The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 13, 2024

That’s because many high school teachers finish their training without lessons on how to teach reading, since, traditionally, explicit instruction on reading skills ends around third grade. Patty Topliffe (center right) and other English and social studies teachers at Woodstock High School, in Vermont.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 24, 2021

Because students missed so much instruction during the pandemic, teachers should get extra time to fill all those instructional holes, from teaching mathematical percents and zoological classifications to discussing literary metaphors and American history. That’s worked well in Chicago high schools but not in Miami middle schools.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Every week at the Nysmith School in Herndon, Virginia, Philip Baselice breaks out a game to teach his class about key world events. Baselice teaches history to middle schoolers, and game-based simulations have been part of his teaching arsenal for the last nine years, ever since he first tried it. “I

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ED Surge

JUNE 6, 2023

But actually this tradition of thought goes way back at least to an ancient Chinese text. This is a thought that recurs throughout history — this question of how do we tell what's real? I especially worry as I watch my oldest son, who is in middle school now. And Rex isn't uncommon. It's a struggle.

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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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ED Surge

MARCH 13, 2024

I’ve struggled to balance representing the history and culture of my school with my desire to support our ongoing and ever-more-pressing need to adapt. Keely Sutton As a school and community engagement manager at a middle school in Atlanta, Keely Sutton thinks a lot about collaboration and community.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 8, 2018

Related: How Silicon Valley schools are trying to boost lower-income students into high-tech jobs. Many people think that the best way to prepare STEM students is to skip or accelerate through middle-school mathematics in order to get as quickly as possible to advanced math courses. Related: COLUMN: The U.S.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 3, 2023

So my big concern for what's happening to the teaching of literature has to do with the people that I call my ‘thinking partners’ all over the country — secondary teachers, middle school teachers, even elementary school teachers, who are really under threat. And in high school I wasn't taught those things.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

She also said the school runs a program to help first-year students of color navigate campus life (which Cante said she didn’t know about). When Cante donned her purple ribbon skirt, a traditional garment worn by some Native women, to commemorate Indigenous Peoples Day in October, another student approached her.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

But Native American and Muslim leaders say they believe rates have increased in their communities as well, after the pandemic gave families the time and space to reflect on whether traditional schools were really serving their needs. Related: Schools provide stability for refugees. Covid-19 upended that. You’re stronger minded.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 23, 2019

Michael is a senior at Vertus High School , an all-boys charter school in the Rochester City School District whose hallmark is a program that blends online classes with more traditional classroom teaching. For his part, though, Michael appreciates the opportunity to work faster than traditional classrooms allow.

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Digital Promise

APRIL 19, 2017

Teachers at Edmunds Middle School in Burlington, Vermont, recently participated in a professional development session focused on innovative approaches to problem solving. The very next day, one history teacher recreated this professional development exercise in his class.

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 14, 2016

Hoang co-leads Burbank’s partnership with Turnaround Arts: California , a signature program of the President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities that seeks to advance education in a select group of elementary and middle schools in the state. First graders are working with high school honors students to map kindness.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 22, 2018

A Crew of seventh graders at King Middle School in Portland, Maine, plays a conflict-resolution game called “Is This Seat Taken?” Ten schools began using the model in 1993. Kids in traditional schools sometimes act like they’re on a cruise ship, where they sit on deck and teachers bring them stuff to do,” Berger said. “We

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 16, 2019

All students are exposed to music starting in elementary school; by middle school nearly half (44 percent) have picked up an instrument, according to district data. For example, 97 percent of Poe Middle School students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, according to the state, and 58 percent play an instrument.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

In Colorado, for instance, there were about 380 open positions for educators in rural schools at the start of the 2021-2022 school year; by the end of the year more than half remained open, according to statistics from the state’s education department. Credit: Camilla Forte/The Hechinger Report. And that’s just what he did.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

The school farms are also incubators, joining a larger online community of farm hackers. “We We are constantly experimenting,” said Catherine Arnold, a Boston Latin history teacher who oversees the environmental club that runs the farm as an extracurricular activity. The food computers for the pilot schools came pre-assembled.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

Middle school students at the Innovation Academy experiment with building electrical circuits. The Innovation Academy workspace at Dysart Unified School District looked more like a tech startup’s headquarters than a classroom. Miranda Virgil, seventh-grade math teacher at Canyon Ridge Elementary School. SURPRISE, Ariz. —

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Spokespeople from the schools say the criticism doesn’t reflect the fact that they often enroll students who are struggling academically, are enrolled for short periods, and have a history of changing schools frequently, a metric shown to hurt academic performance. Stride Inc., formerly K12 Inc., But after enrolling Ernest Jr.,

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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. Are you asking about my culture, what languages I speak, or what my family history is?” Growing up in the U.S. There is a way we can connect."

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2020

Those efforts allowed the district of 520 schools and educational centers to transition relatively smoothly from traditional learning to distance learning when the school system shut on March 16, Carvalho said. Half of the 20 most destructive wildfires in state history have occurred since 2015.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2021

But research shows that many of these ideas have had a spotty track record in the past and that schools will have to pay close attention to what’s worked—and what hasn’t—to maximize their odds for success with just about any strategy. There’s no silver bullet. No catch-up strategy can possibly benefit all students. ACCELERATION.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

There are critics who contend that instilling social values in students is the purview of parents not schools, and others who fear that SEL could easily be used as yet another way to punish low-income students of color who don’t conform to behavioral norms. Yet many employers say graduates lack these skills. “We

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 9, 2017

For Barela, the barometer for success for the inaugural freshman class is straightforward: “If we don’t lose ’em,” the school is making progress. Students prepare to present a final project in Jeb Dickerson’s 11th-grade history class in Vista High School’s personalized-learning academy. Photo: Mike Elsen-Rooney.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Sharahn Santana , African American history and English teacher at Parkway Northwest High School. It is one of only a few school districts in the state that is requiring masks after the state Supreme Court put a hold on a mask mandate ban South Carolina legislators approved in the spring. I like [being back in school] a lot.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2023

Some of these “grow your own” programs, like Reach’s, recruit school employees who don’t have college degrees or degrees in education, while others focus on retired professionals, military veterans , college students , and even K12 students , with some starting as young as middle school. We definitely have blinders on.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 31, 2021

For millions of students, this is a summer like no other in the history of American public education. The last day of the school year was followed by just a brief pause before classes started again for a wide range of programs financed by more than a billion dollars in federal funds under the American Rescue Plan.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 21, 2024

In Pasadena, Dufford said, it has been tradition for established families not to send their children to public schools. “So Having lived through the desegregation order, Hirahara, who is now an award-winning mystery writer , wishes more people knew about the history of the city’s schools.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 7, 2017

For anyone who’s spent time in an early childhood classroom, the idea that school should be as much about making friends and having fun as learning the alphabet will sound familiar. Preschools and elementary schools across the U.S have long copied ideas from Reggio Emilia, but now more high schools are copying them, too.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 15, 2022

The district will be holding an expanded summer school this year and is investing in mental health counselors and early literacy. . Katina Harris , middle school English teacher and president of the local teachers’ union. Even when we were in elementary school, like with the stock market crash, everyone moved.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 16, 2020

When I first met Pierre-Floyd, she told me McDonogh #35 had felt like “a baby HBCU,” the high school version of Howard University or the fictional Hillman College depicted on A Different World. Teachers valued her blackness, she said, and taught her the history of African and African-American strength. From left, Frederick A.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

. — Cleveland native Toni McWilliams didn’t feel like she was putting her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in business administration to good use working as an administrative secretary for a middle school in her hometown. The job, which paid around $19,000, barely brought in enough money to support her two young daughters.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 25, 2017

Once a month, this column will examine the insights that science offers about the way people learn, and how such findings could influence schools. Most of us can remember a moment like this from our school years: the teacher poses a question – maybe it’s math, maybe history. You’re shot down. You got it wrong.

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Zinn Education Project

JANUARY 8, 2024

While right-wing legislatures restrict the teaching of Black history, we are pleased to support teachers who work to teach truthfully about U.S. In a class with teachers , Delmont explained the relevance of learning this history. We’ll add more once teachers use the new paperback edition.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

Students participate in morning workshops in advance of national May 1 “Day Without Immigrants” rallies, learning also about the labor rights history of May Day rallies worldwide. But at Muñiz, she was learning subjects like history and math in Spanish. Photo: Tara García Mathewson/The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 5, 2016

After two girls with an explosive history had exchanged barbs, one dared the other to meet the next day near a statue that stands about a block from the Batiste house, according to multiple sources. In New Orleans, the city’s Health Department is trying to revive a program that first brought restorative justice into the public schools.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 8, 2017

When they returned to New Orleans four years later, Hales enrolled him at KIPP Believe, a middle school that was established the year after the hurricane by a national charter school chain focused on getting black and Latino students to and through college. White students affectionately called the school “Rebelville.”.

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