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PEACHAM, Vt. — Early on a chilly fall morning in this small Vermont town, Principal Lydia Cochrane watched a gaggle of kids chase one another and a soccer ball…
Read more School closures are accelerating in rural America. But research on whether they help students is mixedSchools are expected to provide safety, structure, and meaningful support for every student. However, the reality thatBlack students with disabilities experience often looks very different from that promise. Although federal laws outline accommodations through IEP and 504 plans, the success of these supports depends on how teachers and school administrators…
Read more When Support Becomes Surveillance: How School-Level Power Over IEP and 504 Accommodations Pushes Black Disabled Students Toward the School-to-Prison Pipelineby Ariel Gilreath, The Hechinger Report November 7, 2025 HALIFAX COUNTY, N.C. — When Ivy McFarland first traveled from her native Honduras to teach elementary Spanish in North…
Read more Rural teacher shortages could get worse thanks to Trump’s visa feeKey findings: A national survey of educators and principals shows a record number of K-12 schools reporting social and emotional learning (SEL) implementation, according to new research from…
Read more SEL implementation soars across U.S.Nota de la editora: Este reportaje sobre las escuelas de Russellville fue producido por palabra, una iniciativa de la Asociación Nacional de Periodistas Hispanos, The Hechinger Report, una…
Read more ¿Un trabajo demasiado bien hecho?Urban school districts are in crisis. Student and teacher absenteeism, special education referrals, mental health complications and violence within and outside schools are all on the rise as…
Read more OPINION: Urban school districts must make dramatic changes to surviveRates of chronic absenteeism are at record-high levels. More than 1 in 4 students missed 10 percent or more of the 2021-22 school year. That means millions of…
Read more OPINION: There’s a promising path to get students back on track to graduation – The Hechinger ReportSPOKANE, Wash. — Before giving birth to her daughter, Kaleeya Baldwin, 19, had given up on education. She’d dropped out of school as a seventh grader, after behavior…
Read more Day care, baby supplies, counseling: Inside a school for pregnant and parenting teensLEXINGTON, Ky. — Why do rural students have to “beat the odds” in order to get to college? That’s the question Jim Shelton asked his fellow panelists during…
Read more Is the secret to getting rural kids to college leveraging the entire community? – The Hechinger ReportTwo years ago, when I visited Westwood High School in Mesa, a suburb of Phoenix, every incoming freshman started the year in a very unusual way. Back when…
Read more Are two teachers better than one? More schools say yes to team teachingLOS ANGELES — When Abram van der Fluit began teaching science more than two decades ago, he tried to ward off classroom disruption with the threat of suspension:…
Read more What happens when suspensions get suspended? – The Hechinger ReportEditor’s Note: Superintendent Mike Miles released this statement Friday morning. “The district wants to clarify prior communication regarding the use of the proficiency screener. The proficiency screener rating…
Read more A Tough Rainy Day for the HISD Superintendent Mike Miles and His Board of Managers [UPDATED]Some Fairfax County parents and teachers are urging Virginia’s largest school district to include more of their voices in its search for the next principal of Justice High…
Read more Fairfax Co. parents, staff outline concerns as Justice High searches for 5th principal in 12 years – WTOP NewsSAN FRANCISCO — It was two days before the start of the school year, and Lauren Koehler shrugged off her backpack and slid out of a maroon hoodie…
Read more Is the hardest job in education convincing parents to send their kids to a San Francisco public school?“Mom, are there any more Earths?” Angelique Hammack, a teacher in California, creates lesson plans about climate change for the website SubjectToClimate. She often starts from a question…
Read more The climate change lessons teachers are missingChicago — Several schools in the Saint Louis Public Schools (SLPS) district have signed on to bring the immersive power of virtual reality technology to students this school…
Read more ESSER Funds help bring ClassVR to Schools in the Saint Louis Public Schools DistrictPRIEST RIVER, Idaho —The moms seated at the conference table on Election Day were worried. They had good reason: Their poll watchers at voting sites — grange halls…
Read more The moms fighting to reclaim their Idaho school districtEditor’s note: This story led off this week’s Future of Learning newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every other Wednesday with trends and top stories about…
Read more Teaching social studies in a polarized world – The Hechinger ReportLiveSchool surveyed over 1,000 educators across the US to understand the state of school culture Press Release – Apr 14, 2022 NASHVILLE, Tenn., April 14, 2022 (Newswire.com) –…
Read more LiveSchool Publishes Major Survey of School Culture in US K12Press Release – updated: Feb 2, 2018 PORTLAND, Ore., February 2, 2018 (Newswire.com) – Empowering students by fostering student agency has been shown to improve outcomes, leading to…
Read more New Grant Opportunity From Agentic Learning Will Help Schools Successfully Implement Student-Centered Learning
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