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OPINION: How online and traditional teachers can work together to bring more students into the middle class

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Through this program, our brick-and-mortar teachers work alongside ALDCA teachers to combine a rigorous academic course load — which includes English, math and social studies — with online experiential learning opportunities like internships, job shadowing and project-based learning. So, how does it all work?

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Many kids can’t read, even in high school. Is the solution teaching reading in every class?

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Patty Topliffe, who teaches social studies at Woodstock High School in Vermont, said teaching vocabulary and other literacy skills to her students helps them understand primary source documents. Patty Topliffe (center right) and other English and social studies teachers at Woodstock High School, in Vermont.

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Students analyze rap lyrics with code in digital humanities class

The Hechinger Report

Twenty-three states have created K-12 computer science standards. That’s up from 12 states in 2013, when Code.org launched, aiming to expand access to computer science in U.S. For every overlap, teachers have a concrete opportunity to introduce computer science in more traditional subjects.

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College Students Are Doing Less Homework. Should Instructors Change How They Assign It?

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One cause is the pandemic, and how it disrupted middle and high school for today’s traditional-aged college students. Instructors need to show their students how an assignment will help them grow, says Darren Minarik, an associate professor at Radford University focused on special education and social studies education.

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Math Instruction Isn’t Working. Could Better Teacher Training Help?

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Although it’s not as obviously contentious as say, social studies, educators and researchers (not to mention students and families) have strong feelings about math instruction (remember New Math ? The conversation around math instruction suggests that not that much is really known about how to teach K-12 math.

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A study finds promise in project-based learning for young low-income children

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A study of project-based learning found that social studies scores were higher for second-grade students who learned this way, compared to students who were taught traditionally. studied civics in the fall of 2016, they began by exploring a nearby park in Pontiac. Jackie Mader/The Hechinger Report.

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Project-based learning boosts student engagement, understanding

The Hechinger Report

Instead of staying with the same two teachers in the same room for most of the day, students have one teacher for a combined science and math class and another for a humanities class that brings language arts and social studies together. That’s fine with Chew. Related: Project-based learning and standardized tests don’t mix.