The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Buffalo educators hoped Eve’s new program would give more children — particularly children of color — a chance at enrichment and advanced learning. Buffalo’s struggle to create an integrated, equitable gifted program demonstrates a longtime challenge that has recently gained attention: Gifted education in America has a race problem.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 15, 2014

We also highlight good conversations about learning taking place between educators, learners, leaders, and others from the school, library, museum, work, adult, online, non-traditional and home learning worlds. Remember that ISTE starts a day earlier, so the Hack Education Unconference is on Friday, June 27th. ISTE Unplugged.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 9, 2017

The school has struggled to stem sliding enrollment and to address poor safety ratings by parents and test scores that were among the worst in the city. Until recently, education reform has prioritized the growth of charter schools, enforcement of strict discipline and high-stakes testing. The stakes have become extremely high.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 1, 2018

T his story about foster care and higher 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. KALAMAZOO, Mich.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

Turning around struggling high schools is the toughest work in education reform. Yet, inside the building, a new vision for the education of low-income students of color has taken root. Advocates of this approach say it has the potential to redefine what education means. “Do Photo: Amadou Diallo/The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

Hechinger – whose late father Fred Hechinger was an education editor at The New York Times and is the namesake of The Hechinger Report – points out that “Greek organizations own $3 billion in real estate on eight hundred U.S. Case in point: In 2013, former Trinity College president James F.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 27, 2018

As Louisiana struggles to balance its budget in face of a nearly $1 billion shortfall, lawmakers face a stark choice: Shrink a program that once made the state a national model in education, or end it entirely. A college education for everyone’. Higher Education. Student Landan Moore says Xavier is his dream school.

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 6, 2017

(National) Education Politics. Related, via Salon : “ Silicon Valley ’s $300M donation to STEM educatio n is not what it seems.” ” “The White House on Monday announced that it would nominate Mitchell “Mick” Zais as deputy secretary of education ,” Inside Higher Ed reports.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 31, 2019

But away from the political debates and television lights, educators in the Patchogue-Medford school district have been quietly cultivating a different image. The recession forced the district to lay off 50 educators, but as its finances improved, the district prioritized bilingualism. Luís’ uncle in Patchogue, a U.S.

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 29, 2017

(National) Education Politics. “ President Trump Earmarks $200 Million in Federal Grants for STEM , Computer Science Programs ,” says Edsurge , later swooning that “ Google , Facebook , Amazon Among Tech Titans Committing $300 Million to K–12 Computer Science.” “Dear Mrs. .”

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