The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

This damning assessment of the content of high school math comes from a survey of about 300 Alabama college professors who oversee majors and undergraduate degree programs at both two-year and four-year public colleges in the humanities, arts, social sciences and some natural sciences. Majors that require calculus were excluded.

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 5, 2022

from Vanderbilt University in December 2021, where her research focused on instructional coaching in K-12 schools. So you definitely want them to see you adding value by having you partner in it. We started the podcast last January, so January of 2021. Head to Lumio for more information and to sign up for FREE. for this episode.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 31, 2021

There’s no definitive count yet of how many students are enrolled this summer in a wide range of new options, from a push to close early learning gaps in Texas to a summer program in Oregon that helps kids learning English. Students participate in a hands-on activity during summer school at Bethel Elementary School in Simpsonville, S.C.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

“I tell them not to read at the same pace that your neighbors are reading, not too loud that we’re distracting someone, but just enough that you can practice your reading voice,” the second grade teacher at Lincoln Elementary School said. “So There’s definitely a larger deficit in academics than there has been in the past,” Iturralde said.

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MindShift

APRIL 30, 2021

Before she landed her job with Ovia Health, a Boston-based digital company that serves people who are starting families, Knowles was working as an aide at an elementary school. Auguste said in 2021 college degrees have become a proxy for race and class in America. “And you’re doing that before any skills are assessed.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2021

Before the tax hike, just 10 percent of elementary school children had access to a mental health professional, now there’s at least one mental health care professional in every school building, and in some cases a team with multiple counselors, social workers and psychologists. Credit: Sara Hertwig for The Hechinger Report.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

The pandemic left students, on average, five months behind in math and four months behind in reading by the end of the 2021-22 school year, with even more significant losses for students in majority-Black or low-income schools. 8 This gap shows an increased inequality in educational outcomes across racial and socioeconomic lines.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Maranda Seawood, student support specialist at Washington Elementary School. It returned to full-time, in-person school for all students — with mandatory masking — for the 2021-22 school year. He’s definitely turned around. The requirements listed below relate to whether masks are required in school buildings.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Looking for new ways to review learning, discuss questions, formatively assess, and be more playful with learning? Some of the systems that could be changed in order to support teachers (many of which are described in this 2021 NEA article on teacher burnout ) are being doubled down vs. released. Best for elementary (grades K-5).

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 15, 2022

In Philadelphia, assessment tests showed that older students had more or less caught up to where they were pre-pandemic, although younger students still lagged behind, said William Hite, the outgoing superintendent of the city’s schools. Next year will be a better year, definitely. Our district has realized some of our challenges.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 30, 2024

In most cases, we received data from 2017-18 to 2021-22. In the case of Vermont, however, we did not have data for 2021-22 and in North Carolina, we had data only for 2019-2020 and 2020-2021. Yet because of discrepancies in discipline definitions in each state, direct comparisons between states are not advisable.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 12, 2023

Percentage of all public school students enrolled in public charter schools, by state: Fall 2021 SOURCE: U.S. New York City is now requiring elementary schools to choose from three different reading curriculums ; charters are exempt. No single study, no triplets of studies are going to be definitive.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 3, 2023

The latest national numbers from the CDC show “mental health among students overall continues to worsen,” with more than 40 percent of high school students in 2021 showing signs of depression. The course is designed to help them act as first responders — to assess a situation, do what they can in the moment, and inform a trusted adult.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 26, 2021

A student at Belmont-Cragin Elementary School. Lee Elementary, a Pre-K-8 school on Chicago’s southwest side. “I It’s definitely not always rainbows and sunshine,” said Liang-Vergara. As part of their jobs, special education teachers assess students and develop teaching plans based on each student’s skill levels.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

MARCH 21, 2021

Monica is also the author of a new book for K-12 teachers called Listen Wise: Teach Students to be Better Listeners (available in April 2021 through Jossey-Bass.) Yeah, let’s definitely do a deeper dive into that. How are you going to assess whether the students understood it? It takes so long to find the right story.

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MindShift

JANUARY 26, 2021

The grant funding provided 35 city schools with two-and-a-half years of professional development and instructional coaching through LEAP, plus technology and classroom resources, via the school district’s Elevate Program , which aims to bring personalized learning to 150 Chicago schools by the end of 2021.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

MARCH 28, 2021

The goal of the daily check-in is to assess the wellbeing of the students and help them name their emotions. If our educational response to the pandemic is more of the same type of approaches that we were already trying before the pandemic, things like the pages of standards, longer school days, more and more assessment.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 10, 2023

Sitting beside her, Candy Turner , a retired elementary school teacher who had brought Ziploc bags of pear slices and dried cranberries for the hours ahead, agreed. “I Then it appointed Susie Luckey, a popular elementary school principal, as interim superintendent until June. I think we are in trouble based on what I saw.”

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

Allie Teller, an elementary school counselor, said she’d seen a reduction in behavior issues and incidents in the several years since her school started using the curriculum. Allie Teller, an elementary school counselor in the Canyons School District. Some educators were dismayed by the district’s decision.

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