The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Education journalist Emily Hanford has argued that the failure to teach phonics in the early elementary years may be the problem. Research evidence certainly backs a phonics approach when first teaching kids how to read words but students need a lot more than word recognition to become good readers. who started kindergarten in 2011.

Social Studies 145

Social Studies Civics Geography Elementary School 145

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2021

Determining what those key underlying concepts are isn’t obvious; curriculum experts need to be involved to create materials that guide tutors on how to diagnose each student’s knowledge gaps and what to teach each student. A charter school network recently described acceleration as interweaving review material with grade-level content.

Tutoring 145

Tutoring High School Charter School Research 145

ED Surge

JANUARY 24, 2022

They envision an ecosystem where learners buy access to courses without enrolling in colleges; where teachers profit directly from their teaching; where students track progress on ever-lengthening credential chains; and where people who invest in the right tokens gather in learning groups to explore topics of mutual interest.

Education 125

Education EdTech Government Tradition 125

The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2020

He finds it easy to teach himself with online content as his guide. He breezily navigates the internet and educational platforms his school uses. But while computers are the heart of Summit’s model, they’re designed to play a supporting role in teaching kids, not take center stage. MESA, Ariz. Logan Dubin is good with computers.

Junior High 126

Junior High Charter School Elementary School Social Studies 126

Doing Social Studies

APRIL 13, 2020

This week’s post comes from Thomas Fulbright, current KCSS president and history teacher at Hope Street Academy, a public charter school in Topeka since 2008. What I found during my research to create the lesson drove home the whole purpose of why we teach history and why I teach history the way I do.

Lesson Plan 67

Lesson Plan Charter School History Library 67

The Hechinger Report

JULY 30, 2018

By the fall of 2020, all Northern Cass students will plot their own academic courses to high school graduation, while sticking with same-age peers for things like gym class and field trips. school district. According to Baesler, however, “We were too often teaching to a test. We were too often teaching to a test.

Tradition 111

Tradition Charter School High School Cultures 111

The Hechinger Report

MAY 26, 2019

The term describes game-like measures of knowledge and abilities, but also the tracking of skill development in playful learning activities, which was piloted over the past year by middle school teachers at Corte Madera and at Community Public Charter School in Charlottesville, Va., I couldn’t teach,” she said. “I

Education 111

Education Project-Based Learning Charter School Tradition 111

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 3, 2016

Some nights, Duggan faced four hours of homework after a day of school and dancing that stretched into the evening, “I would just break down crying and saying, ‘I can’t do this anymore!’ ” she recalled. What kind of teacher will you get to teach those kids?”. Her parents agreed. That helps a lot if you need to ask a question.”.

Education 0

Education Charter School Middle School Museum 0

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 16, 2017

(From left to right) Sixth graders Mia DeMore, Maria DeAndrade, and Stephen Boulas make a number line in their math class at Walsh Middle School in Framingham, Massachusetts, one of 132 “Basecamp” schools piloting the Personalized Learning Platform created by the Summit charter school network. Photo: Chris Berdik.

Charter School 80

Charter School Middle School Project-Based Learning Elementary School 80

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

Wilson Charter School in New Orleans and quietly made connections with children. Soon, he became an indispensable part of their school day. said teacher Kierston James, 40, who oversaw Albert, a fellow with the Brothers Empowered to Teach (BE2T) Initiative. Growing up, Albert, now 22, saw almost no men teaching. “I

Elementary School 107

Elementary School Public School Teaching Cultures 107

Studies Weekly

JANUARY 17, 2024

ESSER (Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief) is a federal funding program to address the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on K-12 education. The federal government offered three rounds of funds to public, private, and charter schools nationwide. Worthington Direct.

K-12 52

K-12 Charter School Social Studies Government 52

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2020

In some cities, school buses now deliver daily paper packets of schoolwork, along with bagged breakfasts and lunches. In others, schools use PBS’s “Nova” program to help teach science. Cartons of milk are loaded into school buses to deliver to students and their families at Beech Street School in Manchester, N.H.,

Elementary School 84

Elementary School Tutoring Public School Charter School 84

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 17, 2021

School leaders from across the state sought advice on teacher training, how to transition curriculum and what pitfalls to avoid as students began learning from home. Rogers has overseen iUniversity Prep, Grapevine Colleyville ISD’s virtual school, for almosta decade. We needed something that wasn’t like a crazy, private school.”

Private School 67

Private School Charter School Tradition Project-Based Learning 67

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Studies have found that sessions once or twice a week haven’t boosted achievement much , nor has frequent after-school homework help. Effective tutoring sessions are scheduled during the school day, when attendance is mandatory, not after school. More than 70 percent of the students never logged into the tutoring platform.

Tutoring 107

Tutoring High School Charter School Research 107

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 20, 2018

Robotics came easily to her, so she began helping others in her club and teaching her 2-year-old sister the basics. “I The program allows some of North Carolina’s lowest-performing schools to have more flexibility like charter schools. Related: A school once known for gang activity is now sending kids to college.

Elementary School 90

Elementary School Charter School K-12 High School 90

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

Ocon, who had been at the school since 2005, became convinced that the source of the dismal performance numbers was not the kids but a hidebound curriculum that was simply not working to their benefit. 84 percent of this Chicago high school’s students graduate on time and 52 percent of them now go to college, an 11-point increase from 2012.

Geography 93

Geography High School Charter School Cultures 93

The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2019

In tiny Foster, Rhode Island, teachers at Captain Isaac Paine Elementary School use high-tech methods to teach a largely rural, off-the-grid population. Kristen Danusis, a former school psychologist who became the principal in 2013, tells me that many of her students live “off the grid,” in households that earn little regular income.

K-12 109

K-12 Charter School Middle School Elementary School 109

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 7, 2016

Davida Walls never thought she would be teaching high school biology, let alone in the first few months after graduating from college at 22. Teaching was not my initial goal. She is trying to decide whether to become a doctor or a nurse, and plans to apply for a program to train for one or the other this year.

Charter School 111

Charter School Tradition Public School Civics 111

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

For example, zero high schools in Utah taught all 19 topics, while 40 percent of schools in New Mexico did. With so few schools required to teach these topics, experts say many kids who most need medically accurate, inclusive sexual health education aren’t getting it. There were huge differences between states.

Teaching 85

Teaching Elementary School Lesson Plan Middle School 85

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 6, 2024

Lindsey Johnson and Yesenia De La Rosa were taking different approaches to teaching the same English lesson on silent letters as they sat at opposite ends of this first grade classroom in West Elementary School. They were never not teaching,” she said. Slowly, educators began sharing strategies and co-teaching classes.

High School 145

High School K-12 Professional Development Heritage 145

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 14, 2018

In August, Michigan history teacher James Gorman watched televised images of torch-bearing white supremacists marching on the University of Virginia in Charlottesville and decided to use the incident to teach his students about similar events that happened in a divided United States 150 years ago. history when black lives mattered.”.

Teaching 106

Teaching Primary Sources K-12 History 106

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Attempts to raise taxes to build a state-of-the-art high school in this high-poverty district have failed. Rand is new to teaching at Holmes Central, but she spent three years here as a student. Since she graduated in 2013, the name of the old high school had changed, but not much else. The class of 2018 didn’t fare much better.

Private School 142

Private School High School Public School Economics 142

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 28, 2019

Most students in the Lower 48 can post videos on their schools’ websites or download assignments in a matter of seconds. Meanwhile, the bandwidth boost teachers and students have been enjoying during this school year is already setting the stage for academic improvement, they said. That’s not a given in rural Alaska.

Social Studies 96

Social Studies Public School Charter School High School 96

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

The trio wept as they recalled Siyujas move as a teenager to a private boarding school 150 miles away in Sedona, Arizona, which shed chosen to attend because the federal agency that runs Havasupai Elementary, the only school in her village, provides no options for high school. But what are they teaching here?

Education 99

Education Elementary School Government K-12 99

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.

K-12 67

K-12 Education Elementary School Charter School 67

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Bob Cousineau teaches social studies at Pennridge High School, in Pennsylvania. In the days after November’s school board election, he said, it felt like teachers had come “back from the dead.” A middle school reading program would be altered because the books, one board majority member said, were too “doom and gloom.”

Education Policy 142

Education Policy Education Advocacy Social Studies 142

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

Sarah Swanson-Hysell, a teacher at Lighthouse Community Charter School in California’s Oakland Unified School District, sympathizes with students like Benjamin. Sarah Swanson-Hysell, a teacher at Lighthouse Community Charter School in California’s Oakland Unified School District. “I

Charter School 111

Charter School Middle School Government Civics 111