ACRE

JUNE 9, 2023

The history of Dyess Colony, along with the Cash family, hold many stories and learning opportunities. The home has two modest bedrooms, a dining room and kitchen with traditional dishware & a wooden cook stove, and a Springer radio in the living area where Johnny Cash would spend hours listening to music.

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K-12 Historic Sites Artifacts Museum 52

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 History American History Pedagogy 93

ED Surge

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Monarch School, a public-private K-12 school, is an arrangement between the San Diego County Office of Education and a local nonprofit. The goal is to stabilize students enough to return to traditional schools, DeVries says. And getting homeless students to show up to school has been an elusive goal for many districts.

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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.

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Pedagogy Advocacy K-12 Economics 130

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 27, 2019

Related: Slavery still shapes all of our lives, yet kids aren’t taught its history. It is a call for us to continue the tradition of treating the first day of school like a revival of our communal spirit. Still, cuts are integral to the first day of school tradition. Aesthetics is a luxury that not everyone can afford.

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Tradition Public School History Cultures 40

Studies Weekly

APRIL 29, 2024

We hope students of Asian or Pacific Islander heritage share their experiences and their cultural traditions with their peers, and teachers include the contributions of Asian and Pacific Americans to our collective history in lessons this month. Mostly forgotten by history, thousands of Chinese immigrants, who came to the U.S.

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Heritage Teaching Ancestry Museum 59

ED Surge

JUNE 30, 2023

As another school year comes to a close, so does another cycle of our Voices of Change Writing Fellowship — a program that brings together a diverse cohort of K-12 educators and school leaders to share their experiences. For this story, I caught up with five of my former students that that became high school history teachers.

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A Principal's Reflections

SEPTEMBER 14, 2014

Enter the age of standardization and computerized assessments that will test the living daylights out of students in the United States over the course of their lifetime in K-12 education. One just has to refer to the history books to see how this has played out across the world since the beginning of time.

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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 92

ED Surge

APRIL 18, 2023

At the K-12 level, there’s been a push to create more flexibility in the school day for “immersive experiences,” like internships and hands-on projects, from players such as XQ Institute, the nonprofit supported by Emerson Collective that since 2015 has poured millions of dollars into efforts across the country to “rethink high school.”

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K-12 Civics Project-Based Learning High School 144

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 95

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.

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Social Justice K-12 Tradition History 124

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.

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Cultures Education K-12 Government 95

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 71

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 Cultures 138

ED Surge

JANUARY 31, 2022

Furthermore, within the vast scope of science history, men have continuously taken credit for women's intellectual work in science, a pervasive phenomenon known as the Matilda Effect. Even the standards that I am required to teach perpetuate this trend; every person named in the K-12 Texas Science Knowledge and Skills is white.

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K-12 Critical Thinking Humanities Cultures 101

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 106

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 71

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

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-12 113

ED Surge

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

as a female child of immigrants from Taiwan, this kind of behavior is practically sacrilegious; certainly scandalous and wildly antithetical to my traditional upbringing. school and university system, I wanted to find out how microaggressions shape the experiences of Asian American K-12 educators. Growing up in the U.S.

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Education K-12 Psychology Cultures 90

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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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.

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World History Civic Engagement Elementary School High School 134

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.

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Education K-12 Middle School Professional Development 84

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 31, 2018

history class this year, she described the American revolution and then expanded on the lesson, making connections to historical events in Mexico, Central America, the Dominican Republic and elsewhere in the Caribbean. schools, as teachers attempt to make a traditional, Eurocentric curriculum personally interesting to a diverse student body.

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Cultures American History Tradition History 108

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.

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Charter School K-12 Middle School Cultures 103

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 26, 2020

For nearly 50 years, the small private school has been led by the Grosses, a white family whose mission was to educate K-12 students from a Christian worldview. But like many Christian denominations grappling with historical racism , its preference throughout the 1970s and ‘80s was to ignore that history, Gross said, not to address it.

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Private School K-12 Economics Cultures 106

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 106

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.

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Cultures Education Middle School Tradition 111

Jonathan Firth

JUNE 7, 2019

Despite its long history, visual imagery has at times been neglected in the study of memory and learning. The theory Traditional theories of memory suggest that the speed with which we are presented with stimuli or the extent to which we make meaningful connections among them are what determines later ability to retrieve items from memory.

Psychology 52

Psychology K-12 Tradition History 52

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 Historic Sites Civics Social Studies 111

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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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 26, 2016

Therefore, any idea that not liking reform is somehow a refutation of black educators in charter schools is a terrible interpretation in the face of history. Hillary Clinton’s silence on K-12 education seemingly corresponds with a new chorus of criticisms. They aren’t saying change isn’t needed.

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Charter School K-12 Advocacy Tradition 44

The Hechinger Report

JULY 31, 2021

For millions of students, this is a summer like no other in the history of American public education. billion in federal K-12 aid. On their first day, July 12, she sent them on the bus with printouts of their Individualized Education Programs, personalized learning plans for students with disabilities.

Elementary School 111

Elementary School K-12 Middle School High School 111

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

Maikko, 2, in pink, Terrance, 1, in red, and Nylah, behind Terrance, dance as their child care provider, Lorna Parks, foreground, claps during a visit by staffers from Detroit’s African-American History Museum. By comparison, 76 percent of the K–12 teaching force is female, and 20 percent are people of color.).

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K-12 Primary Sources Museum History 80

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 28, 2019

A 10th grader, above, answers a question in one of those classes, which offers black history and culture along with social-emotional lessons and academic and college advice. Ann Hermes/The Christian Science Monitor via Getty Images. “Particularly in high school, there’s a fear of these kids.”

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Cultures Teaching High School History 92

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 4, 2019

The causes of the gender wage gap in education are complex and rooted in a long history of women making less than men in every profession, even ones where women have traditionally worked. A particularly unnecessary and easily solved barrier is the pay gap.

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Leadership Education Education Policy Tradition 106