The Hechinger Report

JULY 9, 2024

The debate is about the best mix — what are AI’s most effective roles in helping students learn, and what aspects of teaching should remain indelibly human no matter how powerful AI becomes? But, there aren’t enough human tutors available nor enough money to pay for them, especially in the wake of pandemic-induced learning loss.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 9, 2025

If you’re sitting in the shoes of a district leader, taking a multi-pronged approach is probably very sensible, said Jennifer DePaoli, a senior researcher at the Learning Policy Institute, who has studied school safety. Related: Schools are surveilling students to prevent gun violence or suicide. That’s the truth, right?

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

Meanwhile, factors like ninth grade GPA and attendance may be better predictors of high school graduation rates than any standardized test. Alison Baulos is the executive director of the Center for the Economics of Human Development. Related: Become a lifelong learner.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 5, 2022

I took calculus as a high school senior. Only 20 or so students at the large Catholic all-girls school I attended in Chicago were in the class. Yet calculus continues to enjoy a singular status in high school advanced math. It was the ultimate destination on the advanced math track.

High School 116

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A Principal's Reflections

NOVEMBER 19, 2023

Pursuing improvement is a never-ending process because the landscape of knowledge, technology, and human understanding is in a perpetual state of evolution. Furthermore, the human capacity for growth and learning is boundless. My work with Quest Academy Junior High School (UT) validates why change succeeds or fails.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 3, 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: There has been a growing understanding that our education system hasn’t done enough to provide students the skills they need for the workforce.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

In our tech-driven world, the value of human connection can’t be overstated. As a result, there’s a significant gap between students’ soft skill attainment as they leave high school and what’s needed to be successful in the workforce and as happy contributors to society.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Giving students the space to do what they need gives them the power as human beings to decide how to use their time. As a high school teacher, this is especially important as many of my students are nearing adulthood. Knowledge is not just about content, but about getting to know other human beings.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 23, 2025

We rewarded students for getting the right answers, for competing rather than collaborating, for mastering subjects rather than navigating human relationships. In 2020, 44 percent of high school youth reported having no source of supportive relationships either adults or peers, a reduction by half from a decade earlier.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 18, 2024

The post AI vs. humans: Who comes out ahead? appeared first on The Hechinger Report.

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Cult of Pedagogy

APRIL 28, 2024

After some trial and error, I have developed my own method for teaching annotation, which I’ll share here, along with the process my colleague Irene Yannascoli uses at the high school level. Click here to make a copy of the high school process for your Google Drive. Responsive annotation does just this.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 8, 2025

One of the first times I felt like I was in community was in my high school jazz band as a teenager. I auditioned to be a part of the Ravinia Scholars , joining a group of teenage musicians from high schools all over Chicago. Dignity: How is my/our human value celebrated?

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 20, 2024

And that’s a major reason why middle and high school teachers don’t assign more writing to their students. Even an efficient high school English teacher who can read and evaluate an essay in 20 minutes would spend 3,000 minutes, or 50 hours, grading if she’s teaching six classes of 25 students each.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 17, 2025

And two episodes of our narrative series about the growing skepticism of college made the cut, both of which focused on how students are changing how they think about what to do after high school. But some teaching experts say tutoring should be reserved for humans who can motivate and understand the students they work with.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

But theres also a strong emphasis on what we call human-only skills ethics, creative problem-solving, design thinking and user experience. The conversations in kindergarten look different from those in high school. In-house collaboration is also vital, whether cross-divisional or from school to district.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 16, 2022

Southern has been a celebrity ever since she was back in high school: She was a contestant on American Idol when she was 17, in that popular reality show’s third season. These days she’s a digital strategist looking at how things like the blockchain, the metaverse and AI might change human expression.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 6, 2025

When she arrived at Southern Maine Womens Reentry Center in December 2021, she was 51, had left high school when she was 16, and had only attended two weeks of a ninth grade math class. Since 2022 , shes been pursuing an associates degree in human services from prison through a remote program with Washington County Community College.

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Cult of Pedagogy

APRIL 13, 2025

Heather Messer , a teacher and advisor at a Wisconsin school where competency-based learning is a school-wide practice. Beth Blankenship , an English teacher who has figured out how to use competency-based learning at her Virginia high school, a school that still uses traditional grading.

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A Principal's Reflections

SEPTEMBER 24, 2017

All one has to do is take a look at the evolution of the human species to see how important innovation has been leading to society as we now know it. As a result, we have seen some pretty amazing changes in a short period in schools across the world. New ideas leading to improvements have been occurring since the beginning of time.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 27, 2025

Inclusion in the general education classroom is a human right Abby Taylor recently earned her doctorate in special education at Vanderbilt University, where Douglas Fuchs, the author of the controversial paper, is a professor. More than 160 people commented on one Reddit discussion about the story. Comments were lightly edited for clarity.)

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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

MARCH 25, 2025

Geiger began to see less humanity shining through and more instances of words like cornerstone and bedrock that are not commonly used by typical teenagers. It checked almost 1,000 essays submitted for one scholarship and determined that about 42 percent of them had likely been composed with the help of generative AI.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

This story also appeared in Mind/Shift The latest warning sign comes from college admissions test maker ACT, which compared students’ ACT test scores with their self-reported high school grades between 2010 and 2022. Grade inflation accelerated after 2016 and intensified during the pandemic, as schools relaxed standards.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 25, 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: While the reading and math “wars” have gotten a lot of attention in education in recent years, writing instruction has not received that same focus.

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Teaching American History

JANUARY 28, 2025

The plan the Court eventually endorsed unanimously for Charlotteafter much negotiation among the judgesused a combination of newly organized magnet schools and long bus rides to achieve integration. I was only dimly aware that my father served on the local Human Relations Committee. They decided that Reid School would close for good.

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Education American History Junior High History 59

Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Maritime High School in Des Moines, Washington—a collaborative project between the Port of Seattle , the Northwest Maritime Center , Duwamish River Cleanup Coalition , and Highline Public Schools —welcomed its inaugural freshman class this month. That feels like a problem—a huge injustice.”.

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Project-Based Learning High School Public School Humanities 139

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.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 23, 2025

SSTRIDE introduces middle and high school students to real-world medical environments, giving them firsthand exposure to health care settings that might otherwise feel distant or inaccessible. read more STUDENT VOICE: Humanities are in trouble in the state of Florida. Sign up for Hechingers weekly newsletter.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 8, 2024

An overhaul last year meant to simplify the process only made things worse, with delays and technical problems that led to even lower completion rates and contributed to a decline of 7 percentage points in the proportion of high school seniors going directly to college, according to the National College Attainment Network, or NCAN.

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Advocacy High School Humanities Education 76

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2024

The other day, one of my students told me that she’d been assigned the lyrics of Kendrick Lamar for her high school English class. It was the first time I had encountered a high school English assignment involving an author with whom I was wholly unfamiliar. Sign up for Hechinger’s weekly newsletter.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Hirsch, a professor emeritus of education and humanities at the University of Virginia, argues that democracy benefits when the citizenry shares a body of knowledge and history, which he calls cultural literacy. These ideas have revived interest in E.D. Hirschs Core Knowledge curriculum, which gained popularity in the late 1980s.

Teaching 131

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ED Surge

APRIL 30, 2025

Alena Zachery-Ross Superintendent, Ypsilanti Community Schools, Michigan EdSurge: Can you share your schools new designation and how it will have an impact on students and educators? We use AI to close the gaps by keeping humans in the loop when using the tools. Prioritize ethics and equity.

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K-12 Critical Thinking Public School Professional Development 63

Moler's Musing

APRIL 11, 2025

Theyre human first. EdPuzzle We watched a high school-level EdPuzzle on slavery and resistance. I introduced person-first language : enslaved person instead of slave enslaver instead of master freedom seeker instead of runaway I told students these words dont just sound betterthey shift how we see people.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 8, 2024

Digital educators, alert and available at all times, will soon replace their human counterparts and feed students with concentrated personalized content. Human educators — the teachers and the school counselors with whom students build emotional bonds and relationships of trust — are like the cloth mom. As often as they want?

Humanities 119

Humanities Tradition High School Research 119

ED Surge

DECEMBER 16, 2021

For 12 months, Oli kept company with about 500,000 students from the high school class of 2021, more than half of them low-income, minorities, or aspiring first-generation college students. When it first texts a student, it identifies itself as a bot and explains how to reach out to a human if needed.

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Humanities High School Research Education 144

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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American History High School Cultures History 126

ED Surge

JULY 31, 2024

Holding several new books, I was transported back to my high school years, a time before smartphones and social media, when I would cautiously approach the gay and lesbian section of my local bookstore. Recently, I found myself in Barnes and Noble, captivated by a "Read with Pride" display in the Young Adult section.

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Humanities Cultures High School Teaching 124