Studies Weekly

MAY 28, 2024

A student is considered chronically absent if they miss at least 10% of the total school year, around 18 full days. In 2023, 26% of all public school students in the United States were chronically absent. One of the most pervasive issues is chronic student absenteeism.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

JULY 10, 2020

International Schools Services has a webinar series called Educators Supporting Educators: Transitions to Online Learning , which features conversations with and resources from international school educators. Coronavirus Chronicles 001 – Greene County Public Schools. Related Posts.

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ED Surge

JULY 7, 2023

language education was published in 2017, with data from less than half of the country’s K-12 schools. While our understanding of language education is incomplete, we know that most K-12 students in American public schools do not have the opportunity to study an additional language to proficiency.

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ED Surge

JULY 19, 2023

public schools raise questions about whether curricula and edtech are staying culturally relevant. Between 2010 and 2021, the share of white non-Hispanic children fell to 45 percent of public school students, while the share of Hispanic children grew to comprise 28 percent. Whose Technology Gets Celebrated?

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Dangerously Irrelevant

JULY 14, 2020

International Schools Services has a webinar series called Educators Supporting Educators: Transitions to Online Learning , which features conversations with and resources from international school educators. Coronavirus Chronicles 001 – Greene County Public Schools. Related Posts.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 11, 2023

of public school educators are of Asian descent. As a teacher in Hawaiʻi, I am keenly aware and reminded of my identity as a "local" teacher, one whose family heritage traces back generations in the same community. They appreciated seeing another Asian educator receive national recognition in a profession where only 2.1%

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ED Surge

MAY 20, 2024

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. Mysa’s curriculum relies on Common Core, the same national standards as public schools, Fiske says. In contrast, many alternatives to public school are blossoming.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 17, 2024

My grandparents knew education was the pathway out of low wages and difficult working conditions, hence why my grandfather decided to work as a janitor at a public school to land a steady job. I’ve come to realize there is an unspoken pride in our family that is rooted in the Latine experience of the American Dream. border with Mexico.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Because of the uncertainty,school counselors need specific training on crafting essays and how or whether to talk about race, Savitz-Romer said during a Harvard webinar last month on college admissions after affirmative action. “We Related: Why aren’t more school counselors trained in helping students apply to college?

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

I learned truths about European imperialism and the humanness before slavery — how colonists from all over Europe stuck their flagpoles into African soils, controlling nations and influencing heritage for centuries. 4) in the 1960s, when public schools were required to racially integrate.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 12, 2022

In one Philadelphia-area public school district, a K-8 teacher recalled, “We had an online morning meeting every day, and still, nothing was said in that morning meeting. We talked with folks who strongly identify with their heritage ancestry, language and culture and others who navigate the complex nuances of diasporic reality.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 29, 2020

What would a decision in Espinoza’s favor really mean for school choice and public education? For the perspective of the Heritage Foundation’s Jonathan Butcher, click here. Despite this finding, the nation’s highest court hasn’t thus far held that voucher programs that include religious schools are required.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

BOSTON — When the Boston Public Schools opened the Margarita Muñiz Academy in 2012, it was a first-of-its kind dual-language high school meant to address issues faced by the city’s growing Hispanic population. Come to school in America and your language gets stomped away.”. For some students, that fills an aching need.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 30, 2021

Linda Reksten, R-Polson, noted that during her years as a public school superintendent, it sometimes took the state six weeks just to process an applicant’s fingerprints. Anderson has worked at Greenfield School for nearly a decade. The school was going to take a hit because of something that was out of our control.”

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 16, 2017

In the capital city of Uttar Pradesh, one school is changing lives in an area where more than 599 million people live below the poverty line and nearly 10 percent of girls are out of school. Just a few miles away from where Ballani teaches, Michael Daube is raising money for the new girls’ school and economic center in Jaisalmer.

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Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

The newly formed Philadelphia Education Innovation Cluster is aiming to infuse the city’s namesake fraternal spirit into their regional education ecosystem, a network that includes community centers, art organizations, public television, Philadelphia Public Schools (representing 130,000 students and 300 schools), and more.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 3, 2020

School leaders say that their students, many of whom are low-income, must juggle jobs along with their coursework, lengthening the time it takes them to graduate. They also said local public schools don’t prepare young people for the rigor required for university classes.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 19, 2024

Today, it enrolls roughly 500 students from 60 different tribes in grades K-12, bolstering their Indigenous heritage with land-based lessons and language courses built into a college preparatory model. Those conversations prompted Albuquerque Public Schools to authorize NACA as its first charter.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

NEW ORLEANS — Six years ago, author and creative writing teacher Anne Gisleson was looking for a school for her 4-year-old son, Otto, who attended a private Lutheran preschool in her Bywater neighborhood. But for kindergarten, she wanted him to attend a public school, with kids from all backgrounds and neighborhoods.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 15, 2024

It benefits Latino children to have a Latino provider because they have the same lived experience, same heritage — it’s easier for them to connect to families, to get more family engagement.” She started a daycare on her own after being a paraprofessional at the public school district’s preschool for 19 years.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

New York City’s Department of Education is the latest public school system to require that U.S. The program will be piloted this fall at selected schools and fully rolled-out in over 1,800 schools by the spring. Although students seemed to enjoy the school-wide production, Zeng was embarrassed. “It

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ED Surge

JUNE 2, 2023

But within those blanket terms to describe “minorities” are dozens of cultures with unique heritages, ethnicities, and geographic locations. and in its schools. We often use catch-all acronyms and shorthand like “POC,” “BIPOC,” and “Black and brown people” to describe experiences of discrimination and oppression of people in the U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 7, 2022

The report, released in May during Asian Pacific American Heritage Month, surveyed over 5,000 Americans from diverse backgrounds and includes findings about Asian American stereotypes, visibility and acceptance. not only to foster more understanding and tolerance, but also to show the beauty and complexity of cultures often neglected.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

Johnson opened the doors of Mississippi’s first rural charter school in this temporary space a year ago. Pulling students from Coahoma County and its county seat of Clarksdale, the school serves an area of the Mississippi Delta known for its rich blues heritage, low incomes and abysmal educational outcomes. he Brown v.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

In a nod to the cultural heritage of its surrounding neighborhood, two displays feature Chinese-themed art, including pretty sprays of cherry blossoms and red and gold lanterns. I have a big issue with the fact that public schools don’t pay rent out of their per-child rate,” she said. But we get less per child, and we pay rent.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 9, 2017

Robert Gardner has taught with the Edmonton Public School Board in Alberta for 27 years. The result has been both the richness and the complexity of diversity. Sign up for The Report’s newsletter. He has been a contributing writer of curriculum and a co-author of several textbooks and teaching resources.

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Cult of Pedagogy

MAY 12, 2024

My own understanding of school choice has been heavily informed by Diane Ravitch’s 2013 book Reign of Error: The Hoax of the Privatization Movement and the Danger to America’s Public Schools. There’s magnet schools, which are giving seats to kids outside of a zoned neighborhood school.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 19, 2023

For parents applying to the dual-language program at Rochester, New York’s public school No. We heard that working class Latinx families, often in Cambridge for generations, were not … getting into the school.” The school district changed the policy to give “points” to children from lower socioeconomic backgrounds.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 6, 2024

The school district, like many around the country, struggled early on to accommodate the rising numbers of English learners, who were dropping out at high rates, being pushed into special education classes and showing little academic progress. Alonzo attended Russellville schools from 2008 to 2013. Related: Become a lifelong learner.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 12, 2023

When the debate over teaching race-related concepts in public schools reached Kimberly Tilsen-Brave Heart’s home state of South Dakota, she decided she couldn’t in good conscience send her youngest daughter to kindergarten at a local public school. She also knows all of her colors in Lakota, and she knows simple phrases.”

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 28, 2021

Viviana Longoria, 16, holds her daughter, Bella Rose, 1, who attends the school’s free on-campus daycare. Ríos, the school’s librarian, holds a paper flower made by students for a Mexican heritage celebration. Credit: Emily Kaplan for The Hechinger Report. “My She motivates me a lot.”.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 22, 2023

It’s part of a growing, youth-led movement against the Agriculture Department’s “milk mandate” — a requirement that public schools offer moo juice at every meal service — and other federal rules that make it difficult for students to access plant-based alternatives. Some students oppose the rules because they are vegan. In the U.S.,

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 21, 2020

Related: ‘You can’t help but to wonder’: Crumbling schools, less money, and dismal outcomes in the county that was supposed to change everything for black children in the South. For Jefferson, the window is narrowing on making a decision on where — and how — her nephew will return to school.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 9, 2021

Her seventh grade social studies class, like every other in Jefferson County Public Schools, the largest school district in Kentucky, would be online. As the sun bore down, she hoped to see the faces of the students she was now responsible for. In a few cars, she spotted some of her students. On the afternoon of Sept.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

A few schools in Alabama began offering courses in Black history too. Black students would finally be able to learn of African Americans’ historical and cultural contributions and develop an appreciation for our rich heritage and culture. Related: Pop Quiz: What state just banned an AP African American studies course?

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

Among the proposed cuts are grant programs, including Teacher Education Assistance grants (for those who agree to teach, after college, for four years in a public school serving low-income families) and Federal Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grants (additional grant money for qualified undergraduate students from the lowest income levels).

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

The number of books banned in public schools over the past year skyrocketed to more than 10,000, with two states — Iowa and Florida — responsible for most of them, according to preliminary findings released by PEN America on Monday. The Tennessee law requires schools to remove books with gratuitous violence or sexual content.

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