The Hechinger Report

JULY 13, 2021

So, we’ve spent several months traveling the country learning from schools applying best practices and from researchers and educators who have studied what works. A 2016 study by the American Institutes for Research noted that about a third of Chicago’s public high school students fail one or both semesters of algebra I. math-teaching?experts.?

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 3, 2017

It became know as the flipped classroom—a modern, video-based version of a model pioneered by a handful of higher ed professors during the 1990s. Or maybe it stemmed from the fact that anyone could get the gist of the teaching idea in the time it takes to rattle off a sound bite. Jon Bergmann. Flipped OS.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 5, 2022

And they leave at higher rates largely because of poor working conditions—including a lack of input in key decisions affecting their classrooms—not because of dissatisfaction with teaching more broadly. The RAND study was based on surveys completed in early 2021—nearly one year into the pandemic—by more than 1,000 teachers across the country.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Related: Millions of kids are missing school as attendance tanks across the US Thousands of students went missing from American classrooms during the pandemic. She studies how burdensome paperwork and processes often prevent poor people from accessing health benefits. But Tameka says no one from the district has offered her guidance.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 22, 2016

Many students are turning to STEM and other vocational fields in hopes of better job prospects. According to the Kauffman Foundation’s 2008 report on this trend, entrepreneurship in higher education is growing fast, with formal programs quadrupling from 104 in 1975 to more than 500 in 2006.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 6, 2019

Only about 55 percent of students who started at a four-year school in 2008 had bachelor’s degree six years later. At the time, public budgets were reeling in the aftermath of the 2008 recession, and states were cutting funding for public universities. Renick came to Georgia State as a religious studies professor in the 1980s.

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Graphite Blog

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Check out these five resources to kick-start digital citizenship in your classroom! EverFi Ignition (grades 6–9) EverFi is an organization founded in 2008 primarily to provide free financial-literacy resources to schools. BrainPop (grades K–12), BrainPop Jr.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

She said her first two weeks managing a classroom have been difficult, but she believes she will learn the skills necessary to teach. “I had to study for it,” Durfey said of the science test. He said the STEM classes allow him to design the curriculum, and he plans to utilize his real-world knowledge.

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MindShift

JANUARY 20, 2017

Below we offer our Top Five reasons why, as educators, we should care about spatial thinking when we plan, observe, and assess mathematics in our classrooms. There are numerous research studies that demonstrate the relationship between spatial reasoning and what we typically think of as mathematical ability.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 3, 2018

A 2012 study published by the National Bureau of Economic Research found that most high-achieving low-income students don’t apply to any competitive colleges. There’s an education happening outside the classroom with people our kids otherwise wouldn’t come into contact with.” . But that was naïve.” .

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Waterford

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

Did you know that music lessons can help students excel in STEM ? 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? Art can do wonders for your classroom environment.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 11, 2018

Kate Allender, of Tesla STEM High School, has designed a course integrating AP Psychology with a hands-on study of forensics. A lot of stuff we study about behavioral sciences applies to forensics,” said the 16-year-old. “In Christine Lee, a 17-year-old junior at Tesla STEM High School. REDMOND, Wash. —

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Edsurge

APRIL 28, 2017

In the United States alone, jobs website Indeed reports that reduced productivity stemming from open positions accounted for $160 billion of lost revenue in 2014. One study even found that 45 percent of new graduates are in positions that don’t require a degree. These unfilled positions carry a tremendous economic cost for businesses.

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Educator Innovator

JANUARY 13, 2016

But after a tobacco settlement left the state with additional education funding in 2008, the Springfield City School District (SCSD) made some needed infrastructure improvements. Along with opening a new school focused on STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math), they knew they wanted to create an engaging afterschool program.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 27, 2016

In drab classrooms, students, many of whom have struggled with school, presented research that would determine whether they would graduate this year. Tianna’s social studies project aimed to refute the “dominant narrative” that racism is largely dead in the United States. Photo: Alan Cheng, City-as-School.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 26, 2017

Antioch is, in fact, doing surprisingly well just by still being open, considering it was revived by these alumni after being shut down in 2008 under a previous board of trustees that had diverted many of its assets into a chain of satellite graduate campuses. Related: Universities and colleges struggle to stem big drops in enrollment.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 17, 2018

The school’s halls and classrooms are bright and airy, with high ceilings and oversize windows looking out across the lush landscape. We can’t help what they choose,’” said Gary Miron, a professor at Western Michigan University who has spent almost two decades studying charter schools.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 1, 2016

” The money owed is by All Children Matter Inc stemming from fines to the Ohio Elections Commission for violating campaign finance law. Via the AP : “The state of Utah has denied it has anti-gay school laws as it defends itself from a lawsuit challenging restrictions on talk about homosexuality in the classroom.”

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 31, 2019

High schoolers in a social studies class at Patchogue-Medford work on a lesson about the history of nationalism. But another reason has spurred Patchogue-Medford to embrace its immigrant students: In 2008, the town became a symbol of xenophobia and hatred , a characterization locals have tried hard to shake. We want to overcome that.”.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

The Flipped Classroom". It was probably Sal Khan’s 2011 TED Talk “Let’s Use Video to Reinvent Education” and the flurry of media he received over the course of the following year or so that introduced the idea of the “flipped classroom” to most people. Students don’t pay attention to lectures, they would argue. They’re distracted.

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Hack Education

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

” Via the AP : “Two students were shot and wounded, one critically, inside a Los Angeles middle school classroom Thursday morning and police arrested a female student believed to be 12 years old, authorities said.” Via Techcrunch : “ Pearson is adding LittleBits kits to its STEM curriculum.” ”). .”

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 15, 2017

Decades of documents reviewed by the Center for Public Integrity reveal a tightly woven network of organizations that works in concert with the oil and gas industry to paint a rosy picture of fossil fuels in America’s classrooms. A 2016 study confirmed that America’s youth receive mixed messages on climate change.

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 21, 2016

And the “ queen sacrifices ,” for those who don’t know that terminology, is what Alexander calls it when a college sacrifices its most powerful resource – its faculty – in order to stem financial problems. Study says too early to tell.” This Week in Betteridge’s Law of Headlines.

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