ED Surge

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Researchers painstakingly pieced together data from a swath of government sources and news reports, cataloging more recent data from the 2021-22 school year for some states but having to reach as far back as 2014-15 for others. For 13 states, their search yielded no data about teacher vacancies. Source: Kansas State University.

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 22, 2019

In this third post, we explore how Powerful Learning is collaborative and connected, share research that grounds these two principles, and provide resources to support your own learning and teaching practices. Students learn even more when they learn 3 from and teach each other 4. Powerful learning must be collaborative and connected.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 16, 2023

But having that training, I’m so much more encouraged that I can improve my teaching.” During the pandemic, school systems dramatically expanded the number of software products they used as companies offered free subscriptions for a limited time and the federal government showered districts with emergency funding, he said.

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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. Credit: Sharon Chischilly for The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 26, 2019

Called the Telstar Freshman Academy, or TFA, it involves all its district’s ninth graders in a hands-on learning method that uses outdoor-based projects and community-building activities as ways to teach across several disciplines. Dole said that this holistic, student-centered paradigm has changed her approach to teaching — for the better.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

teaching force is mostly white but the students in our classrooms are now mostly black, Hispanic and Asian. “No, we don’t have parity,” said Richard Ingersoll, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania, who has been documenting changes in the teaching labor force. Photo: Jackie Mader/The Hechinger Report.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 28, 2024

The Come Down The pandemic’s forced switch to remote instruction unlocked federal funding for K-12 schools, as the government made a temporary $190 billion jab available in the hopes that it would inoculate against the effects of COVID-19 on teaching and learning. Still, the district won’t be unaffected, Langford says.

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Teaching American History

MARCH 19, 2024

Teaching American History’s Documents and Debates volumes present s American history as a series of topics. As the 1928 presidential race drew to a close, the Republican candidate, former Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover outlined the Republicans’ governing philosophy, which he credited with producing the prosperity.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 1, 2018

Group homes may have too few staff and not enough time to teach basic life skills, she said, and foster families may fear legal liability and keep kids away from perceived dangers, even basic activities like using the stove and learning to cook. Government programs have also freed up some financial support.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 6, 2016

From just before the recession until 2014, the latest year for which figures are available, higher education central system office staffs grew by nearly 4 percent, according to federal data analyzed by the American Institutes for Research in collaboration with The Hechinger Report. Why can’t one person do both jobs?”.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 4, 2020

They’d spent the past decade grappling with declining enrollments and weakening support from state governments. At worst, institutions under financial stress can fold — sometimes overnight, as government and accrediting oversight fails to prevent precipitous closures that throw students’ lives into disarray. million in 2018.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 15, 2019

Jared Maymon, a Nichols College junior and a student government vice president, has become convinced that Nichols will survive. Colleges are closing or merging at an accelerating rate, from about eight per year between 2004 and 2014, to an estimated 20 per year moving forward, with small private colleges particularly vulnerable. “I

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 18, 2021

She spent her days teaching the ABC’s, reading stories and making sure kids were safe. Since 2014, the partnership program has poured federal funds into established child care programs that serve low-income children, including the most popular non-parental form of infant and toddler care: home-based care.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

in 2014, the most recent federal data available. overemphasizes small classes at the expense of good teaching. “You can spend a dollar only once and you need to decide whether you invest it into smaller classes, better salaries, more non-teaching working time, or longer student learning hours. . in 1970 to 17.9

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 12, 2016

Photo: Peggy Barmore The federal government is trying to increase the number of minorities in the teaching profession by, in part, allowing institutions to maintain a low bar for entry into teaching programs. The government’s strategy of removing requirements around selectivity to diversify the teaching force met some criticism.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 16, 2017

When the forest funds became too unpredictable in 2014, educators asked residents to back the preschool program directly through a local property tax. They approved the measure in 2014 with a 66 percent majority and renewed it in 2016 with a 67 percent majority. Voters in this hardscrabble town responded. Idaho State Sen.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 20, 2023

When colleges and boot camps team up, the colleges typically just put their name on the programs while the boot camp companies recruit students, develop curricula and teach classes. Make School didn’t have to disclose any ongoing information about its financials to the federal government or the accreditor. Credit: Amanda J.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 12, 2017

“I give the kids access to all the tools pretty much right off the bat,” said Eric Bredder, with a sweeping gesture taking in the computer workstations, 3-D printers, laser cutters and milling machines, plus a bevy of wood and metalworking tools that he uses while teaching computer science, engineering and design classes.

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 9, 2018

The role of technology, the changing nature of the work force and the effects of globalisation means citizens and governments are playing catch up to make sure our future generations are capable and competent to perform the jobs of tomorrow. Those coming to teach straight from university don’t have the capability to link theory with practice.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2019

We’re doing a disservice if we’re not teaching the next generation how to use technology. Yet, the 2014 bond sale used to buy Chromebooks for James Lick and the rest of the East Side Union High School District schools has a much different structure. We need a coherent governing structure and we don’t have that.”.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 17, 2018

Related: How the federal government abandoned the Brown v. The federal government has played a role in the growth of these charters by granting charter startup grants to schools without considering whether they will lead to increased segregation. In 2014, the charter was awarded a coveted National Blue Ribbon from the U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 23, 2018

Enrollment in the Onalaska School District — which includes the town and outlying areas — rose by about 14 percent between May 2014 and May 2018, to 851 students. Back at Onalaska High, Kaylene Kenny teaches a class that’s all about ensuring students know their options. Kenny’s been teaching at Onalaska High School for seven years.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 15, 2017

Black and brown teachers don’t parachute into a culture they don’t know, so they are able to connect with the students they’re teaching. Discussions on how to increase the percentage of teachers of color should start on the campuses of MSIs, which conferred 16 percent of all degrees in 2014. And Where are the teachers of color ?

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Anthropology News

JULY 17, 2024

These have intensified in formal schooling, emphasizing lessons in individual empowerment and enterprise , and teaching self-improvement as the most appropriate path to futures beyond precarity. When we met in 2014, he was a confident grade twelve student who saw his Launch education as “a ticket” to a life beyond the township.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

It would require roughly $18 billion in additional funding for the federal government to fully fund the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act. Unfortunately, she added, teachers often don’t know how to address this — a problem that stems from teaching preparation programs. “In

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 28, 2017

You want to teach your fellow teachers the error of their ways, but you’ve seen the consequences of speaking out: termination, transfer and blackballing. Government Accountability Office found the percentage of all schools with racial or socio-economic isolation grew from 9 percent to 16 percent from 2001 to 2014.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 10, 2017

Instructor Alexis Hollingsworth, 21, uses build-and-learn and colored pattern blocks to teach a 4-year-old class about shapes in Beary Cherry Tree, an early learning center in Metairie, Louisiana. Schools received $9,158 for each elementary and high school student in 2014-15, compared to $4,580 for pre-kindergarten.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 18, 2023

She was writing about the importance of revitalizing and teaching Indigenous languages, specifically the Nuu-wee-ya’ language and her tribe’s dialects. “I Despite their rich history and Hall’s documentation of her heritage, Hall and her ancestors are not acknowledged by the United States government as a tribal nation. SALEM, Ore.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 17, 2018

That limits the salary she can earn at a community center like the Y and prohibits her from working in the higher-paying public pre-kindergarten sector, where the qualifications required of a preschool teacher are similar to those needed to teach elementary school. By 2015, almost 75 percent had bachelor’s degrees ).

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 9, 2016

Do teachers who learn the job online perform as well as teachers trained in the same kind of brick-and-mortar classroom they’re likely to teach in? The DOE’s proposal requires every state to issue a rating to online programs that grant 25 or more teaching certificates in that state. News and World Report.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 18, 2017

That has become increasingly crucial at a time when Americans’ faith in higher education is declining , governments are investing less money in it, and employers complain it’s producing too few graduates with skills they need. Human beings who understand the discipline should be the ones doing that teaching.”. CompTIA projects that 1.8

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Political Science Now

AUGUST 30, 2024

million dollars in 2021; and serving as the co-Principal Investigator on the National Science Foundation (NSF) $1.4 million dollar Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant (DDRIG) (2020-2023 and 2023-2026).

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Teaching American History

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Teaching American History provides various free resources for American history and government teachers, including our popular seminars , multi-day seminars , and extensive database of original source documents. You may hope to find a new document that will freshen your approach to teaching a particular topic.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 18, 2016

By 2014, just about half of low-income students enrolled immediately in college, compared with 81 percent of high-income graduates, according to a new report from the Commission on the Future of Undergraduate Education. Match’s charter network, governed by a board of trustees, spans four campuses from pre-K through high school.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 13, 2017

The professor was teaching basic math skills that the 18-year-old had already learned in high school. The culprit, say experts and academics, has been the rules governing community college placement decisions. Cuyamaca professors also made changes to the way they teach the material. Sign up for our newsletter.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2018

Maybe teaching.”. Together, they took jobs in Colorado, Haiti, and, eventually, Flagstaff, Arizona, where, in 2009, Askew enrolled in a master’s program in history at Northern Arizona University, and Jennie got a job teaching science at a local middle school. Teaching is one of the most humble employment opportunities.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 23, 2016

1 is guaranteed 15 hours a week of free child-care or preschool for 38 weeks a year, or 570 hours total, paid for by the national government. “We Apparently, so do most parents, 94 percent of whom take the government up on its offer of free education starting at age 3, according to government data. Like the U.S.,

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