The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

While district policies can provide opportunities for improving student achievement, our results suggest that this impact varies widely and requires strong school-level leadership and effort. No school governance model is predominant. It’s also clear that the laws governing school improvement must be revisited and strengthened.

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K-12 Professional Development Tutoring Government 90

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Justin Desai, the Calculus Project’s director of school and district support and a former Boston Public Schools math teacher and curriculum designer, said he sees risks in that approach. He says he has not heard from the federal government or the group about the complaint since early 2023.

High School 141

High School Public School Leadership Tutoring 141

ED Surge

MAY 1, 2024

The program didn’t want to spend to bring fiber along the same path to tribal schools and libraries and the local school district, says John Chadwick, the digital equity coordinator for the New Mexico Department of Education. Without it, students can struggle to turn in or even access school assignments. No internet.

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K-12 Government Library Public School 92

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 15, 2024

Related: Simpler FAFSA complicates college plans for students and families “As much staff as government has, it’s not enough for students right now,” said Yolanda Watson Spiva, president of the national advocacy group Complete College America. She wants colleges to do more to directly help applicants still struggling to fill out the forms.

Advocacy 122

Advocacy Library Government Public School 122

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

State trust lands, on and off Indian reservations, make up millions of acres across the Western United States and generate revenue for public schools, universities, jails, hospitals and other public institutions by leasing them for oil and gas extraction, grazing, rights of way, timber, and more. Sign up for our newsletter here.

Government 66

Government Public School K-12 Cultures 66

Teaching American History

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

She also recommended the Master of Arts in American History and Government (MAHG) at Ashland University as the ideal MA program for a working teacher interested in encouraging civil discussion of the perennial issues in American civic life. With the help of veteran teachers like Lindblom, Thrailkill is well positioned for the task.

American History 98

American History History Political Science Civics 98

ED Surge

MAY 20, 2024

The idea is that having smaller school sizes enables students to develop much deeper relationships at school, says Siri Fiske, founder of Mysa School. 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.

Public School 115

Public School Civics K-12 Private School 115

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 (..)

Education 92

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ED Surge

JANUARY 9, 2023

Public schools are online just as much as their students, it seems, with profiles across social media. It’s that sharing of student photos, especially those with identifying information, that has researchers questioning what the implications may be for student privacy and whether it’s ethical for schools to post pictures at all.

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EdTech Government Research Public School 130

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

The telemedicine program was launched in fall 2021 by Guilford County Public Schools, North Carolina’s third largest school district, as a way to combat chronic absenteeism. The number of students missing 10 or more days of school soared in the district – and nationally – during the pandemic, and remains high in many places.

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Elementary School Public School Government Research 99

ED Surge

JUNE 2, 2023

But the latest news is that the government is investing significant money to figure out how to ensure that the new tools actually advance national education goals like increasing equity and supporting overworked teachers. The most dramatic example came in May, when Chegg’s falling stock price was blamed on chatbots.

EdTech 115

EdTech Education Tutoring Government 115

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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Public School High School Private School Elementary School 88

Political Science Now

OCTOBER 1, 2024

This summer, the American Political Science Association partnered with Montgomery County Public School (MCPS) District’s Summer Rise Program to offer three high school students the opportunity to gain experience in political science knowledge production and higher education non-profits.

High School 44

High School Civic Engagement Civics Political Science 44

Teaching American History

JULY 30, 2024

West, “The Supreme Court as School Board Revisited.” Little wonder that Dunn’s course in this year’s summer residential Master of Arts in American History and Government (MAHG ) program, “From Courthouse to Schoolhouse,” drew teachers from urban and rural areas across the country.

Education 96

Education Library American History Education Policy 96

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 24, 2023

Metro Nashville Schools invested alongside the Save The Music Foundation to ensure that high schools across the district provide instruction and classroom space for music technology, production and songwriting. Prop 28 also provides extra funding to schools in historically under-resourced communities.

Education 134

Education K-12 Government Cultures 134

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 18, 2020

When the University of Pennsylvania said it would pay $10 million a year for 10 years to address environmental hazards in Philadelphia’s public schools, Gerald Campano’s reaction was complicated. “Of In Philadelphia, the effects of underfunding public schools are especially evident. It is also not the end of this fight.”

Public School 111

Public School Government Elementary School Community Engagement 111

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 9, 2023

This story also appeared in Mind/Shift In the past decade, the population of elementary, middle and high school students in Massachusetts dropped by 42,000 while the number of school employees grew by 18,000. In Connecticut, public school enrollment fell 7 percent while staffing rose 8 percent. Follow the money.

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Tutoring Economics Public School High School 115

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 8, 2023

Early childhood care and education before pre-K or kindergarten has not traditionally been considered a public school system priority. But as school leaders tighten their budgets, they would be wise to invest money earlier, when the return on investment is highest.

Education 111

Education Government Professional Development Tradition 111

Marginal Revolution

JANUARY 19, 2024

A highly effective and harrowing tale of a lifetime journey from abuse to Christianity: “Carrie attended 17 public schools and homeschool, all while performing classical music on the streets and passing out fire-and-insurance religious pamphlets — at times while child custody workers loomed.” Population is 2.3

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Library Economics Government History 85

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've always been in public schools, and I’ve had ups and downs. history, European history, human geography, AP government.

History 115

History Museum Social Studies Geography 115

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 10, 2024

American schools can learn valuable lessons from Finnish education, both positive and negative. In 2016, despite research showing that students who used computers more often at school performed much worse on reading and math PISA tests, the Finnish government announced it would spend millions of euros on ramping up digital learning.

K-12 144

K-12 Charter School Government History 144

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

We need to encourage innovation in our education system and explore learning opportunities that can work alongside traditional public schools. There are better ways for students to learn and grow, and using them will help relieve the unsustainable burden public schools carry. Derrell Bradford is the president of 50CAN.

Tutoring 98

Tutoring Education K-12 Tradition 98

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 21, 2021

We already have good evidence that school and college rankings can distort normal educational processes , reinforcing social hierarchies that govern who enrolls in a school , how those students are treated and what happens to them thereafter. Are the USN&WR rankings designed to hold schools accountable for their performance?

K-12 143

K-12 Middle School Sociology Economics 143

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 18, 2023

This story also appeared in Mind/Shift Rajbhandari, who beat an incumbent to win a seat on Boise’s school board last year, sounds like any other boosterish local elected official — except he’s an 18-year-old high school senior in the same district he governs. And it’s a very resilient ecosystem. We have a responsibility.”

Elementary School 96

Elementary School Government High School Public School 96

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 31, 2024

Nearly half of those dismissals have been for Black students, even though they make up only 17 percent of the public school population. Like many of America’s school districts, Toledo’s public schools have struggled with keeping discipline racially equitable for years.

Psychology 82

Psychology High School Cultures Public School 82

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 12, 2024

Credit: Image provided by Yancy Sanes And yet, there is a broad bipartisan consensus that schools have an obligation to prepare citizens to participate in a democracy. Others have argued that without a robust understanding of the workings of government, “action civics” provides a “sugar rush” without enough substance.

Teaching 104

Teaching Civics Civic Engagement K-12 104

ED Surge

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Unlike mythical unicorns, though, some of these school privacy officers actually exist. For example: Baltimore County Public Schools created the position of director of innovation and digital safety, its closest equivalent, around 2016. But most didn’t have the resources or will to create the role.

Civics 112

Civics Leadership Public School Government 112

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

public school teachers with a similar education. Additionally, District of Columbia public school teachers are paid more based on experience, and they also receive a pay bump, or a salary step increase, each year. Because child care is not primarily funded by the federal government, the quality and cost vary by state.

K-12 80

K-12 Education Public School Government 80

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Now they are demanding a greater role in school policy and the decisions that shape their educations. The reality is that in most school governance systems, young people are systematically marginalized … and students play absolutely no role.” Related: Students have their own demands for school reopening.

Civics 136

Civics Civic Engagement High School Government 136

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. Despite the victory, Lester was never taught to read, according to the KQED update.

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Tradition Psychology Government Research 108

ED Surge

JANUARY 24, 2022

It’s a digital world where internet users retain ownership of their online activities—their intellectual property, or IP—which are tracked by blockchains, which help everyone make money without having to rely on governments, institutions or corporations. At least, in theory. That’s not a new ideology within education.

Education 117

Education EdTech Government Tradition 117

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 19, 2024

This educator quit her public school teaching job in 2022 and has since been tutoring students to help them catch up from pandemic learning losses. If you don’t show up to school, you’re not likely to catch up. If I miss sixth, seventh and eighth grade, how am I going to do quadratic equations? How am I going to factor?

Tutoring 141

Tutoring Psychology Elementary School Research 141

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 22, 2020

Despite mounting evidence that schools are not turning out to be major incubators or vectors of Covid-19 transmission, New York City shut down its public school system in November. Many other major school systems remain closed as well. Even before the pandemic, STEM achievement gaps in K-12 schools were significant.

K-12 127

K-12 Museum Government Elementary School 127

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

public schools required vast support, federal and state government officials appropriated historic levels of help via elementary and secondary school emergency relief funds. Worse yet, systemic inequality has actually worsened, with students in the poorest communities falling even further behind their more affluent peers.

Economics 79

Economics Middle School Leadership Government 79

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 1, 2021

America’s public schools have enormous energy, infrastructure and transportation needs, which make them an essential component of any plan to improve the nation’s overall infrastructure. Yet the role schools can play — both in economic recovery and in addressing climate change — is often overlooked.

K-12 111

K-12 Economics Public School Government 111

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 20, 2022

Public two-year community colleges achieved a new budgetary milestone in fiscal year 2021 as they reaped 6 percent more money per student from state and local governments than public four-year institutions did for their regular operating expenses: $9,347 versus $8,859 for each student.

Government 93

Government Research Public School High School 93

Civics U

AUGUST 8, 2022

The terms federal and federalism can refer to the system of government that divides power between the central (national) government and the states, or they can refer to the central government itself in this system. The first Constitutional convention was called to address concerns about the weak national government.

Civics 52

Civics Government Public School Education 52