The Hechinger Report

JUNE 18, 2018

That’s the “doomsday scenario” Vermont is trying to avoid through programs like Randolph Union’s, says Joan Goldstein, the state’s commissioner of economic development. In Vermont in 2013 18 percent of economically disadvantaged students dropped out of high school compared to only 3.5 It recognized that learning can occur anywhere.”.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 22, 2018

But there’s no common definition yet for what personalized learning actually is.”. EL’s definition puts two elements at its core: “expeditionary learning” projects and small groups of students called Crews who stick together from grade to grade and meet daily along with a teacher adviser to support and challenge each other.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 10, 2017

I definitely would have struggled [in algebra] if I didn’t have to go through the process of re-taking.”. By 2021, schools must offer diplomas based students reaching proficiency in the four core academic subject areas: English, math, science and social studies. Kylee Elderkin, student, Nokomis Regional High School.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 30, 2018

At one point, five kids in the class were on YouTube, watching videos that were definitely not part of the curriculum. In New Orleans, 81 percent of public school students are economically disadvantaged, according to data from the Louisiana Department of Education.

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Studies Weekly

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

How: (How to set up the Strategy) Select 8-10 terms from a unit of study. Clarify misconceptions, and provide definitions to new terms. Possible Sentences Vocab Strategy Oct. Provide a space for displaying terms and student-constructed sentences. Discuss what students know about the terms.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Email Address Choose from our newsletters Weekly Update Future of Learning Higher Education Early Childhood Proof Points Leave this field empty if you’re human: In recent years, division over how social studies should be taught has plagued school districts around the country.

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Zinn Education Project

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Hope Koumentakos High School Social Studies Teacher, Takoma Park, Maryland I currently teach U.S. Allyson Saladino High School Social Studies Teacher, Ridgewood, New Jersey I used the lesson titled, How Red Lines Built White Wealth , in order for students to learn about red lining and institutionalized racism.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 4, 2020

But we definitely weren’t worried about anything.” million workers nationwide, most of whom are female, according to a report by the Committee for Economic Development (CED), a Virginia-based nonpartisan public policy organization. It is definitely a scary time for us,” Flemings said. “We She loved her job in the school system.

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Zinn Education Project

MARCH 7, 2024

I think that’s the best way to start the conversation, because what it is predicated on is some agreed upon definition of a violation. They are killed for the crime of their economic success. The point is that a huge number of Black people, in that seminal moment, were innocent. Some were not.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 26, 2016

According to our principal, roughly 75 percent of Fern Creek students are considered “gap” kids under Kentucky’s definition — students who belong to groups that, on average, have historically performed below achievement goals. It’s especially vexing with regard to students who already have low achievement levels or learning problems.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 6, 2017

“The main way I learn is by screwing up and doing it again, which is honestly a lot more interesting and definitely makes it stick in your head a lot more.”. The main way I learn is by screwing up and doing it again, which is honestly a lot more interesting and definitely makes it stick in your head a lot more.”.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

It had no textbooks for math, science or social studies. The agency oversees law and justice across Indian Country, as well as agriculture, infrastructure, economic development and tribal governance. Expanding that definition would threaten to impose unwieldy obligations on high-poverty schools across the U.S.,

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 25, 2021

High school social studies teachers and scholars of American history don’t deny that the nation’s story is full of mobs, civil unrest and violence. While education levels are not related to conservative beliefs about economic policy, they are related to conservative beliefs about the value of cultural diversity.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 19, 2021

Too many of these books still waffle about the reasons Confederates sought sedition, suggesting that “economic reasons” or “states’ rights” were an important part of the equation — not acknowledging that the driving force of the Confederate rebellion was to preserve slavery and the undemocratic system of white supremacy that defined the South.

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Zinn Education Project

JANUARY 9, 2024

I think that’s the best way to start the conversation, because what it is predicated on is some agreed upon definition of a violation. Whitaker: if I could pick up where you left off, Dr. Muhammed, connecting your definition of crime to statistics. They are killed for the crime of their economic success. Some were not.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 23, 2024

They argued these efforts had focused too much on quickly steering youth toward a job any job often low-skill, unstable work vulnerable to economic downturns. Meanwhile, scientists had been rethinking the very definition of adolescence. A few weeks earlier, the teen had failed the social studies GED test by just a few points.

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