Studies Weekly

MAY 6, 2024

How to Teach Soft Skills in Elementary School May 6, 2024 • By Studies Weekly In elementary school, students learn and refine an immeasurable number of skills. Soft skills help prepare students to be critical thinkers and problem solvers who can succeed in higher education, future careers, and adult life.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 14, 2016

2, 2014 photo, teacher Joy Burke surprises her students with homemade cookies as they leave their fifth grade class at John Hay Elementary school in Seattle. Cookies and math tend to go together in an elementary school classroom. If the Common Core is to improve the math education of U.S. In this Thursday, Oct.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 11, 2025

National pride in America is at a record low, coinciding with desperately low scores on the nations civics report card from the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP). Strengthening civic education nationally requires ongoing work, state-by-state. Civics is a full-year high school course in only seven states.

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Studies Weekly

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Why Science Education Matters in Your Elementary School Classroom Feb. 26, 2024 • By Studies Weekly Science is a critical part of elementary education. Less than 20% of K-3 educators taught science more than twice a week. But science plays a crucial role in early childhood!

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 11, 2024

A growing chorus of education researchers, pundits and “science of reading” advocates are calling for young children to be taught more about the world around them. Kim, a reading specialist, and other researchers had developed two sets of multi-year lesson plans, one for science and one for social studies.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 27, 2020

and Rosa Parks at her Katy, Texas, elementary school in the Houston area. Ankita Ajith is one of four college-age friends who are petitioning the Texas State Board of Education to create an antiracist American history curriculum. And school districts are working to expand their curricula on race.

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 14, 2016

Since President Obama’s ConnectED announcement in 2013 in Mooresville, NC , there has been more than $10 billion committed as part of the five-year program to transform American education. We want to celebrate the extraordinary collaborations between educators and the private sector that have occurred because of ConnectED.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 19, 2020

I feel so defeated,” the mom wrote as she posted a screenshot of an e-mail she had just received from her young child’s elementary school principal into a parent’s group on Facebook. CLICK TO ENLARGE: A sample schedule for first and second grade students in Texas’ Austin Independent School District.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Plenty of students find social studies lessons a bit dull. Eager to build a career out of his interest in social studies, he thought about museum curation, archival work and practicing law. Wright would come to mind as an example of how to do education right. Not Caleb Brown. Was there a specific moment or a story?

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

But it wasn’t indoor recess — play is one of the ways students learn every day in O’Brien’s science and social studies class at Shidler Elementary School. Crystal O’Brien, center, plays with her third grade students during free play time in her classroom at Shidler Elementary School in Oklahoma City.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 1, 2020

Teacher candidates who can’t meet those requirements can’t enroll in the state’s schools of education. And, as is the case nationwide, enrollment in the state’s schools of education has declined , despite shortages. The waiver would allow more would-be educators to enter and move through the state’s teacher pipeline.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 8, 2024

Wealthy suburbs can have a surplus of qualified applicants for elementary schools at the same time that a remote, rural school cannot find anyone to teach high school physics. Tech = technology; CTE = career and technical education; ESL = English as a second language. Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis.

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Digital Promise

MARCH 10, 2015

Are you a K-12 educator or administrator? Digital Promise will award up to ten school or district leaders who submit a response by March 27 with a $1,000 stipend for a trip to San Francisco, including workshops with leading software companies, in partnership with the Education Technology Industry Network. Fulton County Schools.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 13, 2024

“We have kids that on our benchmark knowledge assessments are scoring what is the equivalent of second grade, first grade, fourth grade,” said Fisher, who is also a professor and chair of educational leadership at San Diego State University. Some experts and educators worry the reading reform movement has left older students behind.

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The Hechinger Report

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. Only 42 percent have said they felt very well prepared to teach social studies.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 21, 2018

Two studies on elementary schools published in June 2018 point to the importance giving teachers and students plenty of time to form relationships. I think schools in many ways have put the cart before the horse. Students may learn more. Photo: Jamie Martines. The reason one doesn’t work and the other does may be related.

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Studies Weekly

MAY 2, 2024

A Teacher’s Guide to Celebrating Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month May 2, 2024 • Studies Weekly Diverse perspectives strengthen education, according to Heather Singmaster’s EdWeek article from November 2018. They broaden students’ view of history and teach them to respect people from different cultures.

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The Hechinger Report

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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Digital Promise

JANUARY 29, 2019

Educators who design learning experiences that are personal and accessible , authentic and challenging , collaborative and connected , and inquisitive and reflective create deeper, more meaningful learning experiences for their students. Ford Elementary School in Regina Public Schools, Saskatchewan.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 27, 2018

A study of project-based learning found that social studies scores were higher for second-grade students who learned this way, compared to students who were taught traditionally. studied civics in the fall of 2016, they began by exploring a nearby park in Pontiac. Jackie Mader/The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 29, 2020

A student in a Mississippi elementary school reads a book in class. Teaching kids to read isn’t easy; educators often feel strongly about what they think is the “right” way to teach this essential skill. What should schools avoid when teaching reading? Photo: Terrell Clark for The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 29, 2020

A child reads a book at an elementary school in Mississippi. The reading wars are back, reignited by radio journalist Emily Hanford of APM Reports, who in 2018 began arguing that too many schools are ignoring the science of reading and failing to teach phonics. Higher Education. Choose from our newsletters. Weekly Update.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 20, 2016

Because their elementary school teachers do too, says Marc Tucker, president of the National Center on Education and the Economy (NCEE), a policy institute that studies what America can learn from the world’s best-performing education systems. Raise selectivity standards for future educators.

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Digital Promise

MAY 15, 2018

This article originally appeared on Usable Knowledge from the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Division of labor has worked wonders for the production of clothing, computers, and automobiles — but it doesn’t have the same transformational effect on productivity in teaching, a new study by economist Roland G. The Research.

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Kicking off the Tough as Nails project, educational leaders from Floyd County and Pikeville Independent Schools convened just outside of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania to think about how schools can adopt computational thinking. . Floyd County and Pikeville educators observe and participate in the classroom.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 19, 2024

They now need nine months of additional school to catch up, according to NWEA’s analysis, released in July 2024. Where are we going to find an additional year to make up for these kiddos before they leave the education system?” All three analyses were produced by for-profit companies that sell assessments to schools.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Elizabeth Menéndez teaches kindergarten at Dos Puentes Elementary School, where students find support and understanding on their path to mastering both English and Spanish. Both linguistics and education scholars cite a similar trend, noting growing attention on translanguaging at conferences and in academic publications.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 17, 2020

The International Society for Technology in Education, a nonprofit based in Arlington, Virginia, requires teachers who want to be certified as online educators to receive 30 hours of face-to-face and online training that can take up to nine weeks, plus six months to curate a portfolio. “The It has to be modeled.”.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 3, 2018

Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Future of Learning newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every Tuesday with trends and top stories about education innovation. Ann Marie Lynam, seventh-grade social studies teacher, Baldwin Schools, Long Island. Higher Education.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

In the middle of all this activity, seventh-grader Jacob Higuera sat alone with his laptop, intently typing out a social studies assignment. It was only the fifth day of school, but he was already getting used to this unconventional classroom setup. Miranda Virgil, seventh-grade math teacher at Canyon Ridge Elementary School.

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Cult of Pedagogy

MAY 29, 2024

Tier 6: Test Pulling Nate When I was in high school, I cheated on a social studies test. Extra work with symbols: Students with dyslexia or other language-based learning differences may struggle with the vocabulary of math, calling an inequality sign by its elementary school name, “the alligator mouth thingy.”

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 29, 2019

Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Future of Learning newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every Wednesday with trends and top stories about education innovation. Higher Education. The school tour isn’t the district’s first foray into creating its own virtual reality. Weekly Update.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 24, 2023

In early April 2023, I started getting emails and messages urging me to take a look at a fresh reading study in Colorado. The study, a working paper that has not yet been peer-reviewed, came to two dramatic conclusions. schools, especially those that serve low-income children, have moved in the opposite direction. However, U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2020

He breezily navigates the internet and educational platforms his school uses. Many schools embrace technology in the classroom as a route to these students’ hearts. They see kids devouring video games and living on social media and find it obvious that they would also like educational technology.

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ED Surge

MAY 8, 2023

But Barclay — a former Virginia math educator of the year — thought back to his own experience with a discouraging middle school teacher and decided to think through what the student was saying rather than dismiss it. So I’ve been wondering: What do we know about the science behind good math education? Or even newer math ?)

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 25, 2023

The term refers to schools that are collaboratively designed and run by teams of teachers, who have the freedom and authority to make decisions on everything from curriculum to budget and personnel. Today, Education Evolving identifies roughly 300 schools that follow the teacher-powered model. “In

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 28, 2019

Nevada and Michigan will join them in the upcoming 2019-20 school year. The hope is that if kids can become proficient in reading early on, they’ll be much more likely to succeed in all of their subjects, from science to social studies, because students need to know how to read to learn the material. Higher Education.

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