The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 15, 2018

Andrea estimated she has worked at least 10 to 12 jobs since graduating from college six years ago. Think learning art and history by shadowing a curator in the summer months or learning the physics of sound through an internship with a sound engineer. Before that, she worked as a packer in various warehouses in the Midwest.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

It challenges them – given that they are likely to not have had diversity in their K-12 classroom teachers – to think differently about who produces knowledge. In 2014, for the first time, the nation’s K-12 student population was majority minority.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Eight states have outlawed the teaching of critical race theory , or CRT, a concept they believe will negatively influence their K-12 students. We must insist that the American History we teach in our schools includes discussions of the systemic racism that has defined and divided our country.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 6, 2016

Derrick Fields, 9, works on his assignment during a Spanish-language history lesson at Sherman Elementary School in San Diego, California. This was pretty normal stuff for a fourth grade history lesson, except for one thing: The entire lesson — from the textbooks to the teacher’s instructions to the students’ short essays — was in Spanish.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 26, 2018

In fact, down the hallway from his algebra class, two industrious history teachers were trying out their own strategies. Another 12 students came within a few points of passing. A history teacher might ponder what to do about students who are so far behind, they stop studying altogether. Gallin’s school was one of them.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 10, 2017

In Spokane, 48 percent of 2014 graduates who received free or reduced-price lunch — a typical indicator of poverty — went on to higher education the following year, compared to 65 percent of those who didn’t receive subsidized meals, according to state data. Spokane is updating its entire K-12 curriculum to teach those kinds of skills.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

Ava had always felt comfortable at the small, private K-8 school she attended just north of Boston. Duncan MacLaury, a history teacher in his fourth year at Rindge & Latin, said he often sees students struggling with depression and suicidal ideation. Main entrance at Cambridge Rindge & Latin School. CAMBRIDGE, Mass. —

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2018

Mitch Askew, a history teacher at Flagstaff High School, marches with his two-year-old son. His father, who’d worked construction himself and was the head custodian at Askew’s small K–12 public school, pointed him in a different direction. Courtesy of the Askew family. FLAGSTAFF, AZ. — Maybe teaching.”.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 6, 2016

In 2014, the newly elected O’Sullivan, along with frustrated faculty, decided to overhaul the program. Educators say that colleges aren’t following Common Core, but acknowledge that current math reforms in both higher education and K-12 are based on research showing that students can thrive in “engaging” learning environments.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Two of his core courses — English and history — were delivered online. “I But for the best results, the program must be used in combination with direction from a teacher knowledgeable in the content areas, said Tom Arnett, a K-12 education researcher for the group. and I can’t do it with a computer [teaching me],” McKenzie said.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 18, 2016

The teachers in K-12 don’t even always talk to each other,” never mind to the faculties of colleges and universities their students go on to attend, said Lewis. “It Angry and embarrassed by the fact that so many high school students aren’t prepared for college, “A lot of people want to assign blame, that this is the fault of K-12.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 4, 2023

In 2014, a state law prohibited districts from forcing students to transfer if they were recommended for expulsion but won their expulsion hearing. Ricky has a history of behavior problems in school, leading to detentions, Saturday school and occasional suspensions.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 19, 2016

Derrick Fields, 9, works on his assignment during a Spanish-language history lesson at Sherman Elementary School in San Diego, California. This was pretty normal stuff for a fourth grade history lesson, except for one thing: The entire lesson — from the textbooks to the teacher’s instructions to the students’ short essays — was in Spanish.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 9, 2016

But given the weight of history, the persistence of poverty and the depth of disaffection here, it’s fair to ask: Is a three-year grant really enough to pull Montana’s reservation schools back from the brink? The unemployment rate in Hays in 2014 was 25 percent. The school serves about 100 K-12 students. I needed help.”.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 21, 2016

students graduating from the K-12 system are college and career ready, Common Core has ramped up academic expectations that schools everywhere, including those in Kentucky, are still far from meeting. Sonja Brookins Santelises, vice president of K-12 policy at the Education Trust. Scores have been edging up ever since.

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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

OCTOBER 4, 2018

In history, students might pick historical characters and analyze major events of their era from the character’s perspective. In 2014, the high school was chosen as the top urban high school in America by the National Center for Urban School Transformation. The school’s four-year adjusted graduation rate rose from 71.5 percent in 2017.

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Studies Weekly

APRIL 29, 2024

We hope students of Asian or Pacific Islander heritage share their experiences and their cultural traditions with their peers, and teachers include the contributions of Asian and Pacific Americans to our collective history in lessons this month. Mostly forgotten by history, thousands of Chinese immigrants, who came to the U.S.

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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. Ann Hermes/The Christian Science Monitor via Getty Images. Related: New studies challenge the claim that black students are sent to special ed too much.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 8, 2018

Students in the district who took Algebra 1 in eighth grade in 2014 (the last year it was offered as a stand-alone course to eighth-graders) had a repeat rate of 40 percent. As a result, more students in the district are taking a fourth year of high-school mathematics — and taking advanced classes beyond Algebra 2 — than ever in its history.

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Digital Promise

JUNE 30, 2016

A key transition over the history of information technology has been in the shift from passive audiences to active users. One theme that has emerged from the research to date is that simply adding technology to K-12 environments does not necessarily improve learning. What Is Successful Technology Integration?

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 28, 2017

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. But racism is imparted not just by not just by what a state demands its students to learn; it’s also about what they don’t require — learning the true history of our country.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

The top 20 percent of earners saw their incomes rise by 95 percent in real terms between 1979 and 2014, whereas the middle three quintiles recorded just 28 percent growth, according to the Congressional Budget Office. And as wages have flat lined, college costs have spiraled.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 18, 2018

From Greensboro lunch counters to Tiananmen Square, youth have led significant campaigns for social and political change throughout history. Students are left with an impression of civic life as one of memorizing and adopting mainstream practices presented in history books. It’s the epitome of a teachable moment.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 24, 2020

In conflict settings, we find that children who learn about the histories and underlying causes of their current situations are better able to thrive in uncertainty and to plan for the future. And we don’t want to make them feel that they, as people, are an aside.”

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 2, 2016

When he returned from college in 1993 to work as a history teacher in the district, he wondered where all the white students had gone. Black History was added, busing was provided. But scars from a relentless history of white and black educational inequity were not readily healed. Greenville wears its history close.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

We are constantly experimenting,” said Catherine Arnold, a Boston Latin history teacher who oversees the environmental club that runs the farm as an extracurricular activity. The school farms are also incubators, joining a larger online community of farm hackers. “We

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 2, 2016

The median household income in Oktibbeha County for black residents is $21,795 annually while the median income for white households is almost double, at $41,501, according to American Community Survey 2014 estimates. The school district had a 27 percent dropout rate in 2014.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 3, 2019

For instance, after San Francisco Unified de-tracked math, the proportion of students failing algebra fell from 40 percent to 8 percent and the proportion of students taking advanced classes rose to a third, the highest percentage in district history. Until 10th grade, students take the same mathematics classes.

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Digital Promise

JULY 27, 2016

However, it remains unknown how this intervention might be adapted for younger students (K-5), and whether it will be as effective for this age group. Grit: A Short History of a Useful Concept. Sheldon, K. Many unmotivated students are seeking an answer to the question, “Why am I doing this?” Citations. Yeager, D. Yeager, D.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 11, 2016

Massi, who picked up Javier’s case in 2014, said she helped her deal with tough problems at home. In a recent report the school submitted to a funder, the Robin Hood Foundation, Cesene said that 80 percent of the students who graduated in 2014 were now going on to their second year of college.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 28, 2019

One 2014 study found that kids who were held back when they were young were less likely to graduate from high school. “The United States is in the midst of the second largest immigration wave in its history.” Sign up for Jill Barshay's Proof Points newsletter. Choose as many as you like. .

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 23, 2019

Now, if he finishes a history lesson first, for example, he goes on to the next one – or switches to another subject. Each student still takes life sciences, global history, algebra and the other courses New York State requires for graduation. Michael likes being able to move at his own pace. “It It’s just a different pace.”

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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 Audrey Watters, author of a forthcoming book on the history of education technology.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 12, 2017

In the meantime, they have been testing the reach and reliability of the Carters Mountain signal, while also creating the network’s backbone — burying 12 miles (of a planned 85 miles) of fiber-optic cable to ferry huge amounts of high-speed data between school-based transmitters, receivers and servers, and regional data hubs.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 2, 2019

The reknitting of schools and histories gives a new depth to this year’s Carnival parades, as students from schools like Carver see proud alumni like Foxworth-Carter and feel a deeper connection to their schools’ rich histories. But it’s also the deep history. Cherishing history while challenging old assumptions.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

The trespassers ― who were quickly escorted out ― had a negative history with one Middleton student, according to district spokesperson Perry Hibner. The use of such weapons on children is unconscionable ,” said Lauren Rose of Texans Care for Children in a 2014 press release. Their efforts have failed thus far. “

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