The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 2, 2023

On July 17-20, Pizmony-Levy led a first-of-its-kind professional development institute for NYC public elementary school teachers who want to teach climate change in any subject. According to her research, “Five-year-olds tend to have ‘the earth is scorched and unsavable’ models when they come to school.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 24, 2017

Leave this field empty if you're human: 1. Online Advanced Placement courses for rural, low-income school districts. Infusing lessons with music. At Nora Davis Magnet Elementary School in Laurel, the arts are already a regular part of the day. Sign up for our Mississippi Learning newsletter. Weekly Update.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 2, 2016

It’s about improving education for all kids,” said school district Superintendent Lewis Holloway. John Jones asks a question to his students in AP Human Geography on August 18, 2016. Jones came to Starkville High in 2015 from East Oktibbeha County High School. And the Department of Justice bought into that.”.

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Studies Weekly

MAY 10, 2024

They help students understand what real people of the past saw, felt, and heard as they lived through the events we study in school. Letters, photographs, postcards, journals, and other first-hand accounts add detail, humanity, and relevance to our picture of the past.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 30, 2018

Leave this field empty if you're human: “Teachers said, ‘If this is good for kids, why not bring it to all of them?’ ” said Steiner. And when kids should stop going to elementary school and start attending a middle school across town. Sign up for the Future of Learning newsletter. Choose as many newsletters as you like.

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Studies Weekly

JANUARY 10, 2024

Excessive screen time is also linked to a decreased interest in reading among elementary school students. At a time when 40% of elementary school students cannot read at a basic level, setting students up for literacy is crucial. Proceedings of the 2016 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2773–2777.

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Studies Weekly

MARCH 15, 2024

Department of Health and Human Services defines affordable child care as no more than 10% of a family’s income; however, the Care Index reports that childcare costs account for as high as 19% of a family’s income in some states. The Unintended Consequences of Universal Preschool. 2021, May 10). What is Universal Pre-K?

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 5, 2022

That started to change in 2013, with the release of new national science standards , which instructed science teachers to introduce students to climate change and its human causes starting in middle school. Cari Gallagher reads a book about Hurricane Sandy to her third graders at Lawrenceville Elementary School.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 20, 2018

Students at Barwell Road Elementary School Photo: Alex Granados/EducationNC. Her school, Haw River Elementary in Alamance County, was offering students after-school clubs once a week. They also added a school support coach to help teachers improve their lesson plans and use more data to track students’ progress.

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Zinn Education Project

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

I would definitely recommend this article and lesson to other educators who are looking for a way to teach their students about climate change. It is a powerful lesson that gets to the humanity of the enslaved and helps students really engage with the subject. Each on of my classes ends up creating a completely different poem.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2019

In tiny Foster, Rhode Island, teachers at Captain Isaac Paine Elementary School use high-tech methods to teach a largely rural, off-the-grid population. Down Route 6, not far from the Shady Acres Restaurant and Dairy, is Captain Isaac Paine Elementary School. Tammy Kim, for The Hechinger Report. PROVIDENCE, R.I.

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ED Surge

JULY 2, 2024

But these days, when it comes to AI, another concern has come into the spotlight: That the technology could lead to less human interaction in schools and colleges — and that school administrators could one day try to use it to replace teachers. And he says the lab is committed to sharing what it learns.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

Experts say offering age-appropriate answers to kids’ questions about humans as social and sexual beings lays the groundwork for those important (if still cringe-worthy) conversations about puberty and sex the kids will need when they’re teens. workbooks for grades K-4 and grades 4-6, as well as free lesson plans for grades 4-6.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2022

But when LGBTQ students take note of the “I’m Here” sticker on the back of his school ID, or his “We are ALL HUMAN” T-shirt, and come to him for advice or guidance, Woods is happy to provide it. “I am very cautious about a lot of things,” said Woods, a special education teacher in Palm Beach County, Florida, who teaches science. “I

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 15, 2017

Jennifer Merritt’s first-graders at Jefferson Elementary School in Pryor, Oklahoma, were in for a treat. Hundreds of oil-and-gas-centric lesson plans are now available at the click of a mouse. It was reprinted with permission. Tom Gann and state Sen. The idea caught on.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

That June, a local parent-teacher DEI group — formed to address student reports of racism and homophobia — installed a bulletin board display in Seylar Elementary School featuring collages representing Juneteenth, the Puerto Rican Day Parade, the Chinese Dragon Boat Festival, and Pride.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

South of Minneapolis, Jeanne Whisler spent the morning teaching 7th and 8th grade Spanish language arts in Richfield Middle School’s dual language program on Wednesday. She didn’t change her lesson plans based on the outcome of the election, but half of her students are Latino, some of them immigrants and many of them children of immigrants.

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