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The Hechinger Report
FEBRUARY 8, 2020
As kindergarten has become more widely available in the last several decades, it’s also become more academic. In some districts, full-day kindergarten schedules are packed with back-to-back academic activities and lessons. They had taken out all the fun to make it more academic,” Turtzo said. States and districts responded.
The Hechinger Report
DECEMBER 19, 2021
On a morning this fall at Washington Elementary, a young boy, sitting at a table with five of his peers, held a tablet while he built a digital snowman — a cool proposition given the 85-degree heat just outside his air-conditioned classroom. Drawings in a fourth grade classroom at Washington Elementary, a K-8 school in Lindsay Unified.
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The Hechinger Report
OCTOBER 17, 2017
In 2008, a few years after Hurricane Katrina, school officials in Louisiana asked aspiring charter-school leader Andrew Shahan to consider taking over the failing Dr. Charles Drew Elementary School in New Orleans’ Upper 9th Ward. Related: When a hyped school model proves difficult to replicate.
Edsurge
APRIL 4, 2017
But at Memorial Elementary School , one of two elementary schools in New Hampshire’s Sanborn Regional School District , administrators and teachers are given the freedom to experiment with cutting-edge ideas not in spite of district and state guidelines, but because of them.
Edsurge
AUGUST 1, 2018
curriculum market shifted towards purchasing materials aligned materials to Common Core and state academic standards, the organization began building new offerings based on these U.S. Founded by former Kaplan executive Jonathan Grayer, Weld North has purchased 16 companies since 2010. Later, as the U.S. and Russia.
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. On a recent spring day, Maritza Cleary’s third-grade class at the district’s Prairie Oak Elementary School tackled math pictographs. BERWYN, Ill. —
The Hechinger Report
OCTOBER 16, 2017
A fourth-grader makes a puppet while his teammate works on writing a script at Mountain View Elementary School in Longmont, Colo. Teachers push [academic] standards into these projects,” and schools don’t “want projects where kids are just an extra set of hands.”. million in 2010) and a Race to the Top grant ($16.6
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