The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 10, 2022

New Jersey is set to become the first state in the nation to mandate teaching media literacy to students of all ages as a bill with the requirement heads to Gov. Spikes, director of Teach for Chicago Journalism at Northwestern University and co-founder of the Illinois Media Literacy Coalition. Phil Murphy’s desk for a signature. .

Teaching 132

Teaching Civics K-12 Social Science 132

The Hechinger Report

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. —

American History 109

American History History Teaching Primary Sources 109

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 6, 2020

Why has this happened, and how does it affect black male students in their K-12 academic journeys? Board of Education Supreme Court ruling, African American teachers were pushed out of schools and out of the teaching profession to make integration more appealing to white families. After the 1954 Brown v. Before Brown v.

K-12 145

K-12 Sociology Advocacy Public School 145

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 5, 2023

I hear frequently from those in business that younger employees, directly out of K-12 or higher education, are looking for direction. The rigid structure of the traditional K-12 education system leaves little room for students to engage in real-world problem-solving scenarios.

K-12 127

K-12 Advocacy High School Tradition 127

ED Surge

AUGUST 9, 2022

Bringing together more than 100 organizations across the fields of disability advocacy, special education, civil rights and K-12 nonprofits, the Educating All Learners Alliance (EALA) is one such network formed to ensure equity and support for students with disabilities and learning differences across education environments.

EdTech 117

EdTech K-12 Advocacy Library 117

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.

Civic Engagement 128

Civic Engagement Education Civics K-12 128

Digital Promise

APRIL 16, 2020

In the last month, our teaching and learning environment has been upended. In the face of the COVID-19 pandemic, districts and educators have been tasked with shifting teaching and learning online, and many are seeking resources to support learning in this new environment. Emphasizing digital equity and advocacy.

Library 148

Library K-12 Pedagogy Advocacy 148

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 13, 2021

Lillian Pace, vice president of policy and advocacy, KnowledgeWorks. And we were unable to identify them,” said Amy Allen, assistant superintendent for teaching, learning and leading. We need to teach resilience.”. Pre-pandemic, we saw a lot more interest in one-off pilot programs,” said Pace. What’s your strategy?’

K-12 142

K-12 Advocacy Elementary School Tradition 142

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. Can more people — and more people from a variety of backgrounds — be convinced to join the teaching profession in this particularly trying time?

K-12 123

K-12 Advocacy High School Teaching 123

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 5, 2024

Elliott said the center’s work will fall into four main categories: training K-12 teachers and education support staffers, training community college educators, working on policy issues that affect neurodivergent students and offering programs to set up neurodivergent students for success in college and the workplace.

K-12 136

K-12 Leadership Psychology Advocacy 136

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? She teaches students to be more inclusive by making their creations accessible to those who are differently abled. What creative skills are employers looking for?

Advocacy 113

Advocacy K-12 Critical Thinking Project-Based Learning 113

ED Surge

MARCH 20, 2024

Teaching creativity and creative thinking in K-12 has always been valued but often challenging to implement. Many standards and curricula don’t call out creativity explicitly, and teachers aren’t often trained on how to teach and assess creative thinking. AI can’t replace teachers; it lacks the human connection.

Pedagogy 134

Pedagogy Advocacy K-12 Professional Development 134

The Hechinger Report

MAY 19, 2024

Today, it enrolls roughly 500 students from 60 different tribes in grades K-12, bolstering their Indigenous heritage with land-based lessons and language courses built into a college preparatory model. Barraza teaches Native literature at the Native American Community Academy in Albuquerque.

Charter School 135

Charter School Heritage K-12 Education 135

Digital Promise

JANUARY 13, 2022

In partnership with the United Nations Refugee Agency, the institute published Teaching for Refugees: Building Knowledge , where educators demonstrate their knowledge of students’ backgrounds and identify resources for individual student needs. Teach for America – Las Vegas. Carey Institute for Global Good.

Professional Development 116

Professional Development K-12 Project-Based Learning Civics 116

ED Surge

APRIL 8, 2024

She got up early and stayed open late to accommodate people who worked 12-hour shifts and needed to drop kids off as early as 5 a.m. There was enough space — three units and one house — for four classrooms, and as soon as renovation was completed on the first room, she enrolled 12 more kids. The timeline for renovation grew longer.

K-12 129

K-12 Government Primary Sources Advocacy 129

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 11, 2018

“When these kids go off to college there have been lots of studies that say they’re not prepared with the communication, critical thinking and collaboration skills they need,” said Denise Pope, a senior lecturer at Stanford’s Graduate School of Education and a co-founder of Challenge Success, a nonprofit education advocacy group.

Teaching 105

Teaching Education Psychology High School 105

Digital Promise

JANUARY 16, 2019

Teaching CS Fundamentals from Code.org (3-8 hours). If you prefer learning through reading, some great options are: Computational Thinking and Coding for Every Student by Jane Krauss & Kiki Prottsman (a guide for getting started with teaching CS). Girls Who Code clubs (grades 3-12). Technovation Challenge (grades 6-12).

K-12 92

K-12 Advocacy Professional Development Middle School 92

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Creger was showing the students how to read by using phonics, which teaches children the relationships between letters and sounds. Elsewhere in North Carolina, or in any other state in the nation, if you step into an elementary school, you might find three different classrooms teaching students three different ways to read.

Elementary School 145

Elementary School Tutoring K-12 Public School 145

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 30, 2018

New ways of teaching and learning are needed to make sure students prove they’ve mastered topics before earning a diploma, they say. We have to engage in a movement,” Susan Patrick, CEO of the nonprofit advocacy group known as iNACOL (International Association for K-12 Online Learning), told the cheering crowd of 3,000 true believers.

Advocacy 104

Advocacy K-12 Tradition Economics 104

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: Dawn Larson. Credit: Dawn Larson. Hampson said.

Public School 145

Public School Education K-12 Elementary School 145

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.

Library 111

Library K-12 Digital Resources Advocacy 111

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 6, 2018

Nationwide, K-12 schools are leading a fledgling “net-zero” building boom that has grown from a few proof-of-concept structures a decade ago to hundreds of buildings completed or under construction. Much of the advocacy for net-zero buildings has focused on environmental and economic incentives.

K-12 111

K-12 Elementary School Middle School Advocacy 111

ED Surge

MAY 20, 2024

But these days, about 5 to 6 percent of all K-12 students are homeschooled, which means that model has received very little attention compared to charter schools, considering that about 7 percent of students attend those, she adds. She had also worked in public schools before launching Mysa.

Public School 133

Public School Civics Private School K-12 133

ED Surge

MAY 24, 2023

In the wake of the Atlanta Spa shootings and a surge in violence against Asian Americans throughout the pandemic, Illinois made history by becoming the first state to mandate that Asian American history be taught in public K-12 schools beginning in the 2022-23 school year. Let’s get them to recognize there is an absence.”

Inclusive Curriculum 104

Inclusive Curriculum American History Primary Sources Professional Development 104

ED Surge

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

After all, a glimpse into the lives of educators working in schools right now reveals problem after problem with few solutions in sight—not exactly reassuring for someone considering a career in teaching. King, consultant for research, policy and advocacy at the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education.

K-12 98

K-12 Teaching Advocacy Classroom Management 98

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

So college has become more like the K-12 experience, where we are teaching them how to be adults in the world.”. Those are not necessarily skills that they’re learning in K-12 education.”. Those are not necessarily skills that they’re learning in K-12 education.”. That should not shock anyone.

K-12 132

K-12 Political Science Tutoring Advocacy 132

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 17, 2023

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. Yet many of them receive little to no introduction to climate science in K-12 schools. There are reasons to be optimistic.

Advocacy 92

Advocacy K-12 Geography High School 92

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

history instruction include an Asian American and Pacific Islander K-12 curriculum. 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. KELLEN ZENG.

History 107

History Heritage K-12 American History 107

Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 17, 2015

Teachers, particularly those who teach in our most disadvantaged communities, need to be protected. I ask kindergarten teachers in impoverished neighborhoods how many of their children have had real, developmental pre-K for a couple of years beforehand (the kind that wealthy or middle class kids get). scripted teaching methods).

Education 91

Education K-12 Anthropology Advocacy 91

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 29, 2020

In recent years, the group’s advocacy has led to changes in the district’s graduation requirements, to align them with admissions requirements for California’s university systems, and an expansion of funding for an after-school meal program that had been cut by the school board. Every year the group chooses an issue to focus on.

Civics 143

Civics Civic Engagement High School Government 143

ED Surge

JULY 19, 2023

It’s not just the product side of technology that needs more Latino representation, Noriega says, it’s also the teaching side. In Gonzalez’s view, just getting a piece of technology into a child’s hand won’t help them improve where they’re lagging academically or even be effective at teaching them anything.

Educational Technology 98

Educational Technology EdTech Education Heritage 98

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

The researchers created 56 tasks for students in 12 states, and collected 7,804 student responses from January 2015 until June 2016. The report suggests that schools must teach students the skills they need to be savvy consumers of news and information they encounter online. Sign up for our Blended Learning newsletter.

Civics 112

Civics Advocacy Elementary School Middle School 112

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 18, 2016

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. Half a million, or about one in four, show up on campuses each fall not ready to take college courses in math or English, according to the advocacy organization Education Reform Now.

High School 76

High School K-12 Advocacy Middle School 76

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 3, 2024

At that moment, it made me realize, I had to teach my kids what to do in a crisis situation.” In fact, Pennsylvania has quietly become the “cyber charter capital of the nation” according to a report from the education advocacy group Children First PA. Related: Become a lifelong learner. That is a huge problem.”

Charter School 94

Charter School Tradition Advocacy K-12 94

The Hechinger Report

JULY 18, 2017

We think that’s the hardest work left,” said Brennan McMahon Parton, director of policy and advocacy at the Data Quality Campaign. “We The new report , “Time to Act 2017: Put Data in the Hands of People,” catalogs how the evolving use of data has influenced policy and teaching practices over the last 10 years.

Advocacy 99

Advocacy Teaching Education K-12 99

Anthropology News

OCTOBER 7, 2024

SEE Learning is a K-12 curriculum developed through a collaboration between Emory University and His Holiness the Dalai Lama, the spiritual leader of the Tibetan people. Ward discussed key anthropological findings regarding the effectiveness of translanguaging , or the intuitive mixing of multiple languages, in teaching and learning.

Heritage 98

Heritage Anthropology Education K-12 98

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 28, 2018

But few of these apps are developmentally appropriate and most fail to teach in ways preschoolers need to learn. There were few differences between free or premium apps, although researchers noted that premium Apple apps offered slightly more evidence-based teaching practices.

Advocacy 111

Advocacy Research Teaching Education 111