A Principal's Reflections
AUGUST 7, 2022
We know for a fact that everyone learns differently. While a one-size-fits-all approach served its purpose for some of us, it doesn’t meet the diverse needs of kids today. It also doesn’t provide teachers and administrators with valuable insight on how to best support learners no matter where they are in relation to standards and critical competencies.
World History Teachers Blog
AUGUST 11, 2022
Here is an excellent review of the events that led to the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki from the Ohio State University (OSU). You can also read an essay about the events written by Professor Craig Nelson. I was not aware that one of the important considerations in dropping the bomb had to do with the pending participation of the Russians in the Pacific War.
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The Hechinger Report
AUGUST 9, 2022
I have been in education long enough to have seen my share of buzzwords come and go. When I started my career 10 years ago, teaching “grit” was all the rage, but that era of character education shortly met its well-deserved end (a topic for a different day). Similarly phased out have been phrases such as “21st-century skill-building,” “college-ready,” “positive behavior intervention system” and “data-driven instruction.”.
ED Surge
AUGUST 8, 2022
Youth mental health is at a crisis point. In December 2021, the U.S. Surgeon General issued an advisory on youth mental health. A few months later, the chief science officer at the American Psychological Association testified before a Senate committee that America’s youth mental health system was fundamentally flawed. Not only have symptoms of mood disorders, such as depression, increased in teens and children—but manifestations of those diseases, such as emergency room visits and suicides , hav
Digital Promise
AUGUST 9, 2022
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World History Teachers Blog
AUGUST 10, 2022
What was life like in Cairo in 1321? Coptic Christians and Mamluk Muslims did not get along. In fact, in 1321 violence broke out and spread throughout the city. According to this fascinating essay on the Medievalistsnet website written by Peter Konieczny, "over a couple of weeks, eleven Christian churches would be damaged or destroyed in Cairo, and another 49 in other parts of the country.
The Hechinger Report
AUGUST 8, 2022
Ninety percent of schools have increased the number of substitute teachers on staff or are trying to, according to a July 2022 RAND report, but schools are struggling to find new hires, feeding into an overall perception of shortages. Credit: Terra Fontriest for The Hechinger Report. The stories are scary. The teaching profession, according to CNN in early 2022, was “in crisis.
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Digital Promise
AUGUST 11, 2022
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Education Elements
AUGUST 9, 2022
When working on surveys for a large school district, I heard it all. We don’t trust you with our survey data. What did you do with last year’s survey? This survey takes too long. What am I supposed to do with this survey data? Often when these responses arise, it’s due to poor survey design, poor follow through, and a less-than-authentic approach – all of which can erode trust and lead to unsupported claims.
The Hechinger Report
AUGUST 12, 2022
When J. P. McCaskey High School held its graduation ceremony in June, students were all smiles. A sea of black and red robes, the event was the finale of an adolescence marred for many by the pandemic and its attendant solitude, financial insecurity and stress. This story also appeared in The Washington Post. For Alejandra Zavala, a college and career counselor at McCaskey, it was a chance to see the results of the hours she’d spent meeting with students and going over the details of their colle
ED Surge
AUGUST 9, 2022
As an education community, we are beginning to understand the depth of the pandemic’s impact, especially on our students of color, our English Language learners and our students with disabilities. But we are also beginning to understand the breadth of connection, growth and networks that we have encountered over the past two years. Bringing together more than 100 organizations across the fields of disability advocacy, special education, civil rights and K-12 nonprofits, the Educating All Learner
Digital Promise
AUGUST 9, 2022
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Social Studies Success
AUGUST 12, 2022
Abolitionist, expedition, alliance, excerpt – all of these are words your students are expected to read and understand in Social Studies. Vocabulary instruction has become more and more important as our children are required to read and comprehend more challenge text – both in the classroom and on state assessments. When you are approaching vocabulary instruction you must keep in mind that students will struggle with both brick and mortar words.
The Hechinger Report
AUGUST 10, 2022
It’s easy to get excited about the virtues of mastery, or competency-based, learning. What’s not to like about a system that guarantees that students learn, as opposed to one that is focused on the amount of time students sit in seats? My new book, “ From Reopen to Reinvent ,” makes a full-throated plea for more K-12 schools to adopt mastery-based learning, in which students only move on from a concept once they demonstrate mastery of the knowledge and skills at hand.
ED Surge
AUGUST 11, 2022
Several years ago, I chaired the search committee for a new administrative associate in my department. I was glad to participate in the process, and so was the rest of the committee, because we knew how important this role was to the functioning of our department. Our administrative associate manages complex budgetary and scheduling processes using byzantine systems and works closely with faculty who—let’s face it—aren’t the easiest people to placate.
Letters and Ink Blog
AUGUST 9, 2022
Creating a set of classroom expectations for your students is more challenging than it seems at first. When I first started out teaching, I tried to stick to the same rules my own teachers had for me in high school. The thing is, kids today are not the same as they were back then. And there’s a lot of science and cultural understandings that show us that those old school “rules” like no chewing gum and don’t you dare be late are outdated and insensitive to the needs of ou
Civics U
AUGUST 8, 2022
The terms federal and federalism can refer to the system of government that divides power between the central (national) government and the states, or they can refer to the central government itself in this system. The question of what power and how much power the national government and the respective states should have in this system has been subject to debate since the beginnings of the United States.
The Hechinger Report
AUGUST 8, 2022
Improving students’ mental health is paramount not only to fostering their health, but also their academic and lifelong success. When the brain cannot manage emotional responses, it impairs thinking. When thinking is impaired, we cannot learn. Each day we are seeing disturbing new studies about the mental health of our schoolchildren and college students.
ED Surge
AUGUST 12, 2022
This week, the Aspen Institute announced its 2022 Ascend fellows, a cohort of 22 individuals hailing from a range of disciplines including medicine, research, entrepreneurship, government and policy, and nonprofit leadership and advocacy. Their respective fields may vary widely, but what unites this particular group—on the 10-year anniversary since the fellowship was first launched—is their commitment to transforming early childhood education.
ED Surge
AUGUST 9, 2022
Schools are expected to keep students safe, but increasingly, their attempts to do so are instead putting students at risk. At least, that’s what’s suggested by a report released last week by the Center for Democracy and Technology, a nonprofit organization that’s taking a look at the impact of student surveillance. This latest report is a continuation of efforts to track monitoring software that keeps tabs on students' emails, messages, web searches and other information, ostensibly to catch th
ED Surge
AUGUST 11, 2022
As students and educators head into their third full year of schooling during a pandemic, they’re doing so amid a flurry of conversations happening around support for their mental health. What are behavioral issues and discipline going to look like this year? And where are the opportunities to make sure consequences are doled out equitably? That’s what New York University researcher Richard Welsh tried to glean by looking back at how discipline practices have evolved throughout the pandemic.
The Hechinger Report
AUGUST 12, 2022
In 2016 Purdue University announced an income-share agreement program as a new guinea pig experiment in which students could get money for college in exchange for a share of their future earnings. “Back a Boiler,” it was called, in a nod to the school’s Boilermaker nickname. University president Mitch Daniels talked up the idea in testimony to Congress.
The Hechinger Report
AUGUST 10, 2022
LA VERGNE, Tenn. — As the football and girls’ soccer teams sweated through summer practice on the athletics fields at LaVergne High School, a small group of adult advisers inside shared tales of their own ordeals. This story also appeared in NBC News. They spoke of high school graduates who had balked at writing essays or filling out the forms required to apply to college.
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