ED Surge

APRIL 18, 2023

At the K-12 level, there’s been a push to create more flexibility in the school day for “immersive experiences,” like internships and hands-on projects, from players such as XQ Institute, the nonprofit supported by Emerson Collective that since 2015 has poured millions of dollars into efforts across the country to “rethink high school.”

K-12 144

K-12 Civics Project-Based Learning High School 144

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 2, 2023

Disclosure: Bang is a member of the K-12 action commission at This Is Planet Ed’, where I’m also an advisor.) Broadly speaking, she said, in indigenous traditions, it’s the latter. Teachers used a carbon dioxide detector to assess air quality as part of a training session on using the outdoors as a teaching resource.

Teaching 80

Teaching K-12 Professional Development Civics 80

ED Surge

OCTOBER 3, 2023

The discussion tackled plenty of thorny issues facing K-12 and college instructors these days, including how to respond to pressures to ban books in schools, how to make classrooms a welcoming place for debate as schools and colleges grow more diverse, and how to respond to misinformation that students bring to classroom conversations.

K-12 94

K-12 History American History Pedagogy 94

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 16, 2020

If there was ever a time to ask big, heretical questions about American K-12 education, it’s when schooling has been thrown into chaos by a pandemic, and Americans’ faith in institutions, including schools, is at ebb tide. If these things were true, how would what we ask of schools — and how we measure their success — change?

Education 113

Education Charter School Social Justice K-12 113

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 27, 2018

studied civics in the fall of 2016, they began by exploring a nearby park in Pontiac. “This study shows that a well-designed project-based curriculum might be more effective than traditional instruction.” Jackie Mader/The Hechinger Report. When a classroom of second graders in Waterford, Mich.,

Project-Based Learning 111

Project-Based Learning Civics Historic Sites Social Studies 111

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

And of the positions that were filled, many were staffed by people who do not have traditional training or are not considered qualified to work in the subject area they are teaching. has a population of just 103 people, but civic engagement is high, including intense public support for its tiny school district.

World History 134

World History Civic Engagement Elementary School K-12 134

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 10, 2019

Research shows that math anxiety is prevalent, and the effects of this can linger long after students finish school, interfering with their ability to use quantitative reasoning in their professional and civic lives. The math taught in high schools often doesn’t align with the needs of many fields or the expectations of many colleges.

Civics 111

Civics Tradition High School Research 111

Digital Promise

DECEMBER 14, 2016

It’s a natural fit for a school community whose mission includes cultivating and cherishing “an environment that supports the academic, social-emotional, creative and civic learning” of all students. In the remote village of Nanwalek, Alaska, the K-12 school was planning to improve its slow, satellite-provided Internet connection.

Education 84

Education K-12 Middle School Professional Development 84

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 18, 2018

But if this civic action is to be sustained and to extend to topics beyond gun violence and school safety, schools need to do more to nurture these students’ dispositions toward political participation so they can continue to engage in informed and effective ways. Related: COLUMN: Making America whole again via civics education.

Civics 66

Civics Social Studies History Critical Thinking 66

The Hechinger Report

JULY 11, 2018

The February 14 school shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, gave new life to student activism, prompting a level of civic engagement among students that many had never considered. For him, the lessons students learn in this program are as important as the ones they learn in the traditional curriculum.

Civic Engagement 62

Civic Engagement Civics Leadership Elementary School 62

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 5, 2018

In a number of states, including Louisiana, adult education — which ranges from basic literacy to vocational training to high-school equivalency testing — is lumped with technical and community colleges, separate from the K-12 system. The goal with the first two groups was to help them earn a traditional diploma, if possible.

High School 54

High School K-12 Tutoring Elementary School 54

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 8, 2019

Students who have high-quality arts learning opportunities may be among tomorrow’s great artists, and they also may be among tomorrow’s health care professionals, engineers and civic leaders. No matter the path, arts education provides a way to creative careers of the future.

Education 85

Education Civics Critical Thinking Cultures 85

The Hechinger Report

MAY 19, 2024

Once the site of an Indian boarding school, where the federal government attempted to strip children of their tribal identity, the Native American Community Academy now offers the opposite: a public education designed to affirm and draw from each student’s traditional culture and language. The charter school, NACA, opened its doors in 2006.

Charter School 115

Charter School Heritage K-12 Education 115

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 17, 2018

Students work on an assignment in a high school civics class. The principal reason their institutions are pushing dual-credit programs, administrators said in a survey , is that, with traditional enrollments plummeting , it gets high school students on the hook and helps recruit them.

Tutoring 85

Tutoring Archiving High School K-12 85

ED Surge

MAY 20, 2024

But these days, about 5 to 6 percent of all K-12 students are homeschooled, which means that model has received very little attention compared to charter schools, considering that about 7 percent of students attend those, she adds. McCoy says he prizes them primarily for instilling moral and civic virtues in students.

Public School 120

Public School Civics K-12 Private School 120

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 28, 2018

We now know that formative or “real-time” assessment can support student learning better than traditional evaluations. There’s no doubt about the importance of social and emotional competencies in college, civic, career and life success. Related: How to sort the good from the bad in OER.

Teaching 72

Teaching Civics Tradition Humanities 72

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 18, 2016

In 2013, the district started to provide a laptop or iPad to each student in grades K-12; students and teachers say that doing so has boosted college readiness and digital skills. You can usually trace it back to strong civic leadership,” McGraw said. Beth Raney, parent in Clinton.

Junior High 74

Junior High Civics K-12 Economics 74

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 23, 2017

It was founded as a contract school (similar to a charter) with Chicago Public Schools, by civic-minded tech leaders appalled that their booming industry was struggling to find enough new talent despite being surrounded by neighborhoods where, quite often, roughly 50 percent of the young adults were unemployed.

High School 65

High School Project-Based Learning Psychology Charter School 65

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 5, 2018

Katherine Prince, senior director for strategic foresight at KnowledgeWorks, said these drivers can be alternately mind-boggling, overwhelming, scary or exciting.

Civics 52

Civics Economics Government Tradition 52

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 21, 2017

The Rethinking Schools editors add that for teachers, the challenge is to help young students to acquire the “critical dispositions and questioning” skills that “set the stage to encourage children to act on what they’ve learned — to have ‘civic courage,’ to act as if we live in a democracy.” We cannot teach what we do not know.

History 71

History Elementary School Library Civics 71

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 11, 2016

But even then, teachers of traditional U.S. Rather, they say, talking to students about 9/11 and, more broadly, topics related to current events and issues that affect the local and global community just fits the district’s civic-oriented mindset. Sign up for our weekly newsletter.

History 71

History Social Studies Museum Civics 71

The Hechinger Report

MAY 4, 2019

But now some workforce organizations, researchers and regional civic leaders are pushing back — persuading companies to look beyond academic credentials and to instead hire people based on their skills.

Economics 112

Economics Civics Research Cultures 112

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

To become certified in Mississippi, teachers must meet three requirements: Earn a bachelor’s degree; complete a traditional or alternate teacher training program; and pass the Praxis. During RISE’s first year of operation, Hudson had a staff of three, 12 volunteers, and a $25,000 budget: No one got paid.

Tutoring 77

Tutoring Civics High School Teaching 77

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

The best civics lesson requires you to leave the classroom. But let’s hope the future doesn’t look like the Electronic Classroom of Tomorrow, which was Ohio’s largest online K-12 school before its operators shut it down due to a drop in enrollment, stemming from an apparent lack of the human touch. Related: Go vote.

Humanities 100

Humanities K-12 Civics Professional Development 100

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

These defeats have been discouraging to educators who feel their contributions to the state’s economic and civic well-being have been overlooked. Educators say the message they constantly get from lawmakers is that traditional public schools aren’t worth investing in. That has translated into significant losses at the local level.

Charter School 90

Charter School Economics Middle School Public School 90

ED Surge

MARCH 9, 2023

In K-12 settings, USB SEL programs have demonstrated success in improving the social and emotional states of our youth, while also boosting school climate and safety. We looked at the impact of more than 250 distinct USB SEL programs on 12 student domains, as well as intervention quality, content, skills and SEL implementation.

Civics 145

Civics K-12 Social Justice Research 145

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 26, 2018

School systems are failing their students with outdated and inconsequential civics education that is only focused on facts and memorization. The simple multiple-choice questions found on most civics tests require memorization of unconnected facts in order to pass. In short, they are demonstrating what real civic engagement looks like.

Civics 74

Civics Civic Engagement Government Critical Thinking 74

Diane Ravitch

MAY 9, 2023

The textbooks are for elementary and middle school social studies classes as well as civics, economics, U.S. The political indoctrination of children through the K-12 public education system is a very real and prolific problem in this country,” tweeted Bryan Griffin, DeSantis’ press secretary. history and world history courses.

Social Studies 40

Social Studies Social Justice K-12 Civics 40

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 29, 2019

What didn’t come up at “ Public Education Forum 2020: Equity and Opportunity for All ” is that a part of any educational equity platform should be eliminating the politics that give K-12 public-school parents who know how to work the system preferred access to good teachers. We can liken this practice to clientelism.

Public School 54

Public School K-12 Charter School Elementary School 54

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. Constitution, and quizzes to teach civics. According to U.S.

Charter School 111

Charter School Tradition Public School Civics 111

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 7, 2018

Over in a far corner, a third group traded opinions on whether to accept management’s proposal to offer new hires 401(k)s instead of pensions. For most of the students, it was the first time they were exposed to what unions do — not to mention their first encounter with terms like “HR,” “401(k)” and “union security.”.

Education 81

Education Economics Civics History 81

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2018

Charters, which are publicly financed but independently managed, give founders the freedom to do more than what a traditional school may provide. She gives him props for situating his school within the public school district, as opposed to launching a charter, but argues that this isn’t how civic institutions should be run.

Charter School 52

Charter School Civics K-12 Public School 52

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 21, 2017

The students are all in a science and engineering program, one of 12 career tracks designed by the 21,878-student district that encompasses Greeley and nearby Evans, a small river town with a growing Hispanic population. They had been asked to fashion an advertising campaign for their school’s sports teams, the Wolverines.

K-12 81

K-12 Library High School Elementary School 81

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

Educational leaders must take responsibility for instilling basic civic practices and virtues in their students immediately, or they may lose the option to autocrats who have other ideas on how to run a country. Nevertheless, the current push for college and career readiness is insufficient to develop a civic mentality.

Civics 60

Civics Charter School Education Government 60

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 22, 2016

It suffocates the civic impulse. It just was a big change, was having to lose a school that was our tradition.”. At the time, the number of academically distressed schools stood at six out of 48, just more than 12 percent of the district. Matthew Baptist Church in Highland Park. “It The school board has no power.”.

Charter School 68

Charter School Public School Government High School 68

The Hechinger Report

JULY 12, 2017

Invoking a spirit of freedom in the choice to remove one’s child from a traditional public school, however, may lack sufficient concern for the well-being of the others left behind in that school, or for the types of communal decision-making that emphasize the well-being of all people.

Economics 61

Economics Civics Tradition Private School 61

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 3, 2019

A push led by frustrated teachers and parents in Maine, for example, led to a statewide rollback of proficiency-based learning, in which students work at their own pace without hard deadlines and are offered multiple opportunities to demonstrate that they’ve mastered material, in favor of more traditional methods.

Charter School 92

Charter School Junior High Political Science Elementary School 92