Education Policy Social Studies Tradition 
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). Related : The pandemic’s remote learning legacy: A lot worth keeping. Stride Inc.,
The Hechinger Report
OCTOBER 29, 2020
Through All City Council, Oakland students have a louder voice in local education policy than students in many cities, but young people say it’s not enough. The council’s two student directors serve on the Oakland Board of Education in an advisory capacity and regularly meet with their adult counterparts. “I
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The Hechinger Report
JUNE 11, 2017
Social Studies teacher Michelle Adler talks to sophomores Maiya Schwartz, left and Emily Terranova about an assignment in an Honors Human Geography class at Gray-New Gloucester High School on Thursday, June 1, 2017. Michelle Adler, social studies teacher and local union president, Gray-New Gloucester High School.
The Hechinger Report
APRIL 21, 2019
Within each subject, schools identified learning targets, clearly explaining what students would need to demonstrate in order to be considered “proficient” — a shift away from the traditional system’s emphasis on logging seat time to earn credits and progress. considered passing. Elizabeth Hewitt for The Hechinger Report.
The Hechinger Report
MAY 30, 2018
A 2015 RAND study , which looked at 62 schools that had received various Gates Foundation-funded grants for personalized learning, found gains of 11 percentile points in math and 8 in reading. Pane predicts that if the personalized learning trend continues, it could upend traditional notions of what a classroom looks like. “I
The Hechinger Report
APRIL 12, 2023
Stephanie Hawk, tribal state policy liaison, NIEA The state’s executive order has caused confusion among teachers who taught Native American history and culture using the Oceti Sakowin Essential Understandings, said Roquel Gorneau, a South Dakota education specialist for the Lower Brule and Crow Creek Sioux Tribes. “A
The Hechinger Report
AUGUST 4, 2023
Related: Inside an ‘underground lab’ for far-right education policies Nationally, takeovers are relatively rare: Between 1988 and 2016, states took control of 114 school districts, about four per year. We are not what they’re saying we are,’” said former Wheatley social studies teacher Kendra Yarbrough-Camarena.
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