The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

The science and social studies topics should be sequenced so that the ideas build upon each other, and paired with vocabulary that will be useful in the future. The big question is whether the theory that more knowledge improves reading comprehension applies to real schools where children are reading below grade level.

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Teaching Charter School Social Studies Geography 135

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 11, 2024

In 2023, University of Virginia researchers promoted a study of Colorado charter schools that had adopted E.D. Children who had won lotteries to attend these charter schools had higher reading scores than students who lost the lotteries. A new study, published online on Feb.

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Learning Science Charter School Lesson Plan Social Studies 145

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 23, 2019

on day four of the strike, Nadia Morales, a counselor at Los Angeles High School, and Pedro Martinez, a social-studies teacher at Eagle Rock High School, prepare their children for the day. At 7 a.m., Tammy Kim/Hechinger Report.

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Charter School Public School High School Elementary School 111

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. My degree is in psychology but I’m teaching history!

Charter School 111

Charter School Tradition Public School Civics 111

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 16, 2020

I wasn’t sure how to explain to a rising high-school junior why I’d followed her and her classmates to Belize. Douglass High School, the Ninth Ward charter school where she works, and she’d told me, in passing, that she planned to take twenty-five kids to Belize. She tutored at two D.C.

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Charter School High School Cultures Public School 94

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

Secretary of Education, is giving parents freedom of choice, either to choose charter schools or to use vouchers to buy an education at any school they like, public or private. Thanks to a relatively new state policy, all spring Clarke went to the school library during second period for an online sociology class. “It

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Charter School Sociology Tutoring Psychology 88