The Hechinger Report
APRIL 24, 2023
One can study the students at schools that have adopted the Core Knowledge curriculum, but it’s hard to know if the students who attend these schools would have scored just as high in reading if they had been taught the usual way at a traditional public school. Some postponed starting kindergarten that year.
The Hechinger Report
OCTOBER 29, 2020
Other school districts are also trying to elevate student voices in education policy and avoid “tokenism,” as Cristina Salgado puts it. She was hired as the student voice specialist at Chicago Public Schools in 2012 to oversee the district’s newly created “student voice committees.”.
Digital Promise
DECEMBER 4, 2018
Our new video illustrates a few possibilities: mathematical reasoning in elementary school by creating algorithms; social sciences in middle school by working with data; and physical sciences in high school by using simulations. Supporting Computational Thinking in K-12 Public Schools.
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? Buying and Selling Public schools are supported by public dollars—with help, in some cases, from donations from the PTA. That’s definitely a barrier.”
The Hechinger Report
APRIL 4, 2017
These numbers, based on data from the Mississippi Department of Education and analyzed by the Mississippi State University Social Science Research Center for a recently released report , show that suspension rates vary greatly throughout the state, which can have major implications for a child’s academic success.
The Hechinger Report
AUGUST 1, 2018
Nearly half — 46 percent — major in the humanities or social sciences, Lee said. While dozens of colleges and universities use a “great books” curriculum, only a handful make it available to local high school students. Students from underfunded public schools tend to have particular problems, she said. “We
The Hechinger Report
JUNE 7, 2018
A student at George Washington High, a large public school in San Francisco, she wanted to go to college but had little sense of what her career options might be. “I Her father, a welder, and her mother, a hotel housekeeper, didn’t finish middle school. I didn’t know what was out there,” she recalls.
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