The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 2, 2023

The arts have been part of public education almost from the beginning. Nineteenth century education reformer Horace Mann, the father of American public schools, believed that the arts enhanced learning. Arts education steadily increased throughout most of the 20th century. Why learn art in school? Large trial.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

In Fairfax County, Virginia, thousands of middle school students experience what most of their peers leave behind in elementary school — recess. Educators and researchers say students pay the price. Middle schools generally have more students than elementary schools, and the students themselves are taller and heavier.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 20, 2023

Known as public school choice or open enrollment, this policy gives children in poor neighborhoods a chance at a better education. This story also appeared in Mind/Shift However, a new study of public school choice in Charlotte, North Carolina, finds a deeply troubling consequence to this well-intended policy: increased crime.

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User Generated Education

DECEMBER 1, 2014

My Own Chapter: M oving From Education 1.0 Through Education 2.0 Towards Education 3.0. Self-determined learning or heutagogy is fast gaining interest from educators around the world interested in an evidence-based approach to learning. Moving From Education 1.0 Through Education 2.0 Towards Education 3.0:

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MIND Research Institute

DECEMBER 19, 2019

Another "big" for Texas is education, and when I'm looking to get a pulse on what the current trends and landscape are, I turn to social media! With over 5 million students currently enrolled in Texas public schools alone , the Twitterverse is rich with insights from state educational leadership. Tony Bonazzi @GISDMath.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 22, 2018

Pam Moran, superintendent in Albemarle County in Virginia, shares about some cool virtual reality in Virginia, some challenges with helping new teachers get started, and how she thinks education is entering a new Renaissance of creativity and innovation. Educating Kids for Life Not for Tests. Get motivated today listening to Pam.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 25, 2021

Her parents wanted to get her a special education designation — and all the supports that came with it. The short answer, according to special education lawyers and advocates across the country, is no. Catherine Pearson, parent of a student in special education. But that doesn’t stop it from happening frequently.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 19, 2023

After a few hours, the elementary school called: Come pick up your son, they told her. One of the biggest problems that we have is kids that are missing and chronic absenteeism,” says Pamela Herd, a Georgetown University public policy professor. She had yet to register the youngest girl, who was entering kindergarten.

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edWeb.net

MAY 11, 2020

To help teachers with the transition to online instruction, an edWebinar hosted by SETDA featured educators sharing what is working for them as they teach students online during the COVID-19 crisis. There also should be a consistent policy in regard to late work, which at Ashley’s school gets 80% credit. About the Presenters.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

What does the declining birthrate mean for elementary, middle and high schools across the country? “If it does come true, we’re going to see massive changes,” said Mike Griffith, a school finance specialist at the Education Commission of the States, a think tank that aims to inform education policy.

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The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 4, 2019

In their July 14, 2019 article “ Why Teachers Quit ,” We Are Teachers summarizes, “A recent study by the Learning Policy Institute shows that if a teacher receives mentoring, collaboration, and extra resources, and is part of a strong teacher network, first-year turnover is cut by more than half. 25) Learning Policy Institute. (24)

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 12, 2019

If we did in health care what we do in education, we’d say this to everyone who walks through the hospital door: “We prescribe the same treatment for everyone. Equal treatment will not enable us to reach the nation’s professed objective of educating all children for success. Getty Images. We’ve always done this.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 29, 2023

In the heart of the Deep South, Mississippi has wrestled with enduring educational disparities, a profoundly rooted challenge passed down through generations. Mississippi’s past, marked by a legacy of racial segregation and educational inequality, continues to cast a long shadow on its present and future.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 15, 2023

When Alexandra Logue served as the chief academic officer of the City University of New York (CUNY) from 2008 to 2014, she discovered that her 25-college system was spending over $20 million a year on remedial classes. Department of Education. The majority of these students dropped out without degrees.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 29, 2016

Technology has been a key component in the planting, fertilization, growth and eventually, the blossoming of new statewide initiatives including distance education and new professional learning opportunities for educators that have benefitted students in a variety of ways. Wyoming educators get up and stretch in the middle of a PD Day.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 29, 2022

Although the switch was initially seen as a cost-saving measure, educators have quickly learned that longer weekends are immensely popular with families, especially in rural communities where the truncated school week is most common. “We There are crazy high approval ratings for this policy.” Sign up for the Hechinger newsletter.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 18, 2021

And the nonprofit would help with other quality improvement efforts, like providing funds to enable Araujo to buy a curriculum and supplies, expand her classroom and even further her education. And they have access to frequent coaching, wraparound services for children and families and opportunities for teacher education and training.

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Bryan Alexander

NOVEMBER 26, 2015

Changes in higher education enrollment can sound very bland or abstract. It’s peak higher education and increasing income inequality combined. It’s peak higher education and increasing income inequality combined. We’re talking large numbers, tens of millions of students, and thousands of campuses.

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Shake Up Learning

OCTOBER 4, 2022

After weighing the life of a laboratory researcher and the life of a physics educator, Shawn enjoyed the interactive classroom setting much better. Deciding to stay in the classroom meant furthering his education for certification. In 2008, there weren’t too many options for a digital platform to ask students to interact outside class.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

.” Ingersoll and his colleagues at the Consortium for Policy Research in Education analyzed teacher and school principal surveys , administered every four or so years by the federal government, to paint a picture of the teaching force and highlight trends. Their first 2012 report tracked changes from 1987 through 2008.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 17, 2018

We were just talking about how we’re pretty sure we met just about ten years ago to the day that we are recording this, in Princeton way back in 2008. So we began by looking at the ISTE standards, which is the International Society for Technology Education. Vicki: And we’re doing what we’re supposed to do, which is educating!

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edWeb.net

DECEMBER 18, 2020

The three high schools in the district were reorganized to provide a focus either on STEAM, the arts, or career and technical education. Jay McTighe brings a wealth of experience developed during a rich and varied career in education. WATCH THE EDWEBINAR RECORDING. LISTEN TO THE PODCAST. About the Presenters. Jay McTighe.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

Preschool students at Kruse Elementary School in the Poudre School District in Colorado play at the water table during choice time. In education, there are always a host of programs and policies clamoring for funding. Since 2008, Utah has given its families an alternative to preschool called Upstart.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 11, 2018

Through their efforts, along with those of other outside arts organizations, they are introducing theater to more and younger participants, at an age when education experts say children are especially poised to benefit from it. Related: Can testing save arts education? Higher Education. But to the parents, it’s worth it.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 2, 2016

. — When Dadhi Dahal first came to the United States in early 2009, the Bhutanese population in Syracuse, New York was quite small — the first refugees from Bhutan, fleeing ethnic cleansing policies in their home country, arrived in 2008, after they had spent years in refugee camps in Nepal. education debate.

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Graphite Blog

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

Common Sense Education created this essential guide to help your district or school address the key topics E-rate recipients need to teach students, including internet safety, appropriate online behavior, and cyberbullying. What are the educational requirements for compliance? What are the educational requirements for compliance?

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 5, 2022

And a slightly higher percentage of nonwhite teachers than white ones—45 percent vs. 42 percent—said that they were considering leaving their position last school year, researchers at the University of Arkansas’ College of Education & Health Professions found.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2020

How Schools Are preparing – and Not Preparing – Children for Climate Change,” reported by HuffPost and The Hechinger Report, a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. The eighth grader can also remember each of the kids she began school with back at Boudreaux Canal Elementary School.

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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. Between 2008 and 2012, the same survey found job satisfaction among principals decreased nine percentage points, from 68 percent to 59 percent.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

Statewide, the number of Hispanic students has tripled over the past decade, from 17,000 in 2008 to 50,000 this year. The number of Hispanic students in Louisiana has tripled over the past decade, from 17,000 in 2008 to 50,000 this year. “We Crescent City Soccer president, P.J. Since 1982, when the U.S. Supreme Court, in Plyler v.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

ATLANTA – One of the few black kids in her elementary school in Waterford, Connecticut, Alversia Wade remembers being asked in fourth grade by white classmates if she liked watermelon and fried chicken. Some are reversing declines that date to the economic downturn of 2008. Sign up for our Higher Education newsletter.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MAY 30, 2011

Join me Tuesday, May 31st, for a live and interactive Future of Education webinar with James Bosco, Principle Investigator at the Consortium for School Networking ( CoSN ). For the past 3 years CoSN has been involved in a project which is called " Participatory Learning in Schools: Leadership and Policy." and Catherine T.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 23, 2016

“We don’t think of it as socialism at all,” said Oxford University professor Edward Melhuish, who studies child development and was instrumental in conducting the research that largely led to England’s current policies. “We However, they are not exactly alike because each country has formed its own policies. Like the U.S.,

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 31, 2020

O’Neal Elementary School, in Elgin, Illinois, none of the third graders could read and write at grade level according to state tests in 2019. Just nine miles away sits Centennial Elementary School, where 73 percent of third graders met grade-level standards on that same test. At Ronald D. This story also appeared in Daily Herald.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 6, 2016

Kansas’ governor and Legislature are also making national headlines for not equalizing education funding between low-income and wealthier districts. But class sizes have begun to increase, and many of the supports that educators here say helped spark improvements over the last 15 years have been removed. Graduation rates rose from 52.5

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Tom Murray

AUGUST 21, 2016

Prior to my role as the Director of Innovation for Future Ready Schools ® , I spent 14 years in a public school in Pennsylvania as an elementary and middle school teacher, middle school and elementary principal, and district level technology director. URL: www.christenseninstitute.org/education. Organization: Code.org ®.

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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. Board of Education decision. It was reprinted with permission. Supreme Court’s landmark Brown v.

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