The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 5, 2024

Too many of our public schools are missing teachers, especially in hard-to-staff subject areas. According to a recent report , last school year, 45 percent of public schools said they were understaffed, and nearly 9 in 10 school districts reported struggling to hire teachers heading into the 2023-24 school year.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 26, 2021

LEAP is a nonprofit organization that trains schools and teachers to use personalized learning in their classrooms. The day’s professional development for these Chicago Public Schools teachers, alumni of the program, was a refresher, a way to strengthen their teaching practice, share ideas and return to the classroom newly inspired.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

School leaders, especially those who are advocates for students who learn differently, must begin having more strategic conversations about AI now. The traditional education system has never worked for students with disabilities, and we could redesign it. It can generate word lists, decodable texts and basic lesson plans.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 13, 2021

At the beginning of 2021, The Hechinger Report’s members (individual readers who donated money to our nonprofit news organization) asked us if we would report on the best practices for helping the nation’s public school system recover from the pandemic. introduces a lesson on quadratic formulas.?Few Few students?

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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

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

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

DECEMBER 14, 2016

Columbia Public Schools teachers Brandy Ahrens, Elly Eckhoff and Heather Smith are intent as facilitator Kim Nuetzmann explains the three topic areas in which the veteran teachers were being asked for input: cooperating teacher support, teacher candidates and enhancing the partnership between PK-12 and higher education.

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Digital Promise

MAY 25, 2017

I was also fortunate to find colleagues and peers who challenged me to try new things that, from the outside, had nothing to do with traditional librarianship or my background in English and history. If you had asked me early on if I was a “maker,” I would’ve said no, especially when I was a student in school.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 22, 2018

The EL motto, “We are crew, not passengers,” is a quote from Kurt Hahn, the German Jewish educator who fled the Nazis in the 1930s and went on to start Outward Bound, which co-founded the Expeditionary Learning network (later renamed EL Education) in partnership with Harvard’s Graduate School of Education in 1991.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 2, 2016

At the start of the 2015 school year, about 800 new students — the majority African-American—from schools in Oktibbeha County prepared for their first year in the newly consolidated Starkville Oktibbeha County Public School District. Jones came to Starkville High in 2015 from East Oktibbeha County High School.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 26, 2019

The kids worked at tables surrounded by craft supplies, 3-D printers and woodworking tools in the maker space of Corte Madera School, a public school for grades 4 to 8 nestled in the San Mateo County hills. Traditional testing is simple — a percentage of correct answers equals a letter grade.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 6, 2018

The district had not set out to build a net-zero school, but the Charlottesville architecture firm VMDO told them it could be done below their budget. Cathy Lin, the energy manager for Arlington Public Schools, regularly leads tours of Discovery, including a rooftop viewing of its 500-kilowatt solar array (1,700 panels).

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 17, 2018

Foster’s experience in finding a “Montessori school” that didn’t actually adhere to Montessori ideals is not unique. It was revitalized during the 1960s and grew quickly after one of the nation’s Montessori schools was featured in a Time magazine article titled “The Joy of Learning.”

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2021

Superintendent Rico Munn made mental health a priority when he came to Aurora Public Schools in 2013. All students in Aurora Public Schools follow an age-appropriate curriculum on social and emotional health. And that having mental health providers improves outcomes for students and can improve overall school safety.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2020

Fears about data privacy and screen time, along with concerns about Silicon Valley’s conflicting interests as it pushes into public schools, have battered Summit’s reputation. There have been highly publicized problems in some districts that have adopted the program. That’s pretty much gone with Summit,” Hinton Sainz said.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Figures now available down to the school district show the consequences of homelessness policy that doesn’t address race directly. Nationally, Black students were 15 percent of public school enrollment but 27 percent of homeless students in 2019-20. Public Integrity’s analysis points to similar problems.

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Studies Weekly

MARCH 15, 2024

Preschool programs are also not subject to the same limitations as the traditional public school system, so some states can fund private or faith-based pre-K programs. Easier Transition to Kindergarten Pre-K programs also vastly improve school readiness and make the transition to Kindergarten easier. 2021, May 10).

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 16, 2017

A looming question is whether personalized learning that works in, say, a tight-knit, mission-driven charter school can be reliably translated into traditional district schools with many more students, less flexible schedules, keener standardized-test worries and cultures steeped in established ways of teaching and learning.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Instead, tutoring produces outsized gains in reading and math – making up for five months of learning in a year by one estimate – when it takes place daily, using paid, well-trained tutors who are following a good curriculum or lesson plans that are linked to what the student is learning in class. Sign up for the Hechinger newsletter.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

And it’s made these gains without the wholesale turnover in staff that often characterizes school turnaround efforts. Juarez is now a destination school,” said principal Juan Ocon. 84 percent of this Chicago high school’s students graduate on time and 52 percent of them now go to college, an 11-point increase from 2012.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 31, 2021

Summer Rising, run as a partnership among the Department of Education, the Department of Youth & Community Development and local community-based organizations, is attempting to replace traditional summer school this year — and perhaps permanently. Related: Counting on summer school to catch kids up after a disrupted year.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 20, 2018

Haw River Elementary School decided to add after-school clubs, eliminate some teacher assistant positions, add more teachers, and reduce class sizes. They also added a school support coach to help teachers improve their lesson plans and use more data to track students’ progress.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2019

Kristen Danusis, a former school psychologist who became the principal in 2013, tells me that many of her students live “off the grid,” in households that earn little regular income. Charter schools are the bluntest incarnation of education reform and have long enjoyed bipartisan support. Yet, inside Isaac Paine, tech abounds.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 7, 2016

It is just one of a slate of waivers approved by lawmakers, including class size, teacher preparation time, hiring and firing rules, and others, allowing traditional public schools to operate with the same educational requirements as their area charter schools. CREDIT SARAH WHITES-KODITSCHEK / ARKANSAS PUBLIC MEDIA.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 6, 2024

The school district, like many around the country, struggled early on to accommodate the rising numbers of English learners, who were dropping out at high rates, being pushed into special education classes and showing little academic progress. Alonzo attended Russellville schools from 2008 to 2013. Related: Become a lifelong learner.

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High School K-12 Professional Development Heritage 145

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 20, 2019

The county’s ability to raise local funds for the schools to supplement the state money it receives is minimal — it’s 96th among 100 counties in property values, according to an analysis by the Public School Forum of North Carolina.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 7, 2018

Students aren’t likely to learn much about how labor unions have shaped economic and social policy if they stick to traditional textbooks, according to a report by the Albert Shanker Institute, a pro-labor group named for the longtime leader of the American Federation of Teachers.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2022

Enrollment in traditional teacher-preparation programs dropped 35 percent in the decade between 2008-09 and 2018-19, and fell further during the pandemic. Even before the bans, LGBTQ characters were underrepresented in curricula and lesson plans, according to a 2019 survey by GLSEN, an LGBTQ advocacy organization.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 28, 2019

The IT staff at Nome Public Schools would have strongly discouraged this kind of lesson just two years ago, lest it strain the bandwidth shared by the district’s 720 students and 100 staff members. Most students in the Lower 48 can post videos on their schools’ websites or download assignments in a matter of seconds.

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Social Studies Public School Charter School High School 97

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 27, 2020

“There was a breakdown in communication in the school and the students,” said Honani, who works as a program manager for The Hopi Foundation. Initially, Honani put some blame on herself as a mother, chiding herself for failing to stay on top of her son’s teachers and deprioritizing traditional schooling during a hectic time.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 4, 2017

Last August, despite some opposition, Bowling Green opened a new high school dedicated solely to immigrants and refugees, adjacent to Warren Central High School in the poorer section of town. But was GEO International the right response? I think people get scared and then they stereotype.”. Zaid Ali, 18, a refugee from Iraq.

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MPSA

MARCH 30, 2022

We were also advised that school districts’ legal councils would not approve any project in which students provide their own transportation to a school-sponsored event, due to fear of lawsuits. As with the civic engagement curriculum, the new lessons in informed voting did not replace the more-traditional material in the course.

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Civics Civic Engagement Teaching Political Science 52

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

Last year, eight years after Siyuja graduated, the K-8 school still did not offer pre-algebra, a course that most U.S. public school students take in seventh or eighth grade, if not earlier. So far, the settlements have brought new staff to Supai, and the BIE had to reconstitute the school board.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 15, 2017

Hundreds of oil-and-gas-centric lesson plans are now available at the click of a mouse. The state government of Oklahoma, in its wisdom, has decided that oil and gas companies should have a whole lot of money and schools should have hardly any money,” Anderson said. The idea caught on. Go out there and make a difference.”.

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Zinn Education Project

JANUARY 9, 2024

He did it at Tuskegee in 1906, and in his remarks which were covered in the New York Times , he said such things as Today, you graduates of Hampton are continuing a tradition of law-abiding Black men, because at this college something like 6,000 graduates have come from here, but only two have proven to be criminals. So we are in a struggle.

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