The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 2, 2023

That’s why GreatSchools , the nonprofit school information site that helps parents navigate education, partnered with Project Lead The Way (PLTW), a nonprofit organization that encourages STEM-based careers for students through hands-on, project-based learning starting in pre-K.

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Digital Promise

JUNE 6, 2019

At River Dell Middle School in River Edge, New Jersey, my class was preparing to read the novel The Red Pencil by Andrea Davis Pinkney. This novel contains important themes and topics that are challenging for middle school students, including gender equality, child marriage, terrorism, seeking asylum, and conditions in refugee camps.

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The Thinking Stick

JANUARY 15, 2024

Our special guest today: Dr. Laura Erickson-Schroth (she/they), MD, MA, is the Chief Medical Officer for The Jed Foundation (JED), a national nonprofit that protects emotional health and prevents suicide for teens and young adults.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 12, 2024

This is a topic that is very depressing. The authors of the report observed that there seemed to be a spillover effect from states that have passed new laws restricting topics like race and gender, to states where no such laws are on the books. And so it helps to expand the base.” Sign up for Hechinger’s newsletter.

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EdTech Magazine

APRIL 14, 2019

Kids aged 8–18 years old are in front of screens for seven hours every day on average, CBS News reports. Project B3 , for example, a nonprofit organization that helps schools organize digital citizenship training, recruits students to serve as digital responsibility mentors who create curricula to fit their schools’ needs.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 24, 2023

technology job vacancy postings in September 2022 exceeded 804,000, and the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported a need for 3,800 new aerospace engineers every year until 2031–an industry that is already grappling with employee retention and workforce shortages. This doesn’t even include local events hosted by nonprofits, such as D.C.’s

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eSchool News

MAY 8, 2023

.” The Let’s Learn library of more than 250 one-hour episodes and more than 750 segments is available to stream on the new letslearn.org. The website offers playlists, new search tools to help users find segments by subjects, topics and curriculum themes, and 100+ printable activities.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Child care has been a cornerstone of the feminist movement in Canada, and parents and various nonprofit groups have partnered to champion the cause. If you’d like to chat about that topic, feel free to email me at jem2231@columbia.edu. I’ll see you in 2024!

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

For the staff at the National Center for Science Education (NCSE), the problem isn’t new. The nonprofit, which works from the local level to the national level to make sure students across the U.S. This summer, the NCSE ramped up its efforts to help teachers grapple with controversial topics.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 18, 2024

Their learning experiences need to include opportunities for them to delve deeply into topics that concern or excite them, to explore cognitively complex ideas and to build skills they will use outside the classroom.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Please reach out about any of these topics – and more. This story about Sarah Carr was produced by The Hechinger Report, a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. I’ll be continuing to look into these and related issues, and would love to hear from you.

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eSchool News

MARCH 7, 2023

“Increasing the debt ceiling isn’t new, but this time there are serious debates taking place about the need to reign in spending at the same time,” said Julie Smitherman, a former social studies teacher and director of content at Certell, Inc., the nonprofit behind Poptential. The debt ceiling will be in the news this spring.

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The Thinking Stick

JANUARY 22, 2024

Our special guest today: Dr. Tony Walker serves on the executive team of The Jed Foundation (“JED”) – a national nonprofit that serves as a thought leader on school mental health and youth suicide prevention.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 1, 2023

Even as outdoor preschool programs have expanded over the past five years — from 250 in 2017 to more than 800 in 2022 , according to the nonprofit Natural Start Alliance — the programs still mostly serve white children and most run as private, part-time schools. Sign up for Hechinger’s newsletter.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 23, 2023

Several years ago, officials at Pathways, an Alabama-based nonprofit that provides services and shelter for women and children who are homeless, learned that their clients needed more than a safe, temporary home: They needed child care, too. Subscribe today! That’s the main thing we want to give them back.” Sign up for Hechinger’s newsletter.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 12, 2023

On May 31, a school board meeting in Hernando County, Florida, made national news when more than 600 hundred people showed up and the meeting lasted until 2:30 a.m. I really did not expect to make it home,” she said during a recent conference on teaching difficult topics in the current partisan political environment, particularly in Florida.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 9, 2023

The three-year-old Reporting Collaborative includes AL.com, The Associated Press, The Christian Science Monitor, The Dallas Morning News, The Hechinger Report, Idaho Education News, The Post and Courier in South Carolina, and The Seattle Times. Sadie Dittenber from Idaho Education News contributed to this report.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Students are once again in the crosshairs of our nation’s political culture, following the College Board’s decision to buckle under political pressure and strip their Advanced Placement African-American studies course of essential topics for what is supposed to be a rigorous, college-level course. Sign up for Hechinger’s newsletter.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

EdSurge is joining the ranks of nonprofit newsrooms. was founded in 2011 as a venture-backed, for-profit news organization. based ISTE, meanwhile, is a 40-year-old nonprofit membership organization of more than 25,000 educators, best known for its large annual conference and expo on edtech. EdSurge, based in Burlingame, Calif.,

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Students deserve a chance to learn up-to-date topics that reflect how mathematics is being used in many fields and industries. Help us count the ways Algebra II, which covers topics such as exponential and logarithmic functions, is a typical university admission requirement. How often do we use conic sections or synthetic division?

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

“Studying student data seems to not at all improve student outcomes in most of the evaluations I’ve seen,” said Heather Hill, a professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, at a February 2022 presentation of the Research Partnership for Professional Learning, a new nonprofit organization that seeks to improve teaching.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 27, 2021

Here are some suggestions for how to talk about the Derek Chauvin trial , recent police violence and other current events topics. A community approach increases confidence and comfort when talking about sensitive topics in young classrooms. Kids truly are able to talk about big ideas, sensitive topics and the hurt in the world.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Years before phrases like “fake news” and “alternative facts” made their way into the English lexicon, Alan Miller realized that a time was coming when the truth would need defending. So when his daughter, then 12, brought home 175 handwritten thank you notes from her classmates that day, Miller’s wheels started turning.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

The classes are project-based, and history or English major might choose to focus their class project on applying the use of data science to a topic within their major. If educators introduce data science in authentic ways that connect to students’ interests, Levy said, their comfort with the topic will grow.

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eSchool News

APRIL 19, 2023

Sesame Workshop: Make Our Earth Better Sesame Workshop is the nonprofit educational organization behind Sesame Street, the pioneering television show that has been reaching and teaching children since 1969. This resource is part of the Celebrations collection in the Sesame Learning channel.

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edWeb.net

MARCH 30, 2021

As controversies about the pandemic, climate change, and social justice continue to make headlines, these same topics also provide opportunities for students to learn and apply media literacy skills that will help them with their course work, personal lives, and civic engagement. This edWeb broadcast was sponsored by News Literacy Project.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2020

How Schools Are preparing – and Not Preparing – Children for Climate Change,” reported by HuffPost and The Hechinger Report, a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. Teaching topics like the science of vaccinations elicited little controversy.

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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. Their course covers everything from interpreting data visualizations to understanding publication bias in academic literature to identifying fake news.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 8, 2023

Richard Culatta, CEO of the nonprofit International Society for Technology in Education, or ISTE, warns that if the education community sits on the sidelines as the technology is advancing and ethical concerns are navigated, it will be “the century’s biggest wasted opportunity.” Sign up for the Hechinger newsletter.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 2, 2023

To the researchers, that was good news. One reason is because it’s easier to absorb a new reading passage if a student is already familiar with the topic. After at least a year of this artistic potpourri, the academic performance of students in math, reading and science was no different for those who got more art.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 23, 2022

Recently, the Big Blur was the topic of numerous conversations during a national conference hosted by Jobs for the Future (JFF) in New Orleans, where it was a subject of a panel discussion between industry leaders and two JFF officials: Joel Vargas, the organization’s vice president of programs, and Kyle Hartung, associate vice president.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 11, 2023

As the United States faces both growing science-related challenges (climate change and a pandemic, for example) and an increase in science denial, programs like the one at AMNH are training teachers to help students navigate complicated scientific topics in their classrooms. government, according to data from the American Alliance of Museums.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 12, 2019

They found many parents only focus on simple math concepts like counting and naming numerals, even though preschool-age children are capable of learning more complex topics like comparing and combining numbers, creating patterns and exploring dimensions. The post Preschoolers can learn complex math topics. Subscribe today!

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

These bills forbid teachers from providing instruction that wades deeply into social justice topics. They require programs and resources that address these challenging topics. The only way to deconstruct disparities that have been normalized for centuries is to bring race education to the forefront of our classrooms.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 3, 2024

Language is a complicated topic because we have, in the U.S., This story about AI in early education was produced by The Hechinger Report, a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. Others have been working on language. more and more children who speak multiple languages.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 21, 2022

They were guided in this effort by educators like Hollander, her co-principal investigators Pam Blanchard and Danielle DiIullo, and Blake Touchet, a teacher support partnership specialist with the nonprofit National Center for Science Education (NCSE). Related: Climate change: Are we ready? Sign up for Hechinger’s newsletter.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 10, 2022

Educators teach, sometimes administer a test and move students on to the next unit or body of material regardless of their results, effort and understanding of the topic. Mastery-based learning precludes revisiting topics. Horn is the author of the new book “From Reopen to Reinvent: (Re)creating School for Every Child.”

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