The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 20, 2019

“I had been taught, in school, through cultural osmosis, that the flag wasn’t really ours, that our history as a people began with enslavement and that we had contributed little to this great nation.”. 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

DECEMBER 10, 2022

New Jersey is set to become the first state in the nation to mandate teaching media literacy to students of all ages as a bill with the requirement heads to Gov. A 2019 report from the Stanford History Education Group found that high school students had “difficulty discerning fact from fiction online.”. Subscribe today!

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 26, 2019

Universal History Archive/UIG via Getty Images. Given that teachers are charged with imparting the contributions of women to their students throughout Women’s History Month, a special place should be reserved during March for the women teachers who go unrecognized. “You Yet, according to a 2016 press release from the U.S.

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Zinn Education Project

OCTOBER 13, 2024

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.” In almost 30 years of teaching, the best anyone could come up with was: “Indians.” So who did he supposedly discover?”

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 6, 2023

I teach at the only all-girls school in the state of Minnesota. The course covers the history of feminism then and now, which includes an extensive lesson on gender violence. I applied for the position, and because of my experience studying and minoring in women’s studies during college, I was given the opportunity to teach the course.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 26, 2018

In the fall of 2016, increasingly frustrated by his inability to motivate his students despite his energetic teaching style and popularity inside the classroom, he was drawn to the idea that addressing emotional barriers might help them. In 2016, a mere 37 percent of the school’s test-takers passed. Sign up for our newsletter.

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Living Geography

NOVEMBER 17, 2024

A reference point for this is Michael Gove's 'infamous' and deluded claim from 2016 that people had 'had enough of experts' though a recent visit to a private dentist for complex root canal treatment confirmed that I'd rather have asked him than a local plumber. They need to be experts in the subjects they are teaching."

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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 High school teacher Donell Harrell said he was almost fired for staging a Black History Month program. ohnson, a Little Rock native, came to the Arkansas side of the Delta in 2003 with Teach For America.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 27, 2020

Andrea Queeley teaches her course about societies and cultures of the Caribbean at Florida International University. The crisis begs the question: When there’s only so much money and only so many students, how should universities decide what to teach and not teach? Will history repeat?

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 2, 2020

According to a 2016 report by the U.S. To make matters more tenuous, teachers of color leave the teaching profession at higher rates than white teachers. I was inspired to become a teacher because of a dedicated educator who poured her passion for teaching into me. Thomas inspired me. I did not meet the status quo!

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

2016; Harmon et al., The Culturally and Historically Responsive Literacy Framework , developed by Dr. Gholdy Muhammad, is an equity model that can support the development and evaluation of an anti-racist curriculum that celebrates the identities, histories, and accomplishments of culturally and historically marginalized people.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 17, 2021

Forzani thinks the slide in eighth grade test scores could be the result of the way that schools teach reading to struggling students. “We At the same time, we’re also taking away science and history instruction where kids can develop knowledge and where they can put comprehension strategies into practice.

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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

MAY 19, 2024

Today, courses at all grade levels include Indigenous history, numeracy, land-based science and language classes in Keres, Lakota, Navajo, Tiwa, Spanish and Zuni. Discussions of tribal culture were limited to a few isolated craft projects during a history unit and inaccurate portrayals of Indians at the “First Thanksgiving,” he recalled.

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ED Surge

MARCH 6, 2024

Cervantes-González is now the program manager at the California Center on Teaching Careers, a public agency tasked with increasing the pool of qualified teacher candidates in the Golden State. Another 18 states and the District of Columbia have been struggling to find enough people who teach English as a second language.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 5, 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.” Attention span is an important but often overlooked aspect of teaching and learning.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2016

Tim Abram, a Teach for America alumnus, says he moved on from teaching to work in public policy. This is something he has in common with a lot of Teach for America alums. He decided to join Teach for America to help change that fact. Related: Teachers are losing their jobs, but Teach for America’s expanding.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

” Teaching aide Hannah Chancey faces the same problem in second grade classrooms at Rehobeth Elementary School in a small low-income community in southeastern Alabama, a state with reading scores near the bottom nationally. Students need to read in order to learn other subjects, from science to history. In 2016, U.S.

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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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ED Surge

APRIL 12, 2022

Misinformation “has actually become one of the greatest—if not the greatest—challenges of our time,” says Miller in an interview with EdSurge reflecting on the organization’s history and trajectory. “It A number of major events in recent years, including the 2016 presidential election in the U.S., 6, 2021, chief among them.

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Studies Weekly

MAY 2, 2024

They broaden students’ view of history and teach them to respect people from different cultures. It’s also important for all students to feel represented, Laura Thomas said in her Edutopia article from August 2016. Together, they learn the value of patience, teamwork, and sharing.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

The researchers created 56 tasks for students in 12 states, and collected 7,804 student responses from January 2015 until June 2016. The report suggests that schools must teach students the skills they need to be savvy consumers of news and information they encounter online. Sign up for our Blended Learning newsletter.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 6, 2016

Julian Ambriz (left), a teacher joining PUC Schools through the Alumni Teach Project this year, works with his mentor, Justin Gutierrez (right), a physical education teacher, during a training session in July. Photo: Jamie Martines. Research has documented other ways that a teacher’s race can impact student performance. Photo: Jamie Martines.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 10, 2024

In 2016, despite research showing that students who used computers more often at school performed much worse on reading and math PISA tests, the Finnish government announced it would spend millions of euros on ramping up digital learning. Timothy Walker is an American teacher, educational consultant, and the author of “ Teach Like Finland.”

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 19, 2021

While the pandemic still took its toll, adapting to online learning was smoother in Lindsay due to its preexisting infrastructure and history of adaptation. But educators in Lindsay say that, while there’s more work on the front end, the district’s model actually makes teaching easier in the long run.

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Future of History

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

Unlike the day after the 2016 election, “I’m feeling not so much shock as the need to shore up my teaching and once again dig into difficult topics.” The post The Day After: How Do We Teach Now? Here’s how Sarah Cooper taught her 8th grade social studies class today, as the nation went about determining a presidential winner.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

He decided to study fidget spinners in 2016 after his then five-year-old daughter asked for them for Christmas. Graziano dug into the research history more and found studies showing that the fidgety movements that kids with ADHD sometimes do with their whole bodies can help their cognitive performance in laboratory experiments.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 16, 2019

Foster’s intelligence and dedication put people into space during one of the most tumultuous times in our nation’s history. Source: The Census Bureau’s 2016 Annual Survey of Entrepreneurs. Source: IPEDS 2016-17. He created hundreds of desirable jobs in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) for black Alabamians.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 23, 2018

Onalaska, situated roughly halfway between Seattle and Portland, is proud of its history. 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. Census data.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 24, 2017

A photojournalist, she’s at work on an oral history book project, interviewing scores of public school students, from kindergarten through 12th grade, across the country. They don’t just want to learn physics, AP Vocabulary, and whatever else you’re teaching them. school system is a “mess.” Do they feel that way? Let me just quit.”

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

But all of the 19 states that did make information readily publicly available in 2016 reported higher dropout rates for students in special education than for all students. By 2016, the district had reduced its dropout rate for students in special education to fewer than 5 percent and increased the graduation rate to 85 percent.

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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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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 10, 2017

And it’s sending more low-income students to universities: 27 percent of its spring 2016 graduates who received free lunch enrolled in a four-year school in the fall, the highest proportion of any school in the district. Spokane is updating its entire K-12 curriculum to teach those kinds of skills. But her enthusiasm was restrained.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 8, 2018

As a result, more students in the district are taking a fourth year of high-school mathematics — and taking advanced classes beyond Algebra 2 — than ever in its history. Related: America’s math problem: Should we get rid of algebra? Alan Schoenfeld is ?a a professor of education and mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Online Degrees On Hold China actually has a long history of distance learning—mostly at correspondence schools and on broadcast TV. With no experience teaching online, neither is the faculty ready.” Wu Yan, head of China’s Higher Education Department, says, “MOOCs are critical to reform China’s traditional cramming teaching model.

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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. Just after she finished the university cut the English program along with math, chemistry, biology, history. Then she got her master’s, which is also in English.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Spokespeople from the schools say the criticism doesn’t reflect the fact that they often enroll students who are struggling academically, are enrolled for short periods, and have a history of changing schools frequently, a metric shown to hurt academic performance. Murphy teaches business education at a middle school in a neighboring county.

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