TCI

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

History in elementary and middle school; also require at least one year of U.S. History and one semester of civics in high school. Responding to these concerns, the federal government increased funding for K-12 civics and history education funding from $7.75 Provide detailed guidance in both subject areas.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 21, 2021

News & World Report released its first-ever rankings of public elementary and middle schools in the United States. Schools in the bottom quarter of all schools in a given jurisdiction were not ranked, but simply identified as being in the bottom quarter. Even “global authorities” can screw up! Related: Do U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 1, 2021

Under a first-in-the-nation law that took full effect this year, students from across the state must take part in at least two “student-led, nonpartisan civics projects” — one in eighth grade, and another in high school. Peyton Amaral, an eighth grader at Morton Middle School in Fall River, Mass., Credit: Christopher Blanchette.

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Let's Cultivate Greatness

MAY 31, 2024

Teaching civics and government is different from teaching history—it really requires a different set of go-to lesson ideas and projects. Below are some of my favorite activities from my high school Civics classroom. Many of them should also work great if you teach middle school.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 25, 2023

Research has become “increasingly clear” that career exploration should begin no later than middle school, said Maud Abeel, associate director at the nonprofit Jobs for the Future, who oversees the Possible Futures career exploration curriculum. Tejani, 13, is an apprentice for Julia Mejia, one of Boston’s city councilors.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

When Audrey Green, a middle school teacher in Broward County, Florida, began the year working remotely with her students, she had a lot to think about. Green is also a technology liaison at Silver Trail Middle School, so she was able to think of solutions to remote teaching issues that may trip up a less tech-savvy educator. “I’m

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ASHP CML

MARCH 18, 2025

Through playing Isla Preciosa, middle school students will investigate how the shift from Spanish rule to American governance affected the lives of Puerto Ricans at the turn of the 20th century, and what role Puerto Ricans, including youth, played in those transitions. invasion of Puerto Rico in 1898 and its aftermath.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 8, 2021

High school Advanced Placement. Government and Politics curriculum. This middle school project-based instruction was tested on more than 100 students in high-poverty schools in California. Related 2018 Hechinger coverage. 6th grade science. Developer: Stanford University Research. Curriculum. We know it works.

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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. To reach every student in the U.S.,

Civics 132

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 30, 2024

In New Zealand, where math scores on international tests in the past decade have fallen steeply, a new government campaigned on bringing a “back to basics” approach to education. The government has mandated an hour of reading, writing and mathematics in school each day and has banned cellphones.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 18, 2021

It was starting to feel like a normal seventh grade lunch at West Middle School. Isabella Rogers, 12, poses for a portrait at West Middle School on April 28 in Brockton, Massachusetts. This was the first week students were back at school in person, after a remote year due to COVID-19. BROCKTON, Mass. —

Middle School 110

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

In a 2016 survey by Harvard’s Center for Education Policy Research, 94 percent of middle school math teachers said they analyzed student performance on tests in the prior year, and 15 percent said they spent over 40 hours on this kind of data analysis.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Three recent reports from our organization, Education Reform Now , highlight transformative strategies that high-poverty schools across three states — Texas, Massachusetts and Colorado — are using to drive stronger student outcomes. No school governance model is predominant.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 31, 2017

Some folks know that I started my education career as a middle school Social Studies teacher in Charlotte, North Carolina. We could search for pins on Native American history , Middle East cultures , Japanese history , government , geography , sociology , psychology , economics , and numerous other topics.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 4, 2023

As a school counselor, I spend my days serving 835 middle school students in a rural district in Livingston, California. Education and government leaders are talking about mental health and well-being more directly. The borrowed words of Congressman John Lewis often echo in my mind: “If not us, then who? In 2021, U.S.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Celina Pierrottet remembers 2016 as the year when she and her colleagues at the middle school where they taught noted a pointed change among their students. “We That year we had a lot of kids who were displaying some sort of school avoidance and other behaviors that we hadn't quite seen as much. Pierrottet recalls.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 28, 2022

I first heard about Cajon Valley’s unusual approach while moderating a panel on middle school career exploration with David Miyashiro, the district’s superintendent. Related: What does ‘career readiness’ look like in middle school? “I bought Apple and Etsy, but Apple is veryexpensive,” Gio told me. “I Across the U.S.,

Middle School 121

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Related: If schools don’t overhaul discipline, ‘teachers will still be calling the police on our Black students’. Right now, some of us aren’t free to learn, explore and make mistakes in our schools. Instead, in our middle schools, we are seeing police handcuff our friends and slam them into cop cars.

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Education Government Middle School History 121

ED Surge

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Districts have taken a wide range of approaches, as documented by the Manpower Demonstration Research Corporation, a nonprofit that studies how government policies impact low-income families. Any student seen doing a good deed, like picking up trash in the hallway, is given a “Stinger Buck” that can be spent on prizes.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Now they are demanding a greater role in school policy and the decisions that shape their educations. The reality is that in most school governance systems, young people are systematically marginalized … and students play absolutely no role.” Related: Students have their own demands for school reopening.

Civics 143

Civics Civic Engagement High School Government 143

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. I did go into an elementary school and I learned that I did not want to be an elementary school teacher.

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History Museum Social Studies Geography 128

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 2, 2023

Researchers randomly assigned 21 elementary and middle schools to receive arts education first and watched what happened to 8,000 of their students in grades three through eight. They compared them with 8,000 students at 21 other schools that had to wait and didn’t get the extra arts for at least a couple years.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 27, 2020

According to the most recent federal data from the 2018-19 school year, there are now almost 118,000 school counselors in U.S. public schools and, more importantly, just 430 students, from kindergarten through 12th grade, for each school counselor.

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Middle School Government Public School Education 145

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

The federal government is pushing schools to spend a big chunk of their $122 billion in federal American Rescue Plan funds on tutoring , but bringing in armies of tutors into school buildings is a logistical nightmare. How well does online tutoring work? This is an important question.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 22, 2020

The analysis offers a comprehensive look at data that states will be required to report to the federal government at the end of this year under the Carl D. Yet encouragement from teachers and other school personnel can make a difference. Related: What does ‘career readiness’ look like in middle school? Perkins Act.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 25, 2023

She would also lead an upcoming meeting on the school’s finances, including how to spend federal pandemic relief dollars. And she was running for the school’s governing board. The Boston Teachers Union Pilot School, where Snyder has worked since 2012, is a “teacher-powered” school.

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Charter School Government Sociology Social Studies 138

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

At the Williston-Elko Middle School in rural South Carolina, where she has taught for seven years, more than three out of every four students are poor enough to qualify for free or reduced-priced lunch. After the 2008 recession, schools across the country cut spending by $600 per student, on average, and laid off thousands of teachers.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 9, 2017

But as more schools, districts, states and even the federal government begin to embrace the idea, personalized learning is coming into conflict with an older movement in American education: standards-based accountability. The most disadvantaged students benefit from that.”.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

While new data suggest students are making a “ ‘surprising’ rebound,” findings also show math and reading levels for elementary and middle school students are nowhere near pre-pandemic levels. Recognizing near the start of the pandemic that U.S.

Economics 109

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

Ever since enslaved blacks arrived on the shores of the English colony of Virginia in 1619 , white legislators at various levels of government have designed laws to explicitly control and suppress black people.

Charter School 145

Charter School Middle School High School Government 145

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Every campus in the parish school district sustained damage; internet access has been spotty at best. Residents say the federal government has been slow to respond, and with so much rental housing destroyed , housing options are limited. Now a middle school technology teacher at S.P. Arnett, a public school in Westlake.

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Charter School Psychology Middle School High School 140

ED Surge

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

In middle school, I participated in Future City , a STEM competition for middle schoolers. Even in our school, when assignments are handed back in class, students still rush to ask their classmates, “What did you get?” Personally, I have always enjoyed competition. A rush of emotions shuffles through the crowd.

Middle School 115

Middle School Elementary School Psychology Teaching 115

The Hechinger Report

MAY 11, 2023

government, according to data from the American Alliance of Museums. schools Given this public trust, science museums across the nation are taking on a bigger role in supporting teachers in the classroom and helping learners think critically about science. Related: How the science of vaccination is taught (or not) in U.S.

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Museum Teaching Professional Development High School 130

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 6, 2020

“… many Black families are choosing charter schools, where achievement gaps between Black and white students are closing, and longstanding systemic racism is being dismantled by an underlying belief that all children from all backgrounds are deserving and capable of academic success.”

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 22, 2020

I saw this dynamic at play years ago when I began volunteering with Black middle school students. Build mentor programs for Black and other students of color to engage with professionals, especially ones who look like them, in a variety of for-profit and nonprofit fields in business, government, the sciences and the arts.

Education 119

Education Middle School Government Teaching 119

The Hechinger Report

JULY 15, 2024

The virtual version has boomed since the federal government handed schools nearly $190 billion of pandemic recovery aid and specifically encouraged them to spend it on tutoring. Now, some new U.S. studies could offer useful guidance to educators.

Tutoring 123

Tutoring Elementary School Research Middle School 123

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 18, 2018

As we traveled through Finland, we met with top government officials, education professors, classroom teachers and elementary-school students. Reduce the homework load in elementary and middle schools to no more than 30 minutes per night, and make it responsibility-based rather than stress-based.

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