ED Surge

MARCH 26, 2025

The summer before I entered the fourth grade, my mother informed me that I would be attending a new school in my same community with one caveat: it was a class in the gifted and talented education (GATE) program. Before that moment, I was blending in with my peers and navigating the typical challenges of elementary school.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

These days, almost every math curriculum in early childhood and elementary school includes games, usually a board or dice game, says Yvonne Liu-Constant, a practitioner specialist for Project Zero. Some also wonder if emphasizing play in math too strenuously can transmit an unintended message. Another Word for Fun?

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

I once attended an elementary school lesson in which the teacher read a book about a family beach house after Hurricane Sandy.) But Waite noted that educators can incorporate the topic into activities they already do, like art lessons or reading picture books. (I

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Zinn Education Project

JULY 8, 2025

. — Jill Butler, high school teacher, Burlington, Massachusetts Teacher educator Skyller Walkes and colleagues in Buda, Texas were thrilled to receive complimentary copies of Original Sins. They are part of a study group of eleven educators from San Marcos’ elementary schools, high schools, and state university.

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ED Surge

MAY 12, 2025

And although historically focused on middle and high school, the model will reach back into elementary school, as the company is developing a "bridge" course meant to sharpen the skills students need before entering pre-algebra.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 11, 2025

A mere five states require a one-semester middle school civics course, and our research shows that only New Hampshire dedicates instructional time for civics in grades K-5. Like Indiana, states should recognize civic excellence by offering civic seals to high school graduates.

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ED Surge

JULY 10, 2025

The 3Cs of Inclusive Edtech Debbie Tannenbaum, a school-based tech specialist for Fairfax County Public Schools in Virginia, supports an elementary school in which 40 percent of the students’ initial language is not English. Our tight bond helps every student.”

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ED Surge

JANUARY 21, 2025

Jami Rhue thought her first stint as a school librarian would be a quick detour in her career as a classroom teacher. But by the time she was heading up her own elementary school classroom in Chicago, she found herself missing the library and longing to teach media literacy again. So it was back to the bookshelves for her.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

And schools offer tutoring before, during and after school, plus Saturday School and summer programs for the districts 17,000 students, said Superintendent Darin Brawley. To identify younger students needing targeted support, the district now conducts dyslexia screenings in all elementary schools.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

These differences in thinking play out in how flexible students are with numbers in early elementary school. But elementary school teachers often arent trained well on the evidence base for best practices in teaching number sense.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 1, 2025

At Braham Area Schools and in other Minnesota districts, an algebra-to-calculus pipeline hasnt materialized. Credit: Patience Zalanga for The Hechinger Report Caden Rivera, a 16-year-old junior, said middle school was the beginning of a math slide for her. I was just really immature and didnt pay attention, she said.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 28, 2025

More elementary school students may be better at decoding words, but they have to make sense of those words to do well on the NAEP. Another possibility, according to assessment expert Marion, is that being able to read words is important, but its not enough to do well on the NAEP, which is a test of comprehension.

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ED Surge

MAY 27, 2025

Vulnerability and Mental Health in Educational Leadership These fellows reflected early and often on what it means to be vulnerable as an education leader and how challenges have impacted their mental health.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 5, 2025

One of the big ones is something called the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, and it tracks a national sample of students, from birth through elementary school. A second category are big datasets and longitudinal surveys. And it’s one way that we’ve been able to see that early childhood programs are effective.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 9, 2024

In 1953, Brbara Flores entered kindergarten at Washington Elementary School in Madera, California, a small city in the Central Valley surrounded by farm fields. Brbara Flores stands inside her old kindergarten classroom at Washington Elementary School in Madera on Oct. The school opened a dual language program in 2017.

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ED Surge

JUNE 18, 2025

Most are accompanied with handwritten letters from students extolling the influence children’s television shows had on their journeys to donning the cap and gown — one fresh grad writes that she plans to become an elementary school teacher thanks to PBS.

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Cult of Pedagogy

JANUARY 19, 2025

By the middle of elementary school, it is assumed that most students have basic decoding skills they know how to turn letters into sounds and sounds into words, but reading is a lot more than saying the words on the page.

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Cult of Pedagogy

FEBRUARY 2, 2025

For example, there are many elementary schools that still use timed tests as a way to increase math fluency for math facts. Change 2: Revisit Your Assessment Practices Kircher-Morris: We need to really make sure that when we are assessing something, we’re assessing what we are actually wanting to assess.

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Teaching American History

JANUARY 28, 2025

To make clear that black schoolteachers would serve in equivalent roles to those of white teachers, the Human Relations Committee proposed to school officials that teachers for the entire fourth grade class during the 19661967 school year be drawn from Reid School.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 23, 2025

Charter schools in Nevada have steadily been closing in on the Battle Born States second place ranking for enrollment, according to an analysis by the Nevada Current, and recently caused the Washoe County superintendent to worry that charter expansion could lead to nearby elementary school closures.

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ED Surge

JUNE 3, 2025

And they will say, No, Ive just been watching a lot of TikTok videos and I think that I have anxiety, said Hanna Kemble, an elementary school counselor and a counselor leader coordinator for the state of Kansas. School counselors across the country describe similar experiences to Kembles.

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ED Surge

APRIL 21, 2025

But in Okanogan County, where 28 percent of children are living at or below the federal poverty level and 11 percent of elementary school children are unhoused, the need for affordable child care is dire. This is as true in Okanogan County, Washington, as it is anywhere nationwide.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 27, 2025

Maraida Caraballo Martinez has been an educator in Puerto Rico for 28 years and the principal of the elementary school Escuela de la Communidad Jaime C. She never knows how much money her school in Yabucoa will receive from the government each year because it isnt based on the number of children enrolled.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 5, 2025

Much of the battle has focused on fears that schoolchildren might discover books depicting families with two dads or two moms, or that high school level books are available at elementary schools. Spoiler alert: they are not.)

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ED Surge

JUNE 23, 2025

When Wendy Lundeen began teaching transitional kindergarten over a dozen years ago, it was seen as an unconventional option to help prepare children to one day enter elementary school. The transitional kindergarten program is typically offered within existing elementary schools, and all districts will be required to offer it.

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Life and Landscapes

APRIL 21, 2025

At Kona, the Martha Jane Potter Elementary School sits at the junction of Boone Creek and the North Fork of the Kentucky River. In one indication of the depth of the flooding, a pontoon boat had been lifted and left on the top of an automobile that itself was resting on a trailer.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

Her teachers at Havasupai Elementary School often asked Siyuja to tutor younger students and sometimes even let her run their classrooms. But once she left the K-8 school at the top of her grade, Siyuja stopped feeling so smart. The school had 10 principals in as many years. She graduated valedictorian of her class.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 13, 2025

Her team noticed that for days following a raid, immigrant students wouldnt arrive at school. Center researchers also heard about immigration officers parking outside of elementary schools and early childhood programs to arrest parents they suspected of violating immigration rules. Fears like that spread, Cervantes says.

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ED Surge

MARCH 25, 2025

In 2022, an 18-year-old gunman massacred 21 people at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas. Four years before that, a 19-year-old fatally shot 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. In 2012, a 20-year-old shooter struck down 26 people at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut.

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Zinn Education Project

JULY 2, 2025

Brian Jones is the inaugural director of the Center for Educators and Schools of the New York Public Library, and formerly the associate director of Education at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Jones was an elementary school teacher for nine years and earned a PhD in Urban Education at the CUNY Graduate Center.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 7, 2025

Middle schools now have waiting lists for the sport. And at Longfellow Elementary School, students stretched yarn across makeshift looms made out of toilet paper rolls, stitching the arms of an octopus or crafting a snake during knitting club. When we talk to parents about why, 100 percent of the time its safety, said Oakley.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

But this kind of giant flashcard activity is gaining traction across elementary schools around the country. For more than 25 years, prominent researchers in early childhood math education have been promoting subitizing as something that schools should be teaching to build number sense. More and larger studies are needed.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 4, 2025

Washington Township school district did not respond requests for comment. Whittier Elementary School in Teaneck, New Jersey, rearranged its classrooms to improve how many students with disabilities are included in classes with their peers. Lannutti said. That makes no sense.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 8, 2025

As recently as a decade ago, most of Scottsbluff’s elementary students with more severe disabilities were funneled to one specific school that was most accessible for students with physical disabilities. About seven years ago, district leaders started their own inclusion push. The shift was partly inspired by feedback from parents.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Chee, the principal of Leupp Elementary School , the only school on the Diné reservation, as the Navajo Nation knows its people. Chee, who is also a sheep farmer, runs an elementary school 45 miles northeast of Flagstaff, Arizona. We are all so different, but we are also uniquely alike.

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ED Surge

MAY 13, 2025

The initiative included training district leaders, principals, early elementary teachers and staff on the science of reading, installing a dedicated literacy coach in every elementary school, setting up high-dosage tutoring and replacing dozens of disparate reading programs across the district with high-quality instructional materials.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 18, 2025

After units for elementary school were written in summer 2022, Minton presented them to a group representing parents, students, educators and community members called Forward Albemarle. Brownsville Elementary School in the Albemarle County, Virginia, school district, which committed in 2019 to teach whole truth history.

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