The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Using skills they’d learned in their computer science lessons, the students designed a traditional button blanket on a laser cutting machine. The program trains educators at K-12 schools whose students include Native children on different ways they can introduce young people to programming, robotics and coding.

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K-12 Heritage Middle School Tradition 133

ED Surge

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

That has caused a lot of anxiety among traditional public school advocates, and a lot of anxiety with progressives and Democrats who just really oppose this. And we've done it in a way that is consistent with the voucher program that [Republicans] love in the K-12 system. It includes $26.25

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K-12 Private School Government Advocacy 64

The Hechinger Report

MAY 19, 2024

Once the site of an Indian boarding school, where the federal government attempted to strip children of their tribal identity, the Native American Community Academy now offers the opposite: a public education designed to affirm and draw from each student’s traditional culture and language. The charter school, NACA, opened its doors in 2006.

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Charter School Heritage Education K-12 139

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

Johnson feels about Friday,” she told the students as she paced around the cafeteria in an “I am black history” shirt. “If In Louisiana, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Texas, dozens of taxpayer-funded public charters enroll far more white students than any of the traditional public schools in their areas. You know how Ms.

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Charter School History Library Public School 109

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Since then, states such as Arkansas and Texas have also opposed the true teaching of the history of Black people in this country by dropping African American history courses and eliminating diversity, equity and inclusion efforts. Our goals were not far-fetched or new. This is dire. Eugene Pringle Jr.

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Civic Engagement Education Civics K-12 135

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 20, 2023

Florida is doing its best to tilt the scales and shut down important, much-needed discussions of race, slavery, stolen lands, and undeniable history that have led us to where we are as a society today.” He added a dire warning: “What just happened in Florida … is coming your way. There’s nothing objectional.

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K-12 History American History Psychology 131

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 13, 2024

A law passed in Idaho in 2021 not only required all districts to teach reading using “evidence-based” instruction, it also required K-12 teacher preparation programs housed at any state institution of higher education to prepare teachers according to that reading plan. It gives me understanding of what’s going on,” Omar said.

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High School Teaching Primary Sources K-12 145

ED Surge

AUGUST 14, 2024

Some of them travel to the campus during the school day to take courses in introductory English, history, psychology and sociology. Of the nearly 10,000 students enrolled at Brookdale Community College in central New Jersey, about 17 percent are still in high school. We are trying to reach every high schooler in some way,” McElroy says.

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Sapiens

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

It turns out my skillset helps map places and histories that are significant in Wajãpi Oral Traditions. Together, we record every mark of the past as a relevant piece of history on Wajãpi Indigenous Land. We document their places and histories through GPS mapping, audio recordings, drawings, and photographs.

Archaeology 123

Archaeology Heritage K-12 History 123

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 10, 2022

My new book, “ From Reopen to Reinvent ,” makes a full-throated plea for more K-12 schools to adopt mastery-based learning, in which students only move on from a concept once they demonstrate mastery of the knowledge and skills at hand. The rest is history. Jordan improved and became a star varsity player.

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K-12 Project-Based Learning High School Tradition 129

The Hechinger Report

JULY 6, 2020

Similar accounts have popped up at elite, private K-12 schools. If you’re wondering if you can say the N-word, Black at Tulane has a detailed Instagram story explaining the history of the word and who should and shouldn’t say it. Since launching on June 12, Dear PWI has more than 20,000 followers.

Social Justice 136

Social Justice K-12 High School Tradition 136

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 18, 2019

These Native American children are learning to play double ball , a traditional indigenous game, or at least that seems to be the focus of their activity. In general, Native students in K-12 public schools in the United States experience higher-than-average rates of suspension, expulsion and school-related arrests.

Cultures 111

Cultures Education K-12 Government 111

Digital Promise

DECEMBER 14, 2016

These innovative art programs are the brainchild of Robert Hoang, who joined the Burbank team last year to teach visual arts to K–6 students, and to work with his colleagues to plan arts integration lessons. In the remote village of Nanwalek, Alaska, the K-12 school was planning to improve its slow, satellite-provided Internet connection.

Education 108

Education K-12 Middle School Professional Development 108

ED Surge

OCTOBER 3, 2023

The discussion tackled plenty of thorny issues facing K-12 and college instructors these days, including how to respond to pressures to ban books in schools, how to make classrooms a welcoming place for debate as schools and colleges grow more diverse, and how to respond to misinformation that students bring to classroom conversations.

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K-12 Pedagogy High School History 114

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 2, 2023

If left unaddressed, these related issues will have ramifications for generations of K-12 students. Multi-year experiences enable the student teacher not only to learn about the school and its community’s culture and history, but also to develop important relationships with other educators, parents and community members.

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K-12 Geography High School Economics 113

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 15, 2018

Andrea estimated she has worked at least 10 to 12 jobs since graduating from college six years ago. Think learning art and history by shadowing a curator in the summer months or learning the physics of sound through an internship with a sound engineer. Before that, she worked as a packer in various warehouses in the Midwest.

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K-12 Psychology High School Leadership 111

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 17, 2019

Today, more than half of K-12 students in the United States are students of color , yet four out of five teachers are white. For my own education, I opted for a traditional teacher-preparation program at Michigan State University, which focused on urban education and how to teach students who live in concentrated poverty.

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K-12 Elementary School Social Science Tradition 103

ED Surge

MARCH 20, 2024

Teaching creativity and creative thinking in K-12 has always been valued but often challenging to implement. Johnsrud: We have a lot of history of technology in the classroom that we can learn from. I know that's not always easy to do, but I like that AI is pushing this vision of authentic assessments forward a bit.

Pedagogy 134

Pedagogy Advocacy K-12 Professional Development 134

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 16, 2020

If there was ever a time to ask big, heretical questions about American K-12 education, it’s when schooling has been thrown into chaos by a pandemic, and Americans’ faith in institutions, including schools, is at ebb tide. This flies in the face of common sense and human history, deBoer argued. Hirsch, Jr.

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Education Charter School Social Justice K-12 127

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 11, 2016

But even then, teachers of traditional U.S. and global history classes are often crunched for time by the end of the school year and struggle to fit in discussions of any events that happened after the end of the Cold War in the 1990s. It’s going from the front pages of the newspaper to the history books.”.

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History Social Studies Museum Civics 75

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 21, 2017

On Twitter, users add lessons and resources to the #CharlottesvilleSyllabus and #CharlottesvilleCurriculum pages; everything from identity charts to readings on the history of white supremacy to conflict resolution activities. What was troubling enough as 20 th century history is happening in present time. history standards ?

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History Elementary School Library Civics 75

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 9, 2017

Despite comprising approximately 12 percent of the student population, students with disabilities represent 67 percent of the students subjected to restraint or seclusion in school, and 25 percent of students with school-related arrests. The post Will Attorney General nominee Jeff Sessions stumble over his history on disabled students?

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History Tradition Education K-12 84

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

But let’s hope the future doesn’t look like the Electronic Classroom of Tomorrow, which was Ohio’s largest online K-12 school before its operators shut it down due to a drop in enrollment, stemming from an apparent lack of the human touch. Consequently, students don’t have to spend hours memorizing formulas and moments in history.

Humanities 111

Humanities K-12 Civics Professional Development 111

Society for Classical Studies

MARCH 7, 2025

We invite proposals for individual papers, panels, and workshops/roundtables on any aspect of the Greco-Roman world, including but not limited to poetry (from epic, lyric, and pastoral to elegy, satire, and the epigram), drama, history, philosophy, archaeology, religion, and social life (from family and gender roles to slavery and prostitution).

Pedagogy 52

Pedagogy K-12 Archaeology Teaching 52

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 4, 2023

Even more disciplinary transfers likely occur when students are counseled to voluntarily switch from one traditional school to another. Ricky has a history of behavior problems in school, leading to detentions, Saturday school and occasional suspensions. Especially coming off of two years of catastrophic disruption to kids’ education.”

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K-12 Tradition Charter School High School 144

The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2018

Mitch Askew, a history teacher at Flagstaff High School, marches with his two-year-old son. His father, who’d worked construction himself and was the head custodian at Askew’s small K–12 public school, pointed him in a different direction. Courtesy of the Askew family. FLAGSTAFF, AZ. — Maybe teaching.”.

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K-12 Public School History Tutoring 99

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 31, 2018

Virtual reality (VR) is emerging as a way to provide deeper learning in K-12 schools. Dunning followed up with a traditional class discussion in which students were eager to share what they learned. Jada said she learned facts about wolves and monarch butterflies in the hunt.

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K-12 Geography World History Library 110

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. The district also offers courses like Digital Audio Production, History of American Pop and AP Music Theory.

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K-12 Elementary School Middle School High School 104

ED Surge

DECEMBER 20, 2023

In Black hair, we find art, creativity, history and connection. School policies that racialize traditional Black hairstyles as unkempt and unprofessional have placed targets on Black students that not only impact their self-esteem but also their ability to engage with their academic studies. The issue is not Black hair.

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K-12 Cultures Government Tradition 113

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

Unlike algebra or world history, there is no bubble sheet by which to judge students’ soft skills, let alone evaluate their growth over time. In addition to traditional academic grades, student report cards include marks from 1 to 4 on qualities such as organization, timeliness and accountability. I knew this was for me.

Charter School 108

Charter School K-12 Middle School High School 108

Anthropology News

OCTOBER 7, 2024

SEE Learning is a K-12 curriculum developed through a collaboration between Emory University and His Holiness the Dalai Lama, the spiritual leader of the Tibetan people. The translocal nature of Tibetan diasporic kinship bonds has a history that extends beyond current transnational migrations.

Heritage 98

Heritage Anthropology Education K-12 98

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

And of the positions that were filled, many were staffed by people who do not have traditional training or are not considered qualified to work in the subject area they are teaching. He first signed up for a college-credit world history class with Mitchell, who is also employed by a nearby community college to teach the course.

World History 141

World History Civic Engagement High School Elementary School 141

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 27, 2018

“This study shows that a well-designed project-based curriculum might be more effective than traditional instruction.” It’s a lot more involved than tacking on a project to a traditional unit of study by assigning students, for example, to make shoebox dioramas about a book they’ve read.

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Project-Based Learning Civics Historic Sites Social Studies 111

The Hechinger Report

JULY 14, 2019

I was trained and licensed to be a music teacher in the traditional American way. I took multiple semesters of musical technique, history and theory as well as music education methods. Almost all of what I just described was traditional. Incredibly traditional. My classes included all varieties of instruments.

Cultures 111

Cultures Education Middle School Tradition 111

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Most early college high schools are small public schools, housing grades nine to 12 just like traditional public high schools, though some extend five years. Most of these early college schools are now funded by local and state taxpayers, just as traditional high schools are, along with donations from other foundations.

High School 145

High School Research Tradition Tutoring 145

ED Surge

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

It’s a problem with a long history , and some experts say that even if colleges can graduate more students with teaching degrees, that alone won’t reverse the trend without broader reforms. Efforts that seem to be working have had a common ingredient: close ties between colleges and local K-12 school districts.

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K-12 Teaching Advocacy Classroom Management 98

The Hechinger Report

MAY 8, 2019

This single assignment asks students to master science, math, history and language arts standards, which is par for the course for these sixth graders. In English language arts, they did even better than their peers, growing more over the course of the year than students in the school’s traditional classrooms. That’s fine with Chew.

Project-Based Learning 112

Project-Based Learning Tradition Middle School Social Studies 112