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NOVEMBER 29, 2016

For example, when presented with a tweet made from a liberal advocacy group, half of the students judged the tweet without bothering to click the link to read the source of information presented to advance the advocacy group’s claim. And that work must begin early, the authors say – in elementary school, ideally.

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AUGUST 13, 2021

At first glance, the binders incorporating a whole year of learning at the Parker-Varney elementary school in Manchester look a little like Candy Land, the beloved game of chance where players navigate a colorful route past delicious landmarks to arrive at a Candy Castle. At the Parker-Varney elementary school in Manchester, N.H.,

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OCTOBER 16, 2023

A majority of states have passed laws that mandate screening early elementary students for the most common reading disability, dyslexia, and countless districts train teachers how to recognize and teach struggling readers. Advocacy focused on math disabilities has been less widespread than that for reading disabilities.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

Teachers Ivonne Kendrick and Milagro Nuñez lead preschool students at Houston Elementary School in a song during a time of “música y movimiento.” In Ivonne Kendrick’s classroom at Houston Elementary School, 3-year-olds sit cross-legged in a circle, listening to their teacher sing about the fall season. WASHINGTON, D.C. —

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JUNE 6, 2022

Collins Elementary School, in southeastern Mississippi, paddled students more times than almost any school in the country in 2017-18, the last year for which there is national data. Johnson is the principal of Mississippi’s Collins Elementary School, where the paddle remains a staple of the educational experience.

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MAY 8, 2023

Here she is training math teachers on how to teach children to solve word problems at an elementary school in Brooklyn, New York. They launched a website , an advocacy group and an auxiliary group for teachers. Credit: Jill Barshay/The Hechinger Report How does a revolution start? Sometimes, it’s a simple question.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 8, 2016

BOSTON — Katie Cardamone teaches second grade in the Mendon-Upton Regional School District, about 40 miles southwest of Boston. Barely 1 percent of Mendon’s population is Latino and about 2 percent of Upton’s is, but Cardamone teaches her entire class in Spanish. We talk about [our dual-language school] as a revolution.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

The Yale survey of more than 300 undergrad and graduate students ages 18 to 35 found that students who participate in “collective action” — like involvement in advocacy groups or educating others about climate change — report lower levels of climate anxiety than those who only take part in individual actions like recycling or saving energy.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 14, 2020

Simón López, the Coordinator of Special Education at the Sarah Greenwood Elementary School for Dual Languages, is calling attention to the failure of Boston Public Schools’ dual language programs to accept students with certain types of disabilities – a violation of the spirit, at least, of state and federal laws.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 20, 2017

Chun’s district is at the forefront of a national movement to turn K-12 librarians into indispensable digital mavens who can help classroom teachers craft tech-savvy lesson plans, teach kids to think critically about online research, and remake libraries into lively, high-tech hubs of collaborative learning — while still helping kids get books.

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JUNE 6, 2018

. – Dressed in pastel pink and green for an early spring day, second-grader Katherine Cribbs was learning about energy on a virtual field trip – to her own school. Dozens of these ultra-green schools are going up in every sort of district – urban and rural, affluent and lower income, blue state and red state. RELATED: Psst!

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 10, 2017

“I am overwhelmed with joy for my students because I know now they each stand a better chance of being a successful student,” said Regina Trout, who teaches the second-year kindergarteners at Maple Hill Elementary School in Middletown. ” Regina Trout, kindergarten teacher at Maple Hill Elementary School in Middletown, N.Y.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 14, 2020

During a pandemic, when there’s no uniform way of counting attendance, Hedy Chang, director of the advocacy group Attendance Works, has seen districts rethinking some of these rules, with their ability to do so varying on state flexibility. She asked them how they felt about home schooling instead. mommy had only tried to help them.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

A student leaps during a game at Horizons Elementary School. Florida and Rhode Island now mandate 20 minutes of recess time a day for elementary school students. At least we’re at the table now,” said Carly Wright, advocacy director for SHAPE. “It Lillian Mongeau/The Hechinger Report.

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MARCH 27, 2023

Soon, employees from one of the world’s most influential companies will arrive to teach these students about computer science: how to program computer games, how to work with data and how to found and run a business. It's like kids are already getting knocked out for the count in elementary school.”

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

Cruz, who had worked for several years teaching kids with autism in a special needs classroom, noticed the shifts and, suspecting that they might signal a speech delay, promptly reported them to Jonathan’s pediatrician. The nonprofit offers workshops, one-to-one advocacy, and a monthly Spanish-speaking support group for families.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 12, 2017

In schools across Mississippi, teachers are focusing more on teaching basic reading skills in early grades to make sure students are ready to pass the third-grade reading exam. In this 2014 photo, literacy coach Kristen Wells works with students at Emmalee Isable Elementary in West Jackson. Photo: Jackie Mader.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2020

He finds it easy to teach himself with online content as his guide. He breezily navigates the internet and educational platforms his school uses. But while computers are the heart of Summit’s model, they’re designed to play a supporting role in teaching kids, not take center stage. MESA, Ariz. Logan Dubin is good with computers.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2019

The nation’s school districts spend about $46 billion less per year on facility upkeep than is needed to maintain “healthy and safe” learning environments, according to a 2016 report from the 21st Century School Fund, a research and advocacy organization. Rosie Stone, a junior at Atchison High School in Atchison, Kansas.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 1, 2016

Nancy Loome, executive director and founder of the Parents’ Campaign, a nonprofit and grassroots education advocacy organization. In Mississippi, she said, there is debate about how much more resources schools require, but few dispute that there is a need. “We Clinton school officials have also delayed large purchases.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

In the absence of detailed information about Asian American history at school, they’re teaching themselves through social media — such as videos on Tik Tok and infographics on Instagram — and their networks of friends. This generation is hyper-aware of the way that history has been framed — what is included and what is left out.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 6, 2017

“The bad news is we’re not seeing a lot of innovation or discussion around personalized learning,” said Claire Voorhees, national policy director for the Tallahassee, Florida-based Foundation for Excellence in Education, an advocacy group for personalized learning. Yet, that idea didn’t play out in most states’ first-year ESSA plans.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 2, 2016

Math teachers also started changing their teaching style to give personalized instruction to students with different learning needs. There’s a whole host of teaching practices that go hand-in-hand with the technology.”. It’s not just about adopting the technology,” Arnett said.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2022

It’s just been exacerbated by the pandemic,” said Rebeca Shackleford, the director of federal government relations at All4Ed, an education advocacy nonprofit. In 2017, he left teaching to work in education technology at Clever, a digital platform for schools. The homework gap isn’t new.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 17, 2022

In the spring of 2021, $600 stood between Endele Wilson and his dream of achieving a teaching credential from Long Beach City College. Wilson, 47, started taking courses in 2019, a few months before the pandemic hit and just before he lost his job as an elementary school music teacher.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 9, 2016

Two days before graduation at the Mississippi School for the Deaf, the 10 seniors are on their class trip to Dallas, and the elementary school is having its awards day program. The rest of the student body does what any other school does in the festive penultimate days of an academically rigorous school year: winds down.

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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. school district. According to Baesler, however, “We were too often teaching to a test. We were too often teaching to a test.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 11, 2023

Families got used to that,” said Elmer Roldan, of Communities in Schools of Los Angeles, which helps schools follow up with absent students. Since the 2012 shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut, Negrón, who grew up in Puerto Rico, had become convinced mainland American schools were dangerous.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 11, 2023

It does not say in our state constitution, ‘every child except for those who may have been seen as disruptive to others,’ ” said Jamaica Miles, a Schenectady City school board member and co-founder of the community organizing group All Of Us. He spent the semester teaching himself the things that he’d missed. That’s not what happens.”

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 16, 2017

A looming question is whether personalized learning that works in, say, a tight-knit, mission-driven charter school can be reliably translated into traditional district schools with many more students, less flexible schedules, keener standardized-test worries and cultures steeped in established ways of teaching and learning.

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JUNE 17, 2018

The guide also noted that starting in elementary school, all students take Spanish, art and music classes. The high school, which enrolls less than 200 students, has been able to offer as many as 17 Advanced Placement courses. Related: Teaching kids how battles about race from 150 years ago mirror today’s conflicts.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 14, 2021

During the pandemic, parents at the John Stanford International School spent $249,999 — one dollar less than the school district allows before the board steps in to review such spending — on teaching assistants for a dual language program. Credit: Kam Yee. It was never about the money,” she said. “We Credit: Dawn Larson.

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MAY 23, 2022

I am very cautious about a lot of things,” said Woods, a special education teacher in Palm Beach County, Florida, who teaches science. “I But when LGBTQ students take note of the “I’m Here” sticker on the back of his school ID, or his “We are ALL HUMAN” T-shirt, and come to him for advice or guidance, Woods is happy to provide it.

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DECEMBER 27, 2022

By 2021, it had committed to its most ambitious goal yet: overhauling the way Fairfax County Public Schools teaches students to read and supports struggling readers. School district leaders committed to radical and swift change. In the wake of George Floyd’s death, committee membership exploded.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 10, 2023

This story also appeared in Vanity Fair There were no formal exit polls conducted in West Bonner County, where the school district covers 781 square miles over timbered hills and crystalline lakes in the north Idaho panhandle. What has happened in West Bonner County offers a warning to public school supporters elsewhere.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 28, 2020

The family had just moved and now has to wake up earlier to make the half hour drive across town to Jaslynn’s elementary school, which is in their old neighborhood. one early-March morning for the half hour drive to Jaslynn’s elementary school in Grand Rapids, Michigan. It was 8:38 a.m. the night before.

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JULY 10, 2019

In tiny Foster, Rhode Island, teachers at Captain Isaac Paine Elementary School use high-tech methods to teach a largely rural, off-the-grid population. Down Route 6, not far from the Shady Acres Restaurant and Dairy, is Captain Isaac Paine Elementary School. It looks unlike any school I ever attended.

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