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School Cellphone Use Contracts Can Reduce Bullying

EdNews Daily

JULY 30, 2019

The Washington Post reported (July 16, 2019) that a report filed by the National Center for Education Statistics, that online bullying and texting is the rise among middle and high school students. More parents are sending their young children to elementary school with a smartphone. Ban the use of cellphones at dinnertime.

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What Is Prior Knowledge and Why it Matters?

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

DECEMBER 23, 2023

Historical Context in Social Studies : When discussing the Civil Rights Movement in a history class, students draw on their prior knowledge of earlier historical events like slavery and the American Civil War to better understand the context and significance of this movement.

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How a Chinatown school is trying to bring more diversity to theater

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 11, 2018

Photo: Eveline Chao for The Hechinger Report. There are just a few weeks left until their big trip to Atlanta for a three-day event called the Junior Theater Festival, and they’re hoping to add another trophy to the assortment that fills the school’s front lobby. Photo: Eveline Chao for The Hechinger Report.

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In Puerto Rico, the odds are against high school grads who want to go to college

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 26, 2019

Rivera Pichardo for The Hechinger Report. Rivera Pichardo for The Hechinger Report. Of those who do enroll at universities on the island, fewer than half earn degrees, even after six years , the advocacy group Excelencia in Education reports, compared to more than 58 percent of college students nationwide.

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At this one-of-a-kind Boston public high school, students learn calculus in Spanish

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

Photo: Tara García Mathewson/The Hechinger Report. The idea behind the Muñiz Academy, named for the longtime principal of Boston’s first dual-language elementary school (the Rafael Hernandez K-8 school), was that many Hispanic students would do better in schools that support their cultural background and, with it, the Spanish language.

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Home visiting in high school: Trying an intervention for toddlers on teenagers

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 22, 2018

Peggy Barmore for The Hechinger Report. The success of home visits has been well documented for infants and has been studied at the elementary and middle school level , but it’s an open question whether these visits make a difference for older students, according to some experts. Peggy Barmore for The Hechinger Report.

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A school district wades through a deluge of social-emotional curricula to find one that works

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 24, 2019

Meghan Groves, a teacher at Washington-Lee Elementary School, in Bristol, Virginia, leads her first graders in “closing circle,” where they talk about how their day went. Caroline Preston/The Hechinger Report. Caroline Preston/The Hechinger Report. Caroline Preston/The Hechinger Report. BRISTOL, Va. — Proof Points.

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A year of personalized learning: Mistakes, moving furniture and making it work

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 8, 2018

Photo: Mike Elsen-Rooney for The Hechinger Report. District officials theorized that students’ disillusionment with the curriculum contributed to Vista High’s 10 percent dropout rate. Photo: Mike Elsen-Rooney for The Hechinger Report. “I Photo: Mike Elsen-Rooney for The Hechinger Report. They hadn’t seen that before.

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April 27th - Pam Moran and Ira Socol: From Scientifically-Managed to Community-Driven Schools

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 11, 2011

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Personalized Learning: Mistakes, Moving Furniture and Making it Work

MindShift

AUGUST 17, 2018

This story about personalized learning was produced by The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. District officials theorized that students’ disillusionment with the curriculum contributed to Vista High’s 10 percent dropout rate. Making changes gradually.

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Homework in a McDonald’s parking lot: Inside one mother’s fight to help her kids get an education during coronavirus

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 27, 2020

Greenville schools have some of the highest school dropout rates in the state, and Johnson also viewed staying at home as necessary to defend her children’s chances of living an easier life. “I By early April, Washington County reported two deaths from the coronavirus. I do what I can, whenever I can, for my children,” she said.

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Canadian schools succeed in nudging one minority group to and through college

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 25, 2016

Nearly a third are 14 or younger and another 18 percent are 15 to 24, Statistics Canada reports , meaning they’re college age, or will be soon. Lumina is a funder of The Hechinger Report, which produced this story.) percent of indigenous people have university degrees, Statistics Canada reports. In Canada, an even lower 9.8

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States were adding lessons about Native American history. Then came the anti-CRT movement

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 12, 2023

In a June 2022 report , the department said it had deleted the term “equity” from the title of a report about equitable access to qualified teachers for low-income and minority students. The former School and Educator Equity Report is now called Rates of Access to Qualified Teachers. Sign up for the Hechinger newsletter.

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The big jobs of small-town principals

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 6, 2018

Photo: Caroline Preston/The Hechinger Report. Snyder is the principal of the elementary, middle and high schools in this tiny town in southeastern Colorado. Photo: Caroline Preston/The Hechinger Report. The district is working to improve results at its elementary school, which has been underperforming. CHERAW, Colo.

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Are the challenges of Puerto Rico’s schools a taste of what other districts will face?

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 3, 2023

This story also appeared in The Guardian The flooding last fall that devastated the home of Deishangelxa Nuez Galarza, a fifth grader in this coastal area of southern Puerto Rico, also closed her elementary school, El Coquí, for three days while staff cleaned out a foot of muddy water from every first floor room.

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‘Backpacks full of boulders’: How one district is addressing the trauma undocumented children bring to school

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 14, 2020

Credit: Kavitha Cardoza for The Hechinger Report. Cooper Lane Elementary School in Maryland’s Prince George’s County school district had almost 550 children, 60 percent of whom are Hispanic. Credit: Kavitha Cardoza for The Hechinger Report. Credit: Tyrone Turner for WAMU. The stories she hears are awful.

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‘State-sanctioned violence:’ Inside one of the thousands of schools that still paddles students

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 6, 2022

This story also appeared in Mississippi Center for Investigative Reporting. Collins Elementary School, in southeastern Mississippi, paddled students more times than almost any school in the country in 2017-18, the last year for which there is national data. Credit: Tara García Mathewson/The Hechinger Report.

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JUNE 16, 2017

.” “More than 150 House and Senate Democrats sent Education Secretary Betsy DeVos a letter Monday that objected to her department’s recently announced shift in how it chooses the contractors that service federal student loans ,” Inside Higher Ed reports. State and Local) Education Politics. Via Reuters : “U.S.

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How a Chinatown school is trying to bring more diversity to theater

In Puerto Rico, the odds are against high school grads who want to go to college

At this one-of-a-kind Boston public high school, students learn calculus in Spanish

Home visiting in high school: Trying an intervention for toddlers on teenagers

A school district wades through a deluge of social-emotional curricula to find one that works

A year of personalized learning: Mistakes, moving furniture and making it work

April 27th - Pam Moran and Ira Socol: From Scientifically-Managed to Community-Driven Schools

Personalized Learning: Mistakes, Moving Furniture and Making it Work

Homework in a McDonald’s parking lot: Inside one mother’s fight to help her kids get an education during coronavirus

Canadian schools succeed in nudging one minority group to and through college

States were adding lessons about Native American history. Then came the anti-CRT movement

The big jobs of small-town principals

Are the challenges of Puerto Rico’s schools a taste of what other districts will face?

‘Backpacks full of boulders’: How one district is addressing the trauma undocumented children bring to school

‘State-sanctioned violence:’ Inside one of the thousands of schools that still paddles students

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