The Hechinger Report

MAY 19, 2024

Picture a young girl named Emma, who finds herself transitioning from a public school to a private school due to her unique educational needs. Many parents agree with their public schools’ recommendations to move their children to private schools to better address their educational needs.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 29, 2024

One study quoted in a White House report found that the number of chronically absent public school students nearly doubled , from around 15 percent in the 2018-19 school year to around 30 percent in 2021-22. As word of the medical-legal partnership model spreads in Connecticut, educators are taking note, too. “As

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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).

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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.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 3, 2016

This week, as we celebrate Digital Promise’s fifth anniversary , we also welcome the districts who are part of the 2016-2017 cohort of the League of Innovative Schools. Steve Webb, chair of the League Advisory Committee and superintendent of Vancouver Public Schools , kicks us off. Fullerton School District.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 25, 2024

New federal survey data on the education workforce shows that a majority of schools had a tough time filling at least one fully certified teaching position this fall. Public schools reported having six teacher vacancies on average in August, based on responses to the School Pulse Panel by the National Center for Education Statistics.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Minneapolis Public Schools (Minnesota) already uses data to inform decision-making in more than 70 schools across the city, but they wanted to find best practices for interoperability to link different systems together for more accurate and timely data. Abby Wolf IT Strategy Process Analyst, Minneapolis Public Schools.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 1, 2020

Shelby County Public Schools, a district serving about 7,000 students halfway between Louisville and Lexington, has had state approval for “nontraditional instruction” for several years. That means if a bad snowstorm hit the county, they could keep school going remotely and count the days like any others in the school calendar.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

In 2023 and 2024, RAND surveyed more than 3,000 school principals and almost 1,000 math teachers across the country. The educators are part of a specially constructed national sample, designed to reflect all public schools and the demographics of the U.S. student population.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 12, 2023

But the latest national study from a Stanford University research group calculates that students, on average, learned more at charter schools between the years of 2014 and 2019 than similar students did at their traditional local public schools. It was the pits,” she said and charter school advocates were “pissed.”

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 17, 2021

She was not alone: A December report revealed that nearly one in five Nashville public school students was failing at least one class. We now have a real chance to disrupt traditional grading practices in schools, districts and even higher education. I believe this is wrong. How can we fail young people during a pandemic?

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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. There was nothing like this.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 16, 2021

That is the consensus emerging from education leaders across the country as the nation enters a second year of schooling in a pandemic. A public school district in Arizona is looking to become a service provider for parents who have pulled their children out to home-school them. Credit: Nicholas Serpa.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 31, 2018

The vast majority of Saridis’s students are Latino, and at the Margarita Muñiz Academy in Boston, a dual-language high school in Boston Public Schools, connecting the curriculum to their culture is a top priority. The show also adds hip hop – a genre created in the black community – to more traditional Broadway ballads.

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 14, 2019

Please join us in welcoming the new 2019-2020 cohort of the League of Innovative Schools! Chesapeake Public Schools. Hampton Township School District. Lake Washington School District. Lynwood Unified School District. Menlo Park City School District. Orange Unified School District.

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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 ! ?

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Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

Richland School District Two will launch summer classes in high school credit CS and coding instruction in summer 2017 to compensate for limited teacher-led instruction during the traditional school year. Forging meaningful partnerships with institutions of higher education. Coordinating with the private sector.

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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.

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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.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 22, 2020

On Day 5 of New Hampshire’s public school closings, Zoey Stack, age 5, Owen Stack, age 6, and Liam Stack, age 10, begin their schoolwork over breakfast (with chocolate milk!). Off camera, their mother, Erica Stack, supervises while preparing to teach her own school class online. Jon’s family has three.

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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.

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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

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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Thrive in Grade Five

FEBRUARY 2, 2019

We need to emphasize that Native American groups were (and are still) unique with distinct language, beliefs, traditions, and dress. 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

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.

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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.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Fewer Black and Brown communities are able to access services for students with disabilities and high-quality instruction for their children in public schools. Yet there remains a huge shortage of special education public school teachers across most U.S. school districts.

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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.

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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.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Sometimes a single class, such as 11th grade “algebra II” or 12th grade English, can earn a student credit toward both high school and college. Most early college high schools are small public schools, housing grades nine to 12 just like traditional public high schools, though some extend five years.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Jenkins said one of the reasons she has been teaching in the Phoenix Union High School District, one of 30 public school districts here, for so long is that she doesn’t feel alone. And candidates with non-traditional teaching backgrounds are considered. We don’t have to be theoretical about what we’re doing.

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