The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 15, 2019

Leave this field empty if you're human: Charter schools serve just 6 percent of the nation’s public school students, but they have prompted bitter debates about educational priorities – and fair competition – particularly in cities that have a lot of them. Massachusetts now has 41 innovation schools.

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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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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

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

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. Hirsch, Jr. Fordham Institute.

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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. AR can be used in the classroom to create interactive learning experiences that enhance traditional instruction.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 20, 2020

Hotter classroom temperatures and polluted air are affecting children’s brains at school, according to a new body of education research. (AP Education researchers have traditionally focused on the obvious ingredients of teaching and learning, such as instruction, curriculum, student motivation and school funding. Weekly Update.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Sometimes a single class, such as 11th grade “algebra II” or 12th grade English, can earn a student credit toward both high school and college. Most early college high schools are small public schools, housing grades nine to 12 just like traditional public high schools, though some extend five years.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 20, 2019

Scaling Up Boston’s Charter School Sector,” Sarah Cohodes, Elizabeth Setren, and Christopher R. Research sometimes shows that charter schools are better at raising student achievement than traditional public schools. But many charter schools get about the same results and sometimes charter schools do worse.

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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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The Hechinger Report

JULY 19, 2018

It’s technically summer vacation, but about 6,000 kids from Baltimore City Public Schools will spend at least a portion of their break in a school building. Related: Baltimore summer school does the seemingly impossible – the kids actually want to be there. They’re more like summer camp, but held in public schools.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

While the data is incomplete because states release data at different times, it is evident that there are open teaching positions in public schools and districts are struggling to fill them. And public schools are not alone. I’ve worked in six schools in seven years. My teaching career has been turbulent.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 12, 2023

Email Address Choose from our newsletters Weekly Update Future of Learning Higher Education Early Childhood Proof Points Leave this field empty if you’re human: Late last month, Alabama Gov. We’re finding that kids make meaning of themselves way earlier than the traditional child development textbooks suggested,” Sabol said.

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Cult of Pedagogy

SEPTEMBER 29, 2024

Maybe you believe gender fluidity has always been a part of human existence and that those statistics only exist because we are just now getting around to naming and measuring it. “It shouldn’t be a condition of enrollment that you need to show your body to someone else to benefit from the free and appropriate public education.

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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. And candidates with non-traditional teaching backgrounds are considered. These are educators. And they are committed to the district.”.

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ED Surge

JULY 19, 2023

public schools raise questions about whether curricula and edtech are staying culturally relevant. Between 2010 and 2021, the share of white non-Hispanic children fell to 45 percent of public school students, while the share of Hispanic children grew to comprise 28 percent. That is just and humanizing.

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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 the early 1970s, Lester, known in court documents as Larry P.,

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 13, 2022

These states provide a window into the patchwork approach across the South that allows those without traditional training to lead a classroom. Dallas principals look for “highly-qualified” individuals committed to teaching who have strong academic backgrounds, said Robert Abel, the district’s human capital management chief.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 24, 2022

Should local communities determine how education gets funded and who has access to public schools —or should the federal government intervene? And for the general public, the group wrote up summaries of its first-semester courses and made them available for free. “I DAOs have popped up with various goals and functions.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 12, 2017

The Jefferson County Public Schools have made a commitment to “whole-child education” that goes beyond academics. Visit an elementary school in Kentucky’s Jefferson County Public Schools and you may find students doing partner yoga poses. Photo: Tamika Moore for The Hechinger Report. Weekly Update.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 8, 2018

“Any time there’s an opportunity to quickly connect with a parent and not have the language be in the way, that’s a win for me and for the student,” said Tasia Fields, a technology administrator and former teacher in Waukegan Public Schools in Illinois. Students Point Schools in New Directions. The actual execution is limited.”.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 5, 2017

Leave this field empty if you're human: James could get high school credit for his out-of-school work because Traip Academy and the Kittery public schools have embraced competency-based education. Choose as many newsletters as you like. Weekly Update. Future of Learning. Higher Education. Mississippi Learning.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

Students study the human body on skeletons, using clay to make organs. When Lou Allen started the Science and Technology Magnet High School of Southeastern Connecticut in 2005, he didn’t woo the state’s top students. They controlled for student demographics and achievement before high school. Photo: Kathleen Lucadamo.

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ED Surge

MARCH 13, 2024

Amanda Rosas Through her essays, Amanda Rosas , a high school teacher of Spanish and women’s studies in Minnesota raised awareness about the importance of human connection, gratitude as a pedagogical practice and the impact of perfectionism on language learning.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 1, 2019

Leave this field empty if you're human: Neal got her start in Teach for America in 2002 and founded a charter high school in Chicago in 2008 that became one of the city’s best. Kimberly Neal, Innovation Fellow in Indianapolis Public Schools. “It Kimberly Neal, Innovation Fellow in Indianapolis Public Schools.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 1, 2018

Leave this field empty if you're human: Unlike programs at other colleges and universities, the curriculum focuses on major Western philosophical thinkers and writers via a “great books” program that Montás , who directs Columbia’s Center for the Core Curriculum, considers critical to students’ intellectual development. Weekly Update.

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ED Surge

MARCH 7, 2023

School district leaders have taken note, developing multi-year adoption plans for their schools. The challenge with screening for dyslexia is that if you’re only dependent on a human, you’re limited in terms of the resource,” says Martyn Farrows, CEO of SoapBox Labs, a voice tech company. Diagnosing dyslexia early, for instance.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 21, 2018

In our nation’s capital, 81 percent of the public schools require a uniform; 65 percent regulate the length of skirts; 58 percent forbid tank tops; 42 percent ban tights and/or leggings; and 45 percent require students to wear belts, according to the findings of the report, which was published by the National Women’s Law Center.

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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. Last year, I had meetings with all of the health and human services representatives to find out what their issues are,” she said.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 2, 2023

Schools have to address student climate anxiety, provide them knowledge and skills, including the ability to recognize misinformation, and empower them to act, while schools also “clean up their act” by decarbonizing their physical infrastructure. We’ve been doing research with New York City Public Schools for the past 6-7 years.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 11, 2017

Traditional school districts that attempt to bring a new model of education that provides personally designed lessons for students often face conflicting priorities that make it difficult to follow through, according to a new report released today. All but two of the schools were in urban areas. Photo: Nichole Dobo.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 11, 2018

The February 14 school shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, gave new life to student activism, prompting a level of civic engagement among students that many had never considered. Van Tasel made sure students had time during the school day to work on their projects. Weekly Update.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 29, 2017

Sonja Brookins Santelises, chief executive officer of Baltimore City Public Schools. A similarly wide-ranging 2012 report by Complete College America determined that nearly half of entering students at two-year schools and a fifth at four-year schools were placed in remedial classes in the fall of 2006. That’s us.”.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

Brown spent years pushing schools to follow the law, after giving up her job doing administrative support work for a government relations firm. White students with special needs are far more likely to graduate with a traditional diploma than are their black and brown peers. But those racial gaps are much wider in some states.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

When a public school system in the San Francisco Bay Area explored replacing traditional grading practices with a form of “standards-based grading system” meant to eliminate bias, it sparked widespread opposition from parents. They signed petitions and showed up in force at school board meetings to rail against the changes.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 27, 2020

When Covid-19 halted traditional schooling, this source of stability for refugees was also upended. the lack of in-person schooling meant a lack of access to resources and human interaction needed to practice English. Read the series. In the U.S., It’s horrible,” he said. Credit: Joshua Lott for HuffPost.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 24, 2024

Email Address Choose from our newsletters Weekly Update Future of Learning Higher Education Early Childhood Proof Points Leave this field empty if you’re human: The pandemic underscored the stark differences in pay, working conditions, and respect between K-12 educators and child care teachers in many communities.

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