The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 1, 2025

Algebra teacher Rick Riccio demonstrates scientific notation during a class at Braham Area High School in Minnesota. That replicates what most of the studies have found, said Scott Peters, senior research scientist at educational assessment nonprofit NWEA. Related: Is it time to stop segregating kids by ability in middle school math?

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 15, 2020

In June 2020, the Center on Reinventing Public Education, a think tank based at the University of Washington, posted a survey of summer school plans around the country. districts the organization is tracking were planning to offer summer school for elementary and middle school students in 2020, as of the latest update , on June 9.

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Digital Promise

MAY 25, 2017

The Digital Promise maker learning team spent some time in Greer, South Carolina this winter observing and filming the Riverside Middle School Library Club students as they worked to design solutions to problems they identified in their community. If that doesn’t sum up middle school, I don’t know what does.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

JANUARY 24, 2023

And so it begins… I am on sabbatical in Spring 2023, unpacking deeper learning in elementary and middle schools. If there is an inquiry- and problem-based learning school that serves grades K-8 that you think I should try and visit, or if you’d like to learn more about what I’m doing and learning, please get in touch!

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 28, 2025

Related: Our free weekly newsletter alerts you to what research says about schools and classrooms. read more from Jill barshay A researcher said the evidence on special education inclusion is flawed. More than 450,000 fourth and eighth graders, selected to be representative of the U.S. That’s a big deal.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 16, 2021

In a middle school hallway in Charlottesville, Virginia, a pair of sixth grade girls sat shoulder to shoulder on a lime-green settee, creating comic strips that chronicled a year of pandemic schooling. . Traditional middle schools are very authoritarian, controlling environments.” CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. —

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ED Surge

MAY 10, 2022

But you wouldn’t know it by looking at the makeup of public-school teachers, who are overwhelmingly white. To learn more about the research, and about the new approaches they surfaced, we sat down with Smith for this week’s EdSurge Podcast. Or read a partial transcript below, lightly edited for clarity. What are some of your findings?

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A Principal's Reflections

JUNE 25, 2013

The following is a guest post by Juliana Meehan - Teacher of English at Tenafly Middle School and candidate for New Jersey principal’s certification through NJ EXCEL, currently interning with Principal Eric Sheninger at New Milford High School. She is also co-creator of IOCS project. Learning for the people, by the people.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 21, 2025

Though she didnt initially see herself ever becoming a school librarian, Rhue has come to love the dynamism and variety of her job. She teaches concepts as wide-ranging as American Sign Language, critical thinking, typing, conducting research and writing in cursive. I also teach cursive writing, which is a lost art.

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Digital Promise

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

When it comes to working with researchers, Principal Stan Garber of Cabrillo Middle School in Santa Clara, California, says, “It really is all about individual kids. And I think if researchers understand the passion that most people in education have for kids, and they share that, they would be welcome in most schools.”.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 6, 2019

Other scholars produced research showing that the kind of zero-tolerance discipline then in vogue was hurting students’ long-term academic prospects and feeding the school-to-prison pipeline. Leave this field empty if you're human: Early research seemed promising. percent of the students at traditional discipline schools.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2024

Critics say she misrepresents research to make her case and her ideas actually impede students. This is a whole effort to shut me down, my research and my writing,” said Boaler. “I This controversy matters on a much larger level because there is a legitimate debate about how math should be taught in American schools.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 1, 2021

Under a first-in-the-nation law that took full effect this year, students from across the state must take part in at least two “student-led, nonpartisan civics projects” — one in eighth grade, and another in high school. Peyton Amaral, an eighth grader at Morton Middle School in Fall River, Mass., Credit: Christopher Blanchette.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 8, 2021

Developer: Michigan State University Research. Developer: University of Michigan and Michigan State University Research. Developer: Stanford University Research. High school Advanced Placement. Developer: University of Washington Research. Curriculum. 2nd grade social studies. Curriculum. 6th grade science.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 4, 2024

They attended a selective middle school, and were advanced enough to be taking algebra in eighth instead of ninth grade. But researchers set up a review class to test a theory about the best way to study for a test. But researchers set up a review class to test a theory about the best way to study for a test.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 24, 2021

I haven’t heard about many school districts announcing longer schedules yet but I was curious to learn what research evidence shows for students at schools that have extended the day or lengthened the year. (I’m I’m excluding optional after-school programs here.) until 5:00 p.m. One didn’t.

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TCI

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Research shows that active learning increases student performance, reduces failure rates, and fosters deeper critical thinking. In the 1980s and 1990s, research confirmed the effectiveness of active learning , leading to its integration into modern teaching methodologies across K-12 and higher education.

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Digital Promise

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

Aubrey is the Research Director at Digital Promise. Kelsey is the Research Communications Manager at Digital Promise. Across the country, schools are adopting new approaches to teaching and learning in order to prepare students for life in a technology-rich world. You can reach her on Twitter at @aubreyfrancisco.

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Digital Promise

APRIL 25, 2019

In traditional science classrooms, students are often presented with facts and definitions to memorize, or they are asked to follow a predetermined set of instructions to complete a lab activity. However, this model of instruction does not align with our emerging understanding of how students learn science best. Next steps.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 12, 2023

The district allows student to attend schools outside of their attendance zones as long as space is available, which means students can opt to continue to follow their chosen career pathway at a middle school with corresponding programs. Matt Giani, a research associate professor at the University of Texas at Austin.

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 15, 2019

Rather than taking a traditional multiple choice test at the end of their unit on weather, sixth grade students at Gilbert Middle School in South Carolina created their own live weather reports—complete with green screens and fake snow.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 14, 2019

I was trained and licensed to be a music teacher in the traditional American way. Almost all of what I just described was traditional. Incredibly traditional. I first was assigned to an elementary school in a middle-class suburb of Philadelphia. My classes included all varieties of instruments.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 22, 2024

Based on its demographic profile and on geography, it would seem safe to assume that Magnolia Middle School in Arkansas is among the scores of schools across the country suffering from a teacher shortage. The school predominantly serves Black and Latino students and those from low-income backgrounds.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 8, 2018

The changes were supported by researchers from Stanford, Berkeley and Silicon Valley. Related: How Silicon Valley schools are trying to boost lower-income students into high-tech jobs. Other high-performing countries, such as Japan and Finland, have learned that speeding through middle school does not result in higher achievement.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Using skills they’d learned in their computer science lessons, the students designed a traditional button blanket on a laser cutting machine. They found a meaningful way to apply all of that skill and knowledge that they have learned and in such a way that it was authentic,” said Luke Fortier, the school librarian and math teacher.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Some skeptics wonder if minutes spent writing takes precious class time away from learning topics the traditional way by, for instance, reading, listening, taking notes, and completing worksheets and projects. The negative finding for 18 percent of the studies troubled the researchers.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 8, 2019

. – A group of about 40 sixth graders at Stony Brook School here has been trying to figure out when and where the next earthquake will hit outside of North America. Their school schedules don’t make distinctions among the four core subjects, which are co-taught by two teachers in an interdisciplinary, project-based environment.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Imagine IM’s Inspire Math video Climbing Mount Everest links the drama of mountaineering to middle school work on percentages. Instead of traditional direct instruction, PBL in math encourages students to explore, discuss and understand mathematical concepts by solving problems collaboratively. And that's how people learn math.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 13, 2021

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. I think this is a lost school year for most kids.” Read the stories.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 14, 2021

Clifton was among 30 teachers around the country participating in a new effort, funded by the former CEO of Google, to encourage more teachers to conduct high-quality classroom research, from miniature randomized controlled trials to A/B tests, a type of split experiment often used by online retailers.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 27, 2019

Destiny Reyes, 18, spends one school day each week at the New England Aquarium and much of her schoolwork is built around research opportunities there. When Destiny Reyes started elementary school, she felt highly motivated. Like most young children, she liked learning new things, and she excelled at school.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 18, 2024

This high failure rate, coupled with labor market needs, has led policymakers to tweak traditional vocational models to make them more flexible. Related: Middle schools are experimenting with themes like math, sustainability and the arts. We have every type of possibility,” Meyer said. But is it all just branding?

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ED Surge

MAY 8, 2023

That’s the question the middle school class was struggling to answer. Fractions hadn’t really connected with the students, says John Barclay, a teacher in Richmond Public Schools in Virginia. Poor teacher support and inadequate training, researchers suggest, may be contributing. Is 2/7ths larger than 4/11ths?

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Digital Promise

JULY 10, 2019

While parts of the education system have incorporated tailored methods to keep students engaged, mathematics is often still taught in traditional, non-differentiated ways. A growing body of research has revealed the diversity of student strengths and challenges and a wide variety of pathways there are to effective learning.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 20, 2019

Locations of charter middle schools in Boston. Source: “Can Successful Schools Replicate? Scaling Up Boston’s Charter School Sector,” Sarah Cohodes, Elizabeth Setren, and Christopher R. Research sometimes shows that charter schools are better at raising student achievement than traditional public schools.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 24, 2018

Evidence from the court system, school surveys and controlled experiments suggests restorative justice can indeed do a lot of good. Furthermore, research reveals that punishing offenders may not necessarily meet victims’ needs. Post-intervention, the team found, middle schoolers felt more respected and motivated to behave better.

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Cult of Pedagogy

APRIL 1, 2024

” After extensive research, she decided that the path she wanted to pursue for her state was Educators Rising, which gets young people started on a path to teaching as early as middle school. So I’m like, we don’t have a diverse pipeline. We barely have a pipeline. What can we do about this?”

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