The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 28, 2019

A 10th grader, above, answers a question in one of those classes, which offers black history and culture along with social-emotional lessons and academic and college advice. The post Some evidence for the importance of teaching black culture to black students appeared first on The Hechinger Report. “It shows that it works.”

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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. There was nothing like this.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 20, 2021

By recruiting and then mentoring new teachers of color, listening to these teachers’ requests, supporting the development of culturally responsive curricula and promoting educators of color into administrative and district leadership positions, Phoenix Union is getting steadily closer to aligning its teacher and student populations.

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ED Surge

MAY 13, 2024

Enrollment in preparation programs began to dip around 2010, but it hit new lows once the first members of Gen Z (colloquially referred to as Zoomers) entered higher education in 2014, researchers found. There’s much more of a tradition of being on your own in your class with your door closed.” Gen Z is looking for flexibility.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 26, 2016

Other stories in the series look at schools that are recruiting from their own alumni to increase diversity and a traditional teacher education program focused on recruiting Hispanic teachers. By 2014, they made up only 49 percent. During the 2003-04 school year, black teachers accounted for 72 percent of New Orleans’ educators.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

When a grand jury decided not to charge Darren Wilson for killing Michael Brown in 2014, my mom called me, defeated. They all pushed for a more expansive understanding of Black humanity by embracing their unique identities and expressing their love for Black culture. I will never forget that moment.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2024

But Boaler’s popularity and influence have made her a focal point in the current math wars, which also seem to reflect the broader culture wars. In 2014, San Francisco heeded that call , mixing different achievement levels in middle school classrooms and delaying algebra until ninth grade. She advocated for change.

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 14, 2016

Beginning in fall 2014, the students and teachers at Burbank Elementary School in Hayward, California, embarked on a new and ambitious program to integrate arts across the curriculum. Two of our VILS locations are on Maui, Hawaii, which has an extraordinarily rich culture and strong community traditions.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 25, 2016

By 2014, for lower-income students (those eligible for a federal Pell grant), it reached 51 percent — nearly the same as for non-Pell students. Its graduation rate for first-generation students went up 32 percent between 2010 and 2014. We have a culture that supports you,’ ” said Holloman. Photo: Terrell Clark. That’s huge.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 12, 2023

But the latest national study from a Stanford University research group calculates that students, on average, learned more at charter schools between the years of 2014 and 2019 than similar students did at their traditional local public schools. Raymond, the director of CREDO, recalls the moment in less than scientific terms. “It

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 4, 2023

Even more disciplinary transfers likely occur when students are counseled to voluntarily switch from one traditional school to another. In 2014, a state law prohibited districts from forcing students to transfer if they were recommended for expulsion but won their expulsion hearing.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

Many argue that our culture discourages girls from excelling at math. It’s tough for researchers to figure out which families harbor more traditional, sexist beliefs and which might be more egalitarian. Almost 5,000 of them were women who eventually had at least one child by 2014 and were regularly interviewed.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

White students with special needs are far more likely to graduate with a traditional diploma than are their black and brown peers. Nationally, 76 percent of white students in special education who exited high school in 2014-15 earned a traditional diploma. For the next five years, Therapy Thursdays became a family tradition.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 25, 2017

Now that we have powerful, easy-to-use design tools and a capacity for worldwide publishing, we have an opportunity to restore the dignity and integrity of a work ethic by redefining the role of the learner as a contributor to the learning culture. Traditional PD uses an attendance sheet as the primary measurement of “learning”.

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Political Science Now

JULY 11, 2024

Her research agenda focuses on political science pedagogy, campus-based civic engagement, and pop culture & politics. In addition to teaching traditional political science courses, she serves as campaign manager for the campus-wide voter mobilization program Vote Oswego and coordinator of SUNY Oswego’s broader civic engagement efforts.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

In the Henry County Schools district, individual schools have been applying to be part of a personalized learning initiative since 2014. In Mesa County, a focus on improving school culture and climate has been at the core.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 5, 2019

Black Student Union students say the school tells them durags perpetuate gang culture, but they say the durag ban unfairly continues the criminalization of black men. Durags are used to create the wave hairstyle. Photo by Sarah Reingewirtz/MediaNews Group/Pasadena Star-News via Getty Images. Late last year, U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 18, 2018

But Goldstein, who helped create a hands-on manufacturing course at Randolph Union in 2014, says “retention is much easier than recruitment.” For most educators, it’s a cultural shift, and one that comes with additional, often uncompensated, work. It’s better to be out here than sitting behind a desk listening to a teacher talk.”.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 13, 2017

According the Louisiana Department of Education, enrollment of African-American students decreased from 93 percent of total enrollment in 2004 to 87 percent in 2014. In addition, 84 percent of students enrolled in public school were deemed economically disadvantaged in 2014.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 18, 2018

Guide students in understanding traditional avenues for reforming laws and speaking with legislators. These historic national protests should be seen as a call to improved social studies education and a culture that supports student voice and political participation. Arm them with examples of good dissent.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 28, 2022

The university departs from traditional practice by involving all its faculty and staff in recruiting students. Making the admissions process seem welcoming instead of intimidating and confusing is a surprisingly big culture shift in higher education. Incoming freshmen at the University of Maine pick up information about student clubs.

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ED Surge

MARCH 27, 2023

Code Next was launched by Google in 2016 in response to the stubbornly low numbers of people of color working in tech — only 3 percent of Google’s tech employees were Black or Latino back in 2014. It’s a cultural hub and one of the city’s most diverse neighborhoods. Kids get cut off from these opportunities from an early age.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 9, 2016

In 1978, just a few years before Helgeson’s birth, the American Indian Religious Freedom Act became law, finally affirming the right of country’s indigenous people to access sacred sites, worship in traditional ceremonies and use materials they consider sacred artifacts, like eagle bones, that are restricted to non-Indians. I needed help.”.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 24, 2022

According to the most recent federal data I could find from 2014-15, almost 90 percent of high school principals said they offered online credit recovery in their schools and estimated that 15 percent of their students used these software programs. In this case, clicking on screens wasn’t an easier path to earn credits.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

Sanders, who is African-American, first presented the idea for a dual-language program at Houston to the District of Columbia Public Schools in 2014. At the same time, he believes dual-language programs in majority-black classrooms can embrace students’ cultural and linguistic backgrounds, engaging them in ways traditional schools haven’t.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 18, 2023

Launched last October, Home Flight not only works to recruit more Native students to the university but also provides funding, mentors, culturally specific programs and support to help Native students adjust to life on campus. But he said tuition assistance isn’t enough to attract and retain Native American students.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

The culture of attendance is huge,” Burnett said. “If At the first tier, schools are supposed to be fostering a positive culture of attendance for all students and collecting consistent data to track absenteeism. The culture of attendance is huge. Danielle Burnett, truancy prevention social worker at Alamosa Elementary School.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 4, 2019

In 2014, the labor market analysis firm Burning Glass Technologies tried to capture the extent of degree inflation. He already makes $65,000 a year, a rebuke to a culture and an economy that exalts a bachelor’s degree as the gold standard for upward mobility while young adults stagger under the weight of the nation’s record $1.5

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 30, 2018

“Personalized learning is not something you buy,” emphasized Chris Liang-Vergara, a consultant from the Chicago organization LEAP Innovations who helped charter Firstline Schools pilot its personalized learning programs between 2011 and 2014. “It’s It’s a teacher practice; it’s a teacher design.”. Teira Rucker, 11.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 23, 2019

Michael is a senior at Vertus High School , an all-boys charter school in the Rochester City School District whose hallmark is a program that blends online classes with more traditional classroom teaching. For his part, though, Michael appreciates the opportunity to work faster than traditional classrooms allow.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 25, 2023

Today, Junge’s group, which coined the term “teacher-powered” in 2014, identifies roughly 300 schools nationwide that follow the model. Teachers can be given more authority over instruction and more input on some school decisions while the school retains a more traditional administrative structure. “We

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 15, 2021

And even though many of them have moved to an online environment, you’re looking at first-generation college students that don’t come from a culture of knowing how to navigate the process.”. Enrollment at two-year schools swelled during the downturn a decade ago. She made it through the fall semester and has enrolled for the spring.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 13, 2018

PHILADELPHIA — In a city that’s struggled to meet the educational needs of many of its children, especially its most vulnerable ones, a select group of district high schools is shunning the traditional classroom model in which teachers dispense knowledge from the front of the room and measure progress with tests. We can’t ignore it.”.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 28, 2019

Teaching ranks among the most stressful professions, according to Gallup research from 2014, in which about half of teachers reported high daily stress at work, tying medical professionals for the most-stressful jobs. Does teacher stress contribute to student academic and behavior struggles, or is it the other way around? “I

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2017

Institutions including Lebanon Valley College face demographic shifts, constrained family incomes, student preferences toward professionally oriented majors over some of the traditional liberal arts, and rapid technological change. Chamber of Commerce Foundation as saying that “employers have ‘less and less confidence’ in traditional degrees.”

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 24, 2017

The UMBC Meyerhoff Scholars Program, with only 200 students, has changed the culture of a campus of 11,000. Michael Summers, a professor of biochemistry at UMBC who is connected to the Meyerhoff program, says he is astounded that a program with only 200 students has been able to change the culture of a campus of 11,000 undergraduates.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 14, 2016

1 recommendation of new and veteran teachers, as well as district leaders and teacher preparation advisers in focus groups and a survey of more than 6,000 educators that Louisiana undertook in 2014, according to Dietsch. It was the No. Related: This may be the best way to train teachers, but can we afford it?

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