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ASTON, Pa.— In Jodie Murphy’s kindergarten class, math lessons go beyond the basics of counting and recognizing numbers. On a recent morning, the children used plastic red and yellow dots for...

https://hechingerreport.org/kindergarten-math-is-often-too-basic-heres-why-thats-a-problem/

Every night before going to bed, Antonio would tuck in his three younger siblings. After school, he’d tinker with toy cars, or help his dad, a mechanic, fix things around the house. “He’s q...

https://hechingerreport.org/as-more-youth-struggle-with-behavior-and-traditional-supports-fall-short-clinicians-are-partnering-with-lawyers-to-help/

Writing lesson plans has traditionally been a big part of a teacher’s job.  But this doesn’t mean they should be starting from a blank slate. Ideally, teachers are supposed to base their les...

https://hechingerreport.org/proof-points-many-high-school-math-teachers-cobble-together-their-own-instructional-materials-from-the-internet-and-elsewhere-a-survey-finds/

WARM SPRINGS, Ore. — Rosanna Jackson, an enrolled member of the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs here, counts herself as one of the resilient ones. Her childhood in the 1970s and 80s was tou...

https://hechingerreport.org/a-crisis-call-line-run-by-native-youth-for-native-youth/

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. Back when my mom attended Westwood in the early 80...

https://hechingerreport.org/are-two-teachers-better-than-one-more-schools-say-yes-to-team-teaching/

This article was originally published by The Markup, a nonprofit, investigative newsroom that challenges technology to serve the public good. WILDWOOD, Missouri — A middle school student in M...

https://hechingerreport.org/schools-were-just-supposed-to-block-porn-instead-they-sabotaged-homework-and-censored-suicide-prevention-sites/

Ignorance and apathy are not a winning combination when facing down an existential threat. But that’s exactly what Susie Jaramillo, of Encantos Media, found when her team was conducting focus g...

https://hechingerreport.org/column-climate-change-lessons-arrive-in-kids-entertainment/

Thousands of public school districts and charter schools have turned to tutoring as a popular and effective way to jumpstart lagging student performance post-pandemic. Educators strongly endorse ...

https://hechingerreport.org/opinion-sending-college-students-into-classrooms-to-help-our-struggling-students-could-be-a-winning-post-pandemic-solution/

AURORA, Colo. — Until early this year, Alberto, 11, had never stepped into a classroom. The closest school was many miles from his village in Venezuela, and Alberto’s father never allowed him...

https://hechingerreport.org/after-enrollment-slump-denver-area-schools-struggle-to-absorb-a-surge-of-migrant-and-refugee-children/

Last April, an email went out to families in the Troy School District outside Detroit. Signed by unnamed “concerned Troy parents,” it said that a district proposal to end “basic” and “h...

https://hechingerreport.org/eliminating-advanced-math-often-prompts-outrage-some-districts-buck-the-trend/