Anthropology.net

MARCH 10, 2025

Scientific Reports, 12 (1), 5609. That lack of disturbance makes it an exceptional place to study how humans occupied the region during the final millennia of the Upper Paleolithic. The last Neanderthals of Italy: Evidence of late survival in the Reggio Emilia Apennines." DOI: 10.1038/s41598-022-09532-w Moroni, A., Ronchitelli, A.,

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

With experts predicting more extreme weather in 2023, that undoubtedly means schools will suffer more disruptions in a K-12 education era already defined by pandemic-related learning setbacks. Climate Change’s Education Cost Climate change impacts on K-12 education are a problem worldwide. In the U.S.,

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Maria and her husband arrived at Adventist HealthCare’s The Lourie Center for Children’s Social & Emotional Wellness in 2018, seeking answers for their then-2-year-old middle son, Lucas. The health and learning readiness gaps that build up before age 5 fuel the achievement gaps in K-12 education.

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Zinn Education Project

JULY 17, 2024

March for Children in Chicago, 2018. Social Justice Books offers a list of recommended books for pre-K–12 on immigration. Source: Flickr/Kurman Communications LLC The airwaves are full of inflammatory rhetoric about immigrants. Politicians are fear-mongering about an “invasion” at the Southern border.

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Cult of Pedagogy

MAY 29, 2024

I teach in a small 6-12 independent school with my colleague and friend, Nate Wolkenhauer. In my work with kids, if I’m going to get a 12-year-old to talk about something they feel vulnerable about — not reading fluently, failing the test, not understanding the homework — then I need to be both vulnerable and honest with them.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 5, 2024

What if, similarly, we learned about the motivations of aspiring K-12 teachers, and used that to predict how effective they will be and how long they will stay in the classroom? Society has always been fascinated to learn about the motivations of famous athletes, entertainers, and politicians and how they came to their profession.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 5, 2023

I hear frequently from those in business that younger employees, directly out of K-12 or higher education, are looking for direction. The rigid structure of the traditional K-12 education system leaves little room for students to engage in real-world problem-solving scenarios.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

TNTP , a nonprofit based in New York that advocates for improving K-12 education, wanted to identify schools that are the most effective at helping kids recover academically and understand what those schools are doing differently. Everybody is trying to find ways to help students catch up after the pandemic.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Four-year-old children who attended public pre-K in Tulsa, Oklahoma, in 2005-06 were far more likely to go to college within a couple years of graduating high school than children who did not attend, according to a 15-year study of 4,000 students. The advent of universal preschool for all children is more recent.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 17, 2018

Standardized testing is a common feature in K-12 schooling in the United States, with federal legislation requiring since 2002 that states test virtually all children in grades 3-8 in mathematics and English language arts. Wouldn’t you want to know what parents are protesting and why? Indeed, in 2016, the U.S.

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Digital Promise

JUNE 12, 2019

In July 2018, Digital Promise launched a new Maker Learning Leadership Cohort dedicated to professional learning, peer connections, and school transformation in the Pittsburgh region. Over the last 12 years, the school system has undergone major upheavals. In 2012, students in Grades 7-8 followed suit.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 10, 2020

If you look at data from the National Center for Education Statistics, you can see steady gains made between 2000 and 2018. In 2018, the median annual earnings of bachelor’s degree recipients with no advanced degree who were working full-time were $24,900 higher than those with only a high-school diploma.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Judging from the emails, calls and tweets I’ve received in the last week, there are few early education studies with more hated results than the multi-year study from Vanderbilt University researchers, which tracks outcomes for children who attended Tennessee’s voluntary pre-K program more than a decade ago. So what happened in Tennessee?

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 6, 2020

Similar accounts have popped up at elite, private K-12 schools. They graduated from Amherst College in 2018. Kyndall Ashe, 2018 graduate of Amherst College. Since launching on June 12, Dear PWI has more than 20,000 followers. Many leaders of these accounts hope they will be the first step toward inciting change. “I

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ED Surge

MAY 28, 2024

Last July, California adopted a new K-12 math framework. In 2018, Ohio adopted one such policy. North Carolina, which passed a version of this in 2018, released a review of its program that suggested it’s had some success. The state around her is grappling with similar questions.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

CT pathways are system-wide K-12 programs supporting equitable participation in computational thinking. Beginning in the fall of 2018, North Salem partnered with Digital Promise to provide professional learning opportunities for teachers in the district. The course first supports district leaders in assembling a leadership team.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 21, 2021

For instance, my guidance counselor — who served as the guidance counselor for grades K through 12 — had only used the Common Application once before: the prior year, when my older brother applied to college. I’d progressed through K-12 with the same cohort of students, so college was the first time I had to seek out and make friends.

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Digital Promise

APRIL 25, 2019

In 2012, the National Research Council released A Framework for K-12 Science Education , a consensus report that outlined how research in the learning sciences should inform the development of a new set of science standards. The Act phase of the CBL framework is a natural venue for students to employ NGSS Engineering Practices.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 18, 2023

When children have exposure to school leaders from a variety of cultures, they do better both in K-12 classrooms and in our communities. When children have exposure to school leaders from a variety of cultures, they demonstrate better outcomes both in K-12 classrooms and in our communities.

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ED Surge

MAY 8, 2024

In a time when technological advancements shape our daily lives and drive economic growth, focusing on STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) education in K-12 schools is not just a trend but a necessity. I was tasked with providing reading intervention services for at-risk K-8 students.

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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

JANUARY 18, 2022

Their suicide rates between 2014 and 2018 were well above the national average. GoGuardian mental health resources for K-12 educators. Supporting Mental Health in K-12: A Guide for Schools and Districts. We lost a student to suicide in May 2018. They knew they had to take action. It's horrible.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Learning in the 21st Century: How the American Public, Parents, and Teachers View K-12 Teaching and Learning in the Pandemic. These opportunities allow for greater motivation, communication, and self-reflection, laying the foundation for a positive and engaging learning experience and future success for every learner. Digital Promise.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 10, 2021

When Diamante Hare stepped onto Northeastern Illinois University’s campus in Chicago for the first time in 2018, he was gambling with thousands of dollars of grants, scholarships and loans — and his future. To an extent, yes, hold K-12 accountable, but now they’re your students. This story also appeared in NBC News.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 6, 2018

Nationwide, K-12 schools are leading a fledgling “net-zero” building boom that has grown from a few proof-of-concept structures a decade ago to hundreds of buildings completed or under construction. But the K-12 schools leading the net-zero charge are uncovering major educational benefits as well.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 22, 2020

According to a 2018 study by the accounting firm PwC, only 10 percent of K-12 teachers reported they “feel confident” about including high-level technology in their lesson plans. When interactive and dynamic, these tools can also provide opportunities for practice and student engagement.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 13, 2021

In particular, the suspension of mandated state testing in K-12 schools in 2020 “accelerated the conversation” about alternative assessments that would help educators personalize learning and focus on students’ long-term success rather than year-to-year progress, as measured by current end-of-year tests.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

He’s worked with kids since 2018 through Wings for Kids, a nonprofit that operates after-school programs in Georgia and South Carolina. While they often value learning, these men don't see much value in the traditional K-12 educational system, Thomas says. They are also practicing how to be a man. Thomas asks.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2019

The most recent legislation, passed in 2018, required the state to chip in more money from its general fund. And there’s no relief to come, as the requirements of the 2018 pension bill, approved in the final few minutes of the legislative session last May, start to kick in. “At By 2018, that figure had risen to $1,312.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 14, 2024

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. The institution hopes to increase enrollment among high school students by 50 percent more by 2028. Good for Everyone?

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

The projections for all 12 grades end after 2020, but before that, between 2015 and 2020, the total number of students falls by only 1.4 Grades eight through 12 are larger cohorts who were born before 2008. Its most recent projections, released May 2018 , show that student enrollment should increase 3 percent between 2015 and 2027.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 19, 2024

Today, it enrolls roughly 500 students from 60 different tribes in grades K-12, bolstering their Indigenous heritage with land-based lessons and language courses built into a college preparatory model. That same year, the school officially joined the NACA-inspired network as a K-6 charter school with a dual language immersion model.

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 7, 2021

I served my Title 1 school as a sixth grade math teacher for four years and as a learning strategist for nine years before making a move in 2018 to the Southern Nevada Regional Professional Development Program, which provides professional learning to the five southern counties of Nevada, as a regional math trainer.

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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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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 5, 2023

More recently, advocates have presented child care as a public good and a right, similar to K-12 education. Canadian labor groups have also supported the efforts , something that has recently become a more prominent strategy in the United States, especially after efforts to pass child care legislation faltered in 2022.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

Meanwhile, Hispanic students accounted for 9 percent of the state’s K-12 students. The 2018 reauthorization of the federal law that governs career and technical education mandated racial data be reported as well. Yet CTE advocates have long had concerns — but little proof — about inequities that lie beneath the surface.

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