The Hechinger Report

MARCH 18, 2018

This requires skills of political critique, skepticism, critical thinking, consideration of alternatives, weighing of evidence and recognition of complexity. Instead, social studies classes should be providing students opportunities to make connections between their lives and the knowledge they learn in class.

Civics 86

Civics Social Studies Critical Thinking History 86

Dangerously Irrelevant

MARCH 17, 2015

In 2014, Jay McTighe asked Julie to join his group, McTighe and Associates, to conduct workshops for educators using the Understanding by Design curriculum framework. In short, we will redesign one or two lessons from elsewhere to make them richer and more robust. | 10 minutes – We will take a break!

K-12 97

K-12 Leadership Project-Based Learning Lesson Plan 97

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 3, 2020

Between 2004 and 2014, Ohio cut funding for a college grant program for low-income students by 33 percent. Diverse college classrooms can help students sharpen their critical-thinking and problem-solving skills. Cost of attendance is now at $8, 101 , and 62 percent of students receive federal aid, though it’s often not enough.

Tutoring 145

Tutoring Heritage Cultures High School 145

Living Geography

JANUARY 5, 2024

Here are the details of the project that I participated in along with Ben Hennig back in 2014. 2014: Alan Parkinson (King's Ely School) and Dr Benjamin Hennig (University of Oxford). This requires teachers to pair up with a university acacemic for a project. I've had several other IGT grants over the years for a range of projects.

Geography 52

Geography Critical Thinking Teaching Education 52

Digital Promise

JANUARY 22, 2016

” The district has been piloting micro-credentials since 2014, and is a key thought partner of Digital Promise’s Educator Micro-credential initiative. ” These competencies include, but are not limited to, collaboration, creativity, analytical problem-solving, critical thinking, and global communications.

Charter School 38

Charter School Project-Based Learning Critical Thinking Public School 38

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 18, 2017

I don’t think there’s a desire to get into this space, other than that it’s not.”. million new tech jobs will be created between 2014 and 2024, many of them requiring people with data and computer-science credentials. “The industry would be very satisfied if higher education was taking care of it,” said Eaton. “I

Humanities 104

Humanities History Critical Thinking Teaching 104

The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2017

In their 2016 Workforce-Skills Preparedness Report, PayScale and the executive development firm Future Workplace found that CEOs and human resources professionals seek recent college graduates who possess writing and public speaking proficiency, critical thinking and leadership skills, interpersonal skills and the ability to work as part of a team.

Tradition 59

Tradition Leadership Government Critical Thinking 59

The Hechinger Report

MAY 13, 2018

Designed around a project-based learning curriculum when it opened in 2014, the school’s founding principal announced she was leaving for a job in Baltimore just days into the first school year , a move that led to an exodus of some faculty and students and a retreat to more traditional methods.

Project-Based Learning 106

Project-Based Learning Leadership High School Tradition 106

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 16, 2018

Opened in 2014 when two existing vocational programs consolidated, Essex Tech is preparing to graduate its first senior class to have spent the entirety of their high school careers at the new campus. It activates their critical thinking — when there’s a problem, how do you react to it?” Xerras said afterward.).

High School 90

High School Economics Museum Charter School 90

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 15, 2016

After a mixed review in 2014-15, P.S. 3 teachers were advised to add more dress-up options in their dramatic play area, purchase outdoor play equipment like tricycles and grow their block collection. People don’t tend to think of teaching young children as complex work as teaching older children, but in fact it is.”.

K-12 90

K-12 Public School Teaching Critical Thinking 90

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

When he got to Purdue University in 2014, he didn’t have a system for organizing his deadlines. These skills, including critical thinking and communication, are now covered in special education classes and in general education classes, district officials said.

High School 96

High School Advocacy Teaching Critical Thinking 96

ED Surge

JULY 7, 2022

It teaches the basics of critical thinking, research and academic writing. Yet at the beginning of 2014, Ruth Cady became pregnant. A dozen or so students are gathered virtually in a Zoom room, inhaling and exhaling and summoning their attention for a brisk lunchtime lesson filled with music and poetry.

Library 113

Library Psychology Primary Sources Humanities 113

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 8, 2016

The Portland program, which served 844 children at seven sites in the 2014-15 school year, has a lot going for it. Head Start served just 41 percent of its eligible population in the 2014-15 school year. After they were done cleaning, the girls said excitedly that it would be time for a story and then, finally, time to go outside.

K-12 66

K-12 Public School Government Elementary School 66

The Hechinger Report

MAY 21, 2016

Teachers are supposed to make children partners in the acquisition of knowledge, helping them to see that math isn’t only — or even mainly — about right answers, it’s about exploration and discovery, and the sort of critical thinking and problem-solving they’ll do in college some day.

K-12 82

K-12 Charter School Elementary School Economics 82

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 22, 2020

In 2014, the task force Cardona led with Harp produced a master plan with dozens of recommendations to eliminate that gap, including the provision of full day, accredited preschool for all low-income children and an initiative to ensure that every Connecticut parent have at least a high school degree. They have a voice — right?

Education 131

Education High School Leadership Advocacy 131

The Hechinger Report

MAY 19, 2016

You can gain the same skills — critical thinking, civics, writing — through different content that feels more relevant.”. He got his associate’s degree from Essex County Community College and transferred to Rutgers, which he chose for its connection to Newark and so he could study with urban historian Clement Price (who died in 2014).

Tradition 98

Tradition Sociology Civics Critical Thinking 98

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Edward de Bono’s six “thinking hats,” specifically the one that called on thinkers to assess their ideas and look for potential flaws. In 2014, a group of Buffalo parents filed a racial discrimination complaint with the U.S. Last year, parents asked the federal Office for Civil Rights to reopen the 2014 investigation.

Education 145

Education Elementary School High School Public School 145

The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2018

It provides real life applications for reading and math and develops critical thinking skills that help students solve problems in other subjects. Photo: Lillian Mongeau/The Hechinger Report. Science could be considered the perfect elementary school subject. Plus, it’s interesting. Why do fish swim?

Education 92

Education Elementary School K-12 High School 92

C3 Teachers

MAY 23, 2022

To support this claim, preservice teachers might bring up the inherently political components of language preservation projects, food sovereignty, linguistic justice, abolitionist teaching, and/or culturally relevant pedagogy (Nickman, 2009; NK 360, 2018; Lyiscott, 2014; Baker Bell, 2020; Love, 2019; Ladson Billings, 1995; 2014).

Social Studies 52

Social Studies Social Justice Controversial Topics Pedagogy 52

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 28, 2020

We should treat it more like a classroom setting where we’re allowed to ask questions and use critical thinking skills.”. In 2014, after the police killing of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, then-President Obama set up the Task Force on 21st Century Policing to recommend changes to law enforcement.

Education 138

Education Cultures Government Critical Thinking 138

Geogramblings

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Unpacking the ‘British Values’ Although promoting fundamental ‘British Values’ as part of spiritual, moral, social and cultural (SMSC) development in maintained schools is non-statutory, these values do go a long way in ensuring establishments can meet their obligations under section 78 of the Education Act 2002 (Gov.UK, 2014). McPhee and V.-M.

Human Rights 40

Human Rights Geography Humanities Controversial Topics 40

TCI

OCTOBER 28, 2024

History and Civics scores for eighth-grade students sounded an alarm: scores have dropped by an average of five points since 2018 and nine points since 2014. Inquiry-based or active learning experiences can have a stronger impact on students and help them develop critical thinking and other necessary skills.

Social Studies 52

Social Studies Civics K-12 Geography 52

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 2, 2016

In 2014, Bill Clinton forecast his wife’s evolution when he said that charter schools have not held up their “original bargain.” Many approaches, like teacher evaluation, simply did not work and caused irreparable harm to teachers and children.

Charter School 50

Charter School K-12 Education Pedagogy 50

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 26, 2018

In 2014, white students became the minority in our public schools (partly a result of white students’ overrepresentation in private schools). These kinds of head-scratching, politically ignorant actions lay bare the very reason that people need a quality liberal arts education. It was an effective tactic to suppress a people — then and now.

Education 85

Education Government Private School Civics 85

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 26, 2021

This fall, enrollment was on pace to top 950, a two-thirds increase since 2014. In the spring, when she’d learned a student’s brother and father were ill with Covid-19, she’d baked trays of brownies and taken them to the student’s home because it was the most direct action she could think to take. One was Jackie.

High School 145

High School Social Studies K-12 Middle School 145

The Hechinger Report

JULY 12, 2019

Prisoners were restricted to correspondence courses until a law passed in 2014 allowing in-person classes. By 2017, about 4,500 prisoners were enrolled in community college with tuition paid for by taxpayers through a state financial aid program , up from zero prisoners in 2014.

Advocacy 111

Advocacy Critical Thinking Education Research 111

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 23, 2017

.” Nearly two-thirds of black students in New York state attend racially isolated schools, and nearly half do in Illinois, Maryland, New Jersey, Michigan and California, a 2014 study by Frankenberg and UCLA professor Gary Orfield showed.

Economics 86

Economics Private School Elementary School Public School 86

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 4, 2017

While still higher than those of other women, the number of HIV diagnoses among African-American women fell 42 percent from 2005 to 2014, according to the CDC. Nearly 1 in 5 (18.3 percent) women reported experiencing rape at some time in their lives according to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC).

Social Justice 68

Social Justice Advocacy Human Rights Critical Thinking 68