The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 1, 2019

NEW ORLEANS — Clutching a small purse, six-year-old Leona Tate walked into McDonogh 19 Elementary School here and helped to desegregate the South. The story’s breadth is rarely explained, said Tate, who wants visitors to McDonogh 19 to learn the history, within the very space where history was made. “I Board decision.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 13, 2024

Related: Retraining an entire state’s elementary school teachers in the science of reading In recent years, school systems have begun to make changes. Some individual school districts are taking steps to integrate literacy into content instruction, too. It gives me understanding of what’s going on,” Omar said.

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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. In the remote village of Nanwalek, Alaska, the K-12 school was planning to improve its slow, satellite-provided Internet connection.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 3, 2023

The discussion tackled plenty of thorny issues facing K-12 and college instructors these days, including how to respond to pressures to ban books in schools, how to make classrooms a welcoming place for debate as schools and colleges grow more diverse, and how to respond to misinformation that students bring to classroom conversations.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 16, 2019

And indeed, 51 percent of David Douglas high school students currently enrolled in a music class qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, compared to 66 percent at the high school as a whole. Typically, high schools have lower poverty levels than elementary schools because parents are older and able to earn more.).

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 18, 2019

Native American parents at Havasupai Elementary School in Arizona are suing the federal government and the Bureau of Indian Education for failing to educate their children, practicing excessive exclusionary discipline, violently restraining students and denying the community’s federally protected right to participate in school decision-making.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 21, 2017

On Twitter, users add lessons and resources to the #CharlottesvilleSyllabus and #CharlottesvilleCurriculum pages; everything from identity charts to readings on the history of white supremacy to conflict resolution activities. This work needs to begin in elementary school, where students’ ideas about their place in the world are shaped.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 17, 2019

I became a teacher because of the influence and mentorship of Mr. Murray and Mr. Simms, two elementary-school teachers in Detroit. Today, more than half of K-12 students in the United States are students of color , yet four out of five teachers are white. More than 75 percent of teachers are women.

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Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

Matthew Wheelock Innovation Program Director, University of Virginia Curry School of Education. K-12 students in the Charlottesville area are served by Charlottesville Public Schools, Albemarle County Public Schools, and many other independently affiliated schools.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 6, 2016

Derrick Fields, 9, works on his assignment during a Spanish-language history lesson at Sherman Elementary School in San Diego, California. Last spring, Derrick Fields, 9, sat in his social studies classroom at Sherman Elementary School, learning about the creation of the telegraph. Photo: Lillian Mongeau.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

It didn’t matter that he’d likely never have to teach the geometry concepts that kept tripping him up (Anderson hoped to teach elementary school). In 2021, AACTE conducted a landscape analysis examining the history of these assessments and found that their impact on teachers of color has been profound and persistent for decades.

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ED Surge

MARCH 31, 2023

I’ve even made the case that for some students, a music, art, dance or drama class might be the only thing bringing them to school each day. All of these points are true, but they fall short of explaining why the arts truly belong in every student’s K-12 curriculum. How Did We Get Here? Kennedy’s support for the arts in America.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

million students go to public schools in rural areas , more than the combined total of the nation’s 85 largest school districts. Rural students tend to do well in elementary school, but something changes as they get older. In Campo School District No. More than 9.3 The small town of Campo, Colo.,

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 20, 2017

Chun’s district is at the forefront of a national movement to turn K-12 librarians into indispensable digital mavens who can help classroom teachers craft tech-savvy lesson plans, teach kids to think critically about online research, and remake libraries into lively, high-tech hubs of collaborative learning — while still helping kids get books.

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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. Fryer convinced the Houston school district to randomly assign 23 elementary schools to adopt specialized teaching for two years, from the fall of 2013 to the spring of 2015.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 20, 2017

Far too many schools preach, rather than practice, democratic ideals. From elementary school on, we are told both implicitly and explicitly that our opinions either shouldn’t or can’t be voiced. Related: Inside the oil industry’s not-so-subtle push into K-12 education.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

There are critics who contend that instilling social values in students is the purview of parents not schools, and others who fear that SEL could easily be used as yet another way to punish low-income students of color who don’t conform to behavioral norms. The school serves grades pre-K to 12, providing a cohesive educational experience.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 12, 2018

Similar to Lang’s approach, the Ariel Foundation offered support, mentoring, and paying the cost of postsecondary education for a cohort of sixth-graders at a Chicago elementary school. The vast majority of these youth graduated from high school, which Duncan describes as “intensely gratifying.”

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 1, 2016

. — This fall, students at Enterprise Attendance Center in the small city of Brookhaven may get to draw, paint and make crafts in an elementary art class — the first the school has had in 12 years. In Mississippi, she said, there is debate about how much more resources schools require, but few dispute that there is a need. “We

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 21, 2016

students graduating from the K-12 system are college and career ready, Common Core has ramped up academic expectations that schools everywhere, including those in Kentucky, are still far from meeting. Sonja Brookins Santelises, vice president of K-12 policy at the Education Trust. based research group.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 9, 2018

Throughout elementary school, I was always known as the girl who talked a lot and turned simple conversations into debates. On a piece a paper, I wrote “Black History Month.” ” I asked my peers to sign it if they agreed that we should celebrate Black History Month at our school. About voting?

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 19, 2016

Derrick Fields, 9, works on his assignment during a Spanish-language history lesson at Sherman Elementary School in San Diego, California. Last spring, Derrick Fields, 9, sat in his social studies classroom at Sherman Elementary School, learning about the creation of the telegraph. Photo: Lillian Mongeau.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 17, 2019

In a survey, 12% of community college and 9% of university students reported they were homeless. “I’ve The program at UWT was spearheaded by student government leaders who reached out to the housing authority and K?z The housing authority pays K?z I’ve been doing awesome ever since,” said Gorder. “I

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

“Overall, [seeing their progress] helps the kids to take accountability for their own learning, which is huge, because not only does that benefit them in school, but in life.”. Miranda Virgil, seventh-grade math teacher at Canyon Ridge Elementary School. Right now, most do not. Photo: Jamie Martines.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

The study, Evaluating Information: The Cornerstone of Civic Online Reasoning , was produced by researchers at the Stanford Graduate School of Education. The researchers created 56 tasks for students in 12 states, and collected 7,804 student responses from January 2015 until June 2016.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 28, 2022

But after the episode at the hospital, the threat assessment team determined that AJ was an ongoing safety threat due to a history of “concerning behaviors,” according to the state investigation, which was prompted by a complaint Richmond filed with the Colorado Department of Education. The district decided to ban him from in-person classes.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 11, 2018

Border Crossers trainers Ben Howort and Ana Duque are both former elementary school teachers. The C3 framework — the three Cs refer to college, career and civic life — includes curriculums in civics, economics, geography and history. Photo: Sarah Gonser for The Hechinger Report. “I Photo: Sarah Gonser for The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 27, 2018

For this experiment, the researchers spent years developing four separate project-based units on history, geography, economics and civics. In a history unit, teachers and students can choose which historical sites to write about in their postcards. This version could feel too restrictive for some educators.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 30, 2020

They argued that “decades of state disinvestment and deliberate indifference” had left students struggling to read and attending “schools in name only.”. At one elementary school, third-graders had only picture books to look at until their teacher bought books to read.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

Related: Confessions of an all-white teacher in an urban school. Their photos this week are showing a mix of children from all different ethnic backgrounds, no easy task to achieve in New York City, where close to half the elementary schools are 90 percent black and Hispanic.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 28, 2019

“The United States is in the midst of the second largest immigration wave in its history.” Nationally, there are almost 5 million English learners in public schools, making up almost 10 percent of the public school population, according to the most recent federal data from 2015.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 13, 2019

Women at William Franz Elementary School yell at police officers during a protest against desegregation at the school, as three black youngsters attended classes at the school for the second day. Related: In a city still struggling with segregation, a popular charter school fights to remain diverse.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 3, 2018

At nearby Plaza Elementary School, kindergarten teacher Tricia Wilder opted for more flexible seating in her redesigned classroom and a “theater nook” that creates the space for kids to act out stories from their favorite books or scenes from the history that they learn about in class.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 14, 2019

I took multiple semesters of musical technique, history and theory as well as music education methods. I first was assigned to an elementary school in a middle-class suburb of Philadelphia. Then I got to a middle school in the same district in a neighborhood with kids who were less economically advantaged.

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Zinn Education Project

MARCH 29, 2024

Now my students know that if I am wearing my BLM shirt or Black History Matters shirt at school it is not a performative act — it means that they can hold me accountable to what I have done in and out of class to show that I am living up to that belief. history, racism, and LGBTQ+ identity. history, racism, and LGBTQ+ identity.

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Studies Weekly

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Grades K-3) February 26, 2024 The post Jigsaw Strategy first appeared on Studies Weekly. Jigsaw Strategy Oct. February 26, 2024 Lesson 5: Who Can Run For Office February 26, 2024 Lesson 6: How Do We Choose Leaders?

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 3, 2018

But even back when every school taught civics and American history, very few students attained adult literacy. Others blame schools and teachers for “failing” our kids, but the data suggest otherwise. Many people believe that social media and smartphones have diminished our reading abilities. Mississippi Learning.

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