Digital Promise

MAY 23, 2019

Congratulations to the Verizon Innovative Learning schools’ 2018-19 Schools of Excellence Award winners: District of the Year: Strong Out of the Gate. Jefferson County Public Schools, Louisville, Kentucky (Cohort 5). STEM Culture of Innovation. IT Leader of the Year.

Middle School 121

Middle School Leadership Public School Professional Development 121

ED Surge

MAY 5, 2023

Katie Fielding, an instructional technology coordinator at Arlington Public Schools in Virginia, sees that today’s students lean heavily into video and collaboration for deeper understanding, suggesting Gen Z learns best from working with other people. It gives them a stronger self-identity and voice to tackle challenges.

Advocacy 115

Advocacy K-12 Critical Thinking Project-Based Learning 115

ED Surge

MAY 8, 2023

That’s the question the middle school class was struggling to answer. Fractions hadn’t really connected with the students, says John Barclay, a teacher in Richmond Public Schools in Virginia. It takes critical thinking and a sense for the numbers to even understand how or why a student’s approach might be wrong, Barclay says.

K-12 136

K-12 Critical Thinking Middle School Pedagogy 136

Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Often, the most powerful learning happens when students explore different perspectives, step outside of their typical environments, and are exposed to new ways of doing and thinking. What happens when this same approach is applied to school districts? Compton Unified School District. The School Board of Broward County, Florida.

Middle School 102

Middle School Social Justice Cultures Professional Development 102

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 4, 2016

Ryan’s situation is unusual, both because he is attending public school and because he arrived here alone. for middle or high school because their parents had been planning for it from before their birth. A small, but growing, number attend public schools. My reaction was, ‘That’s weird.’ I didn’t understand.’”.

K-12 111

K-12 Private School Middle School Tutoring 111

ED Surge

MARCH 22, 2022

In this kind of learning environment, where a student’s creativity and critical thinking skills are constantly challenged, John took some time to adjust. In the book, Martin shares how to move from school-centered education—i.e.,

Middle School 122

Middle School Tradition Critical Thinking High School 122

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 17, 2019

This includes activities that emphasize exploration and cooperation as well as developing critical thinking skills. Montessori schools have a distinguished record of placing the focus on a student’s overall development. Public school teachers should observe a high-fidelity Montessori classroom.

Pedagogy 111

Pedagogy Psychology Critical Thinking Economics 111

ED Surge

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Shapiro: Years ago, while working in a charter school in New York City focused on using technology in the classroom, I met Katie Salen Tekinba?. She was opening a public school in the city, modeled on game-based learning. We would say “play” or “critical thinking” or “computer science.”

Charter School 120

Charter School Educational Technology Critical Thinking Tradition 120

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 3, 2018

That’s why advanced reading correlates so highly with critical thinking skills. It’s time we became a nation of readers so that more than 13 percent of us can access the numerous benefits that thousands of years of culture have entrusted to written words.”. Mastering advanced syntax allows our brains to work on a higher level.

Civics 104

Civics American History Elementary School Critical Thinking 104

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 3, 2020

School leaders say that their students, many of whom are low-income, must juggle jobs along with their coursework, lengthening the time it takes them to graduate. They also said local public schools don’t prepare young people for the rigor required for university classes.

Tutoring 145

Tutoring Heritage Cultures High School 145

The Hechinger Report

MAY 24, 2022

In Chicago Public Schools, for example, data shows that attendance dropped precipitously, especially among Black students. In Rich Township, however, the prevailing culture was one of trying to get students to focus academically and get more right answers on tests.

Economics 101

Economics High School Critical Thinking Middle School 101

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 20, 2020

Principal Daniel Russo and social worker Maria Morales look on as a fifth grade student receives a free haircut in preparation for graduation from the Walton Avenue School. NEW YORK — When the mayor ordered New York City public schools to close in March to slow the spread of the coronavirus, Daniel Russo broke into tears.

Elementary School 145

Elementary School Professional Development Leadership Humanities 145

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

This is after the state paid the school $60 million to provide “academic flexibility to accommodate a wide variety of learning styles, interests, and special circumstances,” according to the company’s website. Schleicher found in his research that disadvantaged schools often have more, but less qualified, teachers.

Humanities 111

Humanities K-12 Civics Professional Development 111

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

s educational, scientific and cultural arm, is unveiling something called the Greening Education Partnership. As a case in point, I recently interviewed Danny Cage, a high school student and organizer for the Sunrise Movement in Portland, Oregon. You have more critical thinking skills.”.

Civics 106

Civics High School Critical Thinking Social Studies 106

Digital Promise

MAY 25, 2017

This time they are inviting friends to join who weren’t part of the last challenge, growing our school’s maker culture and creating opportunities for the students to see themselves as leaders. We are excited to share their story as the second in our series of Maker Promise videos. And, they are coming up with some awesome games!

Library 110

Library Middle School Lesson Plan Tradition 110

The Hechinger Report

MAY 21, 2016

In Jefferson County Public Schools in 2011-12, the first year of Common Core testing, 25 percent of black third-graders were proficient or better in reading, compared to 54 percent of white third-graders. If he had his druthers, he said, schools would have longer hours, provide children with three meals and help them do their homework.

K-12 81

K-12 Charter School Elementary School Economics 81

ED Surge

JANUARY 28, 2025

On my first day as an Arabic teacher, my school mentor sternly advised me, "Avoid the three taboos: sex, politics, and religion. When I started teaching Arabic in a public school, I inherited the curriculum and materials from the previous teacher. At first, I adhered to these guidelines.

Multicultural Education 100

Multicultural Education Heritage Cultures Critical Thinking 100

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

To fix this, we need to deepen our investments in civics and history instruction, bolstered by an emphasis on critical thinking skills. Unfortunately, many Americans, especially white Americans, have rejected public initiatives to address the growing cultural and economic divides between how we invest in and educate our kids.

Civics 117

Civics Education Critical Thinking History 117

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 23, 2020

President Donald Trump recently announced his intention to create a 1776 Commission, charged with restoring patriotic, “pro-America” education to public schools. And to do that, we must build an education system that embraces Black history and cultures for the sake of all our children. Cultural pride is powerful.

Museum 140

Museum Education American History History 140

Political Science Now

JULY 16, 2024

What experiential learning and civic engagement activities promote critical thinking about what it means to live under a democracy? In this Author Meets Critics roundtable, we explore these questions through the lens of Engaging Citizenship.

Political Science 54

Political Science Civics Civic Engagement K-12 54

Zinn Education Project

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

context and shared cultural history. public school educators — see press release Petition to Encourage Jackson Reed High School (in Washington, D.C.) Challenge Islamophobia , a project of Teaching for Change, addresses that gap by placing Islamophobia firmly within a U.S.

Teaching 52

Teaching K-12 Human Rights Social Justice 52

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 23, 2017

A number of white families left the public schools in these communities in the 1960s and 1970s to start these small, private academies , many of which still thrive. Board of Education cases, I found virtually no white students attending the local public schools.

Economics 85

Economics Private School Elementary School Public School 85

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 26, 2018

In 2014, white students became the minority in our public schools (partly a result of white students’ overrepresentation in private schools). And a way to prevent numerical power from converting into political and economic power is to see the majority of its public students as “its,” as workers, not citizens.

Education 84

Education Government Private School Civics 84

Cult of Pedagogy

MARCH 6, 2025

Parents, now is the time that you share the receipts of the betrayal that has happened in our public schools. ” Both of these developments have naturally caused a lot of concern for anyone who teaches in a publicly-funded K-12 school, and these concerns are absolutely legitimate. The claims in their statement are false.

Teaching 171

Teaching K-12 Pedagogy Social Justice 171

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 17, 2025

More recently, Walters who in February clashed with his states governor for proposing that public schools track students immigration statuses made media lists as a possible candidate for Trumps education secretary. Louisiana, for instance, is in a court battle over its push for Ten Commandments posters in schools.

Public School 133

Public School High School Social Studies History 133