The Hechinger Report

MARCH 27, 2019

“Ninth graders who have spent their whole life being told what to learn, some of them don’t even know what they’re interested in because they haven’t been given the opportunity.”. In traditional schools, it’s easier to offer a steady stream of rewards and punishments to keep students in line. Students don’t take traditional classes.

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Middle School Tradition Elementary School High School 112

The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2020

Related: Project-based learning boosts student engagement, understanding. The parent community at Rhodes is not particularly involved, said Christie, and there hasn’t been the pushback to Summit or online learning that other communities have faced. How do they draw that something is happening?”.

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Junior High Charter School Social Studies Elementary School 128

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 21, 2016

But ironically, a fixed syllabus of readings and assignments for open-ended project-based learning courses may prevent us from capitalizing on “teachable moments.”. In the learning sciences, teachable moments go by many names: impasse-driven learning, preparation of future learning, desirable difficulties, or productive failure.

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Project-Based Learning Library Learning Science Tradition 49

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Students who serve on the committees learn how to research, organize and identify solutions to issues in their schools, said Salgado. The committees are different from traditional student government, she said, because any student can join. That’s held true in Takoma Park, a Maryland town of 18,000 near Washington, D.C.

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Civics Civic Engagement High School Government 143

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

Often, students struggling in these subjects find ways around taking them in traditional high schools, and, lacking the mandatory prerequisites, are ineligible to take advanced math and science classes in college. Information was based on surveys of 12th graders in 2012 in North Carolina and 2013 in Texas. Photo: Kathleen Lucadamo.

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High School Tradition Tutoring Project-Based Learning 109

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2019

The two had spent nearly seven years designing a new kind of high school meant to address the needs of students who didn’t thrive in a traditional setting. They’d developed a projects-driven curriculum that would give students nearly unprecedented control over what they would learn, in a small, supportive environment.

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Charter School Project-Based Learning Public School High School 107

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 11, 2020

In West Philadelphia, one of the poorest areas in that city, a five-year, $30 million Promise Neighborhood grant went into effect in 2017. Related: Project-based learning and standardized tests don’t mix. The progress is there, she said, if you know where to look for it. “We

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Charter School Economics Project-Based Learning High School 100

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 5, 2018

As the 2017-18 school year ended, the district had lost roughly 10,100 students to charter schools — privately managed public schools — more than doubling the previous school year’s loss. Hired in the spring of 2017, Choudhury has big plans for the district. Martinez and his team were navigating grim financial terrain.

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Charter School K-12 Elementary School Economics 43