The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 24, 2018

This story about foster care and education was produced as part of a series, “Twice Abandoned: How schools and child-welfare systems fail kids in foster care,” reported by HuffPost and The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. Sign up for the Hechinger newsletter.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 7, 2018

Liam Frometa, 5, left, and Christopher Ramos, 5, right, play with their classroom’s smart board at Fun Time Early Learning Academy in Naples, Fla. By 2013, the last year for which data is available, the gap between the two groups had shrunk to just 10 percent. Sign up for the Hechinger newsletter. NAPLES, Fla.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 15, 2018

CAST Tech, which opened in fall 2017 with 175 freshmen, is the first of three career-themed public high schools currently planned for San Antonio. They rely on industry “partners” — 10 so far at CAST Tech — to guarantee students internships and mentorships and to help keep the curriculum current. All of this is by design.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2022

You don’t have a computer, you don’t have internet, you can’t even access distance learning,” Silver said. . — After schools went remote in 2020, Jessica Ramos spent hours that spring and summer sitting on a bench in front of her local Oakland Public Library branch in the vibrant and diverse Dimond District. It was a hassle,” she said. “I

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 5, 2017

In this ongoing series, The Hechinger Report is visiting high schools that have beaten the long odds to learn what’s behind their success in improving graduation rates and sending more students to college. . — Research found that a $3.5 So our daily greeting provides a positive interaction before they get into their classroom.”.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 16, 2018

In a darkened classroom in Essex Technical High School, Anna Maria Miller takes careful notes while watching a subtitled video sampling from Rwanda’s infamous “hate radio,” which helped fuel the genocide of the minority Tutsi population in 1994. HATHORNE, Mass. — It’s my best chance to do what I want.”. needs more tradespeople.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 5, 2022

Wayne Orr didn’t yet know that his foot was broken as he made his way back from Texas to his home in South Carolina, but he did know he couldn’t continue pressing the pedals on the tractor-trailer he had been driving. This story also appeared in The New York Times. Credit: Sean Rayford for The New York Times.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 30, 2024

million times from 2017-18 to 2021-22 across the 20 states that collect this data. million times from 2017-18 to 2021-22 across the 20 states that collect this data. Learn more about the data and how we did our analysis.) Another ripped up his school work. The district called it “destruction of school property.”

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 2, 2024

For the first 57 minutes of the basketball game between two Bend, Oregon, high school rivals, Kyra Rice stood at the edges of the court taking yearbook photos. Kyra pushed back: She had permission to stand near the court. Both she and her mother were shocked to learn the next day that she’d been suspended from school. “OK,

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The CoolCatTeacher

OCTOBER 4, 2017

Mandi Figlioli on episode 163 of the 10-Minute Teacher Podcast From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Mandy talks about how the course is structured, gives a story of how students are being transformed, and shares how they are re-working the course based on what they learned the first year.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

The program he’s referring to is an online learning platform, Edgenuity. During the 2016-17 school year, 71 schools in the state used online learning platforms, according to the Mississippi Department of Education. Photo: Eric J Shelton for Mississippi Today. ROSEDALE, Miss. — Defeat hangs in the room,” said Smith.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 29, 2019

Sixty-eight percent work at least part time and 44 percent full time or more, 1,500 are military veterans, and almost two-thirds have transferred from somewhere else. Rebecca Klein-Collins, associate vice president for research at the Council for Adult and Experiential Learning. These aren’t necessarily child prodigies.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 30, 2020

These days, she spends her time doing counseling sessions via Zoom and Facebook, editing juniors’ essays in Google Docs and trying to contact all 320 members of the class of 2020. SAN RAFAEL, Calif. This story also appeared in Mind/Shift. She and her colleagues hope to reach every senior by email, phone or social media.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

Lake Pontchartrain glistened as Rinata Williams rode north from New Orleans. Before Hurricane Katrina, just half of New Orleans public school students earned a high school diploma , and few went on to succeed at a university. She was the only student with dark skin and the red-and-black braids that had been popular back home.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

On this July day, with pop music playing in the background, Sam and his classmates were trying to build cardboard canoes capable of transporting at least one paddling student to a target and back. You learn a lot not just about math and science, but also about yourself.”. You take super hard math classes,” Sam added with a grin.

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MindShift

MAY 1, 2020

This story about college counselors was produced by The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. Sign up for our higher education newsletter. SAN RAFAEL, Calif. She and her colleagues hope to reach every senior by email, phone or social media.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

Such students are seen as a source of much-needed revenue at a time when drops in state funding and declining undergraduate enrollment have squeezed higher education budgets. It warrants scrutiny figuring out who is setting the price, who is taking what percentage of that money and doing what with it in return.”. “It

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

Raise your hand if you know your stretch goal,” Johnson said — referring to students’ personal better-than-best target score on their upcoming standardized tests. “I Photo: Terrell Clark for The Hechinger Report. CLARKSDALE, Miss. — It was a rainy February morning, but Clarksdale Collegiate Principal Amanda Johnson was fired up.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 5, 2018

This story about school segregation was produced by The Texas Tribune , a nonprofit, nonpartisan media organization that provides free news, data and events on Texas public policy, politics, government and statewide issues. This story was reprinted with permission. Bowden, drab and dimly lit, is still struggling as it awaits an $11.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 8, 2019

NEW ORLEANS – The sun glowed gold, and a second line parade was tuning its horns just a few streets away. She climbed the stairs to the shotgun house her mom had bought in uptown New Orleans more than half a century ago. She searched for Southern University’s New Orleans campus, and the school’s baby-blue website loaded.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

ChatGPT in education can be the answer we’re looking for in our search for the ideal, personalized student experience–and ultimately student success. Use ChatGPT as an innovative pathway in education For students and educators alike, allowing for creativity in new types of learning in the classroom should always be encouraged.

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Shake Up Learning

DECEMBER 27, 2016

The post 17 Things for Teachers to Try in 2017 (Infographic and FREE Download) appeared first on Shake Up Learning. 17 Things for Teachers to Try in 2017 #SUL #edtech Click To Tweet. 17 Challenges for Teachers in 2017! 2017 is upon us, and there are so many new and exciting advances in technology coming our way.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 11, 2019

Richard Baca joined the New Mexico National Guard for the education benefits promised to him through the GI Bill, but after returning from two deployments to Iraq he became mired in difficulties with a for-profit university and has at least temporarily given up on getting a degree. Photo provided by Richard Baca.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 28, 2019

Hermenegildo Rubio stands with his children (from left) Abby, 16, Adam, 10, Danny, 20, and Noemi, 13, in the living room of his Honey Grove home. It was one of the biggest worksite raids in the past 10 years, said Katrina Berger , special agent in charge for Homeland Security Investigations in Dallas, during a press conference.

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Hack Education

JANUARY 12, 2018

I’ll lead off this week’s roundup of education news with this from England, from The Guardian : “ Toby Young resigns from the Office for Students after backlash.” And more Toby Young (and eugenics) news in the “meanwhile on campus” section below. National) Education Politics.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

You can read the series here: 2010 , 2011 , 2012 , 2013 , 2014 , 2015 , 2016 , 2017 , 2018 , 2019. In 2017, just a week before Christmas, the New Media Consortium abruptly announced its immediate closure “because of apparent errors and omissions by its former Controller and Chief Financial Officer.” with Pigeons.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 4, 2016

“ This year, however, I’ve scheduled this topic earlier, which means I can’t really offer a finalized list of the year’s ”Most Well-Funded Startups“ or ”Most Active Investors. I think it’s safe to say, for example, that venture capital investment has fallen off rather precipitously this year.

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

An incredible piece of reporting by The Guardian on corporate lobbying and influence in Wisconsin politics following Scott Walker ’s anti-union efforts in the state. Here’s Anil Dash’s take. ” Via Education Week’s Market Brief : “Closely Watched Lawsuit Has Implications for Open Ed.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 26, 2018

School administrators note that from 2014-15 to 2016-17, pass rates more than doubled, from 10 percent to 21 percent, on NWEA, another set of exams used by districts across the country. Louis has made it across the river. Photo: AP Photo/Jeff Roberson. LOUIS, Ill. Lettie Hicks is a dreamer. People come to East St. Louis and say, ‘East St.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 30, 2020

It was one of the few things of personal significance that he’d brought with him. “I He was glad he had something from home as he walked alone into North Middle School to start eighth grade in his new hometown of Sioux City, Iowa. He’d taken English classes back home, but the people here seemed to speak incredibly fast.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

DETROIT — Taking a trip down memory lane from the sidewalk in front of Western International High School, former civics teacher Keith Johnson shared the school’s ghost story, a tall tale about a child who died in a 1935 fire there. Everything was new, and still working, he remembers them saying. Though, perhaps, not the future.

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 13, 2017

Via The New York Times : “ U.S. Will Withdraw From Unesco , Citing Its ‘Anti-Israel Bias’ ” UNESCO is the UN ’s educational and cultural organization. ” Via Edsurge : “ Betsy DeVos Visits Bay Area Public School for a Lesson in Personalized Learning.”

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Doug Levin

APRIL 2, 2017

Questions that have been a long time coming… Otherwise, here’s what caught my eye this week – news, tools, and reports about education, public policy, technology, and innovation – including a little bit about why. A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 13 Edition). It is that bad.

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Doug Levin

APRIL 2, 2017

Questions that have been a long time coming… Otherwise, here’s what caught my eye this week – news, tools, and reports about education, public policy, technology, and innovation – including a little bit about why. A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 13 Edition). It is that bad.

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

That’s a Mistake,” writes Erika Christakis in The Atlantic. One of the most important stories this past week was the Trump Administration’s announcement that it planned to end the DACA program, putting the immigration status and safety of some 800,000 people into question. ” (State and Local) Education Politics.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 19, 2019

And in the summer of 2017, Taheem’s 16-year-old sister, Naveha Gibbs, was shot and killed in a city a 20-minute drive to the north. So Taheem spends much of his free time inside, reading. Taheem learned coping strategies from a family crisis therapist at the school, whom he came to trust and rely on. Future of Learning.

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Hack Education

JUNE 3, 2016

Via The Atlantic : “Why the Education Department’s New Equity Rule Might Not Be So Equal.” ” Via Education Week : “ Cursive writing could be returning to Louisiana ’s public school classrooms. .” We can only hope it’s as a coding bootcamp. Education in the Courts.

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