Digital Promise

DECEMBER 4, 2017

This article originally appeared on Usable Knowledge from the Harvard Graduate School of Education. There are also resources for students of all ages — preschool and kindergarten , elementary school , middle school , and high school — and for projects across all disciplines, from math to social studies.

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Studies Weekly

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

First, you add a group: for example, a Social Studies group to use for Studies Weekly topics. Visit flipgrid.com to get set up, and use the help articles if you need any assistance. Grades K-3) February 26, 2024 The post Flipgrid and Studies Weekly first appeared on Studies Weekly.

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 15, 2019

This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article. First, teachers at the K-12 level need to develop skills to talk about disabilities. How much did you learn about the disability rights movement in your social studies classes? Start Early.

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 4, 2016

This article originally appeared on Edutopia. Left to my own devices, wandering the halls of just about any school, I gravitate to the social studies and art project rooms. For more research-based articles on education, visit the Edutopia website. You should know right up front, I’m not a math guy.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 29, 2020

Parents who are curious about what’s included in the curriculum in their child’s classroom can find sources online, like a chart included in an article by Readingrockets.org which summarizes the various aspects of literacy, including phonics, writing and comprehension strategies, in some of the most popular reading curricula.

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Studies Weekly

MARCH 15, 2024

What is Universal Pre-K? 15, 2024 • By Studies Weekly Universal pre-K is a state policy framework to provide every child with a quality, publicly funded preschool education. What makes a Universal Pre-K Program universal? This gives states more flexibility to fund existing childcare programs rather than create their own.

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Studies Weekly

OCTOBER 16, 2023

But they can also have a powerful role in building equity, since all students begin with something they know,” said Catherine Gewertz in her March 2020 Edweek article, The Art of Making Science Accessible and Relevant to All Students. Thus, many states are aligning their science standards to NGSS or its Framework for K-12 Science Education.

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Studies Weekly

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Have students read the article “Electoral College” graphic organizer. Read “Amendment 12” together as a class. Grades K-3) February 26, 2024 The post Lesson 5: Electing Congress and the President (Grades 4-5) first appeared on Studies Weekly. This could also be an argumentative essay prompt. Have a class discussion.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 6, 2017

Of the 14 elementary school math programs, only two products were found to be standards-aligned across grades K-5, again both published by nonprofits. The third and final common misunderstanding is that open educational resources are comprised of an supplement-scale content, such as lesson plans, practice items, and articles.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 11, 2016

11, 2001, high school social studies teacher and football coach Robert Lake stood outside with students waiting to get picked up from school. Lake started the first class by showing students a collection of photographs, live footage and newspaper articles from 9/11. Photo: Chris Hondros/Getty Images. NORTH PLAINFIELD, N.J. —

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Studies Weekly

MAY 28, 2024

Texas Superintendent Quintin Shepherd told the New York Times in a 2023 article, “If kids are not here, they are not forming relationships,” he said. In 2023, EducationWeek reported that 12 states accept mental or behavioral health challenges as a valid excuse for missing school.

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C3 Teachers

JULY 27, 2024

” A recent survey of teachers from RAND showed that as of of fall 2023, “18 percent of K–12 teachers reported using AI for teaching and another 15 percent have tried AI at least once.” As a starting place I looked for recent research in social studies on the uses of AI tools to support academic outcomes.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 15, 2016

This article originally appeared on Usable Knowledge from the Harvard Graduate School of Education. On Tuesday , Wednesday , and Thursday , the math, social studies, and science teachers implement activities provided for them. To read more research-based articles on education, visit Usable Knowledge. 2 McBeath, J.,

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Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 22, 2016

This article originally appeared on Usable Knowledge from the Harvard Graduate School of Education. On Tuesday , Wednesday , and Thursday , the math, social studies, and science teachers implement activities provided for them. To read more research-based articles on education, visit Usable Knowledge. 2 McBeath, J.,

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 12, 2017

Subjects: Language Arts, Social Studies. Have students read Ensuring Equity: The Future of TOPS or a news article that explains how TOPS funding is inadequate to fully meet the program’s needs. Please share your lesson plans and/or letters. Grades: 12th (though it’s certainly relevant for 9th through 11th grades).

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Kentucky, where the students interviewed for this article attend public school, has a version of the civics test policy, which the state passed in 2018. Jefferson was struck by how much of an impact this could have on K-12 schools in Kentucky. The amendment is up for a vote this election.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2023

LaGarrett King, founder and director of the Center for K–12 Black History and Racial Literacy Education at the University of Buffalo The controversies have had subtle reverberations for the classrooms in Kentucky, Pennsylvania and Virginia too. Jefferson County Public Schools revamped its social studies curriculum in 2019.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 18, 2017

Take a game like, ‘Do I have a Right?’ ” said Brian Furgione, a middle-school social studies teacher near Orlando, Florida. “In The site encourages teachers to contribute their own approaches via Facebook, Twitter and other social media networks. Most K-12 students can’t vote, but talking politics in class is more than academic.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 28, 2022

There was always a group or two that wanted [social studies books] to stay as we had had it previously,” said Ed Richardson, who led the state department of education at the time. “No And to date, no district has taken historian Richard Bailey up on his offer to provide free copies of his book on Reconstruction.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

The laws have contributed to a climate in which “every classroom has been turned into a front” in a battle, said Melanie Willingham-Jaggers, executive director of GLSEN, which advocates for LGBTQ+ individuals in K-12 education. Every educator, every administrator now has to be on that front line every single day,” she said.

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Zinn Education Project

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Hope Koumentakos High School Social Studies Teacher, Takoma Park, Maryland I currently teach U.S. Allyson Saladino High School Social Studies Teacher, Ridgewood, New Jersey I used the lesson titled, How Red Lines Built White Wealth , in order for students to learn about red lining and institutionalized racism.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 6, 2016

Disclaimer: Harrison-Henderson, a former journalist, wrote several articles for The Hechinger Report before she worked for the state.). Developed by the Washington-based Center for Applied Linguistics , this method allows English learners to master the language while studying subjects such as math, science or social studies.

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Zinn Education Project

MARCH 7, 2024

It’s pretty fascinating, and there’s an article that we can share with you all later where you can see Du Bois taking on Hoffman. So what started in the public arena of K–12, and extended to higher education and Florida public college and universities, has now extended to private universities. Wells had been a direct witness.

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Zinn Education Project

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Teaching Resources Lessons and Articles About K–12 Lessons and teaching stories on Palestine and Israel from Rethinking Schools and the Zinn Education Project website. A social studies teacher uses conflicting narratives to engage students in studying the history of Palestine and Israel, focusing on the events of 1948.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 21, 2017

Not only did Caleb never return to his local school, but he learned little throughout his elementary, middle and high school years — which included hundreds of hours struggling through computer lessons in math, science and social studies. Developed by a company now called Edgenuity , the platform is available for all K-12 subjects. “It

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Last spring, when the odds seemed far longer, Bob Cousineau, a social studies teacher at Pennridge High School, predicted that whatever happened in his embattled district would become a national “case study” one way or another. Bob Cousineau teaches social studies at Pennridge High School, in Pennsylvania.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

But once she left the K-8 school at the top of her grade, Siyuja stopped feeling so smart. Last year, eight years after Siyuja graduated, the K-8 school still did not offer pre-algebra, a course that most U.S. It had no textbooks for math, science or social studies. She graduated valedictorian of her class. Nonexistent.

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Cult of Pedagogy

MARCH 6, 2025

The announcement of this portal comes a month after the president released the Ending Radical Indoctrination in K-12 Schooling executive order, eliminating Federal funding or support for “illegal and discriminatory treatment and indoctrination in K-12 schools, including based on gender ideology and discriminatory equity ideology.”

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 26, 2021

What bothers me most is if I fail seventh grade I’m going to go to a bad high school,” said Anuar, a student at Southwark School, the pre-K-8 school he’d attended since kindergarten. “I Deadlines for assignments in social studies in particular were tight, and he stopped handing them in. Work filled 12 hours a day from 7 a.m.

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Zinn Education Project

JANUARY 9, 2024

It’s pretty fascinating, and there’s an article that we can share with you all later where you can see Du Bois taking on Hoffman. So what started in the public arena of K through 12, and extended to higher education and Florida public college and universities, has now extended to private universities.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 23, 2024

This article includes references to self-harm, which some readers might find distressing. Our free weekly newsletter consults critical voices on innovation in K-12 education. As Seth geared up to take the social studies exam, Tejada told him about his years pulling shifts in his familys Mexican restaurant.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

In 2020, after events including the mass shooting two years earlier that killed 11 people at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh, New Hampshire passed a law requiring instruction on the Holocaust and other genocides in grades 8 through 12. Kingswood social studies teacher Kimberly Kelliher is among them.

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