The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

Liberal arts colleges are in crisis,” said Doug Sofer, professor of history at another of these schools, Maryville College in Tennessee. Doug Sofer, professor of history, Maryville College in Tennessee. They got small grants in 2012 of $50,000 each from the Appalachian College Association , or ACA, to work on the issue.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 6, 2016

The changes at San Diego State and in other colleges’ math classes are similar to components of the Common Core Standards for Mathematical Practice — the movement driving change at the K-12 level in the 40-plus states that have adopted it — which also place an emphasis on asking students to communicate their reasoning and construct arguments.

K-12 70

K-12 Teaching Tutoring Professional Development 70

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

Unlike algebra or world history, there is no bubble sheet by which to judge students’ soft skills, let alone evaluate their growth over time. In the majority black and Latino pre-K-12 school of roughly 1,000 students, 74 percent of whom come from low-income households, 100 percent of graduating seniors are accepted to college, officials said.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 21, 2016

students graduating from the K-12 system are college and career ready, Common Core has ramped up academic expectations that schools everywhere, including those in Kentucky, are still far from meeting. Sonja Brookins Santelises, vice president of K-12 policy at the Education Trust. Scores have been edging up ever since.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 16, 2019

The historically majority-white district, which served 14,150 K-12 students, 61 percent of whom qualified for free or reduced-price lunch in the 2018-19 school year, has seen a recent influx of immigrants from around the world. The district also offers courses like Digital Audio Production, History of American Pop and AP Music Theory.

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ED Surge

JULY 27, 2023

A large number of K-12 teachers and college professors have decided to simply ban the use of ChatGPT and other new AI chatbots when completing assignments. A recent survey of 1,000 K-12 teachers found that 61 percent predicted that ChatGPT will have “legitimate educational uses that we cannot ignore.”

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 3, 2018

People who major in subjects like history or political science don’t get first jobs that are as lucrative, but they catch up a lot,” says Deming. People who major in subjects like history or political science don’t get first jobs that are as lucrative, but they catch up a lot.

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Political Science K-12 Humanities History 71

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 27, 2018

For this experiment, the researchers spent years developing four separate project-based units on history, geography, economics and civics. The curriculum development was the subject of a 2012 paper.) In a history unit, teachers and students can choose which historical sites to write about in their postcards.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 2, 2019

The reknitting of schools and histories gives a new depth to this year’s Carnival parades, as students from schools like Carver see proud alumni like Foxworth-Carter and feel a deeper connection to their schools’ rich histories. But it’s also the deep history. Cherishing history while challenging old assumptions.

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High School History Charter School Tradition 103

Digital Promise

JUNE 30, 2016

A key transition over the history of information technology has been in the shift from passive audiences to active users. One theme that has emerged from the research to date is that simply adding technology to K-12 environments does not necessarily improve learning. What Is Successful Technology Integration?

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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. As Williams and her classmates moved away in the summer of 2012, Marcovitz expected they’d all have “a happy ending with college.” The air smelled familiar.

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Charter School Psychology High School Private School 111

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 1, 2018

According to state data, the number of young people in state juvenile justice facilities dropped from 901 at the end of 2012 to 386 in 2017. In 2016, 45,567 young people were held in facilities nationwide, down 20 percent from 2012.) Its implementation has coincided with the rapid rise in course completions and diplomas awarded.

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Social Studies Tradition American History Government 84

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 18, 2016

Osborn, who graduated from Clinton in 2005 and returned five years ago to teach history at the high school, said the benefits of Clinton’s plan stuck out to him even as a kid. There are no rivalries within the district and no real concept of socioeconomic status,” Osborn said.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

It’s not that bad,” a counselor the campers called Ivy told the 11- and 12-year-olds, nervous about their upcoming acting debuts. “I Joanna Andaluz, 12, (right) listens as Sunriver Nature Center lead naturalist Kody Osborne (not pictured) talks about and shows off an owl during an evening lesson at Crook County’s outdoor school.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 11, 2017

Amy Slaton, a professor at Drexel University in Philadelphia who studies the history of science and engineering in education, worries that the method is frequently adopted to save costs. Students engaged in a group history project, for example, might need to demonstrate that they have learned to collaborate and investigate.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 7, 2016

In 2011-2012, the university had 52 teaching interns. My degree is in psychology but I’m teaching history! Eoff says the University of Arkansas at Monticello is a primary training ground for teachers in her region, though its number of student teaching interns has dropped along with other areas of the state in recent years.

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Charter School Tradition Public School High School 111

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

Students participate in morning workshops in advance of national May 1 “Day Without Immigrants” rallies, learning also about the labor rights history of May Day rallies worldwide. But at Muñiz, she was learning subjects like history and math in Spanish. Photo: Tara García Mathewson/The Hechinger Report.

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High School Heritage Economics Cultures 112

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 6, 2016

The Alumni Teach Project was launched in 2012, when two alumni finished college and followed up on their 2008 PUC graduation-day-letter job offers (PUC started including the letters with students’ diplomas in 2007). This prompted Rodriguez and the other co-founder of PUC Schools, Jacqueline Elliot, to formalize the program.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 23, 2016

Nursery schools, which have a long history in England, have also been tapped to help improve the quality of care offered at all of the settings available to parents under the universal plan. Some question whether the government would do any better at universal preschool than it does with universal K-12 education. In the U.K.

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Government Economics K-12 Elementary School 74

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 11, 2016

Attendance was a burning issue for Javier, who arrived in November 2012 after failing out of Kappa International High school in another part of the Bronx. If they’re not there by the morning, I’ll check in again in the afternoon. If they don’t show, we call the parents. If truancy is protracted, we make house calls.”.

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High School Tradition History Education 109

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 12, 2017

In the meantime, they have been testing the reach and reliability of the Carters Mountain signal, while also creating the network’s backbone — burying 12 miles (of a planned 85 miles) of fiber-optic cable to ferry huge amounts of high-speed data between school-based transmitters, receivers and servers, and regional data hubs.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 22, 2016

In 2012, the district was in “financial freefall,” according to a news release quoting then-state Superintendent Mike Flanagan. It, in turn, provided a 2012 news release in which Flanagan said, “We must do everything we can to protect the students and educators from feeling the brunt of the impact.”. The Ford plant stands empty.

Charter School 75

Charter School Public School Government High School 75

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 6, 2016

It’s not that bad,” a counselor the campers called Ivy told the 11- and 12-year-olds, nervous about their upcoming acting debuts. “I Joanna Andaluz, 12, (right) listens as Sunriver Nature Center lead naturalist Kody Osborne (not pictured) talks about and shows off an owl during an evening lesson at Crook County’s outdoor school.

Middle School 79

Middle School Tradition History Teaching 79

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 11, 2017

Down the hall from Adler, English teacher William Putnam could not feel more differently about the 2012 state law requiring school districts to move to a system focused on skill acquisition rather than course completion. “Unfunded mandate after unfunded mandate is not making teaching a chosen career.”.

High School 74

High School Social Studies Leadership Tradition 74

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 5, 2016

Kast has a long history of distrust with the district, alleging physical and verbal abuse and racial discrimination against her grandchildren by teachers there—her grandchildren are all half-black, and Kast is white. The State, she said, underfunded special education in public schools in Mississippi by more than $12 million just this year.

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Private School Elementary School Advocacy Public School 98

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 8, 2017

If charters are not offering all of those things, LaRoche, a black New Orleans native, added, “You are not doing justice to the history of this place, and you are colonizing.”. When the first black students enrolled in the formerly all-white school in 1967, violence and reminders of the school’s racist history confronted them daily.

High School 60

High School Charter School Public School Cultures 60

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 21, 2017

A former teacher, she has served as associate superintendent of Catholic schools for the Archdiocese of New Orleans since 2012. from the University of New Orleans and a master’s degree from Louisiana State University, is the first black person in the history of the Archdiocese to fill this role. Houston, who holds a Ph.D.

Private School 59

Private School Public School High School History 59

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 12, 2016

ESSA leaves too much accountability up to the states, they argue, with little history to suggest that it’s warranted. isn’t a nuanced enough question to cover the full impact of the law, arguably the most aggressive federal intervention in public education in the nation’s history because it tied federal funds to school improvement.

Tutoring 65

Tutoring Education Education Policy Economics 65

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 11, 2016

The gap in graduation rates between black and white males grew to 21 percentage points in 2012-13, the Schott Foundation for Public Education f ound —although federal data show a narrowing gap. At the new Dillon Middle School, eighth-graders in Teresa Stephens’ South Carolina history class looked to the future of their community. “On

Middle School 76

Middle School High School Government Advocacy 76

ED Surge

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Jefferson was struck by how much of an impact this could have on K-12 schools in Kentucky. Since the information was being filtered through history and politics lessons, it meant he was learning about how an amendment changed women’s right to vote or how Andrew Jackson was able to mobilize the popular vote in the 19th century.

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Civics Education Government K-12 119

ED Surge

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Much of that had to do with the fact that I was learning about Black histories for the first time. I live for these histories because they are grounded in formal and informal learning communities, whether in schools, public workshops or even my family home where I first saw the value of Black history.

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History Teaching K-12 Artifacts 110

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 21, 2017

Nationally, black girls accounted for 45 percent of all girls who were suspended and for 42 percent of girls expelled from K-12 public schools between 2011 and 2012, the highest among all racial/ethnic groups. A higher percentage of black women enrolled in college between 2009 and 2012 (9.7 percent), white women (7.1

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K-12 Economics Cultures History 79

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Two of his core courses — English and history — were delivered online. “I But for the best results, the program must be used in combination with direction from a teacher knowledgeable in the content areas, said Tom Arnett, a K-12 education researcher for the group. and I can’t do it with a computer [teaching me],” McKenzie said.

Education 111

Education K-12 Tutoring High School 111

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 18, 2017

Last fall, the folks at iCivics anticipated a 20 to 30 percent bump in game plays, in line with what happened in the election year of 2012. Tim Matthews, a middle school history teacher outside Boston, uses iCivics games to teach the Constitution, which his class calls “the rulebook.”

Civics 90

Civics Education K-12 Primary Sources 90

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 2, 2016

When he returned from college in 1993 to work as a history teacher in the district, he wondered where all the white students had gone. Black History was added, busing was provided. But scars from a relentless history of white and black educational inequity were not readily healed. Greenville wears its history close.

Middle School 111

Middle School Private School Elementary School Public School 111

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 12, 2017

Known as proficiency-based education, Yarmouth’s recent changes to their curriculum and teaching methods were inspired by the 2012 state law that will require all students to graduate with a proficiency-based diploma, beginning with the Class of 2021. “And it has helped me with understanding where students are at.”.

Education 72

Education K-12 High School Teaching 72

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 9, 2016

But given the weight of history, the persistence of poverty and the depth of disaffection here, it’s fair to ask: Is a three-year grant really enough to pull Montana’s reservation schools back from the brink? Heart Butte School has had six superintendents, including the current one, since the 2012-13 school year. Photo: Erik Petersen.

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K-12 High School Cultures Psychology 77