The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Danielle Robinson, district math coach in Milwaukee, says subitizing has become a more common daily ritual in her city’s pre-K classrooms over the past two years. That makes it easier to put together the two 5’s to make 10 plus 2 more to arrive at 12. That’s meaningful and you don’t forget it,” said Clements. Now he forgot it.’

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OCTOBER 2, 2014

Common Core for the not-so-common learner: English language arts strategies grades K-5. Why we have chosen to title this work Beyond Core Expectations is twofold. References Dove, M. & Honigsfeld, A. Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin. Honigsfeld, A., & & Cohan, A. Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 10, 2024

In 2014, the district pushed algebra to ninth grade from eighth grade, in an attempt to eliminate the tracking, or grouping, of students into lower and upper math paths. By then, Californias K-12 math framework, the state-level guide for math instruction, had altered language about the ninth-grade algebra approach.

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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 2, 2024

DOI:10.1016/B978-0-12-821428-2.00014-7 Discusses Neanderthal fire usage, including combustion structures related to tar production. Anastasakis, K., & Van Hoesel, A. Fire among Neanderthals: Contexts, methods, and future directions. In The Last Neanderthals: Behavioral Complexity in Transition , pp. 147–165. Leierer, L.,

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Anthropology.net

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

1217149109 Marshall FB, Dobney K, Denham T, Capriles JM (2014). 1312984110 Wilkins AS, Wrangham RW, Fitch WT (2014). Royal Society Open Science , 12 (2). 109(48), 19529–19536. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1217149109 Evaluating the roles of directed breeding and gene flow in animal domestication. 111(17), 6153–6158.

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A Principal's Reflections

JANUARY 7, 2018

The other day I delivered a morning presentation to a large group of K-12. Over the course of five years from 2009 – 2014 we worked tirelessly to transform teaching, learning, and leadership. This is something that I speak to at length in BrandED. We weren’t always successful, but in the end, we succeeded more than we failed.

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Digital Promise

MAY 4, 2021

Preliminary research suggests that design thinking improves metacognition in K-12 students, and ultimately improves STEM performance. For K-12 students to develop strong skills in design thinking, they rely heavily on the acumen of their educators. Work in mathematics (Goldman et al., 1998), science (Kolodner et al.,

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 6, 2023

The American Institutes for Research is one of the many funders of The Hechinger Report. *) The team applied the same cost analysis used in K-12 education to the community college context. First generation students made up half of Texas’s 750,000 community college students between the academic years 2014-15 and 2019-20.

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Anthropology.net

MARCH 13, 2025

Obesity Reviews, 15 (Supplement 1), 12–23. 1 Bates, K. "Endurance running and the evolution of Homo." Nature, 432 (7015), 345–352. DOI: 10.1038/nature03052 Pontzer, H., Raichlen, D. A., & Wood, B. Hunter-gatherers as models in public health." DOI: 10.1111/obr.12174 12174 Sockol, M. Raichlen, D. A., & Pontzer, H.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 24, 2022

Children who attended Tennessee’s state-funded voluntary pre-K program during the 2009-10 and 2010-11 school years were doing worse than their peers by the end of sixth grade in academic achievement, discipline issues and special education referrals. The kinds of pre-K that our poor children are going into are not good for them long term.”.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

These grade-by-grade projections start to show a drop in first-grade children beginning in 2014, six years after the 2008 recession, when Americans started making fewer babies. The projections for all 12 grades end after 2020, but before that, between 2015 and 2020, the total number of students falls by only 1.4 million in 2019.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 29, 2017

Here’s what we do know: During the 2014 academic year, at least 569,751 students at 884 public two- and four-year colleges across 33 states were deemed not ready for some college-level work. Although we only used data from the 2014-2015 academic year in our analysis, we’re making all the datasets we gathered available here.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Judging from the emails, calls and tweets I’ve received in the last week, there are few early education studies with more hated results than the multi-year study from Vanderbilt University researchers, which tracks outcomes for children who attended Tennessee’s voluntary pre-K program more than a decade ago. So what happened in Tennessee?

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ED Surge

AUGUST 28, 2024

Zoom was even free for K-12 schools for a time. Under pressure from the end of federal relief money and declining student enrollment, some K-12 school districts now have to make tech cuts. At the end of September, federal relief dollars for K-12 schools are scheduled to sunset , though the U.S. The result?

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ED Surge

JUNE 22, 2023

However, because calculus is used as a shortcut in college admissions, K-12 math curriculum is really a race to calculus, Smith Arrillaga says. And she argues that more equitable K-12 policies — like automatically enrolling students into high-level math courses — would help.

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TCI

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Active learning strategies have transformed K-12 classroom instruction, shifting away from passive lectures to interactive, student-centered learning experiences. By 2014, a large-scale study found that students in active learning environments scored 6 percent higher on exams and were 1.5

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Pedagogy to Share

AUGUST 21, 2023

Burton, 2019; Buttrey, 2021; Mallinson, 2022; Mattei & Ennis, 2014; Messina et al., Buttrey, K. Kentucky Teacher Education Journal , 8 (1), 1–12. A review of Nearpod – an interactive tool for student engagement. Journal of Applied Learning & Teaching , 2 (2), 95–97. W., & Yue, W. Logonnathan (Eds.), Mallinson, D.

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Digital Promise

JULY 12, 2022

A year ago, the American Rescue Plan provided billions of dollars in federal relief for K-12 education. Verizon Innovative Learning Schools have been doing just that since 2014. Many districts used these funds to purchase devices for every student.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 13, 2024

2014: That’s the year that Wilcox County High School, in rural Georgia, held its first school-sponsored, racially integrated prom. The course was created in part in response to longstanding concerns that African American history has been downplayed or left out of K-12 curriculum. Related: Become a lifelong learner. But the A.P.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 19, 2024

Today, it enrolls roughly 500 students from 60 different tribes in grades K-12, bolstering their Indigenous heritage with land-based lessons and language courses built into a college preparatory model. That same year, the school officially joined the NACA-inspired network as a K-6 charter school with a dual language immersion model.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 19, 2016

Three years after its conception, SNHU was the highlight of a major 2014 New England Board of Higher Education conference on competency education. Meanwhile, SNHU’s enrollment increased from 2,000 students in 2009 to 34,000 by 2014 and continues to climb.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 18, 2022

Their suicide rates between 2014 and 2018 were well above the national average. GoGuardian mental health resources for K-12 educators. Supporting Mental Health in K-12: A Guide for Schools and Districts. A few years ago, Neosho School District in Southwest Missouri realized they were in a crisis.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 16, 2016

According to Louisiana Department of Education, during the 2013-2014 school year, 13,535 of 61,201 total out of school suspensions were due to willful disobedience. Eight thousand willful disobedience suspensions were dispensed to the very young: grades Pre-K to 5. Related: Mississippi leads south in black student suspensions.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 15, 2018

Andrea estimated she has worked at least 10 to 12 jobs since graduating from college six years ago. An inter-agency taskforce that includes the Rhode Island’s Governor’s Office launched PrepareRI in 2017 “to create a K-12 education system that is aligned with the demands of colleges and employers.”

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2019

For her son’s 12-month appointment, Eakins took Corbin to a different pediatrician, who immediately agreed with her concerns. But comprehensive programs like the one in Dysart are a rarity, especially in a state where public pre-K is not yet widely available for all students, let alone children with disabilities.

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Anthropology.net

AUGUST 19, 2024

1 Fonseca-Azevedo, K., & Herculano-Houzel, S. Journal of Archaeological Science , 44 , 12–21. Nature Ecology & Evolution , 6 (12), 2016–2028. Ramaswamy, K., Siegmund, K. Metabolic constraint imposes tradeoff between body size and number of brain neurons in human evolution. Basic Books.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 29, 2017

Data from 911 two- and four-year colleges revealed that 96 percent of schools enrolled students who required remediation in the 2014-15 academic year, the most comprehensive recent numbers. In Nevada, for instance, 58 percent of the state’s recent high school graduates were placed in these courses in 2014.

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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 1, 2017

All of the participating teachers were certified in early education, held bachelor’s degrees and were paid on par with K-12 teachers. The study ran for two years, from 2014 to 2016, and covered a total of 840 children. Each classroom also had an assistant. There were a maximum of 20 students per classroom.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 17, 2020

In this file photo from 2014, veteran teachers attend a Blended Learning Institute workshop in Manhattan. In an ideal world, schools would adhere to the standards agreed on for K-12 online learning. Experts say teachers need weeks — if not months — of training to develop and implement an online class.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

When I left the classroom in 2014 after 14 years of teaching in the United States, it was for a variety of reasons. In K-12 schools across the nation, many classrooms lack teachers. I am not alone in this realization. I am one of those teachers. Related: How to find minority teachers who want to stay in the job?

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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. In the remote village of Nanwalek, Alaska, the K-12 school was planning to improve its slow, satellite-provided Internet connection.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 18, 2021

After 18 years of running her business out of a small, 10-foot by 12-foot room off the back of her house, she used federal funds to double the size of the classroom and add a bathroom. Expanding access to Early Head Start was one of the original goals of the partnership program when it launched during the Obama Administration in 2014.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

In 2014, I was involved in a study in South Carolina, the only state where we could get test score results by individual standards, as opposed to overall scores. And we know that the K-12 population is becoming more diverse. There were specific reading and writing standards related to information-seeking and research skills.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Due to student privacy concerns, a number of states fail to connect their K-12 school and workforce data sets. Beginning in 2014, the state sought to improve CTE instruction, better align course offerings with the job market and increase funding. Yet many states struggle to answer a basic question: Is career education working?

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 5, 2016

According to the report: The number of Latinos graduating from high school is projected to reach 920,000 students by 2025 – an increase by 50 percent since 2014. The projected enrollment declines are “related to overall declines in births and student enrollments in K-12.”. .

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Currently, I coach teachers across 18 K-12 schools in the Campbell Kapolei Complex Area in Ewa Beach and Kapolei Hawaii. In conversations with teachers and leaders about the current problems in our schools including academic delays and behavioral challenges, COVID-19 is most often pointed to as the culprit.

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