Studies Weekly

MAY 6, 2024

How to Teach Soft Skills in Elementary School May 6, 2024 • By Studies Weekly In elementary school, students learn and refine an immeasurable number of skills. Elementary teachers can help students hone these skills through science, social studies, and health.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 11, 2025

Our CivxNow research shows that students performed demonstrably better on NAEP civics when they had stand-alone eighth grade civics courses, when they studied the Constitution quite a bit or a lot and when civics was a primary responsibility for their teachers. Civics is a full-year high school course in only seven states.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 14, 2016

2, 2014 photo, teacher Joy Burke surprises her students with homemade cookies as they leave their fifth grade class at John Hay Elementary school in Seattle. Cookies and math tend to go together in an elementary school classroom. Related: Customized math lessons could help students learn more, research says.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 11, 2024

A growing chorus of education researchers, pundits and “science of reading” advocates are calling for young children to be taught more about the world around them. In 2023, University of Virginia researchers promoted a study of Colorado charter schools that had adopted E.D. Hirsch’s Core Knowledge curriculum.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 8, 2024

Wealthy suburbs can have a surplus of qualified applicants for elementary schools at the same time that a remote, rural school cannot find anyone to teach high school physics. Some school systems have been experimenting with targeted financial incentives. Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

But it wasn’t indoor recess — play is one of the ways students learn every day in O’Brien’s science and social studies class at Shidler Elementary School. Crystal O’Brien, center, plays with her third grade students during free play time in her classroom at Shidler Elementary School in Oklahoma City.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 13, 2024

That’s because so many students, even incoming ninth graders, arrive at the school without basic reading skills, according to Douglas Fisher, an administrator at the school. While some students also receive one-on-one remediation, Fisher said that research shows those interventions aren’t enough to close the gap. “We

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 29, 2020

A child reads a book at an elementary school in Mississippi. Kids who read more tend to score higher on reading assessments but research hasn’t been particularly supportive of using classroom time for unstructured, independent reading. What do parents need to know about this research? Choose from our newsletters.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 27, 2020

and Rosa Parks at her Katy, Texas, elementary school in the Houston area. They are advocating for core curriculum changes in social studies — specifically American history — classes. In June, with Sarah Frayer, an elementary school teacher and instructional coach in Washington, D.C.,

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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. I think schools in many ways have put the cart before the horse. Students may learn more. Photo: Jamie Martines. Sometimes the students moved classrooms.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 27, 2018

A study of project-based learning found that social studies scores were higher for second-grade students who learned this way, compared to students who were taught traditionally. studied civics in the fall of 2016, they began by exploring a nearby park in Pontiac. Jackie Mader/The Hechinger Report.

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Studies Weekly

MAY 2, 2024

of the population, according to research from New American Economy, and are the fastest-growing ethnic minority group in the United States, according to Pew Research. Teach Social Studies through different cultural perspectives using our printed and online K-6 Social Studies curriculum.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 19, 2024

students did not make progress in catching up in the most recent 2023-24 school year and slid even further behind in math and reading, exacerbating pandemic learning losses. “At Unfortunately, data from the past two school years no longer support this conclusion. These kids just missed 18 months of school. One is phonics.

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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. The claim of closing the achievement gap is based on only 16 students who attended this one charter school.

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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

JULY 20, 2016

Because their elementary school teachers do too, says Marc Tucker, president of the National Center on Education and the Economy (NCEE), a policy institute that studies what America can learn from the world’s best-performing education systems. Related: Elementary school teachers struggle with Common Core math standards.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

But in the last decade, more and more researchers have advocated for what Menéndez does during purple time – what they call “translanguaging.” Elizabeth Menéndez teaches kindergarten at Dos Puentes Elementary School, where students find support and understanding on their path to mastering both English and Spanish.

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ED Surge

MAY 8, 2023

Although it’s not as obviously contentious as say, social studies, educators and researchers (not to mention students and families) have strong feelings about math instruction (remember New Math ? Poor teacher support and inadequate training, researchers suggest, may be contributing. Or even newer math ?)

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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. Because Summit requires new schools to spend almost an entire year preparing to adopt its model, the coronavirus is not expected to cause a surge in the number of Summit schools next fall.

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Cult of Pedagogy

MAY 29, 2024

I also pay attention to what lights up their faces, and will often research their interests so that I can ask them questions later! Research reliably points to this emotion derailing kids’ ability to learn (Immordino-Yang & Damasio, 2007). Tier 6: Test Pulling Nate When I was in high school, I cheated on a social studies test.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 28, 2019

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. But this advantage peaks and then dissipates by middle school. Higher Education. Proof Points.

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Digital Promise

JUNE 15, 2016

While every school is unique, research has identified several elements that can almost universally increase the chances for successful teacher development and create a powerful and positive school community. Research shows that the following features of effective leadership can improve student achievement (Leithwood et al.,

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

In the middle of all this activity, seventh-grader Jacob Higuera sat alone with his laptop, intently typing out a social studies assignment. It was only the fifth day of school, but he was already getting used to this unconventional classroom setup. Miranda Virgil, seventh-grade math teacher at Canyon Ridge Elementary School.

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Floyd County and Pikeville educators participated in a series of South Fayette School District classroom visits to observe students work and learn more about computing pathways. At the elementary school, the teams tinkered with the interactive digital stories children created using Scratch, a block-based programming language.

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Thrive in Grade Five

FEBRUARY 2, 2019

I want you to know that I’m writing this post using the knowledge and tips I’ve gained from working with Native students and adults, attending workshops, and my own research. I am not officially a part of any tribe or Native group. This is the perfect opportunity to speak about Indigenous people in a present tense.”

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 17, 2024

Since the mid-1980s, some education experts have supported such moves, citing research showing that tracking primarily serves as a marker of race or class, as Black and Hispanic students, and those from lower-income families, are steered into lower-track classes at disproportionate rates.

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Digital Promise

MARCH 10, 2015

This will help inform school-based decisions about learning materials for the fall as well as help the district take a step closer to providing our schools with an eventual marketplace of digital resources that have been selected through a reliable process with some evidence of effectiveness for different student populations.”

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

“Young kids do notice skin tone, they do notice race groups,” said Christia Spears Brown, a professor and associate chair of development and social psychology at the University of Kentucky, who has researched and written about identity development. “We Many adults also like to think that kids don’t notice these differences.

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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

APRIL 25, 2023

It was the first lesson in a school week that would take her kids through memoir writing, an introduction to division and research on Indigenous history, each activity carefully curated by Snyder. During the pandemic, some teachers in the upper grades left, and this year the school has several new staff members.

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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

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 another project, students used Photoshop Elements to create typographical portraits of people and characters they researched in class.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 22, 2018

In the weeks ahead, the girls would weave the interview and their own research into four individual narratives about Millones, one of several immigrants telling their stories at King, where nearly a quarter of the students were born overseas. He had been disenchanted with his school’s previous personalized learning initiative. “I

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Studies Weekly

JULY 9, 2024

According to the 2022 report on this national assessment by a team of researchers at Stanford and Harvard, the data showed that while students with mostly remote classes had lower scores on average, remote learning had little impact on a student’s performance. This is where Studies Weekly can help. Hogan in the New York Times article.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

Preschool students at Kruse Elementary School in the Poudre School District in Colorado play at the water table during choice time. Their research analyzes the long-term benefits of a high-quality early-childhood program in North Carolina targeted at serving disadvantaged children and their families.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 6, 2022

The consequences can extend beyond high school, researchers have found , with suspensions linked to lower college enrollment rates and increased involvement with the criminal justice system. Guadalupe says the suspensions he received for missing class in the past made him feel even more disconnected from school.

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Studies Weekly

MAY 10, 2024

In addition, when children know about their own family history, they are more resilient and emotionally stable, according to research as reported by Bruce Feiler in 2013 in the New York Times. Engage your students in studying the past with Studies Weekly’s pre-K–6 Social Studies curriculum.

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