The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 20, 2021

— When Sandra Jenkins started teaching at Betty H. Fairfax High School in Phoenix 14 years ago, she had three Master’s degrees and four teaching certificates. And yet, few districts have achieved the goal of building a teaching workforce that looks like its students. PHOENIX, Ariz. He’s listening to us.”.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

I’ve supported teachers as they navigate frustration about rapidly changing curricular trends and assessment requirements, figure out where they stand on teaching reading , and — over the past few years — learn how to reach students during and after the height of the pandemic. That, of course, comes with drawbacks.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

A classroom using the Teach to One math program. In the fall of 2015, five schools in the industrial port city of Elizabeth, New Jersey, dumped their usual math curriculum and started teaching their middle school students through a computerized system called “Teach to One.” Photo: Nichole Dobo.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

Leave this field empty if you're human: The Alcorn School District in north Mississippi, which has been prioritizing literacy in the youngest grades for the past few years, is among several districts examining what initiatives have most helped improve literacy scores. Sign up for our Mississippi Learning newsletter. Weekly Update.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 29, 2017

A lesson in a remedial English course at Baltimore City Community College, focused on teaching students how to combine sentences in a variety of ways to prepare them for writing in college-level classes. Carole Quine teaches the highest-level remedial English course at BCCC. Photo: Sarah Butrymowicz.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 29, 2020

Leave this field empty if you're human: Recent college graduates, working as Americorps members, serve as Saga’s tutors. Monica Bhatt, senior research director of the U Chicago Education Lab, said results for kids in ninth and 10th grade during the 2014-15 school year are even more impressive. Choose as many newsletters as you like.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 26, 2019

Leave this field empty if you're human: The kind of leadership and responsibility that shone through EB’s speech is actively encouraged at this unusual program in rural Maine. But since 2014, she says, when the district introduced this new outdoor project-based approach, students’ ambition and sense of identity have dramatically improved.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Not long after schools closed because of the coronavirus last spring, a Rhode Island nonprofit launched a hotline for teachers who were struggling to launch new technology for remote leaning and trying to figure out how to teach with it. Up to 300 educators attended the workshops, which ran every day and sometimes on weekends.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 18, 2016

One recent morning, Kohn used the Desmos app to teach a ninth-grade algebra class about graphing simple functions. Sharing answers and the thinking behind them is also the goal of a third social-learning tool, called Pear Deck , launched in 2014 by former teachers in Iowa City. Now, I just click pause,” she said.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 23, 2019

When Matt Johnson’s girlfriend was killed in gang crossfire in 2014, leaving him a single father to a 3-year-old girl, he knew it was time to do something different with his life. Related: One state uses data about job needs to help decide what colleges should teach. You should look at everyone as a human being,” Johnson said. “I

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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. Leave this field empty if you're human: It’s easy to argue about this extensive and muddy body of research. .” Early Grade Retention and the Human Capital Development of English Learners.”

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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

JANUARY 14, 2019

After an initial drop in pass rates among eighth and ninth graders on a Common Core algebra exam in 2014-15, scores improved. Leave this field empty if you're human: It’s unclear whether New York is an anomaly or whether other states with raised standards may soon experience a similar deterioration among older students.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 17, 2024

The San Francisco Unified School District, which in 2014 detracked math through ninthgrade, recently announced that it’s testing the reintroduction of a tracked system, following a lawsuit from a group of parents who alleged that detracking hurt student achievement. Credit: Amanda J. Then, for six years, the school made no other changes.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 18, 2017

million new tech jobs will be created between 2014 and 2024, many of them requiring people with data and computer-science credentials. Human beings who understand the discipline should be the ones doing that teaching.”. Human beings who understand the discipline should be the ones doing that teaching.”

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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 Cold War continued, it became a struggle not just between two political and military powers but between two ways of life or which of the two could better meet human needs. America and the World A U.S. Army photo by Spc.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 6, 2018

That’s why there’s considerable excitement about the free program bringing AP physics to Mississippi this school year, courtesy of the Global Teaching Project , a Washington D.C.-based million online courses in 2014-15. The Global Teaching Project purchased new textbook for students taking AP physics this year.

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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. Apple joined President Obama’s ConnectED initiative and pledged $100 million of teaching and learning solutions to 114 underserved schools across the country.

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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. Journalists discovered cheating scandals and evidence of low-quality instructional materials.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 26, 2018

Nearly eight percent of the teaching workforce leaves the profession every year, while teacher education enrollment fell by nearly 35 percent between 2009 and 2014, according to The Learning Policy Institute. Teaching, particularly in the first year, can be grueling. Related: Are teachers losing their grip on the middle class?

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 15, 2023

When Alexandra Logue served as the chief academic officer of the City University of New York (CUNY) from 2008 to 2014, she discovered that her 25-college system was spending over $20 million a year on remedial classes. Many instructors who used to teach remedial courses now teach these corequisite courses.

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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

APRIL 22, 2019

The district relied on seven portable classrooms, and some teachers were assigned to teach in modified storage closets. By 2014, the district had just $24,000 in the bank with a $600,000 payment coming due for salaries, benefits and day-to-day operating expenses recalls Superintendent Tom DeKeyser. Or the human capital?

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 18, 2018

Leave this field empty if you're human: Social studies is typically considered the most suitable subject area for developing citizenship skills and knowledge. Sign up for our newsletter. Choose as many as you like. Weekly Update. Future of Learning. Higher Education. Mississippi Learning.

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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. Some proposed legislation would make foster youth eligible for food stamps. .

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 31, 2017

Black teachers had always been a bulwark of the middle class – by taking away the opportunity to teach in their community, you remove a proven route out of poverty. Collectively, the fired teachers had more than 15 years of average teaching experience. Related: What happened when a city full of teachers, most of them black, was fired.

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Anthropology News

JULY 17, 2024

First, Sinovuyo described Launch’s distinct approach to life orientation (LO), a compulsory subject added to the national curriculum during the transition from apartheid that focuses on the study of self and society through lessons on personal and social development, civics and human rights, health, and career readiness.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 6, 2016

Julian Ambriz (left), a teacher joining PUC Schools through the Alumni Teach Project this year, works with his mentor, Justin Gutierrez (right), a physical education teacher, during a training session in July. Now 24 years old, he is one of 11 new residents joining the PUC Schools network through the school system’s Alumni Teach Project.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 4, 2020

Chris Pines, former philosophy and humanities professor at the University of Rio Grande in Ohio. Pines, who was among the 18 let go and will only be teaching part-time this fall, said many faculty viewed the budget problems as a “foreseeable train wreck.”. Its endowment dropped from $12 million in 2014 to $8.2 million in 2018.

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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 The best teacher is going to be the human teacher. Teira Rucker, 11.

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ED Surge

MARCH 27, 2023

Soon, employees from one of the world’s most influential companies will arrive to teach these students about computer science: how to program computer games, how to work with data and how to found and run a business. Oakland schools have made significant investments in teaching computer science and engineering.

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 11, 2017

Human trafficking, social anxiety, immigration, gentrification, global citizenship: these are just a few of the immersive experiences produced by high school students in 360 Filmmakers Challenge, designed to inspire the next generation of virtual reality creators. Can Students Create VR? Short Answer: Yes!

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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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ED Surge

JULY 7, 2022

Todd Burks teaches students to navigate the University of Virginia library. It teaches the basics of critical thinking, research and academic writing. Yet at the beginning of 2014, Ruth Cady became pregnant. She’s trying to show them her teaching philosophy, she explains. Photo by Ryan Kelly for EdSurge.

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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. Leave this field empty if you're human: Charter schools collect state and local funding for every student in kindergarten and above.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

Related: How to save the humanities? The Teagle grant supported course-sharing and online module development at more than 35 institutions and organizations, and engaged more than 180 faculty and staff between 2014 and 2017. Make them a requirement toward a business degree. In the Teagle-funded projects, that figure exceeded 90 percent.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 8, 2018

In 2014, about 50 colleges had either announced or started CBE programs. But competency-based education is hard to put into effect because it is so different from traditional higher education — in the way courses are designed, the way faculty members are expected to teach, how long courses take and how students should be charged.

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