The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

These schools often defend their performance by saying their students are different — they’ve fallen behind academically because of social, emotional or medical issues that make it challenging for them to attend brick-and-mortar schools. No ratings were issued in 2019-20 because of the pandemic.).

Charter School 140

Charter School Education Policy Public School History 140

The Hechinger Report

MAY 21, 2018

Fryer convinced the Houston school district to randomly assign 23 elementary schools to adopt specialized teaching for two years, from the fall of 2013 to the spring of 2015. From first through fifth grade, each teacher taught fewer subjects, perhaps just reading or reading and social studies, but was responsible for more students.

Elementary School 112

Elementary School Economics Project-Based Learning Tradition 112

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 1, 2018

Students have access to hundreds of courses while they are in Illinois’ juvenile justice facilities, but they tend to focus on math, language arts, social studies and science. Students technically have access to hundreds of courses, but Jones-Redmond said the district focuses on math, language arts, social studies and science.

Social Studies 82

Social Studies Tradition American History Government 82

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 30, 2018

Louis Park High School, just outside of Minneapolis, take time out of their social studies class for a team-building exercise that is part of the school’s Building Assets, Reducing Risks program. Sarah Lindenberg, a ninth-grade social studies teacher at St. 2015-16 enrollment data from U.S. Freshmen at St.

High School 110

High School Social Studies Government Professional Development 110

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 4, 2023

DoDEA educators went through a combined total of 2 million hours of professional learning and 800,000 hours of focused collaboration during the implementation of the system’s College and Career Ready Standards that began with PK-5 mathematics in the 2015-16 school year and were completed with PK-5 social studies in 2021-22.

Historic Sites 97

Historic Sites Education Museum Tutoring 97

Digital Promise

APRIL 12, 2016

Superintendent Devin Vodicka, named California’s Superintendent of the Year for 2015 by the Association of California School Administrators, notes that the digital transformation has “driven [his] students outside.” Montgomery students prepare to film their video project for Social Studies, explaining Buddhism and the Eightfold Path.

Middle School 91

Middle School Elementary School Critical Thinking Social Studies 91

The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2018

And that could be why just 38 percent fourth grade students performed at or above proficient on the latest National Assessment of Education Progress for science, which was administered in 2015. employment in 2015, according to the U.S. Read about math , reading and social studies (publishing Thursday). percent of all U.S.

Education 90

Education Elementary School K-12 High School 90

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 15, 2018

A literacy researcher from Bellarmine University, David Paige, did a randomized controlled trial of this version in 2015, finding that students in the Jefferson County Public Schools had much greater improvement in their reading ability if teachers taught them with Magic Ladder rather than traditional instruction.

Tradition 90

Tradition Social Studies Public School Research 90

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 28, 2019

The hope is that if kids can become proficient in reading early on, they’ll be much more likely to succeed in all of their subjects, from science to social studies, because students need to know how to read to learn the material. Nevada and Michigan will join them in the upcoming 2019-20 school year.

Middle School 105

Middle School Elementary School Economics Humanities 105

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 18, 2017

In the 2015-16 school year, none of the social studies textbooks listed for use in the state’s fourth grade classroom was published before 2005. Photo: Terrell Clark for The Hechinger Report. The Mississippi fight against integration and civil rights was the most organized, defiant, and violent of anywhere in the country.

History 56

History Social Studies Public School Education 56

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 6, 2017

Personalized learning advocates had big hopes for ESSA, enacted in 2015. Sanborn Regional High School student Jailee Thibeault does research during her social studies class. While some educators laud personalized learning’s benefits, there aren’t mountains of comprehensive studies to validate claims.

Advocacy 83

Advocacy High School Social Studies Tradition 83

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 29, 2020

The committees are housed within the Chicago school district’s social science and civic engagement department, which promotes civic engagement in and out of the classroom through K-12 social studies curriculum, service learning and civics-focused project-based learning.

Civics 143

Civics Civic Engagement High School Government 143

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. “The

Charter School 105

Charter School Tutoring Tradition Educational Technology 105

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2019

Healey School to bring student-led, project-based learning to regular math, science, language arts and social studies classes. The mayor had signed a letter dated August 14, 2015, that offered unambiguous backing. “I Since his “full support” in 2015, the calculus had changed. Another Super School never got off the ground.

Charter School 111

Charter School Project-Based Learning High School Public School 111

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 28, 2017

In 2011, South Carolina established academic standards for what students should learn in social studies classes, including “the economic necessity of slave labor.”. Sign up for our Higher Education newsletter. Genes may not pass on white supremacy, but education policies certainly do. That’s horrific enough.

Economics 81

Economics Geography Civics History 81

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 23, 2019

on day four of the strike, Nadia Morales, a counselor at Los Angeles High School, and Pedro Martinez, a social-studies teacher at Eagle Rock High School, prepare their children for the day. At 7 a.m., Tammy Kim/Hechinger Report.

Charter School 111

Charter School Public School High School Elementary School 111

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 4, 2018

He did odd jobs — bagging groceries, working in a laundromat — to support his family while he attended college, on his way to a job as a social studies teacher in Brockton. The high school dropped from a Level 1 school in 2015 to a Level 3 school in 2017 on the state report card, which looks at standardized test scores.

Teaching 112

Teaching Oral History High School Sociology 112

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 22, 2018

The home visits are set up in advance, in contrast to unannounced visits by social workers or school attendance officers. Cathy Jack, Johnathan’s social studies teacher, nominated his family for a visit in large part because she knew very little about him other than he’s “sometimes a little sleepy” and “stays on that phone too much.”.

High School 111

High School Middle School Library Social Studies 111

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 14, 2016

Schools of education typically require students earning a degree in elementary education to take regular arts and science classes – such English literature, social studies, math, fine arts, and even physical education – as well as a “methods” class that teaches them how to present the material and to anticipate the common errors students make.

Elementary School 76

Elementary School K-12 Professional Development Tutoring 76

Studies Weekly

MAY 28, 2024

Promoting Inclusion, Social Connections, and Learning Through Peer Support Arrangements. Make the school day engaging with hands-on Social Studies , Science , and Health curricula. Education Week. Carter, E. TEACHING Exceptional Children , 48(1), 9-18. Gottfried, M. Urban Education, 54(1), 3-34. Kirksey, J Jacob, et al.

Heritage 52

Heritage Primary Sources K-12 Social Studies 52

C3 Teachers

OCTOBER 3, 2022

I was in graduate school studying to become a social studies and special education teacher when the New York State Tool Kit and inquiry-based standards were in their infancy. Some of the inquiries I used after returning from the 2015 NCSS Conference included the following: Was the French Revolution Successful?

Professional Development 52

Professional Development Pedagogy Social Studies Teaching 52

Studies Weekly

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

” In 2015, Johnson received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian honor in the U.S. According to NASA, Johnson recalls Astronaut John Glenn saying about her before a spaceflight, “If she says [the calculations] are good, then I’m ready to go.”

History 52

History Social Studies Lesson Plan Professional Development 52

Teaching American History

JANUARY 5, 2024

Learning of a Social Studies opening in an intriguing, “alternative” public high school, Hawkins considered giving teaching another go. I’m super passionate about social studies, but many of my students are not. While studying the Gilded Age, we had them take on roles as oil barons.”

Teaching 52

Teaching Project-Based Learning American History Historic Sites 52

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

As of fall 2015, Coahoma County’s three private schools collectively had 7 percent African American enrollment amid public school systems that are more than 90 percent black. They would have science and social studies, because you can’t read if you don’t know anything about the world, she said.

Charter School 109

Charter School History Library Public School 109

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2019

Jill Henry, who graduated from Whitmore Lake High School in 1995, left a successful career teaching high school social studies in Wayne, Michigan, to return to her alma mater and help open the new high school in 2006. “We were the underdog, and we rallied,” Henry said. Ben Smith for The Hechinger Report.

Charter School 94

Charter School High School Middle School Elementary School 94

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 15, 2016

Between the 2013-14 school year and the 2015-16 school year, the city added about 16,000 preschool students and 2,000 teachers. “We While a 14-year-old might manage to learn something about the Constitution from a social studies teacher he doesn’t like, a 4-year-old is incapable of learning much from an adult he does not trust.

K-12 88

K-12 Public School Teaching Critical Thinking 88

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 19, 2019

“We are guinea pigs for a new, experimental method of teaching and learning that has been designed to benefit content providers rather than students,” wrote Emily Talmage, a fourth-grade teacher in Lewiston in a 2015 post detailing spending by Nellie Mae. That view is shared by policymakers like Rep.

High School 111

High School Tradition Cultures Advocacy 111

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 5, 2018

About one in six 16- to 24-year-olds are neither working nor in school, according to Tulane University’s Cowen Institute, which in 2015 calculated the city’s rate of opportunity youth at 18 percent, one of the highest in the nation. Related: Held back, but not helped. Each class has an instructor and a para-instructor.

High School 70

High School K-12 Tutoring Elementary School 70

Digital Promise

JUNE 15, 2016

Research shows that when professional learning communities demonstrate four key characteristics, they can improve teaching practice and student achievement in reading, writing, math, science, and social studies subject tests (Vescio et al., 2008): Successful Collaboration. Focus on Student Learning. Continuous Teacher Learning.

Research 53

Research Education Professional Development Leadership 53

Studies Weekly

MARCH 3, 2025

Additionally, a 2015 study found that focusing on student social and emotional well-being resulted in long-term economic gains due to improvements in health, education, and employment. We know teachers work incredibly hard to create a welcoming, calm, safe space.

Primary Sources 52

Primary Sources Lesson Plan Social Studies Professional Development 52

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 1, 2017

In the 2015-16 school year, none of the social studies textbooks listed for use in the state’s fourth grade classroom was published before 2005. The Civil Rights Movement was once a footnote in Mississippi social studies classrooms, if it was covered at all. Photo: Terrell Clark for The Hechinger Report.

K-12 94

K-12 Social Studies History Archiving 94

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 3, 2018

My job as a teacher is to be a first responder to poverty,” said Cruey, a 58-year-old middle school social studies teacher at Southside K-8 school. “If In 2015, the abandoned school was burned down in an act of arson. If my students learn other stuff, too, that’s great.”. It was previously attached to Big Creek High School.

Middle School 111

Middle School Heritage Lesson Plan High School 111

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 16, 2020

She taught social studies and worked as the “dean of culture,” a role that allowed her to plan field trips and work with families on discipline issues. By 2015, Pierre-Floyd and the school’s fourth principal—a black New Orleanian named Joey LaRoche—had pulled the school’s rating up to a B.

Charter School 95

Charter School High School Cultures Public School 95

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 17, 2024

The district started in 1989 with middle-school English and social studies, and progressed to high school math and chemistry by 2006. At South Side Middle School and High School on Long Island, detracking went even slower, taking 17 years to fully roll out. I don’t want them to be put under that much pressure.’”

Middle School 140

Middle School High School Tutoring Elementary School 140

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

But it wasn’t indoor recess — play is one of the ways students learn every day in O’Brien’s science and social studies class at Shidler Elementary School. Watertown began to increase its focus on playful learning in 2015, when the district received a federal grant that helped expand play in its pre-K program.

Elementary School 144

Elementary School Pedagogy Public School Middle School 144

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 7, 2016

Department of Education data from 2015, since the 2008-2009 school year there’s been a 30 percent drop in enrollment nationwide: 75 percent of enrollees in traditional programs are white, 11 percent Hispanic, and 9 percent black. But rural districts aren’t the only problem. According to U.S.

Charter School 111

Charter School Tradition Public School Civics 111

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

Four percent of the Oregon labor force worked in agriculture, forestry, fishing, hunting or crop production in 2015, according to the state employment office. For several years Meadows and Parker wrote grants and ran local fundraisers to come up with the money until finally, in 2015, the board was again able to take on the bulk of the cost.

Public School 107

Public School Middle School Archiving Tradition 107