that state governments have even started letting their employees take paid time off to plug in the holes in missing staff, in an effort to keep schools from shuttering in-person learning.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 2, 2019

Basically, private institutions should be free to have affirmative action, but it should be prohibited at public institutions. A public institution — a government institution — must be held much more strictly to “objective” admissions than private. Unequal treatment by government is inescapable.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

These students didn’t move out of state, and they didn’t sign up for private school or home-school, according to publicly available data. Missing” students received crisis-level attention in 2020 after the pandemic closed schools nationwide. Each student represents money from the city, state and federal governments.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 31, 2018

I witnessed this need firsthand during my 20-year tenure as Maryland’s state superintendent of schools. And I knew before I retired from government service that I wanted to devote the next chapter of my life to this issue. Fellows often go on to assume key leadership roles in public and private schools.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Leave this field empty if you're human: The history of early college high schools dates back to the 1960s with the founding of Bard College at Simon’s Rock in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, a private school. The Gates Foundation is among the many funders of The Hechinger Report. ).

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ShortCutsTV

JUNE 9, 2024

1979 is a key date in the development of education in England and Wales because it was in that year that Margaret Thatcher became Prime Minister and began a process of modernising conservatism, under both Conservative and Labour governments, that still, nearly 50 years later, exerts a vice-like grip on primary, secondary and, increasingly tertiary (..)

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 2, 2016

law — what makes it a unique and hopeful case — it’s unclear anyone in government will be watching to make sure it achieves its goal. So the tax base went to the city school district, and it made obstacles for the county even greater as they had even less to work with.”. One county, two districts worlds apart. Hope and faith. “We

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Dangerously Irrelevant

JUNE 20, 2015

like in many private schools and Rhode Island, high school seniors had to complete a deep, complex, multidisciplinary capstone requirement in order to graduate? every high school student in Iowa had the opportunity to do a credit-earning, community-based internship before graduation? Help us make it happen?”

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 24, 2020

While the federal government does not track the average age of bus drivers or other support staff in schools, data from the AARP suggests that, nationally, about three in four part-time school bus drivers are over age 55. With bus drivers, the potential shortage could be particularly acute.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 27, 2024

For generations, intelligence tests have played an outsize role in America, helping at times to control who can join the military and at what rank; who can enroll in the nation’s most elite private schools, and even who can be executed under federal law.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Brandeis accepted 44 percent of male applicants compared to 36 percent of female applicants in 2012-2013, according to data the university reports to the federal government. Colleges “want to be careful,” said independent counselor and former admissions dean Sara Harberson.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 31, 2019

Educating our nation’s leaders, these schools should no longer deprive their students of the opportunity to appreciate veterans as fellow students, as classmates not unlike themselves, and to hear firsthand and learn from their experiences in uniformed national service. Top private schools are a great value. Armed Forces.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 18, 2021

As the coronavirus pandemic swept the country in March 2020, she first lost her job as a cook and food server at a private school in Savannah, Georgia. Related: Homeless students set adrift by school closures face crisis after crisis. Last spring, Ciera Pritchett watched her life fall apart. This story also appeared in NBC News.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

Their photos this week are showing a mix of children from all different ethnic backgrounds, no easy task to achieve in New York City, where close to half the elementary schools are 90 percent black and Hispanic. Yet I also have friends who’ve chosen more integrated neighborhoods and schools for their kids. government also acknowledges.

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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. They are too poor — their parents want them to work,’’ Ballani said, while showing a visitor in and out of dusty classrooms at his school, GSSS Damodora, where students dressed in powder-blue uniforms sat on the floor awaiting instruction.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 11, 2020

Jay Inslee ordered the closure of all public and private schools through at least late April. Nearly half of those students rely on schools for subsidized meals, leaving districts little time to make contingency plans to deliver food to families who needed it and prioritize child care for essential workers. “In Reykdal agreed.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 11, 2018

Tuition, fees, and room and board went up by 34 percent at public colleges and universities between the 2005-2006 and 2015-2016 school years, according to the National Center for Education Statistics. At nonprofit private schools, the increase was 26 percent.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Private schools will tell their students to apply to 20” universities and colleges, said Cynthia Blair Tognotti, a private college counselor in Northern California. And that’s just the average number of applications per student. This year we’re looking at 30.”.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

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. Nationwide, an estimated 41 percent of districts need to update or replace HVAC systems in at least half of their schools, according to a 2020 report from the U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 9, 2018

Education Secretary Betsy DeVos has frequently praised the state as a model of “school choice” with a taxpayer-funded voucher program for students to attend private school and many charter school options. The NAEP scores showed stellar gains within the traditional public school system.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 5, 2018

This story about school segregation was produced by The Texas Tribune , a nonprofit, nonpartisan media organization that provides free news, data and events on Texas public policy, politics, government and statewide issues. Beard is black and had two kids go through Longview schools. It was reprinted with permission.

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ED Surge

MARCH 31, 2022

Soaring operational expenses and shrinking government support has led to higher attendance costs for students, and as a result, to lower enrollment numbers. In 2015, I wrote a book responding to the declining-enrollment crisis faced by many small liberal arts colleges throughout the country.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 28, 2017

India has also had long had a problem with keeping girls in school. And many of the public, government-run schools – where 70 percent of all children study – have no computers or tablets. So why is there so much optimism about blended learning as a solution? It’s a question worth following, and reading more about in the report.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 18, 2017

Still, society’s dominant narrative is one of poor blacks whom government and other institutions must help to overcome their situation, which is in large part inextricable from the lack of equity and access that still plagues America’s minority communities.

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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. Match has worked with school districts in Chicago and Lawrence, Massachusetts to replicate its tutoring model, while partnering informally with other charter networks to build tutoring programs.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 27, 2016

million — Shortfall this year in the yearly allocation for Jackson Public Schools. Jackson schools are grappling with the loss of about 1,000 students to other districts, private schools, charters and home schooling, along with an increase in the number of students who aged out, dropped out or graduated compared to those entering the system.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

government in 1977 asked that schools look for a “severe discrepancy between levels of ability and achievement” when screening children for learning disabilities. In 2004, the federal government reversed course on its 1970s guidance, strongly recommending that states consider alternatives. “I Guidelines put out by the U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2018

The schools too often operate like educational black holes, failing to help kids earn relevant credits. Students complain of being kept on campus when they could be attending neighborhood schools. And government oversight is lacking. Oliver Francis, of Philadelphia, was placed in foster care because he was truant.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 28, 2024

“This is going to be a good year for me,” he told his parents as they stepped out of the school’s auditorium and into heavy August air. Related: How the federal government abandoned the Brown v. Jones Middle, however, had habits of its own. That’s why we want to work together as a team. She started off being fake nice,” Nika said.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 21, 2018

Restrictions on some designs, shorts, dyed hair and other asinine rules governing what students can wear give educators permission to harass, discriminate and pull students out of class when they slip up. Paired with harsh discipline, these rules set students up to miss valuable instruction time. “For Sage Grace Dolan-Sandrino.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 16, 2017

While there is some fear about a new federal school voucher program or private school tax credits, the likelihood is this will not occur through a wholesale dismantling of ESSA. If significant education budget cuts are in fact implemented, it will make the work of educators and school leaders more difficult.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

This is when I learned for the first time that after filling out my Free Application for Federal Student Aid, the government determined I had an expected family contribution of over $120,000. No student should have an expected family contribution that dwarfs the cost of attendance at even the most expensive of private schools.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 11, 2017

at a time when more merit aid from universities, along with private programs and government aid, is going to wealthy students with high grade-point averages and entrance test scores. Together, they’d spent countless hours discussing essays, aid applications and the differences between state and private schools.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 1, 2016

Students who idolize athletes like Kaepernick may also mimic him at school and sit during the pledge of allegiance in protest. school system have many reasons to take a seat. Every morning in most public and private schools, students recite the Pledge of Allegiance, although schools can’t legally force them to do it.

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Doing Social Studies

APRIL 13, 2020

One student’s letter clearly showed their frustration with social distancing when they wrote, In conclusion, you should support Government restrictions due to the Coronavirus. This is because we need to get rid of it faster so we can be off of lockdown already. For a copy of my lesson, follow this link.

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