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.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 6, 2017

For example, in the ‘COW Project ’— a collaborative initiative between three of our districts that is profiled here — teams of educators produced new Social Studies and Science unit content entirely from OER. Increasingly, ‘early mover’ districts support OER at a district level, to reflect constraints on teacher time.

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 2, 2020

According to a 2016 report by the U.S. The “world” (or at least, their world) was more accustomed to seeing Black men teaching PE or social studies. Department of Education, only two percent of teachers are African American men, yet African American students make up at least 16 percent of the country’s student population.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 27, 2020

They are advocating for core curriculum changes in social studies — specifically American history — classes. Leary uses resources from Black Lives Matter at Schools, a national movement started by thousands of educators in Seattle in 2016 that has spread to other large school districts nationwide.

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Cult of Pedagogy

MAY 29, 2024

In 2016, I started encouraging my students to stand on their chairs when they were addressing the class. Tier 6: Test Pulling Nate When I was in high school, I cheated on a social studies test. I’m the guy standing in the back of the faculty meeting because I cannot physically sit for a full hour. For me, movement matters.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 21, 2022

Hollander said the project, which is structured as a fellowship, is set up to look at both aquatic and terrestrial science phenomena in the state, as well as social studies elements because “there is a lot of history around that changing landscape of Louisiana and the cultural groups that are affected as well.”.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 29, 2020

The committees are housed within the Chicago school district’s social science and civic engagement department, which promotes civic engagement in and out of the classroom through K-12 social studies curriculum, service learning and civics-focused project-based learning.

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Digital Promise

JUNE 21, 2017

In Fall 2016, participating schools were almost all public district schools, in urban and suburban areas across seven states and the District of Columbia. Classroom context varied, from filmmaking and multimedia classes, to subject area classes such as chemistry, social studies, and government. So what did the program achieve?

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 6, 2019

Schools across the United States are wrestling with how to incorporate the study of climate change into the classroom as its proximity and perils grow ever more apparent. The social studies curriculum at Piedmont Intermediate emphasizes human interactions with the environment. I just don’t feel qualified,” she said. “I

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 28, 2017

Between 2013 and 2016, the schools hired 137 teachers. A social studies teacher could be teaching math, for example. A social studies teacher could be teaching math, for example. Now, people are leaving, businesses are closing and the McDowell County Schools can’t find or keep the teachers they need.

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Digital Promise

APRIL 12, 2016

Montgomery students prepare to film their video project for Social Studies, explaining Buddhism and the Eightfold Path. Montgomery Middle School , an IB World School, works to bring an international perspective to all students’ educational experiences.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 9, 2018

Averaged across 15 schools during the 2016-17 school year, the nonprofit reports an approximately 11 percent boost in the number of students reading at grade level — from 33 percent reading at grade level in the fall, to 44 percent by the beginning of summer. Read about math , science and social studies.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

And from 2013 to 2016, the number of its graduates enrolling in associate or bachelor’s degree programs rose dramatically, from 28 percent to 47 percent, according to school officials. 47 percent of graduates at Meadowbrook High School in rural Ohio enrolled in associate or bachelor’s degree programs in 2016, up from 28 percent in 2013.

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Future of History

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

Here’s how Sarah Cooper taught her 8th grade social studies class today, as the nation went about determining a presidential winner. 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?

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 14, 2016

An April 2016 study of a large urban school in Georgia reported the frustration of many elementary level teachers. The problem is that elementary school teachers did not learn math that way, and many now struggle to teach to the new standards. But possession of content knowledge comes up as a key reason for the frustration.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

From 2016 to 2019, overall math proficiency in Milwaukee rose about 1 percentage point, to reach 16.2 I always thought that social studies and literacy were more of my thing. “If you look at our test scores now, we might not be able to say that,” Hedges said. These ladies really did change my life.”

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2018

In 2016, she was accepted as a trainer for the Oregon Science Project. Along with 200 other Oregon educators, more than half of whom were elementary school teachers, Callahan spent the 2016-17 school year learning best practices for teaching kindergarten science. Read about math , reading and social studies (publishing Thursday).

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 1, 2018

Students have access to hundreds of courses while they are in Illinois’ juvenile justice facilities, but they tend to focus on math, language arts, social studies and science. In 2016, 45,567 young people were held in facilities nationwide, down 20 percent from 2012.) Photo: TARA GARCIA MATHEWSON/The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

According to the state education department’s report card, the percentages of its middle schoolers meeting or exceeding grade-level expectations was lower, and in some cases far lower, than the South Carolina statewide averages in English, math, science and social studies in both the 2017-18 and 2018-19 academic years. (No

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Studies Weekly

APRIL 29, 2024

In 2016, Ko was honored by the National Women’s History Museum for success and leadership in business. For further reading, visit jacl.org , the National Women’s History Museum , or the Asian Pacific American Institute for Congressional Studies. Jerry Yang is a Taiwanese American computer programmer who founded Yahoo!

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2020

Since 2016, when the couple launched an LLC to coordinate much of their charitable giving, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative has committed $142.1 And while science, social studies, English and math are supposed to be project-based, teachers still lead their own classrooms. million in grant support for the Summit Learning Program.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2019

In 2016, Resnick, Duffy and members of their team began working with seventh and eighth graders at Somerville’s Arthur D. Healey School to bring student-led, project-based learning to regular math, science, language arts and social studies classes. Resnick would be the school director and Duffy the director of operations.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 25, 2017

A Humanities class will earn students English, Social Studies, and art credit, but the learning is smoothly integrated so that students may be reading the book “To Kill a Mockingbird” while learning about civil rights, and civil disobedience with time still set aside for students to learn the important SAT vocabulary words.

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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. At 7 a.m., Tammy Kim/Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2019

Nationally, school district debt has grown substantially, from nearly $323 billion in 2006 to $443 billion in 2016, according to U.S. School district debt has grown from nearly $323 billion in 2006 to $443 billion in 2016, according to U.S. Plenty of school district officials across the country likely feel the same way. Census data.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 22, 2018

And in 2016 just 8 percent of McDowell County residents of working age held an associate degree or higher, compared to 31 percent statewide. The home visits are set up in advance, in contrast to unannounced visits by social workers or school attendance officers. That’s well below the statewide rate of 55 percent.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 30, 2018

In addition, NSNO started a personalized learning fellowship in the 2016-17 school year, giving teachers $2,000 apiece to start pilots in their own classrooms. At her school, ReNEW Schaumburg, students use a free platform called Summit to teach themselves concepts in math, English, science, and social studies.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 21, 2019

At Montpelier High School, in Vermont’s capital city, teachers spent years defining the school’s “proficiencies” and rewriting their lesson plans to highlight those core objectives in the lead-up to the transition in 2016, when all grades and classes switched to a proficiency-based model at once.

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Studies Weekly

JANUARY 10, 2024

Bagley encourages teachers to use Studies Weekly print publications with the Studies Weekly Online learning platform. “I honestly cannot imagine teaching social studies without providing each student with a copy of their student publication.” Backes, B., & Cowan, J. Is the pen mightier than the keyboard?

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 18, 2018

Cadow didn’t want Gus to miss out on the social aspects of school, so he offered him a deal: Come to school for six hours a week, and you can spend the rest of the time on the farm. That was the beginning of Randolph Union’s ILOs, which let students pursue their passions outside of school and get academic credit for it.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 13, 2019

In 2016, after teacher protests, then-Mayor Rahm Emanuel agreed to release $88 million of surplus money from the TIF program to city schools. But for many, these changes remain distant: social workers and nurses won’t be guaranteed in every school until the fifth year of the contract.

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C3 Teachers

OCTOBER 3, 2022

I was in graduate school studying to become a social studies and special education teacher when the New York State Tool Kit and inquiry-based standards were in their infancy. But, in my early years, I had a hard time not only asking the right questions, but figuring out the difference between types of curricular questions.

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Studies Weekly

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning. References CASEL. Transformative SEL: Impacts on School Climate, Classroom Practice, and Student Learning.” Damon, William. The Path to Purpose: Helping Our Children Find Their Calling in Life.” Free Press. Darling-Hammond, Linda. Office for Civil Rights Data Collection.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

Charter School opened in 2016 on the former campus of the shuttered Randolph Southern School, a private school that had not enrolled a single black student in 2012, the last year for which enrollment numbers are available. 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

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Kymberli Wregglesworth, a 2016 MAHG graduate, teaches Civics, World history and social studies electives at Onaway High School in Michigan. Social studies teachers must lay the groundwork by earning students’ trust. No wonder political discussions become contentious.

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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.

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Studies Weekly

MARCH 15, 2024

See the benefits of early childhood education now with Studies Weekly’s Early Learning/TK curriculum that fosters academic, cognitive, and social development. 2016, January 6). References Barnett, W. S., & Gomez, R. Universal Pre-K. National Institute for Early Education Research. Rasmussen University. Barnett, W.

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