The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 13, 2024

But very few schools currently integrate effective literacy practices into content classes, according to experts on reading. That said, a handful of states and school districts are starting to explore the approach. Patty Topliffe (center right) and other English and social studies teachers at Woodstock High School, in Vermont.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 24, 2023

In early April 2023, I started getting emails and messages urging me to take a look at a fresh reading study in Colorado. The study, a working paper that has not yet been peer-reviewed, came to two dramatic conclusions. schools, especially those that serve low-income children, have moved in the opposite direction. However, U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 29, 2019

Leave this field empty if you're human: Danvers, a town about 20 miles north of Boston, has five small elementary schools. The switch to the town’s bigger middle school – where, for the first time, students walk the halls on their own between classes – can be a little scary. Public Schools. Weekly Update.

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Digital Promise

MAY 15, 2018

Teacher specialization, a model in which teachers specialize in certain subjects and teach them to a rotating group of students, has a negative effect on student scores, attendance, and behavior in an elementary school setting, according to a working paper by Fryer, a faculty member at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Nurturing bilingual students is the mission of the 400-student public school where Menéndez teaches, Dos Puentes Elementary in Washington Heights, a predominantly Latino neighborhood of New York City. At Dos Puentes Elementary School, kids can browse classroom libraries stocked with books in English and Spanish.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 19, 2024

Elementary school students in grades two to six were making slow progress, and remained behind. These kids just missed 18 months of school. Maybe you can do that in social studies. Curriculum Associates pointed to two unexpected bright spots in its assessment results. One is phonics. But math builds upon itself.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 25, 2023

Carrie Bakken, a social studies teacher and program coordinator who has been with the school since 2001, said the model appeals to younger workers and has helped the school avoid hiring challenges. “We Gadd, a former teacher in New York City’s public schools, said, “It’s not a top-down model.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 6, 2017

Students at Lovett Elementary, the Clinton, Miss. school district’s sixth-grade-only school. By nine school district superintendents from nine states. public school districts spend a combined $8 billion on instructional materials while trying to ensure that schools receive the maximum value for their money.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 20, 2021

One Thursday this fall, a middle schooler in Florida’s Brevard Public Schools received an in-school suspension. Related: They didn’t turn in their work for remote school. For teachers around the country, school discipline during the pandemic has been confounding. Their parents were threatened with courts and fines.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 28, 2019

Nevada and Michigan will join them in the upcoming 2019-20 school year. The hope is that if kids can become proficient in reading early on, they’ll be much more likely to succeed in all of their subjects, from science to social studies, because students need to know how to read to learn the material.

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Thrive in Grade Five

FEBRUARY 2, 2019

Alison Black, the Director of Indian Education for a public school district in Oklahoma, says, “Tribal sovereignty is a huge issue. I can look back to my elementary school days and remember many Halloweens and Land Run days during which children dressed up as Native Americans with feather headdresses and face paint.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 17, 2020

“It was literally all hands on deck,” said Superintendent Amy Warke, who rolled out an e-learning plan, provided teachers with resources, arranged to get internet hot spots to families in need and did a test run of the technology with students to get feedback — all before the schools closed. “It It’s been a lot of figuring out on our own.”.

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ED Surge

MAY 8, 2023

That’s the question the middle school class was struggling to answer. Fractions hadn’t really connected with the students, says John Barclay, a teacher in Richmond Public Schools in Virginia. It’s common for her to hear, “Oh, you know, I decided to be an elementary school teacher because I don't want to teach math.”

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 23, 2019

on day four of the strike, Nadia Morales, a counselor at Los Angeles High School, and Pedro Martinez, a social-studies teacher at Eagle Rock High School, prepare their children for the day. The “co-location” of charters on the grounds of traditional public schools is increasingly common. At 7 a.m.,

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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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Digital Promise

MARCH 10, 2015

District of Columbia Public Schools. Fulton County Schools. “We’re not getting the results we’re hoping to see from our digital content in middle school social studies and science. It seems like it’s really built for high school students. South Fayette Township School District.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2020

Now nearly 400 schools use it across 40 states. Nearly 400 schools use the Summit Learning Program across 40 states. Fears about data privacy and screen time, along with concerns about Silicon Valley’s conflicting interests as it pushes into public schools, have battered Summit’s reputation. It’s a mindset shift.”.

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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. Our public schools can be a bastion of democracy and serve as a breeding ground of civic and political excitement and possibility.

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 29, 2019

The first round of recruitment identified six innovative middle and high school educators in Canada: Jen Giffen, Digital Literacy Coach at York Region District School Board, Ontario. Trevor Hlushko, Grades 5 and 6 ELA, Social Studies, Science, French Teacher, and Grades 5-8 Math Teacher at W.H.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

In 1970, when the courts ordered schools to desegregate and controversies over busing erupted across the country, white parents in Coahoma County fled the public system for private segregation academies, calling it “school choice.”. Related: Are rural charter schools viable in Mississippi? he Brown v.

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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. One school district stands out as a model of implementation: Loudoun County (VA) Public Schools (LCPS).

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 20, 2017

That could be giving social-studies students a tutorial on research skills; showing a French class how to make stop-action animation, short videos, or websites for presentations on Francophone countries; or helping a math teacher free up class time by creating sharable videos of introductory explanations and sample problems for students.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Hechinger and AZCIR obtained, through public records requests, data from 150-plus districts and charter networks that educate about 61 percent of Arizona’s 1.1 million public school students. Of those, 1 in 5 were out-of-school suspensions. Credit: Isaac Stone Simonelli/AZCIR. But the move came with a bevy of supports.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

New York City’s Department of Education is the latest public school system to require that U.S. The program will be piloted this fall at selected schools and fully rolled-out in over 1,800 schools by the spring. of all district students) enrolled in a K-12 New York City Public School in 2021-2022.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2019

Jill Henry, director of instruction for Whitmore Lake Public Schools and a graduate, is grateful that her alma mater climbed back from the brink of deficit. “We In the elementary school, art classes were cut. The middle school had to downsize its band program. We were the underdog, and we rallied,” Henry said.

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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

DECEMBER 13, 2019

But teachers here say the program, known as Tax-Increment Financing, or TIF, has been a giveaway to corporate developers, and that it is hurting the city’s schools. “We Hilario Dominguez, special education teacher, Chicago Public Schools. Related: When school districts can’t raise funds for facilities.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 22, 2018

Among reasons a school might leave the network: the fee, which starts at about $50,000 a year for new schools that need a lot of support and drops to about $15,000 for more seasoned members; a new principal who wants to champion his or her own approach, or simply a poor fit. Also, expeditions are embedded in the real world.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 6, 2017

Sanborn Regional High School student Jailee Thibeault does research during her social studies class. Each year, districts and schools were rated based on whether their elementary school kids performed better than the prior year’s students in math and English. Photo: Kate Flock for The Hechinger Report.

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Studies Weekly

MAY 28, 2024

A student is considered chronically absent if they miss at least 10% of the total school year, around 18 full days. In 2023, 26% of all public school students in the United States were chronically absent. Make the school day engaging with hands-on Social Studies , Science , and Health curricula.

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4QM Teaching

MAY 7, 2023

And many elementary schools have basically not been teaching history for some time now. State tests are a crucial tool for gathering data about student performance and holding schools accountable for results – this is not an anti-testing blog post. The main reason for that is state testing. Hirsch, E.D.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 30, 2018

When New Schools for New Orleans announced the competitive grant contest, 23 schools — about a quarter of all public schools in New Orleans — expressed interest by attending workshops on personalized learning. Around three-quarters of the schools in the 2017 RAND study were charter schools.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 5, 2018

Last fall, YEP staff set up shop to provide HiSET-prep for at-risk New Orleans high-school students — before they became dropouts — within its Central City campus, housed within a grand historic bank-building that seems appropriately academic in appearance. Related: A little girl’s school helps her deal with trauma at home.

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Studies Weekly

MARCH 15, 2024

Preschool programs are also not subject to the same limitations as the traditional public school system, so some states can fund private or faith-based pre-K programs. first appeared on Studies Weekly. This gives states more flexibility to fund existing childcare programs rather than create their own. What is Universal Pre-K?

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Diane Ravitch

MAY 9, 2023

The Orlando Sentinel reported today that the State Education Department had rejected 35% of the social studies textbooks submitted for review because of leftist content. The DeSantis administration objects to any references to “social justice” or negative references to capitalism. history and world history courses.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 27, 2024

When Tim Walz was announced as Kamala Harris’ running mate earlier this month, his ascendancy helped to elevate the idea of educators serving in public office. is a high school alternative education and social studies teacher in Montgomery County Public Schools in Maryland. Chad King Wilson Sr.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

By fall of 2021, Butterworth was hired as a general education paraeducator at Farmland Elementary in Maryland’s Montgomery County Public Schools, a large district just outside of Washington, D.C. Photo courtesy of Montgomery County Public Schools. What brought you to your role as a paraeducator?

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