The Hechinger Report

MAY 16, 2016

Dressed in suits and armed with pens, notebooks, and laptops, the superintendents had one specific goal as they fanned out across the classroom, interacting with students: to look for evidence that a geometry lesson was aligned to the new state math standards. It’s rare for school district big wigs to spend time in a classroom.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 23, 2016

Fifth-graders at Konguta Kool – an elementary school in a small Estonian village – prepare for a math lesson in the computer lab. Estonian schools are often economically integrated, so poor and rich students are frequently in the same classrooms. But by 2008, they abandoned the practice. “It Photo: Sarah Butrymowicz.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

AUGUST 24, 2023

Classroom management skills is the topic of our blog post today! Classroom management is an art and a science that lies at the heart of effective teaching. It’s the invisible thread that weaves together student engagement, academic success, and the overall harmony of the classroom environment. Gage, Ph.D., and Ashley S.

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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. The last time schools were fully funded, in 2008, the state spent roughly $2.56 billion on elementary and secondary education.

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Graphite Blog

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

CIPA and its amendment, Protecting Children in the 21st Century Act of 2008 , require that all districts receiving E-rate funds must "provide for educating minors about appropriate online behavior, including interacting with other individuals on social networking websites and in chat rooms, and cyberbullying awareness and response.

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Waterford

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

Over four million elementary school children receive no visual arts lessons in the classroom.[6] Why integrate arts into your classroom at all when there’s so much else you need to teach? Students who received art instruction in their classrooms had reduced levels of the stress hormone cortisol.[13]

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How To STEM Elementary Classroom 270

The Cornerstone for Teachers

AUGUST 8, 2021

My vision is to expand beyond just a podcast with corresponding blog post transcripts into a collection of written articles as well that is composed by lots of different practicing classroom teachers. Secondary teachers, you are going to especially love this, as I’ve got a bunch of high school teachers sharing ideas.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 23, 2016

Artwork decorates the nursery classroom at Badock’s Wood Primary School in Bristol, England. On Wednesday, in a mostly working class neighborhood, way on the east end of town, a Polish boy selected a book from the kid-sized bookshelf in his classroom and brought it over to his teacher at Badock’s Wood Community Primary School.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

But she wasn’t sure how she’d make it out of New Orleans until 2008, when she met a skinny white guy from Washington, D.C. By 2008, education reformers had opened charters in Texas and New York with similar “college for all” promises. Most still read at an elementary school level. Ben Marcovitz was unlike anyone Williams knew.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

It is designed to significantly increase opportunities for connecting classrooms while supporting cultural awareness and recognition of diversity and educational access for all. Armstrong''s 2008 TED Prize wish asked to help her assemble the Charter for Compassion, a document around which religious leaders can work together for peace.

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iLearn Technology

OCTOBER 5, 2015

I had a great time helping other teachers learn how to use technology, and coming up with ideas for how they could integrate it into their classrooms. I took a year off, fully anticipating that this little experiment would not work and that I would be back in the classroom by 2010. In 2009, I left teaching for health reasons.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 15, 2018

The 2008 recession may seem like a long time ago, hitting before Barack Obama began his presidency, but public elementary, middle and high schools around the country are still feeling the pinch from it. During 2014-15, each student was educated on $11,454, on average. See adjacent graph.).

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 30, 2018

Since 2008, it has spent almost $60 million to hire an additional 270 counselors and provide professional development training at 365 low-income middle and high schools throughout the state, via grants from the Colorado School Counselor Corps. Colorado Spring’s District 11 began enrolling teachers in AVID training in 2005.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 16, 2017

Aaron Thompson and Peyton Stilwell, both 4, race a car around a track in their Head Start classroom, which is housed in a public elementary school in Caldwell, Idaho. Since 2008, Congress has been approving less money with each last-minute renewal. For example, in fiscal year 2008, Idaho received $38.7 million ($42.9

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 15, 2017

Jennifer Merritt’s first-graders at Jefferson Elementary School in Pryor, Oklahoma, were in for a treat. Abandoned by the school bus, Pete walks to Petroville Elementary in his pajamas. “It But Oklahoma remains the epicenter of oil-industry puffery in the classroom. It was reprinted with permission.

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