The Hechinger Report

MAY 21, 2018

Two studies on elementary schools published in June 2018 point to the importance giving teachers and students plenty of time to form relationships. Platooning” refers to having teachers specialize in a particular subject, such as math or English, and young students switch teachers for each class. Students may learn more.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 8, 2020

The extreme scarcity of counselors in Arizona, especially in elementary schools, puts students there at particular risk. Janine Menard works as a counselor at Sheely Farms Elementary, which enrolls about 750 students from pre-K through eighth grade in the Phoenix suburb of Tolleson. We’re all champing at the bit.

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Edsurge

APRIL 4, 2017

In mission statements across the country, references to personalized learning abound, hanging proudly from schoolhouse walls. We wanted to prove that it wasn’t just “the best and the brightest” who could achieve at this level—and it certainly wasn’t only elementary and high school students.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2019

Glenn Gustafson, CFO of the Colorado Springs School District, talks to Christina Butcher, the interim principal of Queen Palmer Elementary School. In 2004, school districts around the country were paying an average of $530 per pupil to teacher retirement benefits. The school was built in the 1940s and is in need of repairs.

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EdNews Daily

OCTOBER 20, 2016

To put it in the words of an elementary student at the 2004 Serious Games Summit, “Why read about ancient Rome when I can build it?”. Digital game-based learning refers to using actual digital video games as learning tools. Since the advent of digital games, ongoing research has supported their effectiveness in education.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 14, 2020

On a crisp day in early March, two elementary school gifted and talented classes worked on activities in two schools, three miles and a world apart. Yet the internet and reference books teem with professionally endorsed lists of so-called gifted traits. Credit: Danielle Dreilinger for The Hechinger Report. BUFFALO, N.Y. —

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

Elementary school students clap and spell words after school. In 2004, the parents of 15.3 A childcare desert is a term that refers to neighborhoods that are either lacking any childcare options or have so few childcare providers that there are more than three children for every licensed childcare slot. Photo: Imani Khayyam.

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User Generated Education

DECEMBER 1, 2014

is that of pedagogy: There is little doubt that the most dominant form of instruction in Europe and America is pedagogy, or what some people refer to as didactic, traditional, or teacher-directed approaches. George Siemens (2004) has defined the characteristics Connectivism: Learning and knowledge rests in diversity of opinions.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 23, 2018

According to research conducted by Stanford University education scholar Thomas Dee in 2004, black students of both sexes who had a black teacher experienced a 3 to 6 percentile point increase in their reading scores on standardized tests. Related: When students are better role models than school leaders.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 11, 2018

McMicken Heights Elementary School principal Alexandria Haas sits with second-graders during a morning activity developed by the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence. Good morning, Mahlet,” says one student to another at McMicken Heights Elementary School. Photo: Wayne D’Orio for The Hechinger Report. BURIEN, Wash. —

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Locating Government Resources During Crisis” - Jennifer Castle, Reference and Government Documents Librarian, Tennessee State University and Arkansas State University | Dominique Hallett (full description) “Launching a Digital Navigators Program at the Library” - Audrey Barbakoff, Ed.D., Disaster Strikes!

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Wong is also adjunct faculty for the iSchool at San Jose State University where she has taught hundreds of students since 2004 to serve young people and write grants to benefit local and regional communities and make the world a better place. She attended the local elementary and high school and now serves as a school board member.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 28, 2022

Richardson, who served as state superintendent until 2004, attributed the heightened scrutiny to a crackdown on school performance. CRT isn’t taught in K-12 schools, state leaders say, but conservative groups across the state have used the term in broad reference to diversity, equity and behavioral practices in schools.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Wong is also adjunct faculty for the iSchool at San Jose State University where she has taught hundreds of students since 2004 to serve young people and write grants to benefit local and regional communities and make the world a better place. She attended the local elementary and high school and now serves as a school board member.

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Libraries Conference Broadband Digital Divide 48

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 5, 2018

YEP got its start in 2004 as a re-entry program for teens involved in the juvenile-court system. All through elementary school, she’d excelled in the classroom, though she spent a lot of time in the principal’s office. “My Related: A little girl’s school helps her deal with trauma at home. My grades were perfect,” said Hargrove.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 27, 2017

Was it a reference to her petite size, she wondered, or the muscles she has built up through years of competitive team sports? To some, this might sound like little more than classic “Mean Girls” behavior, as immortalized in the 2004 cult teen flick, but it can include mean boys, too. Her first impulse had been to laugh.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 25, 2016

She’s referring to decades of research on teacher diversity showing that students perform better when they are exposed to teachers who look like them and who have similar backgrounds. In a 2004 study of Tennessee third-graders, Thomas S. Related: This may be the best way to train teachers, but can we afford it?

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