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The Hechinger Report
JULY 11, 2018
Experts say that requires regular and high-quality social studies lessons, starting in kindergarten, to teach kids to be critical thinkers and communicators who know how to take meaningful action. Most states either don’t test social studies, or the social studies test doesn’t really count toward adequate yearly progress.”.
ED Surge
APRIL 15, 2024
While the concept of HQIM has been established and embraced in other core academic disciplines, applying this concept to social studies has been more complex. Unlike content standards for math or science, where there is more uniformity across states, social studies standards can vary significantly from one state to another.
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The Hechinger Report
MAY 21, 2018
Harvard University’s Roland Fryer set out to test just that in an experiment , published in the June 2018 issue of the American Economic Review. Fryer convinced the Houston school district to randomly assign 23 elementary schools to adopt specialized teaching for two years, from the fall of 2013 to the spring of 2015.
The Hechinger Report
JUNE 18, 2018
That’s the “doomsday scenario” Vermont is trying to avoid through programs like Randolph Union’s, says Joan Goldstein, the state’s commissioner of economic development. In Vermont in 2013 18 percent of economically disadvantaged students dropped out of high school compared to only 3.5 percent from 18 percent in 2013).
The Hechinger Report
DECEMBER 7, 2016
In 2013, 7,758 were enrolled, and in 2016 that number fell to 3,944. She says retaining teachers is as much a problem as attracting them if not more so because the decline of manufacturing jobs in her area has created a downward economic spiral, and teachers want to live where their spouses can find jobs.
The Hechinger Report
DECEMBER 22, 2018
After three years in an expeditionary learning school, students outpaced traditional school peers by 7 months in reading achievement and 10 months in math, according to a 2013 study by Mathematica Policy Research that EL commissioned. Overall, the approach gets good academic marks. Also, expeditions are embedded in the real world.
The Hechinger Report
JUNE 10, 2017
By 2021, schools must offer diplomas based students reaching proficiency in the four core academic subject areas: English, math, science and social studies. Former state education commissioner Stephen Bowen was a cheerleader for the idea during his tenure at the Maine Department of Education from 2011 to 2013.
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