The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 5, 2019

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Geography 124

Geography Project-Based Learning Tradition Humanities 124

Dr. Preece

JUNE 3, 2023

As a teacher in the early phase of your career, a lot of your professional development is naturally focused on your Geography and subject knowledge. In my experience, as you develop further through your career, the Geography-specific training and focus reduces in time. But what if you want to be focused on your Geography?

Geography 40

Geography Professional Development Leadership Tradition 40

Mr and Mrs Social Studies

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Simulations have the opportunity to bring a historical topic to life in a way that more traditional activities cannot. Simulations can also present information in a new way that can be more exciting and engaging than traditional teaching methods.

Archaeology 130

Archaeology Artifacts Historic Sites Geography 130

The Hechinger Report

JULY 22, 2024

Based on its demographic profile and on geography, it would seem safe to assume that Magnolia Middle School in Arkansas is among the scores of schools across the country suffering from a teacher shortage. The school predominantly serves Black and Latino students and those from low-income backgrounds. The nonprofit Forward Arkansas awarded $3.6

Middle School 119

Middle School Geography Tradition Teaching 119

ED Surge

JULY 9, 2024

The 10 future teachers we interviewed span different geographies, backgrounds, education experiences and motivations. Some took a traditional path, from high school straight to college and then the classroom. Each story — each person — is unique.

Geography 132

Geography Tutoring Elementary School Teaching 132

ED Surge

MARCH 6, 2024

A traditional four-year degree isn’t a financially feasible path to teaching for some, Lopez adds, while the state’s history of focusing on English-only education has shrunk the pool of Callifornians who are proficient in Spanish. Geography is another hardship for potential bilingual educators.

Geography 126

Geography Tradition Public School Teaching 126

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 24, 2023

It’s geography; it’s history; it’s science; it’s cooking; it’s athletics, whatever that broad knowledge is about the world we live in. The lottery losers attended a variety of other schools, from traditional public schools to private schools to other charter schools. Some postponed starting kindergarten that year.

Charter School 143

Charter School Geography Public School Private School 143

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 27, 2018

“This study shows that a well-designed project-based curriculum might be more effective than traditional instruction.” 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.

Project-Based Learning 111

Project-Based Learning Civics Historic Sites Social Studies 111

Dangerously Irrelevant

AUGUST 27, 2017

Online communities of interest that supplement and augment more-traditional learning communities that are limited by geography and time. The expansion of digital and online (and often open access) information resources that increase the availability of higher and deeper learning opportunities.

Geography 94

Geography Project-Based Learning Economics Tradition 94

Anthropology News

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

He initially chose to study geography, but soon switched to anthropology, impressed by the introductory lectures in that field of study given by the renowned Africanist André Köbben. Anton Blok received his PhD from the University of Amsterdam. He settled on research on the mafia in the Mediterranean.

Anthropology 52

Anthropology Geography Tradition Cultures 52

ED Surge

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

It can bring traditional textbooks to life by adding interactive elements like videos, models or supplementary information to printed pages. Furthermore, it can transport students to different times and places, making history and geography lessons more immersive and educational.

EdTech 130

EdTech Junior High Geography Critical Thinking 130

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

All three strategies are in large part a reproach to traditional higher education, which has often failed to provide the right programs to the people who increasingly need them. Some of these new efforts are dramatically different from traditional higher education experiences, and their focus is almost entirely on nontraditional students.

Tradition 127

Tradition High School Geography Civics 127

Becoming a History Teacher

JULY 19, 2024

There is a shortage of physics, maths, geography teachers (add or delete as appropriate) therefore we need to recognise the market forces at work that draw them away from choosing teaching as a career. This is an argument we hear time and time again.

Geography 85

Geography History Teaching Tradition 85

ED Surge

MAY 6, 2022

Coursera, another giant online provider that works with traditional colleges, runs special rate promotions as well. In a crowded market, where the barrier of geography has been eliminated, providers of online education say they have been forced to spend more time, energy and money on marketing.

EdTech 113

EdTech Geography Library Economics 113

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 2, 2023

Regardless of geography, nearly all school districts face chronic challenges finding teachers for math, science, special education, foreign languages and bilingual education. This is especially true in lower-income urban districts, where academic challenges are the greatest and most persistent.

K-12 106

K-12 Geography High School Economics 106

ED Surge

MARCH 13, 2024

With diverse perspectives, backgrounds, geographies, identities and areas of expertise, these writers offered a wide range of important stories — each one unique in its own way.

Education 110

Education Elementary School EdTech Geography 110

Anthropology.net

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

The Role of Technology in Unveiling Ancient Secrets The sheer vastness of the Nazca Pampa, covering an area of about 400 square kilometers (154 square miles), presents significant challenges for traditional archaeological fieldwork. The plateau’s immense size, combined with centuries of weathering, has obscured many of the glyphs.

Archaeology 98

Archaeology Geography Humanities Cultures 98

Moler's Musing

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

This week, I took a hard look at my teaching approach and realized I had been falling into a pattern of overloading my lessons with too much traditional content. This analysis helped students build context and draw connections between geography and colonization strategies. What geographic trait did these colonies have in common?

Geography 108

Geography Critical Thinking Tradition Middle School 108

Political Science Now

JULY 11, 2024

In addition to teaching traditional political science courses, she serves as campaign manager for the campus-wide voter mobilization program Vote Oswego and coordinator of SUNY Oswego’s broader civic engagement efforts. King is an assistant professor of political science and geography at Old Dominion University. Dr. Athena M.

Civic Engagement 68

Civic Engagement Teaching Civics Political Science 68

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 31, 2018

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. Dunning followed up with a traditional class discussion in which students were eager to share what they learned.

K-12 110

K-12 Geography World History Library 110

ED Surge

APRIL 25, 2022

Something that hinders us here in Caldwell County is the geography. You gain such valuable information and insight that you don't get through a traditional education program. So, we do try to look at equity. Certainly, we want to make sure that we're not advantaging one population or one area above another.

EdTech 103

EdTech Geography Learning Science Economics 103

Living Geography

JULY 1, 2024

At the Home of Geography' will share my work as the Vice President: Education of the Royal Geographical Society. All RGS members are invited to attend the Chair's opening plenary conversation on mapping geography , whether they are attending the conference or not. A cross posting from my new blog. 'At

Geography 40

Geography Archiving Tradition Research 40

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 2, 2019

It’s a challenge that administrators of the programs are just beginning to grapple with, and it is emerging as New Jersey faces a legal battle over segregation in its traditional public schools, which are among the most racially divided in the nation. These relationships are carefully nurtured by school staff — and aided by geography.

Education 110

Education High School Tradition Geography 110

Dangerously Irrelevant

OCTOBER 13, 2015

communities of geography – Connected learning gallery walk – Interrogating our instruction: Are these connected lessons any good? traditional classroom ‘projects’ (how is PBL different from what we normally do in our classes?) – Interrogating our instruction: Are these elementary and middle school projects any good?

Leadership 107

Leadership Professional Development Geography Project-Based Learning 107

The Hechinger Report

JULY 16, 2018

Narrow nationalist parties of various sorts are on the rise around the world, and here in the United States religion, ethnicity, geography and politics increasingly define us. In Myanmar, the government has defined its Muslim minority as non-citizens. More than one million international students came to the U.S.

Geography 73

Geography Community Engagement Economics Government 73

Geography Education

MAY 1, 2024

Migrant from what are now the countries of Syria, Lebanon, Israel, and Turkey brought the Middle Eastern traditional manner of cooking meat and it became a new thing when it can to Mexico. Street tacos made with meat cooked on a rotating spit (al pastor) came to Mexican after WWI and the collapse of the Ottoman Empire.

Heritage 130

Heritage Cultures Economics Tradition 130

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. Traditional stories rely on 2D technologies like paper or images. Challenge Collaboratives: Next Gen R&D.

K-12 77

K-12 Geography Humanities Economics 77

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 27, 2019

Despite the course’s critical importance, students in juvenile-justice facilities are 25 percentage points less likely to have access to Algebra 1 than their peers in traditional schools. And within juvenile-justice schools, Native American students are much less likely to have access to Algebra 1 than their peers.

Geography 71

Geography High School Tradition Cultures 71

Society for Classical Studies

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

(The American Classical League) Queer Families in the Ancient Mediterranean World (Lambda Classical Caucus) Organization, Display, and Transfer of Knowledge (ASGLE and ASP Joint Panel) New Directions in Papyrology and Epigraphy in the 21st Century (ASGLE and ASP J… Re-evaluating Turnus in Vergil and the Vergilian Tradition (The Vergilian Socie… Medical (..)

Geography 52

Geography Pedagogy Tradition Cultures 52

Anthropology 365

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Undergraduate and graduate students will benefit from the book’s interdisciplinary approach, integrating traditional anthropological perspectives with innovative methods and theories. This approach is a fresh take that shifts our gaze to moments of potential and demonstrates how positive multispecies relationships can thrive.

Anthropology 40

Anthropology Humanities Cultures Geography 40

Ashleigh's Education Journey

APRIL 25, 2013

Most of my students have a very limited background knowledge with geography. It is easy to get kids REALLY excited about geography. I wanted to do something a little different from a traditional research project, so I made one with a twist. I’ve learned two things doing this: 1.

Research 52

Research Geography Tradition Social Studies 52

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 9, 2016

But for students who may not have a home computer or Internet access, whose parents don’t speak English or haven’t been to college, or who don’t come from a traditional family, the application itself sometimes seems like just one more barrier between them and their dreams.

Library 107

Library K-12 Public School Geography 107

Dr. Shannon Doak

MAY 28, 2024

The traditional content-heavy curriculum, obsessed with low-level content mastery and memorization, no longer fits the bill for our rapidly evolving society. This approach breaks down the traditional barriers between subjects, allowing students to see the connections between different fields of study.

Education 58

Education Project-Based Learning Critical Thinking Geography 58

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

Teacher shortage is primarily a function of race and geography,” the authors wrote. Educators say the message they constantly get from lawmakers is that traditional public schools aren’t worth investing in. These factors are situated squarely in enduring cultural, social, and historical issues of race in Mississippi.”.

Charter School 104

Charter School Economics Middle School Public School 104

Ben Newmark

OCTOBER 7, 2024

Hereditary status and privilege were no better than what we have now and would do great harm if we tried to reintroduce it, especially now the world is more secular than it was with religion less able to offer the traditional counter-narrative that regardless of rank all would be judged as equals by God after death.

Tradition 108

Tradition Geography History Humanities 108

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 2, 2024

It’s a Mississippi tradition where politicians come to make speeches. And Emporia State in Kansas, Missouri Western State University, the University of Alaska system. And these aren’t just a few programs here and there that were dropped, Kirk, but dozens. Criminal justice. Philosophy. Political science. Kirk: Okay, we get it.

Education 129

Education High School Government Economics 129

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