The Hechinger Report

MARCH 12, 2024

And, emerging best practices in civics education include something called “ action civics ,” in which teachers in civics and government classes guide kids to take action locally on issues they choose. She became passionate about climate justice and the human impact on the environment, and ended up majoring in urban forestry.

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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. Being equipped as citizens goes beyond our ability to name the three branches of government or the history of political parties.

Civics 111

Civics Education Civic Engagement K-12 111

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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ACRE

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Rosemarie Fike, an Instructor of Economics at Texas Christian University and a Senior Fellow at the Fraser Institute presented a lecture on Dr. Claudia Goldin and her accomplishments to university undergraduates and K-12 educators from around the state. Connections to Arkansas Learning Standards: Economics: E.3.ECON.3&4 History: H.5.USH.8

Economics 52

Economics K-12 Civics History 52

ED Surge

JULY 28, 2022

Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), not from the tribes themselves. There are a handful of government offices—like the Bureau of Indian Affairs in the Interior Department and HHS—that would need to collaborate on the issue, Smith says. Not from the Census Bureau, not from the U.S. During her 16-year career in the U.S.

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ED Surge

MAY 23, 2022

And though the struggles in early childhood education are largely systemic, it’s the individual, humanizing, heart-wrenching stories that are more likely to change public perception and, eventually, shift policy. Just as often, though, it’s not a K-12 school the educators are leaving for. This predicament is not rare.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 25, 2022

deBoer has taught in both the K-12 and college setting, and he has served as an academic assessment manager at a college. He traces that viewpoint back to the 1983 government report, “ A Nation at Risk ,” which he says coincided with a decline in manufacturing jobs in the U.S. And that's typically uncontroversial.

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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. Across the country, 3,700 K-12 schools and 900 universities have implemented ALICE Training since the early 2000s. Weekly Update.

K-12 96

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2021

Nationwide, significant progress has been made since March 2020 on closing the digital divide – the chasm between those K-12 learners who have access to reliable internet and computing devices at home and those who don’t. We wanted to be more than just a support mechanism. This is essential to access education”.

K-12 142

K-12 Library Lesson Plan Professional Development 142

The Hechinger Report

JULY 29, 2018

K-12 public education costs about twice this on an hourly basis, in part because public school teachers typically make much more than early childhood center staff, the government doesn’t have the spending constraints of families, and the K-12 dollar figure includes spending on services for students with disabilities.

K-12 57

K-12 Economics Government Humanities 57

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Drafted by representatives of K-12 education, higher education, industry and state governments between 2011 and 2013, the standards call for schools to help students build on science knowledge from one year to the next and make connections across disciplines that have historically been approached as completely separate.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 9, 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: This type of care is especially common in low income communities, among families with limited English proficiency, in immigrant communities and for children with disabilities.

K-12 137

K-12 Cultures Interactive Learning Humanities 137

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

The American Rescue Act is giving $ 123 billion to K-12 schools and districts. The federal government is seeking expansion of this support. Last year, over 40 percent of communication from schools to families on our platform concerned ways to access basic human services, like meals, the internet and social welfare benefits.

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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. Related SDGs: Goals 2, 3, 8, 12.

K-12 123

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 16, 2019

The historically majority-white district, which served 14,150 K-12 students, 61 percent of whom qualified for free or reduced-price lunch in the 2018-19 school year, has seen a recent influx of immigrants from around the world. There is no society, there is no human culture, without the arts.”. The arts are the arts.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 4, 2020

Some members of the institution’s own governing board were surprised when they were confronted with these facts. In a system of shared governance, they’re also served by keeping the faculty content. Other spending, too, continued to go up. The university overspent its budget by millions of dollars in each of the last five years.

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Government Sociology K-12 Political Science 131

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 17, 2019

Leave this field empty if you're human: Automation affects workers around the world — nearly half of the employers surveyed by the World Economic Forum last year expected automation would reduce their workforce by 2022. As machines become more important, we need to get better at being human. Develop human skills. Weekly Update.

K-12 86

K-12 Economics Humanities High School 86

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 5, 2023

Some 3,200 students, many of them the first in their families to attend college, are participating in the inaugural year of the New Deal-esque program , in service jobs in K-12 education, food insecurity and climate mitigation.

Elementary School 106

Elementary School K-12 Government Psychology 106

ED Surge

MAY 24, 2023

In the wake of the Atlanta Spa shootings and a surge in violence against Asian Americans throughout the pandemic, Illinois made history by becoming the first state to mandate that Asian American history be taught in public K-12 schools beginning in the 2022-23 school year.

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Inclusive Curriculum American History Primary Sources Professional Development 103

The Hechinger Report

MAY 13, 2022

“Economic and workforce development have been disrupted, so proposals that link education and the economy are going to be priorities on governors’ agendas,” said Tom Harnisch, vice president for government relations at the State Higher Education Executive Officers Association, or SHEEO. Eric Holcomb. There is power in their synergy.”.

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Education Economics K-12 Government 97

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 10, 2017

The biggest takeaway for me,” said researcher Lindsay Weixler, “is the mismatch between decentralized school governance and an optional program like pre-k.”. In New Orleans, just 40 percent of students in a school’s pre-k stayed through third grade, when state testing begins, according to the study. Mississippi Learning.

Charter School 62

Charter School Research K-12 Education 62

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 19, 2021

As humans continue to unleash greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, fires, hurricanes, floods, droughts and heat waves are intensifying, in some cases forcing kids to flee their homes and classrooms and shattering their sense of security. But money hasn’t been forthcoming.

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Education Elementary School K-12 High School 141

ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

The SSDS gathers information about school system capabilities and infrastructure for leveraging education data in six domains: governance, leadership and vision, technology and infrastructure landscape, implementation fidelity, procurement and impact on educational environment.

K-12 120

K-12 EdTech Leadership Government 120

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 25, 2018

Leave this field empty if you're human: “Very few countries are taking the bull by the horns when it comes to adapting education systems for the age of automation,” Saadia Zahidi, head of education, gender and employment for the World Economic Forum, said in the report. Those that are have long had a clear focus on human capital development.

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Education Policy Government Critical Thinking Humanities 101

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

More than a dozen states don’t have any language in their science standards about human-caused climate change, according to the National Center for Science Education. It’s more ambiguous as to the causes of climate change, and the human role in causing climate change, than some other states,” she says. They raise cattle.

Humanities 111

Humanities Social Studies Teaching Government 111

ED Surge

AUGUST 8, 2024

Chris Nelson teaches preschool in rural Vermont, just a few miles from the Canadian border, but not in the school or child care center most people think of when they imagine state or locally funded pre-K. For many rural families especially, the barriers of paying for and getting their children to a pre-K program are just too great.

K-12 125

K-12 Government Teaching Humanities 125

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 29, 2020

Leave this field empty if you're human: Recent college graduates, working as Americorps members, serve as Saga’s tutors. The study assigned 2,718 boys in ninth and 10th grade across 12 schools either to get the tutoring or not. Sign up for the Future of Learning newsletter. Choose as many newsletters as you like. Weekly Update.

Tutoring 139

Tutoring Research Education Policy Government 139

The Hechinger Report

JULY 18, 2019

Leave this field empty if you're human: A lot has been written about the “homework gap” in recent years, meaning the disadvantage placed on students in low-income and rural areas where they can’t get speedy internet service to keep up with the expectations schools increasingly have for student online access. Weekly Update. Higher Education.

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Education Government Library Humanities 88

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 10, 2018

House of Representatives to fund the federal government through September 2018. “We are optimistic that Congress will work to fund the government before the deadline, and ask that they also restore this critical funding to support educators.” Leave this field empty if you're human: On September 7, the U.S.

Education 87

Education Government Professional Development Public School 87

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 5, 2018

In a number of states, including Louisiana, adult education — which ranges from basic literacy to vocational training to high-school equivalency testing — is lumped with technical and community colleges, separate from the K-12 system. My grades were perfect. For each student who drops out, high schools earn a zero. Weekly Update.

High School 54

High School K-12 Tutoring Elementary School 54

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 5, 2019

The federal government and the Department of Education need to start taking their responsibility for prohibiting discrimination seriously and crack down on schools that punish black people for their hair and hair styles. Durags are used to create the wave hairstyle. Related: Denver teachers are next to take to the picket line.

Charter School 103

Charter School Human Rights Government High School 103

The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2020

Like McKneely, some educators, government officials and policy experts around the country say the coronavirus carries lessons for another global crisis of our time, climate change. “We are building all of that now to make sure we’re better prepared,” he said. Alberto Carvalho, Miami-Dade superintendent.

Charter School 115

Charter School Middle School Tutoring Advocacy 115

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Leave this field empty if you're human: To meet Slavin’s standards, researchers had to compare how much students improved in writing with students who weren’t exposed to a particular writing method and were taught to write as usual. Sign up for Jill Barshay's Proof Points newsletter. Choose from our newsletters. Weekly Update.

Teaching 99

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 18, 2018

Leave this field empty if you're human: Families in Mississippi spend an average of nearly $2,000 for just five weeks of enrollment in a summer learning program. Department of Health and Human Services considers child care affordable if it is 7 percent or less of household income.

Humanities 48

Humanities Government Research Education 48

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 26, 2019

Leave this field empty if you're human: The kind of leadership and responsibility that shone through EB’s speech is actively encouraged at this unusual program in rural Maine. Sign up for the Future of Learning newsletter. Choose as many newsletters as you like. Weekly Update. Future of Learning. Higher Education. Mississippi Learning.

Project-Based Learning 91

Project-Based Learning Lesson Plan High School Tradition 91

The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2016

No amount of mentoring can repair the damage done to black youth in Flint, Michigan who’ve been drinking lead-poisoned water because of malign government neglect. John Bel Edwards and other legislators needed to know how to effectively demand changes to the barriers of human potential and persuade others to join the movement.

Elementary School 0

Elementary School Humanities Public School Government 0

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 27, 2018

They created multicolored posters to explain what different departments of local government do, from sanitation to human resources. Arriving with their notebooks, the seven-year-olds jotted down safety problems. Back in the classroom, they discussed their ideas for improvement.

Project-Based Learning 111

Project-Based Learning Historic Sites Civics Social Studies 111