The Hechinger Report

APRIL 8, 2024

A study published online in April 2024 in the journal Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis illustrates the inconsistencies of teacher shortages in Tennessee, where one district had a surplus of high school social studies teachers, while a neighboring district had severe shortages.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Courtney Harritt, a spokesperson for ACCEL, wrote by email that OHDELA’s enrollment surge hit just as the school year started, creating operational challenges, and that ACCEL is making changes after taking over the school from another company in 2018. No ratings were issued in 2019-20 because of the pandemic.).

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 8, 2021

Four new studies on project-based learning. 2nd grade social studies. Related 2018 Hechinger coverage. Four new studies released in February 2021 are helping to fill this void. 3rd grade science. Developer: Michigan State University Research. Curriculum. Curriculum. 6th grade science. Curriculum.

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Digital Promise

JULY 16, 2019

Foundry10’s 2018 study focused on technology usage in U.S. Seventy-seven percent of students said they were most likely to encounter advanced technology in “tech” courses as compared to social studies (21 percent) or language arts (13.4 middle and high schools for 1,700 students across 22 schools.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Mendoza’s older sister, Gema Quetzal, served on the California board of education in 2018-19, enjoying the same voting power as other board members. Massachusetts is unique in that the student board representatives are elected by their peers. Other districts and states have also started to promote hands-on civics education.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 16, 2018

May 25, 2018 — Coral Springs, Florida — Student activist and Parkland shooting survivor David Hogg demonstrates with other sudents in a parking lot. Related: How social studies can help young kids make sense of the world. Photo: Storms Media Group/SMG via ZUMA Wire. and garnering national attention. I wanted to learn more.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 17, 2024

The district started in 1989 with middle-school English and social studies, and progressed to high school math and chemistry by 2006. Back on Long Island, parent Mindy Roman’s three children graduated from South Side High in 2009, 2012 and 2018, and she said she’s glad they were in classes with diverse groups of students.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 20, 2019

In a 2018 study , the anti-racist nonprofit the Southern Poverty Law Center surveyed high school seniors and social studies teachers and found that only 8 percent of the students surveyed could identify slavery as a central cause of the Civil War.

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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

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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ED Surge

AUGUST 16, 2022

I hope no behavioral concerns arise, because if I can avoid a parent phone call I might be able to get some of this done—well, that is if I do a virtual assignment during social studies. In 2018 and 2019, teachers in my state were ready to strike. Oh, shoot. I just remembered I have a training during my planning period today.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 20, 2021

Brian Westlake, a high school social studies teacher in Georgia’s Gwinnett County, also said the pandemic has meant putting restorative discipline on pause. Between mid-March and November 2018, for example, Florida’s Miami-Dade County Public Schools recorded 81 incidents that resulted in student arrests. Credit: Brian Westlake.

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Cult of Pedagogy

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

It was written in 2018 by Philadelphia high school English teacher Matthew Kay, and he based it on his experiences having these conversations with his own students. The first book is called Not Light, But Fire: How to Lead Meaningful Race Conversations in the Classroom.

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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. Now nearly 400 schools use it across 40 states. It’s a mindset shift.”.

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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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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. They dug into the history and economics of different energy sources in social studies and read a book in English class about a boy in Malawi, Africa, who electrified his village with do-it-yourself wind power.

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 14, 2016

Middle school students use pre-crafted story maps to learn standard classroom content in science and social studies. First graders are working with high school honors students to map kindness. High school students create story maps to deepen their own learning and help others, in history, science, and even English literature.

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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.

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Studies Weekly

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

A 2018 Mindful Schools study reported a 20% reduction in stress-related absences among students who participated in mindfulness-based SEL interventions. The Condition of Education 2018.” Stress Management Often when students can’t manage their own stress levels, they don’t cope at school well. Mindful Schools.

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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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Studies Weekly

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

The most recent National Survey of Science and Mathematics Education published in 2018 found that elementary teachers taught science for just 18 minutes a day on average. However, science incorporates elements of reading, math, social studies, and more, making it an excellent tool for teaching other subjects concurrently.

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Studies Weekly

JANUARY 10, 2024

Bagley encourages teachers to use Studies Weekly print publications with the Studies Weekly Online learning platform. “I honestly cannot imagine teaching social studies without providing each student with a copy of their student publication.” Mayo Clinic Health System. Delgado, P., Fernandes, M. Wammes, J.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 6, 2022

He struggled to read and do grade-level math and couldn’t follow what was being taught in science and social studies. During the 2018-19 school year, the last full year before COVID, Dysart suspended students nearly 3,500 times for being late to class. Yduarte said Guadalupe was consistently failing all his classes.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

Both the Clarksdale and Coahoma systems were rated F on the state’s 2018 school report cards and are eligible for state takeover. Dupree, who retired from Clarksdale schools at the end of the 2018-19 school year, declined several requests for an interview. Coahoma county schools have been under interim leadership for more than a year.

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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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C3 Teachers

MAY 23, 2022

Therefore, when I learned that I would be teaching a social studies assessment course as part of a cross-content assessment course this spring, I started thinking about some of the tension points surrounding not only teacher education, but also student assessment.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 4, 2023

Domingo Morel, New York University professor and author of a book on state takeovers By 2018, four of Houston’s 274 schools, all of them in the city’s economically distressed north and east sides, hadn’t met the standards for four years running, putting the district at risk of a takeover. Related: Do state takeovers work in Mississippi?

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 5, 2022

Sometimes, Talbott says, she was the first Black teacher her students had had at Lusher, even after she began teaching sixth-grade social studies in 2013; it meant a lot to her to provide students with that self-recognition and affirmation. At Lusher, in 2020, 13 percent of teachers were Black compared with 22 percent of the students.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 27, 2024

Walz, who served several terms in Congress before becoming the governor of Minnesota in 2018, is a former high school social studies teacher and football coach who, to this day, holds those identities close. is a high school alternative education and social studies teacher in Montgomery County Public Schools in Maryland.

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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. The department also concluded that the 2018 Oceti Sakowin Essential Understandings may be in violation of the executive order. 12, 2021, in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2023

DeSantis, has grown increasingly skeptical that the class will spread to other Kentucky schools, even as her politically liberal district doubles down on a commitment to African American history it made as part of a curriculum revamp in 2018. Jefferson County Public Schools revamped its social studies curriculum in 2019.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 15, 2018

Paradis, whose school offered full-day kindergarten for the first time in the 2017-18 school year, said that by April 2018, every class for the 2018-19 school year was full and the school already had a waiting list. My kids who are struggling are doing better,” said Mary Plouffe, who began teaching 15 years ago.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 30, 2019

As I look back on my preparation for my first year as a teacher, in 2018, my fears, ideas and overthinking now seem whimsical at best. Related: How social studies can help young kids make sense of the world. Every time I turn on the news, I think about my eighth-graders. As a whole, they held a lot of contradictory views.

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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

MAY 8, 2023

Abeer Ramadan-Shinnawi, the founder of Altair Education Consulting and a former middle school social studies teacher in Maryland, said she sought out a diverse school with a diverse staff because she “knew students of color needed a teacher of color to help them out and help them navigate the world.”

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 3, 2018

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 Cruey’s wife, Cheryl, who was principal of Southside K-8 until retiring at the end of the 2017-2018 school year, mentors three siblings in the district. Cruey’s involved, too.

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