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MAY 19, 2024

Once the site of an Indian boarding school, where the federal government attempted to strip children of their tribal identity, the Native American Community Academy now offers the opposite: a public education designed to affirm and draw from each student’s traditional culture and language. The charter school, NACA, opened its doors in 2006.

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OCTOBER 2, 2024

Rural young people who aspire to a higher education have long had fewer choices than their urban and suburban counterparts, contributing to far lower rates of college-going. 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.

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In appreciation for your feedback , we’ll send you a people’s history book. Lesson Whose History Matters? history classes, I would ask students about “that guy some people say discovered America.” 21, 2016, to protest police violence against Standing Rock Water Protectors. Edited by Bill Bigelow and Bob Peterson.

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FEBRUARY 25, 2018

There are already educational institutions using virtual reality to place learners in a real-life scenario to apply their knowledge and skills. In fact, virtual reality simulation training is being used to recreate a hospital ward for student nurse education (Elliman, Loizou, and Loizides, 2016). References. Elliman, J.,

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JULY 21, 2022

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APRIL 12, 2022

Fourteen years after its founding and with a misinformation landscape many magnitudes more dire than anyone could’ve predicted, the News Literacy Project will herald in a new CEO this summer, marking a transition in leadership but not a change in direction for the education-focused nonprofit. 6, 2021, chief among them.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

Johnson feels about Friday,” she told the students as she paced around the cafeteria in an “I am black history” shirt. “If Pulling students from Coahoma County and its county seat of Clarksdale, the school serves an area of the Mississippi Delta known for its rich blues heritage, low incomes and abysmal educational outcomes.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2017

A special education student at South Hills High School takes an online quiz about RNA. The district’s reforms to special education have included making sure students use the same textbooks as their general education peers. They moved special education classrooms to be more centrally located. Sign up for our newsletter.

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MAY 27, 2020

The course is part of the public university’s African and African Diaspora Studies master’s program, whose previous graduates have gone on to get doctorates or jobs in public policy, diplomacy, law, criminal justice, education, public health and journalism. Ohio has reduced its funding for higher education by $110 million.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 21, 2021

To start off, it’s worth thinking back to 2016. Education policy leaders at the federal level and beyond were exploring the growing role of competency-based education and non-traditional providers —and calls were growing for stronger connections between universities and the world of employment.

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MAY 12, 2015

Educators today are facing two major shifts in education–a move to the Common Core Standards and increasing pressure to teach students with the technology they’ll be expected to use in their lives beyond high school. The theme of the student-centered classroom is an undercurrent throughout this text.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 2, 2018

Eleven percent of black men in Louisiana have a college degree, compared to 25 percent of white men, according to my analysis of 2016 census data. After paying their debt to society, the incarcerated need to be set up for success — and what better way to do that than to subsidize their education? Higher Education. Weekly Update.

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MAY 20, 2016

Board of Education, the landmark case that put in motion the Civil Rights Movement and remains a poignant moment in American history. The decision outlined the fundamental role that education plays as well as the importance of access to quality education for all young people. District Court Judge Debra M.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 19, 2018

In this 2017 photo, students present their history projects at a New York City high school for recent immigrants and refugees. education levels by the second generation — the first generation of children to be born in this country. immigrants are actually relatively well-educated. years of education.).

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 27, 2020

Ankita Ajith is one of four college-age friends who are petitioning the Texas State Board of Education to create an antiracist American history curriculum. In July, Ajith and three of her friends testified before the Texas State Board of Education, demanding changes to the way students are taught.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 17, 2019

The score gap between those who make less than $80,000 and those who make more than that amount has increased from 2012 to 2016, according to a 2016 ACT report. Attempts at addressing the wealth gap, which stems from the history of slavery, segregation, racism and discrimination, should be encouraged and lauded.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 9, 2017

In a speech on the Senate floor in 2000, when Congress was considering reauthorizing the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act , the Alabama Republican described a boy with emotional disabilities who “could not, or would not, behave,” adding that “because he was a disabled student, he could not be disciplined in the normal way.”

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

Since the 1990s, education stories emanating from Massachusetts have largely been positive, but that started to change over the last decade. The decline has accelerated, and results from the 2019 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) have pushed the state into the “learn-from-our-mistakes” category. Related: U.S.

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Becoming a History Teacher

JUNE 11, 2024

They also recognised their mentee’s strengths and the need to give them time to develop aspects of their practice , understanding how important it is for the education ecosystem to attract and nurture new entrants into the profession. Judgementoring and other threats to realizing the potential of school-based mentoring in teacher education.

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MAY 17, 2021

Since then, scholars have been trying to figure out why their scores dropped so much between 2017 and 2019 on a highly regarded national test known as the National Assessment of Educational Progress or NAEP. And in other states, such as Rhode Island, reading habits were more stable, but scores slid nonetheless.

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JULY 5, 2021

. “This is not just a paper about baseball,” the authors emphasized and suggested that their findings on the fluidity of attention spans could be applicable to other fields, including education, since paying attention is so important for learning. That’s a considerably longer break than the two minutes umpires needed to refresh.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 18, 2017

The ways in which state departments of education measure academic progress — primarily based on standardized tests that measure reading, math and science knowledge — don’t assess the social skills students need to become productive adults. Alabama can stand a remedial course in slavery and black history. Higher Education.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

As the coronavirus pandemic hit the United States in March 2020, many warned that it would increase educational gaps between the haves and the have-nots. Related: How the last recession affected higher education. Will history repeat? Now the proof is starting to come in. Sign up for the Hechinger newsletter.

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DECEMBER 4, 2016

He took honors physics in 11th grade and earned a general education diploma, even though his cerebral palsy classified him as a special education student. Yet the state left $14 million in federal VR dollars on the table in 2015 and again in 2016, even as the agency temporarily shut its doors to new clients. NASHVILLE, Tenn.

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DECEMBER 10, 2022

Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Future of Learning newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every other Wednesday with trends and top stories about education innovation. Subscribe today! Phil Murphy’s desk for a signature. .

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Becoming a History Teacher

MAY 5, 2025

2016) have highlighted the interplay between a teacher’s emotions, actions, and evolving identity, while Yuan & Lee (2015) have explored the influence mentors and peers have upon the formation of beginning teacher identity. 2002) Elaborating a model of teacher professional growth, Teaching and Teacher Education, 18 (2002), pp.

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JANUARY 7, 2017

He is Heikki Happonen, head of the school and a career childhood educator. 1 best primary school system in the world, according to the World Economic Forum’s Global Competitiveness Report 2016-2017. 1 best primary school system in the world, according to the World Economic Forum’s Global Competitiveness Report 2016-2017.

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NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Higher Education. 26, 2019 in the Journal of Applied Cognitive Psychology, looked at what happened when researchers randomly gave fidget spinners to college students and had them watch educational videos in a laboratory setting at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Sign up for Jill Barshay's Proof Points newsletter.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 19, 2018

Longtime educator Hymethia W. Thompson was happily retired after 46 years as an educator when she saw a television news conference last summer that changed her life. “I The problem is so significant, educators said, that many of Jackson’s schools depend on long-term uncertified substitutes to augment the teacher rolls.

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NOVEMBER 29, 2016

The study, Evaluating Information: The Cornerstone of Civic Online Reasoning , was produced by researchers at the Stanford Graduate School of Education. The researchers created 56 tasks for students in 12 states, and collected 7,804 student responses from January 2015 until June 2016. Read more about Blended Learning.

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JUNE 10, 2024

In December, the Finnish Ministry of Education and Culture described the predicament as “extremely disconcerting.” American schools can learn valuable lessons from Finnish education, both positive and negative. Our free biweekly newsletter consults critical voices on innovation in education. It was a step in the right direction.

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AUGUST 27, 2018

studied civics in the fall of 2016, they began by exploring a nearby park in Pontiac. It was an effective demonstration of project-based learning , a trend whose roots date back to John Dewey’s educational philosophies and has been spreading through schools across the country over the past five years.

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ED Surge

MARCH 6, 2024

That meant that bilingual education was out, in favor of English immersion. Parsing education data into snack-sized servings. In seven states, the need for bilingual education teachers is especially dire. Experts say the dearth of bilingual education teachers in the U.S. What Barriers Remain?

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 30, 2020

Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that students have a right to “a basic minimum education,” which the court defined as giving students the opportunity to learn to read. Board of Educationin importance and hope it triggers a broader crusade against unequal education. Snyder, against Michigan’s governor and other state officials in 2016.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 19, 2021

The model also helped students and educators weather the pandemic’s ups and downs more easily than other districts in the country. While the pandemic still took its toll, adapting to online learning was smoother in Lindsay due to its preexisting infrastructure and history of adaptation. What is competency-based education?

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 31, 2022

Back in 2016, Ben Herold of Education Week reported that grade-school students who took the computerized version of a different test, the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC), in 2014-15 scored lower than students taking the paper-and-pencil version. Sign up for the Hechinger newsletter.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Students need to read in order to learn other subjects, from science to history. In 2016, U.S. Then, fourth and eighth graders — particularly eighth graders — posted lower scores on the 2019 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), a benchmark test that is taken every two years by both age groups.

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