The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 28, 2019

Since former President Barack Obama launched his My Brother’s Keeper initiative in 2014 to support black and Latino boys and young men, nearly 250 communities across 50 states have launched programs under its umbrella. Ann Hermes/The Christian Science Monitor via Getty Images. Sign up for the Hechinger newsletter.

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TCI

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

In the 1980s and 1990s, research confirmed the effectiveness of active learning , leading to its integration into modern teaching methodologies across K-12 and higher education. 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

After experiencing teaching with digital tools during the pandemic, they are eager to learn about and adopt digital tools which suit their educational aims and their students’ unique needs. Participants will generate a list of ways to incorporate the tools in their unique teaching contexts.

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Pedagogy K-12 Political Science Teaching 130

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 14, 2022

It’s puzzling why more university professors don’t teach in this more hands-on, interactive way. But he changed his classroom approach after 2014, when Canadian Louis Deslauriers joined the physics department. It’s also more challenging to teach this way. “As McCarty also co-teaches a class with a biologist called “What is Life?

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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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The Hechinger Report

MAY 19, 2024

Once the site of an Indian boarding school, where the federal government attempted to strip children of their tribal identity, the Native American Community Academy now offers the opposite: a public education designed to affirm and draw from each student’s traditional culture and language. The charter school, NACA, opened its doors in 2006.

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Digital Promise

MAY 4, 2021

Moreover, educators are able to earn as they teach and reflect on their experience to earn the micro-credential. Over time, students who practice design thinking improve their STEM performance. For K-12 students to develop strong skills in design thinking, they rely heavily on the acumen of their educators.

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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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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Since 2014, the initiative—made possible by a partnership between Digital Promise and Verizon—has worked to bridge the Digital Learning Gap by equipping every student and teacher at these select middle schools with devices and up to a four-year data plan. Big plans ahead for teaching art through technology.

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 15, 2014

As we all take time to reflect on 2014, now is also a good time to look forward to 2015. At Digital Promise, we saw tremendous growth in 2014. At Digital Promise, we saw tremendous growth in 2014. ” Paul Nauert. .’ ” Robert Bajor. Project Manager. Educator Micro-credentials. "With " Jennifer Kabaker.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 16, 2018

When Florida opened the door 17 years ago for two-year colleges to offer bachelor’s degrees, they expanded rapidly into a host of new areas: business, nursing, teaching, and more. By 2014 nearly 6,000 students a year were earning their bachelor’s degrees from a community college. But they did not harm four-year public universities. (AP

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 8, 2018

Their best shot at earning one is passing a high-school equivalency exam, what was known as the GED before 2014 but has now splintered into three exam options: the new GED , the TASC and the HiSET. In 2014, the old GED the exam was revamped and the two new exams, TASC and HiSET, entered the market.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 29, 2020

They work with two students at a time in a special class that follows a Saga Education curriculum tailored to the needs of each student and aligned with their school’s curriculum for their traditional math class. Those results will be published in a forthcoming paper.

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Tutoring Research Education Policy Government 143

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 26, 2019

Called the Telstar Freshman Academy, or TFA, it involves all its district’s ninth graders in a hands-on learning method that uses outdoor-based projects and community-building activities as ways to teach across several disciplines. Dole said that this holistic, student-centered paradigm has changed her approach to teaching — for the better.

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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

JANUARY 26, 2021

The day’s professional development for these Chicago Public Schools teachers, alumni of the program, was a refresher, a way to strengthen their teaching practice, share ideas and return to the classroom newly inspired. I’ve been teaching for 30 years, and now you’re gonna make me do what?”. I didn’t have the mindset to make this shift.

Education 145

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Digital Promise

MARCH 19, 2018

Students in the program watch recorded lectures at their own pace and communicate with faculty members and teaching assistants in online office hours. In their study, Goodman, Melkers, and Pallais examined data on spring 2014, fall 2014, and spring 2015 applicants to the OMSCS, alongside fall 2013 and fall 2014 applicants to the MSCS.

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Economics Research Tradition Teaching 93

The Hechinger Report

MAY 1, 2019

We are just not teaching writing in this country. Indeed, having students write — focusing on the craft of writing by unearthing children’s ideas and having them put these ideas to paper — is not the same as actually teaching writing. This suggests that the problem is widespread and more than simply an issue of poverty.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 17, 2018

It’s where districts and schools decide to spend their money,” Worth, a veteran educator who has also taught in Greene County’s traditional public schools, explained. Many charters hire teachers who don’t belong to a teachers union or haven’t gone through a traditional teacher preparation program, for example.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2019

We’re doing a disservice if we’re not teaching the next generation how to use technology. Yet, the 2014 bond sale used to buy Chromebooks for James Lick and the rest of the East Side Union High School District schools has a much different structure. Students being able to access it is critical,” Porter says.

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High School Tradition Educational Technology Critical Thinking 111

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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Tutoring Tradition Research Social Science 129

Digital Promise

APRIL 24, 2018

Even after the invention of fishnets proves to be a far superior method of catching fish, teachers continued teaching the bare-hands method, claiming that it helps students develop “generalized agility.”. In math education, the problem is not quite so dire – but it’s time to start breaking a few of our own traditions.

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Education Tradition Economics Teaching 86

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

who teaches a high school vocational course in hydroponics and aquaculture. 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. Graeme Marcoux, of Salem, Mass.,

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Middle School Lesson Plan High School Tradition 111

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 16, 2018

In a recent article , Emily Hanford reported that many educators rely on ineffective means of teaching students to read and ignore substantial research that demonstrates better outcomes from phonics instruction than from the whole language approach. Indeed, there are a variety of approaches used to teach early reading development.

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Pedagogy Lesson Plan Teaching Tradition 105

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 25, 2023

This story also appeared in Mind/Shift But teaching wasn’t the only thing on Snyder’s plate. Today, Junge’s group, which coined the term “teacher-powered” in 2014, identifies roughly 300 schools nationwide that follow the model. In other cases, teachers lead the school while also juggling teaching loads.

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Charter School Government Sociology Social Studies 139

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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Education K-12 Middle School Professional Development 101

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 8, 2018

Students in the district who took Algebra 1 in eighth grade in 2014 (the last year it was offered as a stand-alone course to eighth-graders) had a repeat rate of 40 percent. As of last year, the number of middle-school students with low math-performance rates (students receiving Ds and Fs) dropped by a third. Alan Schoenfeld is ?a

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 19, 2021

The new approach threw out many traditional facets of education such as the A-F grading scale and time-based learning in which students advance to a new grade level each year. to learn how to make the shift from traditional time-based systems … towards one that is truly organized around the learner.”.

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High School Tradition History Tutoring 139

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 10, 2020

But the outgoing superintendent, Cyndy Taymore, is four years into an effort to fundamentally rethink traditional schooling here. Competency-based education demands a shift away from traditional teaching, testing and grading. At no point in recent memory has Melrose Public Schools been failing.

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Elementary School Public School Tradition Private School 129

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 18, 2021

She spent her days teaching the ABC’s, reading stories and making sure kids were safe. Since 2014, the partnership program has poured federal funds into established child care programs that serve low-income children, including the most popular non-parental form of infant and toddler care: home-based care. It hasn’t been easy, though.

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K-12 Elementary School Government Research 145

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 12, 2016

Photo: Peggy Barmore The federal government is trying to increase the number of minorities in the teaching profession by, in part, allowing institutions to maintain a low bar for entry into teaching programs. The government’s strategy of removing requirements around selectivity to diversify the teaching force met some criticism.

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Education Teaching Government Tradition 104

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

Personalized learning” is defined differently by many of the schools and districts that employ the model, but in general, it refers to a style of teaching and learning that prioritizes student wants and needs. All were between three and four years into their work.

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Charter School Professional Development Leadership Tradition 96

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 11, 2016

This model demands more resources than those available to a traditional high school, but given that the typical high school dropout costs the state an estimated $300,000 over their lifetime , Cesene argues that the math is elementary. In the 1990s, Cesene was a teacher in Los Angeles, California, teaching students English.

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High School Tradition History Teaching 108

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 13, 2017

According the Louisiana Department of Education, enrollment of African-American students decreased from 93 percent of total enrollment in 2004 to 87 percent in 2014. In addition, 84 percent of students enrolled in public school were deemed economically disadvantaged in 2014.

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Education Charter School Private School Advocacy 91

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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Charter School Tutoring Tradition Educational Technology 106

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. based education company that is part of a nonprofit consortium in the state. million students took about 4.5

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Tutoring High School K-12 Charter School 89

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 8, 2018

With more college students now considered nontraditional than traditional, higher education institutions have been scrambling to shift their models to better meet their needs. In 2014, about 50 colleges had either announced or started CBE programs. Letting Adult Learners Show What They Know.

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K-12 Middle School Tradition Public School 98