Sapiens

DECEMBER 3, 2024

A team of archaeologists working in Southeast Asia is pushing toward a deeper understanding of history that amplifies Indigenous and local perspectives to challenge traditional archaeological timelines. An image of the rice terraces from 2016 showcases the enduring relationship between the Ifugao people and their landscape.

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A Principal's Reflections

NOVEMBER 22, 2015

The easy part consists of creating and then sharing content using a blend of traditional and new age (i.e. Look for the book to be available at the end of 2016. social media) tools. I am excited to announce that I will be expanding on the topic of BrandED in my new book that I will be co-authoring with Trish Rubin for Jossey-Bass.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 3, 2016

This week, as we celebrate Digital Promise’s fifth anniversary , we also welcome the districts who are part of the 2016-2017 cohort of the League of Innovative Schools. And now, meet the 2016-2017 cohort: Bristol Warren Regional School District. Compton Unified School District. Covina-Valley Unified School District.

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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

DECEMBER 14, 2020

It’s “flipped” because it’s the opposite of the traditional structure in which students first learn from a teacher’s in-class instruction. The University of Utrecht analysis of all the mixed results of 114 studies from 2006 through 2016 found that flipped classrooms tended to increase student learning by a small amount.

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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. The game world has a map, spotted with “quests” that students have to complete to move around and explore. Tweet at @TaraGarciaM.

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

Today, we’re thrilled to congratulate Matt Akin, Superintendent of Piedmont City School District , and Steve Webb and Tom Hagley, Superintendent and Chief of Staff of Vancouver Public Schools , for being named to Education Week’s list of “Leaders to Learn From” in 2016.

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Sapiens

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Farmers planted grains to make traditional dishes such as starchy, mild fufu and thick, warm tuo zaafi , and households stored surplus tubers in their wattle-and-daub homes to nourish them throughout the year. Logan, now a professor at Northwestern University, started working at Banda as a graduate student in 2007.

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Anthropology for Beginners

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

The category includes archaeological remains, buildings and structures, landscapes and places, towns and neighborhoods, objects, historical documents, folk traditions, and other things associated with and valued by people. Colin Renfrew and Paul Bahn (2016) Archaeology: Theories, Methods and Practice. New York: Thames and Hudson 2.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 6, 2017

Our nine districts have been considering free or low-cost open educational resources alongside traditional options. As many states adopted new state standards in recent years, educational leaders voiced concerns that traditional publishers had not developed adequately aligned materials. Matthew Miller is the Supt.

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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. Related: Has video killed the dreaded red grading pen? But is it worth all of that effort?

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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

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Fewer than 31 percent of Black adults had a college degree in 2016, according to the most recent report by EdTrust , compared to 47 percent of white adults. Students at four-year institutions are more likely to be traditional age, between 18 and 24.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 11, 2019

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. The percentage of jobs that require low levels of digital skill dropped from 56 percent in 2002 to 30 percent in 2016.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 4, 2023

Over five academic years spanning 2016-17 to 2020-21, these districts recorded 5,800 transfers in a category for “specific discipline reasons.” Even more disciplinary transfers likely occur when students are counseled to voluntarily switch from one traditional school to another. As many as 3,700 of these could be expulsions.

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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

MARCH 15, 2024

In 2021, the proportion of high school graduates going directly to college fell to 62 percent from a high of 70 percent in 2016, according to the National Center for Education Statistics. Even before the FAFSA fiasco, that’s been happening. At the same time, costs have more than doubled in the last 40 years, even when adjusted for inflation.

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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. “This study shows that a well-designed project-based curriculum might be more effective than traditional instruction.” Jackie Mader/The Hechinger Report. When a classroom of second graders in Waterford, Mich.,

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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. In fact, approximately 85 percent of its new teachers in recent years have been alternatively certified. Filling teacher vacancies is one challenge.

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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. I was curious what lessons we could take from previous research on summer school to guide us during this unprecedented summer. It was targeted at 3,000 low-income children in five cities in 2013.

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Sapiens

MARCH 12, 2024

Kedi , a 2016 documentary by Ceyda Torun, featured the everyday lives of several of these community cats who are owned by no one but cared for by many. Many of these traditions of “stewardship,” as Hart refers to them, persist today, carried out by people of different religious affiliations, ethnicities, genders, classes, and ages.

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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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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 7, 2017

1 best primary school system in the world, according to the World Economic Forum’s Global Competitiveness Report 2016-2017. Doyle is also a 2015-2016 Fulbright Scholar and 2017 Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center Resident Fellow. Related: What do we invest in the country’s youngest? Little to nothing.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 9, 2018

In 2017, public institutions received about $5,892 in state and local appropriations per each student enrolled full-time, down from $6,055 in 2016. Tuition revenue for each full-time student increased from $5,792 in 2016 to $6,009 in 2017. Enrollment in public institutions decreased from 11.5 million in 2012 to 11 million in 2017.

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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

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

Many schools rely on counting noses at traditional Back-to-School nights or parent-teacher conferences to gauge whether parents are engaged in their children’s learning. nitially, Malik relied on traditional meetings to get parent feedback. Photo: Caralee Adams for The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 8, 2020

While students have lots of time to play, they also learn traditional and rigorous academic material during the school year. And while kindergarteners at traditional elementary schools can benefit from having older students as mentors, there are no such mentors at Pathfinder. Sara Stevens teaches a lesson to her kindergarteners.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 20, 2020

A 2016 Israel study found that high rates of pollution on the day of an exam tamped down high school test scores. Hotter classroom temperatures and polluted air are affecting children’s brains at school, according to a new body of education research. (AP AP Photo/Nick Ut).

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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

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

In 2016, The School for Creative Studies, in Durham, North Carolina, prevented black students from wearing traditional head wraps, or geles , a symbol used to represent the students’ connection with Africa — during Black History month, no less!

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 12, 2023

One study from 2016 found that preschool teachers closely observed Black boys more than other children when they expected misbehavior. We’re finding that kids make meaning of themselves way earlier than the traditional child development textbooks suggested,” Sabol said. Often, adults misunderstand children’s behavior.”

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ED Surge

MARCH 6, 2024

A traditional four-year degree isn’t a financially feasible path to teaching for some, Lopez adds, while the state’s history of focusing on English-only education has shrunk the pool of Callifornians who are proficient in Spanish. Mandatory English immersion wasn’t repealed in California until 2016.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

The collaborative is primarily funded by the Nellie Mae Foundation, which is among the supporters of the Hechinger Report, and, since its formation in 2016, regularly brings together researchers and education experts to share findings and disseminate them to schools. Some were reviewing topics they should have mastered years ago.

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Pedagogy to Share

AUGUST 21, 2023

Inclusion, engagement, and Nearpod: Providing a digital alternative to traditional instruction. Journal of Applied Learning & Teaching , 2 (2), 95–97. Buttrey, K. Kentucky Teacher Education Journal , 8 (1), 1–12. W., & Yue, W. Real-time assessment with Nearpod in the BYOD classroom. Tang & L. Logonnathan (Eds.), 103–107).

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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 1, 2024

A new biocultural database, developed by researchers at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), reveals the profound connections between Borneo’s rich plant life and the survival, traditions, and identity of its people. Marks on this trunk reveal traces of wooden plugs used in traditional honey harvesting.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 29, 2023

The proportion of high school graduates going directly to college has fallen from a high of 70 percent in 2016 to 62 percent in 2021. It’s the brainchild of an advertising executive, Roy Spence, the man behind such well-known slogans as “Don’t Mess With Texas” and “You are now free to move about the country.”

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 2, 2018

He spent the 2015-2016 school year traveling to schools in all 50 states and he discovered that teachers, when trusted and supported, often innovate on their own. The law allows districts to apply for freedom from state education requirements, such as seat time and traditional course sequencing, through an innovation plan.

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