MindShift

JULY 27, 2015

2014; Hofferth & Sandberg, 2001). Many schools have reduced or even eliminated recess for elementary school children, and several have cut back on free play and play-based learning in the early grades such as kindergarten and first grade (Zygmunt-Fillwalk & Bilello, 2005). Courtesy of Denise Pope.

Social Media 28

Social Media Outcomes Report Study 28

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 24, 2019

Aliah Corona and Dakkota Ryf, both 8 in this photo, check the force it takes to move a bag of potatoes six inches using wheels during their third-grade STEAM enrichment class at Pioneer Elementary School in Quincy, Washington. Lillian Mongeau/The Hechinger Report. QUINCY, Wash. — Related: Alaska Native students pursue STEM with great success.

How To 112

How To Elementary STEM Report 112

MindShift

JANUARY 24, 2019

Alessandra, a student at Pioneer Elementary School in rural Quincy, Washington, spent part of the fall term in an enrichment class focused on teaching elementary-age students the principles of engineering design through a curriculum designed by educators and scientists at Boston’s Museum of Science.

STEM 44

STEM How To Elementary Report 44

The Innovative Educator

MAY 3, 2015

Over the last few years of the Speak Up survey, more students and administrators have signaled the importance of being able to access mobile devices in the classroom, whether through Bring Your Own Device policy consideration and implementation or through school-provided technology.

Mobility 40

Mobility Blended Learning STEM Survey 40

The Hechinger Report

JULY 23, 2018

White principals must expand their professional circles if students are to see a better representation of society in their classrooms and teachers who look like them. We need more black teachers in the classroom, and interviewing candidates of color is just a start. Sign up for our newsletter. Choose as many as you like. Weekly Update.

Education 58

Education Data Study Report 58

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 8, 2016

Lady Bird Johnson, a great champion of “Project Head Start” during her time as first lady, visits a classroom at the Kemper School in Washington, D.C., The building is clean and bright, student art covers the walls, teachers with a solid background in early education lead small classrooms of 3- and 4-year-olds in daily half-day programs.

Study 40

Study Comparison Classroom Meeting 40

The Hechinger Report

MAY 30, 2018

As of the 2014-15 school year, Colorado’s student-to-counselor ratio was 383-1, a marked decrease from a 2007 level of 500 students per school counselor. Nationwide, AVID trains 70,000 educators yearly to provide academic and social support to low-income, first-generation students from elementary school through college.

Dropout 111

Dropout Report Training Outcomes 111

Hack Education

MARCH 8, 2017

In 2014, the FCC undertook a “modernization” plan for E-rate in part to address the changing demand for telecommunications services. Commissioner Pai had voted against those efforts, for what it’s worth, back in 2014, saying that the FCC order did little to curb bureaucracy or waste. A Brief History of E-rate Fraud.

E-rate 49

E-rate Digital Divide Broadband Libraries 49

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 27, 2021

Casagranda said in one classroom at Seward High School there’s a “huge leak in the ceiling panel.” In 2014, the U.S. Oil prices dropped in 2014, plunging Alaska into a financial crisis and shrinking state funding for school capital projects from an average of $300 million per year to $124 million.

Report 96

Report System Broadband Study 96

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

By June 2014, they had recruited Patrick Martin as the new superintendent. In 2014, Madeline Hughes Haikala, the judge overseeing many of the remaining desegregation cases in northern Alabama, including Gardendale’s, came to a similar conclusion while reviewing Huntsville’s 40-year-old desegregation case. Graphic: Davin McHenry.

Education 111

Education Report Data E-rate 111