The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

D’Mello’s approach was to install inexpensive eye trackers on the computers in an Indiana high school classroom. Think of it as an annoying survey that kept popping up on the students’ computer screens. The student surveys were riddled with inaccuracies. Others may not have been aware that they were doing it.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 3, 2024

LOS ANGELES — When Abram van der Fluit began teaching science more than two decades ago, he tried to ward off classroom disruption with the threat of suspension: “I had my consequences, and the third consequence was you get referred to the dean,” he recalled. Racial disparities in discipline remain, but they have been reduced.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

Some give generalized, out-of-classroom descriptions; others tailor their definitions more specifically to education. When does AI, like IBM’s Watson, take over a classroom? Not so fast argues Chris Gosselin, a Digital Learning Coach at Sanborn Elementary School.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 2, 2020

Surveys bear this out. Two-thirds of Americans in a Pew Research Center survey said that students aren’t getting the skills they need for the workplace. Students don’t feel ready either: Only 41 percent say they consider themselves very or extremely prepared for their careers , a McGraw-Hill survey found.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

He says he’s happy to show any prospective parent around the tiny Greta Valley Primary School, which has two multi-age classrooms that serve first- through sixth-year students, but doesn’t pressure them to choose his school. By comparison, 23 percent said they looked at the school website and two-thirds attended open houses at the schools.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 23, 2016

Fifth-graders at Konguta Kool – an elementary school in a small Estonian village – prepare for a math lesson in the computer lab. Estonian schools are often economically integrated, so poor and rich students are frequently in the same classrooms. By comparison, in the United States, students do not get the same educational experience.

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User Generated Education

DECEMBER 1, 2014

Philipp Schmidt (2007) provide an excellent comparison of how Education 1.0 Essentialists argue that classrooms should be teacher-oriented. through using project-based and inquiry learning, cooperative learning, global learning projects, Skype in the classroom, and shared wikis, blogs and other social networking in the classroom.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 2, 2016

The Starkville Foundation for Public Education, funded by donations from local residents, gave frequent grants to Starkville teachers to purchase new equipment and materials for their classrooms. There are pockets of poverty in the county that rival the Delta while Starkville is, by comparison, a wealthy town,” he said.

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Waterford

DECEMBER 3, 2019

It’s so easy to put together a classroom Facebook group or send a school email without a second thought. Then, we’ll share five tips for communicating with any parent to boost parent engagement in your classroom. 8] Your Gen Xers are most likely the parents of older elementary or middle and high school students.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

The problem is that many American elementary schools aren’t doing that. ” But this research hasn’t made its way into many elementary school classrooms. So in 2015, he assigned Harper to visit all of Bethlehem’s elementary schools and find out how children were being taught to read.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

The reasons include a federal law so little-known that people charged with implementing it often fail to follow the rules; nearly non-existent enforcement of the law by federal and state governments; and funding so meager that districts have little incentive to survey whether students have stable housing. But those aren’t always apparent.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

AUGUST 9, 2020

Unpacking our own identity and the “why” we bring to the classroom can be a grounding force that holds us steady through change. Listen in as I have a laid-back yet energizing conversation with Tanesha Forman, a middle school teacher entering her 15 th year in the classroom. Like, let’s take it into the classroom.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 10, 2016

The goal, though, is to create a common “test” — often in the form of a project — that can be given to students in different classrooms across the state and used to help compare the performance of schools and districts. But coming up with a uniform and efficient way to measure a subject that’s all about creativity is difficult.

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Edsurge

JUNE 29, 2020

The purpose of elementary is getting ready for middle. From boardroom to classroom, you have to really think that one through carefully. In a classroom of 20 to 25 kids, you're going to have—on average, nationwide—three kids with serious mental health issues who become disruptive. Middle school is getting ready for high school.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 10, 2020

student population today participate in tutoring, it has historically been reserved for the monied elite and is often cost-prohibitive for children like Victor, who attends an elementary school where three in four students receive discounted meals. And yet, while broad swathes of the U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

When schools in Columbus, Ohio, opened up classrooms this fall for the state’s third grade reading exam, just over a third of students showed up. Kline said she’s confident more students will take the end-of-year tests in March and April, when the city’s elementary schools are scheduled to be open to all students.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

FEBRUARY 21, 2021

It’s a rundown of what happened the week before that you can use in the classroom to teach news literacy. It also includes a Viral Rumor Rundown of about four or five viral rumors that circulated the week before, with ideas for discussion, classroom activities, and links to resources. Yeah, sure.

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 29, 2017

” That’s the Electronic Classroom of Tomorrow , which is already having to repay Ohio some $60 million. ” Via Getting Smart : “Using Robots to Teach Elementary Students About Human Nature.” Resources , But Grasp Is Surface-Level, Survey Finds.” ” Immigration and Education. Rural ones.”

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 2, 2017

Indeed, Americans don’t actively seek out scientific information , one survey found this year, relying on their general news source – “mainstream journalism,” if you will – to provide them with irregular updates on the latest research. “A Nation at Risk” and such. " We do not know our rights.

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