The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Another 2012 study also found that gifted instruction had no effect on achievement. Perhaps it should be no surprise that students aren’t achieving more in gifted classrooms when most educators admit they don’t even try to teach advanced material in them.

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Digital Promise

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

Across the country, schools are adopting new approaches to teaching and learning in order to prepare students for life in a technology-rich world. Students who participate in guided collaborative projects improve critical thinking and social skills needed for college and careers ( P21 , 2015). Why is this so challenging?

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MARCH 17, 2015

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 21, 2016

Once the state introduced the Common Core-aligned tests in the spring of 2012, that percentage dropped 28 points in reading (to 48 percent) and 33 points in math (to 40 percent), according to the Kentucky Department of Education. This lesson helps to teach them that multiplication is repeated addition. Graphic: Davin McHenry.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 23, 2016

In 2012, Estonia’s 15-year-olds ranked 11 th in math and reading and sixth in science out of the 65 countries that participated in an international test that compares educational systems from around the world, called the Programme for International Student Assessment, or PISA. “We It has worked.”. I don’t know,” Granovski responded. “It

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 11, 2017

Now, with computer-assisted teaching allowing for tailored exercises and online lessons, it is making a resurgence. In addition to fulfilling Common Core requirements, assignments are designed to help students learn critical thinking and workplace skills. In late 2012, educators at the school were trying to think big.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

I have a hard time convincing students, despite research on my side, that what subject they major in matters far less than they (and their parents) might imagine — and that what employers care about most are transferable skills, like critical thinking, that can be acquired in just about any field of study. The post OPINION: Do U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 3, 2018

A 2012 study published by the National Bureau of Economic Research found that most high-achieving low-income students don’t apply to any competitive colleges. Legal Outreach offers an opportunity to build the critical thinking skills and self-confidence its students’ wealthier peers often accrue naturally.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 7, 2016

I really want to see us get away from teaching for a test and letting the test support the educators’ goals in teaching our children. Common Core demands students go beyond rote memorization and demonstrate critical-thinking skills. The test should be illuminating the actual capacity of our students.”.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 22, 2020

Cardona said the values instilled in him — “hard work, service to others, relationships first, treating people with respect” — have helped him achieve what can only be called a meteoric rise from his first teaching job in Meriden in 1998 to his appointment last month as state education commissioner. New Haven Mayor Toni Harp.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2018

It provides real life applications for reading and math and develops critical thinking skills that help students solve problems in other subjects. Just 44 percent of K-2 teachers felt they were “well prepared” to teach science, according to the survey, compared to 86 percent who felt well prepared to teach reading.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Edward de Bono’s six “thinking hats,” specifically the one that called on thinkers to assess their ideas and look for potential flaws. Edward de Bono’s six “thinking hats” are a staple in gifted education. They teach kids (and adults) to systematically look at a challenge from several different perspectives.

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Digital Promise

JULY 9, 2018

The group creates immersive technologies and inquiry-based curricula to teach ecosystem science, while seeding the ground with the kind of deeper-learning strategies that the National Research Council (NRC) endorsed in its 2012 report, Education for Life and Work in the 21st Century. Read a brief summary here.].

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 28, 2020

We should treat it more like a classroom setting where we’re allowed to ask questions and use critical thinking skills.”. He also said that federal and state governments should incentivize officers to get higher levels of education, and that more non-cops should be teaching future officers. We want them to be educated.

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Geogramblings

DECEMBER 14, 2023

This was clearly evident throughout my time teaching high-school geography and PSHE, and I concur with Chowdhury’s observation that our young people are the most globally connected.* British values’ are completely compatible with a DEI approach to teaching PSHE. Is there evidence that comedy is ‘dying’? References Wilson, H.,

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

The simple message that majoring in the humanities pays off is being pushed aggressively by this university and a handful of others; they hope to reverse decades of plummeting enrollment in subjects that teach skills employers say they need from graduates but arent getting. The University of Arizona campus. But its become an existential one.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2020

This nine-part series explores how we’re teaching through climate change. The 32 print and digital books we examined were published between 2012 and 2020, although most – some 84 percent – were released in 2015 or later. Teachers need to find their own ways of teaching that topic because the books and TEKS are not doing it.”.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

I teach courses at Swarthmore College that challenge students to think critically about their own academic success. Education Department in 2012 alleging that the admissions process discriminates against black, Latino and low-income students. Second, I teach my students about the enduring effects of segregation.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 20, 2016

In 2012, Donald Trump offered to donate $5 million to a charity of President Obama’s choosing if the latter would release his college and graduate-school transcripts as well as his passport records; Obama declined. It reveals, among other things, a lack of critical thinking. She’s no more that than Barack Obama is a Kenyan.

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Zinn Education Project

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

While many education groups provide resources for teaching about the crisis as a “conflict” rooted in antisemitism and Islamophobia, that sole emphasis is misleading. As educators, let us recommit to teaching and working for the dignity of all peoples. Teaching the Seeds of Violence in Palestine-Israel by Bill Bigelow.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 23, 2017

Steel Valley School District Superintendent Edward Wehrer, whose daughters attend Park Elementary, said he’s aware of the disparity between the elementary schools — a situation he inherited when he was named superintendent in June 2012. “We We believe the best way to educate the students is in the same facility,” Wehrer said. “I Acceptance v.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 27, 2020

In years past, teaching about a presidential election meant teaching about the Electoral College, just making it a little more interesting. In 2020, teaching about the presidential election feels more like teaching about the Second Amendment or the abortion rights debate. Because this is a teachable moment.

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