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OPINION: Powerful partnerships can help solve the national teaching shortage

The Hechinger Report

Too many of our public schools are missing teachers, especially in hard-to-staff subject areas. According to a recent report , last school year, 45 percent of public schools said they were understaffed, and nearly 9 in 10 school districts reported struggling to hire teachers heading into the 2023-24 school year.

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How Augmented Reality Helps Teachers Reach More Students

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Renee Dawson Educational Technology Specialist at Atlanta Public Schools “Augmented reality is when you take something that you can already see in the world and add an interactive or experiential layer on top. AR can be used in the classroom to create interactive learning experiences that enhance traditional instruction.

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OPINION: Not enough students with dyslexia have access to high-quality reading and writing instruction. AI can help.

The Hechinger Report

School leaders, especially those who are advocates for students who learn differently, must begin having more strategic conversations about AI now. The traditional education system has never worked for students with disabilities, and we could redesign it. It can generate word lists, decodable texts and basic lesson plans.

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The new homeschoolers: More diverse, very committed

The Hechinger Report

In the 1970s and 80s, groups of primarily white, Christian fundamentalists drove a surge in the number of home-schooling families around the country. As they pulled their children out of public schools, they also worked to dismantle state and local regulatory hurdles that kept kids in brick-and-mortar institutions.

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COLUMN: Want teachers to teach climate change? You’ve got to train them

The Hechinger Report

Schools have to address student climate anxiety, provide them knowledge and skills, including the ability to recognize misinformation, and empower them to act, while schools also “clean up their act” by decarbonizing their physical infrastructure. We’ve been doing research with New York City Public Schools for the past 6-7 years.

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‘Hamilton,’ cultural relevance and the quest to personalize learning

The Hechinger Report

The vast majority of Saridis’s students are Latino, and at the Margarita Muñiz Academy in Boston, a dual-language high school in Boston Public Schools, connecting the curriculum to their culture is a top priority. The show also adds hip hop – a genre created in the black community – to more traditional Broadway ballads.

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Kids are failing algebra. The solution? Slow down.

The Hechinger Report

At the beginning of 2021, The Hechinger Report’s members (individual readers who donated money to our nonprofit news organization) asked us if we would report on the best practices for helping the nation’s public school system recover from the pandemic. introduces a lesson on quadratic formulas.?Few Few students?

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