The Hechinger Report

MARCH 11, 2024

In 2019, a group of researchers, led by James Kim, a professor at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Education, randomly selected 15 of the district’s 30 elementary schools to teach first graders special knowledge-building lessons for three years, through third grade. Regular reading class was untouched in the experiment.

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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. Nearly every district struggled to find high school math teachers.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 27, 2020

and Rosa Parks at her Katy, Texas, elementary school in the Houston area. They are advocating for core curriculum changes in social studies — specifically American history — classes. In June, with Sarah Frayer, an elementary school teacher and instructional coach in Washington, D.C.,

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 20, 2020

NEW YORK — Social studies teacher Karen Rose stepped out of New Rochelle High School last month for what will likely be the last time. Along with Rose, I contacted a middle and an elementary school teacher to see how they are faring. How will we graduate?” said Glick. “I Photo: Courtesy of Karen Rose.

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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. Related: Elementary school teachers struggle with Common Core math standards.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 19, 2024

Elementary school students in grades two to six were making slow progress, and remained behind. One high school math teacher told me that she thinks learning failed to recover and continued to deteriorate because schools didn’t rush to fill the gaps right away. These kids just missed 18 months of school.

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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

AUGUST 29, 2019

Leave this field empty if you're human: Danvers, a town about 20 miles north of Boston, has five small elementary schools. The switch to the town’s bigger middle school – where, for the first time, students walk the halls on their own between classes – can be a little scary. Weekly Update. Future of Learning. Higher Education.

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Floyd County and Pikeville educators participated in a series of South Fayette School District classroom visits to observe students work and learn more about computing pathways. At the elementary school, the teams tinkered with the interactive digital stories children created using Scratch, a block-based programming language.

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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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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 20, 2021

That same day, six other students across the district were written up for not wearing their masks correctly (including one who also faked using hand sanitizer), while an elementary school student was assigned three days of “private dining” for sharing food in violation of safety guidelines. Credit: Brian Westlake.

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Digital Promise

MARCH 10, 2015

Fulton County Schools. “We’re not getting the results we’re hoping to see from our digital content in middle school social studies and science. It seems like it’s really built for high school students. “We first piloted an adaptive math program with elementary school students.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 1, 2020

In the past, this bar has been too high for many would-be teachers, especially those who come from high-need areas. And, as is the case nationwide, enrollment in the state’s schools of education has declined , despite shortages. Adrienne Hudson, executive director of RISE, a Delta-based nonprofit.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 25, 2023

I’m a former high school teacher, and professors have a lot more say in the decisions that impact their jobs,” he said. Schools vary, but in schools where teachers have more voice, there is better retention.” We are really experiencing a teacher shortage here in Minnesota,” said Bakken. Phung Ninh is one.

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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. Weekly Update.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 6, 2022

The consequences can extend beyond high school, researchers have found , with suspensions linked to lower college enrollment rates and increased involvement with the criminal justice system. Dysart High School students describe routine suspensions for getting to school late. Credit: Isaac Stone Simonelli/AZCIR.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 20, 2017

Traci Chun, a teacher-librarian at Skyview High School in Vancouver, Washington, and junior Ulises Santillano Tlaseca troubleshoot a 3D printing job in the library’s maker space. Traci Chun, a teacher-librarian at Skyview High School in Vancouver, Washington, is all done with shushing. Photo: Kelsey Aske.

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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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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 14, 2016

Beginning in fall 2014, the students and teachers at Burbank Elementary School in Hayward, California, embarked on a new and ambitious program to integrate arts across the curriculum. Through ConnectED, all 89 LCPS schools were able to get their own ArcGIS Online Organization from Esri. Here are just a few of their stories.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 23, 2019

on day four of the strike, Nadia Morales, a counselor at Los Angeles High School, and Pedro Martinez, a social-studies teacher at Eagle Rock High School, prepare their children for the day. It is impossible not to ask such questions at LA High. Before, schools were just academic. At 7 a.m.,

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2020

Now nearly 400 schools use it across 40 states. Nearly 400 schools use the Summit Learning Program across 40 states. Since 2017, Summit has revised its middle and high school curriculum and teachers routinely say it’s high-quality. But at Rhodes, Christie doesn’t hear complaints like that. It’s a mindset shift.”.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2018

Science could be considered the perfect elementary school subject. Young children are “super curious,” said Matt Krehbiel, director of science for Achieve, a nonprofit organization dedicated to helping students graduate high school ready to start college or to pursue a career. “We Plus, it’s interesting.

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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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ED Surge

MAY 8, 2023

Although it’s not as obviously contentious as say, social studies, educators and researchers (not to mention students and families) have strong feelings about math instruction (remember New Math ? She’s found that teachers have high levels of math anxiety. Or even newer math ?)

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

The program will be piloted this fall at selected schools and fully rolled-out in over 1,800 schools by the spring. The curriculum is part of the Hidden Voices Project , initiated by the New York City Department of Education’s Social Studies Department and the Museum of the City of New York. society. “At

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 6, 2017

Notably: In reviews of 17 middle school math programs , just one was deemed standards-aligned across grades six to eight. Of the 14 elementary school math programs, only two products were found to be standards-aligned across grades K-5, again both published by nonprofits.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 21, 2022

But last February, Ophelia received her first dose; she was excited about starting kindergarten at West Whitesburg Elementary School this fall. The damage to that school was so extensive that its roughly 430 students were moved into Letcher County Central High School. 10 to Sept.

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ED Surge

APRIL 23, 2024

years of my career at Weehawken High School, where I taught Algebra I (students in grades seven to nine) and AP Calculus (grades 11-12). years, I have been teaching Algebra I and geometry for grades nine and 10 at Becton Regional High School. I spent the first 3.5 For the past 1.5

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ED Surge

APRIL 24, 2023

Born and raised in Alaska, Cardoza enrolled in college right after high school to pursue a career in dentistry. She enrolled in an online undergraduate program to pursue her bachelor’s degree, with plans to become a high school social studies teacher. She left after a year, realizing it wasn’t a good fit.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 6, 2017

Brian Stack is the principal of Sanborn Regional High School in Kingston, N.H. But the state line does make a difference in the schools. “At Stack is the principal of Sanborn Regional High School in Kingston, New Hampshire. Inside Sanborn Regional High School in Kingston, N.H.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 22, 2018

A 2011 study by University of Massachusetts researchers had also found standardized test-score gains by students in two EL schools in Rochester, New York, compared with peers in other city schools. The sentiment is echoed by Jason Krause, principal of Denver’s Columbine Elementary School, which joined the EL network in 2018.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2019

The atrium of Whitmore Lake High School, part of a nearly $48 million capital campaign approved by voters in 2006. In the predawn hours, around a curve, the community’s high school, a modern brick and glass edifice, beams out of the darkness. In the elementary school, art classes were cut.

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Studies Weekly

JULY 9, 2024

Poor readers are more likely to drop out of high school, earn less money as adults, and become involved in the criminal justice system,” Goldstein said in the New York Times article. This is where Studies Weekly can help. Get a Studies Weekly free trial today! My lower readers have a much harder time reading those texts.”

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 6, 2016

Jen Williams, who after over a decade as a first grade teacher is now coaching fellow teachers at Juan Cabrillo Elementary School, says some teachers were nervous to have her oversee their classrooms. But now they are asking me ‘can you come in and watch my social studies lesson?’”.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

For Johnson, the school was a bid to cultivate the greatness she saw in these local kids, including her own daughters. They were so bright, so eager, and yet if the current statistics held, 25 percent would not graduate from high school. The surrounding Coahoma schools also began consolidating in March. he Brown v.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

High school teacher Harley Brook has pondered using the books on this shelf as weapons in the case of an active shooter scenario. Harley Brook is about to enter his 12th year of teaching English at a public high school near Chicago. Lockdown instructions posted in Nivia Vizurraga’s elementary school classroom.

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 4, 2017

There are also resources for students of all ages — preschool and kindergarten , elementary school , middle school , and high school — and for projects across all disciplines, from math to social studies. IRL: Meetups with Scratch Educators. Looking for more interaction? Try a ScratchEd meetup.

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