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

MARCH 30, 2022

A study in The Journal for Community Health found that the rate of death by suicide among Black girls ages 13 to 19 rose 182 percent between 2001 and 2017. Building a community of support within schools respects the traditions and cultures of Black students while benefiting all students. These numbers demand action.

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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

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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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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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

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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Anthropology News

JANUARY 24, 2024

Thirteen US residents—Black, white, and brown—mixed among about 30 community members sipping tinto , a traditional sweet Colombian coffee, and listening to testimonies of those who had been threatened or lost loved ones due to illegal armed groups or mining projects.

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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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Sapiens

JANUARY 25, 2024

In both these cultural traditions, children were believed to have been sent from the spirit world to plague their parents. In 2017, a Massachusetts woman sat with her Hydroxyurea prescription, a medication that can help manage but not cure sickle cell anemia. This hypothesis was confirmed in 1954 by Anthony C.

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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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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

OCTOBER 1, 2020

college students with lifetime diagnoses of mental health conditions in 2017 was 36 percent, compared with 22 percent in 2007. They will need to provide professional development to existing staff and break down silos between all student-facing functions, developing an “all-hands-on-deck” culture.

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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

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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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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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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A Psychology Teacher Writes

MARCH 10, 2023

There have been significant shifts in thinking in recent years towards a more feedback driven model rather than most teachers’ traditional conceptions of what marking looks like. What might have gained a 7/8 in 2017 might only score 5/8 in 2019. It’s virtually impossible to avoid inherent biases while marking.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

Indeed, a recent study in the 2017 Mississippi Economic Review found that districts with the worst teacher shortages have a weak local property tax base, a high percentage of black students and are disproportionately located in the Delta. In 2017, more than $20 million was allotted for pay raises to these schools.

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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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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 18, 2017

Currently, I am implementing alternatives to traditional behavior management systems, such as more frequent and open parent contact. In a traditional system, he almost certainly would have been retained, putting him on a path towards potential dropout. I also work to create a culturally relevant curriculum.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

It was a total culture shock” after attending a racially diverse high school, she said. “I Their focus has been on creating a “culture of belongingness and connectedness.” UGA created a need-based scholarship program in 2017 that supports more than 650 students from low-income backgrounds.

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Anthropology News

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Close to the border with Venezuela, San Juan del Cesar has a long agricultural—specifically pastoral farming—tradition. Credit: Pablo Jaramillo A solar panel installed as part of one of the programs instituted after a 2017 peace agreement with Colombia’s oldest and largest guerilla group.

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Anthropology 365

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Institutional academic cultures often contribute to these mental health challenges, suggesting that these concerns are not purely individual but systemic within academia. The project invited students to consider how scientific knowledge develops and is situated in the historical and cultural dimensions of the times.

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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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Anthropology News

APRIL 30, 2024

This shift detached investors from the personal aspect of a debt relationship, allowing them to earn 20 to 30 percent annual interest—significantly higher than the 3 to 5 percent offered by traditional banks. Despite the hope for formal licensing for surviving platforms, many struggled to adapt to new rules.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

In August, more than 300 students started the school year in the first traditional school run directly by the New Orleans school district since 2019. The pre-K-8 school, named after New Orleans cultural and civil rights icon Leah Chase , came together in just a handful of months. It was a crazy, terrible time,” said Lay.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

Yet this is about more than counselor numbers; students are pressing for an array of tools and, critically, a culture shift. Two students died by suicide, in fall 2017 and summer 2018, said Beth DeJongh, an associate professor of pharmacy practice who knew both and had one in class at the time. That is changing.

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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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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

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

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

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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Civics Social Studies Critical Thinking History 72

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

Tradition 111

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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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K-12 Middle School Tutoring Cultures 83

Digital Promise

OCTOBER 25, 2017

Now that we have powerful, easy-to-use design tools and a capacity for worldwide publishing, we have an opportunity to restore the dignity and integrity of a work ethic by redefining the role of the learner as a contributor to the learning culture. Traditional PD uses an attendance sheet as the primary measurement of “learning”.

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