The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

It was one of her last moments with her grandfather, who died at the end of August 2020, just a week after she arrived on campus. At the beginning of August 2020, Nina Polk, who is Diné (Navajo), Si?angu in August 2020. Not realizing Cante was Native, the student accused her of cultural appropriation.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Census data shows that rates of home-schooling doubled between the start of the pandemic in March 2020 and the fall of that year. Some parents are really worried about Covid and their child getting sick, but one of the main reasons is about culture. We want them to know a lot about their culture.”. Covid-19 upended that.

Lesson Plan 142

Lesson Plan Private School Cultures Public School 142

Teaching Anthropology

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

This observation speaks to the idea that different modes of communication and expression are fundamental to understanding and interpreting different societies and cultures and, consequently, that the semiotic complexity of human experience cannot be contained in plain text. G., & Marrero-Guillamón, I. Josephson, J. Kelly & K.

Anthropology 130

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Using skills they’d learned in their computer science lessons, the students designed a traditional button blanket on a laser cutting machine. Even when the instruction is available, courses often lack cultural relevance that would allow Native students to authentically engage with the material, the report says.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 19, 2024

Once the site of an Indian boarding school, where the federal government attempted to strip children of their tribal identity, the Native American Community Academy now offers the opposite: a public education designed to affirm and draw from each student’s traditional culture and language. There was nothing like this.

Charter School 133

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 9, 2019

It may be August, but we’re already planning ahead for SXSW EDU in March 2020. A lively discussion about how students from multiple geographic locations and culturally diverse areas could work together to make a difference is their respective communities. Traditional stories rely on 2D technologies like paper or images.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 1, 2024

public school enrollment in 2020, up from 8.1 Spanish was the most-reported home language among English learners in 2020, followed by Arabic. One Alabama town is trying to change that We can help address this problem by creating a highly trained, skilled and culturally competent educator workforce. These students made up 10.3

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 6, 2021

The civil unrest of spring 2020 laid bare racial inequities and accelerated the job market’s readiness to embrace young and diverse workers. And career and technical education, or CTE, schools, with their higher graduation and college-going rates than traditional comprehensive high schools, are producing strong candidates.

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 14, 2019

Digital Promise is excited to announce 14 new districts will join the ranks of the League of Innovative Schools for the 2019-2020 school year. Please join us in welcoming the new 2019-2020 cohort of the League of Innovative Schools! The League is a powerful network of forward-thinking school district leaders. Chesapeake Public Schools.

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Library Public School Tradition High School 117

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 23, 2020

Adapted and reprinted from Know Your Price: Valuing Black Lives and Property in America’s Black Cities by Andre Perry, with permission from Brookings Institution Press, © 2020 by Brookings Institution. Schools hold the history and culture of a place through yearbooks, trophy cases, and photo archives. When will schools open?”

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 20, 2022

Black teachers, who’ve long played a role in educating children shut out of the traditional system, will be essential to this transformation. As leaders strive to convert their 2020 equity statements into action , they must evaluate whether their school cultures welcome Black ideas and foster networks of support.

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ED Surge

MAY 2, 2022

Institutions positioned for success in the next decade will seize this opportunity by prioritizing new approaches to working conditions and building better workplace cultures. We have a unique opportunity in higher ed to not chain ourselves to tradition. But we have a unique opportunity in higher ed to not chain ourselves to tradition.

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Tradition Cultures Humanities Education 129

Dangerously Irrelevant

JULY 27, 2021

We interviewed leaders at 30 different ‘deeper learning’ schools around the world in 2019 and 2020. Our goal was to try and parse out What do leaders at innovative schools do that is different from their counterparts in more traditional schools ? A culture of “Yes, try that!” permeated the buildings that we visited.

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Sapiens

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

A scholar of Sikkimese religions and cultures, Kalzang saw plastic khatak and lungta when visiting his relatives’ newborns. The matter became international news in 2020 when a group of scientists reported several red and blue polyester strings more than five miles above sea level near Mount Everest’s peak.

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Tradition Humanities Cultures Government 105

Education Elements

DECEMBER 29, 2020

I got started with this tradition of predictions in 2010 after reading Disrupting Class, a book by Clayton Christensen and Michael Horn. Now at the end of 2020, I’d estimate that +95% of all K-12 students took some form of an online class, and most likely this trend will continue into 2021.

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K-12 Education Tradition High School 125

Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Europe's First Mega-Settlements: A Case Study To address this, the researchers turned to the Cucuteni-Trypillia culture, a prehistoric society flourishing between 5050 and 2950 BCE in what is now Romania, Moldova, and Ukraine. PDF available Introduces a process-oriented approach to interpreting material culture. McGuire, R.

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Archaeology Humanities Cultures Tradition 92

Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

In December 2020, Digital Promise convened more than 900 teachers, district leaders, charter leaders, researchers, and Black, Brown, and Indigenous organization leaders to reimagine the recruitment and retention of teachers of color. This report provides a summation of those efforts. What concepts did the teachers present at the convening?

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Leadership Tradition Cultures Research 125

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

A September 2020 meta-analysis found that student achievement tended to improve after a school turnaround. Their fresh look at the collective evidence shows that rapid turnarounds aren’t useless, according to a paper published September 2020 in the journal of Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis. But not always.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 5, 2022

Failing grades have jumped for middle and high school students nationwide: The state of New Mexico , for example, and the city of Houston, Texas, had more than 40 percent of students fail at least one class from spring 2020 to spring 2021. By June, many U.S. Not this year.

Psychology 131

Psychology Professional Development High School Middle School 131

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 24, 2020

Such flexibility will continue to be needed as we look to the unknowns of the 2020-21 school year. When we made the shift from a traditional school meals program to one that was centered more around our students’ health, interests, and cultural and ethnic backgrounds, we knew that we couldn’t do it on our own.

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Tradition Cultures Public School High School 113

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 4, 2023

Over five academic years spanning 2016-17 to 2020-21, these districts recorded 5,800 transfers in a category for “specific discipline reasons.” Even more disciplinary transfers likely occur when students are counseled to voluntarily switch from one traditional school to another. As many as 3,700 of these could be expulsions.

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K-12 Tradition Charter School Cultures 143

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

What is new is that we are calling them badges and microcredentials and using them primarily to certify specific skills, such as cross-cultural competency, welding and conversational Spanish. . So what are they? Microcredentials are certifications of mastery; badges verify the attainment of specific competencies.

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Education Museum Economics Tradition 144

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 9, 2022

Cierra Kaler-Jones wasn’t your traditional dance teacher. When she discovered this, Kaler-Jones began weaving culturally responsive lesson plans into her dance classes. Subscribe today! When Kaler-Jones taught dance, her students didn’t come just for the dance lessons. That initial entwining grew into a much larger project.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

JULY 23, 2021

We interviewed leaders at 30 different ‘deeper learning’ schools around the world in 2019 and 2020. Our goal was to try and parse out What do leaders at innovative schools do that is different from their counterparts in more traditional schools ? And we’ve completely turned around the culture of our building.

Leadership 113

Leadership High School Tradition Cultures 113

ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

In many schools, including ours, there has been a shift of how student behaviors are regulated—moving away from rules-based standards to ones driven by a set of values determined by the desired climate and culture of each school. This concept of the “ Cultural Iceberg ” was introduced in 1976 by Edward T.

Middle School 107

Middle School Cultures Psychology Tradition 107

Digital Promise

AUGUST 20, 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic caused postsecondary institutions to abruptly transition many of their spring 2020 courses to digital learning. To implement continuous improvement and scaling processes with an equity focus, leaders might create structures and processes to embed equitable continuous improvement into their everyday culture.

Learning Science 123

Learning Science Tradition Cultures Research 123

Cult of Pedagogy

JANUARY 21, 2024

After all, framed that way, teachers give hundreds of standardized tests a year, even those who do learner-centered assessment, project-based learning, or otherwise collect evidence of student learning in ways that are considered alternative or non-traditional. Harvard University Press. Kamenetz, A. PublicAffairs. link] Reese, W.

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ED Surge

APRIL 13, 2022

Digital innovation did not bring traditional higher education to its knees. Colleges are under plenty of stress, but competition from online alternatives to traditional campuses are low on the list of pressures. million from fall 2012 to fall 2020. colleges, entirely destabilizing the university.

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EdTech Tradition Cultures High School 109

The Hechinger Report

JULY 30, 2018

By the fall of 2020, all Northern Cass students will plot their own academic courses to high school graduation, while sticking with same-age peers for things like gym class and field trips. We can’t keep structures that would allow us to fall back into a more traditional system,” said Steiner. There’s so much behind music to learn.”.

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Tradition Charter School Cultures High School 111

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Interest in outdoor schools like Sol has spiked since Covid-19 hit the United States last year, according to a 2020 snapshot report from the Natural Start Alliance. has more than doubled since 2017 to 585 in 2020, according to the Natural Start Alliance. Credit: Adria Malcolm for The Hechinger Report. When many U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 15, 2021

A 2020 high school graduate from Marin City, California, Williams had entered an after-school college prep program, Bridge the Gap, when he was in third grade. Angel Vasquez, 2020 high school graduate from Providence, Rhode Island, of his family. “I Kamarree Williams had been on a path to college since before he learned long division.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 12, 2023

But the latest national study from a Stanford University research group calculates that students, on average, learned more at charter schools between the years of 2014 and 2019 than similar students did at their traditional local public schools. We see that existing schools are getting better over time and that’s a hugely positive story.”

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Anthropology.net

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Previous discoveries in Sulawesi include a 44,000-year-old painting depicting half-human hunters pursuing wild animals with spears and ropes, further emphasizing the region’s ancient cultural richness. Archaeological evidence in Australia dates back at least 60,000 years, highlighting the ancient roots of Aboriginal cultures.

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Humanities Heritage Archaeology Artifacts 84

Digital Promise

JULY 14, 2020

Empirical studies suggest that instructional coaching can be more effective than traditional professional development workshops in creating meaningful change in teacher practice and student achievement. Over the past decade, instructional coaching has increasingly attracted the interest of researchers and practitioners alike. What we learned.

Professional Development 89

Professional Development Cultures Tradition Research 89

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 24, 2021

For the 2020-21 school year, enrollment was up to about 250 children, in pre-K-3 through fourth grade. The cornerstone: culturally responsive teaching that prioritizes anti-racism philosophies and the social-emotional wellbeing of students, more than two-thirds of whom are Black. Credit: Cheryl Gerber for The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 3, 2024

But her motivations are also deeply personal, cultural, and, in some ways, unique to Philadelphia. Nearly 15,000 of Philadelphia’s more than 197,000 students attended a virtual cyber charter school last year — a 55 percent increase since the 2020-21 school year. For financial literacy class, they go to the bank to open an account.

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Charter School Tradition Advocacy K-12 90

Sapiens

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Graeber also analyzes the “bullshitization” of “real jobs,” such as in education, where new cultures of neoliberal “managerialism” have seen teachers and academics doing increasing amounts of administrative work, taking up more and more of the time that, most agree, would be better spent doing actual teaching or research.

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Anthropology Economics Sociology Archiving 104