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Arts education belongs in every student’s curriculum — and not just because the arts can improve skills in other content areas. Over the years, I’ve used research about how the arts increase math and reading comprehension to defend their existence in the public school curriculum. But that hasn’t always been the case for me.

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Yet, for far too long, students have been left out of decision-making conversations, even though our voices are needed more than ever, and our perspectives are vital for fostering inclusive and effective governance. But running for a school board as a young person is not an easy task. You face a lot of questions: Are you qualified?

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An abundance of research indicates that culture-based education, an approach at the heart of the camp, positively affects Native students’ college aspirations, sense of belonging in school and connection to community. For example, a school district in Montana is being investigated by the U.S.

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MAY 16, 2022

The problem begins in elementary school, with mathematical content that does not enable children to see mathematical connections and coherence. Another factor is the dearth of opportunities for elementary school math teachers to deepen their understanding of the content they teach. Take fractions as an example.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

The world’s developed nations are placing a big bet on education investments, wagering that highly educated populaces will be needed to fill tomorrow’s jobs, drive healthy economies and generate enough tax receipts to support government services. To boost education budgets, other areas were slashed. Meanwhile, U.S.

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The Hechinger Report is collaborating with The New York Times to produce Bulletin Board, page 2 of the Times ’ s education supplement, Learning. Sophia Joffe, a high school senior who launched a database for enriched remote learning, at her family’s home in Thornhill, Ontario, Canada. – CAYLA BAMBERGER.

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We are two American public-school dads who just returned from a fact-finding trip through Finland. 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. Photo: William Doyle. Related: We’d be better at math if the U.S.

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APRIL 18, 2023

This story also appeared in Mind/Shift Rajbhandari, who beat an incumbent to win a seat on Boise’s school board last year, sounds like any other boosterish local elected official — except he’s an 18-year-old high school senior in the same district he governs. Students are the main consumers of the education system.

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Michelle McLaughlin said Michael’s education did not prepare him for college or career. This story was produced by The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education, in partnership with the Huffington Post. After high school, he did odd jobs for several years.

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JUNE 13, 2022

A May 2022 study of children with disabilities found that Black and white children who posted the same low test scores were equally likely to be removed from a general education classroom and placed in a separate special ed classroom. Department of Education. Photo by Ben Hasty/MediaNews Group/Reading Eagle via Getty Images).

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Collins Elementary School, in southeastern Mississippi, paddled students more times than almost any school in the country in 2017-18, the last year for which there is national data. Johnson is the principal of Mississippi’s Collins Elementary School, where the paddle remains a staple of the educational experience.

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MARCH 2, 2023

Her two youngest, both attending Vancouver’s Washington Elementary School, had struggled with remote learning and still lagged their peers in basic math and reading. Her older kids loved their high school sports teams and she couldn’t imagine uprooting them. Public schools identified 1.1

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FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Four-year-old children who attended public pre-K in Tulsa, Oklahoma, in 2005-06 were far more likely to go to college within a couple years of graduating high school than children who did not attend, according to a 15-year study of 4,000 students. Earlier research has also found long-term benefits from preschool. college and university.

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A group of blockchain projects called “learn-to-earn” (also sometimes called “earn-to-learn”) aims to incentivize learners to engage with educational content and, just as importantly, stick with it. where elementary school students can select adventures and collect gifts as a result of learning core skills.

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OCTOBER 31, 2020

O’Neal Elementary School, in Elgin, Illinois, none of the third graders could read and write at grade level according to state tests in 2019. Just nine miles away sits Centennial Elementary School, where 73 percent of third graders met grade-level standards on that same test. At Ronald D. Credit: Brian Hill/Daily Herald.

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now start their formal education in a public preschool classroom, and this share is steadily growing. States invested well over $10 billion in pre-K programs in 2022-23, and the federal government invested $11 billion in Head Start. However, this movement has a big blind spot: preschool. Close to half of all four-year-olds in the U.S.

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One of the most promising uses of technology in education seemed to be a cheap one: nudging text messages. Text messages to parents about their school-aged children led to better grades and attendance. Text messages to parents about their school-aged children led to better grades and attendance.

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Brown loves — and has long loved — learning about history, civics, geography and government, in part because he had teachers who brought infectious energy and enthusiasm to those lessons. Wright would come to mind as an example of how to do education right. But nothing felt quite right, until he considered teaching. Is that right?

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JULY 15, 2024

Ever since the pandemic shut down schools in the spring of 2020, education researchers have pointed to tutoring as the most promising way to help kids catch up academically. studies could offer useful guidance to educators. Now, some new U.S. Sign up for Proof Points and other Hechinger newsletters.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Mackenzie Woll, a second-grade teacher at Abby Kelley Foster Charter Public Elementary School in Worcester, Massachusetts, said diagnostic tests at the start of the year revealed that most of her students were reading at a kindergarten or a first grade level. READ THE SERIES. In 2016, U.S. All the tests are showing these patterns.

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MAY 12, 2024

Board of Education, rejecting legal racial segregation of public schools. The decision appeared to pave the way for equal educational opportunities for every child and integrated classrooms where students from all backgrounds could prepare to thrive in their communities, careers and lives. The political landscape is shifting.

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AUGUST 6, 2020

When I was in fourth grade at an elementary school in Nashville, Tennessee, my teacher held a career day, where my classmates and I were to come dressed for the jobs we hoped one day to hold. As I went on to have four more children, I remained on the lookout for better school options for my growing family.

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Relying solely on aggregated state standardized test scores and demographic characteristics of students attending a given school, the periodical ranked elementary schools and middle schools within states and school districts. Even “global authorities” can screw up! Aaron Pallas is the Arthur I.

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This story also appeared in USA Today Since the school year began, Vega-Tatum has given more than 356 hours of his time to Yolo Farm to Fork , a nonprofit that supports school gardens and farm-based education. When he reaches the 450-hour mark, he’ll get a $3,000 award.

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APRIL 13, 2021

The problem is the same across Montana — where 65 percent of rural schools in remote settings reported difficulty filling vacancies, compared with 35 percent of non-rural schools. Elementary, fine arts and special education teachers are especially hard to find, according to a Hechinger Report analysis of state education data.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

No matter whether elementary teachers return to physical or virtual classrooms, this will be a year for the history books. What’s less clear is how prepared elementary school teachers are to put these seismic events into context. This is not a problem of higher education’s making, but a failure of public education writ large.

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JANUARY 2, 2023

Why learn art in school? The arts have been part of public education almost from the beginning. Nineteenth century education reformer Horace Mann, the father of American public schools, believed that the arts enhanced learning. He made drawing and music part of the Massachusetts curriculum for “common schools.”

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Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Future of Learning newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every other Wednesday with trends and top stories about education innovation. Students at Bessemer Elementary School don’t have to go far to see a doctor. Sign up for the Hechinger newsletter.

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“Here at school, we’re trying to not put the pressure at all on the students, but I know our third grade teachers really feel it,” Knapp said. Melissa Knapp, the literacy coach for Harpeth Valley Elementary School, answers a first grade student’s question. Because it is just one assessment.” The research on retention is mixed.

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AUGUST 8, 2022

But education researchers who study the teaching profession say the threat is exaggerated. Goldhaber estimates that in a school with 1,000 students, there was half an unfilled vacancy, on average, in the fall of 2021 – the most recent data he has analyzed. Many teachers go into special education but soon quit the classroom.

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“Of course it’s important that Penn at least recognizes the profound challenges that the School District of Philadelphia faces with things like lead poisoning and asbestos,” Campano, a professor at Penn’s Graduate School of Education, said. They suggest paying it into an education equity fund managed by the city council.

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Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Future of Learning newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every other Wednesday with trends and top stories about education innovation. The newly released National Education Technology Plan from the U.S. Subscribe today!

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A study from the Yale School of Public Health found that climate anxiety is distinct from other mental health conditions like general anxiety disorder or major depressive disorder. and one that “established a government duty to protect citizens from climate change.” NPR called it “a first-of-its- kind trial in the U.S.”

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For a variety of reasons, racial and ethnic diversity is lacking in far too many schools, both here in New York City and around the country. Related: Confessions of an all-white teacher in an urban school. Yet I also have friends who’ve chosen more integrated neighborhoods and schools for their kids. Board of Education decision.

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Back in April, as schools across the country shifted to online instruction to slow the spread of the coronavirus, Scott Muri saw firsthand just how damaging lack of internet access can be for students and families. He pointed to school districts in Chicago and North Dakota as innovative models to follow. Subscribe today!

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But Futernick — a longtime educator who has served as an elementary school teacher, a teacher educator and a leader of a national school turnaround center — aims to keep the dialogues as civil and productive as possible. But never is there an actual, honest conversation with educators to say, ‘Gee!

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NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Most educators and students agree: Learning took a nosedive last spring when schools closed during the coronavirus pandemic. A survey of over 20,000 students conducted May through June found that only 39 percent of students said they learned a lot every day while their school building was closed. Credit: Corinne Livingston.

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