The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Law enforcement agencies reported 7,175 hate crimes in 2017, up from 6,121 in 2016. . According to the 2018 Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program’s annual Hate Crime Statistics report , law enforcement agencies reported 7,175 hate crimes in 2017, up from 6,121 in 2016. Colleges can’t suspend dissent away — that’s not how it works.

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Political Science Now

JULY 11, 2024

Event: Teaching the 2024 U.S. King, Old Dominion University Juan Carlos Huerta, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi (Moderator) Michelle Allendoerfer, American Political Science Association Please direct all questions to teaching@apsanet.org. The post Webinar Series: Teaching the 2024 U.S. Engaging the 2024 U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 4, 2024

Credit: Jill Barshay/ The Hechinger Report / The Hechinger Report For a few weeks in the spring of 2016, nearly all the eighth graders at a small public school affiliated with Columbia University agreed to stay late after school to study math. For the first eight sessions, half the students had a traditional review class.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

These quests might be called “assignments” in a more traditional classroom. But Isaacs doesn’t run a traditional classroom — and not just because his students spend most of their time in a fantasy world. Yes, he teaches an elective class, so one might argue he has more freedom to do these things. Tweet at @TaraGarciaM.

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The Hechinger Report

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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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

By 2016, the high-poverty school district had turned around. We established district-wide instructional calendars, regularly administered formative assessments and analyzed data to pinpoint student weaknesses for re-teaching and remediation. From 2006 to 2016, St. Some had remained there for nearly 10 years.

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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

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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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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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

What is unique, perhaps, is a model that both embraces online education materials and partnering with employers while also insisting on preserving in-person teaching and a dose of the liberal arts. The proposed NEI would switch that, recommending that 80 percent of a professor's time be spent on teaching and 20 percent on research.

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Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

Richland School District Two will launch summer classes in high school credit CS and coding instruction in summer 2017 to compensate for limited teacher-led instruction during the traditional school year. Forging meaningful partnerships with institutions of higher education.

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Pedagogy to Share

AUGUST 21, 2023

After experiencing teaching with digital tools during the pandemic, they are eager to learn about and adopt digital tools which suit their educational aims and their students’ unique needs. Participants will generate a list of ways to incorporate the tools in their unique teaching contexts. Buttrey, K. W., & Yue, W.

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Edthena

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

That means they have come from non-traditional educational backgrounds and that meant these new teachers were going to need more instructional coaching cycles than traditionally trained teachers. Teachers can upload videos, interact with Edie, and analyze their teaching techniques all on their own.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 24, 2018

Restorative justice courts in countries including New Zealand , Rwanda and South Africa , for example, developed restorative practices based on the traditions of indigenous communities to address issues as diverse as genocide and petty theft. It has to be a framework for how we view teaching and learning.” In the U.S., Weekly Update.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 17, 2018

It’s where districts and schools decide to spend their money,” Worth, a veteran educator who has also taught in Greene County’s traditional public schools, explained. Many charters hire teachers who don’t belong to a teachers union or haven’t gone through a traditional teacher preparation program, for example.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 8, 2020

Sara Stevens teaches a lesson to her kindergarteners. While students have lots of time to play, they also learn traditional and rigorous academic material during the school year. The kindergarten day started with songs and then transitioned to playtime and included nature study, stories and dramatic play.

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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. While the winners can use the prize money toward the development of their own technologies, organizers hope the funding will launch a new tradition of investing in black tech entrepreneurs and the development of black talent.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 12, 2023

That’s why a lot of our standards don’t just say, ‘Teachers, teach reading.’” One study from 2016 found that preschool teachers closely observed Black boys more than other children when they expected misbehavior. Studies show bias is a big problem in early education programs, and experts say not enough has been done to address it.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 15, 2020

I could find only one large, well-designed study , published in 2016, that tested how much kids actually learn in voluntary summer school programs. But Dusseault hasn’t seen examples of schools testing new ways of teaching online, or trying new ways of mixing in-person with computerized instruction. “In

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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.

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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

OCTOBER 13, 2022

As schools across the South grapple with vacancies, many turn to those without teaching certificates or formal training to serve students. And then there’s Florida, where military veterans without a bachelor’s degree can teach for up to five years using temporary certificates. In a 2016 study, the U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 14, 2021

When Monroe Community College in New York added an accelerated certificate in addictions counseling in January that takes about half the time of the traditional full-year version, enrollment spiked by 50 percent, the college reports. And that’s not a mode of operation in which traditional colleges and universities have thrived.”.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 19, 2021

The new approach threw out many traditional facets of education such as the A-F grading scale and time-based learning in which students advance to a new grade level each year. to learn how to make the shift from traditional time-based systems … towards one that is truly organized around the learner.”.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 10, 2022

At least seven states, from Arkansas to Wisconsin, now require teachers to be trained in the Orton-Gillingham teaching approach and use it to help students with dyslexia read and write better. In 2019, a grassroots campaign led by parents succeeded in passing a wave of dyslexia legislation. It also emphasizes multisensory instruction.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

JANUARY 7, 2022

I served on the initial advisory board for ISTE’s Standards for Education Leaders (back then, they were the NETS-A) and in 2016 I received ISTE’s global Award for Outstanding Leadership. As a university faculty member who tries hard to integrate technology into my teaching, I think I’m doing a decent job with Standards 6a, 6c, and 7a.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 12, 2016

Photo: Peggy Barmore The federal government is trying to increase the number of minorities in the teaching profession by, in part, allowing institutions to maintain a low bar for entry into teaching programs. The government’s strategy of removing requirements around selectivity to diversify the teaching force met some criticism.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 8, 2023

The challenge lies in the fact that while the college essay is essentially a personal narrative, this is a genre in which students receive little experience in traditional high school curricula. Some teachers also lack the confidence and experience as writers to adequately teach their students elements of the craft.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

Edgecombe County Public Schools in rural North Carolina has long had trouble filling all of its open teaching positions. So far, eight of its 13 traditional schools have hired teacher-leaders who not only put their great teaching to use in front of students, but also coach their colleagues to spread their best practices.

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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 29, 2020

The committees are different from traditional student government, she said, because any student can join. Teaching about civic engagement only once in a while is like teaching someone how to swim without ever putting them in the water.”

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 10, 2021

With no experience teaching online, neither is the faculty ready.” For China, the move is a departure from its centuries-old tradition of favoring literature and the liberal arts. 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

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

In keeping with that spirit, the evenings are designed to be far more interactive than a typical curriculum night, in which teachers run through what they’ll be teaching that year. nitially, Malik relied on traditional meetings to get parent feedback. Last fall, the students themselves explained new homework policies.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 1, 2019

We are just not teaching writing in this country. Indeed, having students write — focusing on the craft of writing by unearthing children’s ideas and having them put these ideas to paper — is not the same as actually teaching writing. This suggests that the problem is widespread and more than simply an issue of poverty.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 13, 2021

is a stickler for notes when he teaches algebra I to ninth graders at Spring Valley High School in Columbia, South Carolina. A 2016 study by the American Institutes for Research noted that about a third of Chicago’s public high school students fail one or both semesters of algebra I. Ishmael Brown Jr. Credit: Jeffrey Coots.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 15, 2023

The early results of her randomized control trial were so extraordinary that her study influenced not only CUNY in 2016 but also California lawmakers in 2017 to start phasing out remedial education in their state. Many instructors who used to teach remedial courses now teach these corequisite courses.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 19, 2017

It is also an integrated co-teaching classroom (meaning some of the students have special needs) and an English language learner class, with some students still learning English. Using technology to teach a broad spectrum of students requires, among other changes, a seismic shift in the role of the teacher.

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