The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 28, 2019

NOME, Alaska — Before they got down to business for the day, students in Devin Tatro’s social studies class were offered a quiet moment of self-reflection: On this golden fall afternoon at Nome-Beltz Junior/Senior High School, were they feeling chipper, distressed or somewhere in between? More bandwidth, of course, is always better.

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APRIL 29, 2024

After selling her business in 2014 for $500 million, she has launched new companies and invested many women-owned businesses. For further reading, visit jacl.org , the National Women’s History Museum , or the Asian Pacific American Institute for Congressional Studies.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2018

Just 44 percent of K-2 teachers felt they were “well prepared” to teach science, according to the survey, compared to 86 percent who felt well prepared to teach reading. hours per week on science during the 2011-12 school year, the last for which data is available, according to the National Center for Education Statistics.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 19, 2016

Last spring, Derrick Fields, 9, sat in his social studies classroom at Sherman Elementary School, learning about the creation of the telegraph. 693 — Number of newly certified bilingual teachers in 2014-15. million — Number of English language learner students in California in 2014-15 (22 percent of total student population).

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 15, 2016

After a mixed review in 2014-15, P.S. 3 teachers were advised to add more dress-up options in their dramatic play area, purchase outdoor play equipment like tricycles and grow their block collection. I’m having a conversation about kindergarten teachers using best practices from pre-K now,” she said. “I Photo: Jamie Martines.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 6, 2019

Oklahoma’s standards , introduced in 2014, are based on the Next Generation Science Standards, but while they discuss human effects on the environment, they do not directly attribute climate change to human activities. The social studies curriculum at Piedmont Intermediate emphasizes human interactions with the environment.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 23, 2019

While this was not a study of personalized learning, per se, but student choice more narrowly, the results are illustrative. A review of more than 6,800 middle school assignments found only 10 percent of the assignments in English language arts, science and social studies offered students choice in any of these three areas.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 4, 2018

In 2014, the high school was chosen as the top urban high school in America by the National Center for Urban School Transformation. He did odd jobs — bagging groceries, working in a laundromat — to support his family while he attended college, on his way to a job as a social studies teacher in Brockton. percent in 2009 to 87.9

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2019

For the small, unincorporated community of 6,000 just north of Ann Arbor, the 12-year old building is a crown jewel — one that’s all the more precious given how close it came to slipping away. In 2014, Whitmore Lake was not the only school district in the area looking for a way to improve its future prospects.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 28, 2019

The hope is that if kids can become proficient in reading early on, they’ll be much more likely to succeed in all of their subjects, from science to social studies, because students need to know how to read to learn the material. Nevada and Michigan will join them in the upcoming 2019-20 school year.

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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. In 2011, South Carolina established academic standards for what students should learn in social studies classes, including “the economic necessity of slave labor.”.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 18, 2018

But Goldstein, who helped create a hands-on manufacturing course at Randolph Union in 2014, says “retention is much easier than recruitment.” Cadow didn’t want Gus to miss out on the social aspects of school, so he offered him a deal: Come to school for six hours a week, and you can spend the rest of the time on the farm.

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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 1, 2018

Students have access to hundreds of courses while they are in Illinois’ juvenile justice facilities, but they tend to focus on math, language arts, social studies and science. Students technically have access to hundreds of courses, but Jones-Redmond said the district focuses on math, language arts, social studies and science.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 9, 2018

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. Read about math , science and social studies. The figures do not include students who missed more than 28 days of class each year. “If

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 23, 2019

on day four of the strike, Nadia Morales, a counselor at Los Angeles High School, and Pedro Martinez, a social-studies teacher at Eagle Rock High School, prepare their children for the day. At 7 a.m., Tammy Kim/Hechinger Report. Today, LA High is what’s called a community school, intended to serve the surrounding area.

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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 It’s a teacher practice; it’s a teacher design.”. Teira Rucker, 11.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 17, 2016

Students pursuing those diplomas are required to attain industry credentials but are allowed to graduate with fewer foreign language, social studies and science credits.) As of 2014, eight states were requiring districts to provide teachers with work-based learning opportunities if they wanted to access Perkins funding.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

I always wanted to teach higher-level history and government,” said Ray Mertz, a social studies teacher who joined Meadowbrook in 2014. Today, the school counts 11 teachers on staff who are certified to teach college classes. They expect to add five more next year. “I Mertz jumped at the chance.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2020

Teachers double up on subjects — one of her colleagues teaches social studies and science in one 90-minute block. The area has lost thousands more jobs since mid-2014 , when plummeting oil prices sparked layoffs. The decline of the area’s industries is a big factor, too. Credit: Photo: Sophie Kasakove for The Hechinger Report.

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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. It’s a new innovation lab that combines two different disciplines — social studies and math.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 15, 2017

BRUNSWICK, Maine — Kate Lord didn’t have a plan when she graduated from Brunswick High School in 2014. He loved math, social studies and working on a computer. Read the whole series, “ Willing, able and forgotten: How high schools fail special ed students,” here. Sign up for our newsletter. For two years, she was unemployed.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 1, 2017

In the 2015-16 school year, none of the social studies textbooks listed for use in the state’s fourth grade classroom was published before 2005. The Civil Rights Movement was once a footnote in Mississippi social studies classrooms, if it was covered at all. In contrast, James K. A textbook problem.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 18, 2017

Take a game like, ‘Do I have a Right?’ ” said Brian Furgione, a middle-school social studies teacher near Orlando, Florida. “In The site encourages teachers to contribute their own approaches via Facebook, Twitter and other social media networks. Most K-12 students can’t vote, but talking politics in class is more than academic.

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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. My job as a teacher is to be a first responder to poverty,” said Cruey, a 58-year-old middle school social studies teacher at Southside K-8 school. “If

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TCI

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Social studies is more than just a subject—it provides the foundation for understanding and engaging with the world around us. According to the National Council for Social Studies (NCSS) , social studies is the integrated study of social sciences and humanities to promote civic competence.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 9, 2024

Our free weekly newsletter consults critical voices on innovation and inequality in K-12 education. While dual-language programs often stop after elementary school, the bilingual advantage stretches through students K-12 years and into their working lives. Related: Widen your perspective.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 26, 2016

At Fern Creek, where I’d estimate that at least 80 percent of students have smartphones, this would seem like a logical choice, given the relatively low numbers of tablets and computers we have available for student use in English, science, social studies and math classrooms. That matters. Here’s why.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 26, 2021

What bothers me most is if I fail seventh grade I’m going to go to a bad high school,” said Anuar, a student at Southwark School, the pre-K-8 school he’d attended since kindergarten. “I This fall, enrollment was on pace to top 950, a two-thirds increase since 2014. Work filled 12 hours a day from 7 a.m. Credit: Laura Schad.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

In fact, just 1,367 students in the entire state took an online class outside their district in 2014-15, according to preliminary state figures, meaning district budgets were largely spared. “If we didn’t build CVHS, we would have many students going elsewhere, without question.”.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 21, 2017

Not only did Caleb never return to his local school, but he learned little throughout his elementary, middle and high school years — which included hundreds of hours struggling through computer lessons in math, science and social studies. Developed by a company now called Edgenuity , the platform is available for all K-12 subjects. “It

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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. It had no textbooks for math, science or social studies. She graduated valedictorian of her class. Nonexistent.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 31, 2019

High schoolers in a social studies class at Patchogue-Medford work on a lesson about the history of nationalism. Since 2014 it has added more than 70 employees, including 40 educators and counselors who speak Spanish, according to district officials. The cost of crossing into the U.S. illegally can amount to more than $6,000.

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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. And of course, history and social studies teachers. Teaching for Black Lives study group coordinator Linnet Early (in St.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 23, 2024

Congress passed the Workforce Opportunity and Innovation Act in 2014, tapping hundreds of millions for youth employment efforts. Our free weekly newsletter consults critical voices on innovation in K-12 education. A few weeks earlier, the teen had failed the social studies GED test by just a few points.

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