The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 16, 2023

This back-to-school season, the Education Reporting Collaborative, a coalition of eight newsrooms, will be documenting the enormous challenge facing our schools and highlighting examples of progress. Advocacy focused on math disabilities has been less widespread than that for reading disabilities.

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Tutoring Elementary School Advocacy Teaching 140

C3 Teachers

MARCH 30, 2022

The experiences included an online seminar (which included a virtual tour of UGRR), a self-guided walking and driving tour of significant underground railroad landmarks in Niagara Falls, NY, and the task of creating inquiry lesson for UGRR with the intent of being posted on the heritage center’s website.

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Cultures Heritage Civic Engagement Civics 52

Studies Weekly

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Du Bois’ advocacy extended across the world through many Pan-African conferences and an appeal to the United Nations to recognize the suffering of Black Americans, according to the NAACP. He encouraged his readers to be proud of who they were and to see “Beauty in Black.” Her speeches, including her famous “Ain’t I a Woman?”

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Museum Social Studies Advocacy Heritage 52

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 21, 2019

At Montpelier High School, in Vermont’s capital city, teachers spent years defining the school’s “proficiencies” and rewriting their lesson plans to highlight those core objectives in the lead-up to the transition in 2016, when all grades and classes switched to a proficiency-based model at once.

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High School Tradition Professional Development Social Studies 101

The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2019

Teachers project lesson plans onto interactive screens, and little hands reach for black Chromebook laptops, which are stacked like cafeteria trays in a large box called a Chromecart. For decades, nonprofit advocacy groups and corporate donors have targeted K-12 education for intervention. Yet, inside Isaac Paine, tech abounds.

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K-12 Charter School Middle School Elementary School 111

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Years of research have documented that poverty “creates constant wear and tear on the body” and that safe learning environments, coupled with “responsive parenting and high-quality childcare” can help children progress. No one had left lesson plans for their substitute teacher, so most of the time, her class just filled out worksheets.

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Private School High School Public School Charter School 143

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 6, 2024

It gave police authority to stop individuals they believed did not have legal documents to live in the United States, and made it a crime for businesses to knowingly hire, and landlords to rent to, those who lacked documentation. Under Grimes, “Russellville was a little gem,” she said, “where English learners were not seen as a burden.”

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High School K-12 Professional Development Heritage 145