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MAY 21, 2018

Two studies on elementary schools published in June 2018 point to the importance giving teachers and students plenty of time to form relationships. I think schools in many ways have put the cart before the horse. Students may learn more. Photo: Jamie Martines. Related: Project-based learning and standardized tests don’t mix.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Four-year-old children who attended public pre-K in Tulsa, Oklahoma, in 2005-06 were far more likely to go to college within a couple years of graduating high school than children who did not attend, according to a 15-year study of 4,000 students. Earlier research has also found long-term benefits from preschool.

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OCTOBER 2, 2023

A student in an elementary school drops an egg wrapped tightly in paper straws and tape to test whether it can survive a high fall. These and similar scenes from public schools around the country are more than just young learners having fun with recycled materials. Adopt a curriculum that exposes students to STEM early on.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2024

We’re not saying that all these activities are bad, but that the total is bad,” said Carolina Caetano, one of the study’s authors and an assistant professor of economics at the University of Georgia. Caetano and her research team analyzed the time diaries of 4,300 children and teens, from kindergarten through 12th grade.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Black elementary students in North Carolina tended to score higher on annual math tests when they were taught by an HBCU-trained teacher, but not necessarily a Black teacher, according to an unpublished study from a Stanford University graduate student. Credit: Cheryl Gerber for The Hechinger Report.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2021

But this fall, everyone at Viewmont Elementary School is in masks, so she has to listen more intently than usual. It is a research-based approach that experts say is essential for helping children — especially those who struggle — learn to read. Related: What parents need to know about the research on how kids learn to read.

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JANUARY 12, 2023

Whittenberg Elementary School of Engineering groaned in disappointment when they saw the runny mess. Whittenberg Elementary School of Engineering prepare to drop a paper bag with an egg inside off a railing at the school during engineering week. . — The brown paper bag hit the ground with a smack.

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DECEMBER 11, 2023

rose from 29th place to 28th place, still in the bottom half of economically advanced nations of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), an international organization of 38 member countries that oversees the PISA exam. Neither India nor China, which topped the rankings in 2018 , participated in the 2022 PISA.

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MAY 12, 2024

The link between education and economic opportunity has only increased. And our democracy is desperately in need of shared knowledge and understanding across cultural, racial, economic and geographic lines. But the tragic reality is that our schools are still segregated, and separate is still unequal. Just 12 percent oppose.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

These are not schools where students post the highest test scores, but schools where kids learn more each school year than students typically do. Previous researchers conducted a similar analysis in 2017 with whole school districts instead of individual schools.

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AUGUST 16, 2021

Then, from the side of the school, the “big kids” came running, spilling from their modular middle school in headphones and hoodies to line up behind the younger children. The pendulum swings on K-8 versus middle schools. The research comparing outcomes of students at K-8 and middle schools remains inconclusive.

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APRIL 7, 2023

“Here at school, we’re trying to not put the pressure at all on the students, but I know our third grade teachers really feel it,” Knapp said. Melissa Knapp, the literacy coach for Harpeth Valley Elementary School, answers a first grade student’s question. The research on retention is mixed.

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FEBRUARY 12, 2021

In a majority of districts, students are spending some or all of their school days online. And they’re eating more junk food, according to research from Ireland and Italy. If school closures continued through the end of this year, childhood obesity rates would climb by more than 2 percent. Others are trickier.

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MARCH 2, 2023

Her two youngest, both attending Vancouver’s Washington Elementary School, had struggled with remote learning and still lagged their peers in basic math and reading. Her older kids loved their high school sports teams and she couldn’t imagine uprooting them. Suka feared what a notice-to-vacate would mean for her children.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Programs to boost parent involvement in schools were carried out in the Mexican states of Guerrero, Puebla, Chiapas and Yucatan, which have high percentages of indigenous people. Source: Promoting Parental Involvement in Schools: Evidence From Two Randomized Experiments, NBER Working Paper No. 28040, October 2020.

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APRIL 30, 2017

The research is overwhelming. 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.

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JANUARY 28, 2019

That might seem like a reasonable approach but there’s controversy among researchers about whether repeating third grade is ultimately helpful. Leave this field empty if you're human: It’s easy to argue about this extensive and muddy body of research. But this advantage peaks and then dissipates by middle school.

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NOVEMBER 18, 2018

We wanted to see what the United States could learn from an education system that consistently receives top marks from UNICEF , the OECD and the World Economic Forum. Finland has a wide range of cognitive diversity among its own students, with a third receiving special-education services at some point in their school experience.

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JANUARY 10, 2020

Avery Bencal is a fourth grader at Winthrop Elementary School in Melrose, Massachusetts. This cozy suburb just outside of Boston is home to an idyllic New England downtown and schools that are good enough to draw young families in droves. Cyndy Taymore, superintendent of Melrose Public Schools. MELROSE, Mass.

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MAY 15, 2018

Teacher specialization, a model in which teachers specialize in certain subjects and teach them to a rotating group of students, has a negative effect on student scores, attendance, and behavior in an elementary school setting, according to a working paper by Fryer, a faculty member at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

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MARCH 20, 2023

Public school choice appeared to increase overall arrests and days incarcerated for young men in Charlotte, North Carolina, according to a study by three economists, “ Does School Ch o ice Increase Crime? circulated by the National Bureau of Economic Research in February 2023.

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MAY 21, 2018

Specific compliments for newly gained skills decorate the walls in a Colorado Preschool Program classroom at Eyestone Elementary School in the Poudre School District. Yet most American children who speak a language other than English at home begin to lag behind in school by fourth grade. Photo: Lillian Mongeau.

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JUNE 15, 2016

While every school is unique, research has identified several elements that can almost universally increase the chances for successful teacher development and create a powerful and positive school community. Research shows that the following features of effective leadership can improve student achievement (Leithwood et al.,

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JULY 11, 2018

“Social studies is like the lima beans on the curricular plate of the elementary student’s day,” said Paul Fitchett, associate professor and director of curriculum and instruction for the doctoral program in education at University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Photo: Sarah Gonser for The Hechinger Report. “I

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JANUARY 19, 2021

percent in the fall, or by more than 461,000 students compared to the fall of 2019, the decline among men was more than seven times as steep as the decline among women, according to an analysis of figures from the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center. “In There’s research to back that up. There’s more distractions for guys.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Plus, Lambert says, some of their families lost work, hurting them economically. Across the country, elementary school teachers and leaders report that children are entering kindergarten worse off than their peers of the past. Many of their parents were experiencing mental health challenges. The differences are hard to miss.

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AUGUST 27, 2018

The curriculum was recently the subject of an experiment involving 684 students to see if this approach actually teaches kids the reading and writing skills and the content they need to succeed in school. The researchers controlled for academic differences among the kids at the start of the school year.)

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JANUARY 10, 2023

I work for Rocketship Public Schools in Washington, D.C. We’re in a city in which 75 percent of students are economically disadvantaged and 45 percent are at risk. We must value families’ humanity by making them part of the solution, rather than always making decisions for them and centering only ourselves as the experts.

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NOVEMBER 26, 2023

Families can spend their ESAs on almost any education-related expenses, such as private school tuition, tutoring and homeschool supplies. Now, the recent rise in tuition may price more Arizona families out of the nation’s most expansive experiment in school choice. It makes complete economic sense,” Lewis said. “If

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

spending on elementary and high school education declined 3 percent from 2010 to 2014 even as its economy prospered and its student population grew slightly by 1 percent, boiling down to a 4 percent decrease in spending per student. One could argue that the economy is flourishing just fine with less spending on schools.

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2017

When Todd Rogers, director of the Student Social Support R&D Lab at Harvard University, started doing research in schools, he found focusing on parents could offer big returns. While few schools are set up to do this, Rogers’ and Bergman’s work shows they should be. Photo: Jackie Mader/The Hechinger Report. Weekly Update.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Despite the districts’ strong performance, there seems to be little effort to replicate Clinton and Pearl’s carefully planned racial and economic integration efforts. Tyler Mckenzie, 18, is a senior at Pearl High School in Pearl, Mississippi. Today, about 28 percent of residents are black and 4.5 percent are Hispanic or Latino.

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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. Photo: Tara García Mathewson/The Hechinger Report.

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APRIL 16, 2019

Researchers at the Modern Language Association recently found that colleges lost 651 foreign language programs from 2013 to 2016 – dramatically more than the one foreign language programs that higher education lost between 2009 and 2013. Research shows that Americans’ attitudes toward language instruction may be holding them back.

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APRIL 27, 2020

Rising fourth graders listen as a teacher reads a book at an elementary school summer program in Silver Spring, MD. As the coronavirus closes schools, online platforms are proving to be invaluable, allowing instruction to continue and alleviating the severity of students’ learning loss. “We

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MARCH 20, 2019

In this file photo, kindergarteners listen as teacher Amy Holland reads on the first day of school at Nancy Ryles Elementary School in Beaverton, Oregon. The research is clear: Children who struggle to read in the early grades rarely catch up with their peers. On the flip side, research by the Annie E.

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Floyd County and Pikeville educators participated in a series of South Fayette School District classroom visits to observe students work and learn more about computing pathways. At the elementary school, the teams tinkered with the interactive digital stories children created using Scratch, a block-based programming language.

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