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PROOF POINTS: Could more time in school help students after the pandemic?

The Hechinger Report

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. Devoting the extra time to a daily dose of tutoring seems most promising.

Tutoring 141
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There Is An Elephant in the Classroom and It Taught Me About My Black History.

ED Surge

I first acknowledged it subconsciously in my middle school years. Social studies and history classes weren't just academic discourse, they were social and emotional experiences. Like many people who learned new skills during the pandemic, I immersed myself in Black history, pedagogy, and education reform.

History 107
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PROOF POINTS: 10 of the most popular stories about education research in 2020

The Hechinger Report

This year, I put a special focus on pandemic relevant topics, from the effectiveness of tutoring to helping struggling learners catch up to lessons learned from the 2008 recession. Will history repeat? Takeaways from research on tutoring to address coronavirus learning loss. How the last recession affected higher education.

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OPINION: Black principals play a key role in transforming education. We need more of them

The Hechinger Report

Horace Tate is no relic of history; Black principals are still fighting that fight today. During my first year as principal of a Mississippi middle school, I fought to recruit Black teachers and retain the ones I already had on my campus.

Education 141
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TEACHER VOICE: Don’t say you aren’t a math person. Let’s help students develop positive math identities.

The Hechinger Report

As the education field faces the challenge reflected in the latest dip in NAEP scores , we are reaching for tools and strategies such as high-dosage tutoring, extended learning time, personalized learning and more. Teachers bring the history of their own educational experiences into the classrooms they create.

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America’s reading problem: Scores were dropping even before the pandemic

The Hechinger Report

At the Williston-Elko Middle School in rural South Carolina, where she has taught for seven years, more than three out of every four students are poor enough to qualify for free or reduced-priced lunch. Students need to read in order to learn other subjects, from science to history. Parents of young children are worried.

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As a district re-opens, one middle schooler returned to school and another remained home

The Hechinger Report

It was starting to feel like a normal seventh grade lunch at West Middle School. Isabella Rogers, 12, poses for a portrait at West Middle School on April 28 in Brockton, Massachusetts. This was the first week students were back at school in person, after a remote year due to COVID-19. BROCKTON, Mass. —