The Hechinger Report

APRIL 7, 2024

Credit: Leah Fabel for The Hechinger Report Collegiate recovery programs began appearing at four-year institutions in the late 1970s, offering services like sober-living dorms, life skills classes and recovery coaches. Credit: Leah Fabel for The Hechinger Report But the toughest scrambles are often for staff and funding.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 24, 2024

In California, Child Care Providers United, which represents more than 40,000 home-based providers, won the right to collective bargaining in 2019 , and last year secured a second substantial reimbursement increase from the state for many home child care providers. Yet there have been union victories in recent years.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 14, 2021

They didn’t have a high-tech classroom with fancy equipment — in fact most students didn’t even have laptops or access to the internet. For example, the focus of last summer’s global virtual camp was leadership and advocacy through the power of storytelling. classrooms as school closures continue because of Covid-19.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 25, 2021

Instead, schools must support and address these issues in the classroom. In March 2019, McBride finally succeeded in getting her daughter identified as having an emotional impairment and given an individualized education program, or IEP. Other parents report simply being called almost every day to pick up their child early.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 22, 2021

public school students in grades 3-8 from fall 2021 compared to students in the same grade in fall of 2019, the last quarter unaffected by COVID-19. Student gains across the pandemic (from fall 2019 to fall 2021) lagged norms for pre-pandemic growth, especially in math.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 11, 2023

He was a sophomore at Long Island’s Brentwood High School, a few days before Thanksgiving in 2019, when he made a post on Snapchat late one night about hiding an AK-47 at Area 51 in Nevada. Credit: Sarah Butrymowicz/The Hechinger Report New York state allows students to be suspended for up to 180 days — an entire school year.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 10, 2021

At Northeastern Illinois, only 11 percent of Black students graduated within six years in 2019. In some states, the graduation rate gaps are particularly acute: At every four-year public college in Illinois and Missouri with data available, for example, there was a gap of at least 14 percentage points between white and Black students in 2019.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 31, 2019

Photo: Jackie Mader/The Hechinger Report. And classrooms needed more books and educational materials. Literacy scores for children have increased and kindergarten teachers have started to report back to Smith that her graduates are “kindergarten ready.” The problem was not for a lack of trying.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Credit: Alison Yin for The Hechinger Report Photo by Alison Yin for The Hechinger Report. Credit: Alison Yin for The Hechinger Report. Credit: Charlotte West for The Hechinger Report. Credit: Alison Yin for The Hechinger Report. Who is the school board really representing?” said Mendoza.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Hispanic or Latinx, Black, African American and multiracial students, on average, reported dealing with more obstacles than white or Asian students. Previously, if teachers were worried about a student, they could ask school mental health professionals to come into a classroom to observe. Sign up for Hechinger’s newsletter.

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Edsurge

MARCH 4, 2020

Go behind the story: Listen to an interview with reporter Emily Tate about her visit to a school working to teach some of the youngest victims of the opioid crisis. Parents and staff, too, report marked improvements in the kids. BIHNER REGAINED FULL CUSTODY of Ryder and River, her now-1-year-old, in January 2019.

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Iterating Toward Openness

AUGUST 31, 2022

Leveraging the “No Significant Difference” Effect for OER Advocacy. OpenStax Director of Research Philip Grimaldi and other authors asked the same questions in their 2019 article Do open educational resources improve student learning? They had an important role to play in OER advocacy. ” Not at all.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Credit: Tina Russell for The Hechinger Report Cory Orr’s accelerated training program meets seven hours a day, four days a week; it will take him 22 weeks instead of the usual two years to earn the certifications he needs to become an industrial maintenance technician. Credit: Tina Russell for The Hechinger Report.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

And in fall 2021, 13 percent of responding institutions reported significant declines in new graduate student enrollment. King, consultant for research, policy and advocacy at the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education. Another upside for students would be the opportunity to try out different classroom environments.

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NeverEndingSearch

FEBRUARY 8, 2020

Television coverage included this report by NBC10’s Stephanía Jiménez: For me, one of the most powerful moments was Kayla Johnson’s poignant recognition of her privilege , as a student who attended Philadelphia schools that still had librarians through her whole K12 experience.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 6, 2018

Photo: Chris Berdik for The Hechinger Report. She clicked on icons embedded in the virtual classroom to learn about energy-saving features such as LED lights and super-insulated exterior walls made of concrete-filled foam blocks. Much of the advocacy for net-zero buildings has focused on environmental and economic incentives.

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eSchool News

JUNE 22, 2016

With ed-tech spending expected to reach $55B by 2019 as predicted by market research firm Technavio, schools and districts should ensure they can produce carefully-crafted technology plans that outline how technology will work successfully in classrooms. Material from a press release was used in this report.

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edWeb.net

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Across the nation, district equity discussions include how schools must examine current biases from bus stops to classroom materials to educator and staff expectations. The district is using multiple measures from the classroom to district level across internal and external categories to determine if students are college and career ready.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 25, 2019

at a March 2019 conference of the Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness. The advocacy organization Attendance Works encourages schools to reward good attendance. The post When school rewards backfire appeared first on The Hechinger Report. Robinson presented her findings in Washington, D.C.,

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MindShift

OCTOBER 29, 2020

This story about youth activism was produced by The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. Alison Yin for The Hechinger Report). Charlotte West for The Hechinger Report). Alison Yin for The Hechinger Report). Sign up for Hechinger’s newsletter.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 19, 2024

Credit: Sharon Chischilly for The Hechinger Report. We’re in the classrooms. Credit: Sharon Chischilly for The Hechinger Report. About two-thirds of the school’s teachers are Native American, with many alumni now leading classrooms. Credit: Sharon Chischilly for The Hechinger Report. We’re leading these schools.

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Adam Watson Edtech Elixirs

JANUARY 1, 2020

While it's fictionalized, it's based on the reality I have faced in the past as a classroom teacher in a traditional grading system. A parent walks into a classroom to discuss her son's current grade with his English teacher. I'd like to start this entry with what I like to call "the tyranny of 82%." I'm worried," the parent frets.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 10, 2022

A 2019 report from the Stanford History Education Group found that high school students had “difficulty discerning fact from fiction online.”. In 2016, Polites, the state advocacy leader for nonprofit Media Literacy Now, began to contact her state legislators, advocating for an “information literacy” bill being proposed at the time.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Prior to the 2021-2022 school year, the district’s assessment data showed math scores were low, contributing to 14 out of 48 schools in the district being identified as low performing in 2019. This talent for seeing how edtech can transform, rather than replace, traditional methods enhances every decision Colene makes in the classroom.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 1, 2022

Usually when you get a report back from the school, it’s just a few pages, not a comprehensive report,” she says. Yet Civitareale has paid an average of $2,500 out of pocket each time for “extras” not covered by her family’s already expensive insurance, including classroom observations and expert testimony at school meetings.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 26, 2022

Some 95 percent of district leaders reported in a recent survey that the pandemic caused a shortage of substitute teachers. And at least one governor called on National Guard members to volunteer as warm bodies in the front of classrooms. Credit: Terra Fondriest for The Hechinger Report. Covid made a bad situation worse.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Some 2,400 districts — from regions synonymous with economic hardship to big cities and prosperous suburbs — did not report having even one homeless student despite levels of financial need that make those figures improbable. Districts must waive enrollment requirements, such as immunization forms, that could keep kids out of the classroom.

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Edsurge

MARCH 5, 2020

She was fielding reports of kids knocking over bookshelves, tables and chairs; hitting their classmates; and causing physical harm to themselves and their teachers. In some cases, staff had to evacuate entire classrooms to ensure the safety of the other children in their care. I would get that call maybe two or three times a year.”

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 2, 2023

Credit: Neal Morton/The Hechinger Report The assistance came thanks to a Washington state program — one of the first of its kind in the country — that aims to help children who aren’t considered homeless, and unqualified for help, under a strict federal definition. An emergency family shelter in Vancouver, Wash.,

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

And the delayed diagnosis left her without access to resources that would have allowed her son to be pulled out of his classrooms for personalized instruction time. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports that Black women, for example, make up a disproportionate number of pregnancy deaths. It was not there.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

She oversees curriculum development, professional development and new staff training for 69 classrooms. But her view changed when her son’s teachers invited her into the classroom as a volunteer and encouraged her to apply to be a substitute teacher. Fredrick’s journey isn’t all that unusual.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 14, 2021

The school’s PTSA had zero assets or income as of 2018, according to a local public radio report. “I Mothers Gwyn Hainsworth, far left, Vernee Fletcher, Jamie Zimmerman, Katy Strange and Leticia Bazemore pose at Jefferson Park in Seattle during a June 2019 soccer scrimmage. It was never about the money,” she said. “We

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 27, 2022

It waged battles that mattered for some, “but rarely made us feel like we were having a profound impact on the system,” said Sujatha Hampton, who became chair of the committee in 2019. In Emily VanDerhoff’s first-grade classroom this fall, Fairfax students have mastered consonant-vowel-consonant words: cat, bed, dog.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 8, 2021

Classrooms aren’t easy for Alan, his mother said. (We Credit: Paul Ratje for The Hechinger Report. Credit: Paul Ratje for The Hechinger Report. In a recent survey drawing responses from 1,219 teachers and conducted by the charter schools advocacy organization the Thomas B. Credit: Paul Ratje for The Hechinger Report.

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edWeb.net

AUGUST 19, 2021

And as the leaders worked on equity, they would not only report back to the board but continue to involve other stakeholders in the process. He was recently recognized as a 2019 Superintendent to Watch by the National School Public Relations Association (NSPRA). Communication. You can follow him on Twitter @scaughtsb.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Children’s Hospital Colorado is one of the nation’s leading and most expansive pediatric healthcare systems with a mission to improve the health of children through patient care, education, research and advocacy. In 2019, Children’s Hospital Colorado, Colorado Springs, opened as the first pediatric-only hospital in southern Colorado.

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Edsurge

MAY 2, 2022

A month later, after 14 years in the classroom, she left teaching. Teaching may now be the most stressful profession period, according to a RAND survey from June 2021, which found, among other things, that teachers were almost three times more likely to report symptoms of depression than other adults. So she did.

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