Edthena

JANUARY 28, 2021

We minimized the “sage on the stage” instructional model where lecture dominates learning time, and intentionally built our traditional classes around small group learning structures. The imagined university would have faculty with experience in culturally responsive instruction. Optimize project-based training.

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Strange Maps

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Their cuisine came out as the spiciest of 70 national and regional food traditions from around the world. Credit : Deb Lindsey for the Washington Post via Getty Images) That’s the topic of an article published in Nature in February 2021. Credit : L Bromham et al, Nature Human Behavior, 2021.)

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Studies Weekly

MAY 2, 2024

They broaden students’ view of history and teach them to respect people from different cultures. Yet Americans of Asian and Pacific Islander descent have been underrepresented in this country for years, according to Connie Chang’s article for Parents published April 2021.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 23, 2023

In addition to long commutes, homesickness and culture shock, many students arrive underprepared in key subjects like math and science. Students seeking a traditional four-year college experience in their home state must travel more than 225 miles to Montana State University in Billings.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 4, 2023

Even more disciplinary transfers likely occur when students are counseled to voluntarily switch from one traditional school to another. LAUSD served almost 35,000 students across 53 of its alternative schools during the 2021-22 school year, according to state enrollment data. Is it really discipline? Is it attendance?

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 20, 2023

A teacher at heart who values community, I often reflect on my past experiences with students and the ways we explored, celebrated and protected our cultural identity. While there are opportunities to do this within the academic curriculum, my Black students’ cultural identity is often reflected in how they wear and style their hair.

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Political Science Now

JULY 11, 2024

Her research agenda focuses on political science pedagogy, campus-based civic engagement, and pop culture & politics. In addition to teaching traditional political science courses, she serves as campaign manager for the campus-wide voter mobilization program Vote Oswego and coordinator of SUNY Oswego’s broader civic engagement efforts.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 29, 2023

The proportion of high school graduates going directly to college has fallen from a high of 70 percent in 2016 to 62 percent in 2021. It’s the brainchild of an advertising executive, Roy Spence, the man behind such well-known slogans as “Don’t Mess With Texas” and “You are now free to move about the country.”

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ED Surge

JULY 18, 2024

Another program brings students and families to campus for a day to learn about university traditions and how to get involved on campus. In Ohio, for example, state lawmakers passed anti-hazing legislation in 2021 that requires colleges to create an educational program on hazing that students can complete during orientation.

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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.

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ED Surge

JULY 28, 2023

As a Black woman who started my career working closely with engineers and then moved on to lead diversity and inclusion efforts at a major telecommunications corporation, I’ve personally experienced feeling out of place because my background differed from that of my colleagues and didn’t fit into a traditional box. population as of 2021.

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Zinn Education Project

JUNE 11, 2024

This beautiful tradition of Black freedom should be taught in school. Background on Juneteenth Here are key points from scholars Greg Carr, Christopher Wilson, and Clint Smith on the history beyond the traditional textbook narrative about Juneteenth. But We Can’t Teach?

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ED Surge

MAY 20, 2024

But for Fiske, of Mysa, the popularity of alternatives to public school actually raises a concern: She fears that her approach to microschooling could be eclipsed by politics and cultural war clashes. McCoy published a survey of classical learning schools in 2021 for Manhattan Institute, which painted it as an “attractive option for parents.”

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 6, 2021

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. The Summer Youth Employment Program alone will employ 75,000 young people in 2021. Importantly, proven work-based learning models already exist.

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Anthropology News

APRIL 4, 2024

For over two years, working at Owamni, a James-Beard-award-winning Indigenous restaurant, and NATIFS (North American Traditional Indigenous Food Systems), their partnering culinary nonprofit, has changed not only what I eat but when and how much. lunches) that fall before or after traditional times of eating. dinners or 4 p.m.

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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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ED Surge

JULY 19, 2023

public schools raise questions about whether curricula and edtech are staying culturally relevant. Between 2010 and 2021, the share of white non-Hispanic children fell to 45 percent of public school students, while the share of Hispanic children grew to comprise 28 percent. Meanwhile, changing demographics of students in U.S.

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ED Surge

JULY 22, 2022

To start to shift those figures, the department makes Women in Apprenticeship and Nontraditional Occupations grants to organizations like Moore Community House (which received $750,000 from the government in 2021). These jobs include information security analyst and engineering roles of all types.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

It was a total culture shock” after attending a racially diverse high school, she said. “I In 2021, among the 5,815 students who accepted a seat, 432 were Black, down from 488 out of 5,743 in 2018, according to data provided by the university. “I didn’t want a false narrative to be pushed about the Black community,” Ihekwereme said.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 20, 2024

As Northgate returned fully to in-person learning in 2021, educators here noticed that student mental health had worsened, and decided to dedicate nearly a fifth of the district’s federal Covid-relief funds — about $800,000 — to building out its mental health programs.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 29, 2024

It was the fall of 2021. But traditional internships are not universally accessible. “At Not everybody is a traditional 18- to 22-year-old student,” Churches said. The experience “changed my life,” she said, opening her eyes to new career possibilities as well as a new culture.

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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.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 24, 2022

A December 2021 McKinsey report predicted that an additional 1.7 A 2021 study found that students who earned high school diplomas through credit recovery eventually earned lower wages in the labor market. Educators are worried about a wave of high school students who are failing classes during the pandemic. million to 3.3

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ED Surge

MAY 30, 2023

We found that the combined effect of tutors' knowledge of both reading development and culturally responsive pedagogy was significantly correlated with students' reading development,” Sodani shared in an email. The residency is similar to traditional student teaching experiences, except it lasts a full year and pays about $30,000.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Teacher BrieAnne Stout (center) guides students through a closing circle during a forest school session in Tijeras, New Mexico on February 3, 2021. Sally Anderson, the director of Sol Forest School, collects acorns with Aldo Stearnes, 3, in early 2021. Credit: Adria Malcolm for The Hechinger Report. When many U.S.

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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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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 13, 2022

Yet I caution against using a deficit frame that fails to account for other types of learning and skills students acquired during the pandemic, simply because they don’t fit traditional measurement standards or narrow constructs of achievement. Black and Latino parents were most hesitant about the return to in-person schooling in fall 2021.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 18, 2023

This story also appeared in Oregon Public Broadcasting Hall — who graduated in 2021 with a doctorate in linguistics from the University of Oregon — is the language coordinator for the Coquille Indian Tribe. “I spent months writing,” she said, “just crying while I wrote because of how it felt to not be recognized.”

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ED Surge

MAY 6, 2022

This vast workforce that supports working families is largely unseen in public policy; our systems undervalue—or even ignore—the critical role that FFN caregivers serve in supporting families who work nontraditional hours , live in rural communities and for those who prioritize a known, trusted, culturally congruent caregiver.

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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. First Class: The Legacy of Dunbar, America’s First Black Public High School.

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Anthropology News

AUGUST 21, 2024

In 2021, these megafires earned Bolivia third position among countries suffering intense forest losses from fire. Jesús belongs to Bolivia’s Criollo middle-class, and the land he bought up for Paradise Farm is located upon the traditional homelands of several Indigenous Guaraní, Ayoreo, and Chiquitanos communities.

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Anthropology News

APRIL 30, 2024

This shift detached investors from the personal aspect of a debt relationship, allowing them to earn 20 to 30 percent annual interest—significantly higher than the 3 to 5 percent offered by traditional banks. By 2021, the state officially ended all remaining P2P lending platforms to curb risks from spreading to other financial sectors.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 7, 2023

And 1,400 miles northeast, the campus of the State University of New York at Stony Brook has also flooded, thanks to Hurricane Ida, a 2021 storm strengthened by climate change that cut across the continent all the way from the Gulf Coast to the Northeast.

Elementary School 89

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Many remain at least partially online this fall and possibly into 2021. For years, more and more first-generation, low-income, working adults and other students from historically underrepresented backgrounds have been enrolling in higher education, challenging outdated notions of the “traditional student.”.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

Data from the 2021 Healthy Minds Study shows 34 percent of college respondents struggling with anxiety disorder and 41 percent with depression — rates that have risen in recent years. Yet this is about more than counselor numbers; students are pressing for an array of tools and, critically, a culture shift. That is changing.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

There is more time for students to actually do the work, in this case, read, rather than the focus on the more traditional, round-robin style of reading where students spend a lot of the reading time waiting for their turn to read.”. “They’ve got a general idea of what the book is, and it helps just make it a little bit more accessible.”.

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Anthropology 365

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Institutional academic cultures often contribute to these mental health challenges, suggesting that these concerns are not purely individual but systemic within academia. The project invited students to consider how scientific knowledge develops and is situated in the historical and cultural dimensions of the times.

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