Digital Promise

APRIL 14, 2015

The Learn Everywhere award is for an organization that supports learning outside of the K-12 system through community and cultural resources, technology, and/or open platforms. Winners will be notified in October and invited to attend our gala celebration on November 20 at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, Calif.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Together, they applied for a grant from the Institute for Museum and Library Sciences, as part of the Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Program. And we know that the K-12 population is becoming more diverse. Lance and Kachel’s three-year study, The School Librarian Investigation—Decline or Evolution?

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Library Museum Social Justice K-12 138

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 24, 2019

Alessandra, a student at Pioneer Elementary School in rural Quincy, Washington, spent part of the fall term in an enrichment class focused on teaching elementary-age students the principles of engineering design through a curriculum designed by educators and scientists at Boston’s Museum of Science. “I Lillian Mongeau/The Hechinger Report.

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Museum Elementary School Professional Development K-12 112

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Originally designed as an academic conference to share research, the event brought together Florida K-12 and college teachers and students, national journalists and professionals from libraries and museums whose work focuses on history and civics.

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Civics K-12 Museum American History 145

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 24, 2018

TNTP’s research found that 38 percent of classrooms with mostly students of color had no grade-level assignments, versus only 12 percent of classrooms with mostly white students. Neil Campbell is the director of innovation for K-12 education policy at the Center for American Progress. Sign up here for our newsletter.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 8, 2024

He took that proclivity to the next level a few years ago, when he accepted a position as a K-12 technology coach in a small school district in western Michigan. It’s the first of its kind in a K-12 building in the whole country, and it's open for our K-12 students. The floor is also interactive.

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Sapiens

APRIL 16, 2024

K–12 schools in the U.S. Ham used the spectacle to raise funds for his Creation Museum. Meanwhile, it seems few people know what archaeologists actually do. rarely cover the field. But I don’t enter Rogan’s studio naively. A decade ago, science communicator Bill Nye publicly debated creationist Ken Ham.

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Archaeology Heritage K-12 History 145

ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Currently, only 4 percent of K-12 teachers in Pennsylvania identify as Black, according to Kinloch, which has bearings on the future teacher workforce, too. “If Many participants noted this as one of the most powerful parts of the program, Kinloch says.

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High School Museum K-12 Charter School 123

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 27, 2020

A maximum of 12 children are allowed in each room, with at least one adult. In the third week of March, Tamiesha Parris got an email from another school — Guidepost Montessori at Museum Mile — announcing it was still open for the children of essential workers. Museum Mile was near their new home. “

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Sapiens

OCTOBER 2, 2024

From the basic genetics taught in K–12 schools to university courses, biology curricula desperately need an overhaul. At the American Museum of Natural History, a 2001 digital representation of the human genome presents color coding for the four chemical components of DNA. Outdated education fails to dispel this disinformation.

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Ancestry Education Humanities K-12 145

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Reconstruction , a technology company focused on developing and teaching K-12 supplemental curriculum, assembles artists, mathematicians and entrepreneurs to provide supplemental curricula to empower Black students in their communities.

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Tutoring Education K-12 Museum 115

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

history instruction include an Asian American and Pacific Islander K-12 curriculum. The curriculum is part of the Hidden Voices Project , initiated by the New York City Department of Education’s Social Studies Department and the Museum of the City of New York. She is a high school senior, a Queens native, and a K-drama fan.

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History Heritage K-12 American History 106

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 4, 2018

Children are capable of understanding science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) concepts when they are less than a year old but these skills must be developed intentionally, according to a new report released by The Center for Childhood Creativity (CCC) at the Bay Area Discovery Museum. Rood said parents and caregivers can help. “We

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Museum Humanities Teaching Research 111

The Hechinger Report

JULY 8, 2016

Seven-year-old Kate Stabenow and her five-year old brother Jack put the finishing touches on the buildings they designed and built at the Bay Area Discovery Museum’s new early-childhood fab lab. The museum staffers were testing a prototype, too. Elizabeth Rood, vice president of education strategy, Bay Area Discovery Museum. “We

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Museum Lesson Plan Elementary School Professional Development 75

Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 17, 2023

According to the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History, these ancient human relatives possessed distinctive physical traits such as larger noses, angled cheekbones, and sturdy physiques. A model of a Neanderthal male on display at the Natural History Museum in London. 1 Velazquez-Arcelay, K., Colbran, L.

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Museum K-12 Heritage Humanities 52

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 2, 2023

Frank Gehry, who turned 94 on Tuesday, designed some of the most famous buildings in the world, including the Walt Disney Concert Hall and The Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao. Students not only build cities, they create governments, infusing civics into the curriculum, too.

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Education Project-Based Learning K-12 Museum 103

The Hechinger Report

MAY 26, 2016

Indeed, the Brooklyn school, which added two public prekindergarten classes last year under New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio’s expansion of pre-K, earns high marks on reviews from independent evaluators — but it’s not alone. The pre-K age is crucial to their development,” she said. They are sponges now.”. Long road to results.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 28, 2016

“It’s more about giving the teachers, the educators, the space to be learners themselves and learn how to use our museum, our facility, in different ways,” said Gerrie Hall, manager of school and teacher progress at the Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum in New York City.

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Museum Professional Development Elementary School History 75

ACRE

JUNE 9, 2023

The museum has a variety of additional resources for K-12 educators as well. Grant Funds Available K-12 teachers, did you know there is grant funding available for field trips to historic Arkansas sites?

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Studies Weekly

APRIL 29, 2024

In 2016, Ko was honored by the National Women’s History Museum for success and leadership in business. For further reading, visit jacl.org , the National Women’s History Museum , or the Asian Pacific American Institute for Congressional Studies. Jerry Yang is a Taiwanese American computer programmer who founded Yahoo!

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Heritage Teaching K-12 Museum 59

The Hechinger Report

MAY 28, 2018

For example, only 32 percent of poor kids and 44 percent of “near” poor kids went to an art gallery, a museum or an historical site over the summer. Only 12 percent of non-poor families did this. Roughly 40 percent of non-poor kids — middle class and wealthy — attended summer camp. The poor were less likely to go on cultural outings.

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Sociology Museum Historic Sites Cultures 94

ACRE

JUNE 27, 2023

The Delta Cultural Center is a museum and educational complex that tells the story of a land and its people, capturing what makes the Arkansas Delta region unique. It is the mission of the Delta Cultural Center to preserve, interpret and present the cultural heritage of this legendary 27-county area.

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Cultures Heritage K-12 Museum 52

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 16, 2020

In addition, museums, recreation centers, libraries and other places that offer alternatives to schooling will also be closed, as they have been in Seattle and other parts of the country hit hard by the virus. Some 70 percent of the city’s 1.1 million students come from low-income families, and thousands are homeless.

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Museum Economics Library Public School 143

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 3, 2024

For science class, they head to a museum. Children First researchers found Pennsylvania enrolled more full-time cyber students than any other state — including ones like California, Texas, and Florida with much larger K-12 student populations. For financial literacy class, they go to the bank to open an account.

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Charter School Tradition Advocacy K-12 93

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 27, 2020

Art galleries, museums, or historical sites were popular with almost two-thirds of non-poor families, while less than a third of poor families took their kindergarteners to these locations in the summer before first grade.

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Historic Sites Museum Library Elementary School 126

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 18, 2020

Many museums offer virtual tours. Several school districts, including the New York City Department of Education, have compiled activities and resources for children organized by grade level, including early childhood. NAEYC has ideas for parents who want to create “centers” in their homes like those found in most preschool classrooms.

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Museum Professional Development Learning Science Tradition 145

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

” Corriveau and Kurkul’s most recent study of more than 100 four and five-year olds at Boston area preschools and a museum found that children who were exposed to more “mechanistic language” learned more than children who received shorter, less detailed explanations.

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Museum Research Humanities Education 111

The Hechinger Report

MAY 27, 2019

When preschool-age children are introduced to science — whether in the classroom, at a museum or even while watching PBS — it’s usually in very basic terms: “Scientists solve problems”; “scientists discover new things”; “scientists are explorers.”.

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Museum High School Tradition Research 112

The Hechinger Report

JULY 5, 2018

Libraries sometimes provide free tech kits to check out, and if they don’t, the Institute of Museum and Library Services can provide a grant. Graves had Tweeted to the creator of a tech kit her kids were using, Makey Makey; he and his team “visited” her students via Skype. Local businesses can also be partners.

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Library Museum Civics Humanities 111

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 19, 2019

He designed some classes for a local museum while he was a grad student and he has since built out the concept into a 25-lesson curriculum for late elementary grades. While pursuing his doctorate at Yale, he started to wonder whether some of the concepts he was learning could be taught to kids.

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Museum Middle School High School Humanities 98

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

The other eight winners of the $10 million prizes include: Furr Institute for Innovative Thinking (Houston, Texas), Design-Lab High (Newark, Delaware), New Harmony High (Venice, Louisiana), Powderhouse Studios (Somerville, Massachusetts), Grand Rapids Public Museum High School (Grand Rapids, Michigan), Washington Leadership Academy (Washington, D.C.),

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High School Museum Charter School Tutoring 92

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Fried has introduced biochemistry to students of various ethnic groups and socioeconomic statuses in schools and museums, finding that all of them happily grapple with the curriculum. After his class, he said, kids doodle molecules in their school notebooks. Both teachers think the curriculum could bring more diversity to STEM.

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Museum Elementary School High School Middle School 124

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 1, 2019

On a recent visit with developers and museum designers, she stood on the building’s gutted first floor and described her plans for the center. But she deliberately avoids calling the space a museum, because she doesn’t want visitors to be rooted in the past. It’s now been closed for nearly 15 years.

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History Elementary School Museum Archiving 111

The Hechinger Report

MAY 16, 2018

An exhibit at the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum. And, though an ongoing process, Mississippi continues to distance itself from a benighted past — 50 years ago, the state tormented civil rights activists; today, the state celebrates their legacy with the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum, opened months ago in Jackson. MARKS, Miss.

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Museum Tutoring Lesson Plan High School 66

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 11, 2017

Kindergarteners frequently spend time in the school’s garden, and all students participate in field trips to local museums and stores. Students at Davis IB participate in field trips in the Jackson-metro area and across state lines. In previous years, students have gone on trips to Memphis, Birmingham, and New Orleans.

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Elementary School Museum Humanities Public School 85

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 “Parents can follow the Twitter feed, and say, ‘Don’t you have that paper due soon in social studies class?’ ” Terrill said.

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Museum Community Engagement Social Studies Tradition 106

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

Maikko, 2, in pink, Terrance, 1, in red, and Nylah, behind Terrance, dance as their child care provider, Lorna Parks, foreground, claps during a visit by staffers from Detroit’s African-American History Museum. By comparison, 76 percent of the K–12 teaching force is female, and 20 percent are people of color.).

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K-12 Primary Sources Museum History 82