The Hechinger Report

MAY 19, 2016

We’re a land grant public institution with a commitment to our state and our city, and that’s the talent we should be cultivating,” said Nancy Cantor, who has been chancellor at Rutgers-Newark for two years. We don’t have the traditional view that we’re somehow ‘letting these kids in’ to be influenced by us.”.

Tradition 84

Tradition Sociology Civics Critical Thinking 84

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. Supreme Court ruling about school choice be careful what they wish for?

Public School 44

Public School K-12 Heritage Private School 44

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 3, 2024

Like traditional charter schools, cyber charters are publicly funded but independently run schools approved by the state Department of Education. There are 13 cyber charter schools operating in Pennsylvania, as well as a smaller virtual academy run by the Philadelphia school district for the past decade.

Charter School 73

Charter School Tradition Advocacy K-12 73

Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Greenfield Union School District (California). Gwinnett County Public Schools (Georgia). Highline Public Schools (Washington). Hudson City School District (New York). Kansas City Public Schools (Missouri). Linden Public School District (New Jersey). Community Schools (California).

Leadership 149

Leadership Public School Tradition High School 149

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 2, 2017

Now that the debate on Question 2 has been decided for the foreseeable future — the ballot initiative was defeated, meaning that the current cap on charter schools will remain in place — it’s time to shift the focus to how we can improve opportunities for all Massachusetts students, whether they attend charters or traditional public schools.

Public School 43

Public School Charter School Tutoring Tradition 43

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 1, 2024

Our nation’s public school population is changing, fueled by growth in the number of multilingual learners. public school enrollment in 2020, up from 8.1 Many multilingual students face ongoing challenges and discrimination in public school. These students made up 10.3 percent of U.S. percent in 2000.

Tradition 86

Tradition Public School Professional Development Leadership 86

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 1, 2023

As part of a new program, every third grader in Albuquerque Public Schools spends a day at the Los Padillas Wildlife Sanctuary just outside the city. What’s also becoming well-known is the essential role of traditional and Indigenous ecological knowledge in the effort to cope with the climate crisis.

Heritage 90

Heritage Tradition Cultures Psychology 90

A Principal's Reflections

JANUARY 17, 2021

To this end, I hit the ground running to begin the new year by traveling to Oklahoma to work with Sapulpa Public Schools. Like virtually every district and school, educators were experiencing some challenges with hybrid learning. During my first session of the day, I worked with administrators to best support their teachers.

Pedagogy 388

Pedagogy Education K-12 Tradition 388

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Justin Desai, the Calculus Project’s director of school and district support and a former Boston Public Schools math teacher and curriculum designer, said he sees risks in that approach. At the time of publication, there were no open investigations against Milton Public Schools.

High School 141

High School Public School Leadership Tutoring 141

ED Surge

DECEMBER 14, 2023

The goal is to stabilize students enough to return to traditional schools, DeVries says. Meanwhile, critics allege that the school’s academic outcomes are actually “terrible” compared to homeless students who study at traditional public schools. A 2020 report for the U.S.

K-12 117

K-12 Advocacy Tradition Leadership 117

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 4, 2024

Credit: Jill Barshay/ The Hechinger Report / The Hechinger Report For a few weeks in the spring of 2016, nearly all the eighth graders at a small public school affiliated with Columbia University agreed to stay late after school to study math. For the first eight sessions, half the students had a traditional review class.

Tradition 130

Tradition Middle School Psychology Project-Based Learning 130

Digital Promise

OCTOBER 18, 2023

My hopes are that we change the lives of kids and we provide access to some of our students who traditionally don’t have it so they can experience some success and maybe move on and achieve whatever their dreams are,” Jasper County High School principal Jim Strength told WGXA News. Moore Middle School. A big shoutout to @dpvils ! ?

Middle School 118

Middle School Public School Tradition High School 118

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. school system. Wednesday, Nov. on Friday Nov.

Museum 91

Museum Public School Tradition Elementary School 91

ED Surge

MARCH 27, 2024

Even before the federal government closed the spigot on billions in emergency funds for schools, declining student enrollment already had districts fretting over how they would balance their books.

Charter School 97

Charter School Private School Government Public School 97

ED Surge

APRIL 2, 2024

In fact, many schools that have taken on reforming their grading systems have faced passionate objections from parents , who worry that their children will miss out on opportunities, or lose their motivation to turn in work, if they aren’t striving to win high marks in the traditional grading game.

Tradition 136

Tradition Teaching Public School Research 136

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

The Buena Vista Horace Mann K-8 Community School in San Francisco opened its gymnasium to homeless students and their families as part of its Stay Over Program in 2022. It is one example of the many community services that a majority of public schools are now providing, according to a federal survey.

Psychology 131

Psychology Government Public School Community Engagement 131

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 25, 2017

ExCEED Network Schools Charter Management Organization, a new group led by principals and Orleans Parish school district staff, has withdrawn its applications to convert New Orleans’ last five traditional schools to charters. where the elected school board doesn’t directly run any public schools.

Tradition 40

Tradition Charter School Government Elementary School 40

ED Surge

MAY 20, 2024

Mysa’s tuition costs parents who don’t receive aid around $20,000 a year, comparable to what it costs the government to educate a student in a public school. Mysa’s curriculum relies on Common Core, the same national standards as public schools, Fiske says. In contrast, many alternatives to public school are blossoming.

Public School 115

Public School Civics K-12 Private School 115

ED Surge

MARCH 6, 2024

While California and Texas have the most English learners in public schools — perhaps unsurprising given their proximity to Mexico — the states experiencing the most growth among school-age English learners are mainly outside the Southwest. Where Is Growth Happening? Census data , and 67 percent are Hispanic.

Geography 101

Geography Tradition Public School Teaching 101

ED Surge

AUGUST 9, 2023

Kermit Belcher School districts like Kansas City Public Schools, for example, are providing cellular-enabled iPads as an alternative to their traditional Wi-Fi-only model. A critical part of innovation is our ability to identify and provide the tools that will allow students to create, learn and thrive anytime, anywhere.

K-12 98

K-12 Tradition Educational Technology Public School 98

Edthena

APRIL 17, 2024

In Spokane Public Schools , a forward-thinking approach to professional development is making waves, under the strategic direction of Nick Lundberg, Title I and Special Programs Coordinator. The program doubled its size for the 2023-2024 school year (to 60 teachers).

Professional Development 65

Professional Development Public School Tradition Educational Technology 65

A Principal's Reflections

JUNE 28, 2015

A national focus on standardized testing and accountability has only made the experience worse for kids who only crave relevance, meaning, and value out of the hours of time spent in classrooms each school year. In many cases elementary schools have even taken fun out of school for kids by cutting recess.

Library 377

Library Elementary School Tradition Leadership 377

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.

Teaching 87

Teaching Lesson Plan Public School Tradition 87

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.

Charter School 130

Charter School Geography Social Science Tradition 130

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 15, 2024

The task ahead is daunting: The Department of Education only started sending batches of student records this week to colleges that will determine aid offers, and about 200 have already extended the traditional May 1st deadline for students to accept offers.

Advocacy 122

Advocacy Library Government Public School 122

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

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? K-12 educators have one of the highest rates of burnout in the U.S.

Tutoring 98

Tutoring Education K-12 Tradition 98

Digital Promise

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Rodriguez stressed exploring alternative pathways and assessments to traditional instruction. Pajaro Valley School District determined that when students are engaged in learning connected to their interests, outcomes improved. Still from U.S. million students served over time.

Project-Based Learning 144

Project-Based Learning Leadership Tradition Cultures 144

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.,

Tradition 108

Tradition Psychology Government Research 108

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.

High School 141

High School K-12 Sociology Psychology 141

The Hechinger Report

JULY 4, 2024

Earlier this year, I reported on how a California school district created a data science course in 2020, to offer an alternative math course to students who might struggle in traditional junior and senior math courses such as Algebra II, Pre-Calculus and Calculus, or didn’t plan to pursue science or math fields or attend a four-year college.

Education 83

Education K-12 Tradition High School 83

Digital Promise

APRIL 29, 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic may have disrupted traditional classroom instruction, but it has not stopped schools from fostering meaningful connections and engaging in robust, student-centered teaching and learning. – Dr. Mark Benigni, Meriden Public Schools (Connecticut). – Dr. Mark Benigni, Meriden Public Schools.

Leadership 162

Leadership Charter School Public School Tradition 162

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2024

The first draft discouraged tracking children into separate math classes by achievement levels, and proposed delaying algebra until high school. It emphasized “social justice” and suggested that students could take data science instead of advanced algebra in high school. Boaler’s critics had arguably won their main policy battles.

Social Justice 135

Social Justice Middle School Civics Tradition 135

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.

Teaching 128

Teaching K-12 Tradition High School 128

The Hechinger Report

JULY 14, 2019

I was trained and licensed to be a music teacher in the traditional American way. Almost all of what I just described was traditional. Incredibly traditional. We’ve become very well-grounded in traditional education theory, techniques and subject matters. My classes included all varieties of instruments.

Cultures 109

Cultures Education Middle School Tradition 109

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

The concept caught my attention during a demonstration at HolonIQ’s ‘Back to School ’ summit in New York City earlier this month. The lesson seemed a lot more relevant than copying a row of equations from a chalkboard, which I remember from my own more traditional (and boring) math education so many years ago.

Middle School 112

Middle School Tradition Government Educational Technology 112

The Hechinger Report

JULY 25, 2023

Chief equity officers in public school districts across the country have one key mission: to help address the inequities in our education system. In practice, the work of a chief equity officer varies vastly across counties, cities, neighborhoods and the schools they serve — often even classroom to classroom.

Elementary School 80

Elementary School Public School Cultures Leadership 80

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.

Lesson Plan 132

Lesson Plan Cultures Private School Public School 132