The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 27, 2018

A study of project-based learning found that social studies scores were higher for second-grade students who learned this way, compared to students who were taught traditionally. studied civics in the fall of 2016, they began by exploring a nearby park in Pontiac. Jackie Mader/The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 8, 2024

School leaders nationwide often complain about how hard it is to hire teachers and how teaching job vacancies have mushroomed. Wealthy suburbs can have a surplus of qualified applicants for elementary schools at the same time that a remote, rural school cannot find anyone to teach high school physics.

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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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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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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.” first appeared on MiddleWeb.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 20, 2019

The disconnect between students’ lived experiences and what they are taught in school is reinforced by the failure of our schools to properly teach about the institution of slavery. 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 29, 2020

Committee members were among the students leading a walkout in the wake of the 2018 mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida; students on the committee are also focused on teaching their peers about organizing effectively and understanding the reasons for the protests.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 9, 2018

Teacher-prep programs, she added, bear a large part of the responsibility here: Many teachers-in-training receive just one course in how to teach reading — a teaching task which experts agree is extremely complex — before heading into the classroom. These are not things they teach you in college.”. It’s simply malpractice.”.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 28, 2017

Between 2013 and 2016, the schools hired 137 teachers. When a teaching position is vacant, it’s filled by a substitute, typically someone who’s not certified to teach in that subject area. A social studies teacher could be teaching math, for example. In that same period, they lost 163.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Teaching counting and basic arithmetic sounds like a simple task. Every teacher wants to learn and do a better job teaching,” Huinker said. Huinker’s proposal was to have math education experts teach teachers more math while getting constant feedback from teachers on obstacles in the classroom.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2020

He finds it easy to teach himself with online content as his guide. But while computers are the heart of Summit’s model, they’re designed to play a supporting role in teaching kids, not take center stage. It also has teaching tips and resources, progress-tracking capabilities, and guides for mentoring — a key component of the program.

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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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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 7, 2016

Davida Walls never thought she would be teaching high school biology, let alone in the first few months after graduating from college at 22. Teaching was not my initial goal. In 2013, 7,758 were enrolled, and in 2016 that number fell to 3,944. In 2011-2012, the university had 52 teaching interns. According to U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 28, 2019

NOME, Alaska — Before they got down to business for the day, students in Devin Tatro’s social studies class were offered a quiet moment of self-reflection: On this golden fall afternoon at Nome-Beltz Junior/Senior High School, were they feeling chipper, distressed or somewhere in between?

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 14, 2016

We used to teach procedural math, but now students have to understand the ‘why’ as much as the ‘how’.”. The problem is that elementary school teachers did not learn math that way, and many now struggle to teach to the new standards. It’s a change in thinking. If the Common Core is to improve the math education of U.S. This is not true.

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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

APRIL 22, 2019

The district relied on seven portable classrooms, and some teachers were assigned to teach in modified storage closets. Nationally, school district debt has grown substantially, from nearly $323 billion in 2006 to $443 billion in 2016, according to U.S. Its school buildings were outdated and overcrowded. Census data. Census data.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

That’s why she’s back as a counselor teaching hands-on science lessons to her campers and learning more about what she’s capable of as a leader. “I Bodor said the best environmental education programs teach kids “how to think critically about complex issues and much less about what to think.”. I was shy.”.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Murphy teaches business education at a middle school in a neighboring county. But after enrolling Ernest Jr., she and her husband began noticing that he was receiving only 15 to 20 minutes of live instruction in each of his four classes: English, math, history and science. No ratings were issued in 2019-20 because of the pandemic.).

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 30, 2018

I love it, because teaching a whole group of kids, 30 kids at a time, some pretty rigorous math skills is really hard,” he said. One of his students finished the entire fourth-grade curriculum on ST Math by himself before winter break and then started teaching himself fifth-grade math. Photo: Sharon Lurye/The Hechinger Report.

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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. Tammy Kim/Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 6, 2016

Last spring, Derrick Fields, 9, sat in his social studies classroom at Sherman Elementary School, learning about the creation of the telegraph. Teaching academic subjects in Spanish, or any foreign language, has been widely understood to be illegal in California since 1998. SAN DIEGO, Calif. That’s a common situation.

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Studies Weekly

JANUARY 10, 2024

Students can take their artifacts home, share what they learned with their families, and teach younger siblings. Bagley encourages teachers to use Studies Weekly print publications with the Studies Weekly Online learning platform. Proceedings of the 2016 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2773–2777.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 15, 2016

Teachers — many of whom are veterans of the city’s smaller, existing preschool program — have been asked to change their classrooms and step-up their teaching to improve the overall caliber of the program. People don’t tend to think of teaching young children as complex work as teaching older children, but in fact it is.”.

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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. Elizabeth Hewitt for The Hechinger Report.

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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. Now, when I think about teaching, I think about inquiry. wasn’t great. We made a wide variety of mistakes, and that was okay.

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Teaching American History

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Two graduates of the Master of Arts in American History and Government (MAHG) program submitted essays on how they teach these skills to the Bill of Rights Institute’s 2023 National Civics Teacher of the Year Award , placing among the top ten finalists. They teach self-government as a cooperative activity. Yet both go further.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 6, 2016

That’s why she’s back as a counselor teaching hands-on science lessons to her campers and learning more about what she’s capable of as a leader. “I Bodor said the best environmental education programs teach kids “how to think critically about complex issues and much less about what to think.”. I was shy.”.

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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. The week before the protest at Sterling Bay, Chicago teachers had brought their message to The 78 waterfront project, with a “teach-in” outside its developer, Related Midwest.

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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. ohnson, a Little Rock native, came to the Arkansas side of the Delta in 2003 with Teach For America.

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Studies Weekly

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Instilling Conflict Resolution and Coping Skills “SEL [social emotional learning] programs are valuable tools in teaching students how to handle conflicts constructively and cope with stress,” according to the Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning (CASEL). References CASEL. Damon, William.

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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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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 5, 2018

In 2016 schools earned the 25-point incentive for a total of only 41 students citywide; the 2017 total was worse, a mere 17 students. Related: A New Orleans summer teaching fellowship is wooing young black teachers — but is it enough? Looking back, she shakes her head. “I I wish I never was a teenager,” she says.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

After the 2016 election, Jefferson started to become more politically aware. Ta says the biggest opportunity their school gave them at an early age was when social studies teachers began class by turning on the daily news. Ta’s candidate won re-election, and has since banned conversion therapy in the state via executive order.

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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 science behind climate change is complicated and evolving, and most teachers aren’t prepared to teach it well. The bill died in committee.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2018

Most elementary school teachers have little scientific background and many say they feel unprepared to teach the subject well, according to a national survey of science and mathematics education conducted by a North Carolina research firm in 2012. NGSS is going to give us a reason to teach science.”.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 15, 2018

Lemoine, who teaches at Dr. Norman W. But those things all fell into place with some extra planning and “what we learned about were the unanticipated social-emotional benefits,” Paradis said. The best thing has been being able to teach every subject every day.”. Wendy Lundquist, kindergarten teacher.

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