The Hechinger Report

JUNE 20, 2017

Traci Chun, a teacher-librarian at Skyview High School in Vancouver, Washington, and junior Ulises Santillano Tlaseca troubleshoot a 3D printing job in the library’s maker space. Traci Chun, a teacher-librarian at Skyview High School in Vancouver, Washington, is all done with shushing. Photo: Kelsey Aske.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 19, 2019

Ragan Toppan, a junior at Deering High School, took part in a walkout last fall to protest a change in the school’s grading policy. This past fall, Ragan Toppan, 16, walked out of her Algebra II class at Deering High School to protest her school’s recent switch to standards-based grading.

High School 111

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

MILWAUKEE — On a muggy afternoon in late June, about 20 kindergarten through second-grade teachers sat in a classroom on the third floor of Milwaukee’s North Division High School. That rate for eighth graders peaked in 2012, with about 16 percent reaching proficiency or advanced status. These ladies really did change my life.”

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 28, 2019

NOME, Alaska — Before they got down to business for the day, students in Devin Tatro’s social studies class were offered a quiet moment of self-reflection: On this golden fall afternoon at Nome-Beltz Junior/Senior High School, were they feeling chipper, distressed or somewhere in between?

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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. Students walk the halls of Helena-West Helena’s Central High School between class periods. In 2011-2012, the university had 52 teaching interns.

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Charter School Tradition Public School High School 111

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

But it wasn’t indoor recess — play is one of the ways students learn every day in O’Brien’s science and social studies class at Shidler Elementary School. I became a teacher back in 2012 and I realized it’s [play] not even accepted anymore as a way to learn, even in the younger grades,” Rosecrants said.

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Elementary School Pedagogy Public School Middle School 144

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.

Elementary School 127

Elementary School Middle School Library Research 127

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 10, 2017

Freshman Kylee Elderkin works on an assignment in English class at Nokomis High School in Newport on Friday, June 2, 2017. The Nokomis Regional High School ninth grader said she used to routinely miss key skills and do poorly on tests. Kylee Elderkin, student, Nokomis Regional High School.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

Ivy” is really Kelsee Morgan, 16, a junior in high school. Like every girl in her tent, she attends school in Crook County, Oregon. In part, they said they were thinking of other districts without the long outdoor school history of Crook County. Attendance at outdoor school statewide has been uneven.

Public School 108

Public School Middle School Archiving Tradition 108

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 1, 2017

Mississippi became one of the first states to make civil rights education a major part of its social studies standards in schools in 2011. The standards for Mississippi Studies, a high school social studies course usually taught in 9th grade, required for graduation, cite Jim Crow and the Freedom Rides.

Teaching 43

Teaching Social Studies High School Education 43

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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Research Education Professional Development Leadership 55

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 6, 2016

Ivy” is really Kelsee Morgan, 16, a junior in high school. Like every girl in her tent, she attends school in Crook County, Oregon. In part, they said they were thinking of other districts without the long outdoor school history of Crook County. Attendance at outdoor school statewide has been uneven.

Middle School 80

Middle School Tradition History Teaching 80

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

For Johnson, the school was a bid to cultivate the greatness she saw in these local kids, including her own daughters. They were so bright, so eager, and yet if the current statistics held, 25 percent would not graduate from high school. The surrounding Coahoma schools also began consolidating in March. he Brown v.

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Charter School History Library Public School 109

ED Surge

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Khoa Ta, then a sophomore at Owensboro High School from Daviess County in Western Kentucky, was elected as a student board member for the local board of education last May. One idea that’s taken root is forcing students to take a civics test as a requirement for high school graduation. The victory was bittersweet.

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Civics Education Government K-12 123

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2019

The two had spent nearly seven years designing a new kind of high school meant to address the needs of students who didn’t thrive in a traditional setting. Somerville Mayor Joseph Curtatone sat on the school committee, and he’d been the one to suggest they consider designing a new public school in the first place, back in 2012.

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Charter School Project-Based Learning High School Public School 111

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 3, 2018

My job as a teacher is to be a first responder to poverty,” said Cruey, a 58-year-old middle school social studies teacher at Southside K-8 school. “If Around the country, the number of kids in foster care increased by about 10 percent from 2012 to 2016. It was previously attached to Big Creek High School.

Middle School 111

Middle School Heritage Lesson Plan High School 111

The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2018

Young children are “super curious,” said Matt Krehbiel, director of science for Achieve, a nonprofit organization dedicated to helping students graduate high school ready to start college or to pursue a career. “We But science has long been given short shrift in the first few years of school.

Education 94

Education Elementary School K-12 High School 94

The Hechinger Report

JULY 27, 2016

Tianna’s social studies project aimed to refute the “dominant narrative” that racism is largely dead in the United States. And are they particularly valuable for students who have struggled in traditional high school classes? “You’re doing fine,” another student assured her.

High School 75

High School Tradition Teaching Research 75

The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2020

A high school social studies book, also used in Texas, says of rising temperatures, “Some critics say that this warming is just part of the Earth’s natural cycle,” though, in truth, there’s overwhelming consensus among climate scientists that the current warming is due to human activities.

Teaching 138

Teaching Middle School Humanities High School 138

Zinn Education Project

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

A social studies teacher uses conflicting narratives to engage students in studying the history of Palestine and Israel, focusing on the events of 1948. ” While this piece was written primarily for adult education, an adaptation for middle and high school teachers is included at the end of the document.

Teaching 52

Teaching K-12 Human Rights Social Justice 52

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 15, 2021

Caroline Patrie is a high school science teacher in Maine’s Portland Public Schools; her first day as a teacher was September 11, 2001. Construction had pushed back the new school year at her Vermont high school. 14, 2012, the day that 20 children and six adults were killed at Sandy Hook Elementary.

Charter School 145

Charter School Civics Middle School Civic Engagement 145

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Related: PROOF POINTS: Slightly higher reading scores when students delve into social studies. Three states — Florida, Illinois and Massachusetts — have in recent years revamped their social studies and civic education standards and have created legislation to implement modern civic education. That simply must change.

Controversial Topics 141

Controversial Topics Teaching Civics Civic Engagement 141

Zinn Education Project

JANUARY 9, 2024

I got the chance to connect with high school students in my breakout room and it was a refreshing reminder that the Black Freedom Struggle is not only being taught despite truth-teaching being criminalized, but also it is being learned and put into practice! And of course, history and social studies teachers.

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Primary Sources History K-12 Economics 52