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MAY 19, 2024

Today, courses at all grade levels include Indigenous history, numeracy, land-based science and language classes in Keres, Lakota, Navajo, Tiwa, Spanish and Zuni. The school also tracks college completion rates, with 59 percent of the class of 2012 finishing within six years. Credit: Sharon Chischilly for The Hechinger Report.

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MAY 24, 2021

A 2012 review of studies on learning time found that the extra time often didn’t produce academic benefits for students and when it did, the benefits were small. One 2012 review of studies on learning time found that the extra time often didn’t produce academic benefits for students and when it did, the benefits were small.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Education Secretary Miguel Cardona credited the largest federal investment in education in history – roughly $200 billion – for keeping the United States “in the game” during the pandemic. math scores recorded in the history of the PISA math test, which began in 2003. needs to change how it teaches math.

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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

AUGUST 7, 2024

Credit: Andrea Morales for MLK50 Andrea Morales for MLK50 At the Freedom Projects, students — called “Freedom Fellows” — learn about Black and Indigenous history, math, reading and public speaking. The original Freedom Schools opened to educate young Black Mississippians on Black history and political activism.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 25, 2023

It was the first lesson in a school week that would take her kids through memoir writing, an introduction to division and research on Indigenous history, each activity carefully curated by Snyder. This story also appeared in Mind/Shift But teaching wasn’t the only thing on Snyder’s plate. At Avalon Charter School, in St.

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Anthropology News

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

This work entangles power structures with disciplinary histories that work to enforce and reinforce particular narratives about whose bodies are to be studied , whose bodies are to be cared for , and what care looks like for community members. So was the privilege to teach as a professor. I received my Ph.D. Earning a Ph.D.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 20, 2017

Chun’s district is at the forefront of a national movement to turn K-12 librarians into indispensable digital mavens who can help classroom teachers craft tech-savvy lesson plans, teach kids to think critically about online research, and remake libraries into lively, high-tech hubs of collaborative learning — while still helping kids get books.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 4, 2020

Many colleges and universities have a history of mismanaging their finances, increasing spending even as enrollments fell or going deeply into debt to construct new buildings. Their combined enrollment fell from 3,264 students in 2012-13 to 2,227 in 2018-19, according to federal data. Colleges in Crisis.

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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. There was so much acrimony and such a history of distrust and malfunction.”. Photo: Amadou Diallo.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 6, 2022

The city itself has had a scrappy commitment to existence in its 123-year history, surviving the boom and bust of the timber industry that first gave it life and weathering the 21st century with a fairly steady population of about 2,500. Credit: Tara García Mathewson/The Hechinger Report. Credit: Rory Doyle for The Hechinger Report.

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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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ED Surge

JULY 27, 2023

EdSurge talked with professors in a variety of disciplines to dig into what they’re trying as they teach summer classes or prepare for the fall. For one thing, Bajkiewicz, who is a broadcast journalism professor at Virginia Commonwealth University, teaches more than 200 students per class.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 23, 2018

Onalaska, situated roughly halfway between Seattle and Portland, is proud of its history. 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. Census data.

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Becoming a History Teacher

JANUARY 2, 2024

I’ve also spotlighted the particular challenge that confronts beginning teachers who have experienced particularly successful first teaching practice placements: Keeping Toby flying: How to avoid clipping your new mentee’s wings. They are ‘betwixt and between’ (Wood, 2012, 86). A DfES report by Hobson et al. 2006, p,78).

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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. After a year of teaching there, he’d come to believe that he could help any student get into college. 1 Photo: Cheryl Gerber for The Hechinger Report.

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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.) Youth are saying ‘this isn’t something I can teach myself, I need more direct instruction.’ ”.

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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

OCTOBER 15, 2018

Andrea, who earned her college degree in English literature in 2012, is a temp in a law firm and drives people around on weekday mornings and through the weekends. Work-based learning is an instructional approach to classroom teaching that connects it to the workplace. Likewise, schools must adopt more work-based learning programs.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 29, 2019

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 And when the chance presented itself to lead Cambridge Street in 2012, he made his intentions clear. “I

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 6, 2016

Julian Ambriz (left), a teacher joining PUC Schools through the Alumni Teach Project this year, works with his mentor, Justin Gutierrez (right), a physical education teacher, during a training session in July. Now 24 years old, he is one of 11 new residents joining the PUC Schools network through the school system’s Alumni Teach Project.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

That’s why she’s back as a counselor teaching hands-on science lessons to her campers and learning more about what she’s capable of as a leader. “I Oregon has a long history of offering overnight, outdoor learning programs as part of the regular school year schedule. “I wasn’t very outgoing,” said the well-spoken teen. “I I was shy.”.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 21, 2023

to teach undergraduate and graduate programs. universities that opened a spate of campuses abroad from 2000 to 2012 based partly on the promise of generous startup money from host countries in the Middle East and elsewhere have seen those schools struggle. But spinning off campuses can also be risky. Eighty-four U.S.

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Becoming a History Teacher

JANUARY 7, 2023

Dispositions During the PGCE at The University of Nottingham we talk to our beginning teachers about the need to develop teacher dispositions (Osgusthorpe, 2012). I think of my own A Level history teacher whose commitment extended to coming into school at 7am for two whole months to teach us before heading off to complete jury service.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 5, 2021

Adults with workplace skills such as human resources training or financial management deserve credit for such college-level learning, said Mathew Bergman, an associate professor at the University of Louisville who is a national expert in adult learning and teaches in the program. “If Yet, higher education has been a tough sell in Kentucky.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 6, 2016

Gregory Fein teaches a CUNY Start math class at Borough of Manhattan Community College. San Diego State has joined a couple of dozen math departments across the country that are rethinking the way they teach math. We’re teaching, not just selecting.”. Photo: Karen Shakerdge. SAN DIEGO, Calif.

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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

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. Samantha Clarke teaches a sixth-grade combined math and science class at Capital City Public Charter School. The results they cite are promising. Photo: Amadou Diallo for The Hechinger Report.

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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. Kirk] Some quick history. Idaho was the first state to create a direct admissions program.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 12, 2017

“I give the kids access to all the tools pretty much right off the bat,” said Eric Bredder, with a sweeping gesture taking in the computer workstations, 3-D printers, laser cutters and milling machines, plus a bevy of wood and metalworking tools that he uses while teaching computer science, engineering and design classes.

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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. 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.

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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

DECEMBER 11, 2016

In the 1990s, Cesene was a teacher in Los Angeles, California, teaching students English. 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. Related: Presentations and portfolios take the place of tests for some students.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 16, 2019

It’s part of our history, but as we bring kids in from other countries [we should offer] more popular ensembles in other countries.”. The district also offers courses like Digital Audio Production, History of American Pop and AP Music Theory. The data from the earlier survey is available in a detailed 2012 report by the U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 15, 2019

Engelkemeyer conceded that it still takes time to change an academic culture that has enjoyed an almost uninterrupted supply of students since she started teaching in 1990. Erika Smith, who teaches international business and political science at Nichols, says faculty are watching the plight of other colleges that are struggling.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 6, 2016

That’s why she’s back as a counselor teaching hands-on science lessons to her campers and learning more about what she’s capable of as a leader. “I Oregon has a long history of offering overnight, outdoor learning programs as part of the regular school year schedule. “I wasn’t very outgoing,” said the well-spoken teen. “I I was shy.”.

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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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