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 2013 Mathematica Policy Research study of several EL middle schools found that after three years the EL students had made significant gains in reading and math compared to other middle school students.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 6, 2016

million in 2001. A study by Brett Lane, president and founder of the Institute for Strategic Leadership and Learning, an education research and policy consulting firm, reported that the percentage of students in the district proficient in math increased by over 50 points and in reading by over 40 points between 1996 and 2008.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 8, 2020

“Play is not divorced of learning,” said Kathy Hirsh-Pasek, an author, professor of psychology at Temple University, and senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, who has studied child development and the role of play in learning for years. “It It is the natural way in which we learn.”. She said half-day kindergarten is partly to blame.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 11, 2018

Experts say that requires regular and high-quality social studies lessons, starting in kindergarten, to teach kids to be critical thinkers and communicators who know how to take meaningful action. Most states either don’t test social studies, or the social studies test doesn’t really count toward adequate yearly progress.”.

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MindShift

JULY 11, 2018

This story about social studies instruction is part of a series about innovative practices in the core subjects in the early grades. Experts say that requires regular and high-quality social studies lessons, starting in kindergarten, to teach kids to be critical thinkers and communicators who know how to take meaningful action.

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