ED Surge

DECEMBER 10, 2024

They contend the district eliminated tracking in middle and high school without seriously harming enrollments in AP Calculus, based on the data three years after implementation from the Stanford study. Still, the change was working, according to Nguyen and Iwasaki.

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JUNE 7, 2022

Now, a new annual report about attitudes toward Asian Americans from the advocacy organization LAAUNCH has provided some disturbing answers to some of these questions. As an Asian American, my lived experience and this research make me firmly believe that we must do a better job of teaching Asian American history and culture in the U.S. —

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 1, 2017

Read the whole series, “ Willing, able and forgotten: How high schools fail special ed students,” here. He has tuberous sclerosis, epilepsy and autism, but that hasn’t stopped him from being ambitious at school. He has tuberous sclerosis, epilepsy and autism, but that hasn’t stopped him from being ambitious at school.

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Catlin Tucker

JUNE 4, 2020

The Teaching Tolerance website has a collection of ready-to-use classroom lessons and resources that span a range of social justice topics and issues while prioritizing social-emotional learning. Lessons include: Lesson objectives Essential questions Materials–teaching strategies, handouts, and texts Key vocabulary Procedure.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 4, 2018

These and other challenges mean that, at a time when growing proportions of high school students have been successfully encouraged to go on to college, more than one in five full-time freshmen nationwide fail to return for a second year, according to the data. That’s the conundrum we still haven’t gotten figured out yet.”.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 11, 2018

Kate Allender, of Tesla STEM High School, has designed a course integrating AP Psychology with a hands-on study of forensics. At most high schools, however, the book learning and hands-on experiences are kept separate. Christine Lee, a 17-year-old junior at Tesla STEM High School. REDMOND, Wash. —

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 8, 2024

I took a lot of time and effort to teach myself and my family members, she said. The law would have relieved a lot of stress when she was in high school, said Bonilla. A lot of people cant and dont do that. This fall, the new form has been released in phases, to test how well it works, and the U.S. We know this isnt forbidden.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 27, 2025

Ive never seen a properly implemented inclusion model in 22 years of teaching. Poor instruction and progress for students with learning disabilities Monica McHale-Small is the director of education at the Learning Disabilities Association of America, which advocates for children with dyslexia and other learning struggles. She emailed me.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 11, 2016

Seniors at High Tech High School’s Media Arts campus in San Diego work on a project examining teenage stress and how to decrease it at a point in students’ lives when they’re making high-stakes decisions about college and careers. It’s weird that in the school system they don’t teach something that everyone should know.”.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 18, 2016

Paola De La Torre Macias and Brian Torales, who started college this fall already having completed remediation courses while still in high school. Stephanie Lewis and one of her students both cried when he graduated in the spring from South Pittsburg High School in Tennessee, where she teaches English.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

It includes a TV ad that encourages people to go into teaching, especially to promote more diversity in the teaching profession. Teaching is a journey that shapes lives. The national campaign comes at a time of concern about teacher shortages in many schools and districts. Are you ready?”

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2022

In high school, I was the only student of color in all but one of my advanced classes. Except for my time on the basketball team and some joyful moments in study hall, I didn’t see my friends from the neighborhood at school. A proud product of Atlantic City High School in New Jersey, Howard Bell is the CEO of Abl.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

The novel follows the twins Joshua and Christophe, who recently graduated high school. These kinds of conversations were not possible when I began teaching in the district. Many of the advocacy groups that filed challenges did so multiple times in different school districts. In response, a mother said, “No, no.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 6, 2020

During my sophomore year of high school, I experienced something completely unprecedented and, until that year, I hadn’t realized how vital it was to my self-esteem, self-identification and self-growth. Board, there were 82,000 black teachers in American public schools. I finally had a teacher who looked like me.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

Offering every high school student access to college-level courses while in high school is one critical way to do so. Data and research show that access to college coursework while in high school increases college enrollment, success and graduation rates and has a positive impact on academic performance.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 9, 2024

But the 20 rising 10th graders in Lisa Rodriguez’s class at Brookline High School were finishing a lesson on exponents and radicals. Experts say that’s because these students are less likely to attend high schools that offer higher-level math or to be recommended by their teachers for honors or AP classes, regardless of mastery.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 5, 2023

When I was a school superintendent in Maine, the five cities and towns that comprised our learning community wanted assurances that graduates of our three high schools would be adequately prepared for college or career training opportunities after high school. Our world presents increasingly complex challenges.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 29, 2020

In that role, she visited schools around the city and was shocked by the disparities in school building facilities and resources, she said. Who is the school board really representing? Vida Mendoza, high school freshman, Oakland, California. Every year the group chooses an issue to focus on.

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ED Surge

MAY 5, 2023

Tacy Trowbridge Lead for Global Education Thought Leadership & Advocacy Adobe What importance does creativity play when it comes to college and career pathways? Whether high school graduates transition to college or a career, there is a good chance that they will tap into their creative skills.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Teaching while suspecting those on the receiving end may not be there kills morale. Students in a seventh grade science class at the Rooftop School in San Francisco use icons like the “thumbs up” image (seen at upper right) to respond to lessons delivered over Zoom even when they keep their cameras off. But I can’t wait.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 26, 2022

Unlike the other subs — many of them parent volunteers or people looking for a little extra work — he’s a full-time, salaried employee with health benefits and a long-term contract with Everett Public Schools , north of Seattle. Related: Rural schools have a teacher shortage. Why don’t people who live there, teach there?

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

Fewer than 20 percent of high school students knew that simply looking at one photo online is not enough research to gauge if something is really happening. And among middle school students, 80 percent did not understand that “sponsored content” on a news organization’s website is paid advertising.

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The Hechinger Report

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. For the first time, he began talking about graduating high school and someday attending college.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 24, 2021

Because students missed so much instruction during the pandemic, teachers should get extra time to fill all those instructional holes, from teaching mathematical percents and zoological classifications to discussing literary metaphors and American history. That’s worked well in Chicago high schools but not in Miami middle schools.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 6, 2022

A student walks toward Elko High School on Dec. Nationally, about 25 percent of superintendents have made a similar decision in the past year, compared to a typical turnover rate of 14 to 16 percent, according to the American Association of School Administrators. Students walk to their next class at Elko High School on Dec.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 27, 2023

This workshop is part of a tech ambassador program, which builds technology advocacy across the district. Scheetz recently shared her sentiment with me: “We teach our students in person, but we’re asking our teachers to learn asynchronously in isolation.” The adjustment has been difficult for our teachers too.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 12, 2024

Horace Tate, for example, featured in Vanessa Siddle Walker’s book, “The Lost Education of Horace Tate, ” was a hero who, beginning in the 1940s, aggressively recruited undergraduate students from historically Black colleges and universities to teach in rural Georgia.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 13, 2024

When Szoo excelled at math in high school, she got her share of ridicule, too — though it was slightly more subtle. “I As in Szoo’s case, the disparity begins in high school, where classes in subjects such as math, engineering and computer science “are still pretty gendered,” said Mynatt.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 19, 2024

(School officials said the decline is due to incomplete data.) Younger students attend the K-8 campus on the former boarding school site, while the high school is located in a gleaming new tower nearby at the Central New Mexico College. No language class, nothing,” Joshua said of his previous school.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 30, 2018

Personalized learning lets Champlain Valley Union High School sophomore Bella Curtis study toward a certificate in horse management. New ways of teaching and learning are needed to make sure students prove they’ve mastered topics before earning a diploma, they say. Photo: Austin Haeberle. NASHVILLE, Tenn. –

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 14, 2021

Hameed’s students are participants in various programs through Hello Future , a nonprofit organization that works with teen refugees to bridge the education gap by teaching digital and financial literacy, critical thinking and entrepreneurship. The program teaches students how to use the internet as a tool for more than just communication.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 9, 2023

. “Students with disabilities have a right to learn alongside their peers, and studies have shown that this is beneficial not only for students with disabilities but also for other students in the classroom,” said Lindsay Lubatzky, the organization’s director of policy and advocacy.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Politicians around the country have been aiming to demolish progressive policies by targeting teaching about race and ethnicity, the LGBTQIA+ community and women’s reproductive rights. Teaching is inherently activist. We must do this through teaching, learning and advocacy — as well as social activism and civic engagement.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 23, 2019

While Vertus High School doesn’t assign homework, Clovis Meikle, 17, says he works on his online classes at home to get ahead in advance of basketball season. Before Michael Mota goes to sleep each school night, the 17-year-old lies in bed thinking through his plan for the next day. Tara García Mathewson/The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 24, 2023

But by the time her son, Ian, entered high school, Barrera decided to invite a bilingual volunteer from a local nonprofit to sit with her and to remind the school team of her rights. “I When Ian entered high school, bullying and his safety became Barrera’s top concern.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 18, 2020

Eli Clark has been waiting nearly a year for their high school to complete an evaluation that would determine special education services. But at the new school, Eli struggled with more challenging coursework and shorter deadlines. Eli Clark, high school junior, Austin, Texas. Nearly two months went by.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 17, 2023

For 10 days this August, some 150 high schoolers from across the U.S. Its goal is to teach students the skills they will need to launch an effort this fall using schools as a lever for slowing greenhouse gas emissions and accelerating the green energy transition. This month, in Illinois, she’s part of the program’s art team.

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