The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 16, 2022

The University of Alaska system has scaled back more than 40 academic programs , including earth sciences, geography and environmental resources, sociology, hospitality administration and theater. The Vermont College System was losing $8 million to $12 million a year. million over the next two years; and Iowa State, $11.4

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 21, 2022

McMillan, who teaches in a rural southeast part of the state, said the geography of her school is one reason she applied to the fellowship. The 20 K-12 educators are part of a two-year fellowship from the Louisiana Sea Grant, in partnership with Nicholls State department of teacher education and LSU school of education.

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Controversial Topics Education Lesson Plan K-12 119

ED Surge

AUGUST 15, 2022

Unlike their counterparts in K-12 schools, these kinds of programs are still relatively uncommon in higher education. The region’s geography and culture give the program key advantages when it comes to recruiting local students. It’s a locally-driven need,” Petrov says.

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 8, 2019

Still, huge gaps exist in educational outcomes, high school graduation rates, college readiness and workforce advancements based on race, class, and geography. In 2018, 98 percent of K-12 school districts met the FCC’s minimum connectivity target of 100 kilobits-per-second per student in schools.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 31, 2018

Virtual reality (VR) is emerging as a way to provide deeper learning in K-12 schools. Seventh-graders, along with science teacher Susan Dunning and geography teacher Megan Fuga, repeatedly gave the CMU students feedback on what worked and what didn’t. Jada said she learned facts about wolves and monarch butterflies in the hunt.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 5, 2019

Petteri Elo has taught at the Hiidenkivi Comprehensive School for over 12 years. Students recently explored topics within “sustainable development” across physics, chemistry, geography and math. In geography, for example, they focused on the Arctic and global warming; in math they practiced statistics.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 17, 2023

Yet many of them receive little to no introduction to climate science in K-12 schools. In his freshman world geography class, he said, students sometimes felt overwhelmed by the climate catastrophe, leaving them depressed and despairing. “It He said he wants educators to emphasize solutions, too.

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Zinn Education Project

JANUARY 2, 2024

These are tuition-free opportunities for K–12 educators to study a variety of humanities topics. Each year, the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) funds summer institutes for teachers. Stipends help cover expenses for these programs, which vary in length from one to four weeks. The deadline to apply is March 5, 2024.

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ACRE

JANUARY 17, 2023

Analyzing world, continent, and country maps, students consider how natural resources and natural geography influence economies. K-12 educators can request activity kits that include everything needed to play through the Adam Smith Escape Room with your students. Constitution Geography: WSP.2.G.2 Constitution PD.4.C.2

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Geography K-12 Economics Civics 52

Digital Promise

AUGUST 9, 2019

“Challenge Collaboratives” are a model of research-practice partnerships that engage educators and researchers across contexts and geographies to create outputs and outcomes that benefit schools nationwide. Challenge Collaboratives: Next Gen R&D. What does “computing for all” look like in the average classroom?

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ACRE

JUNE 27, 2023

Students can tour Fort Curtis & Battery Park and see how the natural geography of the Arkansas Delta influenced how battles could be fought there during the Civil War. Students can walk through exhibits on Arkansas Heritage & Culture, Civil War in the Arkansas Delta, and Delta Sounds.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 9, 2016

The much bigger barrier is the background inequality in our society and in the K-12 schooling that leads up to the Common App.”. Through the Common App’s website, students can research college requirements and come up with a list based on geography, selectivity and cost.

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Studies Weekly

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Grades K-3) February 26, 2024 The post Jigsaw Strategy first appeared on Studies Weekly. Jigsaw Strategy Oct. February 26, 2024 Lesson 5: Who Can Run For Office February 26, 2024 Lesson 6: How Do We Choose Leaders?

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ACRE

JUNE 19, 2023

& Arkansas History, Economics, & Geography. Learn more and download the curriculum here: [link] Grant Funds Available K-12 teachers, did you know there is grant funding available for field trips to historic Arkansas sites? The internationally prominent Pfeiffer family.

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Museum K-12 Geography History 52

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 28, 2019

teachers focus on, but do so using a common curriculum that ensures all students – regardless of class, race or geography – get exposure to a similarly broad set of ideas and facts. In those countries, schools are expected to teach all students common content. They develop similar skills as those that U.S. schools assess.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 27, 2018

For this experiment, the researchers spent years developing four separate project-based units on history, geography, economics and civics. It’s a lot more involved than tacking on a project to a traditional unit of study by assigning students, for example, to make shoebox dioramas about a book they’ve read.

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Steven V. Miller

JANUARY 12, 2022

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

The pressure of high-stakes testing has caused districts and schools to reduce or even eliminate coursework in civics, along with history, geography, science, arts, and fitness. There are many reasons for our failure. Today’s students often do not know the basics of how our democracy works.

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Civics Geography Public School Library 84

The Hechinger Report

JULY 11, 2018

The C3 framework — the three Cs refer to college, career and civic life — includes curriculums in civics, economics, geography and history. Serriere said C3 is being used across the country. Critics say the framework waters down meaningful social studies instruction and fails to adequately inspire students to civic action.

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Social Studies Civics Controversial Topics Elementary School 111

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

Under-counting is a problem often associated with certain groups and geography — children who may be homeless, the 25 percent of children living in hard-to-reach places and immigrant families who may fear being targeted. This wouldn’t be the first time that the under-counting of young children entered the census process.

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Geography Elementary School Government Research 82

Studies Weekly

JANUARY 10, 2024

Engagement and Focus According to the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and the American Academy of Pediatrics, children ages 8-12 spend three times more on screens than is recommended daily. E., & Lafreniere, K. R., & Brønnick, K. Our brains give more weight to words on a printed page. Annisette, L.

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Artifacts Primary Sources K-12 Psychology 52

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 28, 2017

Communities, ones organized by race, socioeconomic class and geography, use schools to cover blatant housing discrimination, school financing bias and white supremacy. Join the conversation later on Andre Perry’s radio show, “Free College,” hosted Tuesdays on WBOK1230 in New Orleans at 3pm Central/4pm Eastern 504.260.9265.

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Economics Geography Civics History 82

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 27, 2019

It may be a consequence of geography that so many Native youth are placed in facilities so ill-equipped to serve them, but states cannot permit ZIP codes to determine the caliber of education provided in juvenile-justice facilities.

Geography 72

Geography High School Tradition Cultures 72

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 2, 2019

These relationships are carefully nurtured by school staff — and aided by geography. Ted Szczawinski, director of curriculum at Passaic County Technical Institute on the collaboration between staff and business in curriculum development.

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Education High School Tradition Geography 110

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 2, 2016

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

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 12, 2017

In the meantime, they have been testing the reach and reliability of the Carters Mountain signal, while also creating the network’s backbone — burying 12 miles (of a planned 85 miles) of fiber-optic cable to ferry huge amounts of high-speed data between school-based transmitters, receivers and servers, and regional data hubs.

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Library Middle School High School Government 105

The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2020

The online platform includes a project-based curriculum for science, social studies, math and English language arts for students in grades four through 12, along with additional content in those subjects that students can tackle at their own pace. Nearly 400 schools use the Summit Learning Program across 40 states.

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Junior High Charter School Elementary School Social Studies 131

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 11, 2017

Social Studies teacher Michelle Adler talks to sophomores Maiya Schwartz, left and Emily Terranova about an assignment in an Honors Human Geography class at Gray-New Gloucester High School on Thursday, June 1, 2017. “It’s the long arm of the state,” she says. ” Photo: Gregory Rec/Portland Press Herald.

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High School Social Studies Leadership Tradition 72

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 6, 2023

About 3,500 people attended the conference, among them K-12 and higher ed educators who teach the subjects that constitute social studies — including history, civics, geography, economics, psychology, sociology, anthropology, philosophy, law and religious studies.

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Social Studies Teaching Civics Advocacy 141

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

data show just how little students across America have actually learned about the nation’s history, civics and geography. Forty years later, racial discrimination and violence are still far too common across America, due in part to our history- and civics-impoverished K-12 education landscape. Decades of U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

Yet one student may have limited geography skills, and is not making connections between events in neighboring Laos and Cambodia. Both get a D, implying a similar lack of understanding. The other student may have limited literacy skills, allowing key elements of the text to slip by.

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Geography High School Charter School Cultures 98

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 12, 2018

Moureen’s economic ascent, however, may also depend on geography. Innovation industries, like tech, have a multiplier effect on the number of good jobs created, because they tend to cluster with related businesses, writes Enrico Moretti in his book, “The New Geography of Jobs.” “For Where you live matters more than ever.”.

High School 104

High School Geography Middle School Critical Thinking 104

The Hechinger Report

JULY 3, 2019

Ian Fairhurst, who integrates educational technology into grades K-6 at Knox Grammar Prep, showed a session participant how to use a VR headset at the ISTE conference in Philadelphia. One of the things that I really, really liked about VR was that we can span geography. Megan Conn/The Hechinger Report.

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Geography Humanities Educational Technology Cultures 109

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

Teacher shortage is primarily a function of race and geography,” the authors wrote. Indeed, a recent study in the 2017 Mississippi Economic Review found that districts with the worst teacher shortages have a weak local property tax base, a high percentage of black students and are disproportionately located in the Delta.

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Charter School Economics Middle School Public School 106

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

This geography blocks signals and slows internet speeds, even for Garrett County residents who do have a router at home. His team brought food from the district’s 12 schools to churches, community centers, and other central locations so that families could avoid traveling more than a few miles.

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Elementary School K-12 Geography Public School 96

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 1, 2017

In contrast, James K. Meanwhile, in “Mississippi: Portrait of an American State,” the chapter about the Civil Rights Movement lists 17 key figures students should know: 12 white men — a majority of them segregationists — four black men and one black woman. Neither are the laws they challenged , Mississippi civil rights activist T.R.M.

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K-12 Social Studies History Archiving 95

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

The laws have contributed to a climate in which “every classroom has been turned into a front” in a battle, said Melanie Willingham-Jaggers, executive director of GLSEN, which advocates for LGBTQ+ individuals in K-12 education. Every educator, every administrator now has to be on that front line every single day,” she said.

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High School Elementary School Geography Public School 139