The Hechinger Report

JUNE 26, 2019

But since 2014, she says, when the district introduced this new outdoor project-based approach, students’ ambition and sense of identity have dramatically improved. Prior to 2014, students were distracted and disengaged, often doing the bare minimum to graduate from high school (if they did at all).

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 26, 2018

They have discovered that the download-and-use resources allow them to take a break from the constant lesson-planning and creation. Related: The exhausting life of a first-year teacher.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 14, 2019

Then, as teachers had time to develop lesson plans and adjust to new curricula, student performance began to improve. After an initial drop in pass rates among eighth and ninth graders on a Common Core algebra exam in 2014-15, scores improved.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 16, 2018

These approaches come in various forms, from pre-packaged, scripted programs delivered by educational publishers to teacher-developed lesson plans and countless others. Related: Kids struggle to read when schools leave phonics out.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

When the school’s farm opened in 2014, Freight Farms staffers taught students about crops that have a proven hydroponic track record and their preferred mixes of temperature, nutrients, moisture and other factors. The plants grew out of a recycled plastic mesh rather than soil and were lit by thin strips of LED lights.

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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? Photo: Peggy Barmore.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 28, 2019

Debilitating slowdowns and districtwide outages in past years have been so common that some Nome teachers even now prepare two lesson plans per class—one to use if the internet cooperates and one that requires only textbooks. As a result, the district is finally within sight of the FCC’s 2014 target speed, she said.

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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

JULY 9, 2018

When I went to college [to study teaching], they tell you: ‘Here, this is the lesson plan for reading, for math, etc.,’ If you want to have an impact in the later grades, you need to start with K to 2. If you want to have an impact in the later grades, you need to start with K to 2,” he said.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

Though Wilson has maybe a dozen African American male teachers on its K-8 staff, only one of them teaches within Wilson’s primary school, in the second grade. We’re not trying to force anyone into teaching,” said Kristyna Jones, who co-founded BE2T in 2014. I’d send him the lesson plan the night before.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2020

A network of charter schools in California and Washington developed the Summit Learning Program for their students almost a decade ago; the model got a boost in 2014 from Facebook engineers after Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, visited a Summit middle school. Related: The messy reality of personalized learning.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2016

Families must register in advance because, like any school, there is a specific curriculum with lesson plans that build on one another. Each program is in the same place, with the same teacher, and on the same two days during its entire 38-week run. The continuity extends to the participants. But environment is crucial to this growth.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 3, 2016

Emily Duggan demonstrates a dance move at the Amherst, NH, studio where she spends about 12 hours a week. She puts in about 12 hours a week at the studio, including classes and rehearsals with the dance team for weekend competitions. Emily’s mom, Debbie Duggan, looks on in the background. Photo: Chris Berdik. EXETER, N.H.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 21, 2019

Under a set of new standards adopted by the Vermont State Board of Education in 2014 , the class of 2020 will be eligible for graduation when they’ve demonstrated “evidence of proficiency” in the curriculum. I think that’s being answered in different ways across the state.”.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 16, 2017

The centerpiece of Summit’s franchising effort, called Basecamp, is its Personalized Learning Platform, or PLP, a free, open-sourced learning management system that boasts a full curriculum for grades 6 through 12, including projects, online learning resources and tests.

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Charter School Middle School Project-Based Learning Elementary School 85

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 18, 2017

Founded in 2009 by the retired Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, iCivics also offers readings and standards-aligned lesson plans about the Constitution, the three branches of government, media and influence, and many other topics. Most K-12 students can’t vote, but talking politics in class is more than academic.

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Civics Education K-12 Primary Sources 91

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 3, 2018

Greg Cruey, a teacher at Southside K-8 school, greeting students in the morning. Greg Cruey, teacher, Southside K-8 School, McDowell County, West Virginia. It’s Cruey’s job to keep track of these particulars, even more than lesson planning or standardized test preparation. “My Photo: Damon Dahlen/HuffPost. average of 369.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 20, 2019

Within the first hour of those 12-hour days, his shirt would be drenched, sticking to his skin as he stooped and shuffled through the narrow pathways between the plants. But there was a car accident, and she never returned, leaving behind Mayko, who was 13 at the time, and his three siblings, who were 11 months, 9 years and 12 years old.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 26, 2016

I have guidelines for cellphone and smartphone use, but it’s a constant struggle to keep kids engaged in lessons and off their phones. Even when I know I’ve created a well-structured and well-paced lesson plan, it seems as if no topic, debate or activity will ever trump the allure of the phone.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 15, 2017

The board has spent upwards of $40 million over the past two decades on K-12 education with a pro-industry bent, including hundreds of pages of curricula, a speaker series and an afterschool program — all at no cost to educators. Hundreds of oil-and-gas-centric lesson plans are now available at the click of a mouse.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

But once she left the K-8 school at the top of her grade, Siyuja stopped feeling so smart. Last year, eight years after Siyuja graduated, the K-8 school still did not offer pre-algebra, a course that most U.S. Teachers now must use lesson plans, and they finally have a curriculum to use in English, science and math classes.

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Zinn Education Project

JANUARY 9, 2024

So what started in the public arena of K through 12, and extended to higher education and Florida public college and universities, has now extended to private universities. Polls showed participants included 31% K–12 teachers, 20% teacher educators, and 11% K–12 students.

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