ED Surge

DECEMBER 15, 2021

For years, the global learning platform Kahoot has been growing its foothold in the K-12 space through acquisitions and add-ons to its popular quiz platform. It’s the latest example of an established K-12 education company moving into the early childhood space. And no, it’s not more quizzes.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 14, 2024

Some of them travel to the campus during the school day to take courses in introductory English, history, psychology and sociology. From 2018 to 2023, the college recorded a 39 percent increase in Monmouth County high school students enrolling in its college-level courses. That push is evident at Brookdale. Good for Everyone?

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 10, 2024

Our K-8 school scored in the top 10 percent of the state’s public schools on a comprehensive evaluation that considers proficiency, growth and other key indicators. Unlike their Finnish counterparts, Japanese teens improved upon their 2018 PISA scores in every subject despite the Covid-19 disruption.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 29, 2019

Attendance is nearly 95 percent, the number of students meeting or exceeding academic standards in English is on par with statewide levels and the school reported zero suspensions in 2018. “I Russell Thompson teaches a statistics class at Boston’s Henderson K-12 Inclusion School. We’re going to deal with it every day.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

That’s because since 2010 the number of students enrolled in teacher prep programs at colleges has fallen by more than a third, from about 900,000 students in 2010-11 to only 600,000 in the 2018-19 academic year, according to the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education. Or read a partial transcript, edited for clarity, below.

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 20, 2018

2018 was an incredible year for the Digital Promise League of Innovative Schools and Education Innovation Clusters (EdClusters). On the 12th day of Innovation, the League and Clusters gave to you… 12 New League Districts. In 2018, we welcomed 12 new districts: Arcadia Unified School District , D.C.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Luke Said, 18, spent the summer of 2018 picking raspberries. million for the 2018-19 and 2019-20 school years, according to numbers requested from the district finance office. In 2018, five of seven made it. The district also offers courses like Digital Audio Production, History of American Pop and AP Music Theory.

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 14, 2016

These innovative art programs are the brainchild of Robert Hoang, who joined the Burbank team last year to teach visual arts to K–6 students, and to work with his colleagues to plan arts integration lessons. In the remote village of Nanwalek, Alaska, the K-12 school was planning to improve its slow, satellite-provided Internet connection.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

A man watches an artificial intelligence (AI) news anchor from a state-controlled news broadcaster, on his computer in Beijing on November 9, 2018. Related: Youth will determine the outcome of the 2018 midterms. Consequently, students don’t have to spend hours memorizing formulas and moments in history.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Missouri Western State University eliminated majors, minors and concentrations in English, history, philosophy, sociology, political science, art and other subjects. Spending on higher education fell in 16 of the 20 most rural states between 2008 and 2018, when adjusted for inflation. million and climbing.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

After relinquishing his dreams of becoming a teacher, Everett Anderson graduated from Jackson State University in 2018 with a bachelor's degree in social work. In 2021, AACTE conducted a landscape analysis examining the history of these assessments and found that their impact on teachers of color has been profound and persistent for decades.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2018

Mitch Askew, a history teacher at Flagstaff High School, marches with his two-year-old son. His father, who’d worked construction himself and was the head custodian at Askew’s small K–12 public school, pointed him in a different direction. Would white-collar educators, in 2018, have better results? FLAGSTAFF, AZ. —

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

In March of 2018, Tenaya Middle School officials in Fresno, California pulled a 14-year-old male student out of class for a haircut with shaved-in designs. Booker’s interest was piqued after 16-year-old New Jersey wrestler, Andrew Johnson, was ordered by a referee in 2018 to cut his dreadlocks or forfeit his match.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 9, 2019

It wasn’t until my first day of high school, in history, that a window of understanding was opened for me. The teacher used a curriculum from Facing History and Ourselves , an educational nonprofit that provides teachers with tools to engage their students in examining bigotry. .” Sign up for our newsletter.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 21, 2018

Two studies on elementary schools published in June 2018 point to the importance giving teachers and students plenty of time to form relationships. Harvard University’s Roland Fryer set out to test just that in an experiment , published in the June 2018 issue of the American Economic Review. Students may learn more.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 17, 2019

Black and brown people are more exposed than white people because of educational issues and historic occupational histories. We’re trying to change the mindset within the K-12 system that modern manufacturing in the Golden Triangle is not the 4 D’s: It’s not dirty, not dangerous, not disappearing, and not for the dumb,” said Shaunak.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 17, 2019

In a survey, 12% of community college and 9% of university students reported they were homeless. “I’ve The program at UWT was spearheaded by student government leaders who reached out to the housing authority and K?z The housing authority pays K?z I’ve been doing awesome ever since,” said Gorder. “I

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Becoming a History Teacher

JUNE 11, 2024

Gore, J., & Thomas, K. 10.1108/JPCC-12-2018-0032. McCormack, A., Early Career Teacher Professional Learning. Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education , 34 (1), 95–113. link] Podolsky, Anne & Kini, Tara & Darling-Hammond, Linda. Does teaching experience increase teacher effectiveness? A review of US research.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 28, 2022

In 2018 Congress allocated federal funds to train schools on threat assessment. A few weeks after a school shooting in Maryland in March 2018, state legislators passed a law mandating threat assessment teams in schools. In August, New Jersey joined 18 other states that require school districts to have such teams.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Graziano, the skeptic I quoted above, was one of the first researchers to come out with a scientific study of fidget spinners, titled “ To Fidget or Not to Fidget, That is the Question, ” and published in the Journal of Attention Disorders in 2018.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 30, 2020

A district court judge threw the case out in 2018 without hearing evidence, saying the students’ rights weren’t being violated, even if the conditions in the five Detroit schools were “nothing short of devastating.”. At one elementary school, third-graders had only picture books to look at until their teacher bought books to read.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 12, 2018

But I do read memoirs—most recently, How Schools Work: An Inside Account of Failure and Success from One of the Nation’s Longest-Serving Secretaries of Education (2018), by Arne Duncan. A federal evaluation found no effects of 12 for Life on students’ grade-point averages, the number of suspensions or the number of school dropouts.).

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 27, 2018

“Any woman doing ‘women’s work’ is not seen as skilled,” said Marcy Whitebook, co-director of the Center for the Study of Child Care Employment at the University of California, Berkeley, and lead author of the 2018 Early Childhood Workforce Index. All of the statistics cited above come from the new report. “We That’s what we have to do.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 4, 2019

For example, a 2018 study in Illinois found that female teachers make, on average, $2,000 less per year than their male colleagues, and the gap grows to $4,000 at the administrative level. Related: College graduation rates rise, but racial gaps persist and men still out-earn women.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 29, 2019

Now she wants others to learn that history. In 2018, nearly half the student body had to attend summer school to make up credits. “I Rather than operating schools, it is our job to approve who has the privilege to operate a school,” Lewis said at an October 2018 press conference.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

For example, in history, students need to interpret documents in light of their sources, seek corroboration and put them in their historical context. In the paper, Willingham traces the history of teaching critical thinking. But it is entirely applicable to the American context.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 13, 2019

Stern (Louisiana State University Press, 2018). Indeed, although rooted firmly in the past (Stern’s narrative ends in late 1960 when New Orleans’ schools “desegregated” with the enrollment of four black girls in white schools) the book, like any good history, enhances our understanding of the present.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 28, 2019

A 10th grader, above, answers a question in one of those classes, which offers black history and culture along with social-emotional lessons and academic and college advice. Throughout the city, the black male graduation rate jumped from 46 percent in 2010 to 69 percent in 2018.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 9, 2018

On a piece a paper, I wrote “Black History Month.” ” I asked my peers to sign it if they agreed that we should celebrate Black History Month at our school. A’Niya Bankston is a student at Oakland Technical High School in Oakland, California, and the 2018-19 chair of the student leadership board of Generation Citizen.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 15, 2020

Andrew Cuomo proposed in 2018 that large districts that receive at least half of their revenue from the state demonstrate they are allocating money to the neediest schools as a condition for receiving budget approval from the education commissioner, district leaders bucked. For instance, when New York Gov.

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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. Student interviews were carried out during the 2015-2016, 2016-2017 and 2017-2018 school years. school system is a “mess.” Do they feel that way? Let me just quit.”

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 29, 2018

October 27, 2018 — Pittsburgh, PA, United States — Police outside the Tree of Life Synagogue in Squirrel Hill, Pittsburgh, PA in the aftermath of the shooting that killed 11 people on October 27. Photo: Aaron Jackendoff/SOPA Images via ZUMA Wire. “Do Do I need to tell my teacher that I’m Jewish?

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 8, 2018

At the beginning of the 2017-18 school year, freshman history teacher Matt Stuckey, one of the school’s most experienced personalized-learning practitioners, told students that change wouldn’t happen all at once. History teacher Caroline Billings embraced the changes. Photo: Mike Elsen-Rooney for The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 23, 2019

Now, if he finishes a history lesson first, for example, he goes on to the next one – or switches to another subject. Each student still takes life sciences, global history, algebra and the other courses New York State requires for graduation. Here, a quote from a 2018 graduate. It helps me stay on track and focused,” he said.

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Political Science Now

JULY 16, 2024

The panelists draw on diverse research methods to support their claims, including text analysis, life histories, and differences-in-differences regression. Political Theorists on Civic Education Saturday, September 7, 12:00pm – 1:30pm Full Paper Panel Participants : (Chair) Peter Levine, Tufts University (Discussant) Joshua M.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

After passing the core tests, most educators then take one or more of the Praxis II exams, which are focused on various subject specialties (so a would-be high school history teacher would take a Praxis II history test, for example). In July 2018, the state hired a full-time employee to focus on teacher recruitment and retention.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

Damian Lopez, 4, gives Denver Public Schools Superintendent Tom Boabserg a high-five as he arrives for the first day of school at Escalante-Biggs Academy on August 20, 2018 in Denver, Colorado. Change won’t be easy, and if history is any lesson, it will be a long time coming. Photo by RJ Sangosti/The Denver Post via Getty Images.

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