Dangerously Irrelevant

JANUARY 17, 2017

Here are a few of my favorites: Would you please state, concisely, any relevant experience you have had in public education, either as a student, a teacher, a school leader, a public school board member, a parent of a public school child, a PTA member, a volunteer in a traditional public school or as someone who once drove past a public school?

Charter School 76

Charter School Pedagogy Public School Tradition 76

Digital Promise

APRIL 23, 2019

In our current education system, we continue to see gaps in graduation rates and unequal access to high-quality public schools. As such, we have to establish standards that differentiate strong and weak pedagogy in edtech tools and help us decipher between real innovation and snake oil. Taking a more critical look at edtech.

EdTech 133

EdTech Pedagogy Humanities Advocacy 133

ED Surge

MAY 30, 2023

public schools, in addition to completing the long-standing requirement of student teaching for a semester. “We It started off as a way to bring high-impact tutoring to elementary school students in northeast Washington, D.C. Teacher candidates at most colleges are not paid when they work in schools as student teachers.

Tutoring 145

Tutoring K-12 Education Pedagogy 145

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. Is 2/7ths larger than 4/11ths? The concept just wasn’t intuitive. But many people believe that math instruction in the U.S. isn’t working.

K-12 136

K-12 Critical Thinking Middle School Pedagogy 136

ED Surge

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Like many people who learned new skills during the pandemic, I immersed myself in Black history, pedagogy, and education reform. The mainstream may not fully recognize them, but that hasn’t stopped Black changemakers with a grassroots appeal, like former DC Public Schools Chancellor Kaya Henderson.

History 109

History Tutoring Pedagogy American History 109

Digital Promise

MAY 15, 2018

But specialization also has costs: It gives teachers fewer opportunities to tailor pedagogy to individual students and to follow through on behavior coaching. For elementary school teachers, in-depth knowledge of specific subjects might not be as valuable as in-depth knowledge of individual students. The Research.

Teaching 84

Teaching Elementary School Pedagogy Social Studies 84

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

But the funding isn’t available to schools that are chronically low performing, and therefore provides no relief to the majority of schools with the worst teacher shortages. Of the 882 public schools in the state, only 422 received money from the program in 2017, and only 62 of those schools were located in the Delta.

Charter School 106

Charter School Economics Middle School Public School 106

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 7, 2017

For anyone who’s spent time in an early childhood classroom, the idea that school should be as much about making friends and having fun as learning the alphabet will sound familiar. What happens is that the academic pedagogy keeps getting pushed down, down, down and quashing what early childhood development is all about.

High School 102

High School Project-Based Learning Charter School Elementary School 102

The Hechinger Report

MAY 8, 2019

That’s why instead of pedagogy, we talked about the constant cycle of violence at religious sites and educational institutions in the United States. There is a clear separation between public schools and religion in America, but this is not meant to keep all conversations about religious pluralism outside of the classroom.

Pedagogy 84

Pedagogy Government Teaching Tradition 84

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 18, 2018

In the face of a nationwide teacher shortage, especially in science, technology, engineering and math, the academy is not the first program that has sought to attract experts in these areas to teaching, but it offers a significant departure from traditional teacher training programs in several other high-tech ways. Army War College.

K-12 100

K-12 Tradition Pedagogy Teaching 100

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

Bricolage has been anointed as one of the good schools by middle class and affluent parents, who have long complained about the lack of options in the public school system for their children. Citywide, black students make up 82 percent of public school enrollment, while low-income children also comprise 82 percent of students.

Charter School 73

Charter School Pedagogy K-12 Public School 73

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 14, 2016

Columbia Public Schools teachers Brandy Ahrens, Elly Eckhoff and Heather Smith are intent as facilitator Kim Nuetzmann explains the three topic areas in which the veteran teachers were being asked for input: cooperating teacher support, teacher candidates and enhancing the partnership between PK-12 and higher education. “We

Classroom Management 110

Classroom Management Lesson Plan Pedagogy Elementary School 110

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

Leave this field empty if you're human: The 2-year-old classrooms offered a stark contrast to one 5-year-old classroom I poked my head in down the hall, where children sat at desks in rows and were engaged in much more rote, traditional academic instruction. It’s much better for low-income children.” (The

Teaching 83

Teaching Education Government Tradition 83

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 23, 2017

It was founded as a contract school (similar to a charter) with Chicago Public Schools, by civic-minded tech leaders appalled that their booming industry was struggling to find enough new talent despite being surrounded by neighborhoods where, quite often, roughly 50 percent of the young adults were unemployed.

High School 78

High School Project-Based Learning Psychology Charter School 78

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 16, 2017

A looming question is whether personalized learning that works in, say, a tight-knit, mission-driven charter school can be reliably translated into traditional district schools with many more students, less flexible schedules, keener standardized-test worries and cultures steeped in established ways of teaching and learning.

Charter School 81

Charter School Middle School Project-Based Learning Elementary School 81

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Teachers certainly will have to adjust some of our pedagogy, and extended deadlines might just become a norm, or having more flexibility about how kids are able to complete assignments. William Hite , superintendent of Philadelphia’s public schools. Young people are glad to be back in school. FAYETTEVILLE, ARKANSAS.

Oral History 144

Oral History History High School Public School 144

Maitri Learning

OCTOBER 18, 2022

The manualized approach to professional education is not meant to replace the traditional approach. So, we can apply this where it fits, like in public Montessori programs. But, it does not meet the needs of all students, particularly those with dyslexia or who are entering public school following a summer-based preparation program.

Psychology 52

Psychology K-12 Pedagogy Professional Development 52

Cult of Pedagogy

MAY 12, 2024

When you make a purchase through these links, Cult of Pedagogy gets a small percentage of the sale at no extra cost to you. At first glance, the notion of school choice is a no-brainer. In the book, Ravitch makes a case for strong, well-funded public schools, giving every student a good education, regardless of family income.

Charter School 238

Charter School Private School Public School Pedagogy 238

The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2019

That push officially began in 2014, when Deborah Gist, then the state’s commissioner of education, announced a public-private “innovation partnership” to merge traditional and computerized pedagogy. Charter schools are the bluntest incarnation of education reform and have long enjoyed bipartisan support.

K-12 109

K-12 Charter School Middle School Elementary School 109

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Stephanie Hinton, director of early childhood in Oklahoma City Public Schools. It can be difficult to explain what play-based learning looks like, said Mara Krechevsky, senior researcher at Project Zero, an education research group in Harvard’s Graduate School of Education. “This isn’t just about play.

Elementary School 144

Elementary School Pedagogy Public School Middle School 144

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 23, 2018

As part of his plan, Pophal is helping to send teachers back to school for master’s degrees at the local Blackhawk Technical College so they can teach more specialized classes that also count for college credit. Steve Pophal, superintendent, Janesville Schools. That kind of work environment doesn’t exist any longer,” he says.

Pedagogy 111

Pedagogy High School Economics Humanities 111

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 28, 2022

People who in that time wanted to have books make a ton of money for them as public school adoptions had to understand: That was not an educational process. There just were a number of issues that were bubbling because of the numerous reports that came out in the 80s about the inadequacies of public schools.”.

History 101

History K-12 Library Social Studies 101

Cult of Pedagogy

MARCH 6, 2025

Parents, now is the time that you share the receipts of the betrayal that has happened in our public schools. ” Both of these developments have naturally caused a lot of concern for anyone who teaches in a publicly-funded K-12 school, and these concerns are absolutely legitimate. .”

Teaching 171

Teaching K-12 Pedagogy Social Justice 171