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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. In the early 1970s, Lester, known in court documents as Larry P.,

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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

APRIL 25, 2017

ExCEED Network Schools Charter Management Organization, a new group led by principals and Orleans Parish school district staff, has withdrawn its applications to convert New Orleans’ last five traditional schools to charters. where the elected school board doesn’t directly run any public schools.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 19, 2024

It’s also harder to keep up with the traditional pace of instruction when so many students are behind. One high school math teacher told me that she thinks learning failed to recover and continued to deteriorate because schools didn’t rush to fill the gaps right away. How am I going to factor?

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

The concept caught my attention during a demonstration at HolonIQ’s ‘Back to School ’ summit in New York City earlier this month. The lesson seemed a lot more relevant than copying a row of equations from a chalkboard, which I remember from my own more traditional (and boring) math education so many years ago.

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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. Bhaumik Patel DAOs are also emerging at traditional higher ed institutions, too.

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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?

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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.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 18, 2019

These Native American children are learning to play double ball , a traditional indigenous game, or at least that seems to be the focus of their activity. In general, Native students in K-12 public schools in the United States experience higher-than-average rates of suspension, expulsion and school-related arrests.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 15, 2019

Leave this field empty if you're human: Charter schools serve just 6 percent of the nation’s public school students, but they have prompted bitter debates about educational priorities – and fair competition – particularly in cities that have a lot of them. Massachusetts now has 41 innovation schools.

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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

OCTOBER 16, 2019

As a philanthropic funder, I traveled the country supporting schools, districts and communities, but no matter where I visited, there was one consistent storyline: Schools that predominantly served black and brown students seemed to have the least resources and were the most underfunded. Between 2005 and 2017, U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 10, 2018

“Charter schools can do more with less” is a common refrain of school choice advocates, who criticize traditional public schools for wasting money. The Lincoln Institute for Land Policy found that local governments provide nearly half of the funds for local school districts. localities.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 23, 2020

This period of social distancing is giving us a glimpse of what it’s like when a school is shuttered permanently, a tragedy tens of thousands of families have had to deal with over the last two decades. Like the coronavirus, the impact of permanent school closures disproportionately hit Black and urban neighborhoods.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Advocates see government investment as key to getting more kids of color and kids from low-income families into outdoor schools. Advocates see government investment as key to getting more kids of color and kids from low-income families into outdoor schools. Credit: Adria Malcolm for The Hechinger Report. When many U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Twenty-seven large school districts, representing roughly 50 percent of the nation’s urban students, volunteer for extra testing so that they can have NAEP scores for their cities in addition to their states. Many blame the 2008 recession and the resulting drop in public funding for schools and increase in poverty among students.

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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

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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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

Election Day is the most sacred of holidays for a democracy, a time when citizens 18 years and older can select representatives charged with shaping our laws and running our governments. Now that we have a national, secular holiday, it’s time we inculcate traditions that allow for the participation of our country’s youth. In the U.S.,

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 1, 2018

While dozens of colleges and universities use a “great books” curriculum, only a handful make it available to local high school students. More engaging than traditional summer school. How are the masses best governed? Students from underfunded public schools tend to have particular problems, she said. “We

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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

OCTOBER 27, 2016

The public school built in 1989 received an “F” rating on its most recent state evaluation, as did almost a third of the schools in the Jackson school district. No one understands this struggle better than Sharolyn Miller, chief financial officer for Jackson Public Schools. Photo: Imani Khayyam.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 29, 2018

She read an article about the Brooklyn high school and learned that students there spend six years instead of the traditional four but they graduate with an associate degree along with their high school diploma – all for free. IBM has helped open 110 other P-TECH schools across the U.S. That caught her eye.

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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. His high school placed him on a track to get an alternative diploma, which would have made it impossible for him to enroll in most colleges or apply for most jobs. There are 6.6

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

Many schools rely on counting noses at traditional Back-to-School nights or parent-teacher conferences to gauge whether parents are engaged in their children’s learning. nitially, Malik relied on traditional meetings to get parent feedback. Photo: Caralee Adams for The Hechinger Report. One that centered on listening.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 3, 2016

.” Helmick believes charter schools are “businesses getting taxpayers’ money” that aren’t subject to the same operational regulations as traditional public schools. Haley Barbour, appointed by Barbour to his commissions on tax study and charter schools.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2020

Like McKneely, some educators, government officials and policy experts around the country say the coronavirus carries lessons for another global crisis of our time, climate change. The school district, NOLA Public Schools, provided some Chromebooks and hotspots that the school operator distributed to families.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 22, 2018

The EL motto, “We are crew, not passengers,” is a quote from Kurt Hahn, the German Jewish educator who fled the Nazis in the 1930s and went on to start Outward Bound, which co-founded the Expeditionary Learning network (later renamed EL Education) in partnership with Harvard’s Graduate School of Education in 1991.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 5, 2018

A final section of the forecast points to existing schools and educational programs that offer glimpses of the future. The I Promise School , for example, a joint initiative of the LeBron James Family Foundation and the Akron Public Schools, offers wraparound services with whole-child development in mind.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 24, 2016

For 15 years, student test results and graduation rates have served as the main measures of success – or failure – for public schools. Annual test scores in math and reading helped determine the future of teachers’ jobs, classroom funding and, in the most dire cases, whether or not a school remained open.

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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. Traditional testing is simple — a percentage of correct answers equals a letter grade.

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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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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

JULY 22, 2021

In the United States, 14 percent of the school population, close to 7 million children, is eligible for special education through the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act. At the same time, the pandemic has empowered some families who have been traditionally marginalized.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 17, 2018

With a growing body of research showing that the early years are a critical window for brain development and learning, calls to require a bachelor’s degree for early childhood educators in both the public and private sectors have increased over the last decade. Lisa Kuh, Director of Early Education, Somerville Public Schools.

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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. There was nothing like this.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 21, 2017

That traditional narrative is reinforced every day. The era following the Civil War, Reconstruction , gets short shrift in high school and is rarely mentioned at all in elementary. We must assess our own knowledge and perspective as educators. We cannot teach what we do not know.

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