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. Or even newer math ?) isn’t working.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 17, 2018

Pat Yongpradit, chief academic officer for Code.org, said Nevada is the only state so far to embed math, science, English language arts and social studies into its computer science standards. For every overlap, teachers have a concrete opportunity to introduce computer science in more traditional subjects.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 23, 2019

on day four of the strike, Nadia Morales, a counselor at Los Angeles High School, and Pedro Martinez, a social-studies teacher at Eagle Rock High School, prepare their children for the day. The “co-location” of charters on the grounds of traditional public schools is increasingly common. At 7 a.m.,

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

In August 2020, Amanda Nemergut was looking for alternatives to in-person public school for her three daughters. Her other two girls, in third and fifth grades, would be home on alternating days under the school’s hybrid schedule. Many parents, unaware of the history of virtual charters, continue turning to these schools.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 26, 2020

Not long after, I was allowed to listen in on a professional development seminar with a group of public school principals. I figure the educational videos she watches while I work are good enough to cover science and social studies for now. Instead, my attempt to persuade her to write three sentences was a disaster.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 29, 2020

She was hired as the student voice specialist at Chicago Public Schools in 2012 to oversee the district’s newly created “student voice committees.”. Students who serve on the committees learn how to research, organize and identify solutions to issues in their schools, said Salgado.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 18, 2018

Just 10 years ago, he was kicked out of his Vermont public school and finished at an alternative high school in Maine. Getting students out into the community could help bridge the growing divide between Vermont’s public schools and the aging taxpayers who finance them, says Elijah Hawkes, Randolph Union’s principal.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 22, 2018

The EL motto, “We are crew, not passengers,” is a quote from Kurt Hahn, the German Jewish educator who fled the Nazis in the 1930s and went on to start Outward Bound, which co-founded the Expeditionary Learning network (later renamed EL Education) in partnership with Harvard’s Graduate School of Education in 1991.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

Parents can follow the Twitter feed, and say, ‘Don’t you have that paper due soon in social studies class?’ ” Terrill said. Sanfelippo found his district’s social-media rallying cry during a school field trip to Fall Creek’s history museum, where vintage banners, pennants and pins were emblazoned “Go Crickets!”.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 6, 2017

Sanborn Regional High School student Jailee Thibeault does research during her social studies class. New Hampshire is piloting its new assessment system alongside traditional testing. Schools have to hit incremental targets every three years. Photo: Kate Flock for The Hechinger Report. Weekly Update.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 30, 2018

A 2015 RAND study , which looked at 62 schools that had received various Gates Foundation-funded grants for personalized learning, found gains of 11 percentile points in math and 8 in reading. Pane predicts that if the personalized learning trend continues, it could upend traditional notions of what a classroom looks like. “I

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 14, 2016

One school district stands out as a model of implementation: Loudoun County (VA) Public Schools (LCPS). Since 2005, LCPS had participated in the Geospatial Semester program through James Madison University, which taught GIS to hundreds of high school seniors (and even juniors) through a project-based approach.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 16, 2020

I’d spent the school year reporting about New Orleans, a city whose population is one-third white but whose public schools contained nearly all children of color, most of them black. Many of those schools were led by white principals and a fleet of white teachers. Photo: Casey Parks for The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 5, 2018

The goal with the first two groups was to help them earn a traditional diploma, if possible. They’re behind in a traditional school setting. They’re either pregnant or parenting,” said Jessica Irving-Marin, a licensed clinic social worker and program director for YEP’s new effort.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 25, 2023

Carrie Bakken, a social studies teacher and program coordinator who has been with the school since 2001, said the model appeals to younger workers and has helped the school avoid hiring challenges. “We Gadd, a former teacher in New York City’s public schools, said, “It’s not a top-down model.

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Studies Weekly

MARCH 15, 2024

Preschool programs are also not subject to the same limitations as the traditional public school system, so some states can fund private or faith-based pre-K programs. Easier Transition to Kindergarten Pre-K programs also vastly improve school readiness and make the transition to Kindergarten easier.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 15, 2022

Here are some voices from our third round of interviews, in which we asked people involved with their local public schools for their reflections on how the past year had shaped them, and their predictions for the next school year, among other topics. school district is investing heavily in early literacy.

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Thrive in Grade Five

FEBRUARY 2, 2019

We need to emphasize that Native American groups were (and are still) unique with distinct language, beliefs, traditions, and dress. When teaching about pre-Columbian or pre-contact cultures, be sure that students understand many of the tribes they are learning about have ancestors today who are still practicing their traditions.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

In 1970, when the courts ordered schools to desegregate and controversies over busing erupted across the country, white parents in Coahoma County fled the public system for private segregation academies, calling it “school choice.”. Related: Are rural charter schools viable in Mississippi? he Brown v.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Minneapolis Public Schools (Minnesota) already uses data to inform decision-making in more than 70 schools across the city, but they wanted to find best practices for interoperability to link different systems together for more accurate and timely data. Abby Wolf IT Strategy Process Analyst, Minneapolis Public Schools.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 6, 2017

school district’s sixth-grade-only school. By nine school district superintendents from nine states. public school districts spend a combined $8 billion on instructional materials while trying to ensure that schools receive the maximum value for their money. Photo: Jackie Mader.

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Zinn Education Project

JANUARY 8, 2024

Thanks to a generous collaboration with Dartmouth College historian Matthew Delmont , the Zinn Education Project sent 14,000 copies of Delmont’s book Half American: The Epic Story of African Americans Fighting World War II at Home and Abroad to public school teachers, school librarians, and teacher educators.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2019

The two had spent nearly seven years designing a new kind of high school meant to address the needs of students who didn’t thrive in a traditional setting. Resnick and Duffy had spent countless hours shepherding this school through the political thickets that all new public schools face.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 4, 2018

Also, Massachusetts public schools have been relatively slow to adopt student-centered learning, perhaps in part because traditional teaching approaches seem to work so well here—last year the state’s averages topped the National As sessment of Educational Progress test scores in reading and math. This approach is dynamic.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2020

Now nearly 400 schools use it across 40 states. Nearly 400 schools use the Summit Learning Program across 40 states. Fears about data privacy and screen time, along with concerns about Silicon Valley’s conflicting interests as it pushes into public schools, have battered Summit’s reputation. It’s a mindset shift.”.

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Digital Promise

MAY 15, 2018

Fryer’s study, published by the National Bureau of Economic Research , describes a two-year, randomized field experiment in grades three, four, and five at 50 traditional public schools in Houston. In the schools in that latter group, students stayed with the same class all day; only the teacher changed.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 15, 2018

Magic Ladder offers a new kind of code for reading English words – a toolset in addition to traditional phonics. No similar studies have been done since the Magic Ladder method went high-tech. And Second Street School teachers are finding Magic Ladder is useful beyond English classes.

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Diane Ravitch

MAY 9, 2023

The Orlando Sentinel reported today that the State Education Department had rejected 35% of the social studies textbooks submitted for review because of leftist content. The DeSantis administration objects to any references to “social justice” or negative references to capitalism. history and world history courses.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 27, 2016

Tianna’s social studies project aimed to refute the “dominant narrative” that racism is largely dead in the United States. And are they particularly valuable for students who have struggled in traditional high school classes? “You’re doing fine,” another student assured her.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

Crook County Middle School sixth grade math and social studies teacher Heidi Lea, aka Cricket, calls on a student while asking questions after students surveyed the aquatic wildlife in Suttle Lake in the Deschutes National Forest in May. . $22 The post Will voters guarantee these public school kids a week in the woods?

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 6, 2020

Related: OPINION: When Black parents benefit from school choice, it doesn’t perpetuate racism. Overt racism like this is, I hope, less prominent in today’s public-school classrooms than it was 30 years ago in my own — if for no other reason than no one can ever again claim that a Black person can’t become president of our country.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 12, 2023

When the debate over teaching race-related concepts in public schools reached Kimberly Tilsen-Brave Heart’s home state of South Dakota, she decided she couldn’t in good conscience send her youngest daughter to kindergarten at a local public school. It’s knowledge about culture and history and traditions in language.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

But it wasn’t indoor recess — play is one of the ways students learn every day in O’Brien’s science and social studies class at Shidler Elementary School. This is about building relationships, and social-emotional learning.”. Stephanie Hinton, director of early childhood in Oklahoma City Public Schools.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 7, 2016

It is just one of a slate of waivers approved by lawmakers, including class size, teacher preparation time, hiring and firing rules, and others, allowing traditional public schools to operate with the same educational requirements as their area charter schools. According to U.S. BACK IN THE DELTA.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Just 7 percent of America’s public school teachers were Black during the 2017-18 school year, while Black students make up 15 percent of the student population, according to the most recently available data from the National Center for Education Statistics. One Alabama town is trying to change that.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 7, 2018

Students aren’t likely to learn much about how labor unions have shaped economic and social policy if they stick to traditional textbooks, according to a report by the Albert Shanker Institute, a pro-labor group named for the longtime leader of the American Federation of Teachers. That’s the whole point of collective bargaining.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 26, 2018

Related: How social studies can help young kids make sense of the world. This requires that schools go well beyond the traditional annual field trips and get kids out and into their communities on a regular basis. Joan Gilbert is a retired educator and a fellow with the Public Voices OpEd Project.

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