The Hechinger Report

MARCH 11, 2025

This momentum has carried forth into 2025, with bills impacting civic education filed in many states. And right now, elementary schools spend very little time teaching social studies, despite its demonstrated literacy benefits and record of improving civics knowledge, skills and dispositions. Continued progress is necessary.

Policies 75

Policies Learning Advocacy Course 75

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.”

Report 145

Report Elementary Meeting Advocacy 145

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 3, 2025

The Knowledge Alliance, an advocacy organization for private research organizations, identified seven data collections and research activities that DOGE cut at the Education Department despite being codified into law by Congress. If DOGEs goal had been to avoid running afoul of congressional laws, it apparently did not succeed.

Data 139

Data Education Report Assessment 139

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. Related: How could Project 2025 change education? In some cases, schools in the very same district are subject to different rules. “It Are we enforcing this rule or that rule?“

Policies 124

Policies Groups Report Advocacy 124

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 27, 2021

The 10-year moratorium on even partial reimbursements could create a backlog of more than a billion dollars’ worth of capital projects across state schools by 2025, according to a March analysis of Alaska’s K-12 capital spending by Bob Loeffler, a professor at the University of Alaska Anchorage’s Institute of Social and Economic Research.

Report 113

Report System Broadband Study 113

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.

Elementary 103

Elementary Education Report System 103

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 31, 2025

Project 2025, the conservative policy handbook organized by the Heritage Foundation, which the Trump administration has been following closely, calls for eliminating Head Start altogether. Head Start is in every community in America, said Cara Sklar, director of early & elementary education policy at the D.C.-based

Handbook 117

Handbook Report Advocacy Policies 117

eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2025

As 2024 moves into 2025, educators greet a new year with uncertainty. We asked educators, edtech executives, stakeholders, and experts to share some of their thoughts and predictions about where they think edtech is headed in 2025. (Go Go back to 2024’s predictions to see which came true and which have yet to materialize.)

EdTech 142

EdTech Industry System Assessment 142

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Enforcement actions undertaken in these locations have a ripple effect,” said Heidi Altman, the director of federal advocacy at the National Immigration Law Center. The seventh grader bottled up her own fears and told her two little sisters, who were a toddler and early elementary schooler at the time, that their mom was working overtime.

Policies 98

Policies Report Advocacy Elementary 98

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 9, 2025

The conservative policy blueprint Project 2025 , some of whose architects have joined the Trump administration, urges lawmakers to send federal special education funding directly to school districts in the form of no-strings attached block grants, instead of to states first. We have to look at it, he said of the Project 2025 proposal.

Education 83

Education Report Training Policies 83

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 31, 2025

Lindsay Kubatzky, the director of policy and advocacy at the National Center for Learning Disabilities, urged families with concerns about their students rights to nevertheless file complaints at the local, state and federal levels.

Education 127

Education Advocacy Policies Report 127