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Why haven’t new federal rules unleashed more innovation in schools?

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Photo: Kate Flock for The Hechinger Report. His school and his state are trailblazers in personalized learning, a method that tailors instruction to students’ individual interests and learning speeds. Personalized learning advocates had big hopes for ESSA, enacted in 2015.

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A vocational school curriculum that includes genocide studies and British literature

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Photo: Gretchen Ertl for The Hechinger Report. Photo: Gretchen Ertl for The Hechinger Report. Last year, just over half of Essex Tech’s senior class reported they were headed to four-year colleges. Photo: Gretchen Ertl for The Hechinger Report. Historical documents and literary fiction make up the curriculum.

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The newest form of school discipline: Kicking kids out of class and into virtual learning

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Currently, students are recommended for involuntary virtual learning by the principal, she said, and these placements are tracked aggregately along with suspensions, which makes identifying the particular impact of virtualization difficult. Louis, in the spring of 2022. Sign up for the Hechinger newsletter.

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The messy reality of personalized learning

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Tammy Kim, for The Hechinger Report. Danusis and her teaching staff practice personalized learning, an individual-comes-first approach, usually aided by laptops, that has become a reformist calling card in education. Future of Learning. Mississippi Learning. Tammy Kim, for The Hechinger Report.

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High school seniors reveal choices in joyous ‘signing day’ ceremony

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No more personal statements or constantly nagging Ms. as Zar-Kessler is known] to send countless documents to college.”. This story was written by Liz Willen, editor in chief of The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. Sanborn or Ms.

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Are the challenges of Puerto Rico’s schools a taste of what other districts will face?

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Credit: Kavitha Cardoza for The Hechinger Report It was just the latest interruption in schooling that’s been characterized by near constant disruption. Credit: Kavitha Cardoza for The Hechinger Report The Puerto Rican school district, the sixth largest in the U.S., Department of Education report. Nothing could be salvaged.

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‘State-sanctioned violence:’ Inside one of the thousands of schools that still paddles students

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This story also appeared in Mississippi Center for Investigative Reporting. Credit: Tara García Mathewson/The Hechinger Report. Credit: Tara García Mathewson/The Hechinger Report. Credit: Tara García Mathewson/The Hechinger Report. “I Tucked into the first half of the handbook is a section titled “Corporal Punishment.”.