The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 6, 2022

Her tenure began just a few months into the pandemic when coronavirus cases were surging across the nation and education officials were grappling with whether and how to reopen schools. Robinson concluded they weren’t and resigned in June 2021. 14, 2021, in Elko, Nevada. 28, 2021, in Las Vegas, Nevada.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 17, 2022

In the spring of 2021, $600 stood between Endele Wilson and his dream of achieving a teaching credential from Long Beach City College. Wilson, 47, started taking courses in 2019, a few months before the pandemic hit and just before he lost his job as an elementary school music teacher. This story also appeared in Los Angeles Times.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 14, 2023

Decades of chronic underfunding is often at the root of the struggles in districts like Cleveland to serve high proportions of Black and Latino students from low-income backgrounds, said Allison Rose Socol, a vice president at The Education Trust, an education advocacy group. Related: How to make Cleveland ‘great again’?

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 5, 2022

Black teachers were more than twice as likely as other teachers in the winter of 2021 to say they planned to leave their jobs at the end of the 2020-21 school year, according to a report released by the RAND Corporation. One of Talbott’s daughters graduated from Lusher in 2021; the other still attends the high school.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 26, 2022

Kerrick’s model could be added to high school English and civics classes everywhere to show students how to dissect any source of information — whether that source is an article, a meme or a viral audio clip. Norah Laughter is a senior in high school at Greenwood High School in Bowling Green, Kentucky, and lives in Russellville, Kentucky.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Although the majority of educator-preparation programs saw no or relatively small enrollment changes in fall of 2020 and fall of 2021, 20 percent of institutions saw a decline in new undergrad enrollment that exceeded 10 percent, according to survey data from the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 26, 2023

Rural districts tend to have a harder time recruiting school psychologists, said Kelly Vaillancourt Strobach, director of policy and advocacy for the National Association of School Psychologists. The grant programs are also part of President Joe Biden’s effort to double the number of school-based mental health professionals.

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eSchool News

APRIL 16, 2021

April 16, 2021 — England’s first permanent colony in North America, Historical Jamestowne Island, is modernizing with the help of Cox Business. Today, Historical Jamestowne Island and Cox Business will present a virtual trip for King’s Grant Elementary School from Virginia Beach, VA. ATLANTA and JAMESTOWN, Va.,

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 7, 2019

Now, some school districts are pushing this job exploration into middle and even elementary school, convinced that helping students connect what they are learning to careers will not only deepen their engagement but also help them make more informed decisions about their educational paths. Related: How to build an engineer: Start young.

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edWeb.net

APRIL 14, 2021

Achievement-oriented school: How does school look when the focus isn’t just on test scores but setting lofty goals and working towards them? To meet these goals, they start with the perspective of advocacy for all, especially BIPOC, high-poverty, LGBTQ, religious, and other populations within their schools. About the Host.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 13, 2021

At the beginning of 2021, The Hechinger Report’s members (individual readers who donated money to our nonprofit news organization) asked us if we would report on the best practices for helping the nation’s public school system recover from the pandemic. So it’s easy for me to show them how to do it, show them my way,” said Obimma.

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ExcelinEd

AUGUST 3, 2020

Last week , Excel in Ed hosted Commissioner Morat h and Jennifer Esterline , founder and director of Educate Texas’ Texas Education Grantmakers Advocacy Consortium , for a deep dive into about the state’s COVID-19 strategy and approach.? ? . Texas schools are facing two challenges that Commissioner Morath focused on: .

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Data released at the end of the 2021-22 school year showed the district increased math scores by double digits in grades 3-8, outperforming pre-COVID levels. However, there were still 25 elementary schools in the district without access to Hazel’s mental health resources. Through persistent efforts, Ms.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 27, 2022

By 2021, it had committed to its most ambitious goal yet: overhauling the way Fairfax County Public Schools teaches students to read and supports struggling readers. Some teachers had always incorporated phonics—intentionally sequenced lessons in how to sound out words from letters—but the district had not made it a requirement.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Free, online teacher and parent training designed to improve the executive functioning of elementary school-aged children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) or attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), is now accessible across the nation. Aurora, Colo. The availability of this training is possible due . It is ranked No.

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edWeb.net

MAY 21, 2021

The 2021 Driving K-12 Innovation report released by CoSN selected the most critical Hurdles (challenges), Accelerators (mega-trends), and Tech Enablers (tools) that school districts are facing with personalized learning, innovation, and digital equity. By Eileen Belastock. WATCH THE EDWEBINAR RECORDING. LISTEN TO THE PODCAST. Tech Enablers.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 2, 2021

“Between cooking meals to feed my children throughout the entire day, keeping up on household duties, ‘mommying,’ doing my own college courses, and teaching … there was never enough time,” says Memoree Skinner, an elementary special education teacher, graduate student, and mother of three. Census Bureau.

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edWeb.net

MARCH 5, 2021

But since the tech keeps upgrading and evolving, teachers need to receive ongoing training on how to best use the resources to support their students. Dr. Doug Brubaker has served as Superintendent of Texarkana Independent School District (TX) since January 2021. Have tech and business offices work together. LISTEN TO THE PODCAST.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 29, 2022

The Schenectady district fortified its five-year-old diversion program in 2021 when it started to see more students, even those in middle school, landing in long-term suspension because of post-pandemic behavior problems after they returned to in-person learning. No answer, no gesture was too small to merit thanks.

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Edsurge

MAY 2, 2022

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. But there are indications that it has only gotten worse since COVID-19 entered the profession.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Tyler Wright congratulates one of his 4th grade students with a fist bump at Stono Park Elementary School in Charleston, Friday, Nov. ” Eric Duncan, part of education advocacy organization Ed Trust’s policy team, said Thorne’s story is one echoed by Black male educators nationwide who feel perpetually overlooked.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

We work with teachers and administrators to create life-long learning patterns in students, whether that’s by curating resources for classroom research projects or by coming into the classroom to teach a lesson on how to do research themselves. A lesson on how to create a podcast. A lesson on how to create a podcast.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2022

Carson helped me figure out how to tell you,’ then I’m possibly going to be sued,” she said. But Americans remain divided over whether elementary school library books should include gay and lesbian characters, with about half of parents saying it would make them somewhat or very uncomfortable. That’s happening around the country.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Not an aspiring star, Adelyn has enjoyed volleying the ball, informally, but doesn’t really know how to play the game. Adelyn Vigil, 13 poses for a photo before her birthday party on July 24, 2021 in Edinburg, Texas. Adelyn Vigil, 13 puts on makeup before her birthday party at her uncle’s home on July 24, 2021 in Edinburg, Texas.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 23, 2023

In February 2021, Los Angeles approved a reform initiative known as the Black Student Achievement Plan. For example, in Pennsylvania, where I call home, the state’s funding scheme has been found unconstitutional for providing inadequate and unequal funding. million for a 5,000-student district.”

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 10, 2023

Sitting beside her, Candy Turner , a retired elementary school teacher who had brought Ziploc bags of pear slices and dried cranberries for the hours ahead, agreed. “I Then it appointed Susie Luckey, a popular elementary school principal, as interim superintendent until June. I think we are in trouble based on what I saw.”

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 9, 2021

She’d lost her sister to suicide and wished she’d known what signs to look for and how to intervene. Suicide prevention education aims to teach people how to identify signs that a person may be suicidal, how to talk to that person about their thoughts and where to turn for help. CODY, Wyo. — The goal is to offer hope.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

It would either create “the blueprint” for outside political interests to enact a complete takeover of local public schools, he said, or “the blueprint for how to stand up to it.” Also in 2021 came Pennridge’s first serious battles over diversity programs.

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