ED Surge

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Davis Middle School in Compton is Room 105. A lot of people believe that it’s only adults who go through things in their lives,” says Neftalí Alcocer, a seventh grader at the school who’s used the center. “But In all, there are 22 wellness centers in Compton Unified School District.) “It million K-12 students.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 2, 2025

He is co-author of Love and Literacy: A Practical Guide for Grades 5-12 to Finding the Magic in Literature. 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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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 1, 2025

Our free weekly newsletter consults critical voices on innovation and inequality in K-12 education. percent of school districts around the country, most of them in Minnesota, report having policies mandating algebra in eighth grade. Related: Is it time to stop segregating kids by ability in middle school math?

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Digital Promise

APRIL 15, 2021

Mathematics achievement is a national challenge, with persistent inequities across K-12 student subpopulations. As a foundation for all STEM disciplines, low math proficiency limits access to economic opportunity, and the failures of the current K-12 education system disproportionately impact students of color.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Thats according to a survey of 700 elementary and middle school teachers by Study.com, an online learning platform, that queried educators in January about student achievement. Forty-six percent of teachers surveyed named lack of family prioritization of academics as the primary reason some students have fallen behind.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 22, 2025

At Antioch Middle School, where few students spoke Spanish at that time, I felt isolated and unintelligent for the first time. These opportunities lead me to join the student council in middle school. Recognition and awards filled my early years. However, my transition to the U.S. was jarring.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

It’s been years since I was a Los Angeles middle school teacher, but I still remember my students as if they were in my classroom yesterday. Low literacy plagued Francisco back then, like it does most American middle and high schoolers today. She’s a freelance writer working on a memoir about her experiences in K-12 education.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 10, 2024

When districts slot students into math classes based on ability they send conspicuous messages to those on the lower track that they are not smart enough, says Ho Nguyen, who was a K-12 math and computer science program administrator in San Francisco during the district's detracking attempt.

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ED Surge

APRIL 10, 2024

Protecting Student Data School principals want to know how AI can be used in the classroom beyond having students copy and paste from it, Paul Liabenow says, and are of course concerned about students using it to cheat.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 7, 2019

Juliet Basinger, a rising seventh grader at Laing Middle School in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina, demonstrates the capabilities of a drone she built in the school’s Fab Lab. At the state level, Maine passed a law two years ago to expand career-and-technical education to middle schools. PLEASANT, S.C.

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TCI

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

History in elementary and middle school; also require at least one year of U.S. History and one semester of civics in high school. Responding to these concerns, the federal government increased funding for K-12 civics and history education funding from $7.75 Provide detailed guidance in both subject areas.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 16, 2025

Analog Solutions for Digital Problems Shari Camhi, superintendent of Baldwin Union Free School District in New York, says that cell phones have never been seen as anything but a distraction in the district of about 4,500 students. Theyre not allowed in any K-12 classrooms. That doesn't mean it's not without some difficulties.

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 24, 2020

Digital Promise has been working with districts and educators from across the United States to integrate computational thinking (CT) and computer science (CS) into K-12 classrooms. In addition, a CT “Look for” document might be particularly helpful to administrators since defining CT has been an ongoing challenge for school districts.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 12, 2025

Gaggle, the company that developed the software that tracks Vancouver schools students online activity, believes not monitoring children is like letting them loose on a digital playground without fences or recess monitors, CEO and founder Jeff Patterson said. Related: A lot goes on in classrooms from kindergarten to high school.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Mancuso Superintendent, Eastern York School District, Pennsylvania EdSurge: What inspired your districts to shift to more personalized instructional practices? Mancuso: When I entered the district in 2018, Eastern York already had innovative practices in place, such as K-5 coding and STEM initiatives.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 21, 2021

News & World Report released its first-ever rankings of public elementary and middle schools in the United States. Schools in the bottom quarter of all schools in a given jurisdiction were not ranked, but simply identified as being in the bottom quarter. Is there a better way to rank schools? Related: Do U.S.

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Digital Promise

APRIL 14, 2021

Seth Brady, Grades 9-12 Teacher (Illinois). Robert Cannone, Grades K-8 Coach & Consultant (Ontario). Megan Edlefsen, Grades 9-12 Fashion, Interior Design, and Personal Finance (Texas). James Ewing, Grade K-5 STEM/Science and Grade 4 Special Education (New York). Brent Christensen, Grade 7 Math Teacher (Washington).

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 4, 2015

But in South Fayette Township School District , Pa., 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.”

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 9, 2021

We suggest that computational thinking — which applies concepts from computer science — provides a framework for pre-K-12 educators to integrate and apply computational methods to solve interdisciplinary, complex and/or everyday problems. This is a big change and must be prioritized by district leaders.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Some have given up eating lunch entirely, which worries Phyllis Fagell, a school counselor and author of the book Middle School Matters. Middle school years are tough years. A bunch of uncomfortable adolescents are navigating social distancing rules while figuring out when and if to take down their masks.

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Society for Classical Studies

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

The directors of the institute, Bob Holschuh Simmons of Monmouth College ( rsimmons@monmouthcollege.edu ) and Nathalie Roy of Glasgow Middle School in Baton Rouge, LA ( fabricatrix@gmail.com ), encourage applications from K-12 teachers of any subject that could incorporate hands-on Classics into its curricula.

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Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

Throughout the League of Innovative Schools , districts are taking a range of steps to demonstrate this commitment and improve student learning. Franklin West Supervisory Union will add the district’s first full-time CS teacher to work directly with K-8 students. Increasing their computer science capacity through teachers.

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 26, 2021

Wrapped with colorful skins depicting dynamic graphics, charts, and information, the Launch Pad is the creative vision of Ed Hidalgo, chief of innovative and engagement officer for Cajon Valley Union School District, and several project partners.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

In Fairfax County, Virginia, thousands of middle school students experience what most of their peers leave behind in elementary school — recess. Fairfax County schools, a district of around 181,000 students, has taken an unusual step in mandating recess for all its middle school students. CHANTILLY, Va. –

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

TNTP , a nonprofit based in New York that advocates for improving K-12 education, wanted to identify schools that are the most effective at helping kids recover academically and understand what those schools are doing differently. Everybody is trying to find ways to help students catch up after the pandemic.

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ED Surge

JULY 5, 2022

If you ask middle school and high school students these days the most important skills they’re learning, they’re likely to name something they picked up on their own, outside of normal school hours. The trend that could have a huge impact on education, at the K-12 and college level, Evans argues.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

While data science isn’t a new subject, there’s been growing interest recently in helping students — in both K-12 and higher ed — gain data science skills. In the last three years, 17 states have added some sort of data science education course to their K-12 offerings, Drozda said. Subscribe today!

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 3, 2023

Pathways are a way of connecting the dots among K-12, higher education and career training in a smooth continuum, rather than treating them as three separate systems. In these places, historical divisions between K-12 school districts, two- and four-year colleges and employers have begun to dissolve.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Some universities and some K-12 school systems have developed media literacy courses and standards to help. At the K-12 level, states have begun incorporating media literacy into their standards and programs have begun cropping up aimed at training students to be better consumers of news.

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 2, 2019

While there has been considerable focus on developing K-12 computational thinking pathways in major U.S. cities over the past five years, too often rural school districts receive considerably less attention on the national landscape.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

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. But computer science lessons like the ones at Dzantik’i Heeni Middle School are relatively rare.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 24, 2021

Terrance Lewis, a middle school teacher in Columbus, Georgia, is leaving teaching to pursue a doctorate in secondary education. He says his goal is to “make people aware of the story of Black males in schools.” Racial battle fatigue isn’t just limited to K-12 educators. Credit: Terrance Lewis.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 25, 2024

Mesa Unified, the school district that runs Westwood and the largest in Arizona, has committed to using the approach in half of its schools. And the national superintendents association last year launched a learning cohort for K-12 leaders interested in the idea. That was a game changer,” she said.

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 4, 2018

Our new video illustrates a few possibilities: mathematical reasoning in elementary school by creating algorithms; social sciences in middle school by working with data; and physical sciences in high school by using simulations. Supporting Computational Thinking in K-12 Public Schools.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 13, 2021

Dawn Lineberry, a sixth grade math teacher at Jackson Middle School in Guilford County, North Carolina, noticed that some of her students were struggling with long division. Principal Angela McNeill of Eastern Guilford Middle School said that students had lost ground in multiplication, division and problem solving.

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ED Surge

JULY 7, 2023

As an English language teacher in an international primary school and a language learner myself, I often think about how many K-12 students in the United States are given the opportunity to study another language in school. however, with insufficient and lagging data from schools, this research has its limitations.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 4, 2016

Ryan Ren, 14, loves the soccer fields around his middle school in Arcadia, California. But Ryan, now a student at Dana Middle School, hasn’t been to Guangzhou in a while. The total number of Chinese students in American K-12 schools, including private schools, is currently about 35,627.)

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