The Hechinger Report

MARCH 8, 2021

Four new studies on project-based learning. 2nd grade social studies. Four new studies released in February 2021 are helping to fill this void. The George Lucas Foundation financed the four studies. Students worked on multi-stage projects over an extended period of time throughout a unit of study.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 14, 2021

Miller asked as she stood in front of her class at Doss Elementary. First grade in particular — “the reading year,” as Miller calls it — is pivotal for elementary students, when their literacy skills “really take off.” Miller’s first graders are a case study in the scale, depth and unevenness of learning loss during the pandemic.

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Elementary Report Groups Assessment 144

The Hechinger Report

JULY 9, 2018

When I went to college [to study teaching], they tell you: ‘Here, this is the lesson plan for reading, for math, etc.,’ The program is currently working in 32 schools in the Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens and Manhattan, with plans to expand to 62 schools by 2021. Related: Can Common Core reading tests ever be fair?

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How To Training Report Dropout 109

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 6, 2016

A 2005 research study by the MDRC, a New York- and Oakland, California-based research group, found that Kansas City high schools produced and sustained a “double digit” improvement in the percentage of 11th-graders reading proficiently and a dramatic decline in the percentage of students scoring “unsatisfactory” on the state test.

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Evelyn Learning

MAY 14, 2023

It helps teachers adopt reasonable teaching approaches and it helps students study and learn in an organized manner. There has been a rise in AI programs with books and courses exclusively focusing on elementary and high-school students. The Common Core used to cover content standards only.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 22, 2020

That would be by April 30, 2021.) Last spring, Connecticut did not administer its state-level standardized tests, the Common Core-aligned SBAC, consistent with a federal waiver granted by the DeVos administration. DeVos was not in favor of extending that waiver into 2021—and neither, it appears, is Cardona.

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Education Digital Divide Policies Common Core 218

The Hechinger Report

MAY 28, 2021

Chris Tims, a social studies teacher in Waterloo, Iowa, says he won’t stop teaching the 1619 Project, despite political pressure. Some call this teaching conflict — now more than a century old — the “ social studies wars.”. The substance of social studies. and African American history. Credit: Chris Tims. But Iowa state Rep.

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