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Waiting for the traveling teacher: Remote rural schools need more hands-on help

The Hechinger Report

million students go to public schools in rural areas , more than the combined total of the nation’s 85 largest school districts. Rural students tend to do well in elementary school, but something changes as they get older. More than 9.3 It’s not something he would have considered before he started studying with Mitchell.

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What I Learned From My Students Who Became Teachers

ED Surge

and World History teacher at Art in Motion School in Chicago. History class during the 2014-2015 academic year. Gariecia Rose: a current World History and Government/American Law teacher at Glenbard East High School in Lombard, Illinois. History class. Victoria was in my U.S.

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Must a classroom be high-tech to make personalized learning work?

The Hechinger Report

“Overall, [seeing their progress] helps the kids to take accountability for their own learning, which is huge, because not only does that benefit them in school, but in life.”. Miranda Virgil, seventh-grade math teacher at Canyon Ridge Elementary School. Right now, most do not. Photo: Jamie Martines.

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We asked Asian American students what they wanted from history instruction. They say including their voices is not enough.

The Hechinger Report

When she moved to and went to high school in Staten Island, where the population is less than 10 percent Asian American, her school remained more than half Asian. For Zeng, it was clear that the problems with the way world history was taught at her school bled through into the teaching of U.S. A more inclusive U.S.

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Students as Teachers

Digital Promise

and World History classes. In the process, the high school students end up strengthening their own skills. Within a single academic year, these high school tutors show, on average, two years of reading gains. The elementary school students they teach show almost as much growth. Not these two.

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High schools fail to provide legally required education to students with disabilities

The Hechinger Report

Rather than being challenged, he was allowed to use a teacher-made study guide while taking exams at his California high school. One time, a teacher gave his special education world history class all of the answers to their final exam. He said he never had to study or actually learn anything to get an A.

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A school where character matters as much as academics

The Hechinger Report

There are critics who contend that instilling social values in students is the purview of parents not schools, and others who fear that SEL could easily be used as yet another way to punish low-income students of color who don’t conform to behavioral norms.