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COLUMN: Should schools teach climate activism?

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 12, 2024

The current level of political polarization is having a chilling effect, making civics education into a third rail, according to Holly Korbey, an education reporter and the author of a 2019 book on civics education, “Building Better Citizens: A New Civics Education for All.” “We

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One Idea to Keep Teachers From Quitting — End the Teacher Time Crunch

ED Surge

MARCH 16, 2023

And among educators from 14 different schools studied by a Harvard researcher for the 2019 book “ Where Teachers Thrive ,” most teachers said they did not have enough time to accomplish the “essential” duties of their jobs. on Teachers Pay Teachers,” a popular platform that educators use to buy educational materials from each other.

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Hidden toll: Thousands of schools fail to count homeless students

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

The reasons include a federal law so little-known that people charged with implementing it often fail to follow the rules; nearly non-existent enforcement of the law by federal and state governments; and funding so meager that districts have little incentive to survey whether students have stable housing. In 36 states and Washington, D.C.,

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Can “playful assessments” tell us whether maker education works?

The Hechinger Report

MAY 26, 2019

But most schools are more like Corte Madera – governed by schedules, academic standards, report cards and other ties to traditional measures of student achievement – and there, the pilot was a mix of triumph and struggle. During a break from her stop-motion work, Bechtel rattled off the “maker elements” she had used while creating her video.

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What if personalized learning was less about me and more about us?

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 22, 2018

Young gets the utility of online lesson plans geared to math standards and targeted to students at any level. Indeed, this year, the district’s new math curriculum is aligned with units from the web-based Khan Academy, and Young started directing students to the site’s online videos and lessons for extra practice or new challenges.

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Four Trailblazing Native American Scientists

Studies Weekly

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

He implemented the American Indian Telecommunications Satellite Demonstration Project, linking the All-Indian Pueblo Council and the Crow Indian Reservation with the federal government at Washington, D.C. These spacewalks are commemorated on the reverse of the 2019 Sacagawea dollar coin. 3, 2023 for science.howstuffworks.com Jerry C.

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Operation Outbreak: Simulating a pandemic while living it

The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2021

The “virus”spread by Blue-tooth when participants were in close proximity for an extended time, and was slowed by digital masks and vaccines that students could get after taking quizzes based on the in-class lessons. In late 2019, reality caught up with Operation Outbreak. Credit: Becky Morris. The student engagement was so strong.

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Teachers Aren't Getting Enough Training on Technology. It’s a Global Problem.

ED Surge

APRIL 15, 2022

By 2019, the World Bank’s PRIEDE project had exceeded several of its goals. Governments and development organizations have financed material distribution without similar investments in training educators on how, when and why to use these tools. But in 2020, the program requested $9 million more to rollout a teacher training campaign.

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Summer school programs race to help students most in danger of falling behind

The Hechinger Report

JULY 31, 2021

More than 16,000 students in Greenville County Schools had at least one F on their fall report cards this year, or more than triple the number of students with Fs in fall of 2019. More than one-fifth of third graders at Ida Greene were held back at the end of the 2018-2019 school year. State education officials took notice.

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When kids pick their ‘trusted adult,’ it pays off

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2021

Federal and state governments have allocated extra money for mental health services and school districts across the country are scrambling to beef up supports. But communities that had already prioritized mental health were in a better position to deal with the unique challenges of the pandemic.

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‘More than a warm body’: Schools try long-term solutions to substitute teacher shortage

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 26, 2022

The federal government provided billions of dollars to help schools recover from Covid, and some tapped that money for temporary stipends to attract new substitutes. Last fall, in the district, nearly half of teacher absences went unfilled, compared with 26 percent in fall 2019. But the stakes to find more permanent solutions are high.

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First Things First When Teaching Civic Education

MPSA

MARCH 30, 2022

The political science teaching world was abuzz with ideas about how to get students to roll up their sleeves, get involved in government at the local level, and prepare for lives of civic engagement. My new plan was to create a course in which students learned to be educated, thoughtful, registered, frequent voters.

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A superintendent made big gains with English learners. His success may have been his downfall

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 6, 2024

Experts, books, videos, detailed lesson plans — to teachers at the time, it felt like a blur of continuous learning. Between 2019 (when the bilingual aides were hired) and 2021, English learners in some grades recorded big increases on language proficiency tests. And it hasn’t been easy to sustain all of the gains.

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How a tribe won a legal battle against the federal Bureau of Indian Education — and still lost

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

The schools remoteness on a 518-acre reservation the government forcibly relocated the Havasupai people to more than 150 years ago makes it a challenge to staff, and chronic turnover required the few educators who remained to teach multiple grades at once. threatening the governments long-established trust responsibility to tribal nations.

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As coronavirus ravaged Indian Country, the federal government failed its schools

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 27, 2020

But evidence suggests that some of the blame for the struggles of BIE schools during Covid-19 lies on the shoulders of the federal government, which consistently bungled its role in helping schools adapt to remote learning and ensure that kids continued to receive an education. We’re going to have to find alternative ways.”.

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COLUMN: Should schools teach climate activism?

One Idea to Keep Teachers From Quitting — End the Teacher Time Crunch

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Hidden toll: Thousands of schools fail to count homeless students

Can “playful assessments” tell us whether maker education works?

What if personalized learning was less about me and more about us?

Four Trailblazing Native American Scientists

Operation Outbreak: Simulating a pandemic while living it

Teachers Aren't Getting Enough Training on Technology. It’s a Global Problem.

Summer school programs race to help students most in danger of falling behind

When kids pick their ‘trusted adult,’ it pays off

‘More than a warm body’: Schools try long-term solutions to substitute teacher shortage

First Things First When Teaching Civic Education

A superintendent made big gains with English learners. His success may have been his downfall

How a tribe won a legal battle against the federal Bureau of Indian Education — and still lost

As coronavirus ravaged Indian Country, the federal government failed its schools

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