The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Math teachers at high-poverty schools tended to have weaker professional preparation. Some researchers have suggested paying strong math teachers more to work at high-poverty schools, but that would also require the renegotiation of union contracts in many cities. Do it before middle school,” said Goldhaber.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 13, 2024

Like many high school chemistry teachers, Angie Hackman instructs students on atoms, matter and, she says, how they “influence the world around us.” But very few schools currently integrate effective literacy practices into content classes, according to experts on reading.

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MARCH 26, 2015

This year’s Model Schools Conference is going to be worlds apart from the traditional education conference. It can be easy to leave a conference with a tote bag full of materials and new jargon, but very little else.

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ED Surge

MARCH 26, 2025

The summer before I entered the fourth grade, my mother informed me that I would be attending a new school in my same community with one caveat: it was a class in the gifted and talented education (GATE) program. Before that moment, I was blending in with my peers and navigating the typical challenges of elementary school.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Franklin/Associated Press Students miss school for reasons ranging from anxiety to unstable living conditions, said Jason Jones, a cultural success coach at San Carlos High School. AP's analysis does not include data on schools managed by the U.S. Bureau of Indian Education, which are not run by traditional districts.

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TeachThought

APRIL 4, 2024

Researc h: The Influence Of Socioeconomic Status In Elementary School Kieffer (2010) organized a study on upper elementary students focusing on reading levels of English language learners (ELLs) and native English speakers. Even though schools have integrated racially, they have become segregated by SES.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 7, 2017

A group of sophomore boys weaving baskets in an art class wish their school assigned more tests instead of oral presentations. If the activity seems a little too silly for high school, that’s by design. The leaders of City Neighbors High School have purposely included some time each day for kids to just be kids.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 21, 2025

Jami Rhue thought her first stint as a school librarian would be a quick detour in her career as a classroom teacher. But by the time she was heading up her own elementary school classroom in Chicago, she found herself missing the library and longing to teach media literacy again. So it was back to the bookshelves for her.

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TeachThought

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Don’t Use Physical Education As Punishment contributed by Dr. Kymm Ballard, Executive Director for SPARK Think about any time you’ve seen “army boot camp” portrayed in pop culture — are you picturing the traditional drill sergeant, ordering his troops to do endless laps and push-ups, as punishment for their errors that day?

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

Read the whole series, “ Willing, able and forgotten: How high schools fail special ed students,” here. But instead of graduating from Bartlett High School in Anchorage, Alaska, in four years, he took six. After high school, he did odd jobs for several years. Sign up for our newsletter.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 28, 2025

More elementary school students may be better at decoding words, but they have to make sense of those words to do well on the NAEP. That’s a big deal. It’s something that we hadn’t paid a lot of attention to traditionally. Carr cited the example of Louisiana as proof that it is possible to turn things around.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

BOSTON — When the Boston Public Schools opened the Margarita Muñiz Academy in 2012, it was a first-of-its kind dual-language high school meant to address issues faced by the city’s growing Hispanic population. We get them in high school, not when they’re little,” Vázquez says. “We

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Agua Fria Union High School District had just 6 percent of in-school suspension days assigned because of attendance problems in 2021-22, compared with 40 percent in 2017-18. Take, for instance, Glendale Union High School District. Agua Fria Union High School District, meanwhile, moved in the opposite direction.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 12, 2023

Whittenberg Elementary School of Engineering groaned in disappointment when they saw the runny mess. Whittenberg Elementary School of Engineering prepare to drop a paper bag with an egg inside off a railing at the school during engineering week. . — The brown paper bag hit the ground with a smack.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 10, 2022

At Western Maricopa Education Center (West-MEC), a Career and Technical Education (CTE) school district in Arizona, high school students and adult learners go through rigorous programs to become ready for in-demand careers. Each year, West-MEC allocates a significant amount of money to our two elementary school districts.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 5, 2018

Laci Hargrove, 18, who fell short of the high school credits she needed to graduate, moved straight from high school to a HiSET-prep program that also provides her with needed social supports. When Laci Hargrove turned 16, she was a sophomore in high school with nowhere near the credits she needed for her grade level.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

While more than half of high schools nationwide—53 percent, to be precise—offer computer science, disparities in access and participation reveal themselves among traditionally underrepresented groups. Girls, for instance, make up just one-third of high school computer science students nationally.

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Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

Talladega County Schools is partnering with the Alabama Math, Science, and Technology Initiative (AMSTI) to deepen teachers’ content knowledge in STEM education and promote strong pedagogical and technological skills for student instruction. Forging meaningful partnerships with institutions of higher education.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 23, 2017

Every senior spends a month working outside of school at full-time internships throughout Chicago. Blanton, a high school senior, was interning for the firm’s information technology group. Linnea Garrett, Chicago Technology Academy school director. Photo: Chris Berdik for The Hechinger Report. A staff shake-up ensued.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 19, 2024

When I was in elementary school, my father, a master carpenter and math enthusiast, played a significant role in shaping my love and curiosity for math. I was fortunate to discover applied statistics in graduate school. Related: Become a lifelong learner. Sadly, I was learning to hate math, despite my early love for it.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 16, 2021

Welcome to Community Lab School, a tiny public charter that is trying to transform the way middle schoolers are taught in the Albemarle School District — and eventually the nation. Traditional middle schools are very authoritarian, controlling environments.” Chad Ratliff, principal of Community Lab School.

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 4, 2015

Students start with block-based code in early elementary, before transitioning to text-based code in middle school, where they can start to develop their own apps. By high school, students use these skills in courses including entrepreneurship and Advanced Placement computer science.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 22, 2020

The 18 percent disadvantage for Black candidates was calculated after controlling for education, years of experience, type of school (elementary, middle or high school) and location (city, suburb or rural area). Women were also much less likely to get promoted to principal at high schools, the authors found.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 14, 2020

It’s “flipped” because it’s the opposite of the traditional structure in which students first learn from a teacher’s in-class instruction. classrooms, from city college campuses to suburban elementary schools. There’s less rigorous research in high schools and lower grades.

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Cult of Pedagogy

APRIL 1, 2024

Program 1: Educators Rising Educators Rising is a national grow-your-own program that nurtures middle and high school students who want to become teachers. Through school-based chapters, EdRising gives students training and clinical teaching experience before they ever set foot on a college campus. .

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 10, 2020

Avery Bencal is a fourth grader at Winthrop Elementary School in Melrose, Massachusetts. This cozy suburb just outside of Boston is home to an idyllic New England downtown and schools that are good enough to draw young families in droves. At no point in recent memory has Melrose Public Schools been failing.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 26, 2022

Over the past few months, Nathan Roberts has witnessed dozens of substitute teachers stumble through their first days at Penny Creek Elementary School. Nathan Roberts, a full-time substitute at Penny Creek Elementary School, teaches a class of kindergarteners how to count. Credit: Image provided by Everett Public Schools.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Brian Lusk, the district’s chief of strategic initiatives, said school leaders wanted to ensure that all students were prepared to make informed decisions about their paths in high school and beyond. Equity is important to us,” he said. There are practical reasons to start sooner, too. Students seem to agree.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 31, 2023

This story also appeared in The Boston Globe Mejía and her husband, Spanish-speaking immigrants from the Dominican Republic, only later learned that Joangel, now 7, would have been an ideal candidate for one of the four elementary schools in Boston that teach students in both English and Spanish, Joangel’s first language.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 14, 2019

I was trained and licensed to be a music teacher in the traditional American way. Almost all of what I just described was traditional. Incredibly traditional. I first was assigned to an elementary school in a middle-class suburb of Philadelphia. My classes included all varieties of instruments.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 19, 2021

Isabel Majdoch, 17, is enrolled in pre-calculus as a high school senior and is headed to Florida Polytechnic University next year. Her mother said the grounding in math reasoning that Isabel got in elementary school has helped. These days, her high school daughters are doing well in Algebra 2 and pre-calculus.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 3, 2023

Yet, despite the gains I made with my students, despite research that shows the substantial positive impact of teachers of color on all students, despite the fact that having just one Black teacher in elementary school makes a Black child 13 percent more likely to go to college , my career nearly ended shortly after it began.

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Digital Promise

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

And we also recognize a need to look beyond traditional measures of academic success to consider the whole child. We found that 81% of El Segundo high school students reported feeling stress on a daily basis. A strategy wall at Richmond Street Elementary School to help students develop their emotional intelligence skills.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 13, 2022

Nearly every classroom at Story Creek Elementary School offers sweeping views of the snow-capped Rocky Mountains that surround the Gallatin Valley here in southwest Montana. A bulldozer sits idle during a break on construction of new homes near Story Creek Elementary School in Belgrade, Mont. BELGRADE, Mont.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 19, 2021

It’s a scene that is replicated across the seven elementary schools and two high schools in this agricultural community of around 13,500 in California’s Central Valley. Students in a transitional kindergarten class at Washington Elementary, a K-8 school in the Lindsay Unified district, work in small groups.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 13, 2022

These states provide a window into the patchwork approach across the South that allows those without traditional training to lead a classroom. In addition, 10 percent were teaching out of field, which means, for example, they may be certified to teach high school English but assigned to a middle school math class. .

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ED Surge

JANUARY 19, 2022

Ray Salazar has been teaching high school Journalism and English in Chicago Public Schools for over twenty years. Over 40 percent of students report that they’re sleeping less, and close to 3 in 5 students say they’re more stressed about school than they were before. But educators disagree about how they should respond.

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