The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Early Childhood newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every other Wednesday with trends and top stories about early learning. A wave of new laws across the country is attempting to transform how elementary school children learn to read.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

What does the declining birthrate mean for elementary, middle and high schools across the country? “If it does come true, we’re going to see massive changes,” said Mike Griffith, a school finance specialist at the Education Commission of the States, a think tank that aims to inform education policy. million in 2019.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

birth rates soon translate into fewer graduating high schoolers after 2025. Most other public closures were small ones, such as the closure of a teacher training site at a local elementary school. But the numbers may spike again as declining U.S. First, the numbers.

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edWeb.net

MARCH 4, 2021

Parrott, Director of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, explained why their Compass 2025 plan emphasizes equity throughout and how they keep equity front and center in their work. By addressing disciplinary policies, they were ensuring the kids were in class and able to take advantage of opportunities.

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Policies Professional Learning Elementary Assessment 88

eSchool News

MARCH 20, 2024

The imminent end of ESSER funding has pushed school districts to a critical juncture, compelling them to confront budget deficits for the upcoming 2024-2025 school year before the “fiscal cliff” hits in 2025-2026.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

A pre-pandemic study from the Economic Policy Institute (EPI) indicated that teacher shortages were already becoming dire. At that time, researchers at EPI predicted that by the year 2025, the shortage could reach up to 200,000. A mass educator exodus and shortage will not come as a surprise to anyone who has been paying attention.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 25, 2022

Colleges, of course, are also deeply worried – as they should be, said Jerome Lucido, an expert on college admissions and the executive director of the USC Center for Enrollment Research, Policy and Practice. Related: Racial gaps in college degrees are widening just when states need them to narrow. Asian Americans make up 25.3

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 20, 2023

Here’s a great example: Presidents of the 28 state and community colleges in the Florida College System, which serves nearly 650,000 students, issued a collective statement this week, promising to not “support any institutional practice, policy, or academic requirement that compels belief in critical race theory or related concepts.”

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

America’s schools are vastly underprepared for extreme heat: An estimated 36,000 public schools don’t have adequate HVAC systems, and the combined costs of upgrading or installing necessary HVAC systems by 2025 is estimated at $4.4 billion nationally , according to the Center for American Progress, a left-leaning think tank.

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eSchool News

MARCH 10, 2023

Congress gave districts plenty of leeway on how they could spend the Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief money, or ESSER funds. Much of the spending itself must be complete by 2025, though districts may apply for extensions through 2026. Most of it was distributed based on poverty levels in each district’s community.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 30, 2024

William Schmidt, a professor at Michigan State University and the founder and director of the Center for the Study of Curriculum Policy, has studied the seeming disconnect between math as it is taught, and math as it is used outside of school. It plans to invest 146 million euros — about $158 million in U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 6, 2017

And it has everything to do with the policies of the states.”. The bad news is we’re not seeing a lot of innovation or discussion around personalized learning,” said Claire Voorhees, national policy director for the Tallahassee, Florida-based Foundation for Excellence in Education, an advocacy group for personalized learning.

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edWeb.net

OCTOBER 15, 2020

The Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief (ESSER) Fund follows the same formula as Title I, so it can be used to help bridge the digital divide for students from low-income families. Susan Gentz is a partner at K20Connect, a consulting consortium of experts focused on education leadership, technology and policy.

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edWeb.net

APRIL 30, 2021

To recognize and work through this sort of situation, McNulty recommends avoiding the “polarity stereotyping” of traditionalists and progressives, in which each group views the other as representing policies they disfavor while portraying their own views as having no downside.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

States received many of these trust lands upon achieving statehood, but more were taken from tribal nations during the late 19th and early 20th centuries through a federal policy of allotment , in which reservations were forcibly cut up into small parcels in an effort to make Indigenous peoples farmers and landowners. Tony Incashola Jr.,

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 5, 2025

How will people be celebrating National Library Week April 6-12, 2025? ” How will people be celebrating National Library Week April 6-12, 2025? AI's Role in Transforming Education: A Journey to Understanding Tickets, Tue, Apr 29, 2025 at 5:30 PM | Eventbrite LINK Register on Eventbrite “This 2.5-hour

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edWeb.net

JULY 26, 2021

Richard Culatta is an internationally recognized education innovator with vast experience in education policy, teacher preparation, and educational technology. Dr. Conner obtained his Bachelor of Arts in elementary education/humanities from Lasell University. She earned a B.A. from Harvard University.

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Minga

MARCH 3, 2025

As more states enforce cell phone policies in schools, educators, parents, and students are adapting to new restrictions designed to reduce distractions, improve student well-being, and enhance classroom engagement. Which States Have Active Cell Phone Policies? And heres the best partteachers, you dont have to be the enforcers!

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Policies Smartphone Guidelines Social Media 52

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 4, 2024

On the line, Kelly Rodriguez explained that she wanted to move her 6-year-old from a private school to a public one for first grade, but only if a seat opened up at Sunset Elementary School, near their house on San Francisco’s predominantly white and Asian west side. Lau Elementary. The same goes for middle and high school options.

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E-rate Elementary Education Report 140

Edsurge

AUGUST 27, 2024

Come January 2025, depending on the outcome of the election, he could be moving to Washington, D.C., Sarah Marzilli is an elementary school art teacher who was running for a seat on the school board in Volusia County, Florida, but recently lost her primary. to serve as vice president of the United States.

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Education Social Media Study System 169

eSchool News

AUGUST 23, 2024

With open discussions, we can embrace innovation while guiding children to use technology safely and responsibly,” said Kim Allman, Head of Corporate Responsibility and Public Policy at Gen. The following are 2024-2025 Lead Advocates, who will oversee groups of Advocates.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 3, 2025

We asked education experts to share their thoughts regarding student success priorities in 2025 (find 50 edtech predictions for 2025 here )–discover what they had to say: Across the country, there is growing consensus and demand for high school transformation.

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Learning Data Trends Industry 126

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 25, 2024

Next year, Im planning stories on district pre-K investment, early childhood inclusion and elementary classroom management, among others. Ill also be sharing some examples of what other countries are doing in the early childhood realm, and I will continue to track federal and state early childhood policies.

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Report Elementary Policies Training 107

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Over the past decade, a majority of states have passed new science of reading laws or implemented policies that emphasize phonics in classrooms. Yet the 2024 results of an important national test, released last month, showed that the reading scores of elementary and middle schoolers continued their long downward slide, hitting new lows.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 11, 2025

When our state chambers adjourn next spring and Congress recesses in July for fireworks and tall ships, we hope our state and federal policymakers will have passed policies that secure the civic capacity of our next generation of Americans. This momentum has carried forth into 2025, with bills impacting civic education filed in many states.

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Policies Learning Advocacy Course 88

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 23, 2024

A decade of data in one state shows an unexpected result when colleges drop remedial courses Students earned more credits at first, but graduation rates didnt increase at Tennessees community colleges Reforming and eliminating remedial education has been one of the biggest policy changes at colleges around the country. Happy New Year!

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 9, 2025

If you’re sitting in the shoes of a district leader, taking a multi-pronged approach is probably very sensible, said Jennifer DePaoli, a senior researcher at the Learning Policy Institute, who has studied school safety. Related: Schools are surveilling students to prevent gun violence or suicide.

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Tools Assessment Guidelines Report 62

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 24, 2018

My most popular story of the year shows how platooning, or teacher specialization in elementary schools, might be harming kids while looping, keeping the same teacher for two years in a row, is beneficial. College students predicted to fall by more than 15% after the year 2025. Happy Holidays and I’ll be back again on Jan.

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Education Analysis Study Report 109

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

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Handbook Report Advocacy Policies 136

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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Elementary Education Report System 119

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Lisa Grant, superintendent for the Centralia school district, makes her monthly rounds in a fifth grade class at Fords Prairie Elementary School on Dec. The school district welcomed all elementary students back for in-person learning in early December. Mike Griffith, senior researcher and policy analyst, Learning Policy Institute.

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eSchool News

APRIL 9, 2025

Educators at all levels spent extra hours developing policies and strategic action plans to meet the varying needs of district students and families. “I am an elementary technology teacher, so I have really seen how the pandemic affected the technology use of students, and the impacts of that shift. Too much tech, too quickly?

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Education Learning Data Industry 79

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 27, 2025

The president is also ushering in a new era of anxiety, inciting deportation fears that are keeping immigrant children out of school and acting on some of the very same ideas he once dissociated himself from in the Heritage Foundations Project 2025 road map for his next administration. classrooms and advocating for clear guidelines.

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Education Policies Guidelines Libraries 120

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 9, 2025

Cassidy praised Louisianas pro-school choice policies and embrace of specialized schools: Im hoping thats where education goes, where its really tailored specifically to the needs of students. We have to look at it, he said of the Project 2025 proposal. Department of Health and Human Services.

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Education Report Training Policies 98

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. Such findings, said Dittmeier, suggest “a gap of trust” and students “not feeling they were protected by school policies.” Related: How could Project 2025 change education?

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Policies Groups Report Advocacy 130

eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2025

As 2024 moves into 2025, educators greet a new year with uncertainty. A second Trump presidency has many educators wondering how proposed policy changes will impact schools and districts. Pandemic-related learning loss and academic inequities remain a hurdle, particularly as COVID relief funding dries up. –Dr.

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EdTech Industry System Assessment 142

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

And unlike most agreements between private parties, the federal government can terminate these contracts for any reason, such as shifting policy priorities. More than 1,000 youths with disabilities were supposed to receive special instruction and support in 2025 and 2026 through this study, which has now been terminated.

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