The Hechinger Report

MAY 12, 2024

Only 10 percent of public school principals nationwide are Black , which helps explain why hiring and retaining Black teachers has been so problematic. Fenwick notes that policy efforts today must acknowledge and deal with the relics of that “systematic dismissal of Black educators from public schools.”

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Digital Promise

JULY 10, 2017

Leaders from the League of Innovative Schools, a network of the country’s most forward-thinking educators, recently convened in Mentor, Ohio, for the League’s Spring 2017 meeting hosted by Mentor Public Schools. The post Addressing Challenges in Equity, Leadership, and Innovation appeared first on Digital Promise.

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Teaching American History

JANUARY 28, 2025

Ellen Tucker, long time blog contributor for Teaching American History [1] But not as proactive as some. But two years after the decision, more than 350 school districts in nine of the 17 states had desegregated their public schools. Schools in the nations capital were also opened to all (Reprint of New South [Vol.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 20, 2023

At the time, I had just finished my Teach For America commitment at my placement school, Miami Northwestern Senior High School, where I had the benefit of working in a historically Black community at a public high school with a majority Black staff and leadership team with members who looked like me.

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Digital Promise

MARCH 21, 2022

Prior to joining Digital Promise, Gupta served as Vice President of the Chicago Public Education Fund (The Fund), where she drove the organization’s strategic programming and initiatives and directly oversaw its external engagement, operations, and talent management work.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 17, 2020

The film is garnering increased attention amidst the nation’s outrage over a history of murders and threats visited on African Americans, outside of any semblance of due process. District of Columbia Public Schools Teacher of the Year Ashley Kearney sees it this way: “Students can drive the content with their interest.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 31, 2018

history class this year, she described the American revolution and then expanded on the lesson, making connections to historical events in Mexico, Central America, the Dominican Republic and elsewhere in the Caribbean. Subscribe today! When Eleni Saridis taught the founding era in her U.S. And it’s a hook that has reeled in record audiences.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 14, 2023

By senior year, the dream is for students to have recovered from the trauma of homelessness and to have transitioned out, according to the school's leadership. The goal is to stabilize students enough to return to traditional schools, DeVries says. Some people are convinced that homeless-only schools are a bad idea.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Jenkins said one of the reasons she has been teaching in the Phoenix Union High School District, one of 30 public school districts here, for so long is that she doesn’t feel alone. They might not be teachers, but they’re educators who already love schools and understand children. This work is possible. It’s happening.”

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Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

“Voice, agency, and influence are ours to give and receive,” says Debora Collins, assistant superintendent for student learning at Albemarle County Public Schools in Virginia. Matthew Wheelock Innovation Program Director, University of Virginia Curry School of Education. This area of Virginia was a hub of the Confederacy.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 19, 2024

High schoolers at NACA graduate at much higher rates and tend to outperform their peers in Albuquerque Public Schools — which authorizes the charter — and throughout New Mexico. Those conversations prompted Albuquerque Public Schools to authorize NACA as its first charter. There was nothing like this.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 23, 2021

When New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio shuttered the nation’s largest public school system last March, I had a feeling the pandemic wasn’t going to be over quickly. My friends assumed schools would be closed for a couple of weeks, maybe a month. Give us some leadership. Be transparent.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 14, 2015

We founded the DILAs last year to share innovative education practices and raise the bar across teaching, leadership, and development. Baltimore County Public Schools, Towson, MD. Taylor County School District, Campbellsville, KY. Riverside Unified School District, Riverside, CA. Mychael Dickerson. Roger Cook.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 5, 2022

Lusher, like America, has long had a teacher diversity problem : Slightly more than 20 percent of public school teachers—who include those at charter schools — in the U.S. Talbott was not the only teacher of color questioning their future at the school. Only 7 percent of teachers identify as Black. “A

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ED Surge

AUGUST 8, 2023

For her doctoral research at Temple University, Royal dug into the turbulent history of school reform in the city from the 1960s up to now, including reading through the minutes of every school board meeting from 1967 to 2017 and interviewing teachers and school leaders from the era.

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ED Surge

APRIL 12, 2023

While shows like Abbott Elementary – which I especially love as a graduate of Philly Public Schools – try to show teachers as real, dynamic people with complexities and contradictions, few educators get to narrate the true power of the relationships we’ve been able to cultivate with our students. History class.

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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. The silence from colleagues and school leadership was particularly invalidating. When they look back on that day, many remember feeling very alone.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 28, 2023

This activity was part of a design workshop hosted by DC + XQ, a partnership between the city’s public schools and the nonprofit XQ Institute. Yet measuring whether a redesigned high school is working as intended, and why, is difficult to do. Public Schools. and Why has school not been working? In 2018, D.C.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 11, 2023

of public school educators are of Asian descent. Despite our history, we must contend with the fact that we are settlers with values and beliefs that may not align with Indigenous and Native communities. One of the most heartfelt stories I heard was from a fellow Asian educator.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 4, 2018

In history, students might pick historical characters and analyze major events of their era from the character’s perspective. Wolfe, associate vice president of Jobs for the Future, a Boston-based nonprofit that helps educators and school districts adopt student-centered learning. Photo: Nick Chiles for The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 13, 2024

“We have kids that on our benchmark knowledge assessments are scoring what is the equivalent of second grade, first grade, fourth grade,” said Fisher, who is also a professor and chair of educational leadership at San Diego State University.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

If they have school-age children, the residents of the ornate homes tend to send them to private schools outside the neighborhood. It is designed to expose students to organizational skills, peer support and leadership activities. Most of the students at Ridgeview live in modest apartment complexes a few miles away.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 25, 2023

It was the first lesson in a school week that would take her kids through memoir writing, an introduction to division and research on Indigenous history, each activity carefully curated by Snyder. Gadd, a former teacher in New York City’s public schools, said, “It’s not a top-down model.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 31, 2020

There are proposals to rename public schools, streets and military bases named for Confederate soldiers and sympathizers, and questions being raised about memorials that honor Founding Fathers, including George Washington and Thomas Jefferson. Others are obvious, overdue and simply require executive leadership.”.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 23, 2019

on day four of the strike, Nadia Morales, a counselor at Los Angeles High School, and Pedro Martinez, a social-studies teacher at Eagle Rock High School, prepare their children for the day. In this sense, the strike was as much about an ideological question as a labor dispute: Who is the public being served by public education?

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 24, 2017

school system is a “mess.” A photojournalist, she’s at work on an oral history book project, interviewing scores of public school students, from kindergarten through 12th grade, across the country. Do they feel that way? Magdalena Slapik has been asking them. I want to use my master’s degree to change that.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 29, 2019

In New York City, the nation’s largest public school system, a $23 million initiative is underway to combat implicit bias, the unconscious attitudes formed about racial and cultural groups different from one’s own. She says by making cultural proficiency mandatory, “leadership is signaling that this work is important.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 29, 2019

The century-old high school — the city’s first public school for black students — boasted alumni who went on to become mayors and judges. McDonogh 35 was one of the few schools that weathered the storm mostly intact. Related: As a 6-year-old, Leona Tate helped desegregate schools. Then Hurricane Katrina hit.

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Cult of Pedagogy

JANUARY 21, 2024

Testing Wars in the Public Schools: A Forgotten History. First Class: The Legacy of Dunbar, America’s First Black Public High School. Experimental Evidence on Teachers’ Racial Bias in Student Evaluation: The Role of Grading Scales. Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis , 42 (3), 375–392. link] Reese, W.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

In part because of an accident of scientific history, however, this essential assistance has been far more available to kids who score higher on IQ and other cognitive tests. Related: Want your child to receive better reading help in public school? Enslaved people could not show any sign of weakness or perceived weakness.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 6, 2016

Charters like PUC Schools and district school systems across the country are facing a common problem: Even though students of color represent half of the public school student population, the teacher workforce is still overwhelmingly white. Related: How do we stop the exodus of minority teachers?

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 15, 2018

Startups and established tech companies are providing a crash course in entrepreneurship, sending engineers and designers into public schools to mentor students. Think learning art and history by shadowing a curator in the summer months or learning the physics of sound through an internship with a sound engineer.

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Cult of Pedagogy

APRIL 2, 2023

What they did find, however, were pockets of excellent, deep learning in nearly every school they visited, individual teachers who designed and delivered rich, engaging learning experiences for their students in public schools, private schools, schools with excellent resources, and those without.

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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. This summer’s students met with the city police chief and president of the local school board; they also had dinner with a New Haven alderwoman.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2018

That lack of attainment is perhaps not surprising: Until last year, Newark’s public schools had been under state control since 1995, when a state investigation revealed school environments that “virtually assure academic failure.” Future of Learning. Higher Education. Mississippi Learning.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 22, 2018

As a prelude to discussing leadership, peer pressure and conflict, a Crew of seventh graders at King Middle School in Portland, Maine, played a game called “Instigator.” That said, EL’s leadership now relies heavily on technology to spread Crew and expeditionary learning concepts more broadly. Chris Berdik/The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

Before Hurricane Katrina, just half of New Orleans public school students earned a high school diploma , and few went on to succeed at a university. She’d spent four years at a high school determined to send minority students like her to college. No one in her family had ever left home for college. psychology class.

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