The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

The most recent data is based on tests taken by students in spring 2024. By then, the worst of the pandemic was long past, but schools were dealing still with a mental health crisis and high rates of absenteeism not to mention students who’d had crucial learning disrupted. Public Schools Chancellor Lewis Ferebee.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 19, 2024

They now need nine months of additional school to catch up, according to NWEA’s analysis, released in July 2024. Curriculum Associates did not detect as much deterioration as NWEA, but did find widespread stagnation in 2023-24, according to a report released on August 19, 2024. One is phonics.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 15, 2024

The virtual version has boomed since the federal government handed schools nearly $190 billion of pandemic recovery aid and specifically encouraged them to spend it on tutoring. Researchers have previously found that it is important to schedule in-person tutoring sessions during the school day, when attendance is mandatory.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 8, 2024

Wealthy suburbs can have a surplus of qualified applicants for elementary schools at the same time that a remote, rural school cannot find anyone to teach high school physics. Source: Edwards et al (2024), “Teacher Shortages: A Framework for Understanding and Predicting Vacancies.” I read a January 2024 version.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 29, 2024

More than 75 percent of elementary school math teachers said they used their school’s recommended materials, but fewer than 50 percent of high school math teachers said they did. Students, he said, are often being taught through a “bricolage” of materials that teachers assemble themselves from colleagues and the internet.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

“Growing at this rate allows most students to catch up to grade level during their time in school,” concluded the report , which was released in September 2024. Previous researchers conducted a similar analysis in 2017 with whole school districts instead of individual schools. Source: TNTP Opportunity Makers report 2024.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 31, 2023

This story also appeared in The Boston Globe Mejía and her husband, Spanish-speaking immigrants from the Dominican Republic, only later learned that Joangel, now 7, would have been an ideal candidate for one of the four elementary schools in Boston that teach students in both English and Spanish, Joangel’s first language.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Learning to read well in elementary school matters. The vertical red line represents the deadline for committing federal ESSER funds (September 2024). Grade refers to the grade students are in during the 2022–23 school year. After children learn to read, they read to learn. It also matters to society as a whole.

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TCI

MARCH 25, 2025

Similarly, a February 2024 study in Developmental Psychology provided strong causal evidence that science instruction also drives literacy growth. According to the Council of Chief State School Officers , of the total instructional time in elementary schools, only about 10.6 percent for English language arts and 25.3

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 11, 2024

And what we really want to know is whether knowledge building at school helps poorer children, who are less likely to be exposed to the world through travel, live performances, and other experiences that money can buy. A new study, published online on Feb. Students were also given related books to read during the summer.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Even by Houston ISD’s own calculations, the school is expected to earn a B rating when 2023 and 2024 school “report cards” are released. A lawsuit by Texas school districts over the change has halted the release of 2023 ratings for now, and a second lawsuit is similarly blocking the state from releasing 2024 ratings.

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Studies Weekly

MAY 2, 2024

A Teacher’s Guide to Celebrating Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month May 2, 2024 • Studies Weekly Diverse perspectives strengthen education, according to Heather Singmaster’s EdWeek article from November 2018. They broaden students’ view of history and teach them to respect people from different cultures.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 13, 2024

Students are expected to have learned to read by age 9, which corresponds to third or fourth grade in elementary school. As students moved from elementary to middle school, the improvement in reading for Black students was dramatic in the 1970s and 1980s.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 24, 2024

One brain study, published in May 2024, detected different electrical activity in the brain after students had read a passage on paper, compared with screens. Credit: Getty Images Studies show that students of all ages, from elementary school to college, tend to absorb more when they’re reading on paper rather than screens.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Most school districts are left on their own to plot out their state-dictated minimum days of instruction onto a calendar, while planning for holiday breaks and end-of-year testing, and balancing input from parents, teachers and students. Philadelphia dismissed schools early in 2023 and 2024 due to heat during the first week of school.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

She wonders what would happen if little kids were less scheduled in elementary school. Would they then have more resilience to deal with the time pressures in high school? Now a trio of economists say they’ve been able to calculate some of these psychological costs. One question Caetano has concerns timing.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 15, 2024

Its tutors are in India, but many of its clients are American families with elementary school children. It is slated to be presented at the March 2024 annual conference of the Society of Learning Analytics in Kyoto, Japan. Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial on a Math Tutoring Platform ,” so it may still be revised.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2023

Jenna Gros jangles as she walks the halls of Wyandotte Elementary School in St Mary’s Parish, Louisiana. Brusly Elementary School has 595 students, ranging from ages two to seven. Jenna Gros, head custodian at Wyandotte Elementary School in St Mary’s Parish, Louisiana, stops to tie a student’s shoe.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 9, 2023

In high school, I participated in Teacher Cadets , a program that allows high school students to explore the education field as a possible career, in part by having them go into local elementary and middle schools and by serving and observing in the field. I'll be leaving in 2024. But I did enjoy teaching.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Few had early learning experiences prior to starting school, she adds, and even concepts like which direction to turn the pages in a book are foreign to many of them. Across the country, elementary school teachers and leaders report that children are entering kindergarten worse off than their peers of the past.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Nat Malkus, a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative think tank, calls chronic absenteeism – not learning loss – “the greatest challenge for public schools.” A fellow at Harvard University’s Center for Education Policy Research studied what happened the following 2021-22 school year.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 8, 2022

Shortages were concentrated in low-income schools and certain specialties. Wealthy suburban schools might have dozens of applicants for an elementary school teacher, while schools in poor urban neighborhoods and remote rural areas might struggle to find certified teachers in special education or in teaching students who are learning English.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

From the outside, the building that was once Cold Springs Elementary School in Missoula, Montana, looks abandoned. Across the country, shuttered schools like Cold Springs Elementary in Missoula, Montana, are being remodeled and repurposed as centers for early child care. MISSOULA, Mont.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 20, 2024

million followers) welcoming teachers to share their school supply lists, along with a bit of humanizing information like where they live and what they teach, in a Google form. I love buying school supplies. I have two kids, and they're both in public school. Each summer, she creates a post on her Instagram account (1.8

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Because of the lower-than-expected interest, the district had to pivot from its plan to run these care programs in all elementary schools, instead running them in regional "centers" around the city. percent turnover rate in 2023 to 2024 with a $52,002 base teacher salary.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 21, 2022

We recently worked with the San Bernardino City Unified School District to develop a new early childhood center—Cardinal Child Care Center (CCC)—which was designed as part of the district’s effort to address California’s recent transitional kindergarten mandate.

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Studies Weekly

JUNE 3, 2024

March 15, 2024 How Studies Weekly Uses Scientific Principles to Innovate Science Teaching March 11, 2024 The post 3 Ways to Keep Students Engaged When Summer Is Calling first appeared on Studies Weekly.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 21, 2024

After starting elementary school in the late 1960s, Naomi Hirahara and three other girls formed a clique called the C.L.A.N., It was one of Pasadena’s top-performing elementary schools, which the 1973 report from the Civil Rights commission attributed to the fact that many of the students came from middle-class households.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 15, 2024

In the 2023-24 school year, children who will turn 5 by April 2, 2024, were able to enroll. By the 2025-26 school year, all children who are 4 years old by the beginning of the school year in September will be eligible. In San Diego, the YMCA operates after-school programs at nearly 30 elementary schools.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 9, 2024

We’re excited to bring you more episodes this year, including more installments in our new series about growing public skepticism about higher education and the impact that is having on the choices students make after high school. If you have a suggestion for a topic or guest for 2024, please send that my way at jeff@edsurge.com.

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Studies Weekly

AUGUST 2, 2024

The Double Duty Teachers Have Double the Love for Studies Weekly Jul 11, 2024 Video Transcript Speakers: Morgan Mercado and Taylor Wallace, 4th Grade Gifted Education Teachers Morgan Mercado and Taylor Wallace: Hey, I’m Morgan, and I’m Taylor, and we’re the Double Duty Teachers.

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Studies Weekly

MAY 10, 2024

You Have Primary Sources in Your Family May 10, 2024 • By Studies Weekly Primary sources transport students through history. They help students understand what real people of the past saw, felt, and heard as they lived through the events we study in school.

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Studies Weekly

AUGUST 6, 2024

Help Calm your Elementary Students with these Breathing Exercises Aug 6, 2024 • By Debbie Bagley Focusing your breathing with various exercises can bring a sense of calm and comfort, as well as many emotional and physical benefits. Breathing techniques can be a fun and engaging way to teach students to regulate their emotions.

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Studies Weekly

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

February 26, 2024 Lesson 5: Who Can Run For Office February 26, 2024 Lesson 6: How Do We Choose Leaders? Grades K-3) February 26, 2024 The post Flipgrid and Studies Weekly first appeared on Studies Weekly.

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Studies Weekly

JULY 9, 2024

March 15, 2024 The post The Nationwide Reading Struggle first appeared on Studies Weekly.

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Studies Weekly

MAY 28, 2024

Educator’s Guide to Improving Student Attendance May 28, 2024 • By Studies Weekly Education in the United States has changed since the 2020 pandemic and still faces many lingering challenges due to the shutdown. A student is considered chronically absent if they miss at least 10% of the total school year, around 18 full days.

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Studies Weekly

MARCH 11, 2024

11, 2024 • By Studies Weekly Explore Science is Studies Weekly’s newest K-5 science curriculum. How Studies Weekly Uses Scientific Principles to Innovate Science Teaching Mar.

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