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MAY 2, 2024

A Teacher’s Guide to Celebrating Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month May 2, 2024 • Studies Weekly Diverse perspectives strengthen education, according to Heather Singmaster’s EdWeek article from November 2018. They broaden students’ view of history and teach them to respect people from different cultures.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 1, 2020

And the California State University system as a whole is one of the biggest remote educators in the country; more than 150,000 students took online courses there in the 2018-19 academic year. A history with online education made this spring’s transition easier for some schools.

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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.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 20, 2021

While the percentage of white students has steadily decreased nationwide in recent decades — from 54 percent in 2009 to 47 percent in 2018 — nearly 80 percent of public school teachers are white, according to the most recent federal survey. And candidates with non-traditional teaching backgrounds are considered. These are educators.

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Sapiens

OCTOBER 15, 2024

The response from readers was unlike any he had experienced, prompting him to expand his ideas into a book, B t Jobs: A Theory , first published in 2018. Graeber’s book is conversational in style, drawing on history, literature, sociology, anthropology, and pop culture to support his arguments.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Spokespeople from the schools say the criticism doesn’t reflect the fact that they often enroll students who are struggling academically, are enrolled for short periods, and have a history of changing schools frequently, a metric shown to hurt academic performance. They also say they are taking steps to improve retention and graduation rates.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 6, 2020

They graduated from Amherst College in 2018. Kyndall Ashe, 2018 graduate of Amherst College. If you’re wondering if you can say the N-word, Black at Tulane has a detailed Instagram story explaining the history of the word and who should and shouldn’t say it.

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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

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

JUNE 23, 2020

Schools hold the history and culture of a place through yearbooks, trophy cases, and photo archives. School traditions often connect one generation to the next, providing a sense of community stability and cohesion. We use schools as polling stations and for neighborhood association meetings.

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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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ED Surge

JANUARY 25, 2022

So when schools called us during the summer of 2021, they often asked whether they should stick with the schedules they created for distance, hybrid or safer in-person learning or return to a more traditional format. Our consistent answer is: “Don’t go back!” The truth is, some do and some don’t.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 15, 2022

I actually lower my standards,” John Hunt, who teaches history, told Tuminez at a contentious meeting of the faculty senate she attended in October, a video of the meeting shows. Those administrators increasingly include presidents who did not come up through the traditional faculty ranks. Tuminez became president of UVU in 2018.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 19, 2021

While the pandemic still took its toll, adapting to online learning was smoother in Lindsay due to its preexisting infrastructure and history of adaptation. The new approach threw out many traditional facets of education such as the A-F grading scale and time-based learning in which students advance to a new grade level each year.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2023

It’s the night of the final class of her course, “Children with Special Needs: History and Practice.” Kimberly Eckert, dean of Reach University and the 2018 Louisiana Teacher of the Year, stands outside Brusly Elementary School in West Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana. Her 24 classmates smile and wave as they log on from different states.

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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 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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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. Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images).

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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

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

If traditional liberal arts colleges do not make sufficient efforts to accommodate the “new majority” of first-generation college students, students of color, adults and veterans, then many will be in danger of closing. Integrate into graduate preparation knowledge about the history, philosophy and culture of U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2020

Those efforts allowed the district of 520 schools and educational centers to transition relatively smoothly from traditional learning to distance learning when the school system shut on March 16, Carvalho said. Half of the 20 most destructive wildfires in state history have occurred since 2015.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 22, 2018

Kids in traditional schools sometimes act like they’re on a cruise ship, where they sit on deck and teachers bring them stuff to do,” Berger said. “We The sentiment is echoed by Jason Krause, principal of Denver’s Columbine Elementary School, which joined the EL network in 2018. Ten schools began using the model in 1993.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 7, 2018

A sculpture by artist Kwame Akoto-Bamfo, part of the Nkyinkyim Installation, of enslaved people in chains is shown after entering The National Memorial for Peace and Justice on April 20, 2018 in Montgomery, Al. It is patently a form of terrorism meant to intimidate communities, enforce racist traditions and maintain racial hierarchies.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 23, 2019

Michael is a senior at Vertus High School , an all-boys charter school in the Rochester City School District whose hallmark is a program that blends online classes with more traditional classroom teaching. For his part, though, Michael appreciates the opportunity to work faster than traditional classrooms allow.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 5, 2021

But now a convergence of factors — a dwindling pool of traditional-age students, the call for more educated workers and a pandemic that highlighted economic disparities and scrambled habits and jobs — is putting adults in the spotlight. Traditional institutions have treated adults “as a kind of afterthought,” he said.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 25, 2018

“I don’t like to lead with this about myself,” he said during a discussion group on Thucydides’ history of the Peloponnesian War, “but I’m a veteran and I’ve been to war.”. Maybe, just maybe, if [those] students were sitting in English and history class with men and women whom the U.S.

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 14, 2016

High school students create story maps to deepen their own learning and help others, in history, science, and even English literature. Ordonez is able to organize information and present students with a brief introduction on topics ranging from architecture to ancient history. Because of Prezi’s ConnectED commitment, Ms.

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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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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

as a female child of immigrants from Taiwan, this kind of behavior is practically sacrilegious; certainly scandalous and wildly antithetical to my traditional upbringing. Are you asking about my culture, what languages I speak, or what my family history is?” Growing up in the U.S. Teachers College Press. Racism and health. Alsaidi, S.,

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 13, 2022

In 2018, in an attempt to ease the housing affordability crisis, Bozeman approved an “inclusionary zoning” policy that required builders to include affordable homes in their developments or pay a fee. It’s hard to think,” said James, a sixth grader, of the district’s traditional middle school. Credit: Neal Morton/The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

To become certified in Mississippi, teachers must meet three requirements: Earn a bachelor’s degree; complete a traditional or alternate teacher training program; and pass the Praxis. In July 2018, the state hired a full-time employee to focus on teacher recruitment and retention. Adrienne Hudson, founder of RISE.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 6, 2022

He planned to major not in history or English, but in the high-demand field of supply chain management. Adding more vocational training to traditional education appears to be a popular way of addressing this. Then supply chain management suddenly showed up among the offerings at Adrian. “I It now has 303 member institutions.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 6, 2022

We asked for disciplinary data capturing in-school and out-of-school suspensions, expulsions and transfers that: Spanned the 2017-18, 2018-19, 2019-20, 2020-21 and 2021-22 school years. Included the reason for each disciplinary action. Noted, for suspensions, how many days the punishment lasted.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 23, 2019

Morales started out as an elementary-school teacher, then switched to academic counseling, which she’s done at LA High for the past eleven years; Martinez worked there, too, teaching history and social studies, until six years ago, when he was transferred to another high school in the district. Tammy Kim/Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 4, 2019

And given the former abundance of well-paying, blue-collar jobs in this corner of Indiana, the university is also up against a regional tradition that doesn’t necessarily place a high value on a college degree, she said.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 5, 2018

But Beard and others know the district has yet to overcome the deep disparities that have defined so much of its history. In June 2018, Judge Robert Schroeder lifted Longview ISD’s court order. They are roughly half of the students enrolled at Longview’s specialized elementary school, which has higher academic standards.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

A Google search led him to the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, a state flagship school with prize-winning economists and a history of indigenous activism. Angela Richards graduated from the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities in 2018. Photo: Caroline Preston/The Hechinger Report.

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