The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 17, 2018

Nilsson is an English teacher by training, but he has embraced the “digital humanities,” teaching students how to code to answer questions about books, speeches, news coverage, rap lyrics and more. Twenty-three states have created K-12 computer science standards. Subscribe today! Sign up for the Hechinger newsletter.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

That’s because “English AI Anchor,” as “he” is named, isn’t human. We are now living in a world in which robots do many of the jobs we once thought the preserve of humans. The future will leave room for human teachers. The post The future includes good (human) teachers appeared first on The Hechinger Report.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

That has caused a lot of anxiety among traditional public school advocates, and a lot of anxiety with progressives and Democrats who just really oppose this. And we've done it in a way that is consistent with the voucher program that [Republicans] love in the K-12 system.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Nearly 80 percent of young children who attend the Lourie Center’s therapeutic nursery program will ascend to a traditional kindergarten setting. Consider that the annual cost of K-12 special education is nearly three times that of “general education”: $26,000 vs. $9,000 per student in California, for example.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

In K-12 schools, however, where open educational resources have been hailed as an opportunity to democratize high-quality curriculum and break the publishing oligopoly, OER has had a slower uptake. Printing costs, when compared to infamous textbooks, are negligible. Photo: Jackie Mader/The Hechinger Report. Weekly Update.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Using skills they’d learned in their computer science lessons, the students designed a traditional button blanket on a laser cutting machine. The program trains educators at K-12 schools whose students include Native children on different ways they can introduce young people to programming, robotics and coding.

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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

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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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

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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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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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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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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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

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 4, 2024

But not everyone thinks this is a good idea, since the tech is prone to “hallucinations,” where chatbots make up facts, and there’s the bigger issue of whether any machine can fill in for a human in something as deeply personal as one-on-one tutoring. But I've also been fascinated by the potential of human intelligence.

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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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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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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

A recent Gallup Poll revealed that K-12 workers have the highest rate of burnout in the American workforce, with more than 44 percent of K-12 workers in the U.S. I was grieving for those who left, as I prepared to be one of the ones who stayed. I’m still grieving. I know the gravity of what it means to leave all too well.

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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

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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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 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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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

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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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 8, 2018

About five million K-12 students in the United States do not speak English fluently, and their numbers are growing fast. With more college students now considered nontraditional than traditional, higher education institutions have been scrambling to shift their models to better meet their needs. Educational Terms 101.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2019

That push officially began in 2014, when Deborah Gist, then the state’s commissioner of education, announced a public-private “innovation partnership” to merge traditional and computerized pedagogy. For decades, nonprofit advocacy groups and corporate donors have targeted K-12 education for intervention. Weekly Update.

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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

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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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

MARCH 7, 2025

We are also very eager to receive proposals that focus on pedagogy and explore cutting-edge teaching methods that integrate the interests of K-12 educators and college faculty. 700); Graduate Student ($500); Undergraduate Student ($300); and K-12 Educator ($700). Such sessions are ideal for pedagogy-related topics.

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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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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

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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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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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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