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

DECEMBER 18, 2023

A recent Brookings report highlighted the confusion around policies for these new tools. All this underscores both the importance and the complication of drafting such GAI policies, leading districts to ask, “Should we create guidelines just for students or for students and teachers?” Sign up for Hechinger’s newsletter.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 15, 2024

billion program will be fully implemented by the 2025-26 school year across the nearly 900 districts in the state that include elementary grades. Credit: Alison Yin for The Hechinger Report There are teachers who should have aides, but don’t. The plan is that the $2.7

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2023

The second grader attends SpaRRk Academy, a virtual learning program for elementary students created in 2021 by the Rio Rancho School District in New Mexico. Credit: Carly Graf for The Hechinger Report But, two years in, enrollment had dropped to 87 kids, a 65 percent decrease. It wasn’t just a mother’s intuition.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 4, 2023

The state initially agreed to give an extra $50 million to 75 elementary schools with the worst reading scores in the state to improve how they were teaching reading. However, before the courts resolved that legal question, the litigants settled the case in 2020. This story also appeared in Mind/Shift The settlement itself was noteworthy.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 22, 2023

In its 2022 SAT annual report, the College Board reported that students from families earning less than $67,083 annually made up only 27 percent of test takers who reported their family income. This is a jump from 46 percent of student test takers whose families earned $80,001 or more in 2016.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 29, 2023

Our extensive work at MCJ culminated in a report that showcased an unsettling reality: Affordability and availability are formidable barriers to internet access, while reading and math proficiency rates are significantly below the state averages in grades 3-8. Our report found that this left them at a severe disadvantage.

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EdTechTeacher

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Post by Tom Daccord A recent national report by the Watson Foundation found that teachers are using ChatGPT more than students and are using it to create new lesson ideas. Each post will focus on a practical strategy for using ChatGPT and will include ideas for both elementary and secondary school teachers.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

Credit: Kelly Field for the Hechinger Report. Students in elementary school should spend 150 minutes a week in PE while students in middle and high school should receive 225 minutes a week of PE instruction, according to recommendations from the Society of Health and Physical Educators (SHAPE), which represents PE and health instructors.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

News reports—and rumors—about the pandemic are inescapable. Called the COVID-19 School Response Dashboard , it asks elementary and secondary schools and districts throughout the U.S. to report confirmed and suspected cases of COVID-19 among their students and staff who are learning and teaching in person this fall.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 12, 2022

Elementary school principals have reported that recess has a positive impact on students’ ability to focus. However, even a brief amount of recess is far from guaranteed in schools nationwide, as I reported in a story published last week on the practice of withholding recess. Kentucky does not have a law protecting recess.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 28, 2022

Credit: Valerie Plesch for the Hechinger Report. A few months earlier, according to a state report provided by Richmond, AJ had once threatened to knock another student down to steal his belt; his special education team had stepped in and concluded he posed no threat of harm to himself or others. How depressed was he feeling?

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 20, 2021

That same day, six other students across the district were written up for not wearing their masks correctly (including one who also faked using hand sanitizer), while an elementary school student was assigned three days of “private dining” for sharing food in violation of safety guidelines. This story also appeared in HuffPost.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

According to a pre-pandemic report , the average American teen spends approximately seven hours online per day. The Center for Humane Technology provides a set of digital well-being guidelines that teachers can use to introduce this thinking. American youth are spending an alarming amount of time online.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 15, 2020

Thousands of Mississippi children will have access to the software this summer as part of an effort to support incoming kindergarteners during the coronavirus pandemic.Photo: Jackie Mader/The Hechinger Report Credit: Jackie Mader/The Hechinger Report. Children really need to have as much support during this interim as they can get.”

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 14, 2016

2, 2014 photo, teacher Joy Burke surprises her students with homemade cookies as they leave their fifth grade class at John Hay Elementary school in Seattle. Cookies and math tend to go together in an elementary school classroom. In this Thursday, Oct. Photo: AP Photo/Elaine Thompson. And not always as reward for a correct answer.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

None of these guidelines are absolute. When schools in Botswana closed for the coronavirus pandemic in March 2020, one non-governmental organization texted math problems to parents of elementary school children, along with making weekly telephone calls. Federal financial aid forms are notoriously complicated to fill out.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Credit: Austin Anthony for The Hechinger Report Speaking comes naturally to most children, being a gift of human evolution, but reading and writing are inventions that must be consciously and painstakingly learned. Guidelines put out by the U.S. The study described a 14-year-old referred to as Percy F. The studies came just as the U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 27, 2020

and Rosa Parks at her Katy, Texas, elementary school in the Houston area. For Katie Cryan Leary, the principal of the newly opened Magnolia Elementary in Seattle Public Schools, creating an antiracist, anti-bias school can be a messy, uncomfortable journey. Katie Cryan Leary, principal, Magnolia Elementary, Seattle.

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Edsurge

JUNE 18, 2020

“A lot of the schools are still doing virtual summer school,” says Sean Gill, a research analyst for CRPE who co-authored the report. “I Among the districts that EdSurge examined, only 10 districts, or 5 percent, reported that they are considering some in-person component along with online learning.

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Edsurge

MAY 2, 2023

states permanently closed since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a 2022 report from Child Care Aware of America , a national membership association that works to improve child care and the early childhood profession. Nearly 16,000 child care programs across dozens of U.S. They are open year-round and typically from 8:30 a.m.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 24, 2020

210,000 — The number of bus drivers working directly for elementary and secondary schools in the U.S. Similar to scaled-back guidelines from the federal government, the state board’s criteria for reopening schools make no mention of bus drivers or student transportation. appeared first on The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 24, 2022

The latest study is part of a series of reports by Farran and fellow researchers at Vanderbilt University about Tennessee’s voluntary pre-K program. Previous research suggests that the quality of the teachers and elementary school that children attend after pre-K may boost or undermine long-term effects of pre-K.

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Waterford

JULY 24, 2020

In a survey from the International Journal of Education, 97% of teachers reported never or seldom using a flexible curriculum for their students.[2] Guidelines to assist the implementation of differentiated learning activities in South African secondary schools. Differentiation of Instruction in the Elementary Grades.

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Waterford

OCTOBER 10, 2019

According to school bullying statistics, 37% of children report having been bullied before, but only 31% of this number reported it to an adult.[5] In part, this is because it can be difficult to get victims to report that they’ve been bullied at all.[1] Middle School Bullying: Student Reported Perceptions and Prevalence.

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The Innovative Educator

FEBRUARY 17, 2015

Fortunately, my employer supports this and as such, we have been incorporating the voice of students in the guidelines around social media (You can see the teen guidelines at schools.nyc.gov/socialmedia ). If they continue block and report them. They definitely knew how to handle it. That usually did the trick.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 27, 2024

This distinction was codified through a method of evaluating for learning disabilities called the “discrepancy model,” included in 1977 federal guidelines. This story about intelligence testing in schools was produced by The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

“As part of our continued partnership with the district, we look forward to supporting DPSCD teachers as they work to accelerate learning and drive reading outcomes for their elementary students.”. The program works seamlessly with i-Ready® Assessment, a program used by DPSCD to provide data-driven insights about each student’s skill level.

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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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User Generated Education

OCTOBER 7, 2017

And low-quality professional development, frankly, feels like detention.” ( New Report Reveals That Teacher Professional Development Is Costly And Ineffective ). What follows are the general guidelines I use to plan and structure my professional development workshops. Weingarten said. Effective Teacher Professional Development ).

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eSpark

APRIL 8, 2022

Teachers must also start with the basics of how to use the technology appropriately and share guidelines to stay safe online. By creating progress charts and reports , it lets students know how they’re doing in relation to their personal goals.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 20, 2020

Des Moines Public Schools custodian Joel Cruz cleans a desk in the classroom at Brubaker Elementary School in Desmoines, Iowa. This story about school staff was produced by The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. Sign up for Hechinger’s newsletter.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 20, 2016

This week, Education Commission of the States released a 50-State Comparison and Companion Report summarizing state statutes, rules and regulations related to K-3 quality. Without giving due attention to the quality of K-3, we are missing an opportunity to continue the positive momentum created by improved pre-K experiences.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Photo: Ariane Kunze for The Hechinger Report. Typically, high schools have lower poverty levels than elementary schools because parents are older and able to earn more.). Photo: Ariane Kunze for The Hechinger Report. PORTLAND, Ore. Luke Said, 18, spent the summer of 2018 picking raspberries.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 3, 2023

He encouraged school leaders to look to groups like the Institute for Ethical AI in Education, AI4K12 and EdSAFE AI Alliance, which have developed frameworks and ethical guidelines for schools to use when choosing emerging technologies for classrooms.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 12, 2022

Harvard University educators Adrienne Stang and Julia Jeffries have provided five useful guidelines when teaching about the history of racism: Create a classroom culture that values students’ multiple social identities (e.g., The post OPINION: Schools must do a better job teaching anti-racism appeared first on The Hechinger Report.

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Insight Education Group

MAY 27, 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic has left elementary and secondary schools across the country in need of additional resources to operate and support their school communities. billion to the Elementary and Secondary Emergency Education Relief Fund, also known as ESSER ( NCSL, 2021 ). and 31%, respectively” ( CDC, 2020 ).

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