The Hechinger Report

APRIL 20, 2020

Their premise is simple: By partnering with families and community-based organizations, community schools tackle challenges like hunger and homelessness and seek to support students’ mental and physical health. 1425 Walton Avenue, once home to P.S. 64, now houses the Walton Avenue School and Lucero Elementary School.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 10, 2023

It denies the humanity of every other child (or parent) who isn’t able to hide their trauma, like I was. We can break the cycle of poverty for every single one of the families and students in our schools — not just a few exceptions — by engaging these families as equal partners in their child’s education.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 9, 2024

Why All of Us Could Use a Lesson in ‘Thinking 101’ Human brains are wired to think in ways that often lead to biased decisions or incorrect assumptions. So they’re looking for inspiration from other sectors — including video game design and elementary school classrooms — to keep lectures interesting.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 27, 2020

Neural systems that most distinguish the human brain from those of other animals actively develop during early childhood. Goldie Hawn works with a student at Pacoima Charter Elementary School. But these programs are currently available to far too few children. We must do better.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 9, 2023

Named Tūtū and Me after the Hawaiian word for “grandparent,” the program introduces children to early academic and social skills as well as native Hawaiian language and culture. The preschooler is now more prepared for kindergarten, Ferreira said, and has learned aspects of Native Hawaiian culture that are meaningful to their family.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

Third-graders at Alamosa Elementary School in Albuquerque practice reading with first-graders in Carrie Ramirez’s classroom. Danielle Burnett, a truancy prevention social worker in Albuquerque Public Schools, spends her days figuring out why students miss school. The culture of attendance is huge,” Burnett said. “If

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

The idea behind the Muñiz Academy, named for the longtime principal of Boston’s first dual-language elementary school (the Rafael Hernandez K-8 school), was that many Hispanic students would do better in schools that support their cultural background and, with it, the Spanish language.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 3, 2018

Unlike other species, humans use language as a kind of operating system for our big brains. 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.”. We live in the Information Age. Choose as many as you like.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 15, 2020

Leave this field empty if you're human: Ten years ago, Courtney Dickinson wanted to create an innovative public school. She had a teaching degree and while she never got a job as a teacher, she had a lot of ideas about how schools should operate. Pyne Arts Magnet School in Lowell. Choose as many newsletters as you like.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 30, 2017

Black primary-school students who are matched to a same-race teacher performed better on standardized tests and face more favorable teacher perceptions according to recent findings from the German economic research group Institute of Labor Economics. Is it because black teachers are better educators?

Elementary School 63

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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. Through ConnectED, all 89 LCPS schools were able to get their own ArcGIS Online Organization from Esri. Kalama Intermediate School.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 27, 2018

The report also shows that especially for students of color, being taught by a teacher of color can boost academic achievement, high school graduation rates and aspirations to attend college. The benefits of being taught by diverse educators aren’t strictly academic. Choose as many as you like. Weekly Update. Future of Learning.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 16, 2019

And indeed, 51 percent of David Douglas high school students currently enrolled in a music class qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, compared to 66 percent at the high school as a whole. Typically, high schools have lower poverty levels than elementary schools because parents are older and able to earn more.).

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Rather than allowing students to learn concepts at their own pace, schools are pressured by high-stakes testing to teach very specific standards by very specific deadlines. The news notification displayed across my screen reads: BREAKING: SCHOOL SHOOTING AT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL IN UVALDE, TEXAS. An elementary school.” “No…

Elementary School 98

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ED Surge

JANUARY 4, 2022

In this case, there may not be enough trained school mental health professionals to go around. To fill the gap, some districts are partnering with community organizations to bring essential services to struggling students using human infrastructure that already exists. More kids are getting some short term interventions,” she says.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 16, 2023

A lot of times, [parents] let it go for a long time because it’s culturally acceptable to be bad at math,” said Heather Brand, a math specialist and operations manager for the tutoring organization Made for Math. To do this well, they often need small-group or one-on-one teaching, which is non-existent in many schools’ math instruction.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Today, I teach at an elementary school where more than 65 percent of the students identify as Hispanic / Latino. I am now a teacher who models for my students the importance of embracing their humanity, feeling confident in their identity, and celebrating their accomplishments without fear of judgment.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 13, 2022

Nearly every classroom at Story Creek Elementary School offers sweeping views of the snow-capped Rocky Mountains that surround the Gallatin Valley here in southwest Montana. A bulldozer sits idle during a break on construction of new homes near Story Creek Elementary School in Belgrade, Mont. BELGRADE, Mont.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 18, 2018

Many of the insights that Finland has put into classroom practice have come from the United States and are applicable to children and cultures the world over. Singapore has launched a series of Finnish-style school reforms. The point, he said, is “the human values and the human principles that one learns in childhood.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 5, 2023

Related: Debt without degree: The human cost of college debt that becomes ‘purgatory’ Up to 70 percent of undergraduate students work, but jobs have historically been seen as an academic hazard. “As When she was in elementary school, “it seemed like no one cared,” Warren said. Let me pull up.’”

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 30, 2017

The Academy is a magnet elementary school is located in a U.S. At the same time, the historic and cultural nature of art provides students a great platform to explore traditions of their own and others so they’re encouraged to learn how ancestral narratives and artifacts influence beliefs and dispositions.

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Artifacts Elementary School Museum Charter School 87

ED Surge

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

It exists in nature and it is a cornerstone of our economy, but there’s a lack of consensus among psychologists as to whether competitiveness is learned or if it’s instinctual and part of human nature. Either way, the reality is that competitiveness starts early and competition shows up in many ways in schools.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 8, 2016

In the Austin Independent School District in Texas, administrators recognize that same value for their native Spanish speakers who enter the public schools without English fluency. In Boston Public Schools, Superintendent Tommy Chang has placed an emphasis on culturally and linguistically inclusive schools.

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ED Surge

MARCH 24, 2023

Department of Health and Human Services in 2022 found that between 2016 and 2020, the number of children ages 3 to 17 diagnosed with anxiety grew by 29 percent, and those diagnosed with depression grew by 27 percent. And there are increasing reports from adolescents of anxiety, stress and mental health challenges. A study released by the U.S.

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Digital Promise

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

schools double. Decades of research documents the benefits of coaching for teachers, students, and school culture. The reason emotions and the socio-cultural environment are so powerful is that they are intertwined with our cognition. A Dynamic Learning Project elementary school teacher.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 11, 2019

“Grit,” a best-selling book by University of Pennsylvania professor Angela Duckworth, may have swept parenting and education pop culture but research scholars say they are finding mounting evidence that it doesn’t add up. “As a human, the criticism doesn’t feel good,” Duckworth said. Choose as many as you like.

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Digital Promise

JUNE 22, 2017

One of these connections was between Mundaring Primary School in Mundaring, WA, Australia, and Skyline Elementary School in Solana Beach, CA, USA. The students at Mundaring Primary School shared their trivia game, “ Jomasika Cards ,” named after Joel, Margot, Jessica, and Karla, the student designers of the game. “We

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Digital Promise

MAY 27, 2020

We like to say we’re ‘socially connected, physically distant,’ instead of social distancing, because human interaction is just so important.”. Sitka School District prepares for meals on April 7, 2020. Staff from Creekview Elementary School in Middletown post selfies during the district-wide fire drill.

Education 126

Education K-12 Elementary School Cultures 126

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

This one involved finding a kindergarten for Krishna, a stem-cell transplant survivor who suffers from a rare immune disorder and whose main special needis to be kept apart from other humans. The things they can really use — in-home and remote services — have become flashpoints in pandemic resource battles and culture wars.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2018

Lori Baas, CEO of Christopher House, said she commonly hears preschool advocates claim they prepared kids for kindergarten, and blame grade schools for any fade-out; elementary school staffers point the finger of blame back at the preschools, claiming they failed to prepare kids for kindergarten. Sign up for our newsletter.

Charter School 110

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ED Surge

MARCH 27, 2023

Projects include making animations, creating statistical databases of favorite sports teams and designing programs that can identify pneumonia in scans of human lungs. It's like kids are already getting knocked out for the count in elementary school.” It’s a cultural hub and one of the city’s most diverse neighborhoods.

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Education Social Justice Tutoring Advocacy 125

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

My father went on to get his master’s and doctorate and become a professor of biology; my mother became an elementary school teacher and received her master’s degree. How and why does criminal justice policy in this country have its roots in both the media culture and political campaigns?

Humanities 72

Humanities Elementary School Cultures Economics 72

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

She presented her “witness testimony” as a Chinese war victim, accusing her classmate, who played Genghis Khan , of crimes against humanity. Although students seemed to enjoy the school-wide production, Zeng was embarrassed. Raylan Li, 15, is excited to become a co-president of the Asian Culture Club this fall. It felt silly.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 24, 2019

Ideally, the process begins in elementary school. What you consider an overreaction on her part — anger, shock or directly reporting you to Human Resources — is the typical attitude that individuals assume when dealing with microaggressions. These approaches can help teams overcome cultural differences and anger.

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Education Elementary School Cultures Humanities 81

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

She became an educator in 2007 and has spent most of her career teaching special needs students at a majority-Hispanic public elementary school in the Bronx. They don’t speak the language; they don’t understand the culture, the routines—all of that invisible stuff that we take for granted. There’s such stigma around the label.

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Advocacy Cultures Elementary School Research 101

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

At our BSRI partner schools, students are expected in first grade to be able to differentiate fact from opinion (a skill, alas, in scarce supply these days!). By third grade, they are debating complex topics, like genetically modified foods and the ethics of testing human drugs on animals.

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Charter School Pedagogy Elementary School Middle School 85

The Hechinger Report

JULY 30, 2018

But as the movement against seat-time learning grows, more schools nationwide will be grappling with grade levels, deciding whether to keep them or to hack through thickets of political, logistical and cultural barriers to uproot them. And when kids should stop going to elementary school and start attending a middle school across town.

Tradition 111

Tradition Charter School High School Cultures 111