The Hechinger Report

MAY 20, 2024

Grading papers is hard work. “I hate it,” a teacher friend confessed to me. And that’s a major reason why middle and high school teachers don’t assign more writing to their students. Even an efficient high school English teacher who can read and evaluate an essay in 20 minutes would spend 3,000 minutes, or 50 hours, grading if she’s teaching six classes of 25 students each.

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Research Humanities High School History 143

Digital Promise

MAY 20, 2024

Updated Technology Sustainability Toolkit helps districts plan their budgets with ending of COVID relief funds.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 20, 2024

PITTSBURGH — Maria Hubal sent one student back to class just as another walked in. The sixth grader, slouched over with his hood pulled low, made a beeline to a hammock chair and curled up. Hubal, Bellevue Elementary’s behavioral health school educator, gently asked if everything was OK and what she could do to help. He said he was at a “red” — based on a color thermometer posted by the door that students can use to describe their stress level.

High School 118

High School Cultures Elementary School Professional Development 118

ED Surge

MAY 20, 2024

As Black womxn educators, we have a connection with education that is ancestral. Even before enslavement, teaching and learning existed in Africa. African communities built cities, states and kingdoms. Africans were skilled laborers, mathematicians and astronomers. Creativity, learning and innovation flourished in African communities, and that heritage lives in African descendants, especially apparent in the way we teach and radically care for our students.

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Education Heritage Tradition Teaching 112

Catlin Tucker

MAY 20, 2024

Imagine you’re at a new, highly recommended restaurant, eager to try what you’ve heard is an exceptional dining experience. As you sit down and open the menu, your excitement dims—you realize it’s a fixed menu with no options for substitutions or alterations. You’re vegetarian, and all the courses feature meat. You speak with the server, hoping for flexibility, but there are no alternatives that accommodate your dietary needs.

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Tradition Research Teaching Education 78

ED Surge

MAY 20, 2024

When Mysa School started about eight years ago, the microschool movement was new. A school with about 40 students in Washington, D.C., and with a second location in Vermont, Mysa stresses mastery-based learning, where students have to show comprehension before advancing. The idea is that having smaller school sizes enables students to develop much deeper relationships at school, says Siri Fiske, founder of Mysa School.

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Public School Civics K-12 Private School 110

The Hechinger Report

MAY 20, 2024

LAS VEGAS and RENO, Nev. — They exist in places like an airport, a resort, and a distribution center, tucked away from the public eye but close enough for easy access. They often emit laughter – and the sound of tumbling blocks, bouncing balls, and meandering tricycles. They’re child care centers based at workplaces. And in the increasingly fraught American child care landscape, they are popping up more frequently.

Government 90

Government Classroom Management Humanities Cultures 90

Heinemann Blog

MAY 20, 2024

In her book “Every Kid a Writer”, now available as an audiobook, Kelly Boswell reminds us that sometimes the hardest part about teaching writing is getting students to write at all.

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Teaching 84

ShortCutsTV

MAY 20, 2024

Although there’s a long history of scientific research demonstrating the importance of sleep to memory, that’s not much comfort to students who find it difficult to get a good night’s sleep – particularly when faced with upcoming tests or exams.

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History Research Psychology 52

Heinemann Blog

MAY 20, 2024

The following is an adapted excerpt from Rebecca Bellingham’s The Artful Read-Aloud. Rebecca and Veronica Scott's new book, The Artful Approach to Exploring Identity and Fostering Belonging , releases in Fall 2024.

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Teaching 71

Political Science Now

MAY 20, 2024

Alianna Casas (she/her/ella) is a second-year Ph.D. student at the University of Arizona’s School of Government and Public Policy. Her subfields are international relations and comparative politics. Her research interests include gender in conflict, rebel governance, and illicit markets. Currently, Alianna is researching how individual-level characteristics shape women’s roles in conflict.

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Political Science Economics Government Research 52

The Hechinger Report

MAY 20, 2024

For Janelle Bell, a 39-year-old working mom, completing her degree wasn’t financially or personally possible. Her priority was providing for her family on an annual salary of just $30,000. Drowning in $40,000 of student loan debt, she was forced to drop out of college and work full time. Janelle’s story is all too familiar throughout the U.S. — stuck in a low-paying job, struggling to make ends meet after being failed by college.

High School 89

High School Economics Research Education 89

Political Science Now

MAY 20, 2024

Adrian Gonzalez, Southwestern University Adrian Gonzalez is a first-generation student at Southwestern University where he double majors in political science and English. He is currently working on an honors thesis prospectus in which he plans to investigate the rise of MORENA from a social movement to a triumphant political party in Mexico’s 2018 elections.

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