A Principal's Reflections

DECEMBER 28, 2014

Media specialist/teacher librarian Laura Fleming spearheaded this initiative in the fall of 2013 and the makerspace really hit it''s stride around this time. Thanks to the visionary leadership of Dr. Scott Rocco I was officially appointed as the K-12 Director of Technology and Innovation in the Spotswood School District.

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ED Surge

MAY 15, 2024

In 2013, the STEM and Computer Science (STEM+CS) team was created to implement an interdisciplinary grades K-12 STEM program outside the grade-level core disciplines of ELA, math, science and social studies, and separate from the standard Career Technical Education (CTE) programs to reach all students.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 17, 2018

Twenty-three states have created K-12 computer science standards. That’s up from 12 states in 2013, when Code.org launched, aiming to expand access to computer science in U.S. Fifteen states now require all high schools to offer computer science courses.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

A 2013 Stanford University study found that Boston charters were doing more to narrow achievement gaps than any other group of public schools in the country. This across-the-board decline in academic quality has been accompanied by fewer educational choices. But the new money won’t be accompanied by high standards and accountability.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 5, 2016

Though the country’s number of high school graduates grew by 30 percent between 1995 and 2013, to 3.47 After a few years of some growth, the report projects that from 2027 to 2032 the annual graduation totals will each be smaller by 150,000 to 220,000 people than the ones the nation had in 2013.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 13, 2024

That practice persisted in Wilcox County until 2013 , when high schoolers organized a prom for both white and Black students. The course was created in part in response to longstanding concerns that African American history has been downplayed or left out of K-12 curriculum. But the A.P.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

million first graders in 2013. The projections for all 12 grades end after 2020, but before that, between 2015 and 2020, the total number of students falls by only 1.4 The projections for all 12 grades end after 2020, but before that, between 2015 and 2020, the total number of students falls by only 1.4 That’s a 8.5

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 1, 2023

Now is the time to capitalize on a growing momentum for personalized, competency-based learning, as 72 percent of Americans say K-12 education should be a top priority for state lawmakers in 2023. Almost half say that they want to see bold changes taking place.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 10, 2024

Since I first moved to Finland in 2013, I have witnessed an ever-deepening societal problem that has devastated student learning. Our K-8 school scored in the top 10 percent of the state’s public schools on a comprehensive evaluation that considers proficiency, growth and other key indicators.

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Digital Promise

APRIL 16, 2019

Researchers at the Modern Language Association recently found that colleges lost 651 foreign language programs from 2013 to 2016 – dramatically more than the one foreign language programs that higher education lost between 2009 and 2013. Scarce in Schools. At the college level, the number drops even lower, with only 7.5

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Drafted by representatives of K-12 education, higher education, industry and state governments between 2011 and 2013, the standards call for schools to help students build on science knowledge from one year to the next and make connections across disciplines that have historically been approached as completely separate.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 12, 2019

City Connects , based at Boston College’s Lynch School of Education and Human Development , employs an integrated student support approach, partnering with school districts and community agencies in Indiana, Massachusetts, Minnesota and Ohio to develop individualized plans for children typically in grades K-8.

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Anthropology.net

AUGUST 19, 2024

1 Fonseca-Azevedo, K., & Herculano-Houzel, S. Journal of Archaeological Science , 44 , 12–21. Nature Ecology & Evolution , 6 (12), 2016–2028. Ramaswamy, K., Siegmund, K. Metabolic constraint imposes tradeoff between body size and number of brain neurons in human evolution. Basic Books.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 14, 2019

The Missing Piece , a 2013 nationally representative survey of pre-K to grade 12 teachers, revealed that 95 percent believed SEL skills were teachable. So how do teachers view the benefits of social-emotional learning, as well as the role and value of SEL in school?

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ED Surge

JANUARY 17, 2023

The department started teaching its new math series for life sciences in 2013, in a pilot course with around 20 students. Disagreement about this is playing out publicly as the California board of education reevaluates the state’s K-12 math framework. Another factor? Not everyone is on board with upending how math is taught.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 16, 2018

Students engage in creative activities on the playground at Pre-K 4 SA North Education Center in San Antonio, Texas. SAN ANTONIO, Texas — By the end of the school year, the playground at Pre-K 4 SA North Education Center looked like a dreamscape of “DIY Outdoor Learning Spaces.” Photo: Bekah McNeel for The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2019

She attended Goyco as a child and she lived just a few blocks away when, in 2013, the Department of Education shut the school down. “I Compared to 2010, nearly 250,000 fewer children attend K-12 public schools in Puerto Rico today, a decline of 45 percent. Dominguez had come to resist. Lee en espan ó l.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 2, 2017

The scene might be typical of many schools, but Van Ness, which this year offered pre-K through first grade, stands out in the nation’s capital because it is an exception to what Robinson-Rivers calls “an unfortunate trend.” pre-K classes skyrocketed into the thousands. in the current school year, up from 11 percent in 2013-14.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MARCH 17, 2015

Sunday, June 28, 12:30pm to 3:30pm EDT (Eastern Daylight Time). is widely recognized as one of the nation’s leading experts on K-12 school technology leadership issues. In 2013 he received the Technology Leadership Award for the state of Iowa. The one question I’m asking at ISTE 2013. Date / time. Presenters.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 16, 2023

The state’s K-12 Math Personalized Learning Software grant program , created in 2013, requires ed tech companies to train teachers like Pitts on their products and obligates the businesses to credit the state if the licenses are never used.

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ED Surge

APRIL 19, 2024

The participation of HBCUs is notable in part because they play a key role in training future K-12 science teachers. The collaboration, researchers from Michigan State and Alabama A&M say, is rooted in an equitable sharing of knowledge and best practices between the institutions.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2024

In a 2013 study , researcher and University of Colorado Boulder associate professor Mimi Engel found that students who spent more time on the advanced concepts in kindergarten learned more math. Engel said results suggest that in many classrooms, kindergarten math might be poorly aligned with both pre-K and elementary school.

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ED Surge

JULY 28, 2022

In Standing Rock, for instance, she says children who attend a program with Lakota language instruction are better prepared for pre-K, and their parents are more engaged. The high school graduation rate among Native students rose from around 52 percent in 2013 to a high of 84 percent in 2019, she says.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 24, 2023

percent, not 40 percent as the district implied) failed Algebra I in 2013-14. The district has since admitted that most of the 2013-14 failures occurred in an exit exam the class of 2018 had to pass that the class of 2019 did not. She is a parent to two SFUSD K-12 alumni and an electrical engineer. percent) failed.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 16, 2017

Now, with the gold rush long over, the logging industry nearly collapsed and few good jobs left in the area, the local K-12 school graduates fewer than 35 students a year. And, due to the wording of the Idaho constitution, McFarlane and his team can’t even use any of the district’s state K-12 funding for the 4-year-olds they serve.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 16, 2019

Not even the 100-degree weather deterred the three “parent ambassadors” from delivering their message to families: They should bring their young children to the Vivian Adams Early Childhood Center to have their development assessed and have them enrolled in pre-K. Louis Early Learning Partnership. The state selected East St.

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 14, 2016

Since President Obama’s ConnectED announcement in 2013 in Mooresville, NC , there has been more than $10 billion committed as part of the five-year program to transform American education. In the remote village of Nanwalek, Alaska, the K-12 school was planning to improve its slow, satellite-provided Internet connection.

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Becoming a History Teacher

JUNE 11, 2024

Experience is vital The value of high-quality professional training for teachers in formal mentoring roles has been well established (Hobson & Maldarez, 2013), however, training is only one element of the equation. Gore, J., & Thomas, K. 10.1108/JPCC-12-2018-0032. J., & Malderez, A. McCormack, A.,

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 3, 2019

On a muggy fall morning, pre-K teacher Ruth Shows inspected the work of students in her classroom, stepping over a cluster of little learners sprawled on the carpet. Quitman’s pre-K success should have wide-ranging implications for Mississippi, where early results of the state’s tiny program are promising. ?. QUITMAN, Miss. —

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 15, 2017

Armed with research showing that preschool delivers long-term benefits, particularly to low-income students, states more than doubled their spending on pre-K between 2006 and 2016, when total spending reached $7.4 Julie Grubb, an Indiana kindergarten teacher who leads a pre-K camp. Throughout the U.S., I love this program.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

In 2013, Mississippi passed a law to use science-based instruction to ensure students read at or above grade level by the end of third grade. About 30 percent of students are white, 26 percent are Black, 24 percent are Hispanic and 12 percent are Asian. Related: What parents need to know about the research on how kids learn to read.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2019

Traditional pensions differ from 401(k)-style retirement plans because they guarantee retirees a set amount of money annually for life. While experts say a pension system that is even 80 percent funded can be considered healthy, only 12 states hit or exceeded that level in 2016. percent that year to more than 20 percent in 2018.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 26, 2018

billion was spent on devices by K-12 schools in 2015, and the Software and Information Industry Association estimates that nearly $8.4 Superintendent Catherine Wang said that the 1,200-student K-8 district always asks Apple sales reps whether there is an education discount or a bulk discount available.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 15, 2018

during the 2013-14 school year. After adjusting for inflation by counting everything in constant 2015 dollars, this means that three quarters of the education cuts accrued between 2009 and 2013 were restored by 2015. more in 2013-14, followed by a whopping 7.3% California schools received 2.9% increase in 2014-15.) in 2014-15.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

30 percent of 4-year-olds are enrolled in state-funded pre-K programs. In states like Mississippi, where state-funded pre-K only serves 4 percent of 4-year-olds, parents have to pay for preschool programs if their children do not get a pre-K seat. sells its preschool program to individuals as well as schools.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 3, 2016

Once an English learner becomes proficient at English, her achievement data moves out of the English learner tributary into the “mainstream” designation of all K–12 students. One important reform is the creation of an “ever English learner” category to track outcomes for these students over the course of their entire K–12 education.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 6, 2016

The changes at San Diego State and in other colleges’ math classes are similar to components of the Common Core Standards for Mathematical Practice — the movement driving change at the K-12 level in the 40-plus states that have adopted it — which also place an emphasis on asking students to communicate their reasoning and construct arguments.

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