Digital Promise

APRIL 25, 2019

In 2012, the National Research Council released A Framework for K-12 Science Education , a consensus report that outlined how research in the learning sciences should inform the development of a new set of science standards. However, this model of instruction does not align with our emerging understanding of how students learn science best.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 30, 2024

In Germany, where scores have dropped faster than those of many other PISA nations, researchers pointed to a collapsing interest in math as a subject that started around 2012, among other factors. And about 31 percent said they never or almost never asked questions when they didn’t understand the math they were being taught.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 10, 2024

Economists estimate that 120,000 elementary, middle and high school teachers lost their jobs between 2008 and 2012. The vast majority of school districts used seniority as the sole criteria for determining which teachers were laid off, according to a 2022 policy brief published in the journal Education Finance and Policy.

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Digital Promise

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

This is important, as students who are not engaged in learning are more likely to drop out of school ( APA , 2012). Additionally, Durlak, Weissberg, Dymnicki, Taylor, & Schellinger (2011) found that participants in school-based social-emotional development programs improved their attitudes, behaviors, and academic performance.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 28, 2024

That program led to the creation of positions for school staff members with experience working with and supporting immigrant youth, undocumented students, their families and caregivers. The pilot began with three New York City public high schools, including the one where I work; in its second year, it added two middle schools.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 1, 2017

When Mary Fair became a teacher in 2012, her classes often contained a mix of special education students and general education students. Although she earned a bachelor’s degree and teaching certificate in math instruction for both elementary and middle school, she never had to take a class about students with disabilities.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 16, 2021

Until middle school, when a U-46 administrator — Wells’ friend’s mother, also Black — noticed that April’s grasp exceeded her classes’ reach. She coached Wells on how to talk with her middle school counselor. Wells spoke up for herself and got into honors classes, where she remained through high school.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 11, 2019

As far back as middle school, she fantasized about leaving the state to attend an elite university. When she got to high school, nobody disabused the ace student of that notion. Red Wing High laid off its full-time college adviser in 2012 amid budget cuts. Steve Friess for The Hechinger Report. RED WING, Minn.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

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.” Those schools no longer use it. Photo: Nichole Dobo.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 16, 2016

Ron Smith (left), a middle school network superintendent in Oakland, speaks to Jaime Aquino of New Leaders during a “learning walk” at a local middle school. It was almost the end of first period at Bret Harte Middle School when the five superintendents descended on math class. Photo: Jackie Mader.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Mendoza’s involvement in civic participation started in middle school, when she signed up for the All City Council Student Union, a student-led group sponsored by the Oakland school district that gives students a voice in school district decision-making. In 2012, it became the first U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 2, 2017

Data drawn from the PISA 2012 database, graph adapted from Foley et al, 2017.). When we taught middle school students for 18 lessons through creative, open, visual math, they changed their ideas and relationships with math. years of school; their change can be seen here. These are shockingly high proportions.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 11, 2023

The 15-month tuition-free program focuses on enrolling educators in “high-needs” middle and high schools. More than 150 teachers have graduated from the program since it started in 2012. “I I don’t think that there’s ever been a time where playing this role has been more important,” said Ellen V.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

We don’t question why students come to school to learn academics,” said Laina Cox, Capital City’s middle school principal. The four- and five-year high school graduation rates of 86 percent and 98 percent, respectively, exceed city averages , as does attendance in both the middle school and high school.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

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. As a middle school teacher, Rosecrants said, he rebelled against the idea that students should learn via memorization, drills, and worksheets.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Nurturing bilingual students is the mission of the 400-student public school where Menéndez teaches, Dos Puentes Elementary in Washington Heights, a predominantly Latino neighborhood of New York City. This story also appeared in The Independent en Español. But Hunt has another way to measure success.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

She dreamed of attending a historically black school out of state, maybe Spelman College or Clark Atlanta University.1 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. Plus, she had little to lose.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 20, 2017

The Beaverton school district, west of Portland, Oregon, is a case in point. In 2012, budget shortfalls led Beaverton to axe more than 40 school librarian positions. Several schools in the district have added small, pleasure-reading libraries to ELA classrooms, for instance.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2024

He remembers looking around his middle school one day and noticing something strange — “I thought, ‘all I see is Black people.’” He suddenly realized all his classmates were Black, as were the teachers and administrators at his school. Photo by Andrea Morales for MLK50 Tamorris became a Freedom Fellow in eighth grade.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 16, 2019

All students are exposed to music starting in elementary school; by middle school nearly half (44 percent) have picked up an instrument, according to district data. For example, 97 percent of Poe Middle School students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, according to the state, and 58 percent play an instrument.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

Educators throughout the state soon copied the model established by Hollenbeck and Milliken in their local schools. It’s outdoor school. Mike Shinkle, aka Kodiak, shop teacher at Crook County Middle School. In part, they said they were thinking of other districts without the long outdoor school history of Crook County.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 9, 2022

in 2012 to 16.9% CU Boulder reported that its Precollegiate Development Program actively recruited first-generation students from 25 middle schools and 18 high schools. Seventy-two percent, 510, of the middle and high school students enrolled in the program for 2020-21 were Latino.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Hedges oversees all things math for the Milwaukee district’s elementary and middle schools. Huinker led a math education revolution in the district when, between 2004 and 2014, almost every teacher in Milwaukee Public Schools received this type of training.

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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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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 25, 2023

She would also lead an upcoming meeting on the school’s finances, including how to spend federal pandemic relief dollars. And she was running for the school’s governing board. The Boston Teachers Union Pilot School, where Snyder has worked since 2012, is a “teacher-powered” school.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 17, 2021

Over 100,000 high school students were enrolled in 165 competitive, academically selective schools in 30 states, most of which used exam results for admissions, researchers Chester Finn Jr. and Jessica Hockett found in 2012. Related: Is it time to stop segregating kids by ability in middle school math?

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 12, 2017

Josh Walton, principal, Walton Middle School, in sAlbemarle County, Virginia. Still in its early stages, this ambitious project relies on a little-known public resource — a slice of electromagnetic spectrum the federal government long ago set aside for schools — called the Educational Broadband Service (EBS).

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Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

Prior to becoming Superintendent, he served as principal of the Avonworth Middle School for six years. During his tenure as principal, the middle school was named a Pennsylvania Donald Eichhorn School to Watch in 2009 and 2012.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 29, 2019

As first period gets underway at Cambridge Street Upper School, veteran math teacher Stephen Abreu leads a small-group discussion. But the conversation isn’t about middle school algebra, and Abreu isn’t talking to students. 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

AUGUST 11, 2017

Moheeb Kaied, a seventh-grader this fall, shows a visitor how he checks his academic progress using a monitoring website that one of the teachers at the school developed. NEW YORK — Few middle schoolers are as clued in to their mathematical strengths and weakness as Moheeb Kaied. Photo: Kyle Spencer.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 11, 2016

Martin Middle School in Dillon dates to 1896 and was still in use when then-Senator Barack Obama visited in 2007 during his presidential campaign. Martin Middle School, part of which dated to 1896 and was still in use. The growth in the graduation rate at Dillon High School over four years. Photo: Alan Richard.

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Jonathan Firth

JULY 19, 2016

This phenomenon can certainly be applied to self-testing during revision; students who do this appear to get better grades (see Hartwig & Dunlosky, 2012). Benefits that were first established in psychology labs have been shown to apply to real world learning situations such as a middle school science classroom (e.g.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 27, 2018

Student Landan Moore says Xavier is his dream school. Landan Moore decided in middle school that he wanted to attend the best college possible. In 1988, already a multi-millionaire, Taylor visited Livingston Middle School, a school in east New Orleans that served low-income, black students.

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ED Surge

JUNE 6, 2023

It really didn't hit me until probably middle school. But in middle school, it was around 2014, when there were a lot of newcomer students who didn't understand English. In 2011 or 2012, my mom was diagnosed with leukemia. When did you realize that you might want to become a teacher yourself? It was very hard.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 11, 2023

Families got used to that,” said Elmer Roldan, of Communities in Schools of Los Angeles, which helps schools follow up with absent students. Since the 2012 shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut, Negrón, who grew up in Puerto Rico, had become convinced mainland American schools were dangerous.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 6, 2022

The Nollie Jenkins Family Center led a fight against school-based corporal punishment here in rural Holmes County from 2012 to 2018, when a new superintendent asked for a policy change. Sometimes, schools even force children to choose. So why is it that children attending public schools, it’s OK to hit them?”.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 6, 2016

Educators throughout the state soon copied the model established by Hollenbeck and Milliken in their local schools. It’s outdoor school. Mike Shinkle, aka Kodiak, shop teacher at Crook County Middle School. In part, they said they were thinking of other districts without the long outdoor school history of Crook County.

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