The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 1, 2018

Students have access to hundreds of courses while they are in Illinois’ juvenile justice facilities, but they tend to focus on math, language arts, social studies and science. 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.

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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

OCTOBER 1, 2017

Mississippi became one of the first states to make civil rights education a major part of its social studies standards in schools in 2011. The standards for Mississippi Studies, a high school social studies course usually taught in 9th grade, required for graduation, cite Jim Crow and the Freedom Rides.

Teaching 45

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Teaching counting and basic arithmetic sounds like a simple task. Every teacher wants to learn and do a better job teaching,” Huinker said. Huinker’s proposal was to have math education experts teach teachers more math while getting constant feedback from teachers on obstacles in the classroom.

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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.

Charter School 111

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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. In other schools, bilingualism was not accepted or important,” said Menéndez, who has been teaching for 27 years.

Elementary School 126

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 17, 2024

The district started in 1989 with middle-school English and social studies, and progressed to high school math and chemistry by 2006. But teachers complained last spring that it had gone too quickly, saying that they didn’t get enough training on teaching mixed classrooms, and that course rigor has suffered.

Middle School 141

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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.”.

High School 111

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 28, 2019

NOME, Alaska — Before they got down to business for the day, students in Devin Tatro’s social studies class were offered a quiet moment of self-reflection: On this golden fall afternoon at Nome-Beltz Junior/Senior High School, were they feeling chipper, distressed or somewhere in between? A plan to link Alaska to the world.

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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.”.

Public School 108

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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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Research Education Professional Development Leadership 53

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 14, 2016

We used to teach procedural math, but now students have to understand the ‘why’ as much as the ‘how’.”. The problem is that elementary school teachers did not learn math that way, and many now struggle to teach to the new standards. It’s a change in thinking. If the Common Core is to improve the math education of U.S. This is not true.

Elementary School 76

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 11, 2017

Social Studies teacher Michelle Adler talks to sophomores Maiya Schwartz, left and Emily Terranova about an assignment in an Honors Human Geography class at Gray-New Gloucester High School on Thursday, June 1, 2017. “Unfunded mandate after unfunded mandate is not making teaching a chosen career.”

High School 76

High School Social Studies Leadership Tradition 76

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

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 10, 2017

That’s due to a new teaching approach here called “proficiency-based education,” that was inspired by a 2012 state law. By 2021, schools must offer diplomas based students reaching proficiency in the four core academic subject areas: English, math, science and social studies. It’s going to free us from backtracking.

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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. ohnson, a Little Rock native, came to the Arkansas side of the Delta in 2003 with Teach For America.

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Charter School History Library Public School 109

ED Surge

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Later on, Ta opened an email from their school that mentioned the Kentucky Student Voice Team, a state-level group that was started in 2012 to bring students into the advocacy process. Ta says the biggest opportunity their school gave them at an early age was when social studies teachers began class by turning on the daily news.

Civics 122

Civics Education Government K-12 122

Studies Weekly

APRIL 29, 2024

Teaching about Asian Pacific American Heritage Month April 29, 2024 • Studies Weekly Asian Pacific American Heritage Month is a great opportunity to incorporate culturally responsive teaching into students’ learning experience. He was CEO and “Chief Yahoo” until his departure in 2012. Inc, according to ilctr.org.

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Heritage Teaching K-12 Museum 59

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2019

Somerville Mayor Joseph Curtatone sat on the school committee, and he’d been the one to suggest they consider designing a new public school in the first place, back in 2012. Healey School to bring student-led, project-based learning to regular math, science, language arts and social studies classes.

Charter School 111

Charter School Project-Based Learning High School Public School 111

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. NGSS is going to give us a reason to teach science.”.

Education 92

Education Elementary School K-12 High School 92

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 18, 2017

To harness student passion without bogging down in partisan muck, teachers are wielding a bevy of ed-tech tools — ranging from online role-playing games and issue quizzes to social media platforms where teachers share strategies for leading political discussions and students collaborate to try to influence public policy. President Lyndon B.

Civics 90

Civics Education K-12 Primary Sources 90

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 3, 2018

My job as a teacher is to be a first responder to poverty,” said Cruey, a 58-year-old middle school social studies teacher at Southside K-8 school. “If Around the country, the number of kids in foster care increased by about 10 percent from 2012 to 2016. If my students learn other stuff, too, that’s great.”.

Middle School 111

Middle School Heritage Lesson Plan High School 111

The Hechinger Report

JULY 27, 2016

Tianna’s social studies project aimed to refute the “dominant narrative” that racism is largely dead in the United States. Many advocates believe that adopting such an approach to assessment for all students could spur teaching that aims to encourage thinking and reasoning, rather than just passing a test.

High School 76

High School Tradition Teaching Research 76

The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2020

A high school social studies book, also used in Texas, says of rising temperatures, “Some critics say that this warming is just part of the Earth’s natural cycle,” though, in truth, there’s overwhelming consensus among climate scientists that the current warming is due to human activities.

Teaching 137

Teaching Middle School Humanities High School 137

Zinn Education Project

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

While many education groups provide resources for teaching about the crisis as a “conflict” rooted in antisemitism and Islamophobia, that sole emphasis is misleading. As educators, let us recommit to teaching and working for the dignity of all peoples. Teaching the Seeds of Violence in Palestine-Israel by Bill Bigelow.

Teaching 52

Teaching K-12 Human Rights Social Justice 52

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 15, 2021

Cox can rattle off from memory nearly a dozen of these tearful mornings, starting with the September 11 attacks during her first week of student teaching. September 11 was Caroline Patrie’s first day teaching. 14, 2012, the day that 20 children and six adults were killed at Sandy Hook Elementary. All teaching is political.

Charter School 145

Charter School Civics Middle School Civic Engagement 145

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 27, 2020

In years past, teaching about a presidential election meant teaching about the Electoral College, just making it a little more interesting. In 2020, teaching about the presidential election feels more like teaching about the Second Amendment or the abortion rights debate. Because this is a teachable moment.

Controversial Topics 141

Controversial Topics Teaching Civics Civic Engagement 141

Zinn Education Project

JANUARY 9, 2024

This session was the latest in our monthly Teach the Black Freedom Struggle online class series. And I want to let you know that today’s class is hosted by the Zinn Education Project, which is coordinated by Rethinking Schools and Teaching for Change as part of our Teaching for Black Lives Campaign.

Primary Sources 52

Primary Sources History K-12 Economics 52