The Hechinger Report

MAY 30, 2018

Personalized learning has a lack of really clear data points, really clear success stories,” said Hilah Barbot, science and technology director for the national charter school network KIPP, who worked for several years as a teacher and administrator at KIPP New Orleans, overseeing their technology initiatives. “I

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 6, 2016

Last spring, Derrick Fields, 9, sat in his social studies classroom at Sherman Elementary School, learning about the creation of the telegraph. Cherish Miranda, a junior in the dual language Chula Vista Learning Community Charter School. SAN DIEGO, Calif. I cried the first time I took a test. It’s not the same.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 28, 2019

NOME, Alaska — Before they got down to business for the day, students in Devin Tatro’s social studies class were offered a quiet moment of self-reflection: On this golden fall afternoon at Nome-Beltz Junior/Senior High School, were they feeling chipper, distressed or somewhere in between? A plan to link Alaska to the world.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 19, 2016

Derrick Fields, 9, works on his assignment during a Spanish-language history lesson at Sherman Elementary School in San Diego, California. Last spring, Derrick Fields, 9, sat in his social studies classroom at Sherman Elementary School, learning about the creation of the telegraph. Photo: Lillian Mongeau.

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4QM Teaching

JANUARY 7, 2024

The visit took place during the 2023 national social studies conference, which was in Nashville in early December. As it happens, Nashville is home to Nashville Classical Charter School , a K-8 charter network that has been working with us to adapt their social studies curriculum to the Four Question Method.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

There, he tried to give people information about important education-related bills, including the bill that introduced Amendment 2, which would overturn the state’s constitutional restriction that prohibits using public funds for private and charter schools. School also taught Ta to conduct research, which was helpful.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 5, 2022

Lusher, like America, has long had a teacher diversity problem : Slightly more than 20 percent of public school teachers—who include those at charter schools — in the U.S. ” Christa Talbott, a 20-year veteran of New Orleans schools. “A “I was tired of sitting back so that white people could feel comfortable.”.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 30, 2019

When it was confirmed that I would be developing and piloting our school’s first civics course, I began to think about my eighth-graders more intently. I, Mr. Billups , would be entrusted with the task of teaching civics in a politically polarized atmosphere at a culturally and racially diverse school in Boston.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 16, 2020

Douglass High School in New Orleans, wanted her students to have the same transformative experience she did on a high school trip to Ghana. This year, she took 25 students to Belize, where they learned about the Garifuna and Mayan cultures. Welcome to our cultural island,” Martinez said.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

She is now the dean of School Culture and Community at a Boston charter school, where she also teaches educators how to support students who have experienced trauma and create supportive classroom communities. “If is entering her 19th year teaching high school social studies at a public school in rural Kansas. “We

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 14, 2018

To inform his lessons, Gorman chose a curriculum called Teach Reconstruction created by the Zinn Education Project, a collaboration between social justice education nonprofits Teaching for Change, based in Washington, D.C. and Rethinking Schools, of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. history and social studies curriculums.

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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

MARCH 17, 2025

The father of three is also not keen on the states newly proposed social studies standards that would require biblical lessons starting in first grade. Walterss mandate has also sparked concern because of the proposed social studies standards that followed. It goes without saying that Walterss crusade is multifaceted.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

Last year, eight years after Siyuja graduated, the K-8 school still did not offer pre-algebra, a course that most U.S. public school students take in seventh or eighth grade, if not earlier. It had no textbooks for math, science or social studies. We have really built the capacity of the BIE, Dearman said.

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