The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Black elementary students in North Carolina tended to score higher on annual math tests when they were taught by an HBCU-trained teacher, but not necessarily a Black teacher, according to an unpublished study from a Stanford University graduate student. Credit: Cheryl Gerber for The Hechinger Report.

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Edsurge

MAY 26, 2021

And I believe education has a major role to play in addressing this imbalance, starting in the early years. In January 2021, 40 percent of adults reported experiencing symptoms of depression and anxiety—three times more than the rate in the first half of 2019. Yet this trend persists throughout the education sector.

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Digital Promise

JUNE 15, 2016

The following three sections detail the range of best practices found by researchers to be critical for ensuring educator growth and success: Effective Administrator and Teacher Leadership. 2004; Alliance for Excellent Education, 2011 ). 2008; Webster-Wright, 2009 ; Accomplished California Teachers, 2012 ).

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

This case study was featured in Chapter 4 of EdSurge's "State of Edtech" report. During 2009, then-Superintendent Darwin Stiffler and Associate Superintendent Duane Sheppard of Yuma Elementary School District One in Arizona had just taken their positions and were trying to figure out how to meet students’ needs.

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MindShift

JULY 10, 2018

This story about science instruction was produced by The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. Science could be considered the perfect elementary school subject. Lillian Mongeau/The Hechinger Report). Lillian Mongeau/The Hechinger Report).

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 24, 2023

The first was that elementary school students who attended “Core Knowledge” schools – which teach young children a broad core curriculum in many subjects – were better readers. Hirsch, who developed the curriculum used in these schools and whose 1987 book Cultural Literacy inspired the common core standards movement in American education.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Source: California Department of Education. The Ravenswood City School District, which has about 1,600 students in its elementary and middle schools (excluding charters) in East Palo Alto and Menlo Park, saw chronic absenteeism spike from just 471 out of 2,549 (18.5 Department of Education data. percent) in 2021-22.

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User Generated Education

DECEMBER 1, 2014

My Own Chapter: M oving From Education 1.0 Through Education 2.0 Towards Education 3.0. Self-determined learning or heutagogy is fast gaining interest from educators around the world interested in an evidence-based approach to learning. Moving From Education 1.0 Through Education 2.0 Towards Education 3.0:

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Judging from the emails, calls and tweets I’ve received in the last week, there are few early education studies with more hated results than the multi-year study from Vanderbilt University researchers, which tracks outcomes for children who attended Tennessee’s voluntary pre-K program more than a decade ago. So what happened in Tennessee?

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Neo LMS

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

Most people don’t consider education technology to be such an important industry, but it’s actually gigantic. According to the report, the EdTech industry will reach a global value of $252 billion by 2020. Traditional education has always been based on the power of storytelling. Let’s take a look! 3D learning. Conclusion.

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Digital Promise

APRIL 16, 2019

Researchers at the Modern Language Association recently found that colleges lost 651 foreign language programs from 2013 to 2016 – dramatically more than the one foreign language programs that higher education lost between 2009 and 2013. The report cites federal statistics showing that 44 states and Washington, D.C.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

School Psychologist Dani Roquett greets Anne and James Hutt with their daughters, Ellison, 5, and Quinn, 10 months, at the “Zone Check-In” at the GET Together family educational event in January. Photo: Caralee Adams for The Hechinger Report. The school calls the events, held twice a year, GET Togethers — Guaranteed Education Teams.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 25, 2022

An international study by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development found that students who had more books at home reported that they enjoyed reading more. Credit: Jill Barshay/The Hechinger Report. The report, “ Does the digital world open up an increasing divide in access to print books? ” Source: OECD.

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A Principal's Reflections

JULY 23, 2017

As such, Barrett and Zang (2009) identify three key design principles: Naturalness : Hardwired into our brains, humans have the basic need for light, air, and safety. Today’s educational paradigm is no longer one of knowledge transfer but one of knowledge creation and curation. Design can empower learning in amazing ways. Zhao, H., &

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 7, 2022

Philanthropist and former Microsoft CEO Bill Gates popularized the notion in a 2009 TED Talk when he said “ once somebody has taught for three years, their teaching quality does not change thereafter.” That is, the cohort of rookie teachers in 2001 were just as effective as the cohort of rookie teachers in 2009.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

I was raised above all else to not only revere education, but to literally show respect to educators and elders by being a dutiful, quiet, listening and obedient learner. Accurate information directly impacts who gets what resources — aren’t you an educator and literal expert in communication and research? Growing up in the U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 31, 2022

Back in 2016, Ben Herold of Education Week reported that grade-school students who took the computerized version of a different test, the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC), in 2014-15 scored lower than students taking the paper-and-pencil version. Research has shown mixed results.

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Hack Education

MAY 6, 2020

I want to talk to you today about the history of educational crises and education technology. That means, for one thing, you end up with a Secretary of Education or with a prominent investor/philanthropist or governor or pundit claiming that schools haven't changed in hundreds of years. We have seen this repeatedly in education.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 27, 2020

Graphic by Peter D’Amato/The Hechinger Report. My Hechinger Report colleagues have written many stories about how low-income students don’t get nearly as much help as wealthy students do when it comes time to apply to college. Graphic by Peter D’Amato/The Hechinger Report. schoolchildren receive.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 15, 2022

But his academic science background is unclear: He declined a request from The Hechinger Report to answer questions about his science training and how he discusses pandemic-related public health measures in class. But the shortage of qualified science educators may be hurting efforts to help more Americans learn how science works.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 24, 2022

Children who attended Tennessee’s state-funded voluntary pre-K program during the 2009-10 and 2010-11 school years were doing worse than their peers by the end of sixth grade in academic achievement, discipline issues and special education referrals. Related : Preschool education: Go big or go home ?

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 16, 2022

“Even after accounting for all these other factors, we still see evidence of grade inflation,” said Edgar Sanchez, a researcher at ACT who presented his study in April 2022 at the annual meeting of the National Council on Measurement in Education (NCME). points from a 3.0 – a B – in 2009 to 3.11 In a study of actual U.S.

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Waterford

JULY 6, 2020

Did you know that when parents play an active role of their child’s education, academic achievement improves, students are more likely to feel confident and self-motivated, and chronic absenteeism drops? By empowering parents and giving them a voice, you can partner with them to help every student in your class reach their potential.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Credit: Kelly Field for The Hechinger Report. But this year it expanded one of the classes, based on a curriculum from the nonprofit Education Opens Doors, to every middle school in the district. Credit: Kelly Field for The Hechinger Report. Stephanie Simpson, CEO of the Association for Middle Level Education.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 20, 2021

But it wasn’t that wall of degrees that most strongly informed her passion for teaching: It was the support she received growing up as a Black child taught by Black educators in her Mississippi hometown, and at her alma mater, a historically Black college. Credit: Brandon Sullivan for The Hechinger Report. I know the impact.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Student achievement at 80 schools in low-income areas that provided parents with information on how to support their children’s education was no better than at schools that didn’t run a parent-engagement program, according to a November 2020 analysis by four U.S. However, none of this translated into improvements in educational achievement.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 10, 2020

Credit: Gail Robinson for The Hechinger Report. For almost a decade, even young kids here have spent hours a day on screens as Mineola’s educators sought to transform schooling here. Children and teachers were familiar with a variety of learning apps and other educational software. First graders work on a coding assignment.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 21, 2016

Over the course of three years, starting in 2009, Kentucky’s state education commissioner, Terry Holliday, added 50,000 miles to his odometer, crisscrossing the state to bring each of the 173 school districts the message: Kentucky was adopting the Common Core. The government rate at a local hotel was $89 a night.

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The Innovative Educator

FEBRUARY 17, 2015

Most recently I had the opportunity to speak with hundreds of elementary students about social media and which platforms they are using. When I suggested this would be a great game to be reviewed on an education site, I was told, the site only reviews games that were educational. If they continue block and report them.

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Edsurge

MARCH 30, 2018

Amazon will be sunsetting TenMarks and its online instructional tools, which were once at the forefront of the company’s K-12 digital education strategy. Founded in 2009, TenMarks developed a web-based, adaptive K-12 math program that included lesson plans, curriculum and exercises. education strategy. It had raised about $4.8

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 19, 2018

Longtime educator Hymethia W. Photo: Imani Khayyam for The Hechinger Report. Thompson was happily retired after 46 years as an educator when she saw a television news conference last summer that changed her life. “I Anne Johnson, retired teacher and education advocate. Hymethia W.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

My first stint of homelessness came in 2009, while I was in elementary school in Nebraska. After I finished elementary school, I moved to Colorado to be with my father. The scholarships I earned are making the education of my dreams affordable. Here’s how it happened. I was 10 years old. Sign up here for our newsletter.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

Everyone has a physical education class, called “phy-ed” here, at least twice a week. Thirty years of focus on increasing academic minutes in the school day has resulted in reduced recess and physical education time at many schools. A student leaps during a game at Horizons Elementary School. Higher Education.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

This story was produced by The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education, in partnership with the Huffington Post. He knew it would be easy; he said tests in his special education classes almost always were. Credit: Melissa Lyttle for HuffPost.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

Photo: Terrell Clark for The Hechinger Report. Kellogg Foundation is among the funders of The Hechinger Report.). Not very, according to Kenneth Wong, director of the Urban Education Policy Program at Brown University. The future of Jackson Public Schools is now in the hands of a coalition that includes representatives from Gov.

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Edsurge

JULY 7, 2016

Now, as has been reported , a number of districts have opted to move back to laptops from iPads. The computers were equipped with educational software and wireless connectivity. As has been reported , a number of districts opted to move back to laptops from iPads. The iPad does not direct the education—the teacher does.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 11, 2018

Photo: Eveline Chao for The Hechinger Report. Through their efforts, along with those of other outside arts organizations, they are introducing theater to more and younger participants, at an age when education experts say children are especially poised to benefit from it. Related: Can testing save arts education? Weekly Update.

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