The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 1, 2018

Students have access to hundreds of courses while they are in Illinois’ juvenile justice facilities, but they tend to focus on math, language arts, social studies and science. According to state data, the number of young people in state juvenile justice facilities dropped from 901 at the end of 2012 to 386 in 2017.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

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 Schools superintendent Dennis Dupree came to the city 12 years ago, promising innovation. We never really integrated.”. There was no time to waste.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

A 2017 investigation by The Hechinger Report and Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting found that even though Mississippi’s social studies standards were once considered a model for other states, many school districts rely on old textbooks that don’t adequately teach or address civil rights issues.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 5, 2018

In a number of states, including Louisiana, adult education — which ranges from basic literacy to vocational training to high-school equivalency testing — is lumped with technical and community colleges, separate from the K-12 system. My grades were perfect. But I was a chatterbox.”. Teachers might tell me to go to school,” she said.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 28, 2019

The hope is that if kids can become proficient in reading early on, they’ll be much more likely to succeed in all of their subjects, from science to social studies, because students need to know how to read to learn the material. Nevada and Michigan will join them in the upcoming 2019-20 school year.

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Studies Weekly

JANUARY 10, 2024

Engagement and Focus According to the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and the American Academy of Pediatrics, children ages 8-12 spend three times more on screens than is recommended daily. Bagley encourages teachers to use Studies Weekly print publications with the Studies Weekly Online learning platform.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 7, 2016

Informing non-certified teachers of their options is part of a strategy for training local residents, like new Central High School 8th and 9th grade social studies teacher Tiffany Gant. Pathways to certification offered in the state include traditional university-based degree programs, Teach for America, Arkansas Teacher Corp.,

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 23, 2019

on day four of the strike, Nadia Morales, a counselor at Los Angeles High School, and Pedro Martinez, a social-studies teacher at Eagle Rock High School, prepare their children for the day. At 7 a.m., Tammy Kim/Hechinger Report. Today, LA High is what’s called a community school, intended to serve the surrounding area.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 30, 2018

A 2017 study by the RAND Corporation found that 17 percent of teachers in the personalized learning schools surveyed said they devote a least a quarter of class time to tutoring students one-on-one, compared to just 9 percent of teachers surveyed nationwide. Related: Choosing personalized learning as a strategy for educational equity.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 21, 2019

percent between 2009 and 2017. It’s a new innovation lab that combines two different disciplines — social studies and math. As of 2017, 48 of 49 districts had a form of proficiency-based graduation requirements in place for the class of 2020, according to state officials. percent to 89.1

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 13, 2019

Paul, teachers began their contract campaign in 2017 with a rally outside U.S. It also wants the state to reconsider a 2017 bill that would direct surpluses from the subsidy program to education. A year prior, 17,000 Colorado teachers marched on the state’s capitol, demanding that legislators fund “classrooms not corporations.”

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 11, 2017

Social Studies teacher Michelle Adler talks to sophomores Maiya Schwartz, left and Emily Terranova about an assignment in an Honors Human Geography class at Gray-New Gloucester High School on Thursday, June 1, 2017. Michelle Adler, social studies teacher and local union president, Gray-New Gloucester High School.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 18, 2018

At Randolph Union, the pioneer — the “pied piper,” as Goldstein calls him — is Ken Cadow, a former Navy lieutenant and grocery store owner who was given a 2017 Champion award by the Vermont Agency of Education and the New England Secondary School Consortium for his efforts in workforce development and personalized learning.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 12, 2017

Subjects: Language Arts, Social Studies. Lesson Plan: Hechinger Report columnist Andre Perry speaks to student attendees at letter writing campaign rally protesting cuts to Louisiana’s merit scholarship program, TOPS, on April 4, 2017, at the Peoples Health New Orleans Jazz Market. Please share your lesson plans and/or letters.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 20, 2020

NEW YORK — Social studies teacher Karen Rose stepped out of New Rochelle High School last month for what will likely be the last time. Karen Rose, a social studies teacher at New Rochelle High School, with Daniel Delgado, one of her former students. She worries about the students she hasn’t heard from.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 15, 2018

The opportunity for full-day K should be available for all,” said Harris Cooper, a professor of psychology and neuroscience at Duke University. During the summer of 2017, Paradis said, she and Main Dunstable’s three kindergarten teachers focused on the logistics of doubling their students’ time in school.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 18, 2017

Take a game like, ‘Do I have a Right?’ ” said Brian Furgione, a middle-school social studies teacher near Orlando, Florida. “In The site encourages teachers to contribute their own approaches via Facebook, Twitter and other social media networks. Most K-12 students can’t vote, but talking politics in class is more than academic.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 4, 2018

percent in 2017. After Garcia implemented student-centered learning at Revere High, proficient or advancescores on the MCAS for English jumped; in 2017, 82 percent of black students and 77 percent of Hispanic students achieved them. percent in 2017. Revere High School’s adjusted four-year graduation rate rose from 71.5

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2018

Just 44 percent of K-2 teachers felt they were “well prepared” to teach science, according to the survey, compared to 86 percent who felt well prepared to teach reading. hours per week on science during the 2011-12 school year, the last for which data is available, according to the National Center for Education Statistics.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2020

Teachers double up on subjects — one of her colleagues teaches social studies and science in one 90-minute block. The number of people receiving food stamp benefits grew in Terrebonne Parish from less than 15,000 in 2007 to 23,000 in 2017. It’s a choice fewer and fewer people in the parish can afford to make.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 3, 2018

Greg Cruey, a teacher at Southside K-8 school, greeting students in the morning. Greg Cruey, teacher, Southside K-8 School, McDowell County, West Virginia. My job as a teacher is to be a first responder to poverty,” said Cruey, a 58-year-old middle school social studies teacher at Southside K-8 school. “If

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2019

Healey School to bring student-led, project-based learning to regular math, science, language arts and social studies classes. The committee approved the plan in March 2017, with the school’s opening date set for August 2019, but union negotiations consumed almost two full years.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 21, 2022

Piles of debris have collected outside Buckhorn School, a K-12 school damaged by severe flooding in eastern Kentucky. Auggie had been excited to return to school for his favorite classes — social studies and reading — and Robinson’s robotics club. It took weeks in some cases for regular classes to resume.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

The laws have contributed to a climate in which “every classroom has been turned into a front” in a battle, said Melanie Willingham-Jaggers, executive director of GLSEN, which advocates for LGBTQ+ individuals in K-12 education. Every educator, every administrator now has to be on that front line every single day,” she said.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 9, 2024

Our free weekly newsletter consults critical voices on innovation and inequality in K-12 education. While dual-language programs often stop after elementary school, the bilingual advantage stretches through students K-12 years and into their working lives. The school opened a dual language program in 2017.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 7, 2018

The Alabama social studies curriculum , for instance, doesn’t really explain or even mention lynching. Teachers are directed to explain Jim Crow laws to students at different points in their course of study as the “systematic practice of discriminating against and segregation of black people.” Anthony, Minn.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 4, 2020

In 2017, the median wage for child care workers in all settings was $10.72 , compared to $26.88 Teachers with a bachelor’s degree or higher earn more if they work in a school-based public pre-K, for example, than if they work in a federally-funded Head Start center. for preschool teachers in schools and $31.29 In the U.S.,

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2020

A high school social studies book, also used in Texas, says of rising temperatures, “Some critics say that this warming is just part of the Earth’s natural cycle,” though, in truth, there’s overwhelming consensus among climate scientists that the current warming is due to human activities. Credit: Courtesy of Beatriz López.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 14, 2018

To inform his lessons, Gorman chose a curriculum called Teach Reconstruction created by the Zinn Education Project, a collaboration between social justice education nonprofits Teaching for Change, based in Washington, D.C. history and social studies curriculums. The program was also offered in 2016 and 2017.

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Zinn Education Project

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Teaching Resources Lessons and Articles About K–12 Lessons and teaching stories on Palestine and Israel from Rethinking Schools and the Zinn Education Project website. A social studies teacher uses conflicting narratives to engage students in studying the history of Palestine and Israel, focusing on the events of 1948.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

But once she left the K-8 school at the top of her grade, Siyuja stopped feeling so smart. Last year, eight years after Siyuja graduated, the K-8 school still did not offer pre-algebra, a course that most U.S. It had no textbooks for math, science or social studies. She graduated valedictorian of her class. Nonexistent.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 6, 2017

Between September 2016 and June 2017, the number of licensed work-based learning coordinators in Vermont increased from 38 to 53. Eurich also earned credit in economics, part of the social studies curriculum at Harwood, which meant he graduated with a full four years of social studies credit on his diploma.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 3, 2018

A 2017 Bureau of Labor and Statistics report found that Miami already has the highest concentration of security guards of any U.S. We can do our part in keeping schools safe by giving out hugs like candy on Halloween, helping kids feel a sense of belonging and welcome. metro, except Las Vegas.

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Cult of Pedagogy

MARCH 6, 2025

The announcement of this portal comes a month after the president released the Ending Radical Indoctrination in K-12 Schooling executive order, eliminating Federal funding or support for “illegal and discriminatory treatment and indoctrination in K-12 schools, including based on gender ideology and discriminatory equity ideology.”

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 31, 2019

High schoolers in a social studies class at Patchogue-Medford work on a lesson about the history of nationalism. Many, like Luís, came without their parents; Suffolk County received more than 1,000 unaccompanied minors in the 2017 fiscal year , according to the Office of Refugee Resettlement. The cost of crossing into the U.S.

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