The Hechinger Report

MAY 26, 2016

But this year, New Frontiers Charter School in San Antonio needed its best teachers to help younger students get ready for a new set of math standards Texas adopted in 2012, so Demore switched to elementary school. The Texas standards aren’t the same as the Common Core State Standards, adopted by more than 40 states.

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EdNews Daily

DECEMBER 11, 2016

After completing undergraduate school in 2001, I began my teaching career as a substitute teacher at various Oregon districts. Being raised in a bilingual Finnish/English home and having attended elementary school in Finland for several months at a time, I chose to apply to teaching positions in my mother’s native country of Finland.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 19, 2017

They have created their own vegetable gardens and raised funds to bring plant beds to local elementary schools. A 2011 study of two EL middle schools and one EL elementary school in New York State found that they fared better at reducing race and income achievement gaps, particularly in English, when compared to similar schools.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 6, 2016

million in 2001. The district also embraced the new Common Core standards, despite controversy elsewhere. The Common Core standards led the district to databases where teachers can download the nonfiction reading heavily emphasized in the standards. Related: Schools on U.S. Our kids deserve it,” Hajek said.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 8, 2020

More recently, widespread changes in academic standards, like the adoption of the Common Core standards and concern over low reading scores , further increased the rigor of kindergarten to the point that it has been referred to as “ the new first grade.” Kindergarteners now are expected to count to 100 by ones and tens, for example.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 11, 2018

Time spent teaching social studies has declined in the last two decades, particularly since the 2001 passage of No Child Left Behind, which favored a focus on math, reading and accountability as a way of addressing the country’s growing achievement gap between rich and poor children. Photo: Sarah Gonser for The Hechinger Report. “I

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MindShift

JULY 11, 2018

Time spent teaching social studies has declined in the last two decades, particularly since the 2001 passage of No Child Left Behind, which favored a focus on math, reading and accountability as a way of addressing the country’s growing achievement gap between rich and poor children. Sarah Gonser for The Hechinger Report).

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