The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 19, 2021

On a morning this fall at Washington Elementary, a young boy, sitting at a table with five of his peers, held a tablet while he built a digital snowman — a cool proposition given the 85-degree heat just outside his air-conditioned classroom. In 2007, administrators were frustrated by the district’s poor outcomes and low graduation rate.

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Online Learning How To Competency Based Learning Learning 131

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 17, 2017

In 2008, a few years after Hurricane Katrina, school officials in Louisiana asked aspiring charter-school leader Andrew Shahan to consider taking over the failing Dr. Charles Drew Elementary School in New Orleans’ Upper 9th Ward. Photo: Cheryl Gerber for The Hechinger Report. Related: When a hyped school model proves difficult to replicate.

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Elementary Report Meeting Advocacy 66

The Hechinger Report

MAY 16, 2016

But Oakland is one of a growing number of districts trying to reconnect top administrators to the kids they serve as a way to help the critical middleman in education: the school principal. On one side of the room, Ron Smith, a middle school network superintendent, quizzed Kyla Trammell, an elementary network superintendent.

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Training How To Survey Academic Standards 76

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 1, 2017

. — When Mary Fair became a teacher in 2012, her classes often contained a mix of special education students and general education students. Placing children with and without disabilities in the same classroom, instead of segregating them, was a growing national trend, spurred on by lawsuits by special education advocates.

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Training Elementary Report Course 40

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 5, 2018

The district is at a pivotal moment now that a federal court has released it from decades-long supervision of its policies for educating students of color. It has made progress to topple the barriers still holding black and Hispanic students back from the same academic success as white students. Board of Education decision.

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Policies Data Elementary Academic Standards 57