Digital Promise

AUGUST 4, 2015

But in South Fayette Township School District , Pa., that’s how an after-school program for technology and arts eventually became a national model for incorporating computational thinking into a K-12 curriculum. "Every year, we embed more computational thinking in K-12.”

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 14, 2019

I first was assigned to an elementary school in a middle-class suburb of Philadelphia. Then I got to a middle school in the same district in a neighborhood with kids who were less economically advantaged. Here’s what is missing in music education: cultural and social relevance.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

The program trains educators at K-12 schools whose students include Native children on different ways they can introduce young people to programming, robotics and coding. But computer science lessons like the ones at Dzantik’i Heeni Middle School are relatively rare.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

TNTP , a nonprofit based in New York that advocates for improving K-12 education, wanted to identify schools that are the most effective at helping kids recover academically and understand what those schools are doing differently. Everybody is trying to find ways to help students catch up after the pandemic.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 24, 2021

Black teachers have been in the awkward positions of having to create lessons around police violence and being asked to share their thoughts and feelings about race with colleagues from different cultural and ethnic backgrounds. He says his goal is to “make people aware of the story of Black males in schools.” Credit: Terrance Lewis.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

While data science isn’t a new subject, there’s been growing interest recently in helping students — in both K-12 and higher ed — gain data science skills. In the last three years, 17 states have added some sort of data science education course to their K-12 offerings, Drozda said. Subscribe today!

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 29, 2019

As first period gets underway at Cambridge Street Upper School, veteran math teacher Stephen Abreu leads a small-group discussion. But the conversation isn’t about middle school algebra, and Abreu isn’t talking to students. They’re known as cultural proficiency seminars and attendance is mandatory. CAMBRIDGE, Mass. —

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ED Surge

JULY 7, 2023

As an English language teacher in an international primary school and a language learner myself, I often think about how many K-12 students in the United States are given the opportunity to study another language in school. however, with insufficient and lagging data from schools, this research has its limitations.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 4, 2016

Ryan Ren, 14, loves the soccer fields around his middle school in Arcadia, California. But Ryan, now a student at Dana Middle School, hasn’t been to Guangzhou in a while. The total number of Chinese students in American K-12 schools, including private schools, is currently about 35,627.)

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 20, 2021

students in grades 5-12 reveals that access to school-based learning opportunities and role models is highly correlated with students’ persistence on their career journey. The study also uncovers that middle school and high school students overwhelmingly recognize the value of computer science knowledge in the U.S.

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ED Surge

JUNE 22, 2023

However, because calculus is used as a shortcut in college admissions, K-12 math curriculum is really a race to calculus, Smith Arrillaga says. By the time students reach middle school, students are being pushed into different pathways, sometimes based on how many slots were available in their school’s calculus class.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 12, 2022

billion in the hopes of closing achievement gaps in K-12 math education. But this latest investment coincided with a new feeling of urgency after NAEP, according to Robert Hughes, director of the foundation’s K-12 education program in the U.S. Part of this, she also argues, might be because K-12 educators in the U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Tonya Clarke, the coordinator of K-12 mathematics for Clayton County schools, and her colleagues shared the Cardi B lesson at a math convention earlier this fall as an example of a culturally relevant lesson that can lure students into thinking about math in a way that is engaging and exciting.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 17, 2021

While the end of the pandemic is likely still months off, the White House has called for most K-8 schools to reopen by May, with in-person instruction at least one day a week, prolonging the possibility of distance learning. Leveraging such changes long term could be a matter of public school survival. The district put $1.6

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 14, 2016

Students were prompted to find images that represent contemporary pop culture, and then to use Adobe Photoshop Elements to create their own Warhol-inspired work. So before any products are delivered, Apple Project Engineers conduct a full survey of the school’s existing wireless infrastructure and help install or upgrade a network.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Elementary and middle school teachers, by comparison, earn an average of $31.80 She increased her own wages from $8 an hour to $12, which she said gave her enough extra money to buy her own kids clothes and pay monthly bills on time. It’s a “cultural milestone,” she said, that she didn’t feel stable enough to have before.

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ED Surge

APRIL 10, 2024

Data-driven decisions are increasingly recognized as a critical component of K-12 education, enhancing personalized learning, improving assessment and feedback, optimizing resource allocation and fostering early intervention. EdSurge: Why is data-driven decision-making important in K-12 education at the classroom and district levels?

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

What defines an exemplary edtech company that serves K-12 needs? He knows there is a saturated market of curricular options for schools, and he is confident in what Carnegie delivers: personalized, student-centered instruction for grades K-12. We have been, for many years, a 6-12 core mathematics company.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 10, 2024

Raúl Gastón, the principal of a predominantly Hispanic and low-income middle school in Villa Park, Ill., State laws in California and New York still require that layoffs be carried out by seniority, according to TNTP, a nonprofit focused on improving K-12 education, and Educators for Excellence.

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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. The conversation around math instruction suggests that not that much is really known about how to teach K-12 math.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

And even if there were standardized measures for traits like integrity and compassion, whose cultural norms should be used to judge the results? “I I got a bunch of friends who go to schools around the neighborhood and it’s like you go to school, you get your grades, alright we’re done for the day.

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Cult of Pedagogy

MAY 29, 2024

I teach in a small 6-12 independent school with my colleague and friend, Nate Wolkenhauer. In my work with kids, if I’m going to get a 12-year-old to talk about something they feel vulnerable about — not reading fluently, failing the test, not understanding the homework — then I need to be both vulnerable and honest with them.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 21, 2022

Ali McMillan, an instructional coach and intervention specialist at West Feliciana Middle School, Louisiana. Ali McMillan, an instructional coach and intervention specialist at West Feliciana Middle School in West Feliciana Parish, is one of 20 educators participating in the program.

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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.

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ED Surge

MARCH 19, 2024

And one of the things that she's found is that in a study done at Stanford, she took over a small room in the computer science department and in one condition, she populated this room with these artifacts of geeky masculine culture, like a Star Trek poster and Diet Coke cans. How does this play out in a K-12 setting?

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 19, 2018

A more recent heavy-hitter in this space is Summit Learning, which offers an online platform and a self-paced curriculum for students in grades four through 12 and has been adopted by more than 380 schools nationwide. An example of a model provider trying to export an entire school design is Teton Science Schools.

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Digital Promise

APRIL 16, 2019

People who speak another language score higher on tests and think more creatively , have access to a wider variety of jobs , and can more fully enjoy and participate in other cultures or converse with people from diverse backgrounds. Scarce in Schools. begin language study in middle or high school. Timing is Crucial.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 8, 2020

Megan Bledsoe, a counselor at Discovery Middle School in Vancouver, Washington, records a video for students about how to stay physically active from her home in Portland, Oregon. Also, some families have a cultural distrust of therapy or lack the time to take advantage of it. About 19 percent reported anxiety.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Fortunately, in light of democracy’s fragility, there has been a steady increase in initiatives from federal and state governments to incorporate civics education in K-12 classrooms. In 2020, California adopted a State Seal of Civic Engagement that high school students can earn upon graduation.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 16, 2019

All students are exposed to music starting in elementary school; by middle school nearly half (44 percent) have picked up an instrument, according to district data. For example, 97 percent of Poe Middle School students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, according to the state, and 58 percent play an instrument.

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 11, 2017

In this session, participants will explore a new way to use the latest research in K-3 math and reading to understand strategies for reaching all learners in the classroom and with edtech. In this session, team members will share the best practices implemented in schools across America and the lessons learned from this work.

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ED Surge

MARCH 31, 2023

I’ve even made the case that for some students, a music, art, dance or drama class might be the only thing bringing them to school each day. All of these points are true, but they fall short of explaining why the arts truly belong in every student’s K-12 curriculum. In middle school, that number drops to 78 hours.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

New York City’s Department of Education is the latest public school system to require that U.S. history instruction include an Asian American and Pacific Islander K-12 curriculum. The program will be piloted this fall at selected schools and fully rolled-out in over 1,800 schools by the spring.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 3, 2024

A respected math teacher at a K-12 public charter school in Apple Valley, California, Holifield was in steep physical decline. The school put on a festival to fundraise for medical bills resulting from his diagnosis with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, also known as Lou Gehrig's disease. As the U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2019

“It made me very sad to see the school closed.”. Dominguez is part of a neighborhood activist group fighting to retake the abandoned school and turn it into a community arts and culture center. Compared to 2010, nearly 250,000 fewer children attend K-12 public schools in Puerto Rico today, a decline of 45 percent.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 16, 2017

The average American student now takes 112 standardized tests through their K-12 career. In preparation for these tests, too many schools spend hours on test-prep or skill-based drills. Children at a child care center in Mississippi. Photo: Kim Palmer. Related: Three lessons from data on children’s reading habits.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

In this required 12-week “Introduction to Mindfulness” course taught by Worthen, a full-time mindfulness instructor, students at the private boarding school in Concord, Massachusetts, will learn how to develop awareness of their thoughts and body sensations, sit with difficult emotions and direct their attention to the present moment.

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