The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Law enforcement agencies reported 7,175 hate crimes in 2017, up from 6,121 in 2016. . According to the 2018 Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program’s annual Hate Crime Statistics report , law enforcement agencies reported 7,175 hate crimes in 2017, up from 6,121 in 2016. Incidents of hate are on the rise in the U.S.,

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ED Surge

AUGUST 16, 2022

What am I teaching today? With a to-do list this long, do I even have time to teach? “I This is how the last year of teaching went for me. Teaching With a Broken Heart They say teaching is “a work of the heart,” and indeed, it is. I was always completing tasks for other people. I felt trapped.

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Catlin Tucker

JANUARY 13, 2021

The development of a social presence in a class has been shown to positively impact both engagement and learning outcomes (Richardson, Maeda, Lv & Caskurlu, 2017; Swan, 2019). Teaching online has made building community even more challenging, so I suggest starting each class with a check-in activity or a fun question.

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Anthropology.net

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

The research, published in Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences 1 , presents compelling micro-archaeological evidence that fire was not just a survival tool but a defining cultural trait of the Gravettian tradition. Sitting around a fire would have been a time for storytelling, teaching, and reinforcing group identity.

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Political Science Now

JULY 11, 2024

Event: Teaching the 2024 U.S. King, Old Dominion University Juan Carlos Huerta, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi (Moderator) Michelle Allendoerfer, American Political Science Association Please direct all questions to teaching@apsanet.org. The post Webinar Series: Teaching the 2024 U.S. Engaging the 2024 U.S.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 25, 2023

The ability to learn and grow is part of what made teaching dynamic and energizing for me. The way sessions were facilitated often contradicted research-based teaching strategies. In 2017, I formed an after-school student activism and leadership club with a small group of seventh grade students. another student added.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 22, 2020

Off camera, their mother, Erica Stack, supervises while preparing to teach her own school class online. Brian Stack is principal of Sanborn Regional High School in Kingston, New Hampshire, and co-author of Breaking With Tradition: The Shift to Competency-Based Learning in PLCs at Work (2017). Photo: Brian Stack.

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Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

Richland School District Two will launch summer classes in high school credit CS and coding instruction in summer 2017 to compensate for limited teacher-led instruction during the traditional school year. Forging meaningful partnerships with institutions of higher education.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 25, 2020

The University of La Verne in Southern California has had twice as many traditional undergraduates sign up for the summer as it did last year. The University of La Verne in Southern California doubled summer enrollment among traditional undergraduates this year, the school said. Credit: Iris Schneider for The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Agua Fria Union High School District had just 6 percent of in-school suspension days assigned because of attendance problems in 2021-22, compared with 40 percent in 2017-18. is an alternative school that welcomes students who didn’t find the behavioral or academic support they needed in traditional schools. So why would I go?”.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2021

A task force studying the problem in 2017 found those layers of developmental coursework were a barrier for many students, who would become discouraged and drop out, according to Brad Fricks, director of academic affairs for the community college system. That is the traditional way that developmental education has worked.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 23, 2024

Since 2017, 93 percent of students taking it have passed, and 83 percent have achieved all the course’s learning goals, including the ability to use arithmetic, geometry, algebra and trigonometry to solve welding problems, school data show. Even modest gains like that are hard to achieve, said Navarro Chandler, a dean at the college.

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 15, 2019

Rather than taking a traditional multiple choice test at the end of their unit on weather, sixth grade students at Gilbert Middle School in South Carolina created their own live weather reports—complete with green screens and fake snow.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 8, 2021

The thing that we’re trying to debunk with this research is to actually show that project-based learning is a rigorous form of teaching and learning. The Lucas foundation originally tried to finance the development of a project-based curriculum to teach math. The positive spillover effects for other subjects are noteworthy.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 22, 2020

Institutions are now scrambling to rethink how they recruit and teach students from abroad as they prepare for fall 2020. “As In the 2017-2018 school year, 34 percent of international students were from China. In the 2017-2018 school year, it had more international students than any other historically black college or university.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 9, 2018

Fourth-graders didn’t improve in 2017 in either subject. The average performance of the nation’s fourth- and eighth-graders mostly held steady in math and reading from 2015 to 2017, now marking a decade of stalled educational progress, according to the results of a test released Tuesday. Photo: Jackie Mader/The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 22, 2020

The study tracked a group of 4,700 assistant principals, who constitute the main recruiting ground for principals, from 2001 to 2017 in Texas. The authors suspected that Texas might be unusual because there is a huge demand for leaders with bilingual skills and experience in teaching English as a second language.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

We established district-wide instructional calendars, regularly administered formative assessments and analyzed data to pinpoint student weaknesses for re-teaching and remediation. Often that involved thinking differently about how, when and where teaching and learning actually occur. In 2017, we raised it again to 99.7

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Pedagogy to Share

AUGUST 21, 2023

After experiencing teaching with digital tools during the pandemic, they are eager to learn about and adopt digital tools which suit their educational aims and their students’ unique needs. Participants will generate a list of ways to incorporate the tools in their unique teaching contexts. Website: [link] Burton, R. Buttrey, K.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 8, 2020

The $26-million school opened in 2017 with a central goal: to make kindergarten here more playful and joyful. Sara Stevens teaches a lesson to her kindergarteners. While students have lots of time to play, they also learn traditional and rigorous academic material during the school year. Photo: Jackie Mader/The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 29, 2020

They work with two students at a time in a special class that follows a Saga Education curriculum tailored to the needs of each student and aligned with their school’s curriculum for their traditional math class. At this point, the model, which serves about 3,500 kids in around two dozen schools in Chicago, New York City and Washington, D.C.,

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Digital Promise

JULY 14, 2020

The DLP was an instructional coaching program in which teachers were coached to use technology in more powerful ways that enhance their teaching practices and their students’ engagement and learning. We learned many lessons during these three years, and we are thrilled to share what we’ve learned in our new Instructional Coaching Playbook.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 15, 2020

RAND continued to track the children through seventh grade in 2017, after an additional two years of not attending the summer school. But Dusseault hasn’t seen examples of schools testing new ways of teaching online, or trying new ways of mixing in-person with computerized instruction. “In

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 7, 2016

Davida Walls never thought she would be teaching high school biology, let alone in the first few months after graduating from college at 22. Teaching was not my initial goal. In 2011-2012, the university had 52 teaching interns. CREDIT SARAH WHITES-KODITSCHEK / ARKANSAS PUBLIC MEDIA. This year there may be as few as 19.

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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

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

The Roux Institute opened last year in borrowed space in this tech company building on the Portland, Maine, waterfront to teach computer science and other subjects. All three strategies are in large part a reproach to traditional higher education, which has often failed to provide the right programs to the people who increasingly need them.

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ED Surge

MAY 30, 2023

public schools, in addition to completing the long-standing requirement of student teaching for a semester. “We Ocheze Joseph And these students aren’t just getting relevant teaching experience. A legislative change in 2017 allowed the college to begin offering bachelor’s degrees for the first time. They’re also getting paid.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 17, 2016

AltSchool – a California-based chain that promises to use technology to help teachers provide personal-fit lessons for its students – will share its proprietary technology in 2017 with three independent schools in Virginia and Florida, it announced Tuesday. It’s an interesting idea.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 26, 2021

The day’s professional development for these Chicago Public Schools teachers, alumni of the program, was a refresher, a way to strengthen their teaching practice, share ideas and return to the classroom newly inspired. I’ve been teaching for 30 years, and now you’re gonna make me do what?”. I didn’t have the mindset to make this shift.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

A classroom using the Teach to One math program. In the fall of 2015, five schools in the industrial port city of Elizabeth, New Jersey, dumped their usual math curriculum and started teaching their middle school students through a computerized system called “Teach to One.” Photo: Nichole Dobo.

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ED Surge

APRIL 8, 2022

But some careers, like teaching, have long existed outside the realm of the open market, despite their importance to a functioning society. and Dallas have developed systems to measure teacher quality and incentivize highly effective teaching practices. In these districts, the theory goes, the better you teach, the more you’re paid.

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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. Related: Getting rid of gifted programs: Trying to teach students at all levels together in one class. The district settled without admitting guilt, paying the plaintiffs $2.5

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ED Surge

MAY 5, 2023

With enrollment in traditional teacher education programs declining nationwide in the past few years, it is drying up at an alarming rate. According to a report published in 2017 by the Economic Policy Institute, large urban districts spend approximately $20,000 on every new hire. The teacher pipeline is no longer leaking.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 11, 2019

In many places, it’s simply tradition. Many schools want to incorporate more innovative teaching and learning methods in their schools. Some teachers don’t want their schools to adopt personalized learning initiatives if it means overhauling their teaching strategies without the time and support to do it well.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 2, 2019

The county-based programs for high schoolers are so popular that of the nearly 30,000 young people who applied for spots in the programs in 2017, only about 13,000 students received a seat. And they are popular: Of the almost 30,000 teenagers who applied for spots in New Jersey’s vocational programs in 2017, only about 13,000 received seats.

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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. Teachers and students walk through the teaching site during a session at Sol Forest School in New Mexico. 585 forest kindergartens and outdoor preschools exist in the U.S. When many U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

In Watertown, New York, for example, educators have been teaching through play in pre-K and kindergarten for years, said former Superintendent Patti LaBarr, but the district recently shifted to encouraging play for older elementary students, too. This is how it’s supposed to sound.’”. Related: How can we improve early science education?

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