The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 8, 2016

In 50 elementary schools, according to officials, these students now take classes in Spanish and English with an ultimate goal of achieving academic proficiency in both languages by middle school. Both programs aim to make students fully bilingual. Both feature instruction in two languages. Photo: Tara García Mathewson. “I

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 7, 2018

It has the most practice tests of any program currently available as well as offering its study guides and practice tests in both in print and online. Founded in 2002 by graduates of the Yale School of Management, Veritas Prep offers live classroom prep courses, interactive online courses, on-demand classes, and private SAT tutoring sessions.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

A 2016 study by the Stanford Graduate School of Education found that significant numbers of middle schoolers, high schoolers and college students could not adequately judge the credibility of online information. We’re teaching web credibility as if it’s 2002,” he said. Related: Can we teach our way out of political polarization?

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Digital Promise

JUNE 15, 2016

Research shows that when professional learning communities demonstrate four key characteristics, they can improve teaching practice and student achievement in reading, writing, math, science, and social studies subject tests (Vescio et al., Lesson study. 2008): Successful Collaboration. Focus on Student Learning. Mentoring programs.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

AUGUST 23, 2023

Classroom Conversations in the Study of Race and the Disruption of Social and Educational Inequalities: A Review of Research. We Make It Controversial”: Elementary Preservice Teachers’ Beliefs about Race. More Than Rosa Parks: Critical Multicultural Social Studies in a Fourth-Grade Class. [link] Bernal, D. link] Brown, A.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 28, 2019

In a large scale study of 40,000 English language learners in Florida, those who were held back in third grade learned English substantially faster and took more demanding classes in subsequent years. Six years later, according to one 2017 study , the retained kids weren’t testing any higher than their promoted peers at the same age.

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The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 4, 2019

In their July 14, 2019 article “ Why Teachers Quit ,” We Are Teachers summarizes, “A recent study by the Learning Policy Institute shows that if a teacher receives mentoring, collaboration, and extra resources, and is part of a strong teacher network, first-year turnover is cut by more than half. 25) Learning Policy Institute. (24)

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 19, 2021

Data collected through our statewide, longitudinal study show s that in Massachusetts, only about 55 percent of families use formal care, while 45 percent rely on parental care or informal arrangements like home-based or non-parental relative care. In his 2002 State of the Union Address, former President George W.

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The CoolCatTeacher

SEPTEMBER 3, 2015

A 2002 study found that telephones, desks, water fountain handles, microwave door handles, and computer keyboards are the most bacteria-laden culprits in our workplaces today. As I researched my suspicions, I found that an outbreak of the flu at an elementary school in 2008 was blamed on “infected computer equipment.”.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 14, 2018

The state’s just reduced that to a requirement of one science, one social studies, one math, and a reading and writing assessment. They flipped to one-to-one sometime around 2002. Two out of every three high school seniors graduate with an Advanced Studies Diploma, 30 percent higher than the state average for all school divisions.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 7, 2017

elementary schools.”. Jo Boaler, author of “ Mathematical Mindsets ,” reminds us that the federal government’s 2002 No Child Left Behind Act put pressure on teachers to follow “scripted” curriculum and strict pacing guides. Do a Genre Study. Herein lies the problem with scripted curriculum.

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MindShift

MAY 14, 2018

30, 2016 was a big day for Lake Canyon Elementary. Lake Canyon Elementary School ceremony assigning students to a house. Each Hillsdale ninth-grader spends five periods a day—math, English, social studies, science and advisory—with their 111 housemates. After a drum roll, cannons sprayed confetti over each cluster of students.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 24, 2019

Meghan Groves, a teacher at Washington-Lee Elementary School, in Bristol, Virginia, leads her first graders in “closing circle,” where they talk about how their day went. Inside the schools, the share of students qualifying for free lunch, a federal measure of poverty, jumped from 39 percent in 2002-03 to 81 percent in 2018-19.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 1, 2016

. — This fall, students at Enterprise Attendance Center in the small city of Brookhaven may get to draw, paint and make crafts in an elementary art class — the first the school has had in 12 years. billion on elementary and secondary education. But the opportunity comes at a cost: larger class sizes for third-graders. Not anymore.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JANUARY 7, 2019

Since 2002, Mortenson has led the organization through significant national expansion, reaching more than 655,000 middle and high school youth and 4,500 educators across 25 states and 5 countries, from offices based in Minneapolis, San Francisco, and New York. Department of State and studied religion and culture in Indonesia.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 7, 2018

Starting in 2002, the foundation has dedicated more than $40 million of those dollars to early education initiatives, and the results have been transformative, said foundation CEO Maria Jimenez-Laura. Florida’s per-student funding is among the nation’s lowest, though the state is near the top in pre-K enrollment.

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EdTechSandyK

DECEMBER 2, 2009

December 1, 2009 During the second week of the Teaching With Technology course, I learned the most from the research studies we read such as Michael S. I was particularly intrigued by the West Virginia Basic Skills/Computer Education study by Dale Mann (1999) which Schacter referred to.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

DECEMBER 13, 2010

She was the founder and teacher-director of a network of highly successful public elementary schools in East Harlem. She began her teaching career as a kindergarten and headstart teacher in Chicago, Philadelphia and New York City schools. She was a recipient of the prestigious MacArthur Fellowship in 1987.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2019

Jill Henry, who graduated from Whitmore Lake High School in 1995, left a successful career teaching high school social studies in Wayne, Michigan, to return to her alma mater and help open the new high school in 2006. In the elementary school, art classes were cut. “We were the underdog, and we rallied,” Henry said.

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MindShift

DECEMBER 22, 2016

Studies show that the best predictor of STEM career choice in adulthood is linked to whether kids self-report seeing themselves as scientists when they grow up by 8th grade (Maltese & Tai, 2011). They act, think and work as real scientists and inventors. Benefit No.

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MindShift

MAY 23, 2016

I felt like they cared for me,” said Martha Hernandez, who graduated in 2002 and is now a social worker. It changed what math meant,” said Maria Velazquez, who now studies education policy at the University of Wisconsin. “It Collaboration and Equity in the Elementary Math Classroom. It was a process and it required other people.

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MindShift

JULY 27, 2015

Another nationwide study found that children under 12 years old have approximately two hours of free time during the day and that this decreases as they get older (Hofferth & Sandberg, 2001). Other studies have also linked participation in extracurricular activities to positive social and academic outcomes (Mahoney et al.,

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 31, 2020

My mother, who had only an elementary-level education, raised us on her own and didn’t have any real desire for us to go further in school, to earn any form of higher-education credential. I hope it will encourage other nontraditional learners to seek out a four-year college degree. She worked all day.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 22, 2019

In Loudoun County, Virginia, fourth-graders from Goshen Post Elementary School took up the challenge personally. In the process, they also learned plenty about social studies and civic engagement. He currently serves as CEO of EdLeader21 , a national network of Battelle for Kids.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MARCH 23, 2022

Next Tuesday, March 29th, 2002, is our first Library 2.022 mini-conference: " Virtual Reality and Learning: Leading the Way ," which will be held online (and for free). He then came to the Bay Area to pursue doctoral studies in communication at Stanford. We currently have over 2,500 registrations!

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 8, 2016

I think people are misled about the strength and depth of the evidence of scaled-up public preschool studies,” Lipsey said. The only long-term study of the program, called the Head Start Impact Study, began following enrollees in 2002 and stayed with them through third grade. Photo: Paul J. Richards/AFP/Getty Images.

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Buncee

JUNE 23, 2021

Here are the links to the Buncee SEL -Toolkit- 7-12 and the Elementary SEL -Toolkit These are activities that you can use with your students or browse to get inspired. Research shows that “The social climate of the classroom more strongly predicted GPA than teachers’ instructional practices (Griffith, 2002). You read that correctly.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

BIO : Religious thinker Karen Armstrong has written more than 20 books on faith and the major religions, studying what Islam, Judaism and Christianity have in common, and how our faiths shaped world history and drive current events. And it is a rewarding journey, don’t feel burdened by it: compassion can be a lot of fun.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 12, 2021

There is no policy area in our governance “more complex than elementary and secondary education,” education professors and researchers Paul Manna and Patrick McGuinn wrote in their in their 2013 book. Since No Child Left Behind (NCLB) was enacted in 2002, the federal government has played an outsized role in standardization.

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Edsurge

APRIL 16, 2017

Spring means one thing to many elementary and middle schools across the country: test prep. While test prep has been on the rise since state tests were mandated by federal law in 2002, reading and math scores have largely remained flat. The stakes will rise if the Trump administration is successful in shifting funding to vouchers.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

Ozelle Stephen, Rev/Director of Education, Miridians Elementary School, Centre of Enabling Support Foundation, Uganda Access to Quality education Opportunities, Good Health + Well-being for all. Associate Professor, Co-Director of Asian Studies, Adelphi University | Jan Dormer, Ph.D., Messiah College | Chesla Ann Lenkaitis, Ph.D.,

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 10, 2020

Four months later, in late July, three important public health studies documented that kids do get sick and are transmitting the virus. As an education reporter who covers quantitative research, I began to devour public health studies and try to make sense of them. The decision in New York was a controversial one.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 16, 2016

As a set of policies, accountability was instantiated in the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) of 1965, reauthorized as the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) of 2002, and reinforced by the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) of 2015. It will offer researchers a giant trove of data to study. million children ?

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 6, 2016

Luis Antonio Hernandez reads a story about Cinco de Mayo to students in Christy Crotwell’s first grade class at Morton Elementary School. Morton Elementary Principal Debbie Herring on the dramatic increase in the Hispanic population. A sign on the door to Christy Crotwell’s first grade classroom at Morton Elementary School.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

If Congress approves the multi-trillion-dollar spending bill pushed by the White House, millions more could flow to a district long held up as a case study in how structural racism, mismanagement and poverty can break an American school system. For now, children walk elementary school floors buckled so badly they appear to have waves.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

The push for a separate Gardendale district fizzled out after two feasibility studies, the first in 1999 and another in 2005, both recommended against forming a new district. By October 2012, they had convinced the City Council to fund the third feasibility study in 13 years. But two local dads revived the idea in 2011.

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