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.

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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 data from the earlier survey is available in a detailed 2012 report by the U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 31, 2019

This focus on access to high-quality preschool was born out of a larger city-wide plan to transform schools, introduced in Cleveland in 2012. That plan identified preschool as an important first step to improve K-12 education. It’s really just flooding them with support,” Kelly said.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 17, 2017

Teachers have gotten extensive professional development to change their instructional methods — they now lecture less and facilitate student-directed learning more. In 2012, Windsor Locks Public Schools was designated as an Alliance District — one of the 30 lowest-performing districts in Connecticut. Read more about K-12.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 30, 2017

“It evens the playing field for those schools [that] use it wisely,” says Los Angeles Unified School District Social Emotional Learning Wellness Director Asia Dove, who has used the program with struggling students since 2012. The group led Sacramento City staff through 12 days of training last summer. “It

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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. Among them, just under 12 percent were considered economically disadvantaged, slightly more had some type of learning disability and 4 percent were English learners.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 19, 2019

The only thing most everyone agrees on is this: The roll out of the 2012 law, LD 1422, was a disaster, plagued by insufficient funding and inadequate guidance from the top. In the city’s two traditional high schools — Deering and Portland High School — classes look, and sound, much as they did prior to 2012. We’re not ready for this.”.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 16, 2016

75 percent of principals think their job has become “too complex,” according to a 2012 survey. A 2012 survey found 75 percent of principals think their job has become “too complex.” Between 2008 and 2012, the same survey found job satisfaction among principals decreased nine percentage points, from 68 percent to 59 percent. “Not

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

Back in 2015, my colleague Nichole Dobo reported that nationally schools paid $225 per student plus between $50,000 and $125,000 a year for professional development and support services. A study in 2012 by scholars at New York University of three middle schools that were earlier adopters of Teach to One in 2010-11 found mixed results.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

Charter School opened in 2016 on the former campus of the shuttered Randolph Southern School, a private school that had not enrolled a single black student in 2012, the last year for which enrollment numbers are available. Schools superintendent Dennis Dupree came to the city 12 years ago, promising innovation.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 3, 2016

Sam Gordon, a trained pre-K classroom observer, rates the teacher-student interactions at St. All toddler and pre-K classrooms in the state that receive any public money are observed at least twice a year to determine their educational quality. Sam Gordon, pre-K classroom observer. Joan of Arc School in New Orleans.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 27, 2016

These programs also incorporate intensive professional development for experienced teachers. These programs work with district to identify and fill their most urgent needs – special education, English language learners, diversity in the teacher corps, teachers ready to work in the most poverty-impacted classrooms in a city.

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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. They hope to create a professional development center to help educators from around the country learn from their work.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 5, 2016

Before, the state already had two voucher programs: the 2012 Dyslexia Therapy Scholarship for Students with Dyslexia Program, and in 2013, the Speech-Language Therapy Scholarship for Students with Speech-Language Impairments.

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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.”.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 11, 2016

The challenges in rural communities are very real—funding, teacher recruitment and retention, access to technology, poverty, ever-changing expectations, and professional development and support,” U.S. Related: How teacher-training programs are trying to get teachers into rural schools. Secretary of Education John B.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 20, 2019

Jacobs became principal at the school, which serves grades 7 through 12, last fall and has been a teacher and administrator for more than 20 years in Avoyelles Parish. In 2012, 57 percent of ”minority” students (almost all African American) graduated from Avoyelles Parish high schools, lower than the percentage of adults with a diploma.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 6, 2016

Department of Education for a waiver that would allow it to use the ACT as its high school completion exam and began requiring it of students in 2012. In the spring of 2012, he signed into law what The Kansas City Star referred to as “ massive ” tax cuts. So, the district applied to the U.S. That’s our job to figure it out.”.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Online learning can be a useful tool for districts facing stubborn teacher shortages, because it can help fill teacher vacancies with instruction from high-quality professionals, according to recent research from the Clayton Christensen Institute, a nonprofit, nonpartisan think tank that supports the increased use of technology in education.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2018

Most elementary school teachers have little scientific background and many say they feel unprepared to teach the subject well, according to a national survey of science and mathematics education conducted by a North Carolina research firm in 2012. Possibly as a result, the average first- through fourth-grade student spent just 2.5

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Maitri Learning

OCTOBER 18, 2022

They can also be used as a professional development tool for schools trying to creating common ground across different trainings. The research shows that sticking with the authentic Montessori materials is more beneficial for learning (Lillard, 2012). Arendt, K., & Thastum, M. Johnsen, D. Lillard, A.S. Vinnars, B.,

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Studies Weekly

APRIL 29, 2024

He was CEO and “Chief Yahoo” until his departure in 2012. Start a 60 day FREE trial for Studies Weekly Online to gain access to K-6 social studies curriculum, primary source videos, and more. In 2016, Ko was honored by the National Women’s History Museum for success and leadership in business. Inc, according to ilctr.org.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2020

The Miami-Dade school district, for example, adopted a plan back in 2012 to close the digital divide. Another is making sure teachers receive training on distance learning, through programs that prepare them for the profession as well as through ongoing professional development.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 6, 2024

Public colleges couldn’t admit students without immigration documents and, even though, under federal law, K-12 schools are required to serve students regardless of citizenship status, the Alabama legislation also called for school districts to collect information on their students’ citizenship status. But even though most are U.S.

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Zinn Education Project

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Teaching Resources Lessons and Articles About K–12 Lessons and teaching stories on Palestine and Israel from Rethinking Schools and the Zinn Education Project website. Toolkit to Defend K-12 Educators and Librarians Against False Accusations of Antisemitism compiled by Nora Lester Murad and Alice Rothchild.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 19, 2017

Homeschool advocates and practitioners have overcome opposition from the National Education Association; they’ve cleared the restrictions, regulations and other hurdles erected by state or local school officials; and they’ve developed a network of support for parent-instructors who otherwise have little access to professional development.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 9, 2025

And it would be, P, C, K, something, no matter how many times. Keep up with our free weekly newsletter on K-12 education. Three dozen other teachers have taken an online course on dyslexia and are receiving other professional development, according to Cassidy. Spell duck, Brooke, Simmons recalled.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 5, 2016

Then, in the summer of 2012 President Barack Obama announced the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, which he created by executive order. 819,512 DACA requests approved between August 2012 and March 2016. “I “I remember that I cried that day,” Gil said. But no one heard me.

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