The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

According to the 2018 National Survey of Science and Mathematics Education , K-3 students receive an average of 18 minutes of instruction per day in science, compared to 89 minutes in ELA and 57 minutes in math. Related: A study on teaching critical thinking in science. This story about U.S. Sign up for the Hechinger newsletter.

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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.

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Kitaboo on EdTech

JUNE 6, 2019

What is STEM? The acronym STEM stands for Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics. More recently, arts were added to this educational model, as educators believed that art and creativity play an important role in the understanding of the former subjects in the STEM Curriculum , thus changing the acronym from STEM to STEAM.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 12, 2023

Too many students are held back from advanced math that could provide direct pathways into college level math and STEM jobs, said Ross, a former presidential awardee for her teaching. What irks her most is that decisions about who gets tracked into or out of these higher-level courses are too often based on a student’s race.

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Edsurge

APRIL 8, 2019

In 2013, I was hired to teach computer science (CS) and video game design to students in grades K-5 at Monte Sano Elementary School in Huntsville, Ala. A year earlier, I had graduated with a teaching degree in elementary education. To date, close to 3,000 educators have taken the survey. It was my first full-time teaching job.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 3, 2023

NEW YORK — On a sunny Friday in early November, four 10- and 11-year-old boys stand on the corner of 26th street and Fourth avenue in Brooklyn, holding homemade clipboards and signs that read “Take our food equity survey.” Sophia (left) and other BUGS sixth graders talk with a construction worker for their food equity survey.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

He was speaking during a break in a city program for promising local high school students to study calculus for five hours a day throughout the summer at Northeastern University. Among the students who decide to study STEM in college, more than a third end up changing their majors , according to the U.S. Tran also loves math.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 5, 2023

I assumed that I would eventually learn how the brain worked because I thought that studying education meant studying how learning happens. I was told to study my own students and investigate what worked best. A 2019 survey of teachers uncovered some of these gaps. It is time to know and do better.

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ViewSonic Education

MARCH 7, 2019

The Consortium for School Networking reveals the extent of these gaps in its 2018-2019 annual infrastructure survey. Elementary school students have the least access to personal devices, at 71%. At home, the survey found, there were no gains in students access to computing devices. The STEM lab is another up-and-coming approach.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 6, 2023

In January 2022, a review of 17 research studies showed that young kids can learn from “guided play” as well as if they were being directly instructed by an adult or a teacher. In an email survey conducted by Lego Education in September, 98 percent of 1,000 K-8 teachers indicated that play-based learning “reduces their feelings of burnout.”

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Edsurge

MAY 28, 2020

On an ordinary June morning, kids descend on the campus of Auburn University to try science experiments at the college of education’s annual STEM camp. It’s an opportunity for the future teachers who are enrolled at the college to apply what they learn in class in a practical setting, testing out lesson plans with real elementary students.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Their inability to answer stems from disconnected data. Do former CTE students find jobs in the industries they studied? Officials can’t study the long-term outcomes because in 2014 Louisiana lawmakers passed one of the nation’s strictest student-data privacy laws , which blocked state agencies from sharing student data. “It

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 6, 2022

If pre-K and elementary teachers are going to be better equipped to teach science, they need better training during teacher preparation programs — and that training should be followed by long-term support. Subscribe today!

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Edsurge

MAY 24, 2023

After facilitating each PD session, Hurh sends out a survey to attendees. The working group also developed sample scope and sequences for both the elementary and secondary level. Illinois also established an inclusive history commission the same year TEAACH was passed that provided recommendations on social studies instruction.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 15, 2022

Almost a quarter have neither a science degree nor full certification to teach science, according to a 2017-18 survey by the U.S. I n a 2019 survey of the state’s school principals, 81 percent reported they could find few or no satisfactory applicants for middle-school science jobs. Data show many of the 69,000 U.S.

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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. The researchers did not disclose the names of the three states they studied but said they were located in the South and Midwest. Sign up for Jill Barshay's Proof Points newsletter.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

The early teen years are also a stage when students are especially vulnerable to “identity foreclosure,” or the walling off of certain options, such as a STEM career, as not for them, Deutsch said. She wants to study engineering in California, and recently returned from a road trip to the state, where she visited four colleges.

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User Generated Education

DECEMBER 22, 2016

For the past several decades, I have had my feet in both elementary education and teacher training and development. ” There’s lots of lip service about closing the achievement gap, serving marginalized populations, helping students gain 21st century skills, and preparing students for STEM-related careers. Adults Say No.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 15, 2020

While Acera serves 130 students in kindergarten through ninth grade at the steep price of $26,400 for elementary school and $28,300 for middle school, with limited financial aid offered, Lowell Public Schools is a large, urban district serving almost 14,500 students, 71 percent of whom are considered high needs.

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 14, 2016

Beginning in fall 2014, the students and teachers at Burbank Elementary School in Hayward, California, embarked on a new and ambitious program to integrate arts across the curriculum. After studying the artwork of pop artist Andy Warhol, fifth and sixth grade students made artwork inspired by his creations.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

If school closures continue through the end of this year, childhood obesity rates will climb by more than 2 percent, according to estimates in a recent study by a researcher at Washington University in St. Kyle Bragg, an elementary school PE instructor in Scottsdale, Arizona. Others are trickier.

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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. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) offers an approach to price transparency to consider.

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Edsurge

APRIL 18, 2019

Next year she will head to Chicago’s DePaul University to study education, but with a significant leg up from her future classmates: She’s spent months embedded in a preschool classroom, observing and supporting the teacher, meaning she has a good idea of what to expect when she one day has a class of her own.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 27, 2020

I don’t want to pit one grade against another,” said Laura Bornfreund, the director of early and elementary education policy at New America, a progressive think tank. Holley said the staff at Rupert Elementary School in Crawley, West Virginia, where she teaches, has pulled together and she’s never felt more supported.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

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. Therefore, while combatting climate change itself, we must also address the anxiety that it is causing.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

This is a whole new way of experiencing math instruction,” Ganguly, a former math and physics teacher, told me, pointing to promising early studies from the non-partisan research group WestEd, along with feedback from teachers and students on Prisms, which is hosted on the Meta Quest platform.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 5, 2022

And, according to a new report I co-authored for Just Equations , the benefits of that elevated standing are starkly apparent: Based on data from surveys and interviews, “ A New Calculus for College Admissions ” reveals how deep-seated preferences for calculus weigh heavily in decisions about who gets admitted to college.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 16, 2021

The proposals included after-hours study groups for third graders to work with a qualified teacher or tutor to stem learning loss during the pandemic; an outdoor learning hub to reengage students who weren’t attending online classes; and an in-person small learning community with social and emotional supports for students suffering from trauma.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 5, 2021

The student-to-teacher ratio at her twins’ East Austin elementary school was higher than what state law mandated, she said. As numerous studies have shown, Black students are not only more likely to be disciplined , but also more harshly and for lesser offenses, than their white peers. Sinsabaugh is not alone.

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Edsurge

JULY 9, 2019

As principal at Chula Vista School District’s Salt Creek Elementary, Lalaine Perez saw attitudes toward math bottom out in the years following the transition to California’s new Common Core standards. Lalaine Perez Just a short drive away, Mónica Ruiz, principal at Chula Vista’s Montgomery Elementary, was facing her own math struggles.

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Edsurge

JULY 10, 2019

As principal at Chula Vista School District’s Salt Creek Elementary, Lalaine Perez saw the need to better support a growth mindset around math in the years following the transition to California’s new Common Core standards. Pilot Study Brief from Digital Promise. Mónica Ruiz, principal at Montgomery Elementary in Chula Vista, CA.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 29, 2018

I was over in one of the elementary schools the other day, and three years ago we were all in awe and kind of gaga about a high school student who was all in with drones, and sort of building and flying, and learning about aviation and drones with his high school peers. Drones in the Classroom. He’s actually been back, He’s taking a gap year.

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edWeb.net

JANUARY 7, 2021

Dr. Marks also clarified while implicit bias is currently a hot topic, it has been identified and studied by social scientists for more than half a century, so there are research studies and historical data that document how it works and why it is so pervasive. Defining Implicit Bias and Its Impact. About the Host.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

AUGUST 23, 2020

I have traveled the country delivering PD relating to technology integration, PBL, STEM, Digital Literacy, and the 4 C’s. I have traveled the country delivering PD relating to technology integration, PBL, STEM, Digital Literacy, and the 4 C’s. SAMR -Many teachers have studied the SAMR Model. Check out my Booking Page .

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 8, 2018

Small-group math work at Prairie Oak Elementary in Berwyn North School District 98 where, two years ago, just 14 percent of third-graders were able to do grade-level math. Related: Eight ways to introduce kids to STEM at an early age. She did a survey to find out what flavor each student preferred. BERWYN, Ill. —

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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. In a pair of studies from 2015 and 2016, Rutgers University psychologists found that competition can harm how well our memories perform.

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Edsurge

APRIL 1, 2022

“We need to talk about the trauma of teaching through a pandemic,” urges Christopher Bowen, a STEM curriculum specialist for Johnson City Schools in Tennessee. The devaluation and inadequate compensation for educators’ work, along with the staffing shortage, exacerbates the situation.

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