The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

In a survey, humanities, arts and social science professors say they really want their students to be able to analyze data, create charts and spreadsheets and reason mathematically – skills that high school math courses often skip or rush through. “We I felt that it really gave me breadth as a human being.”

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

The study , “How Teachers Navigate the Ethical Landscape of AI in Their Classrooms,” interviewed 248 K-12 teachers. Artificial Tools, Human Judgments When EdSurge first spoke to Kohn, the lab coordinator, he was using ChatGPT as a teacher’s assistant in biology courses. The main findings?

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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. Michael Trucano from the Brookings Institution commented that the divide we will see is where some kids get taught just by AI, and other kids get taught by AI plus a human, which is obviously way better.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

These stories of resilience and triumph allowed me to see my own humanity as a Black person, something I later realized I desperately needed. I needed to learn about my people in order for me to see my own humanity, and for the students I’ve taught over the past 13 years, I know this to be true.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 5, 2022

In 2012, the panel issued a joint statement asserting that calculus should not be the “ultimate goal of the K-12 mathematics curriculum.” Subsequent research and statements from math experts questioned the relevance and efficacy of traditional pathways to calculus for all students.

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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. Eventually tiring of humans’ complaints and requests, he left Earth to live in the sky. If humans had accepted the invitation, we would have arboreal agilities too. We just draw from different backgrounds.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 5, 2023

More recently, advocates have presented child care as a public good and a right, similar to K-12 education. There remains, still, a Canadian tradition in believing that government is part of the solution.” We expect government to step up,” said Susan Prentice, Duff Roblin Professor of Government at the University of Manitoba.

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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. Writing this essay opened the door to self-exploration which I know will make me a better human and teacher.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 12, 2023

Email Address Choose from our newsletters Weekly Update Future of Learning Higher Education Early Childhood Proof Points Leave this field empty if you’re human: Late last month, Alabama Gov. We’re finding that kids make meaning of themselves way earlier than the traditional child development textbooks suggested,” Sabol said.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

The project was released in December in partnership with seven K-12 organizations and a $10,000 grant from the National Science Foundation’s South Big Data Hub. “We It’s not like we’re born as human beings knowing how to read a bar chart,” Schwabish says. It’s not in our DNA; we have to learn it.

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ACRE

JUNE 9, 2023

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. The museum has a variety of additional resources for K-12 educators as well. Learn more about AHC grants here: [link]

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 30, 2018

The great gains from human tutoring are often cited as evidence for so-called “personalized” learning, which sometimes refers to using education software that adapts to each child’s instructional needs. The post Cheaper human tutors can be highly effective, studies show appeared first on The Hechinger Report.

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ED Surge

JULY 19, 2023

Edward Gonzalez There has been some progress in the human-centered design movement, Raña says, where companies involve the end-users in a product's design — but she argues that the edtech landscape needs to do much more when it comes to designing for Latino and Black children. That is just and humanizing. You feel me?”

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 2, 2023

Disclosure: Bang is a member of the K-12 action commission at This Is Planet Ed’, where I’m also an advisor.) Bang, who is partly of Ojibwe descent, said she looks at different mental models of the relationship between humans and the natural world — do we see ourselves as apart-from nature, or part of nature?

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 24, 2024

Email Address Choose from our newsletters Weekly Update Future of Learning Higher Education Early Childhood Proof Points Leave this field empty if you’re human: The pandemic underscored the stark differences in pay, working conditions, and respect between K-12 educators and child care teachers in many communities.

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Society for Classical Studies

OCTOBER 4, 2022

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 13, 2022

These states provide a window into the patchwork approach across the South that allows those without traditional training to lead a classroom. By 2030, as many as 16 million K-12 students in the region may be taught by an unprepared or inexperienced teacher, the Southern Regional Education Board projects.

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Digital Promise

APRIL 18, 2018

Their “system” is human capital – teachers and students – which yields challenges that require a careful and measured approach. The result of this work will be published later this year as a Challenge Agenda – a comprehensive catalog of the high-priority challenges that K-12 districts need and want to solve.

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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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ED Surge

JANUARY 31, 2022

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. The traditional way of teaching science wasn’t going to be enough, and since then, I’ve worked hard to change this narrative for my students.

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ED Surge

MAY 23, 2022

And though the struggles in early childhood education are largely systemic, it’s the individual, humanizing, heart-wrenching stories that are more likely to change public perception and, eventually, shift policy. Just as often, though, it’s not a K-12 school the educators are leaving for. This predicament is not rare.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 25, 2017

The post To err is human – and a powerful prelude to learning appeared first on The Hechinger Report. Some findings make intuitive sense. Some are completely surprising. And many important findings that are relevant to teaching are not making it into the classroom, or penetrating very slowly. Sign up for our newsletter.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 2, 2018

The method of transforming K-12 schools that he advocates in his latest book, What Schools Could Be: Insights and Inspiration from Teachers across America , is of the grassroots variety. Small steps lead to big change, he says. Sign up for the Future of Learning newsletter. Choose as many newsletters as you like. Weekly Update.

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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. According to the district, Capital City School — her destination — is “a voluntary K-12 independent study school characterized by its friendly, nurturing and safe environment.”

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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. Our humanity matters, but our unique experiences also matter. I’ll sometimes smile, look them in the eyes and respond sweetly, “Human. Growing up in the U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 9, 2023

They amble down to a basement classroom that mimics a traditional school or center-based program, with multiple teachers for the dozen children, a structured routine and thoughtfully designed activity centers, each of which includes a poster for caregivers with instructions and tips to encourage exploration and learning.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

The American Rescue Act is giving $ 123 billion to K-12 schools and districts. We risk missing an opportunity if we simply spend the money in the same traditional ways. The federal government is seeking expansion of this support. We now have the potential to make a once-in-a-generation investment in our schools.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 18, 2018

In the face of a nationwide teacher shortage, especially in science, technology, engineering and math, the academy is not the first program that has sought to attract experts in these areas to teaching, but it offers a significant departure from traditional teacher training programs in several other high-tech ways. Army War College.

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 4, 2015

that’s how an after-school program for technology and arts eventually became a national model for incorporating computational thinking into a K-12 curriculum. "Every year, we embed more computational thinking in K-12.” But in South Fayette Township School District , Pa.,

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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. There is no society, there is no human culture, without the arts.”. The arts are the arts.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 17, 2016

These new skills and knowledge are the new fundamental requisites for K-12 studies, college studies, 21 st century jobs and ensuring lifelong earning in the digital innovation economy. We must reimagine schools’ goals and their learning culture, and invent new approaches for learning both new and traditional subjects and topics.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 1, 2018

What does personalized learning mean to the perennial tug-of-war over content — in higher education’s “great books” debate over whether students should absorb the Western canon or study what they want, and, at the K-12 level, over the Common Core? Human variation is not an inconvenience, in this view, but a tool for engagement.

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Achieve the Core

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Greater Student Success In the United States, Algebra 1 is viewed as one of the biggest gatekeepers in K-12 mathematics education. Additionally, the badging system is being designed with a success-orientation approach, which stands in stark contrast to traditional grading practices where we often accept high failure rates.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 10, 2017

The biggest takeaway for me,” said researcher Lindsay Weixler, “is the mismatch between decentralized school governance and an optional program like pre-k.”. In New Orleans, just 40 percent of students in a school’s pre-k stayed through third grade, when state testing begins, according to the study. Mississippi Learning.

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Digital Promise

MARCH 13, 2017

Universal Design for Learning (UDL) is “a framework to improve and optimize teaching and learning for all people based on scientific insights into how humans learn” ( CAST ). The Fellows participate in a 12-month, intensive professional development experience focused on learning differences. UDL and Opportunity Youth.

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 9, 2019

AI + HI (Human Intelligence) = Educational Equity. To achieve educational equity by addressing learner variability, we need to blend AI (artificial intelligence) with HI (human intelligence) through data. Traditional stories rely on 2D technologies like paper or images. 3D Digital Storytelling, Empathy, and Voice.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 31, 2018

Leave this field empty if you're human: As they worked, their earphones provided a forest ambience: water rippling in a lake, or a reverberating echo in a cave. Virtual reality (VR) is emerging as a way to provide deeper learning in K-12 schools. Sign up for the Future of Learning newsletter. Weekly Update. Future of Learning.

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