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One of the poorest cities in America was succeeding in an education turnaround. Is that now in peril?

The Hechinger Report

CLEVELAND — Eric Gordon, CEO of the Cleveland Metropolitan School District, is on an extended farewell tour full of surprises. It’s a chilly Wednesday in April at the end of his last-ever quarterly meeting with the district’s parent advisory committee. Just because I stop being CEO doesn’t mean they stop being my kids.

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17 Hero Awards finalists demonstrate their commitment to education

eSchool News

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 first group of finalists was featured on eSchool News last week– find them here ! Jim embraced EmpowerU immediately.

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Hero Awards finalists: 18 schools and educators dedicated to learning

eSchool News

The eSchool News K-12 Hero Awards recognize the dedicated efforts of education professionals across K-12 departments, including IT, curriculum, instruction and administration. Stay tuned, because the second group of finalists will be featured on eSchool News next week!

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“It’s so hard and so challenging:” An oral history of year three of pandemic schooling

The Hechinger Report

As the new school year began this fall, battles around vaccine and mask mandates raged, school boards took up the thorny issue of how to teach students about race and Congress argued about how much to spend on children (and everything else). TAOS, NEW MEXICO. The rates given are for fully vaccinated individuals, age 12 and older.).

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‘Next year will be a better year’: An oral history of year three of pandemic schooling, Part III

The Hechinger Report

Our reporters have spent the last 10 months speaking with students, parents, teachers and school district leaders around the country about what this pandemic school year has been like. TAOS, NEW MEXICO. In Fayetteville, Arkansas, field days and large, in-person graduation ceremonies returned. CHOOSE A LOCATION.

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Homework in a McDonald’s parking lot: Inside one mother’s fight to help her kids get an education during coronavirus

The Hechinger Report

Her high school had recently closed in response to the coronavirus pandemic and shifted to distance learning. Her mom had promised her as much time as she needed, but she figured that could only last for so long with her three younger siblings — Jakayla, 12, Quinteria, 14, and Amareon, 10 — in the back seat.

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The pandemic robbed thousands of New York City children of parents. Many aren’t getting the help they need

The Hechinger Report

In April 2020, as the death toll from COVID mounted across New York City, an elementary school teacher at P.S. 343, the Children’s Lab School, in Sunnyside, Queens, organized a virtual dance party to give her second-grade class some levity. One student, 8-year-old Yarely, had trouble signing on to the remote classroom.