The Hechinger Report

MAY 1, 2020

Earlier this month, California State University, Fullerton, asked its faculty to prepare for teaching all their fall classes online. But many faculty members at traditional colleges struggled, not only with the technology required, but with the challenge of adapting classroom lessons to a digital medium.

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Political Science Now

JULY 11, 2024

Event: Teaching the 2024 U.S. King, Old Dominion University Juan Carlos Huerta, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi (Moderator) Michelle Allendoerfer, American Political Science Association Please direct all questions to teaching@apsanet.org. The post Webinar Series: Teaching the 2024 U.S. Engaging the 2024 U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 19, 2024

Once the site of an Indian boarding school, where the federal government attempted to strip children of their tribal identity, the Native American Community Academy now offers the opposite: a public education designed to affirm and draw from each student’s traditional culture and language. The charter school, NACA, opened its doors in 2006.

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The Hechinger Report

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. What is clear is that using the extra time for just more hours or more days of traditional instruction doesn’t appear to achieve much. Credit: Getty Images.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 23, 2024

Some researchers think these small-scale efforts to teach math in context could transform how it’s taught more broadly. Students in the study who were taught math through an applied approach performed significantly better on two of three standardized tests than those taught math in a more traditional way.

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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. “This study shows that a well-designed project-based curriculum might be more effective than traditional instruction.”

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Digital Promise

JUNE 12, 2019

In 2012, students in Grades 7-8 followed suit. With the necessary funds secured, the work of creating exciting new teaching and learning spaces could begin. Next, the traditional library space was repurposed as Duquesne Media Central, outfitted with flexible seating, new technologies, and a recording studio. “The

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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.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 10, 2020

But the outgoing superintendent, Cyndy Taymore, is four years into an effort to fundamentally rethink traditional schooling here. 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.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

JANUARY 7, 2022

As a university faculty member who tries hard to integrate technology into my teaching, I think I’m doing a decent job with Standards 6a, 6c, and 7a. As a research university faculty member who also happens to care deeply about my teaching, those often conflict with each other in regard to institutional expectations and reward systems.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 5, 2022

In 2012, the panel issued a joint statement asserting that calculus should not be the “ultimate goal of the K-12 mathematics curriculum.” Subsequent research and statements from math experts questioned the relevance and efficacy of traditional pathways to calculus for all students. It’s time to reconsider the dominance of calculus.

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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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Digital Promise

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

Across the country, schools are adopting new approaches to teaching and learning in order to prepare students for life in a technology-rich world. Yet as schools break away from traditional models of education, new challenges emerge. You can reach her on Twitter at @aubreyfrancisco. You can reach her on Twitter at @kelseye144.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 29, 2020

She was hired as the student voice specialist at Chicago Public Schools in 2012 to oversee the district’s newly created “student voice committees.”. The committees are different from traditional student government, she said, because any student can join. In 2012, it became the first U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 1, 2019

We are just not teaching writing in this country. Indeed, having students write — focusing on the craft of writing by unearthing children’s ideas and having them put these ideas to paper — is not the same as actually teaching writing. This suggests that the problem is widespread and more than simply an issue of poverty.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

In Watertown, New York, for example, educators have been teaching through play in pre-K and kindergarten for years, said former Superintendent Patti LaBarr, but the district recently shifted to encouraging play for older elementary students, too. This is how it’s supposed to sound.’”. Before becoming a teacher, Oklahoma state Rep.

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Digital Promise

APRIL 24, 2018

Even after the invention of fishnets proves to be a far superior method of catching fish, teachers continued teaching the bare-hands method, claiming that it helps students develop “generalized agility.”. In math education, the problem is not quite so dire – but it’s time to start breaking a few of our own traditions.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 19, 2019

Kathryn Toppan switched to a 1-4 scale even before the administration required it, finding it “less arbitrary” than the traditional 1-100. 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.

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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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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 8, 2016

The Center, which is solely for adult learners, supports SPICE’s mission to teach parents the skills they need so they can teach their children. In what may be counterintuitive for those not experienced with technology in education, the Center often allows for more human support than traditional face-to-face classrooms.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 21, 2023

But both are in regions where a drop in the number of traditional-age undergraduates is looming , according to the Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education, which tracks this. to teach undergraduate and graduate programs. The satellite campus in Austin of Fairfield University’s Egan School of Nursing. “Our Eighty-four U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 25, 2023

This story also appeared in Mind/Shift But teaching wasn’t the only thing on Snyder’s plate. The Boston Teachers Union Pilot School, where Snyder has worked since 2012, is a “teacher-powered” school. In other cases, teachers lead the school while also juggling teaching loads. And she was running for the school’s governing board.

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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

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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Anthropology News

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

Intersectionality Under the Sunshine State Teaching Intersectional Anthropology was significant because, in my (bio)archaeological work, I engage with intersectional thinkers in my writing and was eager to share the vast body of thought with my students. 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

OCTOBER 22, 2018

. Back in 2012, Maine was a trailblazer in something called proficiency-based education, in which students would be required to master specific skills and educational topics to progress and graduate from school. Schools are now free to continue teaching, grading and graduating students the traditional way.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

In keeping with that spirit, the evenings are designed to be far more interactive than a typical curriculum night, in which teachers run through what they’ll be teaching that year. nitially, Malik relied on traditional meetings to get parent feedback. Last fall, the students themselves explained new homework policies.

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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.

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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

AUGUST 5, 2021

But now a convergence of factors — a dwindling pool of traditional-age students, the call for more educated workers and a pandemic that highlighted economic disparities and scrambled habits and jobs — is putting adults in the spotlight. Should you not get college credit just because we don’t teach it here?”. It is a stubborn problem.

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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

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Senior James Lopes, wearing a green sweatshirt, listens to William Frey teach a lesson on polynomials, rational trigonometrics, exponential and logarithmic functions at the Calculus Project’s summer leadership academy program at Boston University. Their friends weren’t in the class,” she said. They rarely had a teacher of color.”

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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

MARCH 20, 2023

When colleges and boot camps team up, the colleges typically just put their name on the programs while the boot camp companies recruit students, develop curricula and teach classes. But with a decade-long gap in her resume, she struggled to lock down anything beyond a gig at a local yoga studio and occasional substitute teaching jobs.

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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

JUNE 27, 2016

There are, of course, larger, longer term costs to consider, like the larger toll the traditional vehicle may take on the environment and the health of those living around it. In the residency model, turnover is mitigated as residents commit to teaching in Seattle for at least five years.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 6, 2016

I recently attended an all-black, all-male meeting focused on increasing the number of black men in teaching. We did some good work, but I realized that when it comes to improving education and teaching, there should never be a meeting, panel, think tank or photo-op that doesn’t prominently involve black women.

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