The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

We’ve locked ourselves in battle, one side clamoring to close schools to prevent disease spread, the other demanding we keep them open to prevent learning loss, and no solution in sight. For example, at the progressive charter school where I work, we’ve launched a pilot program of what we call inquiry projects. Need more ideas?

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Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 9, 2018

Sara Stringer, Ask a Tech Teacher contributor, has a list of great websites for high school students. I don’t post enough about high school so I’m thrilled with her article: Some students study more productively in groups, working with their peers. Subject Focused. Physics Forums. World Literature Forum. General Study Help.

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Edsurge

MAY 13, 2019

She was talking about computer science—the subject at the core of the middle school she founded in Southeast D.C. Computer science-focused schools are not so rare anymore. The computer science curriculum is doing more than teaching underserved middle school students how to code. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Here, eSchool News highlights the Brooklyn Emerging Leaders Academy–one of its K-12 Hero Awards finalists. As a ninth grade STEAM teacher at Brooklyn Emerging Leaders Academy (BELA), Celina Bertoncini was assigned the task of creating and teaching a brand-new STEAM program–during the height of COVID-19.

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Doug Levin

JULY 24, 2017

Summer and transitioning to a new day-to-day computer (Linux laptop). Those are my excuses for combining the last two weeks of news clips into one ‘best of’ roundup. A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 28 and 29 Combined Edition). So why do I still want schools to use them?

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Doug Levin

FEBRUARY 21, 2016

While the meeting retained for me some of its characteristic David versus Goliath ethic, it is hard not to see momentum shifting in favor of the acceptance of OER both as a positive social movement and as a pragmatic solution to curricular challenges facing schools. This is good news and cause for celebration.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 12, 2018

I began my educational career as a fourth-grade teacher in the Compton Unified School District in Southern California and, like most new educators, the first months were a struggle to master the topics and basic classroom skills. Keeping teachers in the classroom might be the second most difficult.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 2, 2020

Through the unsettled ending of the last school year, to the unprecedented beginning of this one, school communities continue to exist in a state of flux. Some districts are using fully remote learning models to start, some are opting for hybrid models, while others are implementing new safety protocols to begin in-person learning.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 12, 2022

As the coronavirus pandemic ravaged communities and shuttered schools, many educators and parents worried about kindergarteners who were learning online. That concern now appears well-founded as we’re starting to see evidence that remote school and socially distanced instruction were profoundly detrimental to their reading development.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 30, 2019

Every time I turn on the news, I think about my eighth-graders. When it was confirmed that I would be developing and piloting our school’s first civics course, I began to think about my eighth-graders more intently. It was a challenging, and ultimately rewarding, environment in which to spend my first year in a classroom.

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Doug Levin

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

Two news stories this week have turned my attention (again) to the issue of conflict of interest in education, technology, and public policy. The first was another in Natasha Singer’s New York Times must-read series, ‘Education Disrupted,’ entitled Silicon Valley Courts Brand-Name Teachers, Raising Ethics Issues.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Each partner provides expertise, insight, and access to enable the creation of high-quality and standards-aligned dynamic digital resources and will help provide under-resourced schools across the United States no-cost access to the award-winning Discovery Education Experience learning platform. Subaru of America, Inc.,

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

So this school year, they are launching esports classes and joining esports organizations and leagues that will allow students to improve their gaming skills, while also networking with tech companies. And the National Association of Collegiate Esports, launched in 2016, has about 170 member schools. Credit: Insights Marketing. “We

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MindShift

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Newark schools are ramping up virtual tutoring. was originally published by Chalkbeat, a nonprofit news organization covering public education. As evidence mounts that the pandemic is inflicting academic harm on many students, some Newark schools are turning to a simple yet potentially potent treatment: tutoring.

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Tom Murray

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

For over two centuries, student information and data was kept in paper form, often in filing cabinets in a school or district office. The move to the digital storage of information has enabled many solutions expected by schools today – online portals for parents, real-time communication with families, etc.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

At Capital City Public Charter School, eighth grader Nia Reese delivers a 40-minute presentation aimed at convincing panelists that she is prepared to move on to the campus’ high school. But at this school, that’s not enough. Photo: Amadou Diallo for The Hechinger Report. Nia is a good student with solid academic grades.

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eSchool News

JUNE 17, 2019

With charter schools’ enrollment growing – the number of charter schools more than tripled from 2000 to 2015, according to the most recent data available from NCES – public, private, and charter schools find themselves competing for students. Eight ways to improve your school or district website.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Fordham Institute found that elementary school students who studied more social studies, including geography, history and civics, scored higher on fifth grade reading tests. For years, schools have been cutting back on social studies and doubling down on reading instruction, especially in low-income schools.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2021

Tens of millions of students may now be months or, in some cases, even a full year behind because they couldn’t attend school in person during the pandemic. Educators will have to do something different for the 2021-22 school year to make up for those losses. Often when tutoring was scheduled after school, many students didn’t show up.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

In Maggie Waldner’s elementary school classroom in downtown Denver, math lessons rarely focus on rote memorization. For a while now, schools across the country have used culturally responsive teaching practices in English and history classrooms , engaging learners in the material by incorporating their own experiences and cultures.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2020

The campus of Paradise High School, which was damaged in the Camp Fire but survived. How Schools Are preparing – and Not Preparing – Children for Climate Change,” reported by HuffPost and The Hechinger Report, a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

What are virtual school lobbyists doing to impact the national discussion on school choice and accountability? I wanted to resolve that tension for myself and figure out, "Okay, are screens this incredible promise, or are they just dangerous and the schools have it all wrong?". But, as a parent, you hear such a different story.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 8, 2017

Almost five years ago, Summit Public Schools decided that scoring high on standardized tests wasn’t enough to ensure success after high school. Leaders at the California-born charter school network decided that students needed to have the skills necessary to understand how to survive in life after a teacher stopped holding their hand.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 17, 2021

As districts across the United States consider how to get student learning back on track and fortify parent interest in public schools, they’re asking the same question as Steve Joel: What should we keep after the pandemic? Leveraging such changes long term could be a matter of public school survival. Unexpected gains in equity.

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Doug Levin

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

Two news stories this week have turned my attention (again) to the issue of conflict of interest in education, technology, and public policy. The first was another in Natasha Singer’s New York Times must-read series, ‘Education Disrupted,’ entitled Silicon Valley Courts Brand-Name Teachers, Raising Ethics Issues.

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EdTech Magazine

APRIL 29, 2018

Mark Guzdial, a computer education researcher and professor at Georgia Institute of Technology, explores the future of computer science education in K–12 schools. The tech team at Fayette County Public Schools in Kentucky offer what they call “tech snacks,” or bite-sized pieces of advice to help transform learning and teaching.

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EdNews Daily

OCTOBER 29, 2019

When you think of a competent and successful school district facility manager (FM), there are a few qualities that immediately spring to mind. The FM will also need to know your school’s specific vision, values, goals and how their roles fit into the larger instructional picture. By Dan Ringo. Seems simple and it is simple.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 11, 2017

Traditional school districts that attempt to bring a new model of education that provides personally designed lessons for students often face conflicting priorities that make it difficult to follow through, according to a new report released today. All but two of the schools were in urban areas. Photo: Nichole Dobo.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 24, 2018

A middle-school student works on a math problem. For an eighth-grade math teacher like me, the arrival of spring means I’ve almost finished teaching the concepts my students need to succeed in high school. No physics in high school. Photo: Jackie Mader/The Hechinger Report. As an eighth-grade math teacher at Helen Y.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

I visited many elementary and middle schools where students, with bulging headphones wrapped over their heads, stared at separate computers, each learning something different at the same moment. Some were reviewing topics they should have mastered years ago. Sign up for the Hechinger newsletter.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 30, 2018

NEW ORLEANS — A few years ago, with little fanfare or announcement, the New Orleans education system began a massive experiment that’s reshaping how kids learn across the city. Supporters in New Orleans say that, so far, personalized learning has been transformative. But research has been mixed on whether it works.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 10, 2021

Allison Perez, 11, and on the cusp of sixth grade in the Elmsford Union Free School District in New York, had been working all morning to build a rocket she would launch as soon as it was fit to fly. Before the program started, Allison worried it would feel too much like school. This story also appeared in Mind/Shift.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 28, 2020

Katie Crook, a teacher in Dorchester School District Two in suburban Summerville, South Carolina, wrote letters to her ELL students after she did not hear back from their parents through other means. She was so concerned, she tried a decidedly old-school means of communication: letter writing. public schools.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 26, 2016

Third grade math teacher Karen Demore says her students at New Frontiers Charter School need to understand math as a journey, not just a series of right or wrong answers. Karen Demore, third grade math teacher at New Frontiers Charter School in San Antonio, Texas. Photo: Sarah Garland. She stomps.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 9, 2018

Colorado’s Prairie Heights Middle School joins more than 330 partner schools on the Summit Learning Platform nationwide. Dawn Hillman, principal of Prairie Heights Middle School in Evans, Colorado, describes her student population as “pretty at-risk.” Dawn Hillman, principal of Prairie Heights Middle School.

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Educator Innovator

JUNE 29, 2017

Just know that when you involve your students in this kind of active learning, you are doing the work that public school in America was originally established to do: guiding them to become the responsible and active citizens our society needs. At times, as in this New York City public school project in 1992 , foundations have even funded it.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 24, 2016

The kids really get attached to their monsters,” said Schon, who teaches first- and second-grade students at Campus Charter School in Brevard County, Florida. Jessica Schon, teacher at Campus Charter School, Brevard County, Florida. But when they see a little green monster doing it they are like ‘Oh!’”.

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