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 The study, a working paper that has not yet been peer-reviewed, came to two dramatic conclusions.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

APRIL 3, 2018

So far almost two dozen classrooms have new designs, along with common spaces in each of the district’s seven schools. Ann Marie Lynam, seventh-grade social studies teacher, Baldwin Schools, Long Island. Now, to see them talking to someone else, it’s just mind-blowing. I think that component cannot be undervalued.”.

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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. It’s also harder to keep up with the traditional pace of instruction when so many students are behind. These kids just missed 18 months of school. Maybe you can do that in social studies. One is phonics.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 6, 2017

Our nine districts have been considering free or low-cost open educational resources alongside traditional options. All of our districts are members the members of the Digital Promise League of Innovative Schools, an 86-district coalition recognized for innovation and leadership in education.

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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 ? 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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Digital Promise

APRIL 12, 2016

Kindergartners place their backpacks outside in the “hallway” next to a community garden in a Vista elementary school hallway. Many classroom spaces in VUSD are far from traditional, as the district is creating more flexible learning spaces for students.

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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. Shelby Villegas, sixth grade math teacher at Whispering Wind Academy Elementary School in Phoenix. It’s a mindset shift.”. That’s pretty much gone with Summit,” Hinton Sainz said.

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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

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 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

MAY 1, 2020

As an example, Hudson cited a lower elementary school in the Delta where none of the K-3 teachers are certified to teach. Until recently, Jackson State’s Master of Arts in Teaching program had the same testing requirements as the university’s traditional route.

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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

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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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

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

Preschool students at Kruse Elementary School in the Poudre School District in Colorado play at the water table during choice time. Granted, none of these programs are perfect substitutes for traditional preschool where children learn with their peers from an expert in early childhood education. Photo: Lillian Mongeau.

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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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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

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. Like the Dears, most families who came to the charter were black, and they believed Johnson when she said her school would be different.

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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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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. Easier Transition to Kindergarten Pre-K programs also vastly improve school readiness and make the transition to Kindergarten easier. What is Universal Pre-K?

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 5, 2018

The goal with the first two groups was to help them earn a traditional diploma, if possible. Related: A little girl’s school helps her deal with trauma at home. All through elementary school, she’d excelled in the classroom, though she spent a lot of time in the principal’s office. “My But I was a chatterbox.”.

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Studies Weekly

JUNE 6, 2024

Classroom Layout and Furniture Flexible Seating Incorporate a variety of seating options, like traditional desks for seat work time, bean bags for the class library, other types of seating for listening, art, and science centers, and floor cushions to accommodate different learning styles and other center activities. Submit your info by Aug.

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Digital Promise

JUNE 15, 2016

Leadership is second only to teaching among school-related factors that can improve student achievement, and it tends to show greatest impact in traditionally underserved schools ( Leithwood, Seashore Louis, Anderson, and Wahlstrom, 2004 ). educators, and Catherine Lewis, who conducts academic research on lesson study.

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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. Next year is] going to be another tough year for the schools. …

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 9, 2024

In 1953, Brbara Flores entered kindergarten at Washington Elementary School in Madera, California, a small city in the Central Valley surrounded by farm fields. Brbara Flores stands inside her old kindergarten classroom at Washington Elementary School in Madera on Oct. The school opened a dual language program in 2017.

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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 6, 2020

When I was in fourth grade at an elementary school in Nashville, Tennessee, my teacher held a career day, where my classmates and I were to come dressed for the jobs we hoped one day to hold. Metro Nashville Public Schools, a bureaucratic institution, runs the city’s traditional public schools.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

He started teaching social studies at Blythewood High School in Richland 2, a school district in the Midlands, in 2005, the same year the school was founded. “I I never really wanted to go from school to school.”. One Alabama town is trying to change that. Credit: Grace Beahm Alford/Staff.

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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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Zinn Education Project

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Hope Koumentakos High School Social Studies Teacher, Takoma Park, Maryland I currently teach U.S. In lieu of a traditional exam for one of my U.S. Brandon Grijalva High School Social Studies Teacher, Chicago, Illinois While teaching AP U.S. History I and II to 10th and 11th graders, respectively.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 21, 2017

At the meeting, a special education teacher had recommended taking the boy out of Martin Elementary School, in a town 10 miles southwest, and placing him in Georgia’s Network for Educational and Therapeutic Support, or GNETS, a statewide system for children with “emotional and behavioral disorders.”.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 6, 2016

Luis Antonio Hernandez reads a story about Cinco de Mayo to students in Christy Crotwell’s first grade class at Morton Elementary School. He’s the only full-time translator at the school, which has 152 Spanish-speaking students in its 21 classrooms. Crotwell, at rear, has been teaching at the school for 16 years.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

After all, she was workplace-close with Wesley Smith, the custodian at Cahaba Heights Elementary School, in this affluent suburb of Birmingham. This past legislative session, the House passed a bill to ban LGBTQ+ flags and symbols from schools. She was banned from school grounds until mid-August. VESTAVIA HILLS, Ala.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 4, 2023

We are not what they’re saying we are,’” said former Wheatley social studies teacher Kendra Yarbrough-Camarena. Her son is in the special education program at Theodore Roosevelt Elementary School on the city’s north side, and she is a teaching assistant there. Being in the news has motivated students too.

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