The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2023

Jenna Gros jangles as she walks the halls of Wyandotte Elementary School in St Mary’s Parish, Louisiana. Brusly Elementary School has 595 students, ranging from ages two to seven. Jenna Gros, head custodian at Wyandotte Elementary School in St Mary’s Parish, Louisiana, stops to tie a student’s shoe.

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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. I took multiple semesters of musical technique, history and theory as well as music education methods. Almost all of what I just described was traditional. Incredibly traditional. My classes included all varieties of instruments.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 3, 2023

So my big concern for what's happening to the teaching of literature has to do with the people that I call my ‘thinking partners’ all over the country — secondary teachers, middle school teachers, even elementary school teachers, who are really under threat. And in high school I wasn't taught those things.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 27, 2018

“This study shows that a well-designed project-based curriculum might be more effective than traditional instruction.” But because schools are moving ahead quickly to adopt project-based learning, I wanted to highlight some of the important takeaways. Jackie Mader/The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 18, 2019

These Native American children are learning to play double ball , a traditional indigenous game, or at least that seems to be the focus of their activity. For example, a school district in Montana is being investigated by the U.S. Like, playing double ball — that’s a traditional game. As Native people, we were always like that.

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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. The Campo school district’s small classrooms let teachers get to know their students well.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 25, 2022

So when schools called us during the summer of 2021, they often asked whether they should stick with the schedules they created for distance, hybrid or safer in-person learning or return to a more traditional format. Despite having students back in school and on campus, this school year remains complex and anything but normal.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 21, 2024

After starting elementary school in the late 1960s, Naomi Hirahara and three other girls formed a clique called the C.L.A.N., In Pasadena, Dufford said, it has been tradition for established families not to send their children to public schools. “So Is it that our public schools are predominantly Black and Brown children?”

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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

JUNE 8, 2023

Hindi, the medium of instruction there, is easier for Awadhi speakers to comprehend than the Nepali used at the local school. I know all the Indian political history,” he says. “I Related: Once criticized, ‘Spanglish’ finds a place in the classroom Non-Nepali speakers consistently underperform at school.

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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. Photo: Jamie Martines.

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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

JULY 31, 2021

For millions of students, this is a summer like no other in the history of American public education. The last day of the school year was followed by just a brief pause before classes started again for a wide range of programs financed by more than a billion dollars in federal funds under the American Rescue Plan. Lee en Español.

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ED Surge

APRIL 18, 2023

Picture a high school student who balances his studies with a variety of other responsibilities and activities. Maybe he walks his younger siblings to their elementary school each morning, demonstrating a knack for caregiving. Maybe he works at a part-time job when the school day ends, showing his diligence and drive.

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Dr. Shannon Doak

JANUARY 18, 2019

Do you remember reading those great books in elementary school that let you choose what happened next? It can also incorporate variables, which encompass the traditional trappings of games such as hit points and score. A great place to start is at the Twine Wiki. Example of the code used to link story parts.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 3, 2018

So far almost two dozen classrooms have new designs, along with common spaces in each of the district’s seven schools. Shari Camhi, Baldwin’s superintendent, invited staff members to apply to redesign their classrooms last year as a strategy for bringing more innovative instruction to the district. “It

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2021

But research shows that many of these ideas have had a spotty track record in the past and that schools will have to pay close attention to what’s worked—and what hasn’t—to maximize their odds for success with just about any strategy. There’s no silver bullet. No catch-up strategy can possibly benefit all students. LOOKING AHEAD.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 7, 2017

For anyone who’s spent time in an early childhood classroom, the idea that school should be as much about making friends and having fun as learning the alphabet will sound familiar. Preschools and elementary schools across the U.S have long copied ideas from Reggio Emilia, but now more high schools are copying them, too.

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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. Kalama Intermediate School.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 22, 2018

The EL motto, “We are crew, not passengers,” is a quote from Kurt Hahn, the German Jewish educator who fled the Nazis in the 1930s and went on to start Outward Bound, which co-founded the Expeditionary Learning network (later renamed EL Education) in partnership with Harvard’s Graduate School of Education in 1991.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 23, 2019

Morales started out as an elementary-school teacher, then switched to academic counseling, which she’s done at LA High for the past eleven years; Martinez worked there, too, teaching history and social studies, until six years ago, when he was transferred to another high school in the district.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 17, 2018

That limits the salary she can earn at a community center like the Y and prohibits her from working in the higher-paying public pre-kindergarten sector, where the qualifications required of a preschool teacher are similar to those needed to teach elementary school. Pinto is one of 539 students receiving the scholarship this year.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 8, 2018

At the beginning of the 2017-18 school year, freshman history teacher Matt Stuckey, one of the school’s most experienced personalized-learning practitioners, told students that change wouldn’t happen all at once. Some days, it’s going to feel like what school felt like last year,” Stuckey told them. points higher.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

Students participate in morning workshops in advance of national May 1 “Day Without Immigrants” rallies, learning also about the labor rights history of May Day rallies worldwide. But at Muñiz, she was learning subjects like history and math in Spanish. Photo: Tara García Mathewson/The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Sharahn Santana , African American history and English teacher at Parkway Northwest High School. I was invited to come speak at school board … my message was primarily a message of gratitude to the school board … even though there was a long line of speakers who wanted to say how terrible a mask mandate was for our children.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MARCH 24, 2016

The burdens that come with being retained are borne primarily by those students whom already are traditionally-disadvantaged by existing schooling practices. If you want to ensure that students don’t leave elementary school illiterate, hire a personal tutor for academically-struggling 4th graders. Thinking about charter schools.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 15, 2022

Kami Karr , senior at Redmond High School. Even when we were in elementary school, like with the stock market crash, everyone moved. And then you get into middle school, and then, like, the internet starts becoming a thing. Sharahn Santana, African American history and English teacher at Parkway Northwest High School.

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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.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 30, 2018

A 2015 RAND study , which looked at 62 schools that had received various Gates Foundation-funded grants for personalized learning, found gains of 11 percentile points in math and 8 in reading. Pane predicts that if the personalized learning trend continues, it could upend traditional notions of what a classroom looks like. “I

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 25, 2016

Other stories will look at how the decline of traditional preparation programs has cut off a pipeline of black teachers and two efforts to identify more potential teachers from low-income, minority neighborhoods. When you look at the history of this nation, inequity has affected African-American students the longest,” said Delgado.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 2, 2016

Jones came to Starkville High in 2015 from East Oktibbeha County High School. Throughout Mississippi, where there are still 43 open desegregation orders, the process of integrating schools traditionally pitted the courts and the DOJ against school districts. Photo: Nicole Lewis.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

Johnson feels about Friday,” she told the students as she paced around the cafeteria in an “I am black history” shirt. “If In Louisiana, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Texas, dozens of taxpayer-funded public charters enroll far more white students than any of the traditional public schools in their areas.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

Rather than being challenged, he was allowed to use a teacher-made study guide while taking exams at his California high school. One time, a teacher gave his special education world history class all of the answers to their final exam. He said he never had to study or actually learn anything to get an A.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 18, 2016

Even as poverty rates have grown in the district of about 5,000 students, Clinton has consistently remained an academic powerhouse in a state where many schools are still separate and unequal. Related: In Mississippi schools, access to technology lacking, uneven. Beth Raney, parent in Clinton.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 23, 2016

On Monday, a petite black girl in the play yard of the Redcliffe Nursery School, a publicly funded program located on the grounds of a housing project, twisted a big wooden swing hanging from a tree, then she let it go and watched it spin. The child does not speak English at home, she said. He’s never brought a book to show me.”

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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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Thrive in Grade Five

FEBRUARY 2, 2019

Be careful when teaching the history of the United States. We need to emphasize that Native American groups were (and are still) unique with distinct language, beliefs, traditions, and dress. Alison Black, the Director of Indian Education for a public school district in Oklahoma, says, “Tribal sovereignty is a huge issue.

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