The Hechinger Report

MAY 15, 2023

No one can deny the pandemic’s devastating impact on America’s public schools. The post OPINION: Want to improve our public schools? The pandemic also made it impossible to ignore the inequities faced by Black and Latino students — such as limited access to digital resources, rigorous coursework and skilled educators.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 4, 2023

When Mayra Valtierrez talks about the students in New Mexico public schools who are learning English, one thing becomes clear: It’s an incredibly diverse population. The data covers 10 years, starting with 2010-11 through the 2019-20 school year. Parsing education data into snack-sized servings. Data from the U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

Supporting Hanna was just one reason why my family and I decided I would enroll in a tuition-free online charter school program beginning in fifth grade and why, as a high school junior, I’m still there, as is Hanna and her twin, Morgan. I can even work ahead of schedule if I have extra time.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Spokane Public Schools issued a new districtwide policy that bans the use of smartphones or smartwatches in classrooms during instructional time. And at least four states — Indiana, Louisiana, South Carolina and Florida — have enacted statewide bans limiting school smartphone access. This year, though, the vibe has changed.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Schools will be forced to close or cut corners on quality; inequality will soar as parents with means find and fund alternatives to public schools — paying private school tuition or home schooling — while families who already struggle to get access to a quality school will be stuck in a flailing public education system.

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A Principal's Reflections

JUNE 8, 2014

For many years New Milford High School was just like virtually every other public school in this country defined solely by traditional indicators of success such as standardized test scores, graduation rates, and acceptances to four year colleges. Online courses through the Virtual High School implemented in 2010.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Public school teaching remains a female- dominated profession. Nearly 80 percent of classroom teachers in our public schools are women. That continues to be the case in too many of our public school districts. Yet when it comes to the top job — superintendent — just three in 10 are women.

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A Principal's Reflections

SEPTEMBER 4, 2014

Image credit: [link] This is how I felt for basically all of my fourteen years as a public school educator. No way, but all my decisions were based on doing what was best for students and creating a school that worked better for them than for us as the adults. Did I always succeed? ALL OF YOU ARE HAVING AN IMPACT!

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ED Surge

JUNE 14, 2023

For thousands of high school students who are graduating, this time of year is all about looking to the future — namely, preparing for college in the fall. States with 1,000 or more undocumented high school graduates are shown. estimates that 120,000 undocumented students are graduating from high school this year.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 29, 2024

ACC already partners with Lockhart ISD on an early college high school that allows students to complete transferable college credit hours while earning a high school diploma, and proponents of annexation highlight the affordable higher education opportunities it would generally provide students in the Lockhart area.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 19, 2024

Picture a young girl named Emma, who finds herself transitioning from a public school to a private school due to her unique educational needs. Many parents agree with their public schools’ recommendations to move their children to private schools to better address their educational needs.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 1, 2022

Those requirements rarely slowed down the process, says Joan Bowen, director of pupil services for Medford Public Schools. Yet earlier this school year, the district changed course after conversations with attorneys and other special education directors. Schools have to work under resource limitations. …

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 24, 2023

That has not been our experience as parents and school committee membersin the San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD), which is often singled out as an example of math success. The post OPINION: How San Francisco public schools got math instruction wrong appeared first on The Hechinger Report.

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ED Surge

MARCH 27, 2025

Theyre part of Samsungs Solve for Tomorrow tech competition for public middle and high school students, and winning means big prize money for their schools to purchase more tech tools. Even today, many businesses expect students coming out of high school to have the skill to be able to use these tools in the workplace.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

But Porterville has this going for it: Its school district pioneered a partnership with Climate Action Pathways for Schools, or CAPS, a nonprofit that aims to help high school students become more environmentally aware while simultaneously lowering their school’s carbon footprint and earning wages.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

The four-week summer academy brought together 14 students—a combination of rising high school seniors and incoming college freshmen, primarily from Pittsburgh Public Schools (PPS)—to energize them around the idea of becoming teachers and to preview for them what the college experience will be like.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 13, 2025

That research has been instrumental in persuading lawmakers to increase funding to help schools accommodate students with disabilities, in some cases hiring extra special education teachers for every class. Instead, the studies focused on other outcomes like employment after high school. Roughly 15 percen t of U.S.

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A Principal's Reflections

JUNE 28, 2015

During my tenure as New Milford High School Principal our district cut wood and metal shop. Over the years I have also seen recess time dwindle for my own kids and others who attend the New York City Public School System.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 27, 2023

A troubling post-pandemic pattern is emerging across the nation’s schools: test scores and attendance are down, yet more students are earning high school diplomas. suggests bleak futures for many of these high school graduates, given the declining rate of college attendance and completion. A majority of D.C.

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A Principal's Reflections

NOVEMBER 9, 2014

Back in 2009 when we began to transform teaching and learning at New Milford High School we were extremely fortunate at the time to have wireless Internet access throughout the school. The typical K–12 public school has the same internet access as the average home, only with 200 times more users.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 13, 2025

Taking college courses through dual enrollment has been the most rewarding part of my high school experience so far. As a teenager at Lake Nona High School in Orlando, I get to explore my interests in public relations and communications by taking courses at a nearby community college, Valencia.

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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

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Sallie Holloway Director of Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science for Gwinnett County Public Schools, Georgia Recently, EdSurge spoke with Sallie Holloway , the Director of Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science for Gwinnett County Public Schools. Our classes still use the same standards.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Schools also must navigate distrust dating back to the U.S. government’s campaign to break up Native American culture, language and identity by forcing children into abusive boarding schools. The district has made gains because it is changing the perception of school and what it can offer, said Dennison, the superintendent.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

In 2023 and 2024, RAND surveyed more than 3,000 school principals and almost 1,000 math teachers across the country. The educators are part of a specially constructed national sample, designed to reflect all public schools and the demographics of the U.S. student population.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 21, 2025

Name : Jami Rhue Age : 48 Location : Chicago Title : School librarian and media specialist Current age group : PreK-8 Years in the field : 23 EdSurge: How did you get here? Jami Rhue : I never thought of librarianship until I went to a job fair for Chicago Public Schools, and they were looking for school librarians.

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ED Surge

MARCH 26, 2025

It was at this school that I saw tracking firsthand, and students knew who was in gifted programs and who was in lower-level classes. Like any other middle school student, I was on a rough journey of self-discovery. Still, I pushed on, determined to prove I belonged academically.

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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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TeachThought

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Most formal academic ‘platforms’ like public schools and universities tend to parse knowledge into content areas–what is being learned–rather than how and why it is being learned. This, to a degree, reduces the function of pure philosophy.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 9, 2024

But the 20 rising 10th graders in Lisa Rodriguez’s class at Brookline High School were finishing a lesson on exponents and radicals. Experts say that’s because these students are less likely to attend high schools that offer higher-level math or to be recommended by their teachers for honors or AP classes, regardless of mastery.

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Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Please join us in welcoming the new 2022-2023 cohort of the League of Innovative Schools! Abington School District (Pennsylvania). Anaheim Union High School District (California). Castleberry Independent School District (Texas). Capital School District (Delaware). Eastern York School District (Pennsylvania).

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 13, 2024

Linda Brown was a third grader in Topeka, Kansas, when her father, Oliver Brown, tried to enroll her in the white public school four blocks from her home. Meanwhile, from 2000 to 2022, the percentage of white students attending a school that is 90 percent or more white fell from 44 percent to 14 percent. One legacy of Brown v.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 24, 2024

Related: Do fraught school board meetings offer a view of the future? I ran for the Littleton Elementary School District governing board while I was 17, and was elected while finishing out my senior year of high school. She’s also an advocate for the Green New Deal for public schools.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

The governor shared his optimism during a visit to Kingdom Life Academy, a small Christian private school in Tyler, where he proclaimed that the House now has 79 “hardcore school choice proponents,” a number slightly above the simple majority the 150-member chamber needs to approve legislation. That’s completely false.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 27, 2025

Financial constraints Justin Baeder, a former public school principal in Seattle who now conducts professional development for school leaders, posted a video commentary on X. The outcome of inclusion for students with SLD [students with learning disabilities] is frequently less than positive.

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Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Please join us in welcoming the following new districts to the League of Innovative Schools: ASU Preparatory Academies. Brigantine Public School District. California Area School District. Clear Creek Independent School District. Cleveland City Schools. Columbus Municipal School District.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 26, 2021

Researchers from the University of Minnesota and the Bloomington, Minnesota, public schools characterized the academic benefits as “small” but the sleep increases as “large.”. start time for high schools and middle schools so that teens can get sufficient sleep. Schools have been slow to heed the doctors’ advice.

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