The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 27, 2025

Inclusion in the general education classroom is a human right Abby Taylor recently earned her doctorate in special education at Vanderbilt University, where Douglas Fuchs, the author of the controversial paper, is a professor. More than 160 people commented on one Reddit discussion about the story. Comments were lightly edited for clarity.)

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 3, 2022

The organization, Attendance Works, believes that the number of students missing at least 18 days* of school a year doubled to 16 million in 2021-22 from 8 million students before the pandemic. Solving chronic absenteeism isn’t easy and involves building human relationships among teachers, parents and students.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Ryan has worked in a public school setting for about two decades, following a stint in the medical track of speech language pathology. Over the years, she says, public awareness of her role has improved. The goals are also unique in the public school system. What does a hard day look like in your role?

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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. Recommended Resources: What Does It Mean to Be AI Ready?

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 15, 2018

We, like many, have found that unflinching perpetuation of an industrial schooling model doesn’t support learners to develop critical competencies needed now or in the future. As the three of us came together to work in schools in Central Virginia and beyond, we were, at our core, observers.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

The retired public school teacher stands out in a burnt orange sweater, her curly hair adorned with a soft brown beret. Its just what happened during the early days of the pandemic, when kids were stuck at home and beaming into school through a computer. Theres nothing like one-to-one interaction with a human being, Perez says.

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A Principal's Reflections

OCTOBER 31, 2013

The following is a guest post by Danielle Shanley, Director of Curriculum and Instruction for New Milford Public Schools, NJ. They rattled-off their methods used in the creative process, their personal experiences, human interest stories, and the inspiration for their pieces. Usually, kids aren’t so quick to show their work.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 16, 2024

I learned about the massive scale of labor, human capital and strategic investment that go into making a successful organization. Public school teachers are often limited geographically by pensions, so moving across state lines means forfeiting your hard-earned retirement benefits.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 12, 2025

In each case and thousands of others, surveillance software powered by artificial intelligence immediately alerted Vancouver Public Schools staff in Washington state. The latest contract Vancouver signed, in summer 2024, shows a price of $328,036 for three school years approximately the cost of employing one extra counselor.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 25, 2017

Metcalfe is exploring that approach in an experiment with eighth-grade math teachers at the Columbia Secondary School for Math, Science and Engineering — a New York City public school affiliated with Columbia University. Sign up for our newsletter.

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Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Maritime High School in Des Moines, Washington—a collaborative project between the Port of Seattle , the Northwest Maritime Center , Duwamish River Cleanup Coalition , and Highline Public Schools —welcomed its inaugural freshman class this month. This image is courtesy of Mia Mlekarov, humanities teacher at Maritime High School.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

The district has indicated that it will likely vote to close four public schools due to insufficient funds. If this happens, other districts will probably follow: The state’s recent universal voucher expansion has predictably accelerated the diversion of money from public to private schools.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Defining the Integration of Artificial Intelligence Integrating AI refers to the incorporation of machine-driven intelligence into various applications and processes, enabling tasks that mimic human cognitive functions like learning from data, problem-solving and recognizing patterns. Graham Glass In May 2023, the U.S.

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ED Surge

MAY 2, 2024

More than 26 members of local and national media were on hand for the splashy announcement (a detail that Carvalho noted in his remarks), and the event also featured a human dressed in a costume of the shiny animated character of Ed, which has also long been a mascot of the school district, for attendees to take selfies with.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 1, 2022

The Court ruled that Maine’s exclusion of religious schools from a state tuition program was “discrimination against religion.” The program uses taxpayer dollars to help rural families who live far from a public school attend a private school instead. The tuitioning programs are not vouchers.

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Digital Promise

MARCH 2, 2021

An assistant superintendent in the School District of Palm Beach County (Florida) noted that changing the culture of school systems “requires a level of humanity, and humility, and empathy, and partnership, and trust.” If we want to live in a society where everyone can flourish, what role does the school system play?”

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ED Surge

JULY 1, 2024

The lack of oversight for these alternatives means that curricula and rigor vary widely, and that students don’t experience some of the protections of public school. But in reality, there’s a sweep of reasons parents are attracted to these types of schools. Recently, the network expanded to include high school options.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 1, 2023

One of the few replicated findings in education research is that daily, individualized tutoring during the school day really helps kids catch up academically. The problem is that this kind of frequent tutoring is very expensive and it’s impossible to hire enough tutors for the millions of American public school students who need help.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 10, 2023

I am a Harvard graduate, nationally recognized advocate for homeless youth and an education professional supporting family engagement in a network of charter public schools. It denies the humanity of every other child (or parent) who isn’t able to hide their trauma, like I was. But instead of failing, I became an “exception.”

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ED Surge

APRIL 17, 2023

Scoping the Problem After interviewing a number of school officials about privacy issues, researchers scraped 15,573 websites from K-12 public schools and districts in the U.S. Nearly all of the top sites linked to by schools “extensively” used tracking software, according to the report.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 28, 2024

In January 2018, I signed up to work as a substitute teacher at a public school in Columbus, Ohio. When I showed up, I wore what I thought was professional attire for a school teacher, including a long-sleeved shirt and dress pants. I also wore my hijab, which is a symbol of my faith and tradition in the Muslim community.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Those teachers were largely white and from public schools, introducing limitations. Artificial Tools, Human Judgments When EdSurge first spoke to Kohn, the lab coordinator, he was using ChatGPT as a teacher’s assistant in biology courses. He cautioned that he couldn’t fully replace his human teaching assistants with a chatbot.

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Digital Promise

APRIL 23, 2019

In our current education system, we continue to see gaps in graduation rates and unequal access to high-quality public schools. Technology should support rather than replace human interactions. To the extent that a specific edtech product optimizes the quality of human interactions, edtech can be successful.

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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. Fordham Institute.

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ED Surge

MAY 3, 2024

Like many AI-related projects, the idea started as a way to cut the cost of hiring humans. A quarter of the scores awarded will be reviewed by human scorers. About 20 percent of Texas public school students are English learners, according to federal data, although not all of them are yet old enough to sit for the standardized test.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 1, 2023

As part of a new program, every third grader in Albuquerque Public Schools spends a day at the Los Padillas Wildlife Sanctuary just outside the city. Credit: Steven Henley/ Albuquerque Public Schools And, as recently noted in a review of the potential impact the education sector can have on U.S.

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ED Surge

JUNE 2, 2023

Primarily, for instance, it stresses that humans should be placed “firmly at the center” of AI-enabled edtech. In this, it echoes the White House’s previous “blueprint for AI,” which emphasized the importance of humans making decisions, in part to alleviate concerns of algorithmic bias in automated decision-making.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 9, 2023

This story also appeared in Mind/Shift In the past decade, the population of elementary, middle and high school students in Massachusetts dropped by 42,000 while the number of school employees grew by 18,000. In Connecticut, public school enrollment fell 7 percent while staffing rose 8 percent. Follow the money.

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ED Surge

JUNE 2, 2023

Renee Dawson Educational Technology Specialist at Atlanta Public Schools “Augmented reality is when you take something that you can already see in the world and add an interactive or experiential layer on top. What does AR look like in the humanities? It gives humanities a relevant context.”

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Teaching American History

JANUARY 28, 2025

The plan the Court eventually endorsed unanimously for Charlotteafter much negotiation among the judgesused a combination of newly organized magnet schools and long bus rides to achieve integration. I was only dimly aware that my father served on the local Human Relations Committee. 7 and 8, JulyAugust 1956], p.

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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. Photo courtesy of Winchester.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 20, 2024

million followers) welcoming teachers to share their school supply lists, along with a bit of humanizing information like where they live and what they teach, in a Google form. Photo courtesy of Deb Perelman I imagine people receiving and giving appreciate the humanity of it. I love buying school supplies.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 26, 2022

Unlike the other subs — many of them parent volunteers or people looking for a little extra work — he’s a full-time, salaried employee with health benefits and a long-term contract with Everett Public Schools , north of Seattle. Nearly half of teacher absences went unfilled in the school district last fall.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 10, 2024

Over the years, our country has strived to provide a national standard for the quality of education in public schools and multiple administrations have promoted federal initiatives and national goals to define academic outcomes for American students. We need a national movement, across states, to bring love back into schools.

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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. Living in a Bubble Most students at our all-girls Catholic school believe they live in a bubble. border with Mexico.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

In the 1970s and 80s, groups of primarily white, Christian fundamentalists drove a surge in the number of home-schooling families around the country. As they pulled their children out of public schools, they also worked to dismantle state and local regulatory hurdles that kept kids in brick-and-mortar institutions.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2016

Districts in the South accounted for 50 percent of black student expulsions from public schools in the United States. John Bel Edwards and other legislators needed to know how to effectively demand changes to the barriers of human potential and persuade others to join the movement. Systems need fixing; students need support.

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