The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 8, 2019

The arts provide dimension and perspective, and they help students develop the critical thinking, communication and collaboration skills they will need to succeed in school, work and life. This week marks National Arts in Education Week , a time for us to highlight the transformative power of the arts in education.

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Education Civics Critical Thinking Cultures 103

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 10, 2022

I have a responsibility to a functioning democracy, with students who are well equipped [with] critical thinking skills that they will learn as a result of this.”. “It’s about civic responsibility,” Polites said. “I Related: How one city closed the digital divide for nearly all its students.

Teaching 136

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Digital Promise

JULY 25, 2017

These learning scenarios support the development of skills such as critical thinking, inquiry and research, creativity, problem solving, designing and collaboration. They help students develop a sense of agency, the ability to harness technology, and support learning lifelong and lifewide. Blazar, D., & Hogan, D.

Education 113

Education Professional Development Critical Thinking Teaching 113

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 19, 2021

A 2016 study of a school district in Florida found no benefit for white students but large benefits for Black and Hispanic students who were assigned to separate gifted classrooms. The research consensus, by contrast, argues for propelling high achieving children ahead.

Elementary School 145

Elementary School Research Critical Thinking Teaching 145

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 17, 2019

According to the National Center for Education Statistics, the percentage of 3- to 5-year-olds enrolled in full-day education programs has risen from 47 percent in 2000 to 54 percent in 2016. This includes activities that emphasize exploration and cooperation as well as developing critical thinking skills.

Pedagogy 111

Pedagogy Psychology Critical Thinking Economics 111

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 29, 2018

million students participated in secondary-level CTE nationwide in 2016-17, and more than 61,000 of them were in Massachusetts. Students can avoid the expense of higher education and get head starts on careers. Data show that about 2.79 But it’s not time to dismiss a college degree. Related: Are apprenticeships the new on-ramp to good jobs?

Social Science 92

Social Science High School Critical Thinking Humanities 92

ED Surge

DECEMBER 8, 2023

A 2016 study of nearly 500 teachers across the country found that less than half had taken a college class focused on teaching writing, while fewer than a third had received training on specifically teaching children how to write.

Tutoring 126

Tutoring High School Professional Development Critical Thinking 126

Digital Promise

OCTOBER 2, 2017

The program began in March 2016 at MIT, a comprehensive middle school with 6th, 7th and 8th grades. The 2016-2017 school year began with 100 percent parent participation in an orientation training to support parent understanding of the one-to-one Literacy Initiative. About the Literacy Initiative. Accessed 29 Sep.

Professional Development 88

Professional Development Leadership Critical Thinking Middle School 88

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

Census Bureau, American Community Survey, 2016. Still, because of the degree of customer interaction, complex problem-solving and critical thinking involved in the job, it is relatively automation-proof and pays $64,190 per year. The analysis was based on information from the O*NET Resource Center and the U.S.

Critical Thinking 111

Critical Thinking High School Research Teaching 111

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 4, 2016

The number of Chinese students on F-1 visas in public K-12 rose from six students in 2006 to 1,008 students in 2016, according to the Student Exchange Visitor Program, a unit of the Department of Homeland Security. The number of Taiwanese students attending public K-12 schools on an F-1 visa rose from just four in 2006 to 29 in 2016.

K-12 111

K-12 Private School Middle School Tutoring 111

Digital Promise

JULY 13, 2016

It's about the learning and critical thinking. — sara m crawford (@scrawford99) June 23, 2016. As Digital Promise’s Director of Story Marco Antonio Torres reminded our educators, “If you don’t tell your story, someone else will tell it for you!”. dpvils #breakoutedu pic.twitter.com/yUa2Y1J1cU.

Education 88

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Digital Promise

APRIL 12, 2016

Vista Unified School District’s (VUSD) mission is “to inspire each and every student to persevere as critical-thinking individuals who collaborate to solve real-world problems.” Vista Unified School District. The district serves 21,104 students, with 67 percent of the population identifying as Hispanic.

Middle School 91

Middle School Elementary School Critical Thinking Social Studies 91

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 29, 2024

Virtual Internships’ survey data shows that supervisors’ perceptions of the interns’ abilities on core career-readiness skills like communication, critical thinking and teamwork increased substantially during the internships. About a quarter of interns receive offers to extend or get hired full time, Holroyd Pearce said.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2018

It provides real life applications for reading and math and develops critical thinking skills that help students solve problems in other subjects. In 2016, she was accepted as a trainer for the Oregon Science Project. The state also published a science and math education strategic plan in 2016. Plus, it’s interesting.

Education 93

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 3, 2020

For the Lakeside class of 2016, just 37 percent entered college within two years. “I Diverse college classrooms can help students sharpen their critical-thinking and problem-solving skills. The Ohio Department of Education gave Lakeside an F for its ability to prepare students for life after high school.

Tutoring 145

Tutoring Heritage Cultures High School 145

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 18, 2017

Chalking up voting behavior as purely a function of partisan politics and not a reflection of critical thinking is a mistake. Researchers in a 2016 Yale study found that teachers are prone to expect negative behaviors from black children more than their white peers.

Education 85

Education Charter School Critical Thinking Cultures 85

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 5, 2016

View from the Superdome field before the game between Grambling State Tigers and Southern University Jaguars on November 26, 2016, at the Mercedes-Benz Superdome in New Orleans, LA. HBCUs are well equipped to develop more critical technologists who can incite social change through entrepreneurship. Grambling State Tigers won 52-30.

K-12 81

K-12 Economics Critical Thinking Cultures 81

Digital Promise

JANUARY 22, 2016

” These competencies include, but are not limited to, collaboration, creativity, analytical problem-solving, critical thinking, and global communications. AASA will announce the Superintendent of the Year in February 2016. For Albemarle students, the future really is what they make of it.

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Charter School Project-Based Learning Critical Thinking Public School 38

Anthropology 365

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Students will be exposed to novel approaches to anthropological research, enhancing their skills and critical thinking. Andrea Valdez and Abi Daniel discuss Texan identity in How to be a Texan (UT Press, 2016). The book considers how these identities shape Texan approaches to the environment and other animals.

Anthropology 40

Anthropology Humanities Cultures Geography 40

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 12, 2018

A 2016 Gallup poll of students found that just 34 percent of 12th-graders across America feel engaged in school and only 44 percent of 11th-graders report feeling excited about the future. So we urgently need to equip young people with those skills — critical thinking, problem-solving and communication.”.

High School 105

High School Geography Middle School Critical Thinking 105

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 18, 2017

Instead, the companies are working with edX and others to provide what they say are the educations that all of their employees require in common, including such abilities as critical thinking and collaboration. And the pace with which they’re intervening has been picking up. Related: How to save the humanities?

Humanities 104

Humanities History Critical Thinking Teaching 104

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 25, 2016

billion to almost $7 billion in 2016. Instead, overwhelming evidence shows that the key to children’s long-term success is a range of cognitive and noncognitive capacities like language and executive function skills, reasoning, critical thinking, problem-solving, persistence and the ability to get along well with others.

Education 71

Education Critical Thinking Education Policy Research 71

The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2017

Eighty-six percent of our alumni are employed or in graduate school (or both) within a year of graduation. “Do Do we need college? Absolutely.”.

Tradition 61

Tradition Leadership Government Critical Thinking 61

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 2, 2016

Children had free time to play with friends in a stimulating environment, received literacy instruction that pushed beyond comprehension to critical thinking and communication and were introduced to complex mathematics concepts in age-appropriate ways. million to public preschool for the 2016-17 fiscal year.

Elementary School 97

Elementary School Public School Critical Thinking Research 97

The Hechinger Report

JULY 30, 2018

At Northern Cass, momentum for change began during the district’s 2016 accreditation renewal when staff checked up on students after graduation. In fact, Steiner’s plan is to start this coming fall with a week devoted just to SOPs and other “soft skills,” such as critical thinking.

Tradition 111

Tradition Charter School High School Cultures 111

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 27, 2017

In 2016, the average student came out of college with an average of $37, 172 in debt. My colleagues and I build good citizens in courses that teach critical thinking, complex problem solving, and effective communication, qualities highly sought by employers responding to a National Survey of Business Leaders.

Cultures 69

Cultures Economics Social Science Critical Thinking 69

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 24, 2020

I kept thinking: ‘Yes, that’s what I want to do. In 2016, Hernandez decided to go back to school for her associate degree in nursing at BMCC. It’s not black and white, there is a lot of critical thinking,” Asknes said. Friends and colleagues suggested she try nursing. “I I just loved working with kids,” she said. “I

Economics 120

Economics Junior High Advocacy Critical Thinking 120

The Hechinger Report

MAY 13, 2018

In the 2016-17 school year, 99 percent of its seniors graduated, and 84 percent attended college immediately afterward. The school combines rigorous research with student-driven projects that have impact beyond the school building. One student project involved putting on a city-wide Ultimate Frisbee tournament.

Project-Based Learning 106

Project-Based Learning Leadership High School Tradition 106

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

percent as of 2016, lags behind Canada, Israel, Japan, South Korea and the United Kingdom on this measure. This has never felt truer than it does today, even if the proportion of adults (aged 25 to 64) in America with any postsecondary credential has never cracked 50 percent. The United States, at 45.7

Economics 79

Economics Psychology Critical Thinking High School 79

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 10, 2016

Research has shown that arts education can improve student achievement in reading and math, as well as increase critical-thinking skills and engage students in school. Related: What the country can learn from Boston about bringing the arts back to public schools.

Education 75

Education Elementary School High School Critical Thinking 75

The Hechinger Report

MAY 19, 2022

(Philadelphia’s rates of gun violence have spiked in recent years: There were 486 fatal shootings in the city in 2021, 23 percent higher than 2020 and a 95 percent rise compared to 2016.). Two-thirds of ninth graders at West Philadelphia High finished the remote learning year on track for graduation. West had tried to adapt.

High School 127

High School Oral History Middle School Charter School 127

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 8, 2016

Reviews of the program conducted in 2016 by the Administration for Children and Families, the federal governing body for Head Start, found nothing to correct. billion spent to serve about 1 million children in the 2016 fiscal year. million on its school district-based Head Start program in fiscal year 2016.

K-12 68

K-12 Public School Government Elementary School 68

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 15, 2016

Two million adults, mostly women, care for 12 million children under the age of five in homes and centers across the country every day, according to the 2016 Early Childhood Workforce Index by the Center for the Study of Child Care Employment, a think tank at the University of California, Berkeley. Photo: Jamie Martines.

K-12 91

K-12 Public School Teaching Critical Thinking 91

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 23, 2016

A 2016 study by the Brookings Institute found that on average, states track three-quarters of eighth graders in math, meaning they might be put on a path in middle school that determines which level of math class they’ll end up in in their final year of high school. Karin Lukk, principal of Tartu Kivilinna Kool.

Elementary School 0

Elementary School Economics Cultures Tradition 0

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 28, 2020

A 2016 Bureau of Justice Statistics report , one of the few on police training, found that 48 percent of police academies followed a military model, compared with 18 percent that emphasized academic achievement. “The We should treat it more like a classroom setting where we’re allowed to ask questions and use critical thinking skills.”.

Education 139

Education Cultures Government Critical Thinking 139

The Hechinger Report

MAY 30, 2024

Instead, they’re working, socializing or partying and, as a result, show limited gains in critical thinking — the hallmark of American higher education. Josipa Roksa: And so the data shows that, you know, many students are not making much progress on the critical-thinking skills over the first two years.

Humanities 92

Humanities Critical Thinking History Cultures 92

Let's Cultivate Greatness

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

And since it’s a bit complicated, it’s a great topic to spend a few days on because there are so many ways to practice critical thinking and general social studies skills. This has happened five times in US history, twice in the last 25 years—the 2000 and 2016 elections.

Teaching 52

Teaching Civics Government Archiving 52