The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

T he numbers were supposed to shed light on what was happening in public schools. In a 2016 survey by Harvard’s Center for Education Policy Research, 94 percent of middle school math teachers said they analyzed student performance on tests in the prior year, and 15 percent said they spent over 40 hours on this kind of data analysis.

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A Principal's Reflections

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

However, the most important elements stem from the fact that we trust our students to use their devices as tools for learning, enhanced productivity, and to conduct better research. Time is spent working with them on digital citizenship and the creation of positive digital footprints that they can be proud of.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 23, 2023

House Republicans recently returned to one of their favorite targets for spending cuts: the country’s most vulnerable youth and the schools that serve them. Their plan would represent a major setback to efforts to achieve racial equity in our nation’s public schools. Sign up for Hechinger’s newsletter.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

“With our approach to classical education,” the school’s website says, “students learn about historical events, characters, stories, fables, myths, scientific facts, and mathematical proofs in the locations where these educational advances were made.” He's done some research on VR and education as well.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Early college high school students graduate college in greater numbers. Research shows that their expected future earnings and public subsidy savings more than offset the cost of these expensive small high schools. All students take both high school and colleges classes simultaneously. Photo: Kayleigh Skinner.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

Anne Henderson, National Association for Family, School, and Community Engagement. Out-of-school factors weigh heavily on student success, studies show, and research indicates family engagement can lead to higher grades and test scores, improved attendance and better behavior. One that centered on listening.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 13, 2025

What I was less prepared for was the time sacrifices I would have to make by taking a much heavier workload while still in high school. I challenge educators to read the recent report on dual enrollment for which I was interviewed by the Community College Research Center at Teachers College. Sign up for Hechingers weekly newsletter.

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Teaching American History

MAY 6, 2025

Paradoxically, her love of this history had led her to major in classics as an undergraduate at UCLA, so as to read the Latin and Greek texts the Founding Fathers read as they formulated their plans for self-government. Then one of my high school juniors would raise a hand and ask a good question. I had to say: I dont know.

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Let's Cultivate Greatness

JANUARY 3, 2025

We call it Civics, not Government, class because its purpose is to instill a sense of citizen duty and participation, not just a memorization of concepts and amendments. Email or Call Government Officials Find at least one small way to connect with an elected official during class. Probably less than wed care to admit, right?

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ED Surge

MARCH 5, 2025

Google It As a student, part of my schooling involved library classes, computer classes and English classes, during which I received dedicated instructional time using Mozilla Firefox and Google to do research for school projects. We were taught not to plagiarize and to cite our sources.

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ED Surge

JULY 19, 2024

So he felt frustrated, isolated: “I am stranded on this desert island because that site doesn't work [with my screen reader],” Jacob later told a researcher , also adding, “You can't just re-change your whole teaching plan, especially when you've distributed it.” While not new, the obligations in the rule have become pressing.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

It has resulted in more than a billion dollars leaving the public school system and actually not serving additional kids in private schools, Jones said. It's just serving the same kids in the private schools whose parents are higher incomes and who had already chosen to send their kids there.

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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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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.”

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 10, 2017

The number of pre-kindergarten seats in New Orleans has dropped substantially since Hurricane Katrina, and researchers think it’s connected to the shift to independent charter schools. During the school year prior to Hurricane Katrina, there were 67 pre-kindergarten seats for every 100 public-school kindergarten students.

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ED Surge

MARCH 27, 2024

In Portland, Oregon, the school district is mapping out job cuts by campus to offset a looming $30 million budget deficit. Even before the federal government closed the spigot on billions in emergency funds for schools, declining student enrollment already had districts fretting over how they would balance their books.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 13, 2021

As part of a $4 billion initiative called Race to the Top, the federal government tried to persuade states to measure the performance of teachers, rank them, pay bonuses to the best teachers and fire the worst ones. Research documented giant student achievement improvements in Washington, D.C., Teaching quality deteriorated in Dallas.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

AUGUST 5, 2015

Imagine that you are a policymaker who is generally anti-government, anti-union, and pro-privatization. Public schools conflict with all of those, don’t they? Citizens and communities generally like and strongly support their schools. So you’ve got a challenge.

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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.” In the schools without art, 14.5

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 8, 2020

The nation’s highest spending school districts tend to be wealthy white suburbs whose education spending increased at a faster rate than other school districts between 2000 and 2015, according to a May 2020 study by a Penn State researcher. There are consequences for education, too.

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Cult of Pedagogy

JANUARY 21, 2024

Just this month, a group of researchers published their findings on the impact of district capital projects and used test scores to draw conclusions. Meanwhile, politicians, pundits , and researchers argue that schools and students would be worse off without them. And here we are…back at the end of the first paragraph.

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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.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 24, 2023

As advocates for music and arts education, we see an opportunity to continue to hold school and government leaders accountable, and to lock in investment in music and the arts as we build healthy, resilient communities. Prop 28 also provides extra funding to schools in historically under-resourced communities.

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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.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 19, 2024

students did not make progress in catching up in the most recent 2023-24 school year and slid even further behind in math and reading, exacerbating pandemic learning losses. “At Unfortunately, data from the past two school years no longer support this conclusion. If you don’t show up to school, you’re not likely to catch up.

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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.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Credit: Javeria Salman/The Hechinger Report As a math teacher at Brookline High in the early 2000s, Calculus Project founder Adrian Mims got firsthand experience in what the research was beginning to establish. Mims has helped develop similar models in Florida and Texas. She did not respond to specific questions.

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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. At the moment, more research is needed. Ultimately, some of the principles in the report will look familiar.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 6, 2020

It’s going to further disrupt kids whose lives and learning processes have already been upended by school closures.”. Even if it’s remote learning, the eviction is going to have an effect,” said Lavar Edmonds, a research specialist at Princeton University’s Eviction Lab. Mike Koprowski, National Low Income Housing Coalition.

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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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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

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Digital Promise’s Learner Variability Navigator , for example, is a free, research-based tool that provides educators with tailored recommendations for lessons that support the full diversity of learners. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency provides a great model of what a similar partnership could look like in education.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Four-year-old children who attended public pre-K in Tulsa, Oklahoma, in 2005-06 were far more likely to go to college within a couple years of graduating high school than children who did not attend, according to a 15-year study of 4,000 students. Earlier research has also found long-term benefits from preschool.

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

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 25, 2023

It was the first lesson in a school week that would take her kids through memoir writing, an introduction to division and research on Indigenous history, each activity carefully curated by Snyder. She would also lead an upcoming meeting on the school’s finances, including how to spend federal pandemic relief dollars.

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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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The Hechinger Report

MAY 27, 2024

Then, in 2020, Harvard University’s Center for Education Policy Research announced that it was going to test the feasibility of paying tutoring companies by how much students’ test scores improved. The federal government would eventually give schools almost $190 billion to reopen and to help students who fell behind when schools were closed.

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