ED Surge

APRIL 12, 2022

The transition to digital has been tough to crack for traditional textbook publishers. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, a Boston-based K-12 education content and technology provider, has finished its sale to Veritas Capital, an investing firm which markets itself as seeking to improve education.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 13, 2024

Between 2019 and 2022, more than 200 laws to reform reading instruction were enacted in 45 states and the District of Columbia, according to a report by the Albert Shanker Institute. Omar said that after learning basic decoding skills in school, she boosted her reading skills by reading manga and watching “K-dramas” with English subtitles.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 13, 2022

These states provide a window into the patchwork approach across the South that allows those without traditional training to lead a classroom. By 2030, as many as 16 million K-12 students in the region may be taught by an unprepared or inexperienced teacher, the Southern Regional Education Board projects.

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Pedagogy to Share

AUGUST 21, 2023

Burton, 2019; Buttrey, 2021; Mallinson, 2022; Mattei & Ennis, 2014; Messina et al., Buttrey, K. Inclusion, engagement, and Nearpod: Providing a digital alternative to traditional instruction. Kentucky Teacher Education Journal , 8 (1), 1–12. Website: [link] Burton, R. W., & Yue, W.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 2, 2023

Even before Covid, in 2019, enrollment in teacher preparation programs across the nation had dropped by more than a third from a decade earlier. If left unaddressed, these related issues will have ramifications for generations of K-12 students. Yet there is a shrinking pool of new and returning teachers.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2022

Demographers predict an “enrollment cliff” beginning in 2025, when the traditional college-age population will start shrinking for the foreseeable future. While the decrease has been concentrated in community colleges, it’s coming soon to many four-year institutions. What lessons can educators learn from these examples?

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 10, 2020

Since 2017, students in Mineola have been introduced to coding through unplugged classes in pre-K, and by first grade, have been allowed to take the devices home. In a pre-K class at Hampton Street students worked on learning the letter L by cutting it from paper or fashioning it from clay. Otherwise, we’re not doing our job.”.

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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

DECEMBER 16, 2020

If there was ever a time to ask big, heretical questions about American K-12 education, it’s when schooling has been thrown into chaos by a pandemic, and Americans’ faith in institutions, including schools, is at ebb tide. If these things were true, how would what we ask of schools — and how we measure their success — change?

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

Daniel Escobar, a 2019 Capital City graduate who plans to attend Washington Adventist University in the fall. In addition to traditional academic grades, student report cards include marks from 1 to 4 on qualities such as organization, timeliness and accountability. “I I knew this was for me.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 16, 2019

In 2019, he got a job with a general contractor building food carts. More than half of students qualified for free or reduced-price lunch in 180 of the 623 districts honored with the “Best Communities for Music Education” award in 2019. In 2019, six of seven had that honor. Photo: Ariane Kunze for The Hechinger Report.

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ED Surge

JULY 28, 2023

Out-of-school time programs have played a large role, funneling more girls and youth of color into K-12 STEM education programs that introduce them to the field. According to 2019 data from the National Science Foundation, women held one-third of STEM occupations in the United States. jobs in science and engineering in 2019.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 18, 2021

After 18 years of running her business out of a small, 10-foot by 12-foot room off the back of her house, she used federal funds to double the size of the classroom and add a bathroom. Cisneros has run a child care program out of her home by herself for 12 years. It hasn’t been easy, though. There was no break,” she said.

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Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

In addition, many other traditionally K-12 edtech companies, like Achieve3000 , have begun to look into ways their products might serve adults. Thanks to the Barbara Bush Foundation Adult Literacy XPRIZE , more than 100 teams embarked on the challenge to create mobile apps designed to increase literacy levels in low-skilled adults.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Most early college high schools are small public schools, housing grades nine to 12 just like traditional public high schools, though some extend five years. Most of these early college schools are now funded by local and state taxpayers, just as traditional high schools are, along with donations from other foundations.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 24, 2024

Email Address Choose from our newsletters Weekly Update Future of Learning Higher Education Early Childhood Proof Points Leave this field empty if you’re human: The pandemic underscored the stark differences in pay, working conditions, and respect between K-12 educators and child care teachers in many communities.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 29, 2020

The idea to lower the voting age came about following the Oakland teachers’ strikes in February 2019, according to Lukas Brekke-Miesner, executive director of Oakland Kids First, one of the nonprofits involved in the campaign. The committees are different from traditional student government, she said, because any student can join.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 29, 2018

She read an article about the Brooklyn high school and learned that students there spend six years instead of the traditional four but they graduate with an associate degree along with their high school diploma – all for free. With federal funding, it encourages partnerships across K-12, higher ed and business sectors.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 20, 2020

A 2019 draft, working paper of a study on university students in London also found that exposure to indoor air pollutants was associated with lower exam test scores. Three of her papers came out in 2019. AP Photo/Nick Ut). A 2016 Israel study found that high rates of pollution on the day of an exam tamped down high school test scores.

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ED Surge

MAY 23, 2022

Just as often, though, it’s not a K-12 school the educators are leaving for. Kang joined NAEYC as chief strategy and innovation officer in 2019, a few months before the pandemic began. This predicament is not rare. Events and professional development moved to a virtual setting.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 8, 2018

The trend toward dismantling traditional remedial education is unambiguous. The law, which will be implemented in the fall of 2019, allows colleges to assign students to remedial education only under limited conditions. million to around 780,000. There’s more. Disproportionately, these are students of color. Sign up for our newsletter.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

A meta-analysis ,” was published online December 2019 in the Journal of Educational Psychology. Tenenbaum’s advice isn’t to get rid of traditional instruction but to use peer discussions to reinforce a lecture. The study, “ How effective is peer interaction in facilitating learning?

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 9, 2023

They amble down to a basement classroom that mimics a traditional school or center-based program, with multiple teachers for the dozen children, a structured routine and thoughtfully designed activity centers, each of which includes a poster for caregivers with instructions and tips to encourage exploration and learning.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 20, 2019

25796 May 2019. Research sometimes shows that charter schools are better at raising student achievement than traditional public schools. A new Boston study suggests a possible path forward: allow only charter schools that can prove they are better than traditional public schools to expand. Walters, NBER Working Paper No.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Efforts that seem to be working have had a common ingredient: close ties between colleges and local K-12 school districts. So for the first time, this academic year education students are eligible to receive a stipend during their student-teaching internships.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

. “I can’t rule out that Teach to One had no effects” on student’s math achievement, said Doug Ready, a professor at Teachers College, Columbia University and lead author of a January 2019 study of the program. 12 of the study. “Math is cumulative,” he said. Teach to One did neither harm nor good.

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 9, 2019

Click each link that interests you to vote now through August 23, 2019. Against a backdrop of growing interest in learning coding as an economic driver and computational thinking as a new literacy, this panel discussion will lean into the equity challenge of realistically addressing “computing for all” in K-12 education.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 3, 2019

Berkeley economist Rucker Johnson, center, spoke at a May 2019 conference of the Education Writers Association in Baltimore. In 2011, he became the first black economist to earn tenure at the University of California, Berkeley, and as of May 2019, at age 46, he’s a full professor at the Goldman School of Public Policy at Berkeley.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

In December 2019, Barbers Hill Independent School District in Mont Belvieu, Texas, a suburb east of Houston, decided to begin enforcing a dress code policy that’s been on the books for thirty years. When dress codes reinforce white norms, being black becomes a violation.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 29, 2019

The average performance of the nation’s fourth and eighth graders mostly declined in math and reading from 2017 to 2019, following a decade of stagnation in educational progress, according to the results of a test released on Oct. The one exception was fourth-grade math, with the average score rising by one point between 2017 and 2019.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

In Louisiana, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Texas, dozens of taxpayer-funded public charters enroll far more white students than any of the traditional public schools in their areas. Schools superintendent Dennis Dupree came to the city 12 years ago, promising innovation. His son now attends Clarksdale Collegiate.).

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 10, 2020

But the outgoing superintendent, Cyndy Taymore, is four years into an effort to fundamentally rethink traditional schooling here. Competency-based education demands a shift away from traditional teaching, testing and grading. At no point in recent memory has Melrose Public Schools been failing.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 29, 2019

Black students made up less than 1 percent of the class initially admitted to Stuyvesant for the fall of 2019, while Hispanic students made up just under 4 percent. The sad truth, though, is that these same tensions have become nearly universal in higher education — to the extent that they are now reshaping K-12 education as well.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Because Hispanic students make up 43 percent of the state’s K-12 enrollment and are less likely to have outside learning supports, the results are clearer about how effectively schools teach reading, according to the coalition. “We Six newsrooms joined together to report on the problem and find solutions for America’s reading problem.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 30, 2020

In addition to its growing dual language program, the district checks all the more traditional boxes on how to help students who speak a language other than English at home. Mid-December 2019 was frigid in Sioux City, with temperatures dropping into the low-teens and single digits overnight. Photo: Lillian Mongeau/The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 5, 2019

During a John Muir High School walkout protesting the school’s ban on durags on Wednesday, February 20, 2019, Dylan Wilson, 15, shows his 360 wave hairstyle, created after months of wearing a durag.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 27, 2019

Hanushek, who is known for igniting provocative research debates in education, launched this one in March 2019, when he and Paul Petersen of Harvard University released their research and directly challenged Reardon’s assertion that achievement gaps between rich and poor had grown.

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