ED Surge

APRIL 23, 2024

Of those five, one left teaching during her third year, and another will resign next month, at the end of the school year. The other three are still teaching and plan to continue. years of my career at Weehawken High School, where I taught Algebra I (students in grades seven to nine) and AP Calculus (grades 11-12).

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 24, 2023

The study, a working paper that has not yet been peer-reviewed, came to two dramatic conclusions. The first was that elementary school students who attended “Core Knowledge” schools – which teach young children a broad core curriculum in many subjects – were better readers. However, U.S.

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 2, 2020

To make matters more tenuous, teachers of color leave the teaching profession at higher rates than white teachers. Working in partnership with public school districts and charter schools, Malliron Hodge, director of community collaboration and design for Digital Promise, convened educators of color for seven regional Design Studios.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 25, 2023

It was the first lesson in a school week that would take her kids through memoir writing, an introduction to division and research on Indigenous history, each activity carefully curated by Snyder. This story also appeared in Mind/Shift But teaching wasn’t the only thing on Snyder’s plate. At Avalon Charter School, in St.

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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. Tammy Kim/Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 23, 2019

. — Before Michael Mota goes to sleep each school night, the 17-year-old lies in bed thinking through his plan for the next day. Michael is a senior at Vertus High School , an all-boys charter school in the Rochester City School District whose hallmark is a program that blends online classes with more traditional classroom teaching.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 5, 2022

By the end of 2020, the 44-year-old was agonizing over whether the school year might be her last teaching there. 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. Credit: Mariana Sheppard. “I

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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.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 17, 2020

The 51-year-old teacher racked up 14,000 steps that day assembling bags of books and worksheets for families of her third and fourth grade students to pick up as they were let in, five at a time, to the public charter school in South Phoenix, Arizona. You have to train in the way you want them to teach. It has to be modeled.”.

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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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ED Surge

JUNE 27, 2023

Justin Reich now teaches digital media at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, but his first job was teaching a short wilderness medicine course. EdSurge: Many schools have looked to bring in technology to help improve teaching. That is the main way that teaching and learning actually changes in schools. …

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

High school teacher Harley Brook has pondered using the books on this shelf as weapons in the case of an active shooter scenario. The day that I have to carry a gun as a requirement for me to teach, I’m done.”. Harley Brook is about to enter his 12th year of teaching English at a public high school near Chicago. “I

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2019

The pair planned to ensure that the school would reflect the diversity of the Somerville Public Schools, in which about 42 percent of students are Latino, 10 percent are black, 37 percent are white and 43 percent come from low-income households. The plan pulled from best practices in school innovation from all over the country.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 6, 2016

Key to that success, Johnstone says, was that the district had already started teaching math differently back in 2009. In that year, they hired two recent graduates of Loyola Marymount University’s Center for Math and Science Teaching, and began training veteran teachers. superintendent of Wiseburn School District. “But

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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. But the development of the Coronavirus required the creation of a whole new “case study.” His bio picture is daughter Claire and Thomas meeting President Lincoln.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2019

In 2003, before the Great Recession, Whitmore Lake was like thousands of other school districts across the country. Its school buildings were outdated and overcrowded. The district relied on seven portable classrooms, and some teachers were assigned to teach in modified storage closets.

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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.

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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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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. It was a whole uproar in the country for about two months.

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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

AUGUST 6, 2020

“… many Black families are choosing charter schools, where achievement gaps between Black and white students are closing, and longstanding systemic racism is being dismantled by an underlying belief that all children from all backgrounds are deserving and capable of academic success.” What makes them different?

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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. In 2011-2012, the university had 52 teaching interns. CREDIT SARAH WHITES-KODITSCHEK / ARKANSAS PUBLIC MEDIA. This year there may be as few as 19.

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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 15, 2021

She wanted every middle schooler at Capital City Public Charter School in Washington D.C. Before the coronavirus shutdown, middle school Principal Laina Cox works with students at Capital City Public Charter School in Washington D.C. September 11 was Caroline Patrie’s first day teaching. Credit: Laina Cox.

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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 and social studies curriculums.

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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. Teaching academic subjects in Spanish, or any foreign language, has been widely understood to be illegal in California since 1998. SAN DIEGO, Calif. That’s a common situation.

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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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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?

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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. And, not unlike what often happens with charter schools and vouchers, the Course Access policies can set up a competition for limited education dollars.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 4, 2023

On June 1, the TEA took over Houston’s school district, removing the superintendent and elected board. Critics say it’s an effort by a Republican governor to impose his preferred policies, including more charter schools, on the state’s largest city, whose mayor is a Democrat and whose population is two-thirds Black or Hispanic.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 17, 2025

Sometimes, Jakob Topper teaches his Christian faith to his six-year-old daughter using childrens Bible stories illustrated with teddy bears. 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. NORMAN, Okla.

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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?

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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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