Remove 2015 Remove Economics Remove Lesson Plan
article thumbnail

After coronavirus subsides, we must pay teachers more

The Hechinger Report

We’re pulling out our hair trying to figure out lesson plans, distance learning platforms and assignments. percent less than other workers with comparable education and experience, according to the nonprofit think tank the Economic Policy Institute. Teachers earned 11.1 Teachers earned 11.1 Bureau of Labor Statistics.

K-12 145
article thumbnail

The pandemic’s remote learning legacy: A lot worth keeping

The Hechinger Report

With the ability to log into lessons online, students at the secondary level won’t have to miss instruction even if they’re suspended, says Superintendent L. During the 2015-16 school year, Black students in the district faced out-of-school suspension at 3.4 Oliver Robinson.

K-12 145
educators

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

What happens when two separate and unequal school districts merge?

The Hechinger Report

At the start of the 2015 school year, about 800 new students — the majority African-American—from schools in Oktibbeha County prepared for their first year in the newly consolidated Starkville Oktibbeha County Public School District. Jones came to Starkville High in 2015 from East Oktibbeha County High School. Photo: Nicole Lewis.

article thumbnail

Arkansas schools hire untrained teachers as people lose interest in the profession

The Hechinger Report

She says retaining teachers is as much a problem as attracting them if not more so because the decline of manufacturing jobs in her area has created a downward economic spiral, and teachers want to live where their spouses can find jobs. She uses the New York Times lesson guides, the U.S. This year there may be as few as 19.

article thumbnail

Schools lead the way to zero-energy buildings, and use them for student learning

The Hechinger Report

Much of the advocacy for net-zero buildings has focused on environmental and economic incentives. The district plans to build on that success. My lesson plan is: Here’s a problem. RELATED: Psst! When teachers get useful, timely data, they use it. They haven’t quite succeeded, but they’re getting close.

K-12 111
article thumbnail

Alaska schools pay a price for the nation’s slowest internet, but change is coming

The Hechinger Report

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. That’s not a given in rural Alaska. Bill Walker pledged to partner with EducationSuperHighway.

article thumbnail

With a teacher like me, ‘Would I have turned out better?’

The Hechinger Report

Though New Orleans is 60 percent black and 34 percent white, this demographic is not reflected in its public school enrollment: Overall, enrollment at the city’s schools is about 82 percent black and 85 percent economically disadvantaged. I’d send him the lesson plan the night before.