The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 27, 2022

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. They followed up on the NAACP’s literacy letter in spring of 2021 with a joint missive to the district.) “We This story also appeared in The Washington Post.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 2, 2021

“Between cooking meals to feed my children throughout the entire day, keeping up on household duties, ‘mommying,’ doing my own college courses, and teaching … there was never enough time,” says Memoree Skinner, an elementary special education teacher, graduate student, and mother of three. Census Bureau.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2022

A Tech Exchange employee works in the nonprofit’s warehouse in May 2021. Credit: Javeria Salman/ The Hechinger Report Boxes of #OaklandUndivided devices wait for student pickup at Castlemont High School in May 2021. In May 2021, Think College Now elementary students sit in class after returning to in-person learning.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Data released at the end of the 2021-22 school year showed the district increased math scores by double digits in grades 3-8, outperforming pre-COVID levels. However, there were still 25 elementary schools in the district without access to Hazel’s mental health resources. Through persistent efforts, Ms.

Education 132

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

A Pew Research Center poll from 2021 found that adults in Generation Z were more likely than Americans belonging to older generations to have donated money, contacted an elected official, volunteered or attended a rally to try to help address climate change in the prior year. That can come in many forms. Do what you can with what you can.”

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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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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 6, 2022

Robinson concluded they weren’t and resigned in June 2021. 14, 2021, in Elko, Nevada. 28, 2021, in Las Vegas, Nevada. 15, 2021, in Elko, Nevada. 15, 2021, in Elko, Nevada. 14, 2021, to discuss the appointment of an interim superintendent in Elko, Nevada. A student walks toward Elko High School on Dec.

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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 123

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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.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 7, 2022

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. For example: Over 1 in 5 Americans believe that Asian Americans are at least partially responsible for the pandemic — a percentage that has increased since 2021.

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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.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 15, 2024

Instead of working in her dream role as an elementary school teacher, she spent her days hauling cow organs for inspection. Through the local advocacy of several organizations, the community will have nine Spanish-speaking providers by this summer — including Aguilera. Stuck at her job at a Tyson meatpacking plant.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

At OHDELA, enrollment more than doubled to about 5,200 students in the 2020-2021 school year, according to state data. million on TV ads in just the first quarter of 2021, up from $1.2 James Rhyu, Stride’s chief executive officer, on an investor call in August 2021. At Stride Inc., Stride spent about $1.8

E-rate 135

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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. One of Talbott’s daughters graduated from Lusher in 2021; the other still attends the high school.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 8, 2023

Here she is training math teachers on how to teach children to solve word problems at an elementary school in Brooklyn, New York. The researchers continued to meet almost every month during 2021 as their campaign gained momentum. They launched a website , an advocacy group and an auxiliary group for teachers.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Since January 2021, 44 states have proposed legislation or sought other means to restrict the ideas teachers can present in the classroom. Many of the advocacy groups that filed challenges did so multiple times in different school districts. Not all teachers have this luxury.

Advocacy 140

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 24, 2023

The special education system can be “incredibly difficult for everybody,” said Ramona Hattendorf, director of advocacy for the Arc of King County , which promotes disability rights. During the 2021-22 school year, the Washington State education ombudsman received nearly 1,200 complaints from parents about schools.

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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.

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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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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 28, 2022

From September 2020 to April 2021, AJ sat at home, getting on average less than two hours of daily live interaction with teachers. Peter Mosby is principal at Rock Ridge Elementary School in a suburb of Denver. Peter Mosby, elementary school principal, and parent of a student with a disability.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 6, 2022

For years, it was a battle getting Guadalupe to his Phoenix elementary school in the Washington Elementary School District. Arizona places pressure on schools to reduce chronic absenteeism, evaluating elementary and middle schools in part on the number of their students who miss at least 10 percent of school days.

Dropout 111

Dropout Analysis Policies Report 111

edWeb.net

MAY 21, 2021

The 2021 Driving K-12 Innovation report released by CoSN selected the most critical Hurdles (challenges), Accelerators (mega-trends), and Tech Enablers (tools) that school districts are facing with personalized learning, innovation, and digital equity. By Eileen Belastock. WATCH THE EDWEBINAR RECORDING. LISTEN TO THE PODCAST. Dr. David R.

Learning 98

Learning Broadband Elementary Professional Learning 98

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Although the majority of educator-preparation programs saw no or relatively small enrollment changes in fall of 2020 and fall of 2021, 20 percent of institutions saw a decline in new undergrad enrollment that exceeded 10 percent, according to survey data from the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education.

Training 148

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 28, 2024

million students in the fall of 2021 and roughly 300,000 students in the early 2000s. asked Kristen Hengtgen, a policy analyst at EdTrust, a nonprofit research and advocacy organization that lobbies for racial and economic equity in education. During the 2022-23 school year, nearly 2.5 That’s up from 1.5

Analysis 143

Analysis Report Data Course 143

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Her advocacy resulted in $1.5 Her commitment and advocacy drove the expansion of Hazel services to include both in-home and at-school mental health support, plus the addition of elementary schools to the program. million in ESSER funds being allocated to school libraries to complete a three-year collection redevelopment project.

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Hapara

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

But in 2021, they returned to in-person classes after learning virtually due to the COVID-19 pandemic. While many of the websites are still blocked in middle schools and elementary schools, high school learners in Katy ISD can now access the much-needed online resources. They continued, “Student voices are powerful. We have to show up.

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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.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 7, 2019

Now, some school districts are pushing this job exploration into middle and even elementary school, convinced that helping students connect what they are learning to careers will not only deepen their engagement but also help them make more informed decisions about their educational paths. When Kathleen Koerner, a counselor at A.

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Robotics Elementary STEM Training 112

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 14, 2023

Decades of chronic underfunding is often at the root of the struggles in districts like Cleveland to serve high proportions of Black and Latino students from low-income backgrounds, said Allison Rose Socol, a vice president at The Education Trust, an education advocacy group. Covid put the district’s gains in jeopardy.

Education 110

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eSchool News

JUNE 18, 2024

3 Advocacy groups, backed by dyslexia authorities at universities, have pushed for dyslexia legislation across the country with these outcomes: 4 40 states now mandate dyslexia screening, and more than 30 list approved screeners that schools must use. National Association of Elementary School Principals (NAESP). Stevens, E.A.,

Differentiated Instruction 119

Differentiated Instruction Training Analysis Assessment 119

The Hechinger Report

JULY 13, 2021

At the beginning of 2021, The Hechinger Report’s members (individual readers who donated money to our nonprofit news organization) asked us if we would report on the best practices for helping the nation’s public school system recover from the pandemic. Your stories. When given the opportunity, then they will succeed.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 26, 2022

She is a 2021-22 journalism fellow at Student Voice, an organization that equips students with the skills to address educational inequity. She is also a co-leader of the Kentucky Student Voice Team, whose members aim to serve the state as research, policy and advocacy partners in education.

Social Media 98

Social Media Advocacy Report Course 98

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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edWeb.net

AUGUST 3, 2021

He received his bachelor’s degree from The University of Southern Mississippi in elementary education. Dr. Dillon has taught in elementary and junior high schools and coached on the high school level. Most recently, he was named the 2021 State Superintendent of the Year for Mississippi. He received his M.Ed.

Broadband 98

Broadband E-rate BYOD Accessibility 98

edWeb.net

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

Matt is grateful for his supportive family—son Mason, an aerospace engineer in Florida, and daughter Jessica, an elementary teacher in northern Cincinnati. In November 2020, Dr. Reid was named 2021 State Superintendent of the Year by the Washington Association of School Administrators.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 29, 2022

The Schenectady district fortified its five-year-old diversion program in 2021 when it started to see more students, even those in middle school, landing in long-term suspension because of post-pandemic behavior problems after they returned to in-person learning.

Groups 143

Groups Report Meeting Elementary 143

edWeb.net

MARCH 5, 2021

Dr. Doug Brubaker has served as Superintendent of Texarkana Independent School District (TX) since January 2021. Dr. Kristi Wilson has served as Superintendent of the Buckeye Elementary School District in Buckeye, Arizona for the past eight years. WATCH THE EDWEBINAR RECORDING. LISTEN TO THE PODCAST. About the Presenters.

EdTech 88

EdTech BYOD Training Outcomes 88