The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

The family, who lives on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota, has chosen a hybrid home school model – half a day of distance learning with the local school and half a day of activities and lessons arranged at home. “I Even before the pandemic, her daughter asked to be pulled from high school.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

One hundred thirty-five students, four teachers, one giant classroom: This is what ninth grade looks like at Westwood High School , in Mesa, Arizona’s largest school system. There, an innovative teaching model has taken hold, and is spreading to other schools in the district and beyond. 18, 2022, in Mesa, Arizona.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

In recent years, the lack of adequate HVAC systems has led to school closures and early dismissals as classrooms become too hot for students. School district leaders hope that proactively planning the school year around extreme heat will reduce some of these unexpected closures.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

remember as a young reporter for The State newspaper in South Carolina’s capital, Columbia, driving with a colleague in 1999 to the old Bishopville High School in rural Lee County. The school was still in operation, despite having been condemned. This reality isn’t adequate or even humane for anyone. Former Gov.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Related: What if public schools never reopen? This flies in the face of common sense and human history, deBoer argued. These myths are harmful, in deBoer’s view, because they lead us to conflate academic ability and human worth. It is pernicious, it is cruel, and it must change,” he writes.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 2, 2016

It’s about improving education for all kids,” said school district Superintendent Lewis Holloway. John Jones asks a question to his students in AP Human Geography on August 18, 2016. Jones came to Starkville High in 2015 from East Oktibbeha County High School. And the Department of Justice bought into that.”.

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ED Surge

JUNE 15, 2022

We’ve created award-winning high school programs , re-imagined college courses and leveraged technology to meet the ever-growing mental health needs that have been exasperated by the pandemic. Education is a human service: it’s about putting others first. It is educators themselves reaching out for our help.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 23, 2021

When the afternoon bell rang, Autumn Edwards, a high school senior in the Methow Valley, on the eastern slope of the Cascade Mountains, rushed out of class to her 1997 Ford F-150 pickup truck — and to her job at a ranch. Many high schools, said Anderson, “like to promote the fact that 100 percent or 95 percent are college-bound.”

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 16, 2021

Today, some 70 years after reformers launched a movement to make the middle grades more responsive to the needs of early adolescents, too many middle schools continue to operate like mini high schools, on a “cells and bells” model, said Chad Ratliff, the principal of Community Lab School. The Adolescent Brain.

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Anthropology News

JULY 17, 2024

Black youth experiences at a progressive low-fee private school in a postapartheid city illuminate the politics and limits of aspiration. Founded in 2004, Launch is a network of eight low-fee private schools serving grades eight through twelve across four of South Africa’s nine provinces.

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Cult of Pedagogy

APRIL 2, 2023

Ask most adults if they remember anything they learned in high school, and what you’re likely to hear is a lot of different versions of no. Ask most high school kids if they remember what they learned last year , and you’ll probably get the same answer. And too often we don’t see that in classrooms.

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ED Surge

JULY 1, 2024

And so the milestones provide a space for them to grow, a space for them to be seen as human, as validated,” she says. These days, Black Mothers Forum microschools are educating about 60 students spread over nine schools, ranging from five to 10 students each. Recently, the network expanded to include high school options.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 4, 2020

Demographics are working against institutions in parts of the country as the number of teens — and thus the number of high school graduates — drops. Chris Pines, former philosophy and humanities professor at the University of Rio Grande in Ohio. Over the last decade, enrollment slipped as the economy grew.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

NEW YORK—The ritual of back-to-school has always been as predictable as paying taxes. Bugging kids about homework, after asking the inevitable “How did school go today?”. First-day jitters. Waiting for buses. If you have friends who you can form pods with, DO IT!”. Related: We can make pods equitable if we work together.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 6, 2022

Yet students at Collins Elementary join the increasingly isolated ranks of those legally paddled at school. One is in college and two are in high school in another district. Covington County Superintendent Babette Duty chalks those cases up to human error. 19 states still allow corporal punishment in public schools.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Credit: Austin Anthony for The Hechinger Report Speaking comes naturally to most children, being a gift of human evolution, but reading and writing are inventions that must be consciously and painstakingly learned. Because human brains are organized in diverse ways, some people’s reading circuits end up being inefficient.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 15, 2019

Related: A private school resets its tuition. As a former manager of a charter school network in post-Katrina New Orleans, I saw Democratic and Republican reformers together erode labor protections. Research shows that having a black teacher, in particular, does a lot of good for students, especially minority students.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2020

How Schools Are preparing – and Not Preparing – Children for Climate Change,” reported by HuffPost and The Hechinger Report, a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. When Rebecca Brewer started teaching high school biology 20 years ago, it seemed like everyone trusted science.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 11, 2019

Voicing the concerns of charter-school proponents after protesting at a Warren rally in Atlanta last month, parent-activist Sarah Carpenter pointed out during a meeting that followed the protest that Warren had sent one of her children to private school. public education. Civil-rights activists know better.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 18, 2017

I recently heard a fellow from one of the Woodrow Wilson Foundation’s programs speak about her research on the impact of racial stigma and stereotypes on African Americans’ sense of agency, worth and humanity. Related: I got to choose private schools, but will vouchers really help other kids make it? Rural ones.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

Read the whole series, “ Willing, able and forgotten: How high schools fail special ed students,” here. Mark Nelson was ready to take a final during his sophomore year at Monrovia High School in Southern California in 2011. These schools aren’t only failing their students. Sign up for our newsletter.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 1, 2018

Related: More high school grads than ever are going to college, but 1 in 5 will quit. Leave this field empty if you're human: It can be difficult for a public university to vie for those candidates against better-funded private schools, Allen said. “If percent were black. Choose as many as you like. Weekly Update.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2019

The atrium of Whitmore Lake High School, part of a nearly $48 million capital campaign approved by voters in 2006. In the predawn hours, around a curve, the community’s high school, a modern brick and glass edifice, beams out of the darkness. Related: The gap between rich and poor schools grew 44 percent over a decade.

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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. In addition to systemic and policy changes, we also need a shift in mindset.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2018

Mitch Askew, a history teacher at Flagstaff High School, marches with his two-year-old son. Together, they took jobs in Colorado, Haiti, and, eventually, Flagstaff, Arizona, where, in 2009, Askew enrolled in a master’s program in history at Northern Arizona University, and Jennie got a job teaching science at a local middle school.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 5, 2019

In 2016, 44 percent of Louisiana’s high school graduates were black. Updated data for all 50 states, showing the disparities between African-American and Latino high school graduates and African-American and Latino freshman enrollment at flagship universities, can be seen here. Flagship institution.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 17, 2018

The guide also noted that starting in elementary school, all students take Spanish, art and music classes. The high school, which enrolls less than 200 students, has been able to offer as many as 17 Advanced Placement courses. Jackson says a coalition of Reynolds allies took over the school board in 2005. Weekly Update.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 31, 2020

In School District U-46, the financial data has been tucked into the online state report cards — in a tab labeled District Environment — since last October, but conversations about it have mainly been among school officials. O’Neal Elementary School is named for her father, a longtime educator in the district. The Ronald D.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos believes the key to improving schools in the United States is simple: Let parents choose where to send their children. Giving parents choices beyond the school closest to home would open the door to innovation and put pressure on traditional schools to improve, these advocates argue.

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Teaching American History

DECEMBER 12, 2023

What we have tried to do is not simply collect the most important opinions, as a law school “casebook” might, but to excerpt key cases reflecting important arguments that high school students—young citizens—ought to reflect on. Russell Lee, “The school day opens with prayer at private school at the Farm Bureau building.”

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 23, 2016

Private schools, although an increasing threat to public education, are still a relatively small slice of the educational system. Estonian schools are often economically integrated, so poor and rich students are frequently in the same classrooms. College is free.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 24, 2019

Leave this field empty if you're human: Activities like this one have taken on a near-ritualistic quality at Groves’ school, Washington-Lee Elementary, which serves a high-poverty student body in southern Appalachia. Sign up for our newsletter. Choose as many as you like. Weekly Update. Future of Learning. Higher Education.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 30, 2018

When Kali gets calls from school about Langston’s behavior, she said, the focus isn’t your kid is in trouble but rather how can we help? Instead of them being penalized for being little humans, they’re going to be given coping skills and mechanisms to help them be little humans,” Kali said. There aren’t other options,” he said.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 28, 2018

Brady Lafleur completes a puzzle in a specialized classroom at the old McDonogh 35 Senior High School facility. At the back of the old McDonogh 35 school on Marais Street, near the trash bins and uneven ground that fills with water after rainstorms, is a special room. How charter schools deal with students with disabilities.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 9, 2017

In grade school, Bowie and his younger brother were their mother’s pride and joy. Always at the top of their class, they were also fierce leaders of the debate team, and beat even the top local private schools. One day Bowie found his brother drenched in sweat and passed out at the school’s track. His grades plummeted.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 16, 2017

PITTSBURGH — Monet Spencer remembers traveling to affluent suburban high schools when she was a member of the marching band at Brashear High School in this city’s low-income, high-crime Beechview neighborhood. In suburban public high schools it went from 3.25 to 3.28. “But Then the cycle repeats.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2018

In Pennsylvania, lawyers say, many of the residentials are regulated like private schools, which is to say, hardly at all. When asked in a survey about the monitoring and sanctioning of residential schools, the Pennsylvania Department of Education told Hechinger/HuffPost to contact the state Department of Human Services.

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