Moler's Musing

APRIL 11, 2025

No one complained, and the government made sure everything was perfect. Theyre human first. EdPuzzle We watched a high school-level EdPuzzle on slavery and resistance. Immigrants had an easy time finding jobs and were treated fairly. Factory workers only worked a few hours a day, and their jobs were fun and safe.

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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. Michelle Adler, social studies teacher and local union president, Gray-New Gloucester High School.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 5, 2018

Laci Hargrove, 18, who fell short of the high school credits she needed to graduate, moved straight from high school to a HiSET-prep program that also provides her with needed social supports. When Laci Hargrove turned 16, she was a sophomore in high school with nowhere near the credits she needed for her grade level.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Text messages to parents about their school-aged children led to better grades and attendance. Based on these early successes, education leaders in government and nonprofit organizations sought to bring the power of text messages to hundreds of thousands of students. 1/2) Hi [first_name]. We’re narrowing in on where nudging is useful.

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Political Science Now

OCTOBER 1, 2024

This summer, the American Political Science Association partnered with Montgomery County Public School (MCPS) District’s Summer Rise Program to offer three high school students the opportunity to gain experience in political science knowledge production and higher education non-profits.

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ED Surge

MARCH 31, 2023

After 20 years teaching music, what I’ve learned is that the arts are essential because humans are inherently creative beings and must be given opportunities to develop their creativity in order to fully understand themselves and participate in a pluralistic society. In middle school, that number drops to 78 hours.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Alphina Kamara wonders what might have happened if she’d been introduced to science and engineering careers at her Wilmington, Delaware, high school. Alphina Kamara, now a junior at Wesleyan University, wishes she would have been encouraged to take her school’s engineering course in high school. Perkins Act.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 17, 2023

As a student at Poughkeepsie High School in upstate New York and then as a high school educator in the Bronx, I’ve observed, both inside and outside the classroom, that many of us develop unconscious biases. However, one teacher, my history teacher, seemed bothered that I had worn African attire to school.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Fortunately, in light of democracy’s fragility, there has been a steady increase in initiatives from federal and state governments to incorporate civics education in K-12 classrooms. In 2020, California adopted a State Seal of Civic Engagement that high school students can earn upon graduation.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 12, 2024

Yancy Sanes teaches a unit on the climate crisis at Fannie Lou Hamer High School in the Bronx – not climate change, but the climatecrisis. He is unequivocal that he wants his high school students to be climate activists. “I I need to take my students outside and have them actually do the work of protesting.”

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 11, 2023

Email Address Choose from our newsletters Weekly Update Future of Learning Higher Education Early Childhood Proof Points Leave this field empty if you’re human: Anna Maria Jack says she isn’t flustered when students bring up fringe science denial theories during her 10th grade Earth science class in the Bronx.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Brown loves — and has long loved — learning about history, civics, geography and government, in part because he had teachers who brought infectious energy and enthusiasm to those lessons. Later on, as I went into middle and high school and was wondering what I wanted to do in my career, I would think about teaching, and Ms.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Retrieved from [link] The stats on school staffing might seem like a violation of the laws of supply and demand. This story also appeared in Mind/Shift In the past decade, the population of elementary, middle and high school students in Massachusetts dropped by 42,000 while the number of school employees grew by 18,000.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 4, 2020

They’d spent the past decade grappling with declining enrollments and weakening support from state governments. Demographics are working against institutions in parts of the country as the number of teens — and thus the number of high school graduates — drops. This story also appeared in NBC News.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Jon: But the decline in college opportunity for rural high school graduates is only widening social, economic and political divides between rural America and the rest of the country. Megan Hickerson: And I knew the humanities, because the humanities are always under attack these days, right? Jon: So, hey, Kirk — pop quiz.

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ED Surge

APRIL 20, 2022

New research published this week by the Society for Human Resource Management aims to address those questions. But even before an application finds its way to a human, it often has to pass through an automated screening process. How will he or she react to an application that has an alternative credential instead of a college degree?

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 13, 2023

Email Address Choose from our newsletters Weekly Update Future of Learning Higher Education Early Childhood Proof Points Leave this field empty if you’re human: By the close of this century, at least half of the more than 7,000 languages spoken today will become extinct – and that’s according to the rosiest of linguistic forecasts.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 6, 2022

Yet students at Collins Elementary join the increasingly isolated ranks of those legally paddled at school. One is in college and two are in high school in another district. Covington County Superintendent Babette Duty chalks those cases up to human error. Johnson is the mother of three girls.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 18, 2018

This, though, is rapidly changing — we visited a high school in Helsinki that is as diverse as any American high school.) The point, he said, is “the human values and the human principles that one learns in childhood. Fund schools equitably on the basis of need. However, the U.S.

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ED Surge

MAY 2, 2024

More than 26 members of local and national media were on hand for the splashy announcement (a detail that Carvalho noted in his remarks), and the event also featured a human dressed in a costume of the shiny animated character of Ed, which has also long been a mascot of the school district, for attendees to take selfies with.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 8, 2022

Larry Hogan announced in March that the state government would strip bachelor’s degree requirements from thousands of job listings. Jared Polis directed government agencies in his state to embrace hiring workers for skills , not degrees. jobs like registered nurse, human resources assistant, or help desk technician.)

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

For high school students in search of a career pathway that combines the challenges of building a floating city with the difficulty of launching a rocket into space, there’s a relatively little-known college major that might float their boat — naval architecture. Are we gonna refloat the boat? Garcia says.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 4, 2016

Robert Wells graduated from high school with a B+ average. Indeed in 2016 the federal government designated Tennessee’s VR grant “high risk” for most of the year, due to the state’s repeated inability to track how much money was being spent and on what. at Nashville State Community College. Photo: Meredith Kolodner.

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Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 13, 2019

Their immersive stories will be screened at the United Nations Headquarters in New York on September 24 and 25, days on which heads of state and government from around the world will gather to comprehensively review progress in the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the 17 SDGs. Photo Credit: Rafael Bittencourt.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 25, 2017

. Imagine you’re in high school. If any of these were isolated assignments that might be fine because you could likely do them during lunch or right after school. But in most cases, high school students today have several of these assignments made concurrently. Sign up for our newsletter. Weekly Update.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 12, 2018

Leave this field empty if you're human: Ames, Iowa is more than 1,500 miles from Parkland, Florida, but the school shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School felt too close for comfort. public schools practice some sort of lockdown drill according to the National Center for Education Statistics.

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Sapiens

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Working in Indonesia and Peru, we also use this research, and our close partnerships with local communities and organizations, to spur action that supports gender equality and the basic human right to water. For government authorities, we created policy briefs, translated into Bahasa Indonesian and Spanish. An estimated “1.8

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 21, 2021

She’d married not long after graduating from high school in 1981, had three children soon after that, and then gone to work for McDonald’s to make ends meet after her marriage ended. Despite recent talk of debt relief and free college, little government help has been forthcoming, especially for working adults.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Students from City As School high school in New York City think like engineers as they construct a water filtration system. Five groups of high school students worked around tables in Vielca Anglin’s science classroom on a recent afternoon at City-As-School in New York City. Weekly Update. Higher Education.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 5, 2019

During a John Muir High School walkout protesting the school’s ban on durags on Wednesday, February 20, 2019, Dylan Wilson, 15, shows his 360 wave hairstyle, created after months of wearing a durag. However, if there is an issue in which schools need guidance, it’s around black hair. Late last year, U.S.

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ED Surge

JUNE 4, 2024

Department of Health and Human Services estimates that more than a third of the country lives in an area where there is a shortage of mental health professionals, with at least 6,000 additional practitioners needed. Nobody understands teenagers more than somebody who has recently been through high school.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 24, 2022

It’s a digital world where internet users retain ownership of their online activities—their intellectual property, or IP—which are tracked by blockchains, which help everyone make money without having to rely on governments, institutions or corporations. At least, in theory. That’s not a new ideology within education.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

But in other regions of the country, districts are grappling with a need for air conditioning that didn’t exist when school buildings were first constructed. Nationwide, an estimated 41 percent of districts need to update or replace HVAC systems in at least half of their schools, according to a 2020 report from the U.S.

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Teaching American History

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Czarnecki, a 2022 graduate of the Master of Arts in American History and Government program, wrote the paper for a “Great Texts” course taught by Professor Stephen Tootle on John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath. High school students are not “too young” to probe historians’ methods, Czarnecki said, given what’s at stake.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Credit: Austin Anthony for The Hechinger Report Speaking comes naturally to most children, being a gift of human evolution, but reading and writing are inventions that must be consciously and painstakingly learned. Because human brains are organized in diverse ways, some people’s reading circuits end up being inefficient.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 9, 2018

Some students at Custer County District High School in Miles City, Montana, live 25 miles or more from campus and have spotty internet access. On her ranch far from the high-powered fiberoptic connections of major cities, Traci Glasscock was frustrated. Related: The high school grads least likely in America to go to college?

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 1, 2018

Her first two years of high school, she cycled through three different schools. Nationally, just 50 percent of foster youth graduate high school by age 18, according to estimates, and 2 to 9 percent obtain a bachelor’s degree. Government programs have also freed up some financial support.

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