A Principal's Reflections

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

Image credit: [link] The fact is they can, but culturally, we may be dissuading them from doing so. News STEM Summit 2012. This drop-off of interest in STEM subjects among young female students is typically attributed to how our culture views women who demonstrate an interest or ability in the STEM fields.

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A Principal's Reflections

AUGUST 15, 2012

There were many times during this early period that I questioned the value of the time I was putting in, or the actual impact any of this was having on teaching, learning, school culture, and leadership. Social media has become embedded in virtually all facets of my professional practice as an educational leader.

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A Principal's Reflections

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

The annual Edscape Conference will once again be held at New Milford High School in New Milford, NJ on Saturday October 13, 2012. Hundreds of educators from over seven different states and Canada will once again descend upon my school to learn together and network in an effort to move their respective school cultures down an innovative path.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 19, 2024

Once the site of an Indian boarding school, where the federal government attempted to strip children of their tribal identity, the Native American Community Academy now offers the opposite: a public education designed to affirm and draw from each student’s traditional culture and language. We’re leading these schools.

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A Principal's Reflections

JULY 12, 2012

Throughout the entire 2011-2012 school year, we worked to refine our approach, implementation, and learning outcomes for the program. We began using ClassLink late in the spring, but are extremely excited about the promise that this solution holds to enhance the teaching and learning culture of our school through BYOD.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 2, 2018

In 2012, a Times-Picayune reporter, Andrea Chen, dubbed Louisiana the “ world’s prison capital ” because of its uncommonly high incarceration rates. After paying their debt to society, the incarcerated need to be set up for success — and what better way to do that than to subsidize their education? Higher Education.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 25, 2022

Digital books have become extremely popular among students in some regions of Asia, but students who read books on paper still outperformed even in cultures where digital reading is commonplace. Simultaneously, reading performance around the world, which had been slowly improving up until 2012, declined between 2012 and 2018.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

The drop in college graduates who majored in humanities ranges between 16 percent and 29 percent since 2012. Now, the number of college students graduating with a humanities major has fallen for the eighth straight year to under 200,000 degrees in 2020, according to federal data from t he Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System.

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A Principal's Reflections

FEBRUARY 6, 2012

To learn more visit our Holocaust Education Program website and associated student blog. The experience that someone called me a Nazi was very hard for me because I felt like people don''t understand me and the German culture. As you will see, this is an example of an ultimate authentic learning experience available to our students.

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Teaching Anthropology

MAY 8, 2023

Marilou Polymeropoulou, University of Oxford, School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography Active learning is a well-established pedagogical strategy in secondary and tertiary education where independent learning and critical thinking are nurtured. Incorporating active learning into your educational repertoire. References Bastide, H.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 30, 2024

That includes some of the world’s largest and wealthiest countries, and others acclaimed for their education systems, such as Canada, France, Germany and Finland. Solving math education Sign up for a limited-run newsletter that walks you through some of the most promising solutions for helping students conquer math.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 10, 2024

The education world describes this policy with a business acronym used in inventory accounting: LIFO or “Last In, First Out.” Source: TNTP and Educators for Excellence (2023) “ So All Students Thrive: Rethinking Layoff Policy To Protect Teacher Diversity.” Intuitively, LIFO seems smart. Budget cuts can create some messy situations.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 9, 2018

Temple has started a master’s degree in sport business, among the 41,446 degree or certificate programs colleges and universities have added since 2012. Students walk on the Temple University campus in Philadelphia. Photo: Matt Rourke/The Associated Press. It’s just spreading a thin broth thinner.”. Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 28, 2023

Nevertheless, higher education hasn’t had a true redesign of its approach to majors and courses in 50 years. These majors were designed for cultures that the vast majority of today’s students would barely recognize, and many have outworn their usefulness. We tell them they must. prior to ever enrolling a student.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2016

Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Jean Blackwell Hutson Research and Reference Division, The New York Public Library. If we are to improve educational outcomes among low-income students of color, then it’s not just the black students who need black teachers; it’s white students too. Washington teaches a class in 1916.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 17, 2017

Their positions were created by and are funded through Say Yes to Education Buffalo, a local chapter of a New York City-based nonprofit. In Buffalo, a Rust Belt city still grappling with high poverty and an under-educated population , the results of the Say Yes program have exceeded expectations. It’s about shifting a culture.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

APRIL 17, 2018

A ‘grand challenge’ for building-level leaders might be a leadership issue such as: turning around a low-achieving school; repairing a dysfunctional school staff culture; preparing future-ready graduates; meeting the needs of students with unique needs (including ELL/ESL, special education, gifted, transitory; etc.);

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 11, 2019

Red Wing High laid off its full-time college adviser in 2012 amid budget cuts. A foreign language teacher, Lisa Toivonen, has tried to fill in the gap by putting on events to encourage students to consider higher education, but Toivonen’s time and expertise are limited. Steve Friess for The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

The series was produced by The Hechinger Report and Columbia Journalism School’s Teacher Project , nonprofit news organizations focused on education coverage, in partnership with Slate Magazine. public housing or come from immigrant communities—is one of the surest paths to promoting educational equity. Sign up for our newsletter.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 30, 2017

Students from underserved populations do not have the same opportunities for a strong education as their more-affluent peers. These small groups help educators better cultivate connections with students. Other tools for social-emotional learning can help put education on a personal level. But is it enough?

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

But when she returned to teach at Union in 2012, the white student population had shrunk to a little more than half of total enrollment. Anti-teacher sentiment, on top of Oklahoma’s low teacher salaries , have made it difficult to hire math educators, administrators here say. But the district remains committed to its changes.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 29, 2019

They’re known as cultural proficiency seminars and attendance is mandatory. But they say the discussions are helping them to become better educators within a system in which predominantly white staff teach in schools with significant numbers of black and Latino students. Am I just always going to be wrong?”.

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Anthropology News

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Inspired by artistic and cultural outputs by communities in Africa, Europe, East Asia, and North America, Odundo’s cascading and gravity-defying vessels found grounding in multiple art forms—with inspiration from a Ladi Kwali stoneware jar to Greek Attic vases. This education placed Odundo’s practice into perspective.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

Many argue that our culture discourages girls from excelling at math. The detrimental effects of this “boy bias” were largest for wealthier, well-educated families. Higher Education. This study analyzed families who started having kids between 1994 and 2002 and sent them to public schools between 2002 and 2012.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

She watched from the backseat in August 2012 as the city gave way to the causeway, miles and miles of concrete bridge she hoped would ferry her to the future she’d been promised. She’d been one of the first graduates in a new charter school landscape that many in New Orleans believed could fix a broken education system.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 19, 2019

The only thing most everyone agrees on is this: The roll out of the 2012 law, LD 1422, was a disaster, plagued by insufficient funding and inadequate guidance from the top. While the state’s Department of Education cycled through commissioners (six in six years) superintendents struggled to figure out the law, largely on their own.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

Students already pay too much,” said Pinedo, who was wearing a black “Fund the UC” T-shirt, promoting a campaign to get the state to spend more on public higher education, with a design mimicking the logo of the hip-hop group Run-DMC. “I In 2012 the average salary for Football Bowl Subdivision head coaches was $1.64

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 11, 2023

Editor’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 education innovation. Museums have largely escaped the culture wars roiling many school districts and are still seen as trusted institutions.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 3, 2017

Now add fees for student activities, fees for athletics, fees for building maintenance , fees for libraries — even fees for graduation, the bills for which often arrive just as students and their families thought they were finally done paying for their higher educations. Sign up for our Higher Education newsletter.

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Living Geography

NOVEMBER 17, 2024

GeoCapabilities began in 2012 with a pilot project led by the American Association of Geographers. The capabilities approach helps geography educators everywhere to articulate the importance of children learning how to think geographically. All of these are referenced in the book. This work is summarised in the online journal RIGEO.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 21, 2023

But with customers getting harder to find, more colleges and universities are going to where the students are: in fast-growing cities that don’t already have a big supply of higher education institutions, such as Phoenix, Austin and Las Vegas. Las Vegas, by comparison, “is for all practical purposes an education desert.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 9, 2022

But CU Boulder is remarkable because Colorado is considered one of the countries’ most educated states. in 2012 to 16.9% Educators, students, community advocates and long-time Coloradans said a confluence of issues contribute to CU Boulder’s low enrollment of in-state Latino graduates. Mateo Vela, 2021 graduate of CU-Boulder.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 10, 2021

We know that these obstacles exist, and we haven’t addressed them,” said Wil Del Pilar, vice president for higher education policy, practice and research at the Education Trust, a nonprofit organization that focuses on helping students of color and low-income students.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

My school did not drive me out of education. My students did not drive me out of education,” Aion says. Instead, he says he left because the lack of support and the deep systemic flaws in education had finally become too much. It can lead to burnout, low job satisfaction and expanded responsibilities for the teachers who remain.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 17, 2021

Emily, who loves math and wants to be a pharmacist, said that she’s nervous about how hard the classes may be but that she’s eager for a “better education.” Related: Why decades of trying to end racial segregation in gifted education haven’t worked. and Jessica Hockett found in 2012.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Across the hall, Beth Schefelker and Claire Madden, two other math education specialists, led a group of teachers and principals in adding fractions. Huinker, a professor who advised Hedges’ doctorate in math education at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, is a legend among Milwaukee’s math teachers.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

By the time its students graduate to middle school, they are well on their way to mastering both written and spoken English and Spanish, said principal Victoria Hunt, who was part of the group that founded the school in 2012 after more than two decades as a dual language teacher and assistant principal. public schools.

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