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The buzz around teaching facts to boost reading is bigger than the evidence for it

The Hechinger Report

Some educators are calling for schools to adopt a curriculum that emphasizes content along with phonics. More schools around the country, from Baltimore to Michigan to Colorado , are adopting these content-filled lessons to teach geography, astronomy and even art history.

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PROOF POINTS: Inside the latest reading study that’s getting a lot of buzz

The Hechinger Report

For starters, the study took place at nine charter schools in Colorado, stretching from Denver to Fort Collins. The claim of closing the achievement gap is based on only 16 students who attended this one charter school. In this study, the researchers copied a method used by charter school researchers.

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PROOF POINTS: Slightly higher reading scores when students delve into social studies, study finds

The Hechinger Report

Fordham Institute found that elementary school students who studied more social studies, including geography, history and civics, scored higher on fifth grade reading tests. Calling for more civics and history instruction is nothing new. A September 2020 study from the Thomas B. Credit: Jason Bachman/Flickr.

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PROOF POINTS: Learning science might help kids read better

The Hechinger Report

Natalie Wexler’s 2019 best-selling book, The Knowledge Gap , championed knowledge-building curricula and more schools around the country, from Baltimore to Michigan to Colorado , are adopting these content-filled lesson plans to teach geography, astronomy and even art history.

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A school once known for gang activity is now sending kids to college

The Hechinger Report

In a history class, for example, imagine two students taking a test based on a chapter reading on the Vietnam War. Yet one student may have limited geography skills, and is not making connections between events in neighboring Laos and Cambodia. As a neighborhood school, Juarez enrolls any student living within its zoned boundary.

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The Politics and Limits of Aspiration

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Adults in the audience responded with knowing and affirming sounds, signaling their recognition of the persistent apartheid geography that maintains racialized access to spaces and opportunities in their city. Driven by this critique, he returned to Launch as a history teacher with aims to help “decolonize classrooms.”

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It’s not about sex: Teaching young children where babies come from (and other stuff)

The Hechinger Report

Kids are often satisfied with fairly simple answers to their questions, Roffman said, and parents shouldn’t feel the need to dive into the history of sexism when answering questions about boys and girls, or the issue of infertility when answering questions about reproduction. They’ve already been socialized in so many ways.”.