The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 21, 2017

This work needs to begin in elementary school, where students’ ideas about their place in the world are shaped. Here are some ways to do that in elementary school classrooms: First and foremost, it is vital that young people have a place to process disturbing news and to be reassured that their lives matter and that they are safe.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 27, 2024

Jahana Hayes of Connecticut, a former high school history and government teacher. The step from public teacher to public office holder is, for many, intuitive, says Kelly Siegel-Stechler, a senior researcher at Tufts University’s Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 18, 2016

The district’s first school board meeting on August 3, 1970, had 19 agenda items, including determining the district’s sick leave policy and finding furniture for the elementary school. Related: In Mississippi schools, access to technology lacking, uneven. A sign made out of butcher paper was left in his yard.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 5, 2018

Last fall, YEP staff set up shop to provide HiSET-prep for at-risk New Orleans high-school students — before they became dropouts — within its Central City campus, housed within a grand historic bank-building that seems appropriately academic in appearance. Related: A little girl’s school helps her deal with trauma at home.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 18, 2018

As we traveled through Finland, we met with top government officials, education professors, classroom teachers and elementary-school students. Create an emotional atmosphere and physical environment of warmth, comfort and safety so that children are happy and eager to come to school. 6) Make homework efficient.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 14, 2020

So Joffe created eLearn.fyi , a database of more than 300 online learning tools, including a civics curriculum founded by former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor and engineering lessons on how to build a robotic arm. She’s also found it harder to engage with some of her elementary school students.

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Diane Ravitch

MAY 9, 2023

The textbooks are for elementary and middle school social studies classes as well as civics, economics, U.S. Griffin highlighted a passage from a middle school textbook that described a socialist economy as one that “keeps things nice and even and without unnecessary waste.” history and world history courses.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 15, 2021

Marie Hydukovich was teaching middle school when she heard that 20 children had been murdered at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut. She is currently a library media specialist at South Saint Paul Public Schools, in Minnesota. Credit: Marie Hydukovich.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 21, 2017

And their cash-strapped school district has struggled to provide them with even the most basic digital tools. School leaders have solicited donations from local manufacturing plants, energy firms, even the federal government. million into schoolwide technology upgrades. The measure failed. “I’m But computers are expensive.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 20, 2017

Related: LISTEN: In this Kentucky town, refugees can choose a separate high school. The answer starts in the classroom, where civics education often fails to inspire and engage students. Far too many schools preach, rather than practice, democratic ideals. We need to learn civics from the ground up.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 10, 2023

Sitting beside her, Candy Turner , a retired elementary school teacher who had brought Ziploc bags of pear slices and dried cranberries for the hours ahead, agreed. “I After Election Day, headlines in key locales all around the country spoke of moms fighting extremists in local school board races and winning.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

DETROIT — Taking a trip down memory lane from the sidewalk in front of Western International High School, former civics teacher Keith Johnson shared the school’s ghost story, a tall tale about a child who died in a 1935 fire there. For now, children walk elementary school floors buckled so badly they appear to have waves.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 22, 2016

million people live in places where state officials took over entire districts or individual schools in the past six years, according to News21 data collected from state government agencies. The only solution to save the Highland Park School District was to take control of the system entirely, state officials concluded.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

For instance, a year ago, President Donald Trump rescinded an Obama-era regulation crafted in the wake of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting that required the Social Security Administration to report beneficiaries with severe mental disabilities to the FBI’s National Instant Criminal Background Check System.

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ED Surge

APRIL 26, 2024

One hope is that rather than balkanizing into red state and blue state education policy agendas , that we can have sensible, civic-minded reforms that large majorities of people can support.” adults, with about half of those coming from people who said there was at least one school-age child in their home.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 3, 2019

Related: LA’s school counselors strike back. Tulsa Public Schools Superintendent Deborah Gist visits a first-grade class at Penn Elementary School. In some ways, the Obama-era school reform skirmishes were a problem of luxury. Four union members running for state government won their primaries last year.

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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. government and making clear that President Barack Obama will remain in his position until January. “I I think it must be so terrifying to be a kid.

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