The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 16, 2023

This story also appeared in Mind/Shift At a training session this summer, Pitts, a teacher at Oakdale Elementary in Sandy, Utah, learned why: The program works best when teachers supervise kids rather than sending them off to do exercises on their own. Credit: George Frey/Getty Images The STEM Action Center made other adjustments too.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Credit: Shane Bevel for The Hechinger Report Until recently, however, students in Union’s advanced math classes remained mostly white. Credit: Shane Bevel for The Hechinger Report Enrollment data suggest the effort to make higher-level math accessible to more students had started to yield results before the pandemic.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

Credit: Kelly Field for the Hechinger Report. Meanwhile, public health experts say kids need exercise more than ever. “PE Compounding these issues, many students around the country live in crowded apartments or in neighborhoods where it’s not safe to exercise outside. The benefits of exercise for children are well-established.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 14, 2021

Students can practice persuasive writing, comprehension, and typing skills by completing reviews, reports, and reading logs online. Many ICDL books are classified as “activities” meaning they are perfect for digital story times, scavenger hunts, and creative writing exercises. Open Library. Listen and Read.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2023

Jenna Gros jangles as she walks the halls of Wyandotte Elementary School in St Mary’s Parish, Louisiana. Brusly Elementary School has 595 students, ranging from ages two to seven. Jenna Gros, head custodian at Wyandotte Elementary School in St Mary’s Parish, Louisiana, stops to tie a student’s shoe. MORGAN CITY, La.

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Digital Promise

JULY 19, 2018

Some of our professional development workshops are geared toward a particular group of educators: those who teach K-12 science, technology, engineering and mathematics, also known as STEM. We all use language,” one STEM teacher recognized, “whether it’s in the directions we give or the handouts we use.”. What Can we Do Right Now?

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

Related: Will new standards improve elementary science education? Exercises within the lessons are designed help give teachers competence and skill in teaching topics that are considered controversial, and also help resolve student misconceptions, Reid said. “But Sign up for Hechinger’s newsletter.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

The exercise is part of a new program that encourages learning middle school math through real world problem-solving, now in use in 190 school districts across 36 states. NEW YORK — I strap on a virtual reality headset. A screen appears and dramatic music pounds into my ears.

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EdNews Daily

JUNE 3, 2017

ESL / ELL Tutors (elementary through high school, all three counties). STEM.Org: They are hiring 24 certified teachers for a 6-week paid, summer STEM fellowship program in Detroit & Westland, Michigan USA. National Board assessors consistently report that the assessment process is a great professional development experience.

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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

MARCH 16, 2021

This story is a part of Learning from Lockdown , a series about education solutions in the pandemic, produced in partnership with the Education Labs at AL.com , the Dallas Morning News , Fresno Bee and Seattle Times partnered with The Christian Science Monitor , Hechinger Report and Solutions Journalism Network.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 24, 2021

This year, it was 47 percent — a 68 percent increase that disproportionately impacted Black and Hispanic students, according to a report by Amplify , a national K-8 curriculum and assessment company that analyzed data from 400,000 students across 1,400 schools over the last two years. Gallup’s Jonathan Rothwell reports that the U.S.

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EdNews Daily

JUNE 3, 2017

ESL / ELL Tutors (elementary through high school, all three counties). STEM.Org: They are hiring 24 certified teachers for a 6-week paid, summer STEM fellowship program in Detroit & Westland, Michigan USA. National Board assessors consistently report that the assessment process is a great professional development experience.

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Edsurge

APRIL 10, 2023

Inside the spacious facility, students learn more than just how to throw a jab or perform pushups and plank exercises. Low-income, Black and Latino households were also more likely to note these barriers, the report found. They shifted all of their programming online, which included visual arts, media and STEM offerings.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 10, 2021

Credit: Lillian Mongeau for the Hechinger Report. Summer camps, many of which remain financially fragile after last year’s closures, could see an influx of cash: The American Rescue Plan Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief Fund earmarked $1.2 Credit: Jo Napolitano for The Hechinger Report. “It

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Edsurge

JUNE 16, 2020

The federal Elementary and Secondary Education Act, for example, limits the use of school-improvement funds to interventions that benefit student learning as documented by at least one well-designed and well-implemented research study. But that’s likely to change when budgets get tight.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 17, 2020

She showed the students a video to review the math, then sent them scattering to different tables to practice the exercises they’d found challenging. “We In a report published in May, the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics recommended that districts eliminate tracking in middle school math.

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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 Web20Classroom

JUNE 8, 2018

As the end of the school year approaches my daughter’s backpack is filled with fliers from her elementary school. Pull reports on phone calls and emails. One of the best examples I’ve seen of this is my elementary principal friend Amber Teamann. How many were listened to? How many emails were opened?

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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

APRIL 15, 2019

But a large survey of 2,000 elementary schools in three states found that not much advanced content is actually being taught to gifted students. Related: The problem with high-stakes testing and women in STEM. So perhaps these critical thinking and creativity exercises are doing something. Sign up for the Hechinger newsletter.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Angie Rawls, choral director at Pearl High School in Mississippi, leads students in a vocal exercise. Part of that buy-in stems from parents’ approval of the way kids are assigned to schools in this largely working-class central Mississippi town. Choral students have received numerous accolades under Rawls’ direction. PEARL, Miss.—

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 14, 2017

Students can practice persuasive writing, comprehension, and typing skills by completing reviews, reports, and reading logs online. Many ICDL books are classified as “activities” meaning they are perfect for digital story times, scavenger hunts, and creative writing exercises. Open Library. Listen and Read.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

MARCH 12, 2023

Reading Eggs Reading Eggs is an award-winning learning program designed by experienced elementary teachers to help children learn to read. BrainPOP JR BrainPOP Jr is another great learning app for kids and elementary students. Compatibility: Android/ iOS (iPhone, iPad); Price: Free, offers in-app purchases 3.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 21, 2017

When my colleagues found out that my husband, an elementary school teacher, had asked me to join his school for Career Day, they were incredulous. I talked about the links between diet, exercise, and brain health. The model brain was a hit at Achievement Prep Academy career day in Washington, D.C. one asked. I understood the suspicion.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2024

They need the power to exercise their skill sets. 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. Teachers should feel free to put their marks on it.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 17, 2017

Photo: Cheryl Gerber for The Hechinger Report. In 2008, a few years after Hurricane Katrina, school officials in Louisiana asked aspiring charter-school leader Andrew Shahan to consider taking over the failing Dr. Charles Drew Elementary School in New Orleans’ Upper 9th Ward. Photo: Cheryl Gerber for The Hechinger Report.

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The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

One way that we can exercise that is through our one-to-one initiative. Teachers looked at those texts, tried some projects, reported out, and some of that also shaped the vision, which was then delivered to our staff, in actually 2016-2017. What can it look like in an elementary classroom? All of our learners have a device.

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MindShift

AUGUST 10, 2021

This story about summer camp was produced by The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. Jo Napolitano for The Hechinger Report). Sign up for Hechinger’s newsletter. billion specifically for evidence-based summer enrichment.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

Preschool students at Kruse Elementary School in the Poudre School District in Colorado play at the water table during choice time. This could be written down or drawn, Gerde pointed out, in a real-world literacy exercise. Photo: Lillian Mongeau. Read more about early education. Sign up for our newsletter.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 27, 2018

Thousands of kids across the country, from elementary through high school, spend weeks or months coaxing seedlings to grow, building devices to harness solar energy and carefully mixing acids and bases. appeared first on The Hechinger Report. Credit Image: © Stan Carroll/The Commercial Appeal/ZUMAPRESS.com.

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User Generated Education

MAY 13, 2018

But elementary school-age kids do have the natural curiosity, imagination, drive, and ability to come up with innovative ways to change the world for the better. Reading and writing are integrated into the learning activities in the form of fun, interesting books and stories, and writing stories, narratives, journalistic reports.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 20, 2021

In my experience as a middle and high school math specialist, I’ve rarely heard any adults (including math teachers) report many positive memories of their early experiences with math at school. The problem isn’t with timed retrieval practice exercises like the Mad Minute. More than 90 percent of elementary school teachers are female.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 5, 2024

They need the power to exercise their skill sets. 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. Teachers should feel free to put their marks on it.

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MindShift

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

When Michael Stone was considering a job at the STEM School Chattanooga he was a little skeptical at first. Grading to promote from PEF STEM Innovation Hub on Vimeo. The company asked STEM School Chattanooga students to design prototypes for the window dressings. STEM School FabLab (@STEMFabLab) May 12, 2016.

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Graphite Blog

AUGUST 24, 2021

To top this off, if you're interested in how these streaming services compare in terms of user's data privacy, check out our report: Privacy of Streaming Apps and Devices: Watching TV That Watches Us. There are film curations available for elementary, middle, and high schools. Grades: 4-8. Read our review of BrainPOP.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 30, 2022

It was a public exercise, with the whole class watching. Credit: Steven Yoder for The Hechinger Report. At the start of each school year, for example, the class devotes a few days to trust-building exercises, not math. Credit: Steven Yoder for The Hechinger Report. Credit: Steven Yoder for The Hechinger Report.

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