The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 27, 2018

They created multicolored posters to explain what different departments of local government do, from sanitation to human resources. 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.

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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. Sign up for our newsletter.

Teaching 89

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 24, 2019

In this series, we explore the design principles and the research that grounds them to inspire and guide you in making your own learning and teaching practices more powerful and empowering. Apply Inquiry-based Teaching Strategies from MCESA in math. Powerful learning must be inquisitive and reflective. Wiggins, G., & McTighe, J.

Psychology 105

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 4, 2020

Chris Pines, former philosophy and humanities professor at the University of Rio Grande in Ohio. Their combined enrollment fell from 3,264 students in 2012-13 to 2,227 in 2018-19, according to federal data. Enrollment and tuition revenue, in particular, “don’t tell you everything, but they get you a lot of the way there.”.

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Anthropology News

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

I study human skeletal remains of the past, how burial contexts were constructed, and what they revealed about communities. My work sits at the nexus of human biology and archaeology, two disciplines known for being deeply positivist and scientific, valuing numbers, models, and testable hypotheses as a gold standard. Earning a Ph.D.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 1, 2020

After the Great Recession hit in 2007, the number of business majors nationwide went, up while enrollment for humanities majors dropped. Colleges are looking to cut costs, so a declining pool of students is an existential threat to humanities departments. The AHA launched the nationwide initiative in 2012 and called it “Tuning.”.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 10, 2019

Leave this field empty if you're human: “We see a lot of spending everywhere on tablets, computers, counting the ratio of computers per student,” said Helen Lee Bouygues, who founded the Reboot Foundation in 2018. . ” Reboot aims to increase the teaching of critical thinking in schools and by parents at home.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 6, 2022

Covington County Superintendent Babette Duty chalks those cases up to human error. Certainly, as long as human beings are running schools, you’re going to have that possibility,” she said, adding that the goal is to have policies and procedures in place that uphold the law and protect kids, while keeping parents informed. “I didn’t know.”.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 17, 2024

Cain for The Hechinger Report Evanston Township High School, in Illinois, started detracking in 2010, collapsing several levels in two freshman-year subjects — humanities and biology — into one. Credit: Amanda J. Then, for six years, the school made no other changes.

Middle School 141

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

A classroom using the Teach to One math program. In the fall of 2015, five schools in the industrial port city of Elizabeth, New Jersey, dumped their usual math curriculum and started teaching their middle school students through a computerized system called “Teach to One.” Photo: Nichole Dobo.

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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. Kenny’s been teaching at Onalaska High School for seven years. Census data. The median age declined from 36.6

High School 111

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ED Surge

JULY 27, 2023

That has sparked a burst of activity by teachers at schools and colleges to change their assignments to make them harder to game with this new tech — and hopefully more human in the process. 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.

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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.

Economics 111

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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.

Social Justice 111

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ED Surge

MARCH 11, 2024

Gen Zers, born between 1997 and 2012, spend a lot of time online, consuming and creating digital content. Ninety-two percent check social media daily. He’s also the vice chair of ACRL’s New Roles and Changing Landscapes committee. He’s seen firsthand how different groups of students seek out specific amenities.

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ED Surge

APRIL 1, 2022

The prior year, my former chief Bill Gates headlined ASU GSV and received a standing ovation for championing technology’s power to transform teaching and learning. We wouldn’t be surprised if 2U or Chegg were taken private in the next year, since both companies have strong fundamentals and exceptional human capital.

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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 It is a stubborn problem.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 8, 2016

BOSTON — Katie Cardamone teaches second grade in the Mendon-Upton Regional School District, about 40 miles southwest of Boston. Barely 1 percent of Mendon’s population is Latino and about 2 percent of Upton’s is, but Cardamone teaches her entire class in Spanish. Photo: Tara García Mathewson. Photo: Tara García Mathewson.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

Many had seen their schooling interrupted by the chaos back home; some had experienced gang violence or human trafficking. When the first few Central American students applied to Cohen, the high school drafted its Spanish instructor to teach them. Related: City that loved and lost high school football finally gets it back.

Tutoring 111

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 27, 2016

In the residency model, turnover is mitigated as residents commit to teaching in Seattle for at least five years. Most programs continue to support their grads with induction support in the first teaching year. We would argue that we can’t afford not to train teachers this way.”.

Elementary School 76

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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 Bodor said the best environmental education programs teach kids “how to think critically about complex issues and much less about what to think.”. I was shy.”.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 29, 2017

A lesson in a remedial English course at Baltimore City Community College, focused on teaching students how to combine sentences in a variety of ways to prepare them for writing in college-level classes. Carole Quine teaches the highest-level remedial English course at BCCC. Photo: Sarah Butrymowicz.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 6, 2016

From 1987 to 2012, it doubled, far outpacing the growth in the numbers of students and faculty. That realization triggered the system-wide centralization of information technology, human resources, purchasing and payroll — more than doubling the size of the central office in the process, according to the federal figures, but also saving $5.6

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 16, 2017

Behind the storage unit sits a rectangular wooden box stuffed with bicycle tires filled with Silly Putty to replicate human intestines. As employees, students must comply with the district’s human resources policies and undergo performance evaluations led by a student project leader and an Innovation Center staffer.

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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. The exception is in the two humanities classes students take every day, one in each language. and abroad.

High School 112

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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. While it may work to improve math skills, it is unlikely to help students advance in the humanities, she said. In late 2012, educators at the school were trying to think big. Others question its efficacy.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 4, 2016

When the Obama administration issued guidance in 2012** to states and districts to improve school climates, the USDOE and Department of Justice (DOJ) took aim at misuses of suspension and expulsion. The bottom line is that schools must teach behavior with the same patience, discipline and creativity educators employ in academic subjects.

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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. “We It has worked.”. I don’t know,” Granovski responded. “It

Elementary School 0

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 6, 2018

That’s why there’s considerable excitement about the free program bringing AP physics to Mississippi this school year, courtesy of the Global Teaching Project , a Washington D.C.-based The Global Teaching Project purchased new textbook for students taking AP physics this year. A score of 3 is needed to pass.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 16, 2019

The data from the earlier survey is available in a detailed 2012 report by the U.S. Rural schools were the most likely to have a full-time specialist on hand to teach music, federal data shows. percent — percentage of secondary school teachers who primarily teach art or music. Department of Education. percent in 1966 to 8.5

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 23, 2019

Leave this field empty if you're human: It’s not too often people announce big problems solved. The nonprofit launched in 2012, and when it explored school connectivity data the following year, it found that just 30 percent of school districts had sufficient bandwidth to support digital learning, or 100 kbps per student.

Advocacy 64

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

Leave this field empty if you're human: Not so in Galt. She teaches about Nancy Wake, a member of the French Resistance in World War II who evaded the Nazis, sometimes by parachute. When the district won federal Race to the Top funding in 2012, Schauer expanded the strengths program. But she said it isn’t expensive. “We

Elementary School 94

Elementary School Psychology K-12 Private School 94

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 11, 2018

Instructors Kyle Garvin and Hannah Balagot, both professional theater performers, teach choreography to students at Yung Wing School. NAAP supplied the club’s instructors, professional performers who teach in their spare time, and who enable the children to have artistic role models who are people of color. Sign up for our newsletter.

Elementary School 82

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 4, 2018

Texas A&M University at Texarkana has one of the lowest retention rates of public higher-education institutions; 55 percent who started in 2012 were gone by 2016. Leave this field empty if you're human: “It was my job to get student enrolled, and if you didn’t enroll them your job could be on the line,” he said. Weekly Update.

High School 105

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Pedagogy and Formation

FEBRUARY 25, 2023

Smith to travel from the USA in 2012 to present our annual public lecture series to the College, University and the wider Church. Hence, our pedagogy needs to reflect this understanding, whether teaching 5 year olds, high school students or even university students. All influence them and us! It is the teacher's role ".

Pedagogy 52

Pedagogy Teaching Humanities High School 52

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 Bodor said the best environmental education programs teach kids “how to think critically about complex issues and much less about what to think.”. I was shy.”.

Middle School 79

Middle School Tradition History Teaching 79

Anthropology News

JANUARY 24, 2024

We felt the pulse, the affective reality of what US funds support, teach, and hope for: communal destruction for economic profit. We peeled ourselves out of the plastic chairs and community members made a triumphant effort to teach us awkward, shy gringos how to dance.

Human Rights 59

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