ED Surge

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Eager to build a career out of his interest in social studies, he thought about museum curation, archival work and practicing law. Maybe I could work in a museum or a library. Teacher Cadets was offered at my high school, and I figured it was something I could at least learn from. A lot of people suggested I go into teaching.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 14, 2015

Baltimore County Public Schools, Towson, MD. Taylor County School District, Campbellsville, KY. Riverside Unified School District, Riverside, CA. Elizabeth Forward School District, Elizabeth, PA. Wayzata Public Schools, Plymouth, MN. Mychael Dickerson. Power to the People. Roger Cook. Steven Dunlap.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 2, 2023

These and similar scenes from public schools around the country are more than just young learners having fun with recycled materials. Next door, students engineer a solar oven out of pizza boxes, construction paper and aluminum foil. In another classroom, students construct a “biosphere” using foam balls, fake grass and dollhouses.

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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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Zinn Education Project

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Fifth grade Georgia teacher, Katie Rinderle, has been terminated for reading My Shadow Is Purple to her students , a book she purchased at her school’s Scholastic book fair. Rinderle is working with her union, the Georgia Association of Educators, to fight this unjust termination.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

The four-week summer academy brought together 14 students—a combination of rising high school seniors and incoming college freshmen, primarily from Pittsburgh Public Schools (PPS)—to energize them around the idea of becoming teachers and to preview for them what the college experience will be like.

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Thrive in Grade Five

FEBRUARY 2, 2019

Alison Black, the Director of Indian Education for a public school district in Oklahoma, says, “Tribal sovereignty is a huge issue. When teaching about pre-Columbian or pre-contact cultures, be sure that students understand many of the tribes they are learning about have ancestors today who are still practicing their traditions.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 16, 2020

In Los Angeles and Chicago, where schools closures were previously announced, the rates of poverty are even higher. In addition, museums, recreation centers, libraries and other places that offer alternatives to schooling will also be closed, as they have been in Seattle and other parts of the country hit hard by the virus.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Credit: (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu) The number of kindergartners in public school plunged during the COVID-19 pandemic. Concerned about the virus or wanting to avoid online school, hundreds of thousands of families delayed the start of school for their young children. Public school enrollment across all grades fell 2.2

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 10, 2023

The amount the schools save annually has soared in recent decades as the two have bought more properties, and the value of their properties has also increased. The exemptions — which apply to universities, museums and other nonprofits — are nearly 200 years old and part of the state constitution. Clearly the answer is yes.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 12, 2024

Both students circulated to visit their other favorite teachers with whom they’d crafted solar ovens, made plant medicine tinctures and built a banana museum. Partially because this beautiful, imperfect school that helped raise them will no longer be a place they can return to.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

According to data from the 2014-15 school year, nearly half of enrolled students were eligible for free lunch and about a quarter of the student body has special needs. RISE High (Los Angeles, California) and Vista Challenge High School (San Diego, California).

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

New York City’s Department of Education is the latest public school system to require that U.S. The program will be piloted this fall at selected schools and fully rolled-out in over 1,800 schools by the spring. of all district students) enrolled in a K-12 New York City Public School in 2021-2022.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 10, 2018

“Charter schools can do more with less” is a common refrain of school choice advocates, who criticize traditional public schools for wasting money. The Lincoln Institute for Land Policy found that local governments provide nearly half of the funds for local school districts.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 8, 2023

Credit: Camilla Forte/The Hechinger Report Gates was among the scores of high school students who accepted an invitation to visit Malcolm X College, a community college in Chicago, as part of a program run jointly with the Chicago Public Schools. We’re making efforts, but we haven’t done enough,” he said.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 11, 2017

In this file photo, a student at a Mississippi elementary school reads during class. Although Governor Phil Bryant is considering taking over Jackson Public Schools, which has struggled to improve student achievement and meet accreditation standards, there are bright spots in the district.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 16, 2018

An exhibit at the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum. To help those students, Quitman County has joined other rural districts to form the Mississippi Public School Consortium for Educational Access to provide advanced coursework for all high school students, regardless of where they live or their family circumstances.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 21, 2024

More than 27,700 school-age youth live in Pasadena , Altadena and Sierra Madre , the communities served by the district, but only about half of them attend public school. Pasadena High School. In Pasadena, Dufford said, it has been tradition for established families not to send their children to public schools. “So

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 1, 2019

On a recent visit with developers and museum designers, she stood on the building’s gutted first floor and described her plans for the center. 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. Board decision. “I

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 4, 2023

We can do this by taking field trips to local museums and historical sites, inviting experts into our classrooms, participating in programs like Empatico that connect students worldwide, creating robust class libraries and using content-rich curriculums across subject areas to build student knowledge. Related: Schools on U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 18, 2018

all students between the ages of 5 and 21 who attend a public school, including charters and private schools, are eligible to ride the bus systems (Metrobus, DC Circulator) and rail system (Metrorail) to school and school related activities for free. Students don’t live in schools.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 27, 2023

million by the USDA to expand and renovate its student center at what a spokesman said was 2 percent interest, but he said it had declined another $61 million to build a fossil park and museum. Rowan University in New Jersey was loaned $26.4

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 3, 2024

Sameerah Abdullah sends her three school-aged kids to a cyber charter school for some of the same familiar reasons that other families across the nation do, including the flexibility and personalization. For science class, they head to a museum. Students who enroll in a cyber charter school are 9.5

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 1, 2018

While dozens of colleges and universities use a “great books” curriculum, only a handful make it available to local high school students. This summer’s students met with the city police chief and president of the local school board; they also had dinner with a New Haven alderwoman.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 24, 2017

Did your parents ever take you to a museum or a play? Did you learn piano, karate or ballet outside of school? Josh Benjamin is an ELL coordinator at a public elementary school in Lawrence, Massachusetts. The opinions expressed in this article are the author’s own and do not reflect the view of Lawrence Public Schools.

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Political Science Now

OCTOBER 1, 2024

This summer, the American Political Science Association partnered with Montgomery County Public School (MCPS) District’s Summer Rise Program to offer three high school students the opportunity to gain experience in political science knowledge production and higher education non-profits.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 23, 2018

An aging portable classroom will become a mini science museum, filled with hands-on activities for kids. After graduating with her teaching degree, McCoy taught special education at Vancouver Public Schools, a district of more than 20,000 students in the Portland suburb of Vancouver, Washington. It’s a story that echoes McCoy’s.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 14, 2022

When education went online, pods took off — and then disappeared quickly as school buildings reopened around the country. In addition to keeping tabs on homework and grades, pod leaders teach students how to manage their time, apply for summer jobs and create goals for life after high school.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 26, 2016

She tries to build their vocabulary through conversation and by encouraging their parents to take them to the library and museums. He argues that getting all children into school before kindergarten is key to improving education. when it was last evaluated in 2014, better than 866 public preschools in New York. De Blasio agrees.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

Maikko, 2, in pink, Terrance, 1, in red, and Nylah, behind Terrance, dance as their child care provider, Lorna Parks, foreground, claps during a visit by staffers from Detroit’s African-American History Museum. After graduating high school, she began working at a child care center for teen mothers.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 18, 2017

The Mississippi Civil Rights Museum in Jackson. Her son’s story will be on display for all the world to see when the new Museum of Mississippi History and Mississippi Civil Rights Museum open their doors for the state’s bicentennial next month. The museums are vast, engaging and traumatizing.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 22, 2020

Despite mounting evidence that schools are not turning out to be major incubators or vectors of Covid-19 transmission, New York City shut down its public school system in November. Many other major school systems remain closed as well. Even before the pandemic, STEM achievement gaps in K-12 schools were significant.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

But as Columbia has expanded its footprint, it has also become more of a drain on the city budget because of a state law more than 200 years old that allows universities, museums and other nonprofits to pay almost no property taxes. The law saves Columbia more than $182 million annually, according to an analysis by The New York Times.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 24, 2020

Masterman High School, the rising junior was doing research for a proposal to convince the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission to erect a marker to commemorate the walkouts, when thousands of local students marched to protest racial injustice more than 50 years earlier. It was the summer of 2019, and Nia was 15.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

At Hopatcong Middle School in northern New Jersey, Jim McKowen is one of the first public-school teachers to take on this curriculum. After his class, he said, kids doodle molecules in their school notebooks. The harder part is getting the adults on board to allow it to happen,” he said. He teaches it to sixth graders.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 29, 2020

“It’s ironic when abortion rights supporters don’t back school choice,” said U.S. But her attempt to point out some kind of moral absurdity during her remarks to Colorado Christian College students at the Museum of the Bible in Washington, D.C., Education Secretary Betsy DeVos. last week only pointed out her own.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

Sanfelippo found his district’s social-media rallying cry during a school field trip to Fall Creek’s history museum, where vintage banners, pennants and pins were emblazoned “Go Crickets!”. “We Stoking a lively social-media conversation is no problem for the public schools of Wake County, North Carolina, a district centered on Raleigh.

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