The Hechinger Report

MARCH 2, 2023

That triggered a series of financial setbacks and, by October 2021, she owed more than $10,000 in back rent. Her two youngest, both attending Vancouver’s Washington Elementary School, had struggled with remote learning and still lagged their peers in basic math and reading. Public schools identified 1.1

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

The eSchool News K-12 Hero Awards recognize the dedicated efforts of education professionals across K-12 departments, including IT, curriculum, instruction and administration. The program received an influx of inspiring nominations that highlight the innovation and selflessness of educators in schools and districts across the nation.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 27, 2022

For years, the Fairfax County NAACP’s small education committee devoted itself mostly to fights over Confederate school names and acts of racism against individual students. 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.

Elementary 145

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Edsurge

JANUARY 27, 2023

It’s 7:00 am, and I’m on my second trek from my car to our centralized district meeting space, lugging snacks, supplies and chart paper as I prepare to lead a workshop on best practices for technology integration for a group of 15 elementary teachers in my district.

Professional Learning 190

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eSchool News

JUNE 7, 2023

.” The two schools in the study are an elementary school and middle school in Schiller Park, Illinois, which reflect similar demographics to many schools across the country. Visit NWEA.org to learn more about how we’re partnering with educators to help all kids learn.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 3, 2021

30, 2021) – The Association of Latino Administrators and Superintendents (ALAS) has elected Pedro Rivera and Dr. Frank Rodriguez to its Board of Directors. President Rivera and Dr. Rodriguez understand the education issues that impact the Latino community and have long histories of educational leadership. WASHINGTON, D.C.

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Edsurge

MAY 16, 2023

For years, Dollywood has been building out a suite of benefits for its employees, which includes an on-site family health center, a park chaplain, and full tuition coverage for anyone interested in furthering their education through the company’s partner program GROW U. That wasn’t feasible or practical.

Company 123

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 24, 2024

An elementary schooler in the same district couldn’t access a picture of record-breaking sprinter Florence Griffith Joyner to add to a writing assignment. Students have been blocked from going to websites that web-filtering software categorizes as “education,” “news,” or “informational.” Do we really want that to be the case?

Social Media 77

Social Media Libraries Elementary Advocacy 77

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Responses demonstrated how climate change anxiety can pose a barrier to engaging with goals typically salient in emerging adulthood such as education, career, and family-related goals, which may contribute to a loss of meaning or purpose,” researchers explain in the paper. That can come in many forms. Do what you can with what you can.”

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 14, 2023

By many measures, schools here made big gains under Gordon and the ambitious 11-year effort to overhaul the education system that he helped create. The effects of poverty on education make further gains a daunting challenge. Because of the improvements, her first grader attends William Rainey Harper elementary on the city’s south side.

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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. “The vast majority (96%) of caregivers and educators found these tools useful and relevant.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2022

“We have this huge digital divide that’s making it hard for [students] to get their education,” she said. David Silver, the director of education for the mayor’s office, said people talked about the digital divide, but there had never been enough energy to tackle it. Credit: Javeria Salman/ The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 7, 2023

Melissa Knapp is Harpeth Valley Elementary School’s only literacy coach. The retention policy is part of a state law passed in 2021 that was meant to boost long-lagging reading scores and stem pandemic learning losses. Melissa Knapp, the literacy coach for Harpeth Valley Elementary School, answers a first grade student’s question.

Elementary 102

Elementary Policies Advocacy Report 102

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 17, 2023

Credit: Lily Estella Thompson for The Hechinger Report Following Meryl’s death, Ketron decided to continue her daughter’s advocacy. Credit: Lily Estella Thompson for The Hechinger Report Across the country, the number of GSAs is at a 20-year low, according to GLSEN, an LGBTQ+ education advocacy nonprofit.

Advocacy 130

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Edsurge

MAY 24, 2023

The Teaching Equitable Asian American Community History (TEAACH) Act was signed into law in July 2021 with wide bipartisan support, amending the state’s school code to ensure that all Illinois public school students learn about the contributions Asian Americans have made to the United States. Let’s get them to recognize there is an absence.”

Training 152

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 24, 2023

This story also appeared in The Seattle Times For years, she sat through meetings with her son’s special education teachers, struggling to maintain a smile as she understood little of what they said. Mireya Barrera, left, spent years struggling to understand her son Ian’s teachers in special education meetings without a Spanish interpreter.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 7, 2022

Even more importantly: How can policies and education help improve our status in the U.S.? Now, a new annual report about attitudes toward Asian Americans from the advocacy organization LAAUNCH has provided some disturbing answers to some of these questions. Nationally, in 2021, U.S. There are signs of progress.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 8, 2023

Sarah Powell, an assistant professor of special education at the University of Texas at Austin, is one of the founders of the science of math movement. Here she is training math teachers on how to teach children to solve word problems at an elementary school in Brooklyn, New York. Sometimes, it’s a simple question. They are analogous.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 2, 2021

Many were forced by school and day care closures to prioritize care and remote learning for their children over their own education and careers. But as a higher education researcher, I know that when it comes to the difficulties facing student mothers, the pandemic prompted changes of degree, not of kind. undergraduate students, or 1.7

Policies 175

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 17, 2021

The man had been educated in the United States and living in the country on a renewable three-year visa, but he’d waited so long for permanent residency that he finally gave up. tech industry, the broader economy and an education system that has failed to turn out enough Americans with the science skills employers need.

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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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Meeting Advocacy Report STEM 145

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 19, 2023

But it was traumatic when, in Fall 2021, they figured out it had happened. After a few hours, the elementary school called: Come pick up your son, they told her. According to Tameka, staff visited her in Spring 2021 after receiving calls from the school complaining her children were not attending online classes.

Policies 77

Policies Online Learning Dropout Elementary 77

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.

Dropout 100

Dropout Policies Data Report 100

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

In recent years, with an onslaught of negative stories about teachers and educators, legislators have responded with new policy initiatives. Since January 2021, 44 states have proposed legislation or sought other means to restrict the ideas teachers can present in the classroom. Not all teachers have this luxury.

Advocacy 129

Advocacy Policies Analysis Report 129

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 11, 2023

More than a quarter of students missed at least 10 percent of the 2021-22 school year, making them chronically absent, according to the most recent data available. Since the 2012 shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut, Negrón, who grew up in Puerto Rico, had become convinced mainland American schools were dangerous.

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Hapara

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

These barriers are implemented by a public school, an educational institution meant to support all students. But in 2021, they returned to in-person classes after learning virtually due to the COVID-19 pandemic. We have to get involved in advocacy and stand up for ourselves, and we will see changes be made.” We have to show up.

Hapara 130

Hapara Company Meeting Accessibility 130

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 10, 2023

Dana Douglas, a Republican Christian Conservative who is “100 percent pro-public education, and I am pro every child” readies to make voter reminder calls on Election Day. 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.

Elementary 133

Elementary Report Meeting Policies 133

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 23, 2023

In Tennessee, the house speaker and lieutenant governor have teamed up to explore rejecting federal education funds altogether. Yet the reality is that government funding decisions about education have long been a way to install and preserve racial inequality in our society. million for a 5,000-student district.”

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Hechinger and AZCIR obtained, through public records requests, data from 150-plus districts and charter networks that educate about 61 percent of Arizona’s 1.1 Department of Education now tracks days lost to out-of-school suspensions. “If Related: How the pandemic has altered school discipline – perhaps forever.

Dropout 100

Dropout Analysis Policies Report 100

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 11, 2023

Brentwood Union Free School District gave out 466 long-term suspensions from 2017-18 to 2021-22. The New York State Education Department does not collect data on suspension lengths, but public records requests to 17 of the state’s largest school districts uncovered more than 6,200 suspensions of more than 20 days from 2017-18 to 2021-22.

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Report Survey Data Comparison 92

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

The school’s website promised a “rigorous education experience” delivered by highly qualified teachers. At OHDELA, enrollment more than doubled to about 5,200 students in the 2020-2021 school year, according to state data. Nemergut enrolled all three girls. Soon Nemergut and her kids, who live in Conneaut, Ohio, noticed problems.

E-rate 121

E-rate Pearson Company Report 121

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. About a decade ago, former Secretary of Education Arne Duncan set out to recruit 80,000 Black male teachers.

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Report Meeting Groups Data 142

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 6, 2022

Collins Elementary School, in southeastern Mississippi, paddled students more times than almost any school in the country in 2017-18, the last year for which there is national data. Johnson is the principal of Mississippi’s Collins Elementary School, where the paddle remains a staple of the educational experience.

Elementary 144

Elementary Handbook Report Policies 144

The Hechinger Report

JULY 9, 2021

When she took a break from class at Cody High School to testify to the Wyoming State Legislature, via Zoom, in favor of a bill that would have mandated suicide prevention education in schools, she was prepared for an easy win. This story also appeared in Wyoming Public Media. “I Ultimately, the bill failed. The goal is to offer hope.

Education 120

Education Policies Survey Training 120

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 28, 2022

AJ spent the next eight months out of school with limited virtual instruction, while his mother argued with the district that his rights as a student in special education were being violated in the name of school safety. “My Credit: Source- Colorado Department of Education. Related: Sent home early: Lost learning in special education.

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Assessment Report Training Guidelines 100

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 21, 2022

Congress approved a majority of it – $122 billion – in March 2021 and required school administrators to submit plans for how they intend to spend it over three years. The Afterschool Alliance also cited an unpublished conference paper from 2013, which tracked 1,000 elementary school students over time. The post PROOF POINTS: $1.5

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Analysis Advocacy Instructional Materials Examples 88

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 8, 2021

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. And in late July 2021, a federal judge temporarily halted the implementation of a trans student sports ban in West Virginia.

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Report Advocacy Elementary Policies 84