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

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Some universities and some K-12 school systems have developed media literacy courses and standards to help. At the K-12 level, states have begun incorporating media literacy into their standards and programs have begun cropping up aimed at training students to be better consumers of news. It touches everything.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Broad access to computer science resources is a critical enabler positively impacting the economic mobility of students. 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. Title I eligible schools.

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 2, 2019

While there has been considerable focus on developing K-12 computational thinking pathways in major U.S. cities over the past five years, too often rural school districts receive considerably less attention on the national landscape.

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Teaching Civics

MAY 15, 2023

…Using Children’s Literature to Teach Economics and Civics Tuesday, June 20 | 8:30AM-2:30PM CST | Gr. K-5 Join us as we consider how economic and civic concepts and skills foster reasoned decision-making for ourselves and our community. Copyright (C) 2023 Minnesota Council on Economic Education. Integration!…Using

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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

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

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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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 12, 2023

The district allows student to attend schools outside of their attendance zones as long as space is available, which means students can opt to continue to follow their chosen career pathway at a middle school with corresponding programs. Related: Blurring the lines between K-12, higher ed and the workforce.

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ED Surge

MAY 8, 2024

In a time when technological advancements shape our daily lives and drive economic growth, focusing on STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) education in K-12 schools is not just a trend but a necessity. I was tasked with providing reading intervention services for at-risk K-8 students.

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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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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Early exposure to STEM education primes students to take advantage of these career opportunities — and the economic benefits that come with them. Because of this new partnership, parents can now see whether a school offers STEM when browsing GreatSchools profiles.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 6, 2018

Nationwide, K-12 schools are leading a fledgling “net-zero” building boom that has grown from a few proof-of-concept structures a decade ago to hundreds of buildings completed or under construction. Much of the advocacy for net-zero buildings has focused on environmental and economic incentives.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 3, 2023

With educators duking it out in the so-called “math wars” over the curriculum changes in California — which recommended delaying algebra, a critical juncture in the race to calculus in K-12 — the question rose to the fore this year. I got As in middle school but soon as high school the teaching got muddled.

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Digital Promise

APRIL 16, 2019

Scarce in Schools. Part of the problem I see is that so few students in the United States – just 20 percent – study a foreign language at the K-12 level. begin language study in middle or high school. have a shortage of qualified foreign language instructors at the K-12 level for the 2016–2017 school year.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 7, 2023

Credit: Lily Estella Thompson for The Hechinger Report This year, Harpeth Valley flagged just 12 third graders as needing extra reading support, but the requirements of the expansive Tennessee law could put far more students at risk of retention. Third graders work through a reading assignment at Harpeth Valley Elementary School in Nashville.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 11, 2018

As a middle school teacher, I often see my colleagues taking pains to keep students quiet during class. And yet, a recent study from the World Economic Forum suggests that our chattiest students may be well poised for tomorrow’s world of work — because employers are looking for more than simply the latest technical skills.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

Industry and education people want to talk about 21st-century skills and soft skills and lump them all together as if we’re talking about something new,” said Grover Whitehurst, senior fellow in economic studies for the Brookings Institution, a Washington think tank. These are also 19th-century skills.”.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 2, 2020

In February 2020, Jackson presented these early findings at conference of the National Center for the Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Education Research (CALDER) and the paper was circulated by the National Bureau of Economic Research.

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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. 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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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. And I was terrified to go to school every day. I struggled.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 28, 2019

” The study , still a draft paper circulated by the National Bureau of Economic Research in January 2019, is titled, “An Extra Year to Learn English? But this advantage peaks and then dissipates by middle school. Early Grade Retention and the Human Capital Development of English Learners.”

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 18, 2016

Even though the Common Core initiative to set consistent standards in schools nationwide has been promoted as a path to better preparing students for college and careers, for example, many higher education faculty say no one ever asked them what that means.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

This assumption is not warranted: Wealthier families are putting more of their discretionary money into educational activities like test prep, which do increase students’ scores but, the wealth inflates what we believe teachers, curriculum and culture from inside the school are adding to students’ academic growth.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 22, 2018

In K-12 and college classrooms across the country, some educators are enacting at least partial device bans, some are advocating for teaching style changes (fewer lectures, for example) and still others are seeking help from the technology itself. And student multitasking is nearly constant.

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ED Surge

MARCH 4, 2024

The national average rate of chronic absenteeism in K-12 schools has significantly increased in recent years. percent of the student population, were chronically absent in the 2021-22 school year. Early data from the 2022-23 school year indicates minor improvement, with 27.85 According to data from the U.S.

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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. Fryer convinced the Houston school district to randomly assign 23 elementary schools to adopt specialized teaching for two years, from the fall of 2013 to the spring of 2015.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 15, 2018

When I was in middle school, I remember yearning to have conversations with my peers like the ones I was having at home. A teacher seeks to understand the social, economic and emotional spaces in which their students live. Bilal Walker is a teacher and assistant dean at KIPP TEAM Academy , a middle school in Newark, New Jersey.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

The view from the entrance of Ridgeview Charter Middle School in Sandy Springs, Georgia. Standing in front of Ridgeview Charter Middle School in this Atlanta suburb, you can’t help but notice the opulence of the homes that surround it. Inside the doors of the middle school, there’s a different American story playing out.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

When they quickly discovered there weren’t enough high school students who’d completed algebra by ninth grade, a critical step on the road to a successful STEM degree, the group started a middle school program. ANSEP now serves 2,500 students, from middle school through graduate school.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 24, 2018

With economic segregation in the United States worsening, there is likely to be a growing number of school districts where poor children, and poor parents, predominate. Yet, economic segregation, which is more pronounced among families with children, also creates public school districts where affluent families predominate.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 6, 2016

She says she couldn’t do it without Operation Shoestring, whose after-school program serves pre-kindergarten through eighth-grade children who go to Galloway, Brown Elementary and Rowan Middle Schools. Pre-K through fifth grade students also saw behavioral improvement. Smoothest Ride Possible.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 8, 2019

According to the 2016 World Economic Forum report, “ The Future of Jobs ,” a majority of employers say creativity is one of the most valued qualities they seek in their employees, along with critical-thinking skills and the ability to solve complex problems.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 22, 2018

A Crew of seventh graders at King Middle School in Portland, Maine, plays a conflict-resolution game called “Is This Seat Taken?” Curtis Chapin, a Crew advisor and language arts teacher at King Middle School in Portland, Maine, reviews the “Crew Contract” signed by each member. Chris Berdik/The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 31, 2018

Coco Rhum, a high school senior who attended middle school at M.S. 51 in Park Slope, now attends Beacon High School in midtown Manhattan, where most classrooms have computers and printers, and there are plenty of extracurricular activities like drama club, bowling and tennis.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 20, 2019

Locations of charter middle schools in Boston. Source: “Can Successful Schools Replicate? Scaling Up Boston’s Charter School Sector,” Sarah Cohodes, Elizabeth Setren, and Christopher R. Research sometimes shows that charter schools are better at raising student achievement than traditional public schools.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 1, 2019

A small division that has served as a conduit for sharing information and best practices among the mastery-based schools is now down to a two-person staff, as department resources have shifted to more publicized efforts like a $23 million-dollar anti-bias training program for teachers. The school is thriving.

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