Digital Promise

AUGUST 15, 2018

My colleague Chad sees those opportunities through an edu-entrepreneurial lens, always looking at what learning need isn’t being met and how to shape a response to the human needs inside our schools; in doing so, it shifts power from teacher to learners.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 20, 2021

In fact, elementary school educators have some of the highest levels of math anxiety compared with other fields of study. More than 90 percent of elementary school teachers are female. Thus, math anxiety greets our students as soon as they enter school. It is true of parents and it is true of teachers.

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Edthena

MARCH 25, 2025

. “Classroom observational videos are a very helpful tool for improving teaching skills and yet assessing them is an incredibly time-consuming task,” said Peter Youngs , principal investigator of the grant and professor at the UVA School of Education and Human Development. This project builds on proven research.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Adding outdoor classrooms to elementary schools. With a set amount of instructional time each day, elementary schools are less likely to significantly shift class time to science because most states do not have accountability measures tied to science as they do for reading and math.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Elementary school teachers often face a significant challenge when it comes to teaching math: their own discomfort with numbers. As our early childhood reporter Ariel Gilreath recently reported, elementary school teachers often struggle with teaching this subject. Sign up for our early childhood newsletter.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 31, 2020

O’Neal Elementary School, in Elgin, Illinois, none of the third graders could read and write at grade level according to state tests in 2019. Just nine miles away sits Centennial Elementary School, where 73 percent of third graders met grade-level standards on that same test. At Ronald D. Credit: Brian Hill/Daily Herald.

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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

DECEMBER 18, 2017

Principals lack the experience and expertise in early childhood education that is needed as pre-K programs expand in public elementary schools and that could inhibit their ability to manage and support pre-K teachers, according to a new report. A preschool student writes in class. Photo: Jackie Mader/The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 12, 2023

Email Address Choose from our newsletters Weekly Update Future of Learning Higher Education Early Childhood Proof Points Leave this field empty if you’re human: Late last month, Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey ousted the state’s early ed director over a teacher training manual that mentioned bias, privilege and racism.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 18, 2021

Researchers at Penn State analyzed 10,000 students and found that kindergarteners in low-income families and Black kindergarteners of all incomes had a higher propensity to be heavy users of technology by the end of elementary school. For example, a 2019 study found that social media use doesn’t harm adolescent well-being.

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 4, 2015

Computational thinking is typically associated with coding and computer programming, but it’s also more than that, involving “solving problems, designing systems, and understanding human behavior,” according to Carnegie Mellon University. A few high school students created an after-school coding class for other students.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 16, 2021

“This is an opportunity to think about what we want middle school to look like, rather than just going back to the status quo,” said Nancy L. Scientists have long known that the human brain develops more rapidly between birth and the age of 3 than at any other time in life. The Adolescent Brain.

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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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Teaching American History

JANUARY 28, 2025

The plan the Court eventually endorsed unanimously for Charlotteafter much negotiation among the judgesused a combination of newly organized magnet schools and long bus rides to achieve integration. I was only dimly aware that my father served on the local Human Relations Committee.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 20, 2020

Their premise is simple: By partnering with families and community-based organizations, community schools tackle challenges like hunger and homelessness and seek to support students’ mental and physical health. 1425 Walton Avenue, once home to P.S. 64, now houses the Walton Avenue School and Lucero Elementary School.

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ED Surge

MARCH 13, 2024

Over the past nine months, our editors have had the privilege of collaborating with a group of eight talented educators and school leaders who bravely reflected on their lived experiences and shared their truths through a collection of powerful personal essays as part of the EdSurge Voices of Change writing fellowship.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 20, 2020

Literacy experts have long known that reading to toddlers, even babies, can make a big difference in children’s reading abilities later in elementary school. Eliminating human intermediaries also keeps costs low. Credit: Shannon Finney/Getty Images. A doctor’s or an educator’s time is much more expensive.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Email Address Choose from our newsletters Weekly Update Future of Learning Higher Education Early Childhood Proof Points Leave this field empty if you’re human: About 20 years ago, I had a transformative reporting experience when I was assigned to “shadow” a 4-year-old named Jaylen at a Milwaukee preschool.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Email Address Choose from our newsletters Weekly Update Future of Learning Higher Education Early Childhood Proof Points Leave this field empty if you’re human: At the start of her Math Methods course at Drexel University, Karen Greenhaus has a simple assignment for her pre-service early ed teachers: Write down how you feel about math.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 12, 2017

The Jefferson County Public Schools have made a commitment to “whole-child education” that goes beyond academics. Visit an elementary school in Kentucky’s Jefferson County Public Schools and you may find students doing partner yoga poses. Photo: Tamika Moore for The Hechinger Report. Weekly Update. Future of Learning.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Email Address Choose from our newsletters Weekly Update Future of Learning Higher Education Early Childhood Proof Points Leave this field empty if you’re human: The first few weeks in a classroom can help set the tone for the rest of the school year.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 21, 2020

The faulty foundation our education system was built on — a singular focus on academics, sometimes at the expense of our humanity — is being revealed as the shaky structure it is. At the social and emotional learning program I direct in Massachusetts, we provide evidence-based SEL curricula and professional development for elementary schools.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 10, 2023

It denies the humanity of every other child (or parent) who isn’t able to hide their trauma, like I was. We can break the cycle of poverty for every single one of the families and students in our schools — not just a few exceptions — by engaging these families as equal partners in their child’s education.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 19, 2021

As humans continue to unleash greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, fires, hurricanes, floods, droughts and heat waves are intensifying, in some cases forcing kids to flee their homes and classrooms and shattering their sense of security. School district enrollment is now less than half what it was before the Camp Fire destroyed the town.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

Department of Health and Human Services. Despite her stated disinterest, the level of physical activity Anna and her classmates experience during their school day is unusual and probably beneficial. where 31 percent of children between the ages of 10 and 17 are obese , most school children move far too little, experts say.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 28, 2019

Leave this field empty if you're human: It’s easy to argue about this extensive and muddy body of research. Early Grade Retention and the Human Capital Development of English Learners.” But in many urban school districts, from Los Angeles to New York City , the share is much higher. Choose as many as you like.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

That often requires lots of human interaction and supportive relationships — things that don’t scale easily. When schools in Botswana closed for the coronavirus pandemic in March 2020, one non-governmental organization texted math problems to parents of elementary school children, along with making weekly telephone calls.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 27, 2020

Neural systems that most distinguish the human brain from those of other animals actively develop during early childhood. Goldie Hawn works with a student at Pacoima Charter Elementary School. But these programs are currently available to far too few children. We must do better.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

In this 2015 photo, fifth graders collaborated on a Rube Goldberg machine in a Pennsylvania elementary school. So the OECD turned to educational-software developers, led by Arthur Graesser at the University of Memphis, to create simulated computer agents to pose as humans. Photo: Chris Berdik.

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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. Elementary school teachers from Wayne County District in Monticello, Ky.,

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ED Surge

JANUARY 31, 2023

And with his long academic interest and expertise in kinesiology, which is the study of human movement, he has an idea. Very few of us as humans learn to sit still and focus for two hours,” he said. “At The big question Martin has is how do professors regain this attention? And you don’t have to be a little kid to need these time-outs.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 17, 2021

After that one morning session, Dunlap, a scientist who grew up in Japan, withdrew Annika from kindergarten at her local public elementary school in Fremont, California. Kindergarten, a foundational grade for young children, is typically the first year of elementary school, even in the 31 states where it isn’t required.

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ED Surge

JULY 19, 2022

The panelists were: Aisha Douglas, an academic dean at Achievement First Brooklyn High School, where she focuses on teacher development and curriculum adaptation in the humanities. Deitra Colquitt, co-principal at Pershing Elementary School in St. So that was crazy to me.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2016

Students attend a summer session at Lyon Elementary School near the city of Clarksdale in the Mississippi Delta. John Bel Edwards and other legislators needed to know how to effectively demand changes to the barriers of human potential and persuade others to join the movement. Photo: Jackie Mader.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

The news notification displayed across my screen reads: BREAKING: SCHOOL SHOOTING AT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL IN UVALDE, TEXAS. There was a school shooting in Texas. An elementary school.” “No… No… an elementary school?!” My muscles tighten. Did you see the news?” I ask several hours later.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

Leave this field empty if you're human: Too few parents and teachers are talking about race, gender and other identity traits with children often enough, which means they are missing out on critical opportunities to teach children to become tolerant of differences from an early age. Sign up for our Early Education newsletter. Weekly Update.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 20, 2024

million followers) welcoming teachers to share their school supply lists, along with a bit of humanizing information like where they live and what they teach, in a Google form. Photo courtesy of Deb Perelman I imagine people receiving and giving appreciate the humanity of it. I love buying school supplies.

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