The Hechinger Report

JULY 16, 2019

These findings held even when economic status and IQ were taken into account. But a 2012 report on the subject from the University of Alabama suggests some solutions. Research shows that teachers and parents can be trained to teach kids better behavior, the report states.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 27, 2018

The curriculum was recently the subject of an experiment involving 684 students to see if this approach actually teaches kids the reading and writing skills and the content they need to succeed in school. For this experiment, the researchers spent years developing four separate project-based units on history, geography, economics and civics.

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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. Some argue for the elimination of gifted and talented education altogether.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 22, 2023

We want to hear from you After Luciano graduated from high school, she initially enrolled at nearby Joliet Junior College, unsure exactly what she wanted to do but interested in teaching. In 2011, she enrolled at the College of DuPage — a nearby community college — and became certified to teach preschool.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

Since 2012, when the government exhorted more écoles maternelles to open their doors to 2-year-olds, the rate of participation in France’s “priority education networks”—networks of schools that serve heavily low-income, immigrant communities that are targeted for extra social support—has steadily risen. It’s bureaucratic.”.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 28, 2024

For nearly a decade, the New York State Youth Leadership Council (YLC) and Teach Dream , the council’s educator team, have pushed city officials for more support for immigrant students in schools. Finally, in 2021, they launched the Immigrant Liaison pilot program in a collaborative project with CUNY’s Initiative on Immigration and Education.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 17, 2017

Since its launch in 2012, the city’s high school graduation rate has climbed 15 points, to 64 percent, according to New York State education department figures , the highest rate the city has achieved in more than a decade. Margaret Moberg teaches her first-grade class at the Stanley Makowski Early Childhood Center.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 5, 2021

But now a convergence of factors — a dwindling pool of traditional-age students, the call for more educated workers and a pandemic that highlighted economic disparities and scrambled habits and jobs — is putting adults in the spotlight. Should you not get college credit just because we don’t teach it here?”. His counselors reached out.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 10, 2019

” Reboot aims to increase the teaching of critical thinking in schools and by parents at home. Reboot’s mission to promote the teaching of critical thinking highlights a popular buzz phrase in education that can encompass everything from logic skills to the ability to analyze and evaluate information.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 29, 2017

Standing in a cavernous teaching lab full of industrial equipment on the college’s Tulare campus, Emery said the decades-long national push for high school graduates to get bachelor’s degrees left vocational programs with an image problem, and the nation’s factories with far fewer skilled workers than needed.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 10, 2020

That’s what they called it in Maine, where, in 2012, state officials mandated that every district adopt it, and then, in 2018, abandoned the requirement. Competency-based education demands a shift away from traditional teaching, testing and grading. Related: Inside Maine’s disastrous rollout of proficiency-based learning.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 1, 2020

Students are choosing disciplines like business, economics and computer science – subjects they believe are better suited to the modern job market. The historians are also developing new ways to teach, and new methods to assess what history students know and can do. This story also appeared in American Public Media.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 23, 2024

Some researchers think these small-scale efforts to teach math in context could transform how it’s taught more broadly. She had to drop out in 2012 after getting injured in a house fire. Credit: Jan Sonnenmair for The Hechinger Report Gardner worries about the consequences of the traditional abstract approach to teaching math.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 23, 2018

In contrast, Onalaska’s population rose from 731 residents in 2012 to 772 residents in 2016, according to U.S. Back at Onalaska High, Kaylene Kenny teaches a class that’s all about ensuring students know their options. In a home economics classroom, she runs through how to file taxes, balance a budget and apply for college.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 16, 2025

Kirk] Jennifer Delaney teaches higher ed policy at the University of California, Berkeley, and she studied the direct admissions program in Idaho, where every public institution in the state participates, as well as two private colleges. Idaho was the first state to create a direct admissions program. Kirk] This is College Uncovered.

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Digital Promise

APRIL 24, 2018

Even after the invention of fishnets proves to be a far superior method of catching fish, teachers continued teaching the bare-hands method, claiming that it helps students develop “generalized agility.”. These updated courses work better for all students by changing what they teach and how they teach it. New Paths in Math.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 7, 2016

Davida Walls never thought she would be teaching high school biology, let alone in the first few months after graduating from college at 22. Teaching was not my initial goal. In 2011-2012, the university had 52 teaching interns. CREDIT SARAH WHITES-KODITSCHEK / ARKANSAS PUBLIC MEDIA. This year there may be as few as 19.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 27, 2017

Dental checkups are one of the many non-academic activities the 17-year-old senior does at school in between anthropology, English 12, and economics. percent of the 87 students who arrived in 2012 as freshmen graduated on time, nearly matching the city’s four-year graduation rate of 72.6 Last year, 72.4 Photo: Jackie Mader.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

They got small grants in 2012 of $50,000 each from the Appalachian College Association , or ACA, to work on the issue. With the help of several scholarships, Jose Perez enrolled at the school in 2012 as a freshman. Related: In one country, immigration is seen not as a burden, but as an economic gain. Photo: Jesse Pratt.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 6, 2016

After years of promising to save money by streamlining operations, cutting duplicate staffs and maximizing purchasing power, some university systems have been forced by political pressure and economic realities to finally start doing it. From 1987 to 2012, it doubled, far outpacing the growth in the numbers of students and faculty.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 6, 2016

I recently attended an all-black, all-male meeting focused on increasing the number of black men in teaching. We did some good work, but I realized that when it comes to improving education and teaching, there should never be a meeting, panel, think tank or photo-op that doesn’t prominently involve black women.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

In 2012, the William Penn Foundation donated $1.5 Tulsa : The nonprofit Met Cares Foundation and Tulsa Public Schools are jointly operating an elementary school, basing their efforts on a community school model that both addresses socio-economic factors and allows for innovative teaching methods, according to the Tulsa World.

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Digital Promise

JUNE 15, 2016

Teaching quality has been defined as “instruction that enables a wide range of students to learn” ( Darling-Hammond, 2012 ), and it is the strongest school-related factor that can improve student learning and achievement ( Hanushek, 2011 ; Nye, Konstantopoulos, and Hedges, 2004 ; Rivkin, Hanushek, and Kain, 2005 ).

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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

AUGUST 11, 2017

This kind of experience may be common at New Jersey’s most selective and wealthiest suburban high schools, but McGee graduated from North Star Academy College Preparatory High School in Newark, where 84 percent of the students are economically disadvantaged and 98 percent are black or Latino. I want to open their eyes to what is out there.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

BOSTON — When the Boston Public Schools opened the Margarita Muñiz Academy in 2012, it was a first-of-its kind dual-language high school meant to address issues faced by the city’s growing Hispanic population. When you think about the future economics of the world, it’s not an English world.”. That’s what made it difficult,” she says.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 16, 2021

Related: Getting rid of gifted programs: Trying to teach students at all levels together in one class. He hired Wells to overhaul the gifted program in November 2012 even before the judge issued his ruling. If a child needed language support, he said, put them in the general gifted class with language support. Report it here.”.

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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. Related: Ranking countries by the worst students.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 14, 2019

The idea, said Ann Swartz-Beckius, interim director of student achievement, is to teach students how to remain calm under pressure, “to tune out the noise in their heads.”. Our future economic vitality depends on this.”. As a state, we cannot afford to leave anyone behind … Our future economic vitality depends on this”.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Tough’s book asks us to consider whether higher education in America is more an engine of, or an obstacle to, economic and social mobility. “Tough’s book asks us to consider whether higher education in America is more an engine of, or an obstacle to, economic and social mobility.” The post OPINION: Do U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 18, 2016

Instead of attending neighborhood schools with students of the same race and economic status, as most children do in Mississippi, Osborn went to school with an even mix of black and white classmates, some from the town’s wealthy subdivisions and others from Clinton’s poorer areas. They’re also extremely successful.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 11, 2023

Since the 2012 shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut, Negrón, who grew up in Puerto Rico, had become convinced mainland American schools were dangerous. Families got used to that,” said Elmer Roldan, of Communities in Schools of Los Angeles, which helps schools follow up with absent students.

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Steven V. Miller

JANUARY 10, 2024

I’m teaching a first-year MA-level quantitative methods course at the moment for which the current topic is linear model diagnostics. We should all thank Joshua Alley for beginning to curate a repository on cross-sectional OLS models around which you can teach in political science and international relations. Appel and Cyanne E.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 17, 2021

and Jessica Hockett found in 2012. Related: Getting rid of gifted programs: Trying to teach students at all levels together in one class. “We have far too many kids in the city who just need an opportunity like I did, to go to a school that pushes them,” said Valenzuela, who teaches history at Boston Latin Academy.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 15, 2019

And Nichols College, where Maymon is a junior double-majoring in economics and finance, fit the same profile: small and with a comparatively low endowment and a student body drawn mostly from a few surrounding states. “It The national average for private, nonprofit colleges is 82 percent.). Some of that transparency has prompted pushback.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 10, 2017

That’s due to a new teaching approach here called “proficiency-based education,” that was inspired by a 2012 state law. There was a sense that we needed to swing for the fences to make the economic transition the state needs to make.”. “In In lower level classes, some would have to repeat the whole course.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 3, 2016

They are learning (or teaching) a new language, a process that takes around 4 to 7 years based on a variety of factors. California has led on this issue, passing a groundbreaking law in 2012 to require a common definition and reporting of long-term English learners. It’s unfair to be schizophrenic about this bottom-line reality.

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