The Hechinger Report

MARCH 8, 2021

Four new studies on project-based learning. High school Advanced Placement. High school Advanced Placement. Project-based learning, a popular practice that uses lots of poster boards and student presentations, is billed as an antidote to boring classrooms where teachers drone on. Curriculum.

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Project-Based Learning Middle School Social Studies High School 145

The Hechinger Report

MAY 26, 2019

But what else was she learning in this maker space? With scarcely a month left in the school year, why was it worth spending time making videos rather than covering the next academic standard? also known as Community Middle, part of the Albemarle County district. Related: Project-based learning and standardized tests don’t mix.

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Education Project-Based Learning Charter School Tradition 111

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 16, 2017

(From left to right) Sixth graders Mia DeMore, Maria DeAndrade, and Stephen Boulas make a number line in their math class at Walsh Middle School in Framingham, Massachusetts, one of 132 “Basecamp” schools piloting the Personalized Learning Platform created by the Summit charter school network. Photo: Chris Berdik.

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Charter School Middle School Project-Based Learning Elementary School 71

The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2020

A network of charter schools in California and Washington developed the Summit Learning Program for their students almost a decade ago; the model got a boost in 2014 from Facebook engineers after Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, visited a Summit middle school. How do they draw that something is happening?”.

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Junior High Charter School Elementary School Social Studies 127