The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

As misleading news reports, misinformation and false data spread throughout the world, students of all ages need better instruction on how to assess media and data. Some universities and some K-12 school systems have developed media literacy courses and standards to help. Credit: Jackie Mader/The Hechinger Report.

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Hapara

MAY 12, 2022

Learners will study geography and contributions of both civilizations, while also reading poems and folktales. Third grade language arts – “Native American Stories” This elementary digital textbook has ten 80-minute lessons, which can be broken up to fit shorter class sessions.

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Neo LMS

MAY 2, 2017

Social media channels provide the digital alternative for the “traditional” social life and support communication within online communities non-stop. They turn to other social media sites , like Instagram, Snapchat, Tumblr, Yik Yak, or Twitter. Everyone is online now.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Considering what the 24-year-old shares in the video about her experience as a climate activist and former environmental studies student in college, the need for a heads-up becomes apparent. “As And ironically my therapist said, ‘I get a lot of you environmental studies majors in here,’ and she was very happy that I came to see her.”

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 17, 2021

And separate international studies of 15-year-olds and fourth graders indicate that eighth grade reading habits aren’t telling the whole story. In survey questions that accompany the NAEP test, eighth graders reported how much time they spent reading outside of school. First, the numbers. Sign up for the Hechinger newsletter.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 31, 2022

This is likely due to several factors: increasing involvement from parents as schools moved online; advocacy from groups like Decoding Dyslexia; social media conversations and coverage in the popular press; and a push by state legislatures toward improving our nation’s stagnant and dismal reading scores. The post OPINION: It’s time.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 10, 2023

Caitlin Mercado works with her second-grade students at Ritchie Park Elementary School in Rockville, Maryland. Caitlin Mercado teaches her second-grade students with the help of a document camera at Ritchie Park Elementary School in Rockville, Maryland. This is really not what I thought it would be,” she remembers thinking.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Samantha, from a small town in Massachusetts, sees stories about climate change on social media and in the news. Another study confirms the finding that depression, general and severe anxiety and “extreme emotions such as sadness, anger and fear” are all mental health outcomes associated with eco-anxiety.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

JANUARY 3, 2024

in this post, I share with you my perspectives, drawn from my experiences as a blogger, educator, and academic with a PhD in educational studies, on what constitutes the quintessential characteristics of 21st century teachers. In their quantitative study of over 300 Finnish first graders, Nurmi et al., Madda et al., 2011, Nurmi et al.,

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User Generated Education

JANUARY 22, 2023

As many in education know, commentary about ChatGPT is appearing on the news, social media, and the internet. As I always do, I am exploring its use in my classes (elementary-level gifted education). To use GLTR, a piece of text simply copy and pasted into the input box and anaylze is hit to generate a report.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Monica Williams remembers the late May day she and first grade teacher Lizette Gutierrez reconnected with the four young siblings from Cable Elementary. No teachers from the San Antonio elementary had heard from the children since schools closed abruptly in March due to the pandemic. Credit: Bonnie Arbittier, San Antonio Report.

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The CoolCatTeacher

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

00:01:25:09 – 00:01:50:19 Debbie Tannenbaum This is my 25th year in education, my sixth year as a tech coach, and during my first year as a tech coach, I'm in elementary school. Do you want to hold it up in front of your face and report or do you want to hold it to the side? So tell us a little bit about your journey.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 30, 2023

In recent weeks, news outlets and social media have been filled with depressing stories about “declines” in student achievement, in both reading and math. These reported downturns were not observed in terms of student problem-solving or thought processes, but on standardized test scores. Sign up for Hechinger’s newsletter.

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The CoolCatTeacher

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

So, if you take the challenge from this episode, share what you do and tag me – @coolcatteacher on the social media of your choice and lets level up together. She was selected as the STEM Scout of the Year in 2016-2017 and was selected as one of the 12 delegates to Report to the Nation in the year 2017-2018.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Since 1999 there have been over 300 violent tragedies that have played out from college campuses to elementary schools, and 320K students have been exposed to gun violence. While instances of school violence are on the rise, there is strong evidence to suggest that upstream violence prevention is what’s needed to curb this trend.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 16, 2018

In Common Sense’s 2018 study Social Media, Social Life , more than 1 in 10 teen social media users (13 percent) reported having “ever” been cyberbullied, and nearly two-thirds (64 percent) “often” or “sometimes” reported coming across racist, sexist, homophobic, or religious-based hate content in social media.

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Securly

JANUARY 12, 2017

Most students find web filtering to be unnecessarily inhibitive, citing that it blocks perfectly acceptable web pages due to one keyword or denies access to social media pages. Some schools leave social media open, some schools restrict access, etc. according to a Cyberbullying Research Center report.

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techlearning

APRIL 27, 2018

This post includes a handful of Adobe Spark activities for elementary students! 10 Tips for Using Social Media to Tell Your School’s Story ] Students can captures animal facts using Spark Video. On each slide of Spark Video students can add an image related to an animal they are studying.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Credit: Jena Brooker for The Hechinger Report. In a survey , since the start of the pandemic, 50 percent of students reported worsened mental health, 35 percent said their family relationships were worse and a majority reported feeling “lonely” and “anxious.” Credit: Sarah Garland / The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 28, 2022

Credit: Valerie Plesch for the Hechinger Report. Since then, three main programs have emerged that follow similar approaches, said Dewey Cornell, a professor of education at the University of Virginia and principal author of the most-studied model. Credit: Valerie Plesch for the Hechinger Report. How depressed was he feeling?

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 12, 2022

If our students continue to have access via social media to unchecked racist propaganda and flawed history, they will be vulnerable to committing racial violence. Therefore, I believe, the only way to combat racial violence is to teach young people to be “anti-racists,” which includes studying the history of U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

More social media platforms,” a girl said. Credit: Kelly Field for The Hechinger Report. Credit: Kelly Field for The Hechinger Report. American Student Assistance is one of the many funders of The Hechinger Report, which produced this story.). Credit: Kelly Field for The Hechinger Report.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 31, 2023

While the country didn’t see the sudden mass exodus of teachers that some feared, the toll appeared clear — teachers reported experiencing depression at three times the rate of other adults. Teacher quitting was at a 10-year high in 2021, consulting firm McKinsey & Company reports , and increased again in 2022.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 27, 2020

and Rosa Parks at her Katy, Texas, elementary school in the Houston area. They are advocating for core curriculum changes in social studies — specifically American history — classes. To her, antiracism education in elementary school starts with students’ awareness of themselves, of others and of how those interactions play out.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 15, 2022

But his academic science background is unclear: He declined a request from The Hechinger Report to answer questions about his science training and how he discusses pandemic-related public health measures in class. Related: A study on teaching critical thinking in science. Of those 14 were in the South and West.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Now more than ever, art educators must employ the tenets of social emotional learning, the NAEA says. In a recent report , the association recommended trauma-informed teaching strategies to promote mental health through self-expression—for their students’ sake and their own. For some classes, the pandemic’s impact is more complicated.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 7, 2023

As high school students, we were born at the same time as the iPhone and after the launch of social media and YouTube. Emerald plans to study software engineering or computer science or astrophysics in college. We are growing up in a world completely different from that of our parents, teachers and leaders.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 19, 2020

That’s why both educators and researchers who study child development say the school shutdowns resulting from the coronavirus pandemic may be particularly disruptive for middle schoolers. But studies show that many students aren’t being engaged in this way, especially kids who lack internet access at home.In Now that’s not possible.

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The CoolCatTeacher

DECEMBER 15, 2021

C3 Module Project – projects designed using the Inquiry Design Model (IDM) using the College, Career, and Civic Life (C3) Framework for Social Studies State Standards. In this task, my students will write a technical report for entrepreneurs interested in using 3D printers in manufacturing. . Take a look at the Task Plan.

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 6, 2023

She has taught English Language Arts, Social Studies, Film, Journalism, and enjoys writing, illustrating, and cooking in her free time. He first carried out this vision as an elementary and middle school teacher before later becoming the principal of a high school on the east side of Indianapolis. Generative A.I.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 19, 2021

He merely voiced his opinion on social media after winning a tournament. Students like Brandi and my former debate teammate weren’t calling for social change. was produced by The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. Still, my school punished him.

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EdNews Daily

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

I had the chance to chat with Dr. Jared Scherz, the founder of TeacherCoach , and a former elementary school guidance counselor who became a clinical psychologist in New Jersey. I began my career as an elementary school guidance counselor, working in some of the poorest inner city and rural areas in Chicago and PA.

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EdTechTeacher

APRIL 21, 2021

One week as Joe shared how entrepreneurship was an integrated part of the elementary experience Harshal, a parent at Design39 raised her hand to speak. In 2018, “ Future of Jobs Report ,” the World Economic Forum predicted their list of trending skills for 2022, many which are arguably necessary now.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 16, 2021

The book is being published this month by Teachers College Press; The Hechinger Report is an independent unit of Teachers College). As it turns out, many were not at first ; NPR reported that in the fall of 2014, some 21 percent of the grades P-TECH students earned in their college courses were Ds and Fs. Credit: Liz Willen.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 24, 2020

It was startling, Nia thought, how studying history could leave her feeling the same heaviness she’d felt scrolling social media after police had killed Michael Brown, Tamir Rice and Laquan McDonald, young Black people of her own generation. Alison Fortenberry was also studying the walkouts. A celebration began.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Those communications, he said, went out to families via email, the school listserv, social media and text messages. Elementary students are learning indigenous American creation stories, she added, and using the materials found in nature to create mixed-media visualizations of the stories that they hear. Absolutely.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

The overwhelming majority of young people are unable to sift through online information and separate fact, fiction and opinion, according to a new study from Stanford University. The study, Evaluating Information: The Cornerstone of Civic Online Reasoning , was produced by researchers at the Stanford Graduate School of Education.

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