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Luba Ostashevsky

Luba Ostashevsky is a contributing writer to The Hechinger Report. She also teaches science at a high school in north Brooklyn.

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TEACHER VOICE: From the remote trenches of the nation’s largest school system

Avatar photo by Luba Ostashevsky March 24, 2020December 7, 2021

The first sign that we’d entered a new world came from the “What’s Your Mood?” survey that I sent to my classes at a north Brooklyn high school. A student who routinely arrives late and spends his class time texting wrote, “School is an everyday thing to me so it’s a bit of an unusual […]

Posted inNews

Twenty-one and in high school

Avatar photo by Luba Ostashevsky December 12, 2016January 18, 2024
Posted inCommunity Colleges, Higher Education, News

As economy rebounds, state funding for higher education isn’t bouncing back

Avatar photo by Luba Ostashevsky September 15, 2016April 8, 2021
Posted inElementary to High School

Elementary school teachers struggle with Common Core math standards

Avatar photo by Luba Ostashevsky June 15, 2016March 30, 2020
Posted inElementary to High School

More than five years after adopting Common Core, Kentucky’s black-white achievement gap is widening

Avatar photo by Luba Ostashevsky May 22, 2016March 30, 2020
Posted inElementary to High School

Kentucky thoroughly sold its educators on Common Core. How?

Avatar photo by Luba Ostashevsky May 22, 2016March 30, 2020
Posted inHigher Education, News

Move over 401(k)s — this new perk is helping millennials pay off college loans

Avatar photo by Luba Ostashevsky April 18, 2016April 8, 2021
Posted inCommon Core, Elementary to High School, News

Two studies find Common Core tests make the grade

Avatar photo by Luba Ostashevsky February 29, 2016March 30, 2020
Posted inHigh School Reform, Higher Education, News

Many who pass state high school graduation tests show up to college unprepared

Avatar photo by Luba Ostashevsky February 18, 2016April 8, 2021
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