The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 9, 2024

One out of 10 Black students in the eighth grade math scores were scoring basic or above,” saidKristen Hengtgen, a senior policy analyst at the nonprofit advocacy group EdTrust, referring to last year’s National Assessment of Educational Progress, known as the Nation’s Report Card.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2022

It’s just been exacerbated by the pandemic,” said Rebeca Shackleford, the director of federal government relations at All4Ed, an education advocacy nonprofit. In May 2021, Think College Now elementary students sit in class after returning to in-person learning. The homework gap isn’t new. Credit: Javeria Salman/ The Hechinger Report.

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eSchool News

JUNE 5, 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). State of Dyslexia.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Director of Tribal Resource Management for CSKT looks out at state-owned parcels from an airplane on August 8, 2024. Kunesh, a descendant of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, has authored two bills that returned state land to tribes, each with a decade or more of advocacy behind it. Tony Incashola Jr.,

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MindShift

JULY 15, 2021

“Frankly, students didn’t lose anything, they just never had the opportunity to learn it,” said Allison Socol, an assistant director at The Education Trust, a nonprofit education research and advocacy organization. When given the opportunity, then they will succeed. And so we always talk about it as ‘unfinished learning.’ ”.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 9, 2024

In 1953, Brbara Flores entered kindergarten at Washington Elementary School in Madera, California, a small city in the Central Valley surrounded by farm fields. Brbara Flores stands inside her old kindergarten classroom at Washington Elementary School in Madera on Oct. This story was originally published by CalMatters. Youre liars.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 6, 2024

. — Lindsey Johnson and Yesenia De La Rosa were taking different approaches to teaching the same English lesson on silent letters as they sat at opposite ends of this first grade classroom in West Elementary School. The shares are even higher in some classes at the district’s West Elementary School. No, he does listen.”

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 10, 2023

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. “I Then it appointed Susie Luckey, a popular elementary school principal, as interim superintendent until June. I think we are in trouble based on what I saw.”

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 28, 2024

It is creating so much more work and chaos,” said Emma Grasso Levine, the Title IX policy and senior program manager at the advocacy group Know Your IX. 31, 2024, at the Statehouse in Topeka, Kan. 31, 2024, at the Statehouse in Topeka, Kan. In some cases, schools in the very same district are subject to different rules. “It

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 27, 2021

The nation’s districts spend about $46 billion less per year on facility upkeep than what is needed to maintain a “healthy and safe” school setting, according to a 2016 report from the 21st Century School Fund, a research and advocacy organization. The report said Alaska needs to spend about $1.1

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 22, 2024

If not, what is the point of college? What is the point of going to higher education, if you can’t just try to decipher the truth for yourself? This story about the Republican National Convention was produced by The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

I truly believe the school district is the heart of our town,” said Melanie Stubblefield, who teaches music in the fourth, fifth and sixth grades at Travis Elementary School in the Mineral Wells district, which has about 3,230 students spread across its seven schools. A slate of defiant Texas Republican lawmakers agrees.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

Her teachers at Havasupai Elementary School often asked Siyuja to tutor younger students and sometimes even let her run their classrooms. Grandmother and Havasupai Tribal Council chair Bernadine Jones, left, previously taught at the elementary school. Kambria Siyuja always felt like the smartest kid in Supai.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 10, 2025

In 2024, the Education Department allocated an estimated $7.9 She is passionate about advocacy for those with intellectual and developmental disabilities. It also provides significant funding to the states for this purpose. million for early intervention programs, $420 million for preschools and $14.2

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 31, 2025

Head Start is in every community in America, said Cara Sklar, director of early & elementary education policy at the D.C.-based Credit: Anya Kamenetz for The Hechinger Report Still, for many of the families who do manage to make it through the doors, the program is life-changing. based think tank New America.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2025

As 2024 moves into 2025, educators greet a new year with uncertainty. Go back to 2024’s predictions to see which came true and which have yet to materialize.) Pandemic-related learning loss and academic inequities remain a hurdle, particularly as COVID relief funding dries up. –Dr.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 24, 2024

That’s certainly what the advocacy group Network for Public Education thinks. “ NPE warns of deep cuts to federal programs that support low-income students and those with disabilities, more funding for charter schools, advocacy for religious education and a nationwide voucher program. It also excludes another 4.7

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Before the election, conservative political advocacy groups mobilized their members to file book removal petitions, regardless of whether those filers were the parents or caregivers of a child enrolled in those schools.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

As early as elementary school, “we grew up having to learn about lockdowns” in response to mass shootings, said Andrew LoMonte, one of the students staffing the voter table. There are certain states where it’s become much harder, and those are states a lot of our organizations are focused on even more.”

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 7, 2024

Donald Trump’s administration was known for its advocacy of school choice, but that wasn’t something he talked much about on the campaign trail in 2015 or 2016; it only came into focus with his selection of Betsy DeVos as secretary of education.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Conway urged participants at the post-Election Day gathering to speak a certain way in their advocacy to lawmakers going forward. When I looked into it a few years ago, I couldn’t find any state that had taken him up on the offer.) Lead with solutions not problems.

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