Digital Promise

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

For example, South Fayette Township School District implemented computational thinking projects at every grade level, and Piedmont City School District uses competency-based learning so students can work at their own pace. Yet as schools break away from traditional models of education, new challenges emerge.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2024

The first draft discouraged tracking children into separate math classes by achievement levels, and proposed delaying algebra until high school. It emphasized “social justice” and suggested that students could take data science instead of advanced algebra in high school. Boaler’s critics had arguably won their main policy battles.

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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. Marinell Rousmaniere is the president and CEO of EdVestors , a school improvement organization in Boston.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Related: What if public schools never reopen? He argues for recovering America’s common school tradition, and reminds us that the founding principle of American public education was preparation for citizenship, not the private ends of “college and career.” Hirsch, Jr. Fordham Institute.

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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. Van Tasel made sure students had time during the school day to work on their projects.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 23, 2022

After the disruption of the pandemic, people in the field of education are more open to rethinking traditional ways of doing business in order to better serve students. One idea that’s been gaining steam since last year is to break down barriers between high school, college and career to create a system that bridges all three.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 2, 2023

Schools have to address student climate anxiety, provide them knowledge and skills, including the ability to recognize misinformation, and empower them to act, while schools also “clean up their act” by decarbonizing their physical infrastructure. We’ve been doing research with New York City Public Schools for the past 6-7 years.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

The best civics lesson requires you to leave the classroom. Like many online schools, students at the school took self-guided, online lessons at home or somewhere with adequate broadband and the support of an offsite teacher who could also work outside a traditional schoolhouse. Related: Go vote.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

Eventually the school superintendent, who doubles as a special education teacher and a substitute, asked if he’d be interested in doing more; the schools have been short-staffed for years. million students go to public schools in rural areas , more than the combined total of the nation’s 85 largest school districts.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 28, 2018

We now know that formative or “real-time” assessment can support student learning better than traditional evaluations. In large urban districts, like the Los Angeles Unified School District or Chicago Public Schools, poverty, violence and trauma can be barriers to learning for thousands of students.

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 14, 2016

Beginning in fall 2014, the students and teachers at Burbank Elementary School in Hayward, California, embarked on a new and ambitious program to integrate arts across the curriculum. One school district stands out as a model of implementation: Loudoun County (VA) Public Schools (LCPS). Kalama Intermediate School.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 1, 2018

While dozens of colleges and universities use a “great books” curriculum, only a handful make it available to local high school students. More engaging than traditional summer school. Students from underfunded public schools tend to have particular problems, she said. “We

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

But the funding isn’t available to schools that are chronically low performing, and therefore provides no relief to the majority of schools with the worst teacher shortages. Of the 882 public schools in the state, only 422 received money from the program in 2017, and only 62 of those schools were located in the Delta.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 11, 2019

Across academic, philanthropic, and civic sectors, local leaders are creating awareness and access to meaningful, equitable learning experiences for young people and their families — both in and out of school.? . — Dana Borrelli-Murray (@DBorrelliMurray) September 24, 2019. — Grant Knowles (@GrantLearns) September 24, 2019.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 5, 2018

A final section of the forecast points to existing schools and educational programs that offer glimpses of the future. The I Promise School , for example, a joint initiative of the LeBron James Family Foundation and the Akron Public Schools, offers wraparound services with whole-child development in mind.

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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.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 18, 2016

(The overwhelming majority of these schools, which education experts have defined as “intensely segregated,” received the lowest three ratings on the state’s A-F rating scale, based on factors like student test scores and graduation rates.). Related: In Mississippi schools, access to technology lacking, uneven.

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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. The benefit of working with people who are already school employees is that “they’ve already got a hook to want to be in Meridian schools,” he said.

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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.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 5, 2018

The goal with the first two groups was to help them earn a traditional diploma, if possible. But they never would tell me how to go to school when I was going through something.”. A favorite civics teacher pulled her aside and told her that her schoolwork was academically strong. “If Laci Hargrove, 18.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

Perhaps that’s why some observers have connected Feiler’s exhibition about the past to the racial-educational gap of today , particularly noting the contemporary lack of adequate resources for public schools and the “school-to-prison pipeline.” I've been a civic activist my entire life. And the story shocked me.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 27, 2020

In mid-May, school officials hosted a Zoom version of a King tradition — the class roll call. Lindsey Moore, the school principal, broadcasting from the school office, read each name from the school’s official 2020 graduation list, then rolled right into the class’ Top 10 students, starting with 10 and counting down.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 22, 2016

Many institutions provide legal and medical clinics and intervene to improve their local public schools. Rutgers University hosts a branch of the county public library. But critics complained that the ambitious plan shortchanged more traditional forms of scholarship and caused the university to fall in national rankings.

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Civics Civic Engagement Economics Museum 82

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 26, 2018

August 15, 2018 — The first day of school at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. School systems are failing their students with outdated and inconsequential civics education that is only focused on facts and memorization. In short, they are demonstrating what real civic engagement looks like.

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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. CREDIT SARAH WHITES-KODITSCHEK / ARKANSAS PUBLIC MEDIA.

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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. a parent’s) political support.

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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. DeSantis and other Republicans argue CRT aims to make white children feel guilty and to teach children to hate the United States and that, while traditionally a graduate school topic, its tenets have seeped into K-12 classrooms.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 7, 2018

million in state funds for a three-year pilot that would incorporate labor history in civics, economics and history classes, along with simulations like those run by the DePaul center. history, first in Portland, Oregon, and later at the Harvest Collegiate High School, a small public school in New York City.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2018

LeBron James speaks at the opening ceremony for the I Promise School in Akron, Ohio, Monday, July 30, 2018. The I Promise School is supported by the The LeBron James Family Foundation and is run by the Akron Public Schools. Capdau School, under Louisiana’s Recovery School District legislation.

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Charter School Civics K-12 Public School 66

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 22, 2016

They say their concerns have fallen on the deaf ears of the state, which removed the city’s school board more than a year ago. Charter schools are tuition-free, independently operated public schools. It suffocates the civic impulse. The school board has no power.”. Matthew Baptist Church in Highland Park. “It

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 10, 2023

It’s about the viability of public education in their community. The national infection facing public schooling—the tug-of-war between education professionals and extremist culture warriors—has brought chaos and damage to West Bonner County. This is not hyperbole. But residents suddenly sorted into “for” and “against” factions.

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Junior High Elementary School High School Public School 141

Zinn Education Project

FEBRUARY 1, 2025

The tsunami of laws and Executive Orders attacking public school curricula mobilize a range of doublespeak, from divisive concepts to race scapegoating to psychological stress; many include the admonition that teachers may not teach students that the United States is fundamentally or irredeemably racist or sexist. for a students.

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Social Justice Primary Sources History Civics 98

MPSA

MARCH 30, 2022

Smith, Professor of Political Science, Emporia State University Between 10 and 15 years ago, Political Science experienced a renewed interest in civic education. Graham and I collaborated, and I reached out to local high school civics teachers in Kansas and western Missouri in hopes of meeting with them and sharing our ideas.

Civics 52

Civics Civic Engagement Teaching Political Science 52

The Hechinger Report

JULY 12, 2017

On the heels of a significant late June Supreme Court ruling that seemingly opens the doors for increased funneling of public taxpayer dollars to religious schools, parochial school leaders are urging leaders of the Trump administration as well as state lawmakers across the country to expand school voucher programs.

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Economics Civics Public School Private School 75

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 3, 2019

Tulsa Public Schools Superintendent Deborah Gist presents a Golden Apple Award to Dr. Abraham Kamara at Memorial Junior High School. Now the fight is less about how public schools can achieve excellence, and more about how they can survive. “In Related: LA’s school counselors strike back.

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