The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 4, 2018

Also, Massachusetts public schools have been relatively slow to adopt student-centered learning, perhaps in part because traditional teaching approaches seem to work so well here—last year the state’s averages topped the National As sessment of Educational Progress test scores in reading and math. This approach is dynamic.

Teaching 112

Teaching Oral History High School Sociology 112

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. New Hampshire is piloting its new assessment system alongside traditional testing. Photo: Kate Flock for The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 29, 2020

The committees are different from traditional student government, she said, because any student can join. In 2015, Generation Citizen, a nonprofit, launched a national campaign to extend voting rights to teens in local elections.

Civics 142

Civics Civic Engagement High School Government 142

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2019

The two had spent nearly seven years designing a new kind of high school meant to address the needs of students who didn’t thrive in a traditional setting. We thought our big contribution could be laying out how to do this in the traditional public school environment,” Resnick said. Powderhouse isn’t the only XQ Super School to falter.

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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. The “co-location” of charters on the grounds of traditional public schools is increasingly common. At 7 a.m., Tammy Kim/Hechinger Report.

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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. In the city’s two traditional high schools — Deering and Portland High School — classes look, and sound, much as they did prior to 2012. That view is shared by policymakers like Rep.

High School 111

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

In Louisiana, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Texas, dozens of taxpayer-funded public charters enroll far more white students than any of the traditional public schools in their areas. They would have science and social studies, because you can’t read if you don’t know anything about the world, she said.

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Teaching American History

JANUARY 5, 2024

He did his student teaching in a traditional classroom. Such cases were even more “soul-sapping” than the rigidities of the traditional education system. Learning of a Social Studies opening in an intriguing, “alternative” public high school, Hawkins considered giving teaching another go.

Teaching 52

Teaching Project-Based Learning American History Historic Sites 52

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. The goal with the first two groups was to help them earn a traditional diploma, if possible.

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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., Effective Administrator and Teacher Leadership. 2004; The Wallace Foundation, 2012 ).

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 16, 2020

Douglass student Ivyierra Washington into a traditional Garifuna dress. Martinez pointed the students toward a hut filled with traditional Garifuna clothes, and Endiah slinked behind as the other girls ran toward a rack of gingham dresses. Two months later, she left New Orleans for Washington, D.C. From left, Frederick A.

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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. According to U.S. BACK IN THE DELTA.

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Charter School Tradition Public School High School 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.

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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.

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Elementary School Pedagogy Public School Middle School 144

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 6, 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.

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Middle School Tradition History Teaching 78

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

He started teaching social studies at Blythewood High School in Richland 2, a school district in the Midlands, in 2005, the same year the school was founded. “I He was voted Blythewood High’s 2015-16 Teacher of the Year. One Alabama town is trying to change that. I was proud to be a part of a community,” he said.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 7, 2018

Students aren’t likely to learn much about how labor unions have shaped economic and social policy if they stick to traditional textbooks, according to a report by the Albert Shanker Institute, a pro-labor group named for the longtime leader of the American Federation of Teachers. That’s the whole point of collective bargaining.

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Education Economics Civics History 83

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 28, 2019

NOME, Alaska — Before they got down to business for the day, students in Devin Tatro’s social studies class were offered a quiet moment of self-reflection: On this golden fall afternoon at Nome-Beltz Junior/Senior High School, were they feeling chipper, distressed or somewhere in between?

Social Studies 97

Social Studies Public School Charter School High School 97

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 6, 2017

Utah launched a program in 2015 that uses work-based learning to teach high school students about the state’s aerospace industry. Such jobs made up about 49 percent of the state’s jobs in 2015. Would you have the opportunity to do something like this in a traditional classroom?

High School 90

High School Economics Tradition Social Studies 90

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 21, 2017

Not only did Caleb never return to his local school, but he learned little throughout his elementary, middle and high school years — which included hundreds of hours struggling through computer lessons in math, science and social studies. In other words, the computer was basically used as a digital textbook.

Education 83

Education K-12 Advocacy Elementary School 83

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

She followed her parents into education (her father was a geography professor) and returned to teach social studies at the high school. In 2015, she was named secondary teacher of the year; in 2017, the graduating class dedicated the yearbook to her. It wasn’t until 2015 that the district considered changing the mascot.

High School 137

High School Elementary School Geography Public School 137

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 4, 2023

The seeds for the HISD takeover were planted in 2015, with the passage of a state law mandating that the TEA step in if any school in a district were rated academically unacceptable for five consecutive years. We are not what they’re saying we are,’” said former Wheatley social studies teacher Kendra Yarbrough-Camarena.

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Charter School High School Professional Development Government 98

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

It had no textbooks for math, science or social studies. A year later, the Nations Report Card found Native students in traditional public schools performed much better than those in BIE schools. About 92 percent of Native students attend traditional public schools and 8 percent attend BIE schools.)

Education 102

Education Elementary School Government K-12 102

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

I teach history and social studies at New York University. But what was different now — this was now 2015 — was that the students who shouted him down took responsibility for shouting him down. If you’re a student or a parent, it can be confusing. Robert Cohen: My name is Robert Cohen. I’m a historian.

Civics 88

Civics Cultures Political Science Advocacy 88