The Hechinger Report

JUNE 27, 2016

Source: Slide 15 of a PowerPoint presentation, accompanying a June 2016 OECD report, “Equations and Inequalities.” But a new report from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) finds that applied-math instruction, or the way it is actually taught in classrooms, may not be serving students well.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 20, 2020

Education researchers have traditionally focused on the obvious ingredients of teaching and learning, such as instruction, curriculum, student motivation and school funding. A 2016 Israel study found that high rates of pollution on the day of an exam tamped down high school test scores. AP Photo/Nick Ut).

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 8, 2018

Red states are where the annual issuance of new high school equivalency diplomas has fallen by more than 50 percent between 2012 and 2016. Specifically, the annual number of test takers who completed one of the three exams has fallen more than 45 percent from more than 570,000 in 2012 to roughly 310,000 in 2016. Data source: Thomas J.

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Anthropology News

JANUARY 23, 2025

Congregants meet twice a week to read and discuss the Bible, have Q&A sessions for The Watchtower magazine teachings, and sing worship songs. Like all other members of his congregation, Jonah kept meticulous track of the hours he spent following Jesus command that disciples spread the Truth of biblical teachings to all nations.

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A Psychology Teacher Writes

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

This might play out differently dependent on the level of experience and expertise of each individual teacher: More novice teachers may lack awareness because they literally don’t see things in their classrooms that more expert teachers do (Wolff et al, 2016) and/or because they lack the mental models to analyse and interpret what is happening.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 30, 2023

Former California superintendent of the year Devin Vodicka has argued , convincingly, that any test score declines were a result of the emotional and economic hardship the pandemic caused students, not the change in learning mode. The course was optional, and the students earned no high school or college credits.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

The location students identified had to be strategically located for equitable access, accounting for the needs of community members most limited by transportation and low economic support. During this lesson, students identified a bridge as a barrier in Lawrence that restricted convenient access to healthy and affordable foods.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 18, 2023

That’s taken a dramatic toll on colleges and universities, with severe consequences for society and economic growth — a situation now also being faced by the United States, where the number of 18-year-olds has begun to drop in some states and soon will fall nationwide. And rather than going up, as it has in Japan, the ratio of U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 11, 2019

The game at the carnival-style booth was meant to teach attendees about the basic parts and functions of airplanes. The percentage of jobs that require low levels of digital skill dropped from 56 percent in 2002 to 30 percent in 2016. workforce in all industries since 2001.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 29, 2018

When we break it down for them, they’re shocked,” said Andrea Cardinal, a lecturer who teaches art and design at the University of Michigan, which she also attended. “I The numbers are surprising and important because they’re true,” said Lawless, who teaches academic writing and freshman composition at Front Range Community College.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 16, 2019

Source: The Census Bureau’s 2016 Annual Survey of Entrepreneurs. In the 2016-17 academic year, STEM and business-related fields comprised 31 percent of degrees at Alabama’s HBCUs, according to my analysis of data from the national dataset, the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System. Source: IPEDS 2016-17.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 5, 2021

The study, “ The Dynamics Of Inattention In The (Baseball) Field ,” is a draft paper circulated by the National Bureau of Economic Research in June 2021. A 2016 study of Danish students found that students who take tests later in the day performed worse “because over the course of a regular day, students’ mental resources get taxed.”

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 21, 2022

Teacher summer camp,” Aimee Hollander, an assistant professor and director of Nicholls State University’s Center for Teaching Excellence, jokingly called it. McMillan, who teaches in a rural southeast part of the state, said the geography of her school is one reason she applied to the fellowship.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 28, 2020

But even their best efforts have some educators worried, especially those who teach English to speakers of other languages (ESOL). percent of all school-age children in the fall of 2016, the last year for which such data is available. This story also appeared in PBS Newshour. million English-language learners (ELLs).

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 30, 2017

How do we close the black-white teaching performance gap? Naming what’s wrong with white people’s teaching skills must begin with calling out racism. A recent offering came from Columbia Teachers College professor Christopher Emdin’s 2016 release of “For White Folks Who Teach in the Hood … and the Rest of Y’all.”

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 20, 2019

Often, these practices are associated with particular teaching approaches, such as integrating guided play in classrooms and structuring experiences for children in a variety of centers or interest areas (e.g., Costanza is the current superintendent in residence at Teaching Strategies. the block and discovery areas).

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 22, 2018

Since the fall of 2016, the communications department at Dominguez Hills has banned smartphones, laptops and other personal technology in every classroom — with grade deductions for violations — except for teacher-guided use and “tech breaks” during longer classes such as Eames’s. My guess is it will go to 5 hours plus.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 27, 2018

studied civics in the fall of 2016, they began by exploring a nearby park in Pontiac. The curriculum was recently the subject of an experiment involving 684 students to see if this approach actually teaches kids the reading and writing skills and the content they need to succeed in school. Jackie Mader/The Hechinger Report.

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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.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 20, 2019

It’s crucial that we understand its inner workings and aftereffects; only then can we create a moral, economic and social roadmap to achieving our democratic ideals. Not teaching slavery adequately has resulted in a massive hole in school curricula — and that didn’t happen by accident.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Still, Prudence Carter, dean of University of California-Berkeley’s Graduate School of Education, said the findings fit into a larger pattern of Black and Latino students being denied equal opportunities in school, which has implications for their social mobility and economic equality. He teaches a technology class at J.W.

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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. The United States cannot maintain its status as an economic powerhouse if we fail to focus properly on basic skills.

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Digital Promise

APRIL 16, 2019

Researchers at the Modern Language Association recently found that colleges lost 651 foreign language programs from 2013 to 2016 – dramatically more than the one foreign language programs that higher education lost between 2009 and 2013. have a shortage of qualified foreign language instructors at the K-12 level for the 2016–2017 school year.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 23, 2018

In contrast, Onalaska’s population rose from 731 residents in 2012 to 772 residents in 2016, according to U.S. Back at Onalaska High, Kaylene Kenny teaches a class that’s all about ensuring students know their options. In a home economics classroom, she runs through how to file taxes, balance a budget and apply for college.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2019

Cory Koedel, an associate professor of economics and public policy at the University of Missouri. At the end of the day, it’s just this big item that needs to be paid,” said Cory Koedel, an associate professor of economics and public policy at the University of Missouri who studies public pensions. “If

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

But she hung around the classroom for the first few days and felt comforted by the warmth of the teachers, the cleanliness of the classroom, and the emphasis on language instruction, so in the fall of 2016, at the tender age of 2, Lucas started attending school five mornings a week. It’s bureaucratic.”.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

In 2016, 75 percent of its ELL students graduated, a rate 14 percentage points higher than the district’s average for this group and higher even than the overall graduation rate for BPS. And the dropout rate among the first Muniz cohort, the class of 2016, was just 2.5 Economically, he sees the vast promise of a bilingual workforce.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 10, 2017

But Rogers High, in an imposing building in the city’s poorest neighborhood, may be a tougher test for whether the idea can work with all students in this economically diverse city of roughly 200,000. Spokane is updating its entire K-12 curriculum to teach those kinds of skills. Rogers had hit a high of 82 percent in 2016.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 10, 2021

With no experience teaching online, neither is the faculty ready.” Joint International Programs As dean of online learning at Stevens more than a decade ago, I ran three hybrid master's degrees at two top Chinese institutions: Beijing Institute of Technology and Central University of Finance and Economics.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 1, 2019

At Maker Academy and about three dozen other mastery-based schools in the city, culturally responsive teaching practices are already taking root. Teaching something to someone actually helps me learn it better,” says Kendra. Zaretta Hammond, author of the book Culturally Responsive Teaching and the Brain. The school is thriving.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 15, 2018

In San Antonio, the CAST schools are also one prong of a larger effort by a local school district to promote integration in one of the most economically segregated cities in the country. One year in, that approach to economic integration, dubbed “diversity by design,” is working. million donation from H-E-B in 2016.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

Instructors say it’s tough to teach and assess motor skills, like catching and kicking, online. That left the lone remaining gym teacher to teach 11,000 students asynchronously by creating Google slides for them to use. She’s also teaching students movement and mindfulness exercises they can perform, even during Zoom classes.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 12, 2016

On September 21-23, 2016, Digital Promise and the U.S. Department of Education hosted the 2016 Education Innovation Clusters Convening (#EdClusters16) in Providence, R.I., Sean Duffy (@dearmrduffy) September 23, 2016. rdaley0001 (@rdaley98) September 22, 2016. Joseph South (@southjoseph) September 22, 2016.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 2, 2024

It also cut English chemistry, math, history, finance, accounting, art and other majors — 21 of them in all, or a third of everything it used to teach. Jon: But the decline in college opportunity for rural high school graduates is only widening social, economic and political divides between rural America and the rest of the country.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 28, 2024

For nearly a decade, the New York State Youth Leadership Council (YLC) and Teach Dream , the council’s educator team, have pushed city officials for more support for immigrant students in schools.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 30, 2018

New ways of teaching and learning are needed to make sure students prove they’ve mastered topics before earning a diploma, they say. Just 48 percent of Maine’s 11 th – graders and only about 32 percent of economically disadvantaged students were proficient in reading and math.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2018

The other program, the Honors College, has existed for decades; in 2016 it retooled its admissions strategy to attract students with a wider range of academic interests. Saied Beckford, an 18-year-old majoring in economics and computer science, lives on the seventh floor of a residence hall that houses many HLLC students.

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