The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 1, 2025

Credit: Patience Zalanga for The Hechinger Report There was a logic behind that: In a traditional course sequence, finishing calculus is easier if students take Algebra I by eighth grade since they can continue on to geometry, Algebra II, precalculus or trigonometry, and then calculus their senior year. And there could be a downside.

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Maitri Learning

JANUARY 12, 2025

Moving Beyond the "Brain in a Bucket" Theory For too long, traditional education has viewed learning as simply filling an empty vessel with knowledge, as if the brain operated in isolation from emotions and the body. Research shows that simply living in different cultures creates measurable differences in brain activity and structure.

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Catlin Tucker

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

In 2015, Travis was named TIE Technology Leader of the Year, which recognized his work integrating technology into his classroom. Travis believes that by empowering learners to drive their learning we can start to create a new system that honors all learners and their cultures.

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Cult of Pedagogy

JANUARY 21, 2024

After all, framed that way, teachers give hundreds of standardized tests a year, even those who do learner-centered assessment, project-based learning, or otherwise collect evidence of student learning in ways that are considered alternative or non-traditional. Stenhouse Publishers. Hutt, E. & & Schneider, J. Harvard University Press.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 15, 2020

For the past six years, Digital Promise has convened a national network of Education Innovation Clusters (EdClusters)—leaders working to collaborate outside the traditional silos of sector and institution to design and implement transformative learning tools and programs in their communities. If it isn’t equitable, it isn’t innovative.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Some parents are really worried about Covid and their child getting sick, but one of the main reasons is about culture. We want them to know a lot about their culture.”. Since 2015, Kelly Tudor, in Texas, has run a Facebook group for Indigenous home-school families. What we’re trying to do is revive our culture,” she said. “So

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Digital Promise

MARCH 3, 2015

And there are a tremendous number of learning opportunities for teachers, both traditional and informal. — Angela Estrella (@am_estrella) January 30, 2015. ." Shirley, Elementary school teacher. Austin, Texas. The need and demand for personalized professional development is growing. pic.twitter.com/9HstezeYFT.

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Sapiens

OCTOBER 23, 2024

In 2015, while conducting anthropological fieldwork in eastern Indonesia, a member of our team (Cole) heard local women discussing how water shortages were triggering arguments between partners. This contrasts with local statistics that document high rates of violence against women in the broader region.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 1, 2019

A panel commissioned by the mayor recently released a report calling for schools to mirror the demographics of their surrounding neighborhoods and to implement principles of culturally responsive education as a way to combat the city’s persistent achievement gap. These schools are also among the most diverse in the city.

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Digital Promise

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

The years between 2000 and 2015 saw the number of instructional coaches in U.S. Decades of research documents the benefits of coaching for teachers, students, and school culture. The reason emotions and the socio-cultural environment are so powerful is that they are intertwined with our cognition. schools double.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 25, 2016

With its jumble of slate-gray concrete buildings mixed in with the skyscrapers of downtown Atlanta, Georgia State now graduates more black students with bachelor’s degrees every year than any other nonprofit school in the United States ( 1,777 in 2015 ). We have a culture that supports you,’ ” said Holloman. Photo: Terrell Clark.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 7, 2016

It is just one of a slate of waivers approved by lawmakers, including class size, teacher preparation time, hiring and firing rules, and others, allowing traditional public schools to operate with the same educational requirements as their area charter schools. You’re taught really about cultural competencies. According to U.S.

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Anthropology News

DECEMBER 27, 2024

While I was in Rajasthan, studying Indias traditional mud stove ( chulha in Hindi), women who use it, and those looking to improve it, I started a conversation about my research with a kitchen goods retailer in a small-town market. He nodded cheerfully and assured me, All women are free in India; you can talk with them freely.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

JANUARY 23, 2017

Annie Murphy Paul said: a growing body of evidence suggests that the lecture is not generic or neutral, but a specific cultural form that favors some people while discriminating against others, including women, minorities and low-income and first-generation college students. Related Posts.

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Catlin Tucker

JANUARY 17, 2022

The quality of a teacher’s relationship with their students has the most significant impact on their emotional engagement at work (Hagenauer, Hascher & Volet, 2015; Tucker 2020). The Quality of a Teacher’s Relationship with Students. Relationships require maintenance.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 7, 2017

Some aspects of Finland’s primary schools may be culture-specific and non-transferrable to other nations. Doyle is also a 2015-2016 Fulbright Scholar and 2017 Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center Resident Fellow. My job is to protect that environment for children. That’s why I come to work every day.”. ET) on The History Channel.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 29, 2017

But perhaps the biggest deviation is that the school has eschewed traditional remedial courses altogether, building that content into its first-year curriculum and giving students whatever extra support they need in the credit-bearing classes. In 2015, Guttman Community College’s within-three-years graduation rate was 49.5

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 13, 2017

Urban Institute analysis from 2015. Hoffman Early Learning Center , which opened in 2015, currently hosts federally funded Head Start programs that provide free pre-K programs to qualifying low-income families with 3- and 4-year-olds. According to a 2015 analysis by the Washington D.C.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 29, 2019

In the decades following, the school became one of the city’s most prestigious educational and cultural institutions. “To He noted that many of the challenges began well before he came on in 2015. Lewis cut more than 40 positions from the district’s central office between 2015 and 2018, about a third of all central office employees.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

Six schools were chosen to redesign learning for the fall of 2015, with subsequent cohorts of seven to nine schools selected each year since then. In Mesa County, a focus on improving school culture and climate has been at the core.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 24, 2017

The UMBC Meyerhoff Scholars Program, with only 200 students, has changed the culture of a campus of 11,000. Michael Summers, a professor of biochemistry at UMBC who is connected to the Meyerhoff program, says he is astounded that a program with only 200 students has been able to change the culture of a campus of 11,000 undergraduates.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 27, 2021

According to the national nonprofit YouthTruth , in 2015 and 2016, over 84 percent of high school students reported wanting to go to college. For example, PeerForward trains peer leaders to build a college-going culture in low-income high schools. High school students tend to dream big.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 30, 2018

Morial is one of three schools that received a one-time $300,000 grant from the nonprofit New Schools for New Orleans in March 2015. A 2015 RAND study , which looked at 62 schools that had received various Gates Foundation-funded grants for personalized learning, found gains of 11 percentile points in math and 8 in reading.

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Anthropology News

APRIL 30, 2024

Between 2012 and 2015, thousands of P2P platforms emerged, only to crumble within a few years, destroying the life savings of countless middle-class families. Archived webpage (ppdai.com) on March 28, 2015, highlighting the high annual rate, professional services, and safety for investors if using their investment app.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

The culture of attendance is huge,” Burnett said. “If At the first tier, schools are supposed to be fostering a positive culture of attendance for all students and collecting consistent data to track absenteeism. The culture of attendance is huge. Danielle Burnett, truancy prevention social worker at Alamosa Elementary School.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 6, 2020

He likes the self-paced curriculum that allows students to complete a course in significantly less time than at a traditional school. The 16-year-old likes the school’s course-intensive program, in which students take just one or two classes at a time but complete them much more quickly than at a traditional school.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 27, 2017

According to a new study they published in March, two in three community college students they surveyed are food insecure — an increase of 50 percent from their 2015 report. Let’s scrutinize the economic and cultural factors that decrease college graduation rates. There is much more to graduation than what happens in high school.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 1, 2019

It will emphasize the development of social and emotional skills and cultural competency as part of the curriculum. The first such schools opened during the 2015-16 school year with flexibilities more typically granted to charter schools, even though these schools fall under the oversight of the traditional school district.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

In the 2014-2015 school year, only half of all students were reading at or above proficiency level, according to school data provided by the district. The following school year, 2015-2016, the district’s overall score jumped to 61 percent, and the low-income Hispanic student group also rose by 10 percentage points to 41 percent.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 13, 2022

School district leaders there, many of whom started their careers in small-town classrooms, now grapple with big-city problems: large class sizes, stretched budgets, crowded school buildings and too few staff, especially those with the cultural and language skills to serve this region’s diversifying student base. In Mexico, my biggest was 15.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

The idea behind the Muñiz Academy, named for the longtime principal of Boston’s first dual-language elementary school (the Rafael Hernandez K-8 school), was that many Hispanic students would do better in schools that support their cultural background and, with it, the Spanish language. Tommy Chang, Boston Public Schools superintendent.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 16, 2021

In this poster, the association highlights the fact that traditional methods of finding gifted children often miss children who are low-income, nonwhite or do not speak English at home. The district, which is 8 percent white, went from having 38 percent white gifted enrollment in 2015 to 28 percent in 2017 , according to federal data.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 4, 2019

Between 2000 and 2015, the number of Latinx college students more than doubled , to 3 million. Between 2000 and 2015, the number of Latinx college students more than doubled , to 3 million. Between 1996 and 2016, their share of overall college enrollment rose from 8 to 19 percent , according to the U.S. Census Bureau.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 30, 2020

No matter where you go, you see people from all different cultures and heritages.”. And in high school, they move on to advanced language courses, including two AP Spanish classes (“Language and Culture” and “Literature and Culture”). He and his wife arrived a few weeks after the boys back in 2015.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 19, 2019

Kathryn Toppan switched to a 1-4 scale even before the administration required it, finding it “less arbitrary” than the traditional 1-100. Nearly a decade in, the culture of competence is deeply ingrained in the district; most of today’s high schoolers have never experienced anything different. In college, you can’t,” said Beaulieu.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 23, 2016

researchers and educators argue it’s misleading and unhelpful to compare the United States to any top performing country because of demographic and cultural differences. million people, the country is significantly smaller — the Baltic nation also has its share of cultural diversity. In fact, many U.S. Nearly 80 percent of U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 15, 2019

Not long after being appointed provost at Cornell University in the summer of 2015, I was asked by a group of veteran students to meet with them. Communicate that the “I don’t belong there” reflex is wrong, and prove it by creating appropriate support structures for these non-traditional students.

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