The Hechinger Report
MAY 13, 2018
Instead, the schools have adopted an approach that’s become increasingly popular among education advocates and funders: project-based learning. Projects are organized around the development of skills like student collaboration, problem-solving and self-reflection through assignments that blend research with public presentations.
The Hechinger Report
MARCH 18, 2021
The number of middle school students who are not in an after-school program, but whose parents would enroll them if a program were available, has grown from 4 million in 2014 to nearly 5 million today. million in 2014. The pandemic is increasing that need, but not enough programs are available.
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The Hechinger Report
MARCH 4, 2020
The Seattle board approved a million-dollar partnership between Washington Middle School and the nonprofit Technology Access Foundation (TAF), which will manage the school, overseeing major functions like hiring and implementing a project-based learning curriculum that uses real world problems to teach students academic disciplines.
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. This style of learning, this family atmosphere that we have here, it’s a real positive in kids’ lives,” Dole said. Emily Kaplan for The Hechinger Report.
Digital Promise
AUGUST 26, 2015
For the 2014-15 school year, Piedmont Middle School, in rural northeast Alabama, reimagined how its students learn by letting them progress based on their mastery of skills and standards. In 2014-15, 95 percent of Piedmont students graduated, putting it in the top 5 percent in the state. Credit: CompetencyWorks, iNACOL.
The Hechinger Report
OCTOBER 16, 2017
Their work is a version of what educators call project-based learning, which means gaining knowledge by solving problems rather than by studying textbooks. But in this Colorado district, it can also mean learning by working on real jobs. When I was in high school, I wasn’t doing [projects like] this,” Garcia said.
The Hechinger Report
AUGUST 23, 2017
With this “Real-World Learning” program, ChiTech joins a growing number of schools devoting big chunks of the year to internships, despite the perennial classroom time crunch. The internships are also part of a larger turnaround effort at ChiTech, centered on project-based learning.
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