Edsurge

MARCH 15, 2022

When students returned to the classroom after COVID-19 lockdowns, teachers found themselves in a triple role: instructor, mental health proctor and public health enforcer. There have been plenty of adjustments to the classroom due to continued health precautions, and that has meant differences in what school supplies are needed.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 28, 2020

For my year end post, I’m highlighting 10 of the most well-read Proof Points stories of 2020. They are listed in the order of popularity — by the number of times readers viewed them on our website, The Hechinger Report. 4, 2020 with a follow-up story to the first one on this list. Happy New Year and I’ll be back again on Jan.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Aaron Vazquez, 5, in his “classroom” on his first day of virtual kindergarten in Ft. million — pre-pandemic prediction for 2020-21 kindergarten enrollment. I don’t want to pit one grade against another,” said Laura Bornfreund, the director of early and elementary education policy at New America, a progressive think tank.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

It was extreme heat, which had pushed the temperature in Toney’s Philadelphia classroom to 100 degrees and led the school district to cancel afternoon classes for tens of thousands of students. Moving from half days back to full days caused minor chaos in her classroom. But this time, the reason wasn’t Covid.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 3, 2022

If correct, this means that one out of every three public school children was chronically absent during the second full school year of the pandemic, when most children were learning in person and should have been catching up from the disrupted year of 2020 and the first half of 2021. Before the pandemic, only about 16 percent of U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

CHICAGO — In July, in a packed classroom in downtown Chicago, a group composed mostly of early elementary teachers and child care workers read a story about “Wendi,” a fictional preschool teacher who loves reading but struggles in math. Several educators in the classroom identified with Wendi, and that was the point.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 25, 2024

Students also need adequate training, even in elementary and middle school. These eighth graders were in sixth grade when the pandemic erupted in the spring of 2020. In recent years, the Catholic Church has closed hundreds of schools that catered to low-income families, leaving a higher income population in its remaining classrooms.

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Waterford

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

2] Read on to learn how we got here, why it matters, and how teachers can build media literacy in the classroom. The good news is that information is easier to come by than ever before—many students, even at an elementary age, have access to smartphones, the Internet, and a pervasive, never-ending flow of social media.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 11, 2024

Makers of knowledge-building curricula say their lessons are based on research, but the truth is that there is scant classroom evidence that building knowledge first increases future reading comprehension. This research was funded by the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, which is among the many funders of The Hechinger Report. )

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eSchool News

AUGUST 18, 2022

In 2020, the DOE introduced the Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief (ESSER) Fund, a signature part of the American Rescue Plan (ARP) to help schools improve indoor air quality (IAQ) and return their students back to the classroom. Department of Education (DOE).

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 11, 2019

WeGrow, the division of WeWork that operated a private elementary school, will close its doors after the current school year. A spokesperson for WeWork (officially called The We Company) said it “will continue to operate WeGrow through the remainder of the 2019-2020 school year.”

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 21, 2020

To that end, his company built a new software tool designed for classroom use and piloted it in five school districts — including the massive Clark County School District serving Las Vegas and its suburbs — in the 2019-20 school year. 30 minutes per week — recommended time students spend on classroom-based Khan Academy tool.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 15, 2024

Teacher Yasmin Kudrolli sat on a low chair and lit a candle to start the morning meeting in her prekindergarten classroom in Oakland. Across town, but in the same school district, teacher Alicia Simba leads 13 students, all 4-year-olds, in a breathing exercise in her classroom. OAKLAND, Calif. She wants to go home.

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EdTech Magazine

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

Forecasts report that computer science skills will be essential for the future workforce, creating a need for K–12 experts to work harder to incorporate such lessons into the curriculum. . Research conducted by the Bureau of Labor Statistics has found that number could be reached by 2020. eli.zimmerman_9856. Wed, 09/19/2018 - 12:15.

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MindShift

JULY 16, 2020

That’s the top-line recommendation of a new report by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine. The report includes an updated review of the evidence from around the world and a set of recommendations on mitigation strategies for the coronavirus in school settings. The new report makes nine recommendations.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 8, 2022

Ninety percent of schools have increased the number of substitute teachers on staff or are trying to, according to a July 2022 RAND report, but schools are struggling to find new hires, feeding into an overall perception of shortages. Credit: Terra Fontriest for The Hechinger Report. Students sat in classrooms without teachers.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 1, 2024

public school enrollment in 2020, up from 8.1 Spanish was the most-reported home language among English learners in 2020, followed by Arabic. Through a series of 12 microcredentials, educators can submit evidence of their work in and outside of their classrooms. These students made up 10.3 percent of U.S. percent in 2000.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2023

The second grader attends SpaRRk Academy, a virtual learning program for elementary students created in 2021 by the Rio Rancho School District in New Mexico. On days when SpaRRk Academy students are learning virtually, the classrooms are empty except for teachers and administrators, who come into the office just about every day.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 9, 2023

This story also appeared in Mind/Shift In the past decade, the population of elementary, middle and high school students in Massachusetts dropped by 42,000 while the number of school employees grew by 18,000. Starting in 2020, the federal government sent schools more than $200 billion in pandemic recovery funds.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Credit: Jena Brooker for The Hechinger Report. In a survey , since the start of the pandemic, 50 percent of students reported worsened mental health, 35 percent said their family relationships were worse and a majority reported feeling “lonely” and “anxious.” Credit: Sarah Garland / The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2023

Jenna Gros jangles as she walks the halls of Wyandotte Elementary School in St Mary’s Parish, Louisiana. In August 2020, she signed up for a new program designed to provide people working in school settings the chance to turn their job into an undergraduate degree in education, at a low cost. MORGAN CITY, La.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 17, 2022

Credit: Lillian Mongeau/The Hechinger Report. Student failures during the 2020-21 school year prompted three districts in the study to abandon the dual approach and split into separate in-person only and remote only classes. . When the pandemic first hit in March 2020, Bartlett wanted to document the lives of teachers.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

As students return to the classroom this fall — many for the first time since the beginning of the pandemic that upended their access to quality, in-person learning — we have an opportunity to enact standards to ensure that teachers’ instruction methods are effective and backed by science. Sign up for Hechinger’s newsletter.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Children in kindergarten when the pandemic broke out in the spring of 2020 are now roughly eight years old and in third grade this 2022-23 school year. Learning to read well in elementary school matters. This story also appeared in Mind/Shift. After children learn to read, they read to learn. It also matters to society as a whole.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 17, 2023

As a student at Poughkeepsie High School in upstate New York and then as a high school educator in the Bronx, I’ve observed, both inside and outside the classroom, that many of us develop unconscious biases. That is how we create harmonious classrooms. Yet, in the classroom, this bothered me because of my own biases.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 10, 2023

Caitlin Mercado works with her second-grade students at Ritchie Park Elementary School in Rockville, Maryland. Caitlin Mercado teaches her second-grade students with the help of a document camera at Ritchie Park Elementary School in Rockville, Maryland.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Kathleen Gates, a retired teacher who had taught for many years at Brooksville Elementary School in the Hernando County School District, described preparing for that school board meeting as if she were going into battle. Fearing violence, it had installed metal detectors and called in police, sheriff’s deputies and a SWAT team. Florida Gov.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 4, 2023

However, before the courts resolved that legal question, the litigants settled the case in 2020. The state initially agreed to give an extra $50 million to 75 elementary schools with the worst reading scores in the state to improve how they were teaching reading. Sign up for the Hechinger newsletter.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 19, 2021

On a morning this fall at Washington Elementary, a young boy, sitting at a table with five of his peers, held a tablet while he built a digital snowman — a cool proposition given the 85-degree heat just outside his air-conditioned classroom. Credit: Charlotte West for The Hechinger Report. LINDSAY, Calif. —

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Online Learning How To Competency Based Learning Learning 132

The Hechinger Report

MAY 8, 2023

Here she is training math teachers on how to teach children to solve word problems at an elementary school in Brooklyn, New York. Credit: Jill Barshay/The Hechinger Report How does a revolution start? In December 2020, she invited dozens of like-minded education researchers to the first science of math Zoom meeting.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Getting to the classroom has been a struggle for students like Laura, 15, who just finished her freshman year at East Palo Alto Academy (EPAA). She has had heart palpitations and difficulty sleeping since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. Unreliable transportation can also be an obstacle for getting to the classroom.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 19, 2023

This story also appeared in Ed Source and The Associated Press After spending her kindergarten year at an alternative program that met exclusively outdoors, Aylah, 6, had to adjust to being inside a classroom. To help her along, the teacher at her Bay Area elementary school has been showing her the right way to hold a pencil.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 10, 2024

But in 2020, when a growing number of children stopped showing up for schooltime classes during the pandemic, ourBRIDGE decided to expand its focus. Before 2020, the school attendance rate for English language learners across the country was high. In many schools, these students were more likely to show up to class than other groups.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

In Iowa, a bill under discussion would provide funding to place cameras in classrooms so that parents can view livestreams of their children and keep teachers under constant surveillance. Since March 2020, teachers have been citing unmanageable expectations and unsafe working conditions. Sign up for Hechinger’s newsletter.

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Classroom Blackboard Policies Report 113

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 9, 2023

WASHINGTON – Inside a high school classroom, Bryan Martinez jots down several purchases that would require a short-term savings plan: shoes, phone, headphones, clothes, and food. Since 2020, nine U.S. Since 2020, nine U.S. Idaho is one of the states where a new financial literacy curriculum is hitting classrooms.

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Learning Course Report Policies 98

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 5, 2022

NEW ORLEANS—Before the 2020-21 school year, Christa Talbott, a 20-year veteran of New Orleans schools, had never considered leaving the profession she loved this early. By the end of 2020, the 44-year-old was agonizing over whether the school year might be her last teaching there. This story also appeared in Time. Into a burning house.

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Report Meeting Groups Data 144

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

The district’s schools had re-opened in the fall of 2020 and were operating fully in person, but students could opt for remote learning upon request. Yet nearly half of the district’s students weren’t attending school regularly during the 2020-21 year, either in person or remotely. Sign up for the Proof Points newsletter.

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