The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Politicians around the country have been aiming to demolish progressive policies by targeting teaching about race and ethnicity, the LGBTQIA+ community and women’s reproductive rights. These dangerous culture wars will wreak havoc on education and education policy for years to come. Teaching is inherently activist.

Civic Engagement 130

Civic Engagement Education Civics K-12 130

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

history has resulted in persistent unequal access to opportunity. Some leaders have responded by endorsing policies that attempt to reduce the impacts of these “implicit” biases. But the benefits of hiring more Black educators and administrators extend well beyond directly reducing pro-white/anti-Black biases in schools.

Education 118

Education Inclusive Curriculum Archiving K-12 118

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Overall, about 63 percent of virtual for-profit schools were rated unacceptable by their states in the latest year for which data was available, according to a May 2021 report by the University of Colorado’s National Education Policy Center (NEPC). Murphy teaches business education at a middle school in a neighboring county.

Charter School 140

Charter School Education Policy Public School History 140

Cult of Pedagogy

JANUARY 21, 2024

As an example of what that entails, consider the More Teaching Less Testing Act from NY Representative Jamaal Bowman. The text of the bill contains the line, “in 2015, a typical American student took 112 mandated standardized tests across the length of their elementary and secondary education years.” Teaching Machines.

Pedagogy 248

Pedagogy Project-Based Learning Library Research 248

The Hechinger Report

MAY 5, 2024

Education has become a major battleground for the attempted anti-racist paradigm shift of diversity, equity and inclusion work; mirroring society, this work remains stuck in a cycle of advancement and retaliation. Education administrators at all levels need to act now to resist a rising tide of efforts against social science knowledge.

K-12 120

K-12 Sociology Social Science Education 120

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 28, 2019

In Baltimore City Public Schools, where about 80 percent of students are black, educators have long tried to incorporate African-American culture into their teaching. We never had the opportunity to celebrate the rich culture,” said Janise Lane, executive director of teaching and learning at Baltimore City Public Schools.

Local History 112

Local History Geography Education Policy Public School 112

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 19, 2024

When Ashlyn Siebert started looking last year for teaching jobs near Decatur — her rural hometown — she knew she wouldn’t make as much as a first-year teacher 16 miles away in Bentonville, home to Walmart’s headquarters. This year, the district received 15 applications for a single teaching position at the elementary school.

Elementary School 143

Elementary School High School Private School Teaching 143

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 30, 2016

For the first time in history, our public schools are majority minority. Catherine Brown is the vice president of education policy at the Center for American Progress. Fortunately, this round of interest in integration is sparking in a new context.

Charter School 79

Charter School Teaching Public School Education Policy 79

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2016

Tim Abram, a Teach for America alumnus, says he moved on from teaching to work in public policy. This is something he has in common with a lot of Teach for America alums. Abram studied public-policy leadership at the University of Mississippi in Oxford and minored in African American studies. JACKSON, Miss.—Tim

Teaching 65

Teaching Leadership Education Policy History 65

Living Geography

APRIL 11, 2025

Thanks to Matt from the British Ecological Society for the message he added to my GCSE Natural History blog. The British Ecological Society are supporters of the Natural History GCSE and want to be ready to support with the teaching of this qualification. We are running our free teacher training again this year. FREE of charge.

History 52

History Education Policy Teaching Education 52

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 20, 2017

education policy? In these ways, students can bring added value to both education policy and practice. Too many of us students feel we have no power to shape our environment, resulting in a vicious cycle where students don’t share our perspectives and educators don’t seek them out. Australia offers a sneak peek.

Civics 96

Civics Civic Engagement K-12 Government 96

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 17, 2020

She drives over an hour each way to teach world history at LaGrange High School in Lake Charles. She turns on gospel music — a ritual she’s had since she began teaching 28 years ago — and sanitizes all surfaces. Related: Teaching among the ashes: ‘It’s not just your house that’s burned, it’s everyone’s’.

Charter School 141

Charter School Psychology Middle School High School 141

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 16, 2020

This flies in the face of common sense and human history, deBoer argued. The right’s blind faith insists that “if we have school choice in the form of charter schools and private school vouchers … competitive pressures will force the schools and teachers to teach better, and to churn out students who are excelling academically.”.

Education 124

Education Charter School Social Justice K-12 124

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 29, 2019

But they say the discussions are helping them to become better educators within a system in which predominantly white staff teach in schools with significant numbers of black and Latino students. “Am Russell Thompson teaches a statistics class at Boston’s Henderson K-12 Inclusion School. Am I just always going to be wrong?”.

K-12 111

K-12 Cultures Library Middle School 111

The Hechinger Report

MAY 15, 2017

Bristol, who examines national, state and local education policies that affect the recruitment and retention for teachers of color in schools, has been much in demand lately to talk about his research. In addition, Khalil says Howard University and other MSIs are in competition with alternative route teaching certificate programs.

Charter School 81

Charter School Cultures Government History 81

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 6, 2016

Julian Ambriz (left), a teacher joining PUC Schools through the Alumni Teach Project this year, works with his mentor, Justin Gutierrez (right), a physical education teacher, during a training session in July. He plans to become a physical education teacher. “It Photo: Jamie Martines. Photo: Jamie Martines.

Social Justice 111

Social Justice Charter School High School Public School 111

The Hechinger Report

MAY 29, 2020

Students who take time off from four-year universities, opt for community colleges instead or shift to part time all could end up spending longer in school and are more likely to drop out, history and research show. That’s the inescapable lesson of history and research. Credit: Gregory Shamus/Getty Images.

High School 132

High School Charter School Advocacy Research 132

Becoming a History Teacher

JUNE 11, 2024

Photo by zhang kaiyv on Pexels.com A little while ago I had the opportunity to chat with a teacher who is 20 odd years into their teaching career. The value of experienced teachers in our schools Retention of experienced teaching staff really matters for young people in our schools but also for less experienced members of staff.

Education 88

Education K-12 Leadership Lesson Plan 88

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 28, 2017

You want to teach your fellow teachers the error of their ways, but you’ve seen the consequences of speaking out: termination, transfer and blackballing. Sign up for our Higher Education newsletter. Genes may not pass on white supremacy, but education policies certainly do. And so you write to me instead.

Economics 82

Economics Geography Civics History 82

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

The teenager’s classes in English and junior ROTC are taught by a district teacher, while history and math are self-paced courses via the online platform Edgenuity. Fairfield County teacher Claudia Fletcher-Lambert has gotten into the swing of things when it comes to virtual education. For Zion, the school day starts at 9 a.m.

Charter School 138

Charter School High School Tutoring Public School 138

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 21, 2023

to teach undergraduate and graduate programs. The opening and operation of international satellite campuses “has flattened out from the burst of activity we saw 15 years ago,” said Kevin Kinser, department head of education policies studies at Pennsylvania State University and C-BERT’s co-founder.

Tradition 125

Tradition Education Policy Research History 125

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 5, 2021

Adults with workplace skills such as human resources training or financial management deserve credit for such college-level learning, said Mathew Bergman, an associate professor at the University of Louisville who is a national expert in adult learning and teaches in the program. “If Some even earn degrees — but leave without getting them.

Economics 144

Economics Sociology Social Justice High School 144

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 11, 2023

Since the inception of this country, the model of removing someone from society to teach them a lesson has not worked.” He had a passion for drawing that made art class his favorite, followed by math and history. As a history buff, he liked sharing what he already knew from videos he had watched on his own.

Tutoring 113

Tutoring Middle School High School Economics 113

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

The bill, known as the Promoting Real Opportunity, Success, and Prosperity through Education Reform (PROSPER) Act, would also make more money and regulatory flexibility available to for-profit colleges, many of which have been cited for high costs, low graduation rates and a history of taking advantage of low-income students and military veterans.

Education 97

Education Government Heritage Economics 97

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 17, 2018

“I don’t know anyone who doesn’t want to improve education, but our good intentions can make us unintentionally do the wrong things,” said Frederick Hess, founding director of the education policy studies program at the Washington think tank the American Enterprise Institute.

Tutoring 94

Tutoring High School Archiving K-12 94

The Hechinger Report

MAY 9, 2017

Parker Charter Essential School in Devens, Massachusetts, believe multiage education fosters cooperation and collaboration between students, like these ninth- and 10th-graders working together on a Holocaust-related history project. Curtin and Hill will teach one curriculum to this year’s crop of ninth- and 10th-graders.

Elementary School 74

Elementary School Psychology Tradition Professional Development 74

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 16, 2019

“Traditional arts ensembles like marching band and big band don’t necessarily resonate,” said superintendent Paul Gausman, a musician and long-time music educator. It’s part of our history, but as we bring kids in from other countries [we should offer] more popular ensembles in other countries.”. What kinds of students get access?

K-12 103

K-12 Elementary School Middle School High School 103

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

So it and other schools in the region have started trying to recruit Hispanics, who — like Barrera Cantu — increasingly want college educations. Liberal arts colleges are in crisis,” said Doug Sofer, professor of history at another of these schools, Maryville College in Tennessee. based research organization focusing on Hispanics.

K-12 110

K-12 High School Psychology History 110

The Hechinger Report

MAY 30, 2018

I love it, because teaching a whole group of kids, 30 kids at a time, some pretty rigorous math skills is really hard,” he said. One of his students finished the entire fourth-grade curriculum on ST Math by himself before winter break and then started teaching himself fifth-grade math.

Charter School 106

Charter School Tutoring Tradition Educational Technology 106

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 11, 2017

Adler, who has taught at the school for 40 years, sees the proficiency-based education mandate from the state as another foolish idea to come down from a state government that doesn’t understand or respect teachers. “Unfunded mandate after unfunded mandate is not making teaching a chosen career.”

High School 72

High School Social Studies Leadership Tradition 72

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 23, 2016

Nursery schools, which have a long history in England, have also been tapped to help improve the quality of care offered at all of the settings available to parents under the universal plan. Hurley has been teaching nursery classes for 20 years at this state-funded school that we would call a public elementary school. and the U.K.

Government 73

Government Economics K-12 Elementary School 73

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2023

In Norfolk, Virginia, the juniors and seniors enrolled in an African American history class taught by Ed Allison were working on their capstone projects, using nearby Fort Monroe, the site where the first enslaved Africans landed in 1619, as a jumping off point to explore their family history. course targeted by Gov.

History 98

History American History Teaching K-12 98

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 12, 2023

When the debate over teaching race-related concepts in public schools reached Kimberly Tilsen-Brave Heart’s home state of South Dakota, she decided she couldn’t in good conscience send her youngest daughter to kindergarten at a local public school. I want my children to know who they are,” said Tilsen-Brave Heart. “I

American History 145

American History History K-12 Cultures 145

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), today, more than 7 million children, or 14 percent of public school students , are entitled to special services and accommodations to help them learn. Meghan Whittaker, director of policy and advocacy at the National Center for Learning Disabilities.

Education 145

Education Advocacy K-12 Public School 145

ED Surge

APRIL 26, 2024

“I think that there is a broad and sensible middle-of-the-country who is interested in common sense, popular education policy opinions, [and] that is sometimes not well-represented by two extremes,” Polikoff says. The largest division was on whether “teaching children the importance of embracing differences” was important.

Education 144

Education Controversial Topics Civics Elementary School 144

The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2024

Robert Cassanello at the University of Central Florida in Orlando — one of the nation’s largest campuses with 70,000 students — warned in red ink on the syllabus for his graduate seminar on the Civil Rights Movement (as for all courses he teaches) that he “will expose you to content that does not comply with and will violate” anti-DEI laws.

Sociology 131

Sociology Advocacy Anthropology Government 131

ED Surge

APRIL 18, 2023

For more than 100 years, high schools and colleges have relied on the same stalwart tool to measure teaching and learning: the clock. Now, the institution that developed the time-based standard more than a century ago that is used throughout education is calling for the creation of a different way to quantify academic progress.

K-12 144

K-12 Civics High School Project-Based Learning 144