The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 29, 2017

The numbers reveal a glaring gap in the nation’s education system: A high school diploma, no matter how recently earned, doesn’t guarantee that students are prepared for college courses. Higher education institutions across the country are forced to spend time, money and energy to solve this disconnect. One of those is Maryland.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 28, 2023

I entered college in 1989 with an interest in human rights advocacy, planning to be a lawyer. Still, my reaction to the current dialogue about humanities is this: The best way to save the English major is to abandon it. Nevertheless, higher education hasn’t had a true redesign of its approach to majors and courses in 50 years.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 4, 2020

Now, with the added pressures of the coronavirus pandemic, the fabric of American higher education has become even more strained: The prospect of lower revenues has already forced some schools to slash budgets and could lead to waves of closings, experts and researchers say. This story also appeared in NBC News.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 5, 2022

In 2011, a panel of mathematicians and math educators mapped college-prep sequences in high school math and proposed pathways that led not only to calculus but also to statistics, linear algebra and data analysis. A third pathway, quantitative reasoning, is often recommended for those planning to major in English, the arts and humanities.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 27, 2018

data cited in the lawsuit, between 2012 and 2017, only about half of requests for sports team from schools that had more than 90 percent black and Latino students were approved, whereas about three-quarters of such requests were approved for schools whose student bodies were 10 percent or less black and Latino students. The P.S.A.L.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 9, 2018

Temple has started a master’s degree in sport business, among the 41,446 degree or certificate programs colleges and universities have added since 2012. Students walk on the Temple University campus in Philadelphia. Photo: Matt Rourke/The Associated Press. It’s just spreading a thin broth thinner.”. Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images.

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 8, 2016

The Students and Parents in Cooperative Education (SPICE) Family Literacy Program serves central Maine’s Regional School Unit #3 (RSU 3). SPICE’s mission is to integrate childhood and adult education. So, SPICE educators went straight to their adult learners’ homes. Virtual Learning: A Human-Centered Approach.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 11, 2023

Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Future of Learning newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every other Wednesday with trends and top stories about education innovation. The 15-month tuition-free program focuses on enrolling educators in “high-needs” middle and high schools.

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Living Geography

NOVEMBER 17, 2024

GeoCapabilities began in 2012 with a pilot project led by the American Association of Geographers. The capabilities approach helps geography educators everywhere to articulate the importance of children learning how to think geographically. All of these are referenced in the book. This work is summarised in the online journal RIGEO.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 29, 2018

A 2012 report by the federal Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee found “state oversight of for-profit education companies has eroded over time due to a variety of factors, including State budget cuts and the influence of the for-profit college industry with State policymakers.”. Higher Education.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

The series was produced by The Hechinger Report and Columbia Journalism School’s Teacher Project , nonprofit news organizations focused on education coverage, in partnership with Slate Magazine. public housing or come from immigrant communities—is one of the surest paths to promoting educational equity. Sign up for our newsletter.

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 24, 2019

This is the fourth post in our series on “Powerful Learning,” a set of principles guiding our work supporting schools and educators to develop learning experiences that engage the hearts and minds of learners as we introduce new technologies. Rest Is Not Idleness: Implications of the Brain’s Default Mode for Human Development and Education.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 27, 2018

They created multicolored posters to explain what different departments of local government do, from sanitation to human resources. “Project-based learning can be great and it can be pretty awful,” said Nell Duke, one of the lead authors of the study and a professor of education at the University of Michigan.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 1, 2020

After the Great Recession hit in 2007, the number of business majors nationwide went, up while enrollment for humanities majors dropped. Colleges are looking to cut costs, so a declining pool of students is an existential threat to humanities departments. The AHA launched the nationwide initiative in 2012 and called it “Tuning.”.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 17, 2024

Since the mid-1980s, some education experts have supported such moves, citing research showing that tracking primarily serves as a marker of race or class, as Black and Hispanic students, and those from lower-income families, are steered into lower-track classes at disproportionate rates. parent Andrew Sosnoski asked the members.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 29, 2017

Now California is spending $6 million on a campaign to revive the reputation of vocational education, and $200 million to improve the delivery of it. People with career and technical educations are actually slightly more likely to be employed than their counterparts with academic credentials, the U.S. How can it get better?”.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 10, 2019

The more students used technology in schools, the lower the nation ranked in educational achievement. That’s the equivalent of a year of education or an entire grade level. Higher Education. Previous research has generally shown more promise for education technology in math than in reading. Weekly Update.

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ED Surge

MARCH 11, 2024

Gen Zers, born between 1997 and 2012, spend a lot of time online, consuming and creating digital content. With Gen Z now making up a substantial portion of today’s college students, their attitudes toward libraries have implications for higher education. Ninety-two percent check social media daily.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 6, 2022

Johnson is the principal of Mississippi’s Collins Elementary School, where the paddle remains a staple of the educational experience. As of late April, educators pulled out the paddle 20 times on kindergartners, twice on first graders, 31 times on second graders, 16 times on third graders and 10 times on fourth graders.

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Anthropology News

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

I study human skeletal remains of the past, how burial contexts were constructed, and what they revealed about communities. My work sits at the nexus of human biology and archaeology, two disciplines known for being deeply positivist and scientific, valuing numbers, models, and testable hypotheses as a gold standard.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

Some VR agencies work well; counselors respond promptly to applications and help clients further their education and secure employment. The delays lead to missed job and educational opportunities and longer government dependence, all at a cost to taxpayers. Close to 14,000 cases stretched past a year.

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 3, 2018

This article originally appeared on Usable Knowledge from the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Anyone studying the humanities probably has a story of someone raising a skeptical eyebrow and asking: “What do you plan to do with that?” Read the original version here. More than half of STEM majors end up in non-STEM jobs.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 27, 2016

The 2012 survey from the American Council on Education was sent to public and private colleges and universities across the U.S., 6 percent — The number of colleges and universities led by a black president, according to a 2012 survey from the American Council on Education (13.3 percent of the U.S. population is black).

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ED Surge

APRIL 1, 2022

In the next few days, thousands of edtech entrepreneurs, investors, educators and policymakers will flood a hotel in San Diego to attend the Mecca of Education Innovation Optimism known as ASU GSV. based education and workforce technology companies, together amounting to more than $150 billion in market capitalization.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

The detrimental effects of this “boy bias” were largest for wealthier, well-educated families. Higher Education. This study analyzed families who started having kids between 1994 and 2002 and sent them to public schools between 2002 and 2012. Sign up for Jill Barshay's Proof Points newsletter. Weekly Update.

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Anthropology News

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

To the left of the gallery, Denyse Thomasos’ 2012 Untitled , in her signature abstract expressionist style, presents a watercraft motif evoking familiarity with her earlier works where they transform into coffins and reveal the horrifying reality of the Transatlantic Slave Trade. This education placed Odundo’s practice into perspective.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 23, 2018

People realize they need some kind of skill set, some kind of education.”. But across the United States, that pursuit of higher education and better jobs is also killing small towns. Related: Even if they want to go to college, millions of adults live in higher education ‘deserts’. That’s changed,” she said. Census data.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 5, 2021

Emily House, executive director, Tennessee Higher Education Commission and the Tennessee Student Assistance Corporation. “It It’s a real barrier,” said Zora Mulligan, the state’s commissioner of higher education.) Laura Perna, executive director, Alliance for Higher Education and Democracy at the University of Pennsylvania.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 4, 2016

He took honors physics in 11th grade and earned a general education diploma, even though his cerebral palsy classified him as a special education student. She had spent 12 years as a senior education advocate at the Disability Law & Advocacy Center of Tennessee, advising other parents on how to get through the system.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 4, 2017

Well, in New Orleans, 30 of 72 public schools (or 41 percent) have just received a “D” or an “F” grade, according to the Louisiana Department of Education. The website The Lens , which covers public education in New Orleans, reported that 65 percent of schools have declined in performance over the last three years. “Our Weekly Update.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

It’s an unlikely setting for a high-stakes gamble that could help drive dramatic change to a contentious issue: how, and how much, Americans pay to get a higher education. Now some higher education institutions are starting to lower their prices. Related: How higher education lost its shine. But that time appears to be over.”.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

Higher Education. Leave this field empty if you're human: But after three years of learning this way, the Teach to One students in grades six through eight scored no better on New Jersey’s annual math tests than other Elizabeth students who had learned math the usual way with the whole class on the same topic at the same time.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 6, 2016

It’s part of a little-noticed but surprising shift under way that suggests new resolve in some places to improve the efficiency and productivity of stubbornly labor-intensive higher education. Sign up for our Higher Education newsletter. From 1987 to 2012, it doubled, far outpacing the growth in the numbers of students and faculty.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 3, 2016

All toddler and pre-K classrooms in the state that receive any public money are observed at least twice a year to determine their educational quality. Louisiana, in contrast, wanted to create a system that accurately reflects the education young children get, without putting too much of a financial burden on child care centers.

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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. Related: Rising popularity of dual-language education could leave Latinos behind.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 11, 2019

Sure, there’s the value of a new educational institution where students can take classes and graduate with their diplomas, but why wait years for that spanking new building to pay off? There is a high correlation between educational attainment and family income. Higher Education. Schools matter, but so does having a job.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

Students study the human body on skeletons, using clay to make organs. Barbara Means, an educational psychologist at SRI International, a California-based research institute, says that while there is no hard data on the number of these schools, a reasonable estimate would be somewhere between 250 and 500. Photo: Kathleen Lucadamo.

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