A Principal's Reflections

MAY 17, 2012

On Thursday May 17, 2012, I was fortunate to attend the Adobe Digital Publishing Summit in New York City. Digital publishing tools will function to bridge the gap between websites and traditional apps. I can even see the use of apps by teachers to display student learning portfolios for all to see in the future.

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Sapiens

JANUARY 7, 2025

When I came to Amsterdam as a graduate student in 2012, I was surprised to find the citys parks teeming with vibrant green feathers, red beaks, and bluish tails. Amsterdam, like other European cities, hosts growing populations of non-native parakeets. An anthropologist unpacks what shifting attitudes toward these birds reveal about humans.

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A Principal's Reflections

JUNE 25, 2013

Nicole’s work has resulted in hundreds of professors across the country choosing free texts over traditional costly textbooks and lowering the cost of higher education for thousands of students. P2PU creates a model for lifelong learning alongside traditional formal higher education. Learning for the people, by the people.

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Catlin Tucker

DECEMBER 20, 2020

My adaptation of Staker and Horn’s (2012) often cited definition is rooted in constructivist principles emphasizing the student’s role as an active participant in the learning process. Most of the schools and districts I work with are focusing on the rotation models because they work well in a traditional school setting.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 9, 2016

Virtual charter schools can give students who are falling behind in traditional schools a chance to find success in an alternative learning environment. But can virtual charter schools fully replace the traditional face-to-face school experience? Fordham Institute, doesn’t think the current virtual school model can do that.

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Anthropology.net

APRIL 14, 2025

Others developed traditions or institutions that emphasized reciprocity and mutual aid. People in different places made different choices about governance, resource sharing, and social cooperation. Some communities implemented checks and balances that curbed wealth concentration. These decisions mattered—and they still do. 1–28).

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Anthropology.net

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

These artifacts stand out for their sophistication, demonstrating a clear departure from earlier Middle Paleolithic traditions. The tools' makers were not just chipping away at stones haphazardly; they were following a refined tradition, optimizing each flake for efficiency. What Comes Next? DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0028239

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 1, 2020

From 2012, the earliest year data is available on distance learning, to 2018, the number of institutions where the majority of students took at least some coursework online has doubled, to more than 800, according to the National Center for Education Statistics. How do I communicate my personality?’”

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ED Surge

APRIL 2, 2024

In fact, many schools that have taken on reforming their grading systems have faced passionate objections from parents , who worry that their children will miss out on opportunities, or lose their motivation to turn in work, if they aren’t striving to win high marks in the traditional grading game.

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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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Digital Promise

APRIL 25, 2019

In traditional science classrooms, students are often presented with facts and definitions to memorize, or they are asked to follow a predetermined set of instructions to complete a lab activity. 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 23, 2024

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. She had to drop out in 2012 after getting injured in a house fire. Any move over 2 percent, we call that a win,” he said.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 27, 2018

“This study shows that a well-designed project-based curriculum might be more effective than traditional instruction.” It’s a lot more involved than tacking on a project to a traditional unit of study by assigning students, for example, to make shoebox dioramas about a book they’ve read.

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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

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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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 9, 2018

“Those students probably have more significant costs, and the students we need to serve are less likely to afford the tuition than a traditional college student.”. million in 2012 to 11 million in 2017. Enrollment in public institutions decreased from 11.5

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Digital Promise

JUNE 12, 2019

In 2012, students in Grades 7-8 followed suit. Next, the traditional library space was repurposed as Duquesne Media Central, outfitted with flexible seating, new technologies, and a recording studio. What started as a conference room became the Creation Station, a large open-concept space for students in Grades Pre K-2.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 28, 2023

I’m president at Minerva University , established in 2012 and one of the few institutions of higher education that, in recent memory, has asked the question, “What would we build if we could build it from scratch?” prior to ever enrolling a student. Abandoning the English major elevated the status of humanities at Minerva.

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Digital Promise

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

Yet as schools break away from traditional models of education, new challenges emerge. Collaboration among all education stakeholders, including researchers, entrepreneurs, community members, and educators, is needed to alter traditional teaching and learning processes and successfully meet these challenges. Why is this so challenging?

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Dangerously Irrelevant

JANUARY 7, 2022

Standard 7c is hard for me simply because I have seen technology systems used too often to reinforce low-level factual recall, procedural regurgitation, and assessment and I am adamantly opposed to those traditional practices dominating the deeper learning practices that we should be implementing instead. Related Posts.

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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.) Some District 428 students earn double the number of credits common in a traditional academic year.

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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. Unlike Hawai‘i Pacific, neither Creighton nor Fairfield has been experiencing enrollment declines on their home campuses, federal figures show.

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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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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 8, 2016

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. Many SPICE learners are ones for whom traditional school was not successful. The Center’s anytime, anywhere learning alleviates attendance issues.

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Digital Promise

APRIL 24, 2018

In math education, the problem is not quite so dire – but it’s time to start breaking a few of our own traditions. In fact, students who struggle early with the traditional singular STEM pathway are more likely to fall out of the higher education pipeline entirely.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 16, 2025

Credit: Kirk Carapezza In this episode, hosts Kirk Carapezza and Jon Marcus break down how we even got to the point at which the traditional college admission process required students to spend time and money with no guarantee of success.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 9, 2024

Meanwhile, there has been a proliferation of alternatives to traditional graduate degrees. “A Interest in traditional master’s degrees is down since 2019, Eduventures found, while interest in lower-price, shorter-term certificates and other nondegree offerings is up. That’s up from 12 percent and 36 percent, respectively, in 2012.

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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

DECEMBER 7, 2016

It is just one of a slate of waivers approved by lawmakers, including class size, teacher preparation time, hiring and firing rules, and others, allowing traditional public schools to operate with the same educational requirements as their area charter schools. In 2011-2012, the university had 52 teaching interns. According to U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

Often, students struggling in these subjects find ways around taking them in traditional high schools, and, lacking the mandatory prerequisites, are ineligible to take advanced math and science classes in college. Information was based on surveys of 12th graders in 2012 in North Carolina and 2013 in Texas. Photo: Kathleen Lucadamo.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 1, 2019

Between 2005 and 2012, a teacher-led approach to drilling down to analyze what was missing, called Strategic Inquiry, identified that students across New York City were lacking the writing strategies necessary to communicate complex ideas. And it’s not the fault of teachers. Again, there is no magic bullet.

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Anthropology News

APRIL 30, 2024

Between 2012 and 2015, thousands of P2P platforms emerged, only to crumble within a few years, destroying the life savings of countless middle-class families. In 2012, they started selling wealth management products, the borrowers’ debts bundled by the platform, to the lenders. Meng’s experience was just one among millions.

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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. His was a brash mission shared by a new breed of charter school leaders who said they could succeed where traditional neighborhood schools had failed.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 29, 2017

It says tradespeople also are older than workers in other fields — more than half were over 45 in 2012, the last period for which the subject was studied — meaning looming retirements could result in big shortages. Skilled trades show among the highest potential among job categories, the economic-modeling company Emsi calculates.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

But letting kids learn through play is hard to grasp for educators who have been trained to follow the rules and structure of a traditional school setting, said Peg Drappo, who runs the pre-K program in Watertown City School District in New York. In Oklahoma, playful learning has support from lawmakers as well.

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