The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

Leave this field empty if you're human: But another way to think about educational inequality is to analyze how students fare at the same institution. million students dropped out of college with debt in 2015 and 2016. Sign up for Jill Barshay's Proof Points newsletter. Choose from our newsletters. Weekly Update. Future of Learning.

Tutoring 125

Tutoring Psychology High School Research 125

Digital Promise

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

The years between 2000 and 2015 saw the number of instructional coaches in U.S. Beyond that, a recent evaluation of instructional coaching programs shows that coaching is more effective than traditional professional development (PD) models in creating meaningful change in teacher practice and student achievement. schools double.

Tradition 104

Tradition Elementary School Cultures Professional Development 104

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 27, 2018

Leave this field empty if you're human: 4. All but three of the 23 states that have had minimum wage increases since 2015 have also had bumps in child care worker pay. Early childhood educators also rarely get planning time, paid professional development or retirement benefits. Sign up for our newsletter. Weekly Update.

Professional Development 92

Professional Development Public School High School History 92

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

As part of a unit on the human digestive system, teams of students had engineered replicas using things like paint rollers, balloons, funnels and tissue boxes, and this was the day they would present their designs. The exception is in the two humanities classes students take every day, one in each language. and abroad. That somehow.

High School 112

High School Heritage Economics Cultures 112

Digital Promise

JUNE 30, 2020

Drawing on Ascend , the Aspen Institute’s two-generation approach toward economic security, CSIU formed a task force which they called “Team ASCENT” (Advancing Social Capital through Enhanced Networks and Training) to take a cross-sector, data- and human-centered approach. Leveraging Existing Resources.

Government 90

Government High School Professional Development Leadership 90

Edthena

JUNE 7, 2021

Bryan suggested that Edthena, partners with City University of Seattle since 2015 and serving over 1,100 CityU students, be used by teachers and teacher candidates to reflect on their interactions and behaviors with students and colleagues who are different from themselves. We already have tools to support student equity and inclusion.

Social Justice 80

Social Justice Leadership Humanities Teaching 80

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 19, 2018

Leave this field empty if you're human: JPS has recruited retirees by increasing financial incentives. That’s why Murray said Jackson is also stepping up efforts to hire new teachers by increasing starting pay and offering curriculum support and professional development opportunities. Choose as many as you like. Weekly Update.

Education 85

Education Middle School Public School Teaching 85

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 16, 2019

percent in 2015-16, outpaced only by special education, according to data from the National Center for Education Statistics. There is no society, there is no human culture, without the arts.”. There is no society, there is no human culture, without the arts.”. percent in 1966 to 8.5 The arts are the arts.

K-12 105

K-12 Elementary School Middle School High School 105

Cult of Pedagogy

AUGUST 20, 2023

We didn’t mention the first edition of Jen’s very popular book, The Reading Strategies Book , which was originally published in 2015. There’s human development and linguistics and neuroscience and psychology and special education and speech language pathology. I could go on and on.”

Pedagogy 130

Pedagogy Teaching Research Psychology 130

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 17, 2016

Employees at child care centers whose licenses renew before mid-year will still need to complete the 15 hours of annual professional development training mandated by the health department. The health department will receive $2 million from Human Services for licensure, up from $1 million previously.

Humanities 62

Humanities Professional Development Government Research 62

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 14, 2020

million public school students were identified as gifted in 2015-16, about 6 percent of the total school population, according to the federal Department of Education. percent, were considered gifted in 2015-16. School administrators often see gifted education as a frill. Nationally, 3.3 The Hechinger Report’s analysis of U.S.

Education 145

Education Elementary School High School Public School 145

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 24, 2016

Families of about 20,000 Mississippi children depend on the money to afford child care, according to 2015 state data. The funding, from the federal Child Care and Development Fund, also helps the state’s centers improve quality. In late June, Mississippi received a letter from the Administration for Children and Families at the U.S.

Professional Development 107

Professional Development Humanities Government Library 107

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

In November 2015, middle-school students from Westchester County, New York, found themselves on a windswept field in Southern Sudan mingling with a crowd of refugees fleeing civil war. The power of VR to stoke empathy is the focus of research at Stanford’s Virtual Human Interaction Lab, led by communications professor Jeremy Bailenson.

Teaching 105

Teaching Middle School Humanities Professional Development 105

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

It was 2015 and Jack Silva, the chief academic officer for the public schools in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, had a problem: Only 56 percent of third-graders in his district had scored proficient on the state reading test. By 2015, the district had turned the corner financially, and Silva was wondering why the reading scores were so terrible.

Elementary School 112

Elementary School K-12 Teaching Research 112

The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2019

Leave this field empty if you're human: Personalized learning argues that the entrepreneurial nature of the knowledge economy and the gaping need, diversity and unmanageable size of a typical public school classroom are ill-served by the usual arrangement of a teacher lecturing at a blackboard. Sign up for our Higher Education newsletter.

Charter School 110

Charter School K-12 Middle School Elementary School 110

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

According to the Clark County human resources department, however, the intent of the emergency regulation was to allow for the hiring of out-of-state teachers, a move which up until the signing of the Every Child Succeeds Act would have jeopardized Nevada’s ability to qualify for federal funds.

Professional Development 106

Professional Development High School Teaching Classroom Management 106

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 6, 2024

On a bright fall morning last year, a shimmering, human-sized Hershey’s Kiss with bright blue eyes greeted delighted children and their parents outside of the first early childhood education center launched by the Catherine Hershey Schools for Early Learning. DERRY TOWNSHIP, Pa. — Data is self-reported and categorized by funders.)

K-12 141

K-12 Library Professional Development Research 141

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 10, 2023

Lead teachers at Educare have bachelor’s degrees, the schools offer regular professional development and staff-to-child ratios are kept low. Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Early Childhood newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every other Wednesday with trends and top stories about early learning.

Research 98

Research Elementary School Professional Development Government 98

The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2020

“Because we are a coastal community prone to hurricanes, a coastal community prone to the arrival of literally dozens of thousands of children, immigrants,” Carvalho said, “we have naturally adapted to dealing with crises whether they are human crises, environmental crises or health crises.”. Alberto Carvalho, Miami-Dade superintendent.

Charter School 131

Charter School Middle School Tutoring Advocacy 131

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 19, 2017

The $60,000 to $75,000 annual fee for the first four years (it then goes down), covering professional development, strategic planning, coaching and resources, can be an obstacle. Humanities teacher Sydney Chaffee listens as Codman Academy ninth-grader Katia Antunes recites her poem. Photo: Gail Robinson.

K-12 64

K-12 Charter School Middle School Elementary School 64

The Hechinger Report

MAY 30, 2018

Since 2008, it has spent almost $60 million to hire an additional 270 counselors and provide professional development training at 365 low-income middle and high schools throughout the state, via grants from the Colorado School Counselor Corps. When there’s a budget cut, counselors are the first to go.”. Sign up for our newsletter.

High School 111

High School Elementary School Professional Development Humanities 111