CORE Econ

JUNE 12, 2024

We received more almost 60 submissions this year from high school and undergraduate learners around the world. More than that, Econ Frame underscores that economics isn’t just about abstract models or aggregate data – it’s about humans, communities, and societies.

Economics 116

Economics Humanities Tradition High School 116

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2019

That meant he had to overcome even more obstacles than other Mexican immigrants, unable to communicate with most of his classmates and teachers at North Hollywood High School. “I But he learned Spanish and then English, staying after school for tutoring and moving on to honors and Advanced Placement classes. Weekly Update.

High School 102

High School Advocacy Tutoring Elementary School 102

A Principal's Reflections

NOVEMBER 19, 2023

Pursuing improvement is a never-ending process because the landscape of knowledge, technology, and human understanding is in a perpetual state of evolution. Furthermore, the human capacity for growth and learning is boundless. My work with Quest Academy Junior High School (UT) validates why change succeeds or fails.

Junior High 295

Junior High Pedagogy Humanities Leadership 295

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 7, 2017

A group of sophomore boys weaving baskets in an art class wish their school assigned more tests instead of oral presentations. If the activity seems a little too silly for high school, that’s by design. The leaders of City Neighbors High School have purposely included some time each day for kids to just be kids.

High School 95

High School Project-Based Learning Charter School Elementary School 95

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

Students study the human body on skeletons, using clay to make organs. When Lou Allen started the Science and Technology Magnet High School of Southeastern Connecticut in 2005, he didn’t woo the state’s top students. White and Asian students dominate advanced science and math classes in high school.

High School 110

High School Tradition Tutoring Project-Based Learning 110

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 14, 2019

A student in a high school just outside of New York City. A similar pattern seemed to be emerging among the state’s high school students, who are required to pass a series of exams, called Regents, to earn a diploma. But in New York, the exams are necessary for high school graduation. Weekly Update.

High School 112

High School Tutoring Lesson Plan Education Policy 112

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

Leave this field empty if you're human: Mississippi identifies schools with underperforming subgroups as part of the state’s accountability plan under the federal Every Student Succeeds Act. But it uses a different system for the school ratings it assigns schools each fall. Sign up for our Mississippi Learning newsletter.

High School 63

High School Humanities Education K-12 63

Digital Promise

AUGUST 15, 2018

My colleague Chad sees those opportunities through an edu-entrepreneurial lens, always looking at what learning need isn’t being met and how to shape a response to the human needs inside our schools; in doing so, it shifts power from teacher to learners.

Humanities 91

Humanities Education Project-Based Learning Library 91

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

BOSTON — When the Boston Public Schools opened the Margarita Muñiz Academy in 2012, it was a first-of-its kind dual-language high school meant to address issues faced by the city’s growing Hispanic population. We get them in high school, not when they’re little,” Vázquez says. “We

High School 112

High School Heritage Economics Cultures 112

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

Read the whole series, “ Willing, able and forgotten: How high schools fail special ed students,” here. But instead of graduating from Bartlett High School in Anchorage, Alaska, in four years, he took six. After high school, he did odd jobs for several years. Sign up for our newsletter. Higher Education.

High School 110

High School Education Government Elementary School 110

A Principal's Reflections

SEPTEMBER 11, 2022

One that sticks out goes way back to my pre-school years. Now I can’t remember if my twin brother and I were actually in a year-long program or just a set number of days where high school students worked with us. What I do recollect was the teacher, Mrs. McDonald. This truth presents a constant opportunity to innovate and grow.

Humanities 492

Humanities High School Teaching Education 492

The Hechinger Report

JULY 22, 2018

And they’ll make it clear that neither miracles nor miracle workers are required to help more students graduate from high school and be prepared for the future. Over the past dozen years, the national high school graduation rate has increased from 71 percent to 84.1 They’ll tell you. Sign up for our newsletter.

High School 85

High School Humanities K-12 Education 85

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 3, 2024

Researchers from the University of California, Irvine, and Arizona State University found that human feedback was generally a bit better than AI feedback, but AI was surprisingly good. Humans had a particular advantage in advising students on something to work on that would be appropriate for where they are in their development as a writer.

Research 125

Research Humanities History Middle School 125

The Hechinger Report

JULY 4, 2018

There’s a $32 million glass-fronted complex near completion that will house the nursing program and administrative offices, and a new $11 million recreation center that will also have a lab to study kinesiology, or human movement. TAMU-Texarkana may be the smallest of the system’s 11 campuses, but it’s been growing steadily. Weekly Update.

High School 96

High School Tutoring Education Policy Leadership 96

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 29, 2018

On the verge of finishing high school, Allison Dinsmore doesn’t know yet what she’ll do after she graduates. It’s a few months before she’ll graduate from Newark Memorial High School and Allison Dinsmore doesn’t have a plan for what will happen after that. .” NEWARK, Calif. —

High School 84

High School Charter School Economics Leadership 84

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 29, 2018

Many schools cut extracurricular activities, including football. Leave this field empty if you're human: Test scores and graduation rates went up, but thousands of mostly black teachers were dismissed and thousands of students were suspended or expelled due to zero-tolerance discipline policies. Sign up for our newsletter.

High School 47

High School Charter School Humanities Cultures 47

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 5, 2018

Laci Hargrove, 18, who fell short of the high school credits she needed to graduate, moved straight from high school to a HiSET-prep program that also provides her with needed social supports. When Laci Hargrove turned 16, she was a sophomore in high school with nowhere near the credits she needed for her grade level.

High School 56

High School K-12 Tutoring Elementary School 56

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Email Address Choose from our newsletters Weekly Update Future of Learning Higher Education Early Childhood Proof Points Leave this field empty if you’re human: While the reading and math “wars” have gotten a lot of attention in education in recent years, writing instruction has not received that same focus.

Teaching 132

Teaching K-12 Humanities High School 132

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 1, 2018

. There still aren’t enough students graduating from high school. Earlier this year, GradNation Acceleration grants from America’s Promise and AT&T were awarded to five programs in communities across the country that have successfully increased high school graduation rates while preparing students to succeed after graduation.

High School 58

High School Civics Economics Humanities 58

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 3, 2017

BOSTON — The Margarita Muñiz Academy, a public high school in Boston, is best known for its dual language immersion program. But bilingual education isn’t the school’s only innovation. Related: A Spanish-English high school proves learning in two languages can boost graduation rates. Music saved my life.”.

High School 59

High School Museum Economics Tradition 59

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 25, 2024

Two years ago, when I visited Westwood High School in Mesa, a suburb of Phoenix, every incoming freshman started the year in a very unusual way. Team teaching has expanded in Mesa, Arizona’s largest school district, and around the country. My mom was one of two girls in Westwood’s woodworking class.)

Teaching 121

Teaching K-12 Middle School High School 121

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 1, 2017

Read the whole series, “ Willing, able and forgotten: How high schools fail special ed students,” here. He has tuberous sclerosis, epilepsy and autism, but that hasn’t stopped him from being ambitious at school. He has tuberous sclerosis, epilepsy and autism, but that hasn’t stopped him from being ambitious at school.

High School 79

High School Advocacy Middle School Education Policy 79

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

This story also appeared in Mind/Shift The latest warning sign comes from college admissions test maker ACT, which compared students’ ACT test scores with their self-reported high school grades between 2010 and 2022. Grade inflation accelerated after 2016 and intensified during the pandemic, as schools relaxed standards.

Social Studies 143

Social Studies High School Research Humanities 143

Cult of Pedagogy

APRIL 28, 2024

After some trial and error, I have developed my own method for teaching annotation, which I’ll share here, along with the process my colleague Irene Yannascoli uses at the high school level. Click here to make a copy of the high school process for your Google Drive. Responsive annotation does just this.

Teaching 362

Teaching Pedagogy Library High School 362

ED Surge

AUGUST 16, 2022

Southern has been a celebrity ever since she was back in high school: She was a contestant on American Idol when she was 17, in that popular reality show’s third season. These days she’s a digital strategist looking at how things like the blockchain, the metaverse and AI might change human expression.

Humanities 137

Humanities High School Education Educational Technology 137

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 9, 2017

In grade school, Bowie and his younger brother were their mother’s pride and joy. Always at the top of their class, they were also fierce leaders of the debate team, and beat even the top local private schools. One day Bowie found his brother drenched in sweat and passed out at the school’s track. His grades plummeted.

Humanities 87

Humanities History Economics High School 87

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 1, 2018

Leave this field empty if you're human: Two women described how they were treated differently when visiting France, and a debate ensued. Mervian Smith is a junior at Landry-Walker High School in New Orleans and a member of the 2017 cohort of the Women’s Global Empowerment Initiative. Sign up for our newsletter. Weekly Update.

High School 77

High School Humanities Cultures Teaching 77

The Hechinger Report

JULY 25, 2017

math teacher Leah Alcala witnessed a similar change in middle school and high school students when she began spotlighting what she calls her “favorite errors.” The post To err is human – and a powerful prelude to learning appeared first on The Hechinger Report. In Berkeley, Calif., Sign up for our newsletter.

Humanities 98

Humanities Psychology Research Middle School 98

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 23, 2017

Every senior spends a month working outside of school at full-time internships throughout Chicago. Blanton, a high school senior, was interning for the firm’s information technology group. Linnea Garrett, Chicago Technology Academy school director. ChiTech high school student Devante Jordan, interning at an ad agency.

High School 68

High School Project-Based Learning Psychology Charter School 68

ED Surge

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Schools need to tap into the same sense of wonder that led early humans to seek unifying stories to explain their place in the world — and teachers need to do more to incorporate myths, jokes and riddles into curriculum and teaching practices, from the earliest grades up through high school.

K-12 120

K-12 Education Psychology Humanities 120

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 21, 2016

Carvey is a senior at the High School for Math, Science and Engineering at City College and the co-founder of the organization Young Hackers , which seeks to draw more minority and low-income kids into the hacker community in New York City. It was challenging, because I had to learn computer coding,” Winston said. “I

Humanities 52

Humanities Library Human Rights Middle School 52

Anthropology News

MARCH 12, 2024

This piece was selected as a runner-up of the AAA’s AnthroDay Student Unessay Competition in the high school division. This year’s unessay competition focused on the topic of Technology and how it has impacted human life or society.

Anthropology 102

Anthropology Humanities High School Cultures 102

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 24, 2018

For an eighth-grade math teacher like me, the arrival of spring means I’ve almost finished teaching the concepts my students need to succeed in high school. No physics in high school. As the teacher for the next school year, the level of loss determines how much review time needs to be built into the schedule.

High School 71

High School Charter School Leadership Middle School 71

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 12, 2024

Yancy Sanes teaches a unit on the climate crisis at Fannie Lou Hamer High School in the Bronx – not climate change, but the climatecrisis. He is unequivocal that he wants his high school students to be climate activists. “I I need to take my students outside and have them actually do the work of protesting.”

Teaching 113

Teaching Civics Civic Engagement K-12 113

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 18, 2024

Ask the average high school administrator about their biggest worries, and it’s likely they’ll cite serious concerns about learning loss during the Covid-19 pandemic. They find school boring. My conversations with students make one thing clear:They think the biggest problem with high school is that it’s a huge drag.

Tutoring 116

Tutoring High School Humanities Teaching 116

ED Surge

MAY 2, 2024

More than 26 members of local and national media were on hand for the splashy announcement (a detail that Carvalho noted in his remarks), and the event also featured a human dressed in a costume of the shiny animated character of Ed, which has also long been a mascot of the school district, for attendees to take selfies with.

EdTech 119

EdTech Humanities K-12 Tutoring 119

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 17, 2023

As a student at Poughkeepsie High School in upstate New York and then as a high school educator in the Bronx, I’ve observed, both inside and outside the classroom, that many of us develop unconscious biases. However, one teacher, my history teacher, seemed bothered that I had worn African attire to school.

American History 106

American History Cultures History High School 106