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AUGUST 16, 2022

I hope no behavioral concerns arise, because if I can avoid a parent phone call I might be able to get some of this done—well, that is if I do a virtual assignment during social studies. My heart ached as I swapped out favorite classroom activities and traditions for ones that required less prep, hoping the kids wouldn’t notice. “I

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 21, 2019

Within each subject, schools identified learning targets, clearly explaining what students would need to demonstrate in order to be considered “proficient” — a shift away from the traditional system’s emphasis on logging seat time to earn credits and progress. percent between 2009 and 2017. considered passing. percent to 89.1

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 18, 2018

That law, known as Act 77, “opened up learning beyond the four walls of the traditional classroom,” says John Fischer, who was a deputy secretary of the Vermont Agency of Education at the time. “It Some students were learning well in a traditional classroom, and for others, it wasn’t working for them.”.

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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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OCTOBER 29, 2020

The committees are different from traditional student government, she said, because any student can join. The turnout for 16- and 17-year-olds in local elections between 2013 and 2017 averaged roughly 42 percent, compared with 20 percent overall, according to data from the city clerk’s office. In 2012, it became the first U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Virtual for-profit charter schools got started in the early 2000s, as the companies that run them seized on a business opportunity in online education pioneered by traditional public schools a half-decade earlier. Related : The pandemic’s remote learning legacy: A lot worth keeping. Stride Inc., formerly K12 Inc.,

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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. The “co-location” of charters on the grounds of traditional public schools is increasingly common. At 7 a.m., Tammy Kim/Hechinger Report.

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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

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 Johnson was opening outside the traditional public system not to create some kind of segregated fiefdom but because that’s where she knew how to run a great school.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 5, 2018

Until 2017, New Orleans high schools had no internal options to help students who fell so far behind a conventional diploma seemed impossible. “My In 2016 schools earned the 25-point incentive for a total of only 41 students citywide; the 2017 total was worse, a mere 17 students. They’re behind in a traditional school setting.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 4, 2018

percent in 2017. Also, Massachusetts public schools have been relatively slow to adopt student-centered learning, perhaps in part because traditional teaching approaches seem to work so well here—last year the state’s averages topped the National As sessment of Educational Progress test scores in reading and math. percent in 2017.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 4, 2023

Another law passed in 2017 incentivized districts to contract with outside entities, including charter school managers, to assume control of schools that aren’t meeting state standards. That new rule tipped it from a D to an F under an A-F rating system Abbott had signed into law in 2017. It failed on a 5-4 vote.

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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. We thought our big contribution could be laying out how to do this in the traditional public school environment,” Resnick said.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

She followed her parents into education (her father was a geography professor) and returned to teach social studies at the high school. In 2015, she was named secondary teacher of the year; in 2017, the graduating class dedicated the yearbook to her. It should not be a dumping ground for educators or for kids, she said. “My

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 7, 2018

It is patently a form of terrorism meant to intimidate communities, enforce racist traditions and maintain racial hierarchies. The Alabama social studies curriculum , for instance, doesn’t really explain or even mention lynching. But what are we to make of the 2017 murder of Philando Castile by St. Anthony, Minn.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 9, 2024

And over the next two decades, researchers studying programs across the United States released a stream of evidence about the benefits of bilingual education, especially a version called dual language. Traditional bilingual education essentially lets students use their first language while they learn English.

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NOVEMBER 23, 2022

In 2017, Thorne’s last year as a high school teacher, he was one of only about 1,436 Black male teachers in South Carolina, or less than 3 percent of the total teacher workforce, according to the state’s department of education. That last rejection in spring 2017 was the last straw for Thorne. Why didn’t you tell us?

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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

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

It had no textbooks for math, science or social studies. In 2017, six Havasupai families sued the federal government, alleging that the Bureau of Indian Education, which operates Havasupai Elementary and is housed within the Interior Department, deprived their children of their federal right to an education.

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Cult of Pedagogy

MARCH 6, 2025

Most games employ a lot of the cultural tools youd find in oral traditions repetition, solving a puzzle, making connections between things that dont seem to be related.” ” Games are also a way of adding more socialization to your classroom, which is another culturally responsive ingredient Hammond recommends.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 19, 2021

The groundwork for the disastrous insurrection incited by Trump unfolded over the course of years, as he boldly attacked our democratic norms and traditions. It’s a notion that has long been baked into history textbooks and social studies curricula. Related: Why students are ignorant about the Civil Rights Movement.

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