The Hechinger Report

APRIL 12, 2017

Thousands of Mississippi’s third graders will sit in front of computers later this month to take the statewide reading test, but the eyes of teachers and administrators at Finch Elementary School will be intensely focused on a dozen students at this Wilkinson County school. Sharon Robinson, principal of Finch Elementary.

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eSchool News

JUNE 5, 2024

1 Within this larger pool, a core group is considered to have a reading disability or dyslexia. This group makes up at least 20 percent of the general population. This is because these screeners cannot perform error analysis on why a student made a certain error and what the source of the difficulty may be. 20k+ per year).

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MindShift

JULY 15, 2021

Last year, researchers at NWEA, an independent nonprofit assessment company, published an analysis of data from the autumn 2020 MAP Growth tests of more than 4 million public school students. The first group of tutors was placed in Title I middle schools, in which low-income families make up at least 40 percent of enrollment.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

These students are increasingly the children of parents who helicoptered them through elementary, middle and high school or who didn’t go to college themselves and can’t provide much help with it. But for this generation, a surprising new problem is thwarting their success: too many choices. All of this takes a toll on graduation rates.

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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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Edsurge

OCTOBER 5, 2020

and since learning inside was deemed dubious at best, the classroom was moved outdoors, where group gatherings were considered safe. In June, the group mobilized. The National COVID-19 Outdoor Learning Initiative's 10 working groups. And in the Chicago one, too. An open-air class in Rutherford, N.Y.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 2, 2023

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. That would add millions of families with no additional funding,” said Steve Berg, the group’s vice president for programs and policy. “It

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Doug Levin

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

" Tagged on: September 18, 2017 Too Much Technology in AR Elementary Schools? | Arkansas Matters → Arkansas lawmakers want to take a closer look at technology in schools and ask if it's really helping- not hurting- students.

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Doug Levin

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

" Tagged on: September 18, 2017 Too Much Technology in AR Elementary Schools? | Arkansas Matters → Arkansas lawmakers want to take a closer look at technology in schools and ask if it's really helping- not hurting- students.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 6, 2022

But a first-of-its-kind analysis by The Hechinger Report and the Arizona Center for Investigative Reporting has found that attendance-related suspensions are pervasive, in some districts accounting for more than half of all in-school suspensions. Arizona collects limited discipline data from its districts. Credit: Isaac Stone Simonelli/AZCIR.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 11, 2023

Absences were more prevalent among Latino, Black and low-income students, according to Dee’s analysis. Absences worsened in every state with available data — notably, the analysis found growth in chronic absenteeism did not correlate strongly with state COVID rates. Taken together, the data from 40 states and Washington, D.C.,

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

A Center for Public Integrity analysis of district-level federal education data suggests roughly 300,000 students entitled to essential rights reserved for homeless students have slipped through the cracks, unidentified by the school districts mandated to help them. Credit: Zoë Meyers for the Center for Public Integrity.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 19, 2024

Inside a neighboring greenhouse, a group of school staff and volunteers prepared to harvest herbs and vegetables for students to use in medicinal teas and recipes during science lessons on local ecology. I got a sticker that says ‘Indian Power,’” teacher Luke Cordova sang. “I I stuck it on my bumper. That’s what holds my car together.”

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

She became an educator in 2007 and has spent most of her career teaching special needs students at a majority-Hispanic public elementary school in the Bronx. The nonprofit offers workshops, one-to-one advocacy, and a monthly Spanish-speaking support group for families. There’s such stigma around the label.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 29, 2017

The report is always a big deal in technology circles – “a tech industry event in its own right,” as Wired’s Steven Levy put it in 2012 – and many publications and pundits dutifully cover Meeker’s observations, often adding very little analysis of their own.

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techlearning

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

CURRICULUM ASSOCIATES AQUIRES MOTION MATH ( www.curriculumassociates.com ) & ( motionmathgames.com ) Curriculum Associates has acquired Motion Math to further help elementary students improve their math fluency and number sense in key conceptual areas. These solutions will be offered to school librarians in the U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2020

In math class, students at Rhodes Junior High in Mesa, Arizona, work on laptops but also solve word problems in groups using a white board. Again, students worked in groups. Shelby Villegas, sixth grade math teacher at Whispering Wind Academy Elementary School in Phoenix. Credit: Tara García Mathewson/The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

These issues can have a greater impact on Black male teachers and other teachers from underrepresented groups. In recent years, a movement against teaching “critical race theory” and the rise of groups like Moms for Liberty have galvanized white parents to target Black educators and literature that centers Black characters.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Meghan Whittaker, director of policy and advocacy at the National Center for Learning Disabilities. I don’t think anyone’s going to say that what we were doing worked or was equitable,” said Meghan Whittaker, the director of policy and advocacy at the National Center for Learning Disabilities. Here’s why they’re not.

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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. Though banned books get more attention than blocked websites in schools, some groups are fighting back. Despite the category name, it is not designed to include porn.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 1, 2017

An analysis of Mississippi public school textbooks by the Hechinger Report and Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting shows that, for at least some grades, all of the state’s 148 school districts rely on textbooks published before the model standards appeared as part of their social studies material. In contrast, James K.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

Teachers throughout Arizona, including this group in Phoenix, staged a walkout strike in 2018 in support of better wages and state funding for schools. During the Great Recession, state funding declined 6 percent in 2010, according to an analysis by Tyton Partners, a consulting firm.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 21, 2020

Black children who grew up in low-income households in the county just 15 years after a landmark school desegregation victory were likely to enter their mid-thirties with a household income of $24,000, according to a 2018 analysis of Census Bureau data by a Harvard and Brown team of researchers.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 29, 2020

Katherine Gallagher Robbins with the Center for Law and Social Policy, an advocacy group for low-income families, said that while schools aren’t viewed as child care providers in the traditional sense, elementary and middle school campuses do function as a “work support” for parents. The analysis projects $9.6

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 20, 2022

After five years, we found very little difference on test scores between the two groups. I believe that funding had no effect on any analysis of mine, but disclosure is always warranted. In addition to funding research, the Bradley Foundation has given at least $31 million to political advocacy on behalf of vouchers.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 17, 2018

The guide also noted that starting in elementary school, all students take Spanish, art and music classes. The analysis used federal enrollment data for the 2015-16 school year, the most recent year for which that data is available from the U.S. After a guide pointed out several science labs, the tour paused at the “piano lab.”

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2022

These groups are outraged about one thing for a month, and then it’s another thing, and it seems they all shift at the same time,” she said. “We Even before the bans, LGBTQ characters were underrepresented in curricula and lesson plans, according to a 2019 survey by GLSEN, an LGBTQ advocacy organization.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

White students account for less than 5 percent of enrollment in these districts, according to a Hechinger Report analysis of state data. In the mornings, black kids like Clark rode on yellow school buses to Lexington Elementary; the white kids boarded blues ones that took them to private school. still serves students today.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

“The average amount of tuition is going to be more than the actual voucher, not to mention transportation and uniform costs,” said Nik Nartowicz, state policy counsel for Americans United for Separation of Church and State, a legal advocacy group. This doesn’t help low-income families.” Credit: Ross D.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

In June, she and other members of the Freedom Youth Squad, a group of Black and Southeast Asian activists, gathered to watch the Madison school board’s unanimous vote to cancel its contract with municipal police and remove all officers stationed at its high schools. Department of Education. Credit: Neal Morton/The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 28, 2020

The family had just moved and now has to wake up earlier to make the half hour drive across town to Jaslynn’s elementary school, which is in their old neighborhood. one early-March morning for the half hour drive to Jaslynn’s elementary school in Grand Rapids, Michigan. It was 8:38 a.m. the night before. But these problems are not new.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 6, 2016

Luis Antonio Hernandez reads a story about Cinco de Mayo to students in Christy Crotwell’s first grade class at Morton Elementary School. Morton Elementary Principal Debbie Herring on the dramatic increase in the Hispanic population. A sign on the door to Christy Crotwell’s first grade classroom at Morton Elementary School.

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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. I signed the paper.”.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Still, a stalwart group of 21 House lawmakers, most of whom represent rural areas and fear the measure would pull resources away from their public schools, sided with state Democrats to torpedo the legislation. Charles Johnson, executive director of Pastors for Texas Children, a public-school advocacy group. “It

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 19, 2019

Taheem Fennel poses for a picture with his mom and stepdad after his fifth-grade graduation ceremony at Bancroft Elementary School. The staff at Bancroft Elementary School suggested counseling, and his mother eagerly accepted the help. Photo: Nichole Dobo / The Hechinger Report. WILMINGTON, Del. He had angry outbursts. Proof Points.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 17, 2017

But this year, I’m reorganizing my analysis of these “trends,” partly because I think they can all be subsumed under the larger theme of “the new economy.” These have all been separate articles in each series. “Tracking” – an educational practice that re-inscribed social inequalities. .

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2020

Such descriptions of climate change are muddled and misleading, according to four climate scientists who reviewed them as part of a Hechinger/HuffPost analysis of 32 middle school and high school textbooks and digital curricula and what they say on the subject. Others said that the passage’s description of greenhouse gases was flawed.

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