The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

Schools brag that they teach it on their websites and in open houses to impress parents. But a fascinating review of the scientific research on how to teach critical thinking concludes that teaching generic critical thinking skills, such as logical reasoning, might be a big waste of time.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 26, 2018

In the fall of 2016, increasingly frustrated by his inability to motivate his students despite his energetic teaching style and popularity inside the classroom, he was drawn to the idea that addressing emotional barriers might help them. His students chop off the “Mr.” when talking to him, and affectionately call him simply “Gallin.”.

Teaching 110

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Becoming a History Teacher

MAY 26, 2024

It does make sense to ask about substantive concepts in a subject like history where there is no ‘canon’ of knowledge. However, while it is vital to ascertain a candidate’s potential to undertake the subject knowledge enhancement required to teach a new curriculum, is an interview question the best way to do this?

Teaching 77

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

Johnson feels about Friday,” she told the students as she paced around the cafeteria in an “I am black history” shirt. “If His comments at the 2017 meeting were ineffective: The board had already approved the charter’s application before they opened up public comment, according to MCSA’s minutes. “We You know how Ms.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 27, 2018

Angel Rivera and Sara Caro, humanities teachers at the Urban Assembly School for Applied Math and Science in the Bronx, meet to plan a lesson on World War II history lesson together. Every day he’d teach in a classroom, alone, and at night he’d go home and plan the next day’s lessons, alone. .” BRONX, N.Y. Rivera and Ms.

Teaching 89

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 17, 2021

The number of eighth graders who said they read 30 minutes or more a day, besides homework, declined by 4 percentage points between 2017 and 2019. The percentage of public school students who said they read 30 minutes or more a day, besides homework, declined by 4 percentage points from 53 percent in 2017 to 49 percent in 2019.

Library 143

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Teaching American History

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Joseph Postel l is Associate Professor of Politics at Hillsdale College and a faculty member in the Master of Arts in American History and Government (MAHG) program at Ashland University. In MAHG, Postell often teaches courses on Political Parties and on the US Congress.

American History 119

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 4, 2020

Left vulnerable when the coronavirus pandemic hit, Missouri Western is now cutting nearly a third of its faculty and at least 98 majors, minors and concentrations , including in English, history, chemistry, biology, philosophy, sociology, political science, computer technology, music and art. Yet higher education has also kept building.

Government 140

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Digital Promise

MARCH 21, 2022

“I am excited to join at this critical time in Digital Promise’s history as we embark on setting ambitious goals and designing bold solutions to achieve better educational outcomes for historically and systematically excluded students.”.

Leadership 118

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 13, 2024

Boardis the dearth of Black teachers: More than 38,000 Black educators lost their jobs after the decision came down, as white administrators of integrating schools refused to hire Black professionals for teaching roles or pushed them out. Related: Become a lifelong learner. But the A.P. course, an elective, became ensnared in politics.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 23, 2018

The vast majority of the school’s students — and in 2017, all of them — are accepted into at least one college. This community in rural Lewis County made headlines in 2017 when all 43 of its graduating seniors were accepted into two- or four-year colleges. 43 — The number of students in Onalaska High School’s 2017 graduating class.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 12, 2023

Too many students are held back from advanced math that could provide direct pathways into college level math and STEM jobs, said Ross, a former presidential awardee for her teaching. What irks her most is that decisions about who gets tracked into or out of these higher-level courses are too often based on a student’s race.

Education 142

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 6, 2022

Collins Elementary School, in southeastern Mississippi, paddled students more times than almost any school in the country in 2017-18, the last year for which there is national data. During the 2017-18 school year, more than 69,000 students received corporal punishment almost 97,000 times nationwide.

Elementary School 145

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 8, 2018

One year later, Barela has watched some of this vision flourish — including new classes and ways of teaching — while other parts never took off. “Oh, You can know what stress is and what anxiety is, but how do you teach a teenager?”. Better attendance, class participation and graduation rates. percent) as well.

History 97

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Teaching American History

AUGUST 20, 2024

History this Week. The History Channel. Malik Ali teaching. Malik Ali, a James Madison Fellow and 2017 graduate of the Master of Arts in American History and Government program, is Tukman Distinguished Teacher of History at the Branson School in Ross, California. I Question America: 1963-1964.” Jackson, MS.

American History 98

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

” Teaching aide Hannah Chancey faces the same problem in second grade classrooms at Rehobeth Elementary School in a small low-income community in southeastern Alabama, a state with reading scores near the bottom nationally. Students need to read in order to learn other subjects, from science to history.

Elementary School 145

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 1, 2019

Throughout history, we have seen how educational institutions show pervasive bias toward black and brown students. CPRS grew out of then-First Lady Michelle Obama’s “ Reach Higher ” initiative, and recommendations were published in a January 2017 report, “ The State of School Counseling: Revisiting the Path Forward.”

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NCHE

MAY 1, 2023

Since 2017, NCHE has offered professional learning colloquia that focus on “Technology’s Impact in American History (TIAH).” With Francis’s help, we began to frame a colloquium to focus on the pre-19 th century period and chose the title, “ Uncovering Lost Voices in American History.”

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ED Surge

MAY 5, 2023

According to a report published in 2017 by the Economic Policy Institute, large urban districts spend approximately $20,000 on every new hire. Ensuring safe and supportive teaching and learning environments is also key. We embrace our families and spend the bulk of our time on what matters most: teaching our students.

Social Justice 145

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

So 2017, right? Graziano dug into the research history more and found studies showing that the fidgety movements that kids with ADHD sometimes do with their whole bodies can help their cognitive performance in laboratory experiments. Teaching them to build their attention spans and focus is much harder.

Psychology 138

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 24, 2017

A photojournalist, she’s at work on an oral history book project, interviewing scores of public school students, from kindergarten through 12th grade, across the country. They don’t just want to learn physics, AP Vocabulary, and whatever else you’re teaching them. school system is a “mess.” Do they feel that way? Let me just quit.”

Oral History 104

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ED Surge

JULY 14, 2022

Trying to Fill the Teacher Gap Arizona teacher retention was looking bleak in January, when a report from school HR professionals found that roughly 1 in 3 teaching positions were vacant. The report tallied nearly 2,000 unfilled teaching positions and that 944 teachers had resigned during the first half of the school year.

Charter School 107

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 11, 2023

Brentwood Union Free School District gave out 466 long-term suspensions from 2017-18 to 2021-22. The New York State Education Department does not collect data on suspension lengths, but public records requests to 17 of the state’s largest school districts uncovered more than 6,200 suspensions of more than 20 days from 2017-18 to 2021-22.

Tutoring 118

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 15, 2021

After enough iterations of that conversation, Outschool lowered the minimum age of its platform in 2017 and added classes with content and concepts suitable for 3- and 4-year-olds. During our interview, Nathoo’s 3-year-old son was in the next room taking an Outschool class that uses animal names to teach kids phonics. Can he join?”

EdTech 145

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 4, 2020

Nearly 30 percent of all four-year schools brought in less tuition revenue per student in 2017-18 than in 2009-10. About 700 public campuses received less in state and local appropriations in 2017-18 than in 2009-10, and about 190 private four-year institutions saw the size of their endowments fall relative to their costs.

Economics 145

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Anthropology News

OCTOBER 7, 2024

The Tibetan community in Vancouver includes approximately 700 people, more than 200 of whom migrated from four settlements in Arunachal Pradesh, India, to Canada through a federal refugee resettlement program between 2013 and 2017. In 2017, Tibetan parents in Vancouver decided to organize efforts to care for their heritage language.

Heritage 98

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 5, 2021

Home plate umpire Marvin Hudson called balls and strikes during a Major League Baseball game between the New York Mets and San Francisco Giants in 2017 in San Francisco, California. Attention span is an important but often overlooked aspect of teaching and learning.

Lesson Plan 122

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

However, if we do a better job teaching our students about economic inequality, we can equip them — our future leaders — with the tools to develop the empathy and the will needed to change the trajectory of the lives of people in crisis. In 2017, Ricardo lost his job due to the devastations of Hurricane Maria.

Economics 97

Economics Sociology History Humanities 97

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

So McWilliams decided to try teaching. “My My mom had always encouraged me to teach,” she said. Then, in May 2017, a friend told her about a new Delta-based nonprofit, Regional Initiatives for Sustainable Education (RISE), which offered tutoring for the Praxis. Mississippi is dealing with a dire teaching shortage.

Tutoring 95

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 25, 2018

I don’t like to lead with this about myself,” he said during a discussion group on Thucydides’ history of the Peloponnesian War, “but I’m a veteran and I’ve been to war.”. Maybe, just maybe, if [those] students were sitting in English and history class with men and women whom the U.S.

Political Science 109

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Without a passing score, he could not participate in the requisite student teaching experience nor, as a result, finish his degree. It didn’t matter that he’d likely never have to teach the geometry concepts that kept tripping him up (Anderson hoped to teach elementary school). That was in 2017. “It asks James.

K-12 126

K-12 Elementary School Teaching Leadership 126

ED Surge

AUGUST 8, 2023

For her doctoral research at Temple University, Royal dug into the turbulent history of school reform in the city from the 1960s up to now, including reading through the minutes of every school board meeting from 1967 to 2017 and interviewing teachers and school leaders from the era.

Public School 89

Public School Leadership History Humanities 89

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 19, 2020

Given current circumstances, Richard Vedder, an economics professor emeritus at Ohio University, has decided to teach his fall course, “Economic History of Europe,” for a salary of $1. Richard Vedder, an economics professor emeritus at Ohio University and national expert on higher education finances, began teaching at O.U.

Economics 130

Economics Political Science Sociology Psychology 130

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 18, 2018

From Greensboro lunch counters to Tiananmen Square, youth have led significant campaigns for social and political change throughout history. Students are left with an impression of civic life as one of memorizing and adopting mainstream practices presented in history books. It’s the epitome of a teachable moment.

Civics 88

Civics Social Studies Critical Thinking History 88

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 20, 2023

When I first ran for school board in 2017, I was concerned about climate change personally but honestly didn’t understand what role I could play as a school board member. Related: One state mandates teaching climate change in almost all subjects – even PE That doesn’t mean these changes will be easy or easily affordable.

History 107

History Teaching High School Education 107

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 19, 2021

While the pandemic still took its toll, adapting to online learning was smoother in Lindsay due to its preexisting infrastructure and history of adaptation. But educators in Lindsay say that, while there’s more work on the front end, the district’s model actually makes teaching easier in the long run.

High School 139

High School Tradition History Tutoring 139

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 31, 2020

The data was from the 2018-19 academic year, with the exception of Nevada, which has released only the data from 2017-18. Teachers with more than five years of experience tend to be more effective and more likely to stay in the field for the long-term, boosting student performance in schools where they dominate the teaching force.

Elementary School 145

Elementary School Public School Advocacy Research 145