The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Early college high school students graduate college in greater numbers. Research shows that their expected future earnings and public subsidy savings more than offset the cost of these expensive small high schools. All students take both high school and colleges classes simultaneously. Photo: Kayleigh Skinner.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 26, 2019

Universal History Archive/UIG via Getty Images. Given that teachers are charged with imparting the contributions of women to their students throughout Women’s History Month, a special place should be reserved during March for the women teachers who go unrecognized. Between 2005 and 2017, public schools in the U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 7, 2022

history and civics curriculum to be more inclusive and equitable? As an Asian American, my lived experience and this research make me firmly believe that we must do a better job of teaching Asian American history and culture in the U.S. — We must do a better job of teaching Asian American history and culture in the U.S.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 29, 2025

Despite some improvements notably in fourth-grade math the national results were pockmarked by widening gaps in student performance and declines in reading scores, including the largest share of eighth graders who did not meet basic reading proficiency in the assessments history.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 29, 2024

The potential annexation is an example of how colleges are becoming more nimble and more responsive to both emerging economies and the needs of students, said Maria Cormier, a senior research associate for the Community College Research Center at Teachers College, Columbia University.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

Johnson feels about Friday,” she told the students as she paced around the cafeteria in an “I am black history” shirt. “If White abandonment of the public system impoverished the public schools that served Clarksdale’s African American majority. Related: Are rural charter schools viable in Mississippi? he Brown v.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 1, 2019

Almost all of Tate’s years in public school — from first grade to high school graduation — were spent within the turmoil of newly desegregated schools. The story’s breadth is rarely explained, said Tate, who wants visitors to McDonogh 19 to learn the history, within the very space where history was made.

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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

JANUARY 10, 2022

While evidence is clear that many Pennsylvania schools need more funding to operate effectively, the plaintiffs in the case face a difficult path to victory. After all, Pennsylvania has a long history of refusing to fund public schools adequately. Related: “Kids who have less, need more”: The fight over school funding.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

It was an extreme example of the political strain public school teachers are under from parents and activists. But the real trouble for schools may come when those teachers decide to leave. A former history teacher from Florida, Long left the classroom in 2019. It can be fierce.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 23, 2020

This is the demographic of parents with the widest mismatch between their stated ideals and their actions when it comes to public school choice. This paradox is too often rationalized in terms of test scores and shared perceptions of schools that enroll many students of color and have even slightly lower test scores.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 24, 2023

The claim of closing the achievement gap is based on only 16 students who attended this one charter school. Researchers have long found correlations between a child’s knowledge and reading scores, but that’s not the same as proving that building knowledge first is what causes reading comprehension to flourish later.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 5, 2019

As a former public school parent and a white woman with a white son who performs well on the metrics that get students into the most selective public schools, I know the peer pressure that white parents feel to get their children into these high-status schools.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 20, 2016

Board of Education, the landmark case that put in motion the Civil Rights Movement and remains a poignant moment in American history. The 1954 United States Supreme Court decision declared “separate but equal” unconstitutional and required the integration of those schools that were segregating students. The post From Brown v.

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ED Surge

JUNE 24, 2022

history, districts hoped that tutoring would help claw back some of the learning kids may have lost. Under the American Rescue Plan, $122 billion flowed to K-12 school districts. And there was particular concern over students losing skills in those areas during the pandemic, especially in K-12. Big Money It’s a lot of money.

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Digital Promise

APRIL 29, 2021

– Dr. Mark Benigni, Meriden Public Schools (Connecticut). – Dr. Brown, Reynoldsburg City Schools (Ohio). “We – Dr. Michael Nagler, Mineola Public Schools (New York). “We – Dr. Mark Benigni, Meriden Public Schools. – Willam Porter, Mentor Public Schools (Ohio).

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Originally designed as an academic conference to share research, the event brought together Florida K-12 and college teachers and students, national journalists and professionals from libraries and museums whose work focuses on history and civics. One of Robinson’s fellow panelists at the conference, Hayley McCulloch, a U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 1, 2021

Throughout its history, the program has maintained high quality standards and during the year studied, a majority of teachers had master’s degrees. By 2019, 60 percent of the state’s 4-year-olds were served by the program, which met 8 out of 10 quality benchmarks set by the National Institute for Early Education Research (NIEER).

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

To fix this, we need to deepen our investments in civics and history instruction, bolstered by an emphasis on critical thinking skills. citizenship, according to recent research by the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation. citizenship, according to recent research by the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation.

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Digital Promise

MAY 22, 2019

If you walk into a classroom at my school, you’ll probably see students scrolling through Instagram and recording videos on Snapchat. The only times I’ve been asked to use technology in class have been to type essays in English or to do research for history projects. So, why is tech use so limited at my school?

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 27, 2020

Ankita Ajith is one of four college-age friends who are petitioning the Texas State Board of Education to create an antiracist American history curriculum. They are advocating for core curriculum changes in social studies — specifically American history — classes. And they aren’t the only ones advocating the adoption of such curricula.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 17, 2021

Researchers at the American Institutes for Research, a nonprofit research organization, are digging into whether kids are reading less — perhaps distracted by their digital devices. In survey questions that accompany the NAEP test, eighth graders reported how much time they spent reading outside of school.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

In August 2020, Amanda Nemergut was looking for alternatives to in-person public school for her three daughters. Her other two girls, in third and fifth grades, would be home on alternating days under the school’s hybrid schedule. Many parents, unaware of the history of virtual charters, continue turning to these schools.

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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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Cult of Pedagogy

JANUARY 21, 2024

Just this month, a group of researchers published their findings on the impact of district capital projects and used test scores to draw conclusions. Meanwhile, politicians, pundits , and researchers argue that schools and students would be worse off without them. And here we are…back at the end of the first paragraph.

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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. schools in recent years. We at EdSurge Research are shining a light on Asian American educators to uplift their unique stories and experiences.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 6, 2020

It’s going to further disrupt kids whose lives and learning processes have already been upended by school closures.”. Even if it’s remote learning, the eviction is going to have an effect,” said Lavar Edmonds, a research specialist at Princeton University’s Eviction Lab. Mike Koprowski, National Low Income Housing Coalition.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 14, 2024

Of the nearly 10,000 students enrolled at Brookdale Community College in central New Jersey, about 17 percent are still in high school. Some of them travel to the campus during the school day to take courses in introductory English, history, psychology and sociology.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 31, 2020

If O’Neal had received Centennial’s per-pupil funding, it would have meant an extra $789,905 in its budget: Money that could have covered more — or more experienced — teachers, social workers or home-school liaisons, or paid for new programs to address students’ academic and nonacademic needs. Credit: Brian Hill/Daily Herald.

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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. These are educators.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

I grew up and attended schools in the South in an area known as the Black Belt , a name given to the region because of its large Black population and black soil. I never took a course in African American history during that time, the late 1980s and early 90s, despite being enveloped in Blackness in my neighborhoods, churches and schools.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 18, 2019

An abundance of research indicates that culture-based education, an approach at the heart of the camp, positively affects Native students’ college aspirations, sense of belonging in school and connection to community. Related: How a struggling school for Native Americans doubled its graduation rate.

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ED Surge

JUNE 2, 2023

Both technologies have made their way into classrooms, leaving educational researchers wondering about their differences and implications for learning. As you select a witness, you learn more about history and have language arts stitched in with reading comprehension. How does augmented reality engage all students?

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 18, 2020

That’s why as a community organizer for Stand for Children and a product of Portland Public Schools myself, I welcomed the district’s decision earlier this month to discontinue the presence of SROs. Forty-five percent of public schools nationwide had at least one SRO in the 2017-18 school year.

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 2, 2020

At the heart of the issue is “a history of biased institutional structures and systems that impede the path for aspiring teachers of color and stunt the careers of practicing teachers of color,” writes Kimberly Smith , executive director of the Center for Inclusive Innovation and the League of Innovative Schools.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 6, 2022

The city itself has had a scrappy commitment to existence in its 123-year history, surviving the boom and bust of the timber industry that first gave it life and weathering the 21st century with a fairly steady population of about 2,500. Some in town think schools should use it more often.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 28, 2019

In Baltimore City Public Schools, where about 80 percent of students are black, educators have long tried to incorporate African-American culture into their teaching. We never had the opportunity to celebrate the rich culture,” said Janise Lane, executive director of teaching and learning at Baltimore City Public Schools.

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