ED Surge

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

It has resulted in more than a billion dollars leaving the public school system and actually not serving additional kids in private schools, Jones said. It's just serving the same kids in the private schools whose parents are higher incomes and who had already chosen to send their kids there.

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Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

Throughout the League of Innovative Schools , districts are taking a range of steps to demonstrate this commitment and improve student learning. Franklin West Supervisory Union will add the district’s first full-time CS teacher to work directly with K-8 students. Increasing their computer science capacity through teachers.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 19, 2024

Once the site of an Indian boarding school, where the federal government attempted to strip children of their tribal identity, the Native American Community Academy now offers the opposite: a public education designed to affirm and draw from each student’s traditional culture and language.

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Digital Promise

MAY 4, 2021

Low science and math proficiency in Nevada’s public school system indicates there are inherent and structural inequities that exist. Preliminary research suggests that design thinking improves metacognition in K-12 students, and ultimately improves STEM performance. Work in mathematics (Goldman et al.,

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

It’s not that bad,” a counselor the campers called Ivy told the 11- and 12-year-olds, nervous about their upcoming acting debuts. “I Ivy” is really Kelsee Morgan, 16, a junior in high school. “It 22 million — potential annual cost of providing outdoor school for every fifth and sixth grader in Oregon. It’s actually fun.”.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 29, 2019

What didn’t come up at “ Public Education Forum 2020: Equity and Opportunity for All ” is that a part of any educational equity platform should be eliminating the politics that give K-12 public-school parents who know how to work the system preferred access to good teachers.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 21, 2021

We already have good evidence that school and college rankings can distort normal educational processes , reinforcing social hierarchies that govern who enrolls in a school , how those students are treated and what happens to them thereafter. Are the USN&WR rankings designed to hold schools accountable for their performance?

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ED Surge

MAY 30, 2023

public schools, in addition to completing the long-standing requirement of student teaching for a semester. “We It started off as a way to bring high-impact tutoring to elementary school students in northeast Washington, D.C. Sodani, director of the Institute for Innovation in Education at the university’s School of Education.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 17, 2018

Fifteen states now require all high schools to offer computer science courses. Twenty-three states have created K-12 computer science standards. And 40 states plus the District of Columbia allow students to count computer science courses toward high school math or science graduation requirements.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

No school governance model is predominant. By adopting core principles and tailoring them to their unique contexts, schools across the nation have the potential to change learning trajectories and foster academic success for hundreds of thousands of students. Contact the opinion editor at opinion@hechingerreport.org.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 29, 2020

Montana Department of Revenue , those who think that more private learning options should be available to families and those who disagree are squinting to see an outcome that — like it or not — immediately shakes up traditional K-12 schools in the United States. Is change forthcoming? More than a century ago, a U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 4, 2024

Last week, there was finally some movement on this front — a group of K-12 educators, students, higher ed officials and industry leaders presented initial findings on what they believe students should know about data by the time they graduate from high school.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 14, 2024

That’s significant in an era when college leaders are concerned about attracting and retaining students who may be skeptical about the value of a degree and also worried about the impending “ enrollment cliff ” resulting from fewer Americans of traditional college age coming up in the next few years. Good for Everyone?

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High School K-12 Sociology Psychology 144

ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

A recent Gallup Poll revealed that K-12 workers have the highest rate of burnout in the American workforce, with more than 44 percent of K-12 workers in the U.S. And public schools are not alone. I’ve worked in six schools in seven years. I’m still grieving. My teaching career has been turbulent.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

Families in Arizona can now withdraw their children from public schools and receive state funding to cover private school tuition. Franklin/Associated Press A Hechinger Report analysis of dozens of private school websites revealed that, among 55 that posted their tuition rates, nearly all raised their prices since 2022.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 12, 2023

In 2005, Yale researchers released a study that changed perceptions of school discipline in early grades. Not only were preschoolers in public programs being expelled at more than three times the rate of older K-12 students, but discipline was starkly divided by race: Black preschoolers were twice as likely to be kicked out as white children.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 9, 2023

billion commitment to bridge the digital divide by providing free internet and Wi-Fi hotspots for five years to disadvantaged K-12 students. million students nationwide are connected to high-speed internet through their schools and at home. In 2020, T-Mobile launched Project 10Million, a $10.7 Today, over 5.3

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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. In addition, 10 percent were teaching out of field, which means, for example, they may be certified to teach high school English but assigned to a middle school math class. .

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

K-12 educators have one of the highest rates of burnout in the U.S. Despite this, our schools are being asked to take on more. Which all begs the question: Should we expect the traditional education system to add responsibilities when we already know that it has not been able to keep up over the past few years?

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 23, 2022

After the disruption of the pandemic, people in the field of education are more open to rethinking traditional ways of doing business in order to better serve students. One idea that’s been gaining steam since last year is to break down barriers between high school, college and career to create a system that bridges all three. “To

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

. — Danielle Caldwell It’s a bitter contradiction that spans the field: The job is a difficult one to do into old age, yet few who stick with it are able to set aside enough money to enjoy a traditional retirement. “It In fact, in K-12 public schools, pension plans are often an attractive benefit of working in the profession.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 13, 2024

That’s because many high school teachers finish their training without lessons on how to teach reading, since, traditionally, explicit instruction on reading skills ends around third grade. Patty Topliffe (center right) and other English and social studies teachers at Woodstock High School, in Vermont.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 16, 2019

As a philanthropic funder, I traveled the country supporting schools, districts and communities, but no matter where I visited, there was one consistent storyline: Schools that predominantly served black and brown students seemed to have the least resources and were the most underfunded. Between 2005 and 2017, U.S.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 17, 2023

But UCLA professors felt that the traditional math curriculum was uninspiring to students and that the classes offered few useful examples from actual biology, according to a presentation prepared by members of the university that EdSurge reviewed. The traditional calculus coursework, to people like Garfinkel, is totally outdated.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 21, 2017

They are always very thoughtful about how someone will use this (data) to improve our schools.”. Michael LaMont, executive director, data and information group, Atlanta Public Schools. Here’s one possible solution: The Atlanta Public Schools’ data visualization blog. Sign up for our Blended Learning newsletter.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

The study , “How Teachers Navigate the Ethical Landscape of AI in Their Classrooms,” interviewed 248 K-12 teachers. Those teachers were largely white and from public schools, introducing limitations. As part of his role at the center, Aguilar conducted research into how teachers think about AI in classrooms.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 17, 2018

This was clearly no ordinary public school. A driveway circling a landscaped pond led them to the school’s main hall. Lake Oconee’s amenities are virtually unheard of in rural Georgia; and because it is a public school, they are all available at the unbeatable price of free. Lake Oconee Academy is a charter school.

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Charter School Public School Tradition K-12 112

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 18, 2019

These Native American children are learning to play double ball , a traditional indigenous game, or at least that seems to be the focus of their activity. In general, Native students in K-12 public schools in the United States experience higher-than-average rates of suspension, expulsion and school-related arrests.

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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. Andrea estimated she has worked at least 10 to 12 jobs since graduating from college six years ago. Photo: AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews. “I

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K-12 Psychology High School Leadership 111

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 6, 2018

Nationwide, K-12 schools are leading a fledgling “net-zero” building boom that has grown from a few proof-of-concept structures a decade ago to hundreds of buildings completed or under construction. But the K-12 schools leading the net-zero charge are uncovering major educational benefits as well.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 8, 2018

About five million K-12 students in the United States do not speak English fluently, and their numbers are growing fast. ClassDojo is among the most widely used home-to-school communication apps, and its automatic translation feature has created a way for teachers to develop relationships with parents despite language barriers.

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K-12 Middle School Tradition Public School 102

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 3, 2024

Children First researchers found Pennsylvania enrolled more full-time cyber students than any other state — including ones like California, Texas, and Florida with much larger K-12 student populations. Additionally, her two sons had experienced bullying at both traditional public schools as well as brick and mortar charter schools.

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Charter School Tradition Advocacy K-12 102

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 16, 2020

If these things were true, how would what we ask of schools — and how we measure their success — change? If there was ever a time to ask big, heretical questions about American K-12 education, it’s when schooling has been thrown into chaos by a pandemic, and Americans’ faith in institutions, including schools, is at ebb tide.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 2, 2017

The scene might be typical of many schools, but Van Ness, which this year offered pre-K through first grade, stands out in the nation’s capital because it is an exception to what Robinson-Rivers calls “an unfortunate trend.” Public Schools — making the school one of the District’s most diverse by race, ethnicity and social class.

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K-12 Charter School Elementary School Public School 80

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 18, 2018

In the face of a nationwide teacher shortage, especially in science, technology, engineering and math, the academy is not the first program that has sought to attract experts in these areas to teaching, but it offers a significant departure from traditional teacher training programs in several other high-tech ways. Army War College.

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K-12 Tradition Pedagogy Teaching 103

Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

Since we launched the League in 2011, we’ve been proud to recognize over 70 school districts and their superintendents as they work to solve the challenges facing today’s K-12 schools through innovative strategies. In Vancouver, Wash.,

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K-12 Leadership Middle School Public School 91

ED Surge

MAY 5, 2023

Katie Fielding, an instructional technology coordinator at Arlington Public Schools in Virginia, sees that today’s students lean heavily into video and collaboration for deeper understanding, suggesting Gen Z learns best from working with other people. It gives them a stronger self-identity and voice to tackle challenges.

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