The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

In Fairfax County, Virginia, thousands of middle school students experience what most of their peers leave behind in elementary school — recess. Credit: Tom Sandner for The Hechinger Report. Middle school students in Robert Lane’s STEM class dig through a box of supplies for a class project. Lane the STEM Guy.”

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 1, 2024

Credit: Javeria Salman/The Hechinger Report Across town, students in Ruben Jacquez’s class at Rio Mesa High School use coding software to compile and clean data they’ve collected on student stress levels. Nicolas Garcia, a senior at Adolfo Camarillo High School, analyzes data that he gathered on his cellphone use during the school day.

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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? One of their leaders held a Science of Math event in Pennsylvania in 2022 and is planning another in 2023.

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MIND Research Institute

DECEMBER 20, 2022

The Future is STEM/STEAM. We celebrated National STEM/STEAM Day just a few weeks ago, a reminder of how important it is to foster our students’ curiosity around math and science endeavors. STEM/STEAM is everywhere you can imagine and is an indispensable part of our everyday lives. Can a game change how students feel about math?

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 31, 2023

This story also appeared in The Boston Globe Mejía and her husband, Spanish-speaking immigrants from the Dominican Republic, only later learned that Joangel, now 7, would have been an ideal candidate for one of the four elementary schools in Boston that teach students in both English and Spanish, Joangel’s first language.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

But the depth of this problem was obscured as most states, and thus most newspapers, reported achievement trends by comparing each new year’s eighth graders to the previous year’s eighth graders. The post OPINION: Middle school math is a unique problem that needs more attention appeared first on The Hechinger Report.

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Discovery Education

MAY 14, 2023

Learn More Learn More --> The "Tech" in EdTech Did you know that in 2022 the global EdTech market was valued at $123.40 The Simplest Elementary School Science EdTech Every day, educators are using digital resources to meaningfully support science teaching and learning—and the best EdTech tools are the ones that are easy to use.

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Edsurge

MAY 24, 2023

In the wake of the Atlanta Spa shootings and a surge in violence against Asian Americans throughout the pandemic, Illinois made history by becoming the first state to mandate that Asian American history be taught in public K-12 schools beginning in the 2022-23 school year.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 3, 2022

As the calendar flips to a new year, we had reporters sit down with students in four cities to give us their predictions of and aspirations for the future. Patterson Elementary School in Hillsboro, Oregon. Patterson Elementary School in Hillsboro, Oregon where they are fifth graders. Credit: Lillian Mongeau/The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 16, 2022

Strand was denied the yearlong leave of absence she requested to help guide federal STEM education efforts. Kentucky’s 2022 Teacher of the Year, driven out of the profession by homophobic harassment. She resigned from the job she loved. And it also drains the teaching ranks. Just ask Willie Carter Jr.,

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 15, 2023

More than two-thirds of all community college students and 40 percent of undergraduates in four-year colleges had to start with at least one remedial class, according to a statistical report from the U.S. The confusion stems from the study design. Department of Education. The majority of these students dropped out without degrees.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 28, 2023

On a breezy July morning in South Seattle, a dozen elementary-aged students ran math relays behind Dearborn Park International School. There are 25 students in the program hosted at the elementary school, and all of them are one to three grades behind. James, 11, couldn’t do two-digit subtraction last week.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 30, 2023

These reported downturns were not observed in terms of student problem-solving or thought processes, but on standardized test scores. Related: OPINION: Inequality is still at the heart of student NAEP score performance I spent part of the summer of 2022 teaching a free data science course to high school students in San Jose, California.

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Edsurge

APRIL 10, 2023

The Engage Every Student Initiative is a national campaign, started in 2022, that calls for communities to provide high-quality, out-of-school-time learning opportunities for all interested students by using funds from the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021. Students reported high levels of anxiety and stress.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Lee shares with the children a version of the Navajo creation story, and another one about horses, but he won’t tell them to a reporter on tape: They are part of an oral tradition passed down to him from his elders. The post COLUMN: A creation story for Indigenous and nature-based learning appeared first on The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 5, 2022

Black teachers were more than twice as likely as other teachers in the winter of 2021 to say they planned to leave their jobs at the end of the 2020-21 school year, according to a report released by the RAND Corporation. That is concerning from a workforce diversity perspective,” says Elizabeth Steiner, the co-author of the report.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 19, 2023

After a few hours, the elementary school called: Come pick up your son, they told her. An Associated Press reporter has had to visit the family in person to communicate. Related: When the punishment is the same as the crime: Suspended for missing class To many observers, Tameka’s troubles stem from Atlanta’s rapid gentrification.

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 6, 2023

He was recognized with the Tech Champion Award at the 2022 Digital Industry Dynamite Awards and featured in the EdTech50. He first carried out this vision as an elementary and middle school teacher before later becoming the principal of a high school on the east side of Indianapolis. How Do You Report Bias or Issues with AI?

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techlearning

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

Results from the 2017 National Assessment of Educational Progress – The Nation’s Report Card – revealed that students have seen little to no gains in math since 2015. Bureau of Labor Statistics projects that STEM jobs – requiring strong math skills – are projected to grow to 1 million by 2022. Yet, data from the U.S.

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MindSpark

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Industry needs qualified candidates which according to multiple reports by Bain and Company; many, many companies are not finding qualified candidates with whom to fill these important positions. STEMpath is a yearlong STEM and Computer Science certificate program, offering any K-12 educator 24-credit graduate level credits.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 5, 2021

Credit: Cheryl Gerber for The Hechinger Report. The student-to-teacher ratio at her twins’ East Austin elementary school was higher than what state law mandated, she said. Credit: Eveline Chao for The Hechinger Report. Credit: Eveline Chao for The Hechinger Report. Credit: Jackie Mader/The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 29, 2022

Social-emotional paraprofessional Yesenia Lopez, left, chats with a student who just arrived at Yosemite Middle School’s Bear Cave, Tuesday, May 31, 2022 in Fresno. Photographed Tuesday, May 31, 2022 in Fresno. Now the idea is spreading appeared first on The Hechinger Report. Credit: Eric Paul Zamora/The Fresno Bee.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2024

National data show that almost 70 percent of eighth graders are not considered proficient in reading based on 2022 test scores on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), also known as The Nation’s Report Card. Diane Myers, Ph. D, SVP, Special Education–Behavior, Specialized Education Services, Inc.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 19, 2024

Credit: Sharon Chischilly for The Hechinger Report. Credit: Sharon Chischilly for The Hechinger Report. Last year, nearly 80 percent of graduates enrolled in college, up from 65 percent for the class of 2022. Credit: Sharon Chischilly for The Hechinger Report. An investigative report released by the U.S.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Prior to the 2021-2022 school year, the district’s assessment data showed math scores were low, contributing to 14 out of 48 schools in the district being identified as low performing in 2019. Cleveland came into her position under challenging circumstances, including a teacher strike that delayed the start of the school year in August 2022.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 5, 2024

National data show that almost 70 percent of eighth graders are not considered proficient in reading based on 2022 test scores on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), also known as The Nation’s Report Card. Diane Myers, Ph. D, SVP, Special Education–Behavior, Specialized Education Services, Inc.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 3, 2023

Add learning loss stemming from the pandemic, and scores this year actually went down: Only 22 percent of eighth graders demonstrated proficiency in the topic, compared with 24 percent the last time the subject was tested in 2018. At the end of 2022, Congress grew the federal allocation for civic education from $7.75

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 30, 2022

Credit: Steven Yoder for The Hechinger Report. Test data paints a dire picture: Educational assessment nonprofit NWEA found that seventh and eighth graders’ scores on its math assessments fell in 2022, the only group of kids for whom that was true. Credit: Steven Yoder for The Hechinger Report.

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Shake Up Learning

OCTOBER 3, 2023

This is a super cool app that encourages problem-based learning and STEM skills for students. Subjects: math, science, engineering Age group: K-12 Technology needed: iPhone or iPad The app leverages augmented reality and encourages design thinking and STEM learning to engage students in both space and future STEM careers.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 18, 2023

This back-to-school season, the Education Reporting Collaborative, a coalition of eight newsrooms, will be documenting the enormous challenge facing our schools and highlighting examples of progress. The last remnant of her program, the math seminar, ended with the 2022-23 school year. Reed isn’t critical of the school’s changes.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 30, 2023

In April 2020, as the death toll from COVID mounted across New York City, an elementary school teacher at P.S. 343, the Children’s Lab School, in Sunnyside, Queens, organized a virtual dance party to give her second-grade class some levity. Recent reports reinforce our findings. New York City schools have yet to do that.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 5, 2022

Credit: Caroline Preston/The Hechinger Report. In 2022, we got a lot of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere,” said Horsley. Credit: Caroline Preston/The Hechinger Report. Credit: Caroline Preston/The Hechinger Report. Cari Gallagher reads a book about Hurricane Sandy to her third graders at Lawrenceville Elementary School.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 13, 2022

The school recently built a new center for science and arts outfitted with new, cutting-edge Samsung solutions that provide an ideal space for students to foster STEM skills, such as critical thinking, communication, and creativity. Nominee: Link Text Becky Alexander, Morris Elementary Nominated by: Istation.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 14, 2023

The implementation also helped address challenges with certifications and staffing for their early college high school and STEM high school–when they no longer had a university partner providing physical education credits, Edmentum filled that gap with highly-qualified, state-certified teachers and award-winning curriculum.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 2, 2023

As we close the door on 2022 , we approach 2023 with clear-cut priorities for edtech and education as a whole. Lessons learned in 2022: Educators are eager to support student mental health. One way education is doing this is by offering CTE, even in the elementary grades. It is all about the balance. Vrain Valley Schools.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 25, 2023

As we closed the door on 2022 , we approached 2023 with clear-cut priorities for edtech and education as a whole. Despite the pressure to attend, reports suggest 53 percent of high school students are unlikely to pursue a college degree. One way education is doing this is by offering CTE, even in the elementary grades.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 23, 2022

This year’s 6th most-read story focuses on the predictions educators and industry experts made for learning in 2022. We asked edtech executives, stakeholders, and experts to share some of their thoughts and predictions about where they think edtech is headed in 2022. billion by 2022. — Babak D.

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