The Hechinger Report

MAY 13, 2024

We should care about this troubling shift because many researchers say that children learn best in integrated classrooms. The long-term assessment format changed in 2004, which is why you’ll notice some spikes or kinks for that year in the graphs below.) Test scores aren’t the only important measure of achievement.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Through the support of the Center for Renewable Energy Advanced Technological Education ( The CREATE Center ), KidWind has a number of scholarships available for 6 th -12 th grade STEM teachers to be able to offer the workshops at a reduced rate. Each topic-specific workshop is six hours long and will have the same format.

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Edsurge

JUNE 18, 2017

1993-2004: Building the Infrastructure. Working closely with partners, I spent the years from 1993 to 2004 starting and leading a handful of technology startups. 2004-2011: Washington Leans In. Internet ubiquity in the classroom led teachers to adopt email and experiment with other technologies. Not yet convinced?

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Edsurge

JANUARY 19, 2021

Even before the pandemic, broadband and mobile technology was expanding connectivity across the globe, hybrid and virtual classrooms were gaining steam in providing personalized learning to students, and project-based learning was proving to be an effective, engaging and increasingly popular pedagogy.

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ViewSonic Education

OCTOBER 6, 2024

Navigating the Complexities of Classroom Dynamics My first full-time teaching position was at Georgia Tech. At that point in my career, I found myself navigating not only the complexities of academia but also the unpredictable dynamics of human relationships in the classroom. And, also, did I mention they were football players?

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Edsurge

APRIL 4, 2017

We’ve become a leader in STEM Education by changing the way we structure schools. The district was the first in the state to open STEM Academies as part of their general public-school program. The program started with 1:1 iPads in two first grade classrooms in 2010. The academies allow for personalized—and engaging—instruction.

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Discovery Education

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Congress passed a law to commemorate the day as “Citizenship Day” in 1952, and a new law renamed the holiday “Constitution Day” in 2004. An Interactive STEM Learning Adventure on September 22! On September 17, 1787, delegates from the newly-formed states signed the Constitution of the United States. Then, tune in on HAUL!

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eSchool News

AUGUST 10, 2023

Little Scholars of Arkansas (LISA) Academy is a tuition-free public charter school with a comprehensive STEM-focused college preparatory program. Established in 2004, all 11 schools across the state are accredited by the Arkansas Department of Elementary and Secondary Education. Discovery Education serves approximately 4.5

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Digital Promise

JULY 27, 2016

This practice helped them to internalize these views and increase their GPA scores in STEM classes, particularly among low-performing students (3). In one scenario, high schoolers wrote testimonials about the importance of learning course material with the intention to make an impact in the world. Why does it work? Science, 331, 1447–1451.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

About the KidWind Project: The KidWind Project, an international leader in renewable energy education, has been working with educators and students to integrate renewable energy into classrooms for over 15 years. Since 2004, KidWind has held more than 800 training events for more than 50,000 teachers all over the world.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 7, 2018

Berenice Espino and her Quest for Space teammates had gathered in the engineering classroom to watch as a SpaceX rocket was launched into the atmosphere heading for the International Space Station, carrying onboard a science experiment they’d designed. Related story: One reason students aren’t prepared for STEM careers?

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

MILWAUKEE — On a muggy afternoon in late June, about 20 kindergarten through second-grade teachers sat in a classroom on the third floor of Milwaukee’s North Division High School. McFarland for The Hechinger Report Melissa Hedges and DeAnn Huinker strolled back and forth between the two classrooms. Credit: Abby J.

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MIND Research Institute

JULY 30, 2024

I realized the hard way, that the only person doing much learning in this classroom was me. However, the reality is that most classrooms today still rely on rote memorization and applying rules without context , a method that we now know doesn’t work. 2004), allowing students to use their knowledge creatively.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 15, 2019

Leave this field empty if you're human: The survey found that instead of moving bright kids ahead to more advanced topics, gifted classrooms are preoccupied with activities to develop critical thinking and creativity, such as holding debates and brainstorming. Related: The problem with high-stakes testing and women in STEM.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Everyday Superheroes is a nonfiction book series written by Erin Twamley and Joshua Sneideman focusing on the importance of multicultural representation of women in STEM. To learn more about the book series Everyday Superheroes: Women in Energy, visit stemsuperheroes.com/stem-books/. .

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EdNews Daily

OCTOBER 20, 2016

To put it in the words of an elementary student at the 2004 Serious Games Summit, “Why read about ancient Rome when I can build it?”. But by analyzing a game’s strengths and weaknesses, and by matching it to course content, educators can take advantage of the many games that are suitable for the classroom. Definitions.

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N2Y

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

But, they may also have great difficulty with homework and project completion because of executive functioning challenges stemming from Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). For example, a student with high intelligence in math may show superior problem-solving and calculation abilities. What about IDEA?

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 25, 2018

David Lockhart started teaching high school history in 2004. He had to find that thing that made his lessons stand out, and he saw it with technology. For the last four years, he has been an instructional technologist who coaches, trains, and speaks full time.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Established in 2004 by Congress, Cybersecurity Awareness Month seeks to raise awareness about cybersecurity and online safety. The activity also features important STEM skills and a step-by-step guide for implementing activities into your classroom. . Discovery Education is the worldwide?EdTech?leader

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techlearning

MARCH 12, 2018

Play Ball: The Science Behind Sports Turf Management,” will help students make connections between the STEM concepts they are learning in the classroom and real-world careers in today's agricultural industry. classrooms, 50 percent of all primary schools in the UK, and more than 50 countries.

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MindShift

JUNE 7, 2018

This story on STEM education was produced by The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. For example, the Silicon Valley Education Foundation’s summer program, Elevate Math, is raising algebra readiness, a critical first step on the STEM success track.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 3, 2018

There’s an education happening outside the classroom with people our kids otherwise wouldn’t come into contact with.” . Standing in front of a classroom of 11th- and 12th-graders at the high school in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, O’Neal had a startling revelation. Early on, Saturday writing classes were born.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

APRIL 2, 2015

The lack of evidence [about when and to what extent strategy instruction transfers] stems from the heavy reliance on smaller sample sizes and shorter-term intervention designs as well as limited attention to a “gold standard” of transfer of training to autonomous use. Children are predisposed to derive a single interpretation from a text.

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MindShift

JANUARY 20, 2017

Below we offer our Top Five reasons why, as educators, we should care about spatial thinking when we plan, observe, and assess mathematics in our classrooms. Spatial thinking is an important predictor of achievement in STEM careers. Spatial reasoning and mathematical thinking are intimately linked.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 17, 2018

The school’s halls and classrooms are bright and airy, with high ceilings and oversize windows looking out across the lush landscape. A slate of new school board candidates ran in the 2004 election. In 2016, Southwest Georgia STEM Charter School launched in Randolph County. Sign up for our newsletter. Choose as many as you like.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 27, 2017

Her hair was neatly divided into two braids, and she was in her usual seat in her ninth-grade classroom at Pittsfield Middle High School in rural New Hampshire. To some, this might sound like little more than classic “Mean Girls” behavior, as immortalized in the 2004 cult teen flick, but it can include mean boys, too.

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EdNews Daily

AUGUST 10, 2017

Since then, the robotics program has overcome their fair share of obstacles, including nearby factories shutting and decreased funding for their program, while working hard to transform culture in their school and build leaders in STEM. When students are engaged and present in the classroom, they become almost partners with the teacher.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Eve, on the city’s majority-Black East Side, 13 first graders, all of them Black, Latino or Asian American, folded paper airplanes in their basement classroom as part of an aerodynamics and problem-solving lesson. Black and Latino children fill 65 percent of New York City classrooms but just 22 percent of gifted seats.

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

But mostly, I’d argue if I were writing it, that much of VR in classrooms today does not have its origins the Link Trainer as much as in the educational films that you read about in Larry Cuban’s Teachers and Machines. Collaboration. Personalization. Problem-solving. Self-directed learning. The “maker movement.”

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 30, 2018

About one-third of all black collegians earn degrees in either a STEM-related (science, technology, engineering and math) field or in business, according to my analysis of integrated post-secondary education data system (IPEDS), the national dataset of college outcomes. Black students struggle to acquire wealth.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 4, 2018

As the number of 18-year-olds declines , higher-education institutions and, eventually, employers, are becoming more dependent on this older group to fill classrooms and jobs. Related: Universities and colleges struggle to stem big drops in enrollment. That’s nearly 16 million people. And the supply of them is vast.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 26, 2021

essential in helping solve problems for parents and helping schools,” says Johany Bobadilla, an immigrant from the Dominican Republic who has run her own program in Boston since 2004. One of the town’s teachers says her classroom was “probably the size of 2.5 regular classrooms?—?kids

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

.” This was what the mother of a nineteen-year-old killed by a bomb in Kirkuk said on an HBO documentary quoted by Bob Herbert in The New York Times on the morning of November 12, 2004. Or the flipped classroom. ” “Visit faraway lands without leaving the classroom.” So many losses. Fads fade, of course.

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