The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

Schools superintendent Dennis Dupree came to the city 12 years ago, promising innovation. Both the Clarksdale and Coahoma systems were rated F on the state’s 2018 school report cards and are eligible for state takeover. Kids don’t do well K through fourth and then start failing in fifth grade,” Johnson said.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 26, 2018

August 15, 2018 — The first day of school at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. Related: How social studies can help young kids make sense of the world. Photo: Carl Juste/TNS via ZUMA Wire. It means asking questions, grappling with diverse opinions and learning to articulate ideas.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 23, 2019

While this was not a study of personalized learning, per se, but student choice more narrowly, the results are illustrative. A review of more than 6,800 middle school assignments found only 10 percent of the assignments in English language arts, science and social studies offered students choice in any of these three areas.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2020

The online platform includes a project-based curriculum for science, social studies, math and English language arts for students in grades four through 12, along with additional content in those subjects that students can tackle at their own pace. Nearly 400 schools use the Summit Learning Program across 40 states.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 28, 2019

NOME, Alaska — Before they got down to business for the day, students in Devin Tatro’s social studies class were offered a quiet moment of self-reflection: On this golden fall afternoon at Nome-Beltz Junior/Senior High School, were they feeling chipper, distressed or somewhere in between?

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Studies Weekly

JANUARY 10, 2024

Engagement and Focus According to the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and the American Academy of Pediatrics, children ages 8-12 spend three times more on screens than is recommended daily. Bagley encourages teachers to use Studies Weekly print publications with the Studies Weekly Online learning platform.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 22, 2018

The sentiment is echoed by Jason Krause, principal of Denver’s Columbine Elementary School, which joined the EL network in 2018. But when the network reached its growth target, EL’s leaders opted to spread their model piecemeal through a web-based library of books and videos and an open source K-8 English and language arts (ELA) curriculum.

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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. At 7 a.m., Tammy Kim/Hechinger Report. Today, LA High is what’s called a community school, intended to serve the surrounding area.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 21, 2019

As of mid-2018, 17 states were in “advanced” stages of proficiency-based learning, also sometimes called competency-based learning. It’s a new innovation lab that combines two different disciplines — social studies and math. School data shows college placement rates have remained roughly steady between 2013 and 2018.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 13, 2019

According to a December 2018 analysis of the data by Good Jobs First, which tracks corporate subsidies, schools in 28 states lost at least $1.8 In 2018, schools in 28 states lost at least $1.8 But for many, these changes remain distant: social workers and nurses won’t be guaranteed in every school until the fifth year of the contract.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

In comparison, young American voter registration is much lower and participation spiked in 2018 — when 28 percent voted , a record percentage — though it’s dipped since then. Kentucky, where the students interviewed for this article attend public school, has a version of the civics test policy, which the state passed in 2018.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2023

LaGarrett King, founder and director of the Center for K–12 Black History and Racial Literacy Education at the University of Buffalo The controversies have had subtle reverberations for the classrooms in Kentucky, Pennsylvania and Virginia too. Jefferson County Public Schools revamped its social studies curriculum in 2019.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 12, 2023

In 2018, after a decade-long consultation process, South Dakota adopted new standards designed to expand and improve instruction of Native American studies. About 644,000 Native students attend the nation’s K-12 system, with the vast majority enrolled in public schools, according to the National Congress of American Indians.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 15, 2018

The opportunity for full-day K should be available for all,” said Harris Cooper, a professor of psychology and neuroscience at Duke University. During previous school years, she said, she was only able to get to science or social studies on any given day, not both. “My

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

school and university system, I wanted to find out how microaggressions shape the experiences of Asian American K-12 educators. We also talked about the realities of being Asian American educators, who represent only 2 percent of K-12 educators in the U.S. Retrieved November 8, 2023, from [link] ⁶ Nadal, K.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 8, 2023

To gain more insight into our experience, I reached out to my network of Palestinian American K-12 educators. The organization, founded in 2018 by a social media influencer, conflates anti-Zionist advocacy with antisemitism and uses a “name and shame” approach that seeks out “consequences” for supporters of Palestinian human rights.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 9, 2021

The board is currently reviewing the state’s K-12 health standards, which mention suicide prevention parenthetically. Currently 12 states, including Texas and Vermont, require that education on suicide awareness and prevention be included in the curriculum, according to an email from Gibson. She started off with a list of myths.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2020

Teachers double up on subjects — one of her colleagues teaches social studies and science in one 90-minute block. The district received $12 million in state money after Hurricane Michael devastated the area in 2018, shrinking the student population by about 10 percent.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 3, 2018

Greg Cruey, a teacher at Southside K-8 school, greeting students in the morning. Greg Cruey, teacher, Southside K-8 School, McDowell County, West Virginia. My job as a teacher is to be a first responder to poverty,” said Cruey, a 58-year-old middle school social studies teacher at Southside K-8 school. “If

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 30, 2018

The results of this AI experiment were published June 2018 in Educational Researcher. Related: How social studies can help young kids make sense of the world. “I’m sure if you just let the engineers loose, they could come up with a program that would give teachers all sorts of feedback,” said Kelly.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

As educators settle into the 2018-19 school year, we asked nine teachers and administrators how they wrestle with one persistent truth about American gun violence: It can happen anywhere. Nina Leuzzi has taught pre-K in Boston, Massachusetts, for 10 years. The 2018-19 school year will be her eighth year of teaching.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

The laws have contributed to a climate in which “every classroom has been turned into a front” in a battle, said Melanie Willingham-Jaggers, executive director of GLSEN, which advocates for LGBTQ+ individuals in K-12 education. Every educator, every administrator now has to be on that front line every single day,” she said.

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TCI

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Social studies is more than just a subject—it provides the foundation for understanding and engaging with the world around us. According to the National Council for Social Studies (NCSS) , social studies is the integrated study of social sciences and humanities to promote civic competence.

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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. The Alabama social studies curriculum , for instance, doesn’t really explain or even mention lynching.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 4, 2020

She opened her doors in July 2018 with five children enrolled. Only four states pay adequate rates for infant care at child care centers, according to a 2018 report from the National Women’s Law Center. In Texas, a 2018 market rate survey determined the 75th percentile for full-day infant care at a licensed center to be $49 a day.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2020

A high school social studies book, also used in Texas, says of rising temperatures, “Some critics say that this warming is just part of the Earth’s natural cycle,” though, in truth, there’s overwhelming consensus among climate scientists that the current warming is due to human activities.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 14, 2018

To inform his lessons, Gorman chose a curriculum called Teach Reconstruction created by the Zinn Education Project, a collaboration between social justice education nonprofits Teaching for Change, based in Washington, D.C. history and social studies curriculums. Senate, Blanche K. Board of Education decision.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 3, 2018

“In less than 18 years, we have already seen more deaths related to school shootings than in the whole 20th century,” said Antonis Katsiyannis, Clemson University researcher and the lead author of a 2018 study on school shootings.

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