The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

More schools around the country, from Baltimore to Michigan to Colorado , are adopting these content-filled lessons to teach geography, astronomy and even art history. Others say learning facts is unimportant in the age of Google where we can instantly look anything up, and that the focus should be on teaching skills.

Teaching 135

Teaching Charter School Social Studies Geography 135

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 11, 2024

A growing chorus of education researchers, pundits and “science of reading” advocates are calling for young children to be taught more about the world around them. It’s an indirect way of teaching reading comprehension. Students were also given related books to read during the summer. Covid hit in the middle of the experiment.

Learning Science 145

Learning Science Charter School Lesson Plan Social Studies 145

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 13, 2024

Every teacher at her school, the Health Sciences High and Middle College, in San Diego, shares in the responsibility of teaching students literacy skills, regardless of the subject they teach. For decades, the primary methods for teaching students how to read in the U.S.

High School 145

High School Teaching Primary Sources K-12 145

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 8, 2021

Four new studies on project-based learning. 3rd grade science. 2nd grade social studies. 6th grade science. But it’s an open question whether students can learn every subject this way. Four new studies released in February 2021 are helping to fill this void. Curriculum. Curriculum. Curriculum.

Project-Based Learning 145

Project-Based Learning Middle School Social Studies High School 145

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 28, 2020

A study on teaching critical thinking in science. In a study of middle school science classrooms, researchers found that it’s not effective to start the school year with weeks of lessons on the scientific method, which many teachers do. Student teachers fail test about how kids learn, nonprofit finds.

Research 119

Research Tutoring Education Critical Thinking 119

Digital Promise

DECEMBER 2, 2019

This question structured the two-day event at South Fayette School District (SFSD) , which has a nationally recognized program for teaching computer science and computational thinking. How do you integrate computational thinking in the classroom?

K-12 127

K-12 Middle School Elementary School Social Studies 127

Studies Weekly

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Teach Science Concurrently with Other Disciplines Granted, it can be challenging to make enough time for so many areas of instruction – especially at a time when the National Assessment for Educational Progress reports that two-thirds of students cannot read at a proficient level.

Elementary School 52

Elementary School Education Lesson Plan Social Studies 52