The Hechinger Report

MARCH 11, 2024

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. Hirsch’s Core Knowledge curriculum. That’s hard.

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Learning Science Charter School Lesson Plan Social Studies 145

The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2020

A year and a half after the deadliest and most destructive fire in California history, students are coping with the psychological consequences of living through a megadisaster that sent them running for their lives. Angel Allen-Clifford, school psychologist, Paradise Unified School District. It was a 180 turn.”. But I can’t.”

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Teaching Charter School Psychology High School 119

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 7, 2016

It is just one of a slate of waivers approved by lawmakers, including class size, teacher preparation time, hiring and firing rules, and others, allowing traditional public schools to operate with the same educational requirements as their area charter schools. She is 35, and this wasn’t exactly her plan. “My

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Charter School Tradition Public School Civics 111

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 15, 2017

A similar program in Ohio shows teachers how to “ frack” Twinkies using straws to pump for cream and advises on the curriculum for a charter school that revolves around shale drilling. Hundreds of oil-and-gas-centric lesson plans are now available at the click of a mouse. The idea caught on.

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K-12 Education Charter School Elementary School 71