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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ED Surge

OCTOBER 25, 2024

New federal survey data on the education workforce shows that a majority of schools had a tough time filling at least one fully certified teaching position this fall. Parsing education data into snack-sized servings.

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ED Surge

MARCH 5, 2025

San Francisco is seen as a global tech capital, yet even here, high school students are shockingly ill-equipped to survive in the modern digital age. The school where I teach science is nestled in the historic Mission District of San Francisco, mere miles from the sprawling campuses of X, Meta and Google.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 11, 2020

On its website and in letters to families , the district initially boasted of its preparation “to move teaching and learning beyond the four walls of the classroom.” out of school (public and private) due to coronavirus. As of that same Monday, many Washington districts still had no plan to teach kids.

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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

APRIL 13, 2021

More than two decades later, the teaching ranks of the Poplar School District , which serves about 900 students, 96 percent of whom are American Indian, look quite different than when Daniels was a student there. At just below 75 percent, Montana has the highest share of rural schools of any state. Across the U.S.,

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

While staff absences are rarely seamless in any setting, in K-12 schools, there is at least a system designed to support such occurrences. Public school districts have a reserve of substitute teachers they can tap into when sickness spreads and staff begin to call out. It is a scramble, he says, and its a painful one.

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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. These are the moments teaching is made up of.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

Ever since the federal government mandated annual testing for U.S. public school children in 2001, educators (and parents) have fretted over whether too much class time has been allocated to drilling and preparing students for standardized tests. Teaching quality is a very hard thing to study.

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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. In our nation’s capital, 81 percent of the public schools require a uniform and 65 percent regulate the length of skirts.

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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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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 6, 2020

Related: OPINION: When Black parents benefit from school choice, it doesn’t perpetuate racism. Overt racism like this is, I hope, less prominent in today’s public-school classrooms than it was 30 years ago in my own — if for no other reason than no one can ever again claim that a Black person can’t become president of our country.

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Zinn Education Project

JUNE 6, 2024

On June 4, the Zinn Education Project hosted a Press Call about the 4th Annual National Teach Truth Day of Action. So we’re joining together with all of our partners on this 4th Teach Truth Day of Action to continue our work to ensure that our students have access and opportunity to honest, accurate, and fully funded education.

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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

APRIL 25, 2023

This story also appeared in Mind/Shift But teaching wasn’t the only thing on Snyder’s plate. 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. At Avalon Charter School, in St.

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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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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

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

Since 2012, when the government exhorted more écoles maternelles to open their doors to 2-year-olds, the rate of participation in France’s “priority education networks”—networks of schools that serve heavily low-income, immigrant communities that are targeted for extra social support—has steadily risen.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 18, 2022

After nearly three years of disruption to learning caused by the pandemic, government funding has enabled many schools to invest in new devices and upgrade their technology infrastructure to accelerate learning and improve the education experience for all students.

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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. But nothing felt quite right, until he considered teaching. But I did enjoy teaching. This month, we are featuring Caleb Brown.

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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

MAY 19, 2024

Once the site of an Indian boarding school, where the federal government attempted to strip children of their tribal identity, the Native American Community Academy now offers the opposite: a public education designed to affirm and draw from each student’s traditional culture and language. Today, it enrolls about 90 students.

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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.”

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

A timeless routine, now broken by massive human failures: a raging pandemic, fires and floods fueled by climate change, and, in New York, a twice-delayed reopening debacle in the nation’s largest public-school system that is enraging parents, confusing educators and leading to increasing despair that school as we once knew it will never return.

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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. And that raises questions.

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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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Cult of Pedagogy

JANUARY 21, 2024

The group purposefully uses language to help the public understand that drugs belong to one of two categories: those that are approved for consumption by a government agency and those that are not. As an example of what that entails, consider the More Teaching Less Testing Act from NY Representative Jamaal Bowman. Stewart, A.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 8, 2024

Chris Nelson teaches preschool in rural Vermont, just a few miles from the Canadian border, but not in the school or child care center most people think of when they imagine state or locally funded pre-K. This story was originally published by The Daily Yonder.

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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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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 20, 2023

King understood that our rights are not given to us by the government, but are ours by the grace of God,” the governor said. This suppression of Black history is going to become a national thing if DeSantis and people who support him gain control of the federal government and the White House.” are systemic. Here we go again?

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 10, 2018

House of Representatives to fund the federal government through September 2018. Related: Can putting the least-experienced teachers in the highest-risk schools ever result in success? We also will invest in producing great school leaders who can support teachers and meet the unique needs of all children.

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Teaching American History

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Katherine Thrailkill considered careers in drama, law, and hi-tech sales before realizing all her interests and experiences pointed her toward teaching social studies. Lindblom based it on a summer seminar she attended in the early 2000s: the Presidential Academy, a forerunner of Teaching American History’s current programs.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 20, 2017

Our Students as Partners Listening Tour has brought us from inner-city Louisville to Appalachian coal country to listen to student stories of triumph and frustration, promote student engagement, and foster an intergenerational, collaborative mindset to improve our schools. After all, a good education is about more than college and career.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

The union, Child Care Providers United, represents workers who care for children receiving government subsidies, enabling the professionals to collectively negotiate with the state on matters such as compensation, benefits and working conditions. But now they see the teaching and learning that goes on in our programs.”

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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 27, 2018

While a majority of the nation’s public school students are students of color, fewer than 20 percent of our nation’s teachers are teachers of color — and only two percent are African-American men. For example, many black educators feel that their voices are not heard and that they have to “tone down” their personalities to teach.

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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. Teaching quality deteriorated in Dallas. Research documented giant student achievement improvements in Washington, D.C.,

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