The Hechinger Report
MARCH 25, 2024
Students also need adequate training, even in elementary and middle school. The leading indicators of STEM troubles ahead are apparent within the 2022 scores from a national test called the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP). After the pandemic in 2022, only 27 percent were well prepared.
The Hechinger Report
OCTOBER 6, 2022
The expansion comes at a good time: Teacher shortages have worsened in the past decade, and fewer undergraduates are going into teacher training programs. The idea is to diversify the teacher workforce (community colleges serve more Black and Hispanic students), and train up more teachers. Credit: Ellen M. Banner/The Seattle Times.
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The Hechinger Report
FEBRUARY 26, 2024
If you teach phonemic awareness, students will learn phonemic awareness,” which isn’t the goal, said Tiffany Peltier , a learning scientist who consults on literacy training for teachers at NWEA, an assessment company. “If Teacher training programs in the science of reading emphasized the importance of phonemic awareness.
eSchool News
NOVEMBER 7, 2023
school district in 2022-23. “Unfortunately many students leave elementary school still not proficient in reading, and that creates a significant barrier to their ability to learn across subjects. Most middle and high school teachers are not trained in the teaching of foundational reading skills (e.g.,
Edsurge
MAY 30, 2023
Research indicates that aspiring educators who get to practice teaching earlier in their training and more often are more likely to be effective, Sakimura says. By the end of their training, they will be ready to take on the responsibility of teaching an entire classroom of students for a semester, Sakimura notes.
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. Third graders in 2022 are the furthest behind in reading, as depicted by the bar on the far left. Source: NWEA).
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math tests when they were taught by an HBCU-trained teacher, but not necessarily a Black teacher, according to an unpublished study from a Stanford University graduate student. Though not a large number, a quarter of these HBCU-trained teachers were white.
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