The Hechinger Report

MARCH 2, 2025

If we want students to invest in the great, global conversation of the humanities, its going to take a bit of salespersonship. Danny Murray is in his 11th year at Uncommon Schools, now serving as director of high school English. Previously, he was a middle school and high school English teacher and department chair.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 23, 2025

Math As Humanities? When she was in middle school, she wanted to try for the advanced math track. Much later, as a middle school math teacher, Robinson would cram before teaching a lesson; she was still hearing that long-ago teachers voice in her head saying she couldnt grasp the material.

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ED Surge

MARCH 29, 2023

In some ways, middle school is very much the same as it was a decade ago. In my own classroom, I recognize some of the hallmarks of the middle school years — changing voices, students spurting up three inches by the time May rolls around, and the awkwardness of being surrounded by so many developmental stages at once.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

In our tech-driven world, the value of human connection can’t be overstated. For example, our middle school program Career Explorations has embedded real-world, industry-specific soft skill exercises, including applied math, graphics literacy and reading comprehension.

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TeachThought

JUNE 10, 2024

He stresses the importance of tools, media, and context in human development. Examples of Constructionism Example 1: Learning in a Classroom Scenario: A middle school technology class is learning about coding. ” You can read the full pdf here.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 30, 2018

Robert Slavin, director of the Center for Research and Reform in Education at Johns Hopkins University, recently set out to find the most effective programs to teach elementary and middle school students. The post Cheaper human tutors can be highly effective, studies show appeared first on The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Hirsch, a professor emeritus of education and humanities at the University of Virginia, argues that democracy benefits when the citizenry shares a body of knowledge and history, which he calls cultural literacy. These ideas have revived interest in E.D. Hirschs Core Knowledge curriculum, which gained popularity in the late 1980s.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 16, 2021

In a middle school hallway in Charlottesville, Virginia, a pair of sixth grade girls sat shoulder to shoulder on a lime-green settee, creating comic strips that chronicled a year of pandemic schooling. . Traditional middle schools are very authoritarian, controlling environments.” CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. —

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 12, 2025

The latest contract Vancouver signed, in summer 2024, shows a price of $328,036 for three school years approximately the cost of employing one extra counselor. The algorithm detects potential indicators of problems like bullying, self-harm, suicide or school violence and then sends a screenshot to human reviewers.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 25, 2017

math teacher Leah Alcala witnessed a similar change in middle school and high school students when she began spotlighting what she calls her “favorite errors.” The post To err is human – and a powerful prelude to learning appeared first on The Hechinger Report. In Berkeley, Calif., Sign up for our newsletter.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 17, 2024

Boulan Park Middle School math teacher Jordan Baines gives tips to help her students figure out a mathematics problem in Troy, Michigan. The email blast spurred opponents to show up at a board workshop and a town hall, and a petition demanding that the middle-school plan be scrapped got more than 3,000 signatures.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

And this deceptively simple – and free – tool has built an impressive evidence base and a following among middle school math teachers. It had distributed laptops to every middle school student years before the ASSISTments experiment. In the North Carolina study, some teachers had students do the homework in school.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 13, 2020

A study of 2,500 middle school students finds that the acquisition of scientific reasoning skills produces stronger learning gains. A large study on teaching science to middle school students was published afterwards and it adds more nuance to this debate between critical thinking skills and content knowledge.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 25, 2023

Research has become “increasingly clear” that career exploration should begin no later than middle school, said Maud Abeel, associate director at the nonprofit Jobs for the Future, who oversees the Possible Futures career exploration curriculum. Tejani, 13, is an apprentice for Julia Mejia, one of Boston’s city councilors.

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 4, 2015

Computational thinking is typically associated with coding and computer programming, but it’s also more than that, involving “solving problems, designing systems, and understanding human behavior,” according to Carnegie Mellon University. One day, the team’s plan to launch rockets was derailed by rain.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

On a recent walk after spending a day working with middle school teachers on engagement strategies, I was listening to the “We Can Do Hard Things” podcast. Most of the oldest students of this generation are now in middle school. These truths are simply part of how the Generation Alpha’s worldview is being formed.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 6, 2020

Yet even advocates of educational technology recognize the motivating power of a human teacher to encourage a demoralized student or clear up a point of confusion. So Holstein, along with two colleagues, set up an unusual middle school experiment in the Pittsburgh area.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 21, 2016

It combines aspects of high-tech coding and engineering with an emphasis on human-centered design and problem-solving. The post Students share human-centered designs at Emoti-Con technology showcase appeared first on The Hechinger Report. Read more about Blended Learning.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 25, 2024

Later this fall, Fargo Public Schools will open a new middle school where students will learn entirely from one combined team of teachers. Team teaching has expanded in Mesa, Arizona’s largest school district, and around the country. That was a game changer,” she said.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 12, 2023

Some of it arises from recent test scores showing dismal middle school performance: Students who started middle school early in the pandemic lost more ground in math than any other group and are still struggling. It takes time, and money, and human capital and training,” Coleman told me in a follow-up conversation.

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ED Surge

APRIL 19, 2023

Teaching, as human work, is to show the beauty and complexity of the human experience in our society. With my days long and rigid, this profession hasn’t given me the space to be a balanced, whole human. With my days long and rigid, this profession hasn’t given me the space to be a balanced, whole human. Parent concerns.

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ASHP CML

MARCH 18, 2025

In January, 2025, the National Endowment for the Humanities awarded funds for the production of a new addition to the popular Mission US series. Isla Preciosa, the ninth installment in the digital learning game series, will focus on the U.S. invasion of Puerto Rico in 1898 and its aftermath.

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Digital Promise

MAY 23, 2019

Jefferson County Public Schools, Louisville, Kentucky (Cohort 5). The five Jefferson County Public Schools participating in the initiative—The Academy @ Shawnee Middle School, Frederick Law Olmsted Academy North, Lassiter Middle School, Newburg Middle School, and W.E.B.

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ED Surge

JUNE 28, 2023

Everyone has a memory about feeling lost on the first day of school — figuratively or literally. She says it all comes down to the basic human need to feel cared for and to be part of a community. Middle School Blues It’s not just your imagination. Middle school is awful.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 25, 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: While the reading and math “wars” have gotten a lot of attention in education in recent years, writing instruction has not received that same focus.

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ED Surge

MARCH 31, 2023

After 20 years teaching music, what I’ve learned is that the arts are essential because humans are inherently creative beings and must be given opportunities to develop their creativity in order to fully understand themselves and participate in a pluralistic society. In middle school, that number drops to 78 hours.

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Teaching American History

JANUARY 28, 2025

The plan the Court eventually endorsed unanimously for Charlotteafter much negotiation among the judgesused a combination of newly organized magnet schools and long bus rides to achieve integration. I was only dimly aware that my father served on the local Human Relations Committee.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 3, 2024

Researchers from the University of California, Irvine, and Arizona State University found that human feedback was generally a bit better than AI feedback, but AI was surprisingly good. Humans had a particular advantage in advising students on something to work on that would be appropriate for where they are in their development as a writer.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 3, 2020

Neil Heffernan, a professor at Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Massachusetts, came up with the idea in 2016 after a Maine middle school math teacher, Chris LeSiege, uploaded hundreds of hints he had written for solving textbook problems to Heffernan’s free online homework help website, ASSISTments.

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Digital Promise

MAY 18, 2021

Due to COVID-19, all of TSEP’s in-person programs , such as its week-long middle school STEM day camp called Science In The City , its TSEP Overnight Camping Conference , and Global Hackathon with the United Nations to stop human trafficking and cybertheft, had to be converted to virtual experiences.

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Digital Promise

MAY 19, 2020

For example, Jessica Bibbs-Fox, a teacher in Compton Unified School District, transformed the COVID-19 pandemic into an authentic, project-based learning experience that integrates computational thinking practices into her virtual middle school science class. How Distance Learning Can Be Relevant, Innovative, and Rigorous.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

After grieving a complete turnover in leadership last spring—waving goodbye to our head of school, our high school director, our middle school director and our school psychologist—our outgoing head of school decided that instead of hiring externally to fill the traditional leadership positions, we should try a new approach.

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Anthropology News

MARCH 12, 2024

This piece was selected as a winner of the AAA’s AnthroDay Student Unessay Competition in the middle school division. This year’s unessay competition focused on the topic of Technology and how it has impacted human life or society.

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ED Surge

JUNE 1, 2022

I'm a human being. Her mother was a middle school science teacher whose parenting “really incorporated a lot of that curiosity and wonder and awe, kind of like we saw at the Smithsonian here today,” she says. Rivera grew up to become a middle school science teacher, too. Photo by Rebecca Koenig.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Remember that heavy feeling you sometimes got as a kid heading into yet another school day? Middle school Guidance Counselor Rachelle Vallon remembers the feeling, too. But she doesn't want that to be how kids experience school going forward. Or, we have a math teacher who uses Minecraft as an assessment.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

In response to demand, she said, the organization is beginning to create teacher pacing guides, like a middle school math pacing guide that maps specific climate resources from their database to math standards. Energy, extreme weather and humanities: Energy is the most popular topic on SubjectToClimate.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Meanwhile, they were more likely to enroll in courses in hospitality and, in the case of Black students in particular, human services. Yet encouragement from teachers and other school personnel can make a difference. Eva Oleita, a senior at Cass Technical High School in Detroit, was interested in a medical career from a young age.

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