The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Lincoln County is rural and rugged, forged by industry and ecology and steeped in a complicated history of extraction, exploitation and economic struggle. So, too, was the idea of becoming a non-traditional student in a traditional classroom setting. Grace Company, kept workers in the dark about the dangers of asbestos exposure.

Economics 83

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 24, 2023

It’s geography; it’s history; it’s science; it’s cooking; it’s athletics, whatever that broad knowledge is about the world we live in. It comes from lots of different sources, sometimes from families, sometimes communities, sometimes from school. In this study, the researchers copied a method used by charter school researchers.

Charter School 130

Charter School Geography Social Science Tradition 130

ED Surge

AUGUST 14, 2024

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

High School 141

High School K-12 Sociology Psychology 141

ED Surge

JUNE 2, 2023

Renee Dawson Educational Technology Specialist at Atlanta Public Schools “Augmented reality is when you take something that you can already see in the world and add an interactive or experiential layer on top. AR can be used in the classroom to create interactive learning experiences that enhance traditional instruction.

Artifacts 121

Artifacts Lesson Plan Educational Technology Interactive Learning 121

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. This work needs to begin in elementary school, where students’ ideas about their place in the world are shaped.

History 70

History Elementary School Library Civics 70

Digital Promise

APRIL 29, 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic may have disrupted traditional classroom instruction, but it has not stopped schools from fostering meaningful connections and engaging in robust, student-centered teaching and learning. – Dr. Mark Benigni, Meriden Public Schools (Connecticut). – Dr. Mark Benigni, Meriden Public Schools.

Leadership 162

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

In the 1970s and 80s, groups of primarily white, Christian fundamentalists drove a surge in the number of home-schooling families around the country. As they pulled their children out of public schools, they also worked to dismantle state and local regulatory hurdles that kept kids in brick-and-mortar institutions.

Lesson Plan 132

Lesson Plan Private School Cultures Public School 132

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.

Cultures 105

Cultures American History Tradition History 105

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 109

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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.

High School 144

High School Teaching Primary Sources K-12 144

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 17, 2021

She was not alone: A December report revealed that nearly one in five Nashville public school students was failing at least one class. Students may start to see themselves as a “B” student in math or a “D” student in history. In some of the 16,800 school districts across the U.S., I believe this is wrong.

Psychology 125

Psychology Tradition History Humanities 125

The Hechinger Report

MAY 6, 2024

It was one of the most significant days in the history of the U.S. Board of Education that schools segregated by race did not provide an equal education. Students could no longer be barred from a school because of the color of their skin. Supreme Court. On May 17, 1954, the nine justices unanimously ruled in Brown v.

Charter School 121

Charter School Private School Public School Tradition 121

The Hechinger Report

MAY 21, 2024

More than 27,700 school-age youth live in Pasadena , Altadena and Sierra Madre , the communities served by the district, but only about half of them attend public school. Pasadena High School. In Pasadena, Dufford said, it has been tradition for established families not to send their children to public schools. “So

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Private School Public School High School Elementary School 78

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 91

Cultures Education K-12 Government 91

ED Surge

JUNE 30, 2023

Whitney Aragaki “ How Desk Chairs Became a Lesson About What We Deserve in Public Schools ” was the most meaningful story for me. For this story, I caught up with five of my former students that that became high school history teachers. Here’s what they had to say.

K-12 98

K-12 Teaching Humanities Public School 98

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.

Education 84

Education Elementary School Geography EdTech 84

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Jenkins said one of the reasons she has been teaching in the Phoenix Union High School District, one of 30 public school districts here, for so long is that she doesn’t feel alone. And candidates with non-traditional teaching backgrounds are considered. Some districts miss that opportunity,” Gestson said.

High School 145

High School Cultures Leadership Public School 145

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

In August 2020, Amanda Nemergut was looking for alternatives to in-person public school for her three daughters. Her other two girls, in third and fifth grades, would be home on alternating days under the school’s hybrid schedule. Many parents, unaware of the history of virtual charters, continue turning to these schools.

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Charter School Education Policy History Public School 116

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 23, 2020

This period of social distancing is giving us a glimpse of what it’s like when a school is shuttered permanently, a tragedy tens of thousands of families have had to deal with over the last two decades. Like the coronavirus, the impact of permanent school closures disproportionately hit Black and urban neighborhoods.

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Archiving Economics Tradition Government 131

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Related: What if public schools never reopen? This flies in the face of common sense and human history, deBoer argued. He argues for recovering America’s common school tradition, and reminds us that the founding principle of American public education was preparation for citizenship, not the private ends of “college and career.”

Education 109

Education Charter School Social Justice K-12 109

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 19, 2021

While the pandemic still took its toll, adapting to online learning was smoother in Lindsay due to its preexisting infrastructure and history of adaptation. The new approach threw out many traditional facets of education such as the A-F grading scale and time-based learning in which students advance to a new grade level each year.

High School 123

High School Tradition History Tutoring 123

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

Eventually the school superintendent, who doubles as a special education teacher and a substitute, asked if he’d be interested in doing more; the schools have been short-staffed for years. million students go to public schools in rural areas , more than the combined total of the nation’s 85 largest school districts.

World History 129

World History Civic Engagement Elementary School High School 129

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 26, 2020

Nearly one-third of the schools within the Association of Christian Schools International (ACSI), the largest non-Catholic Christian school association in the U.S., Supreme Court mandated public school desegregation, as many white families fled the public school system. Enduring legacies.

Private School 102

Private School K-12 Economics Cultures 102

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2019

schools are becoming more segregated , many of which have more to do with community histories and residential patterns than they do with the schools themselves. The typical debate over whether charter schools are, all things considered, “good” or “bad” is misguided. There are a variety of reasons why U.S.

Charter School 75

Charter School Tradition Public School High School 75

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 23, 2019

on day four of the strike, Nadia Morales, a counselor at Los Angeles High School, and Pedro Martinez, a social-studies teacher at Eagle Rock High School, prepare their children for the day. In this sense, the strike was as much about an ideological question as a labor dispute: Who is the public being served by public education?

Charter School 111

Charter School Public School Elementary School High School 111

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 1, 2018

While dozens of colleges and universities use a “great books” curriculum, only a handful make it available to local high school students. More engaging than traditional summer school. Students from underfunded public schools tend to have particular problems, she said. “We

Museum 71

Museum Humanities Political Science Civics 71

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 18, 2017

Currently, I am implementing alternatives to traditional behavior management systems, such as more frequent and open parent contact. In a traditional system, he almost certainly would have been retained, putting him on a path towards potential dropout. I also work to create a culturally relevant curriculum. Sign up for our newsletter.

Social Justice 89

Social Justice Education Tradition History 89

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Sharahn Santana , African American history and English teacher at Parkway Northwest High School. William Hite , superintendent of Philadelphia’s public schools. Young people are glad to be back in school. Steven Weber, associate superintendent for teaching and learning for the Fayetteville Public Schools.

Oral History 139

Oral History History High School Middle School 139

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 29, 2019

The century-old high school — the city’s first public school for black students — boasted alumni who went on to become mayors and judges. McDonogh 35 was one of the few schools that weathered the storm mostly intact. Related: As a 6-year-old, Leona Tate helped desegregate schools. Then Hurricane Katrina hit.

Charter School 81

Charter School Cultures High School History 81

Digital Promise

DECEMBER 14, 2016

One school district stands out as a model of implementation: Loudoun County (VA) Public Schools (LCPS). Since 2005, LCPS had participated in the Geospatial Semester program through James Madison University, which taught GIS to hundreds of high school seniors (and even juniors) through a project-based approach.

Education 74

Education K-12 Middle School Professional Development 74

The Hechinger Report

MAY 30, 2018

A 2015 RAND study , which looked at 62 schools that had received various Gates Foundation-funded grants for personalized learning, found gains of 11 percentile points in math and 8 in reading. Pane predicts that if the personalized learning trend continues, it could upend traditional notions of what a classroom looks like. “I

Charter School 93

Charter School Tutoring Tradition Educational Technology 93

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 15, 2018

Startups and established tech companies are providing a crash course in entrepreneurship, sending engineers and designers into public schools to mentor students. 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.

K-12 106

K-12 Psychology High School Leadership 106

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 22, 2018

The EL motto, “We are crew, not passengers,” is a quote from Kurt Hahn, the German Jewish educator who fled the Nazis in the 1930s and went on to start Outward Bound, which co-founded the Expeditionary Learning network (later renamed EL Education) in partnership with Harvard’s Graduate School of Education in 1991.

Middle School 110

Middle School Library Tradition Elementary School 110

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.

Charter School 111

Charter School Middle School Tutoring Advocacy 111

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 15, 2022

Here are some voices from our third round of interviews, in which we asked people involved with their local public schools for their reflections on how the past year had shaped them, and their predictions for the next school year, among other topics. school district is investing heavily in early literacy.

Oral History 89

Oral History History High School Public School 89

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 31, 2018

Although the high-poverty Cornell School District has only about 630 students, it was able to take the plunge into virtual reality with a $20,000 foundation-funded grant provided through the Allegheny Intermediate Unit, a regional public school service agency.

K-12 102

K-12 Geography World History Library 102

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

Sanfelippo found his district’s social-media rallying cry during a school field trip to Fall Creek’s history museum, where vintage banners, pennants and pins were emblazoned “Go Crickets!”. “We Stoking a lively social-media conversation is no problem for the public schools of Wake County, North Carolina, a district centered on Raleigh.

Museum 93

Museum Community Engagement Social Studies Tradition 93