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APRIL 1, 2021

Credit: Jackie Mader/The Hechinger Report. It found that in fourth through seventh grade, graduates of the Georgia pre-k program were one and half to two times more likely to meet the state’s academic standards on math tests than their peers who did not attend public pre-K. Sign up for the Hechinger newsletter.

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OCTOBER 16, 2017

Photo: Wayne D’Orio for The Hechinger Report. Teachers push [academic] standards into these projects,” and schools don’t “want projects where kids are just an extra set of hands.”. Photo: Wayne D’Orio for The Hechinger Report. Photo: Wayne D’Orio for The Hechinger Report. Madison Reed, a high school senior.

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Edsurge

JULY 12, 2021

The tangled web of grading, posting assignments, and communicating with students—plus maintaining an engaging and supportive instructor presence, much less high academic standards—often turned confusion into chaos.

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Edsurge

JUNE 15, 2022

It’s not just us noticing these trends—recent research reports and surveys from a number of organizations reveal alarming statistics on teacher well-being. And only 12 percent of teachers report that they are very satisfied in their roles. The educational climate is rapidly deteriorating, the ripples of which we have yet to fully feel.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

Chamber of Commerce report released that year highlighted a 71-point gap between the percentage of fourth-grade students who scored proficient or above on the state’s reading exam in 2005 and those who scored proficient or above on the 2005 NAEP reading exam. Most students rated “proficient” by the state were anything but.

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FEBRUARY 12, 2020

In 1993, Massachusetts enacted a bipartisan education reform law that gave schools a massive infusion of state money in return for high academic standards and accountability. Academic standards were the next to go. State-by-state NAEP comparisons are available in this Hechinger Report table.)

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FEBRUARY 5, 2020

Hair has nothing to do with academic standards or college readiness. Except hair has nothing to do with academic standards or college readiness. He has been in at-home suspension since late January, according to news reports. Like DeAndre, Kaden wears his hair in locs. Read more about education in New Orleans.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 31, 2018

Of the more than 1,000 people surveyed in McGraw-Hill Education’s 2018 Social and Emotional Learning Report , 96 percent of administrators, 93 percent of teachers, and 81 percent of parents overwhelmingly say SEL is as necessary as core academic subjects.

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Edsurge

MAY 25, 2021

News and World Report ranking of public high schools. And last fall, the Fairfax County Public School Board proposed a radical change to the TJ admissions process: Scrapping the admissions test to replace it with a lottery of students who meet a minimum academic standard. But one school just outside of Washington, D.C.,

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

That’s one thing Katie Worth, a former reporter for the PBS show Frontline, found while researching her new book, “ Miseducation ,” about how schools teach climate science. A third of teachers self-report that they tell students that many scientists believe that climate change is natural. But many kids in the U.S.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

They received excellent ratings from EdReports , a leader in evaluating textbooks and curricula for rigor, usability and alignment to academic standards. A growing body of research names curriculum as a critical factor in academic success.

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eSchool News

JULY 1, 2024

This approach seeks to strike a balance between leveraging technological advancements and maintaining academic standards. Allow for AI generation of materials but require human review In this scenario, students can use generative AI to produce complete materials, such as essays or reports, which then undergo human review.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

Each lesson, Murphy shares, will “break down academic standards around literacy into discrete subskills.” (For A report from LEAP Innovations, a Chicago-based nonprofit, found ThinkCERCA to be one of two literacy products that demonstrated “encouraging” results in a pilot involving more than 50 schools.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 31, 2022

Tests should support high-quality instruction in the classroom: Modaffari said that well-designed tests do one of three things: “predict student performance, inform instruction, or evaluate learning and they should be aligned to the state’s academic standards.”. An opt-out movement to protest the tests was gaining steam.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 26, 2019

“You can’t actually function in a purely academic zone without also developing the sensibilities, orientations, behaviors and strategies that all of us use to navigate our everyday lives.” That project explored the opportunities and barriers for educators and decision-makers looking to thread SEL throughout their work.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 5, 2016

MasteryConnect aims to help teachers plan lessons and track how students perform against academic standards. Its core offerings include formative assessment products such as Socrative (a startup acquired in June 2014), grading tools and reporting services. See our report on edtech venture capital for more details.)

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MAY 13, 2021

This moment might just be the perfect time to rethink your school’s report cards. Or perhaps you want a more user-friendly aesthetic that allows parents to check their child’s progression using grade-level standards and expectations. What Elements Make Up A Report Card? Traditional and Standards-Based Report Cards.

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Edsurge

MAY 20, 2019

The tool also offers educators reports on how students perform across various academic standards and skills. Students in one class see different versions of the same material depending on their proficiency. Freckle can group students of similar learning levels for small group activities.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 20, 2021

One included academic standards for my state. The other was filled with the English language development (ELD) standards. My job was to ensure that my students, all of whom were categorized as English learners (ELs), met these grade-level and proficiency standards by the end of the year.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 12, 2018

According to the Chicago Learning Exchange’s report , prepared by Outlier Research and Evaluation, based at the University of Chicago, young people are most commonly using digital media technology and tools for collaboration, creation and active engagement in out-of-school programs. Tweet at @TaraGarciaM.

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Edsurge

MAY 9, 2017

At Nueva, when it comes to assessment, standards-based grading is king. They include not just academic standards, but several teacher-selected “habits”: responsibility, curiosity, creativity, and self-improvement. Panorama for Social-Emotional Learning offers SEL progress reports based on student and teacher surveys.

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Edsurge

MAY 17, 2017

We’re doing things that are a little radical but still grounded in academic standards. . He says at Two Rivers, they’ve rooted evaluations in standards—Common Core, Next Generation Science Standards—and that helps gets teachers invested. “We’ve always felt like it works,” he explains of Berthold’s assessment model.

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Edsurge

MAY 18, 2019

Employees report higher productivity , greater efficiency and less stress , while companies can benefit from lower real estate costs and an expanded talent pool. Video worked exceptionally well for us (even dating as far back as 2008) as our employees reported feeling more connected. days each week.

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Edsurge

MARCH 3, 2020

Focus group participants reported that they often received pushback from classroom teachers and administrators who suggested that making delegitimized the teacher, failed to advance student achievement, was faddish, and could not be used in service of developing knowledge around traditional academic subjects.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 8, 2020

Photo: Jackie Mader/The Hechinger Report. Photo: Jackie Mader/The Hechinger Report. While students have lots of time to play, they also learn traditional and rigorous academic material during the school year. Photo: Jackie Mader/The Hechinger Report. Photo: Jackie Mader/The Hechinger Report. EVERETT, Wash. —

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MAY 26, 2019

Chris Berdik for The Hechinger Report. With scarcely a month left in the school year, why was it worth spending time making videos rather than covering the next academic standard? Chris Berdik for The Hechinger Report. Chris Berdik for The Hechinger Report. Chris Berdik for The Hechinger Report.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 22, 2018

Teachers need help planning lessons that meaningfully contextualize academic standards. Challenge: In a groundbreaking study led by The Education Trust, researchers found that “across the country, lessons from the Internet labeled as [standards] aligned are being taught again and again, whether or not they are really worthy.”

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

Our nation’s employers report that creativity and critical thinking are the most valuable skills an employee can have. Even in districts without 1:1 devices, digital content can be used to provide context for academic standards and spark classroom discussion and inquiry. Tackling these challenges pays off.

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Edsurge

MAY 8, 2019

The program includes tablets and apps, along with print workbooks, lesson plans and physical manipulatives aligned to national academic standards. There are “several ongoing M&A processes with global potential” in the works, according to the financial report. To date, Kahoot has raised $63 million in investment capital.

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Edsurge

APRIL 12, 2023

In 2018, a report conducted by the Consortium for Policy Research in Education and the Graduate School of Education at the University of Pennsylvania found that 44 percent of new teachers left the classroom in five years. Photo courtesy of Winchester. While that example may not apply to us, much of the work educators do daily is under threat.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 16, 2017

Second, they have been exposed to academics such as letter names, sounds, number recognition, number fluency, and patterning with hands-on, meaningful learning tasks that take into account their physical and cognitive development. Kindergarten is not just about students mastering a set of academic standards.”.

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JUNE 26, 2019

Emily Kaplan for The Hechinger Report. Emily Kaplan for The Hechinger Report. Emily Kaplan for The Hechinger Report. This story about outdoor project-based learning for ninth-graders was produced by The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education.

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OCTOBER 25, 2021

Teachers and students can learn by doing place-based projects together, all the while meeting and exceeding required academic standards in authentic and meaningful ways. The post OPINION: Jump in, the water is rising — it’s time to educate students for a sustainable future appeared first on The Hechinger Report.

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APRIL 28, 2021

Better preparing candidates for licensure exams and rigorous academic standards. This story about teacher residency was produced by The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. Deferring tuition until candidates are licensed and teaching full time.

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DECEMBER 19, 2021

Credit: Charlotte West for The Hechinger Report. Credit: Charlotte West for The Hechinger Report Washington Elementary is a K-8 school in Lindsay, an agricultural community in California’s Central Valley. Credit: Charlotte West for The Hechinger Report. Credit: Charlotte West for The Hechinger Report.

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OCTOBER 15, 2018

The non-profit organization Mentor, which works to ensure that everyone “has the supportive relationships they need to grow and develop,” conducted a national survey in 2014 of youth aged 18 to 21 and found that one in three reported growing up without a mentor of any kind. Sign up for Hechinger’s newsletter.

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APRIL 29, 2014

As more than 900 entrepreneurs and educators converge in San Francisco this week, some will talk academic standards, literacy and charter schools. Disclaimer: the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is among the various funders of The Hechinger Report.

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