The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 13, 2024

Like many high school chemistry teachers, Angie Hackman instructs students on atoms, matter and, she says, how they “influence the world around us.” But very few schools currently integrate effective literacy practices into content classes, according to experts on reading.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 11, 2024

Kim, a reading specialist, and other researchers had developed two sets of multi-year lesson plans, one for science and one for social studies. When schools shut down in the spring of 2020, the researchers scrapped the planned social studies units for second graders. Sign up for the Proof Points newsletter.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

The science and social studies topics should be sequenced so that the ideas build upon each other, and paired with vocabulary that will be useful in the future. The big question is whether the theory that more knowledge improves reading comprehension applies to real schools where children are reading below grade level.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 8, 2021

2nd grade social studies. 6th grade science. High school Advanced Placement. But it’s an open question whether students can learn every subject this way. Four new studies released in February 2021 are helping to fill this void. The George Lucas Foundation financed the four studies. Curriculum.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Study: Boosting soft skills is better than raising test scores. A Chicago study makes the case that high schools that build social-emotional skills, such as the ability to resolve conflicts and the motivation to work hard, are getting even better results for students than schools that only boost test scores.

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 2, 2019

At the middle school level, they tested the mobile apps students were piloting using App-Inventor and dropped in to one of the country’s first-ever middle school cybersecurity courses.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 10, 2025

Most of the studies took place after 2000 and included observations of almost 1,800 teachers. The studies not only looked at reading or English language arts classes, but also science and social studies. In some of the studies, researchers recorded hours of instruction and analyzed transcripts.

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