The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 6, 2025

In New Zealand, where schools operate far more independently than traditional public schools in the United States, it would be the job of principals like Rodgers to determine how best to teach the countrys math standards. Related: Widen your perspective. Our free weekly newsletter consults critical voices on innovation in K-12 education.

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Anthropology.net

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

But was its use during the Upper Paleolithic purely practical, or did it hold deeper cultural significance? The research, published in Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences 1 , presents compelling micro-archaeological evidence that fire was not just a survival tool but a defining cultural trait of the Gravettian tradition.

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Anthropology.net

MARCH 31, 2025

This model suggests that the interplay between migrating early farmers and indigenous hunter-gatherers—characterized by competition, cooperation, and cultural exchange—was instrumental in the spread of agricultural practices.​ Szécsényi-Nagy, A., Mallick, S., ​ Rivollat, M., Schiffels, S.,

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Anthropology.net

APRIL 14, 2025

Others developed traditions or institutions that emphasized reciprocity and mutual aid. The researchers argue that economic inequality is not an inevitable byproduct of complexity or innovation, but a social and political outcome shaped by cultural norms, leadership decisions, and institutional structures. Bogaard, A., Feinman, G.

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Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

When traditional systems seem to be working in a highly localized educational ecosystem, leaders are sometimes hesitant to innovate in small districts. — Jenn Brackenbury (@jennbrac) January 18, 2017. Richard Kuder of Wyckoff School District addresses Northern Ignite at a biannual meeting in 2017.

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Digital Promise

JULY 14, 2020

Empirical studies suggest that instructional coaching can be more effective than traditional professional development workshops in creating meaningful change in teacher practice and student achievement. Over the past decade, instructional coaching has increasingly attracted the interest of researchers and practitioners alike. What we learned.

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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! School districts are not the only entities hiding their racism behind laws that provide cover.

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ED Surge

MAY 5, 2023

With enrollment in traditional teacher education programs declining nationwide in the past few years, it is drying up at an alarming rate. This includes the academic achievement commonly referenced by “learning loss,” but reaches beyond it to institutional knowledge and school culture. The teacher pipeline is no longer leaking.

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Digital Promise

MARCH 31, 2017

The League of Innovative Schools team had the opportunity to visit multiple districts in the first quarter of 2017 — and we have so much more to see! — Mentor Schools (@mentorschools) February 3, 2017. — Melissa Gedney (@melissaged) February 9, 2017. — Vina Vo (@vinavo) March 7, 2017.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 16, 2021

By 2017-18, the most recent data available , the district was 54 percent Hispanic — and its gifted classes were 48 percent Hispanic. In this poster, the association highlights the fact that traditional methods of finding gifted children often miss children who are low-income, nonwhite or do not speak English at home.

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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. Some aspects of Finland’s primary schools may be culture-specific and non-transferrable to other nations. Related: What do we invest in the country’s youngest? Little to nothing. ET) on The History Channel.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Those possibilities became reality for Nakia and her Chilhowee classmates, along with students at nearby Copper Basin High School, in 2017, when both Polk County schools joined Verizon Innovative Learning Schools (VILS). VILS inspires ‘culture of collaboration and innovation’.

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Anthropology News

OCTOBER 7, 2024

It represents a key example of how Tibetan refugees have established institutionalized, international education that preserves, advances, and shares Buddhist culture and philosophy. However, among community members, the relevance of linguistic diversity to the continuity of Tibetan Buddhist culture is a topic of considerable debate.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 30, 2020

About 6 percent of today’s immigrants are children and 26 percent of all children in the country in 2017 had at least one immigrant parent , according to the Migration Policy Institute, a think tank dedicated to studying migration and immigration trends. percent in 2017 , according to the Migration Policy Institute.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 16, 2019

To promote a healthier campus culture around seeking support for basic needs, campuses should redesign their existing spaces to be more welcoming. Among the study’s recommendations was to “consider a new model of the traditional campus food pantry that reduces concerns of social stigma” to increase the use of pantry services.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 4, 2023

Even more disciplinary transfers likely occur when students are counseled to voluntarily switch from one traditional school to another. We truly have an array of practices that are working to address school climate and positive culture in all schools,” said Pia Escudero, the district’s executive director of student health and human services.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

today, nearly double the number in 2017. has more than doubled since 2017 to 585 in 2020, according to the Natural Start Alliance. Some, like Sol, are attempting to address these problems to give more students an opportunity for an outdoor education. 585 forest kindergartens and outdoor preschools exist in the U.S. When many U.S.

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ED Surge

APRIL 8, 2022

I think one challenge for the teaching profession is that with traditional salary schedules, no matter how great of a teacher you are, compared to the teacher in the next classroom over, you’ll earn the same base amount,” Holston says. “Or, There, a rubric looks at factors like student achievement and instructional culture.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

The idea behind the Muñiz Academy, named for the longtime principal of Boston’s first dual-language elementary school (the Rafael Hernandez K-8 school), was that many Hispanic students would do better in schools that support their cultural background and, with it, the Spanish language. It feels much better like that,” Oniel says.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 2, 2022

Demand for traditional arts and crafts majors has fallen nationwide, according to the National Association of Schools of Art and Design, while interest in game design and animation have soared; where 30 percent of MECA&D’s students 10 years ago majored in design, now 60 percent do, college data show.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 10, 2024

It’s a reach-in culture,” said the Rev. Only a relative handful of students attend these new two-year programs compared to millions at traditional community colleges, but the differences are stark. Messina College leaders hope the initial isolation will help avoid the culture shock of a large campus and keep students from dropping out.

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ED Surge

MAY 17, 2023

I met Olga in 2017 when I began coordinating the MEP; since then, I have become the regional director of the largest migrant education region in California. Cecilia talks about her sister, an MEP alumna, who is now a neuroscientist and researcher: “She was shy, and my family was traditional.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 7, 2016

It is just one of a slate of waivers approved by lawmakers, including class size, teacher preparation time, hiring and firing rules, and others, allowing traditional public schools to operate with the same educational requirements as their area charter schools. You’re taught really about cultural competencies. According to U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 24, 2022

In 2017, I became superintendent of Rich Township, where, today, 95 percent of students are Black or Latino and over 99 percent come from economically disadvantaged homes. In Rich Township, however, the prevailing culture was one of trying to get students to focus academically and get more right answers on tests.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 13, 2018

PHILADELPHIA — In a city that’s struggled to meet the educational needs of many of its children, especially its most vulnerable ones, a select group of district high schools is shunning the traditional classroom model in which teachers dispense knowledge from the front of the room and measure progress with tests. We can’t ignore it.”.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 30, 2018

But as the movement against seat-time learning grows, more schools nationwide will be grappling with grade levels, deciding whether to keep them or to hack through thickets of political, logistical and cultural barriers to uproot them. We can’t keep structures that would allow us to fall back into a more traditional system,” said Steiner. “I’d

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 31, 2023

That ban, which lasted from 2002 to 2017, when the state Legislature offered districts renewed flexibility in language acquisition programs through the LOOK Act , continues to affect schools, both in staffing challenges and cultural perceptions around bilingual education.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 5, 2019

Black Student Union students say the school tells them durags perpetuate gang culture, but they say the durag ban unfairly continues the criminalization of black men. Durags are used to create the wave hairstyle. Photo by Sarah Reingewirtz/MediaNews Group/Pasadena Star-News via Getty Images.

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ED Surge

MAY 30, 2023

We found that the combined effect of tutors' knowledge of both reading development and culturally responsive pedagogy was significantly correlated with students' reading development,” Sodani shared in an email. A legislative change in 2017 allowed the college to begin offering bachelor’s degrees for the first time.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 28, 2019

She rattled off students’ responses as they popped up on the smartboard in a colorful word cloud: “Forced relocation, reduced population, disease, warfare, cultural destruction … wow, that’s a powerful term.”. Phase one was completed in 2017 and cost a reported $250 million. A plan to link Alaska to the world.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 4, 2019

At IU Northwest in 2017, Latinx students like Perez had a six-year graduation rate of just 28 percent, while the graduation rate for white students was 35 percent. From 2008 to 2017, the share of Latinx students at this commuter school of roughly 4,000 rose from 13 percent to 22 percent — the highest of any public university in the state.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 18, 2018

Guide students in understanding traditional avenues for reforming laws and speaking with legislators. These historic national protests should be seen as a call to improved social studies education and a culture that supports student voice and political participation. Arm them with examples of good dissent.

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Political Science Now

JULY 11, 2024

Her research agenda focuses on political science pedagogy, campus-based civic engagement, and pop culture & politics. In addition to teaching traditional political science courses, she serves as campaign manager for the campus-wide voter mobilization program Vote Oswego and coordinator of SUNY Oswego’s broader civic engagement efforts.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 28, 2019

About 8 percent of teachers leave the profession annually, and only half of those leaving retire, according to a 2017 report by the Learning Policy Institute, an education think tank. Teacher stress fuels turnover, and staff shortages are hitting districts nationwide. Studies also suggest that lower teacher stress improves student learning.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 3, 2017

Besides offering all classes in both English and Spanish and embracing the language and culture of its a predominantly Latino student body, administrators prioritized a host of highly regarded improvement strategies in the school’s design. Ferneidi Pina Baez, a 2017 graduate, counts that as her favorite project of the year.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 25, 2018

But at the nation’s most selective schools, where most students follow the traditional pipeline from high school to a degree within four years — and from which many go on to leadership roles in government and industry — veterans like Fendler are an anomaly.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2019

Dominguez is part of a neighborhood activist group fighting to retake the abandoned school and turn it into a community arts and culture center. They say gentrification has sped up in the past few years; the average income in Santurce rose by almost 20 percent between 2010 and 2017. “It made me very sad to see the school closed.”.

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