Digital Promise

MARCH 29, 2022

The Kentucky Valley Education Cooperative (KVEC) provides free, competency-based flexible, professional learning opportunities for rural K-12 educators via micro-credentials. Funding is being used to develop a digital badging and pathway system that will interface with the K-12 digital badging and pathways system.

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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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MARCH 11, 2021

A recent online meme had a striking message: “A year at an HBCU can undo a K-12 experience.”. They typically come from K-12 school systems that lack resources like state-of-the-art learning technology, curriculum and student supports. These approaches are critical to supporting students moving forward.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 26, 2021

Squinting at my 16” laptop screen 12 hours every day while communicating with students and grading their papers was growing painful, so I bought a 34” curved ultra-wide external monitor ($570). in history and teaches women’s, gender, and sexuality studies; religious studies; and English at the University of Houston.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 20, 2019

“I had been taught, in school, through cultural osmosis, that the flag wasn’t really ours, that our history as a people began with enslavement and that we had contributed little to this great nation.”. Legislators, history activists and those who want to project a positive view of the U.S. Learning the sordid details of U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

In the last few years, the American education system has been bludgeoned by changes that have upended decades of progress toward better academic, economic and social outcomes for all. That makes it even more important to fight for justice within the American K-12 educational system and ensure that our students learn the truth.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 30, 2020

Ward is unusual, too, because she had made the leap from college admissions to private school to public school, and she is trying to bring the individualized approach of private college counseling to large, economically diverse public schools where she can make a bigger difference. They know that I’m there for them.

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APRIL 13, 2023

Late last year, the White House announced it would put that idea into action, and soon will launch a 10-year plan to revitalize Native languages, under the umbrella of a new initiative to advance educational equity and economic opportunity for Native Americans. Related: States were adding lessons about Native American history.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 20, 2016

Board of Education, the landmark case that put in motion the Civil Rights Movement and remains a poignant moment in American history. GAO found that these schools were the most racially and economically concentrated. Board to Cleveland, Mississippi, a history fraught with injustice appeared first on The Hechinger Report.

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JULY 12, 2022

will ultimately shift the country’s power base: Nearly one in three Americans say they are extremely or very concerned that native-born Americans are losing “economic, political and cultural influence” in this country because of the growing population of immigrants. racism and global colonization. There is only one way: teaching anti-racism.

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ACRE

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Women have always worked, and yet their economic contributions are often undervalued. Her economic history research expands 200 years to provide an account of women’s participation in labor markets over time and describe the history of women’s continuing economic liberation. History: H.5.USH.8

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ED Surge

MARCH 20, 2024

Teaching creativity and creative thinking in K-12 has always been valued but often challenging to implement. Johnsrud: There are a lot of economic and career opportunities for students to have a very different future than their parents or grandparents did — if they have the assistance of AI. How would you respond to that?

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 2, 2023

If left unaddressed, these related issues will have ramifications for generations of K-12 students. We have an oversupply of highly qualified educators in some communities and extreme shortfalls in others — often those that have been hollowed out by decades of policy stagnation, economic disinvestment and white flight.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

As a result of de jure housing segregation during the 20th century and de facto housing segregation today, coupled with the inequitable and often unconstitutional ways in which public K-12 education is funded, too many black students are concentrated in under-resourced K-12 schools and require developmental courses in college.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

For most of history, women had very little educational opportunity, and the college spots available to them were in gender-segregated schools with fewer resources. And gender bias still lingers in American education , from pre-K through college. So, why is it that men are falling behind in higher education? And why should we care?

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 16, 2020

If there was ever a time to ask big, heretical questions about American K-12 education, it’s when schooling has been thrown into chaos by a pandemic, and Americans’ faith in institutions, including schools, is at ebb tide. This flies in the face of common sense and human history, deBoer argued.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 21, 2022

Hollander said the project, which is structured as a fellowship, is set up to look at both aquatic and terrestrial science phenomena in the state, as well as social studies elements because “there is a lot of history around that changing landscape of Louisiana and the cultural groups that are affected as well.”.

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ED Surge

MAY 16, 2024

To find out, EdSurge interviewed Terri Hasseler, a professor in the Department of History, Literature, and the Arts at Bryant University in Rhode Island. Is absenteeism a problem in college as well as at the K-12 level? I mean, I think they're very aware of the economic reality. If so, what’s driving the trend?

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

The panel I spoke on responded to the work of Andreas Schleicher, education director for the intergovernmental Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). Consequently, students don’t have to spend hours memorizing formulas and moments in history. The event brought more than a hundred people to Seattle, Wash.,

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Missouri Western State University eliminated majors, minors and concentrations in English, history, philosophy, sociology, political science, art and other subjects. Eastern Kentucky University shut down theater, economics and other majors. The Vermont College System was losing $8 million to $12 million a year.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 17, 2019

Leave this field empty if you're human: Automation affects workers around the world — nearly half of the employers surveyed by the World Economic Forum last year expected automation would reduce their workforce by 2022. Higher Education. Mississippi Learning. A place like Mississippi is heavily exposed.”. “As

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ED Surge

JULY 24, 2023

Students in American K-12 schools are increasingly diverse. Like when we have states that say they're trying to recruit diverse educators, but [are] also telling them, “Erase yourself and your history as you're filling out that application.” And this is a country with deep economic disparities. It's a good segue.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 17, 2017

There was so much acrimony and such a history of distrust and malfunction.”. Usually what causes disunity in the community are the class differences, the race differences, the socio-economic differences. Mental health is a big piece of the puzzle here,” she said of her school, which goes from pre-K to fourth grade.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 9, 2020

The coronavirus crisis has created a moment in history in which educators and administrators can shift the narrative and reality for an entire community. There’s so much information and so many personal stories about how the coronavirus has negatively affected the global community from health, economic, psychological and social perspectives.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 2, 2023

In November, the Virginia Board of Education tossed out its plan to revise the state’s standards of learning for history and social studies. A number of states are fiercely battling over curriculum standards, and not just in history and social studies. Riling up many of these no-holds-barred K-12 scraps is “inclusivity.”

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

While there are many ways to invest in children younger than 5, I chose to focus on preschool since it is the early years program most closely correlated with K-12 education, my primary focus as an education reporter. I dug into the history and research on Head Start. We do not pay many of our preschool teachers fair wages.

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 3, 2018

But that perception might be overly simplistic, according to a new working paper from the National Bureau of Economic Research. People who major in subjects like history or political science don’t get first jobs that are as lucrative, but they catch up a lot,” says Deming.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 4, 2020

Left vulnerable when the coronavirus pandemic hit, Missouri Western is now cutting nearly a third of its faculty and at least 98 majors, minors and concentrations , including in English, history, chemistry, biology, philosophy, sociology, political science, computer technology, music and art. Some administrators get other extras.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

This story is part of our Map to the Middle Class project , where we ask readers what they want us to investigate about educational pathways to economic stability. He asks : What are the projections for the size of the middle class assuming current economic and demographic trends? This question comes from Kieran Hanrahan.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 21, 2016

students graduating from the K-12 system are college and career ready, Common Core has ramped up academic expectations that schools everywhere, including those in Kentucky, are still far from meeting. Sonja Brookins Santelises, vice president of K-12 policy at the Education Trust. Scores have been edging up ever since.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 18, 2016

The teachers in K-12 don’t even always talk to each other,” never mind to the faculties of colleges and universities their students go on to attend, said Lewis. “It Angry and embarrassed by the fact that so many high school students aren’t prepared for college, “A lot of people want to assign blame, that this is the fault of K-12.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 10, 2017

But Rogers High, in an imposing building in the city’s poorest neighborhood, may be a tougher test for whether the idea can work with all students in this economically diverse city of roughly 200,000. Spokane is updating its entire K-12 curriculum to teach those kinds of skills.

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The Hechinger Report

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. million people that is less diverse than America, and that has a history very different from our own? 12) Revamp teacher training toward a medical and military model.

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ACRE

JANUARY 17, 2023

K-12 educators can request activity kits that include everything needed to play through the Adam Smith Escape Room with your students. Adam Smith’s Pin Factory & Division of Labor Pipe Cleaner Activity Adam Smith ’s Pin Factory is one of the most famous examples in the history of economics. Constitution PD.4.C.2

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Zinn Education Project

JUNE 6, 2024

The goal is to raise awareness about how anti-history education laws and book bans — and their chilling effect — threaten any chance of an informed and engaged democracy. It is important to understand] the concept of how you suppress people to exploit them economically. Here are highlights from the remarks.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

Liberal arts colleges are in crisis,” said Doug Sofer, professor of history at another of these schools, Maryville College in Tennessee. Doug Sofer, professor of history, Maryville College in Tennessee. Miramontes’ mother had brought him from Guadalajara, Mexico, to Knoxville, about 16 miles north of the campus, when he was 12.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 21, 2018

Harvard University’s Roland Fryer set out to test just that in an experiment , published in the June 2018 issue of the American Economic Review. Eventually the subjects that children need to learn, from physics to history, become more complex, and at some point teachers cannot be expected to teach all subjects.

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