The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

Out-of-school factors weigh heavily on student success, studies show, and research indicates family engagement can lead to higher grades and test scores, improved attendance and better behavior. nitially, Malik relied on traditional meetings to get parent feedback. Photo: Caralee Adams for The Hechinger Report.

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Anthropology.net

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Here, researchers have unearthed the oldest-known Middle Paleolithic stone tool assemblage in the region, dating back approximately 80,000 years, an era when the Arabian Peninsula was at the crossroads of human expansion. One striking feature of the Jebel Faya assemblage is the presence of a laminar system," the researchers explain.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 9, 2016

Virtual charter schools can give students who are falling behind in traditional schools a chance to find success in an alternative learning environment. But can virtual charter schools fully replace the traditional face-to-face school experience? Fordham Institute, doesn’t think the current virtual school model can do that.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 24, 2021

A 2012 review of studies on learning time found that the extra time often didn’t produce academic benefits for students and when it did, the benefits were small. Grossman, an economist at Princeton University and MDRC, a nonprofit research organization, who has studied this research literature. “My Credit: Getty Images.

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Digital Promise

APRIL 25, 2019

In traditional science classrooms, students are often presented with facts and definitions to memorize, or they are asked to follow a predetermined set of instructions to complete a lab activity. However, this model of instruction does not align with our emerging understanding of how students learn science best. Next steps.

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ED Surge

APRIL 2, 2024

As Joshua Eyler was researching a book on what brain science tells us about how to improve teaching , one issue kept coming up as an underlying problem: The way schools and colleges grade student work is at odds with effective teaching. But the track record for such reforms is mixed. “It

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 30, 2024

From their responses, and analysis by PISA researchers, several themes stand out, including disconnection from school and teachers, a lack of motivation and a sense that math does not clearly connect to their real lives. They also were more likely to report that they saw fewer potential benefits from studying math.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 23, 2024

Some researchers think these small-scale efforts to teach math in context could transform how it’s taught more broadly. Students in the study who were taught math through an applied approach performed significantly better on two of three standardized tests than those taught math in a more traditional way.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 27, 2018

A group of researchers from the University of Michigan and Michigan State University followed students using the same social studies curriculum as the one used in Waterford in 20 high-poverty schools in Michigan. The researchers controlled for academic differences among the kids at the start of the school year.)

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Digital Promise

JUNE 15, 2016

Teaching quality has been defined as “instruction that enables a wide range of students to learn” ( Darling-Hammond, 2012 ), and it is the strongest school-related factor that can improve student learning and achievement ( Hanushek, 2011 ; Nye, Konstantopoulos, and Hedges, 2004 ; Rivkin, Hanushek, and Kain, 2005 ).

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 5, 2022

In 2012, the panel issued a joint statement asserting that calculus should not be the “ultimate goal of the K-12 mathematics curriculum.” Subsequent research and statements from math experts questioned the relevance and efficacy of traditional pathways to calculus for all students. Not a ringing endorsement.

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Digital Promise

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

Aubrey is the Research Director at Digital Promise. Kelsey is the Research Communications Manager at Digital Promise. Yet as schools break away from traditional models of education, new challenges emerge. This is important, as students who are not engaged in learning are more likely to drop out of school ( APA , 2012).

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 9, 2024

What we’re seeing now is a combination of a leveling off and a big question mark as to where this long-term trend will go,” said Brian McKenzie, director of research at the Council of Graduate Schools. percent over the last 10 years, the higher education research and advisory firm Eduventures found. “If It seemed a good bet.

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Digital Promise

JUNE 12, 2019

In 2012, students in Grades 7-8 followed suit. Next, the traditional library space was repurposed as Duquesne Media Central, outfitted with flexible seating, new technologies, and a recording studio. What started as a conference room became the Creation Station, a large open-concept space for students in Grades Pre K-2.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 10, 2020

But the outgoing superintendent, Cyndy Taymore, is four years into an effort to fundamentally rethink traditional schooling here. That’s what they called it in Maine, where, in 2012, state officials mandated that every district adopt it, and then, in 2018, abandoned the requirement.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Market research shows that there will be high demand for the graduates of the doctoral programs in physical and occupational therapy that Hawai‘i Pacific is opening here on one floor of a building in an industrial park it will share with the administrative offices of a casino operator. Northeastern University in Boston. Eighty-four U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

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. Information was based on surveys of 12th graders in 2012 in North Carolina and 2013 in Texas.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

JANUARY 7, 2022

Standard 7c is hard for me simply because I have seen technology systems used too often to reinforce low-level factual recall, procedural regurgitation, and assessment and I am adamantly opposed to those traditional practices dominating the deeper learning practices that we should be implementing instead. Related Posts.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

It can be difficult to explain what play-based learning looks like, said Mara Krechevsky, senior researcher at Project Zero, an education research group in Harvard’s Graduate School of Education. The approach worked for her as a teacher, and it’s backed up by research. Mara Krechevsky, senior researcher at Project Zero.

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Digital Promise

APRIL 24, 2018

In math education, the problem is not quite so dire – but it’s time to start breaking a few of our own traditions. As education researchers, we see two different ways that educators can build alternative mathematics courses. In a traditional classroom, students act as passive observers, watching an expert correctly work out problems.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 19, 2019

Kathryn Toppan switched to a 1-4 scale even before the administration required it, finding it “less arbitrary” than the traditional 1-100. The only thing most everyone agrees on is this: The roll out of the 2012 law, LD 1422, was a disaster, plagued by insufficient funding and inadequate guidance from the top. That was my vision.”. $13

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

More below on how the researchers categorized families as “boy-biased” or not.). The researchers began by studying Florida because of its vast data trove and the ability to link years of birth records with school records. Sign up for Jill Barshay's Proof Points newsletter. Choose as many as you like. Weekly Update.

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 8, 2016

While Hughes knew the research on how blended learning supports adult learners most effectively, the decentralized nature of RSU 3 made the face-to-face part of blended learning very difficult, if not impossible. Many SPICE learners are ones for whom traditional school was not successful.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Credit: Javeria Salman/The Hechinger Report As a math teacher at Brookline High in the early 2000s, Calculus Project founder Adrian Mims got firsthand experience in what the research was beginning to establish. Teachers and administrators at Brookline say the project had an immediate — and lasting — impact. “It’s

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 28, 2023

I’m president at Minerva University , established in 2012 and one of the few institutions of higher education that, in recent memory, has asked the question, “What would we build if we could build it from scratch?” prior to ever enrolling a student. Abandoning the English major elevated the status of humanities at Minerva.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 1, 2018

According to state data, the number of young people in state juvenile justice facilities dropped from 901 at the end of 2012 to 386 in 2017. In 2016, 45,567 young people were held in facilities nationwide, down 20 percent from 2012.) Once they start, they really want to keep going.”. Source: PEARSON CONNEXUS.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 29, 2020

She was hired as the student voice specialist at Chicago Public Schools in 2012 to oversee the district’s newly created “student voice committees.”. Students who serve on the committees learn how to research, organize and identify solutions to issues in their schools, said Salgado. In 2012, it became the first U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 1, 2019

Between 2005 and 2012, a teacher-led approach to drilling down to analyze what was missing, called Strategic Inquiry, identified that students across New York City were lacking the writing strategies necessary to communicate complex ideas. And it’s not the fault of teachers. Again, there is no magic bullet.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 29, 2017

Research by the state’s 114-campus community college system showed that families and employers alike didn’t know of the existence or value of vocational programs and the certifications they confer, many of which can add tens of thousands of dollars per year to a graduate’s income.

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Anthropology News

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

and, in the context of international research, has United States citizenship. Rachel Watkins noted , “There is a longer history of a critical mass of people of color being involved in bioarchaeological research as subjects … than as knowledge producers.” Bio)archaeology is no stranger to its colonial baggage. I received my Ph.D.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 22, 2018

. Back in 2012, Maine was a trailblazer in something called proficiency-based education, in which students would be required to master specific skills and educational topics to progress and graduate from school. Schools are now free to continue teaching, grading and graduating students the traditional way.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 15, 2018

Andrea, who earned her college degree in English literature in 2012, is a temp in a law firm and drives people around on weekday mornings and through the weekends. More businesses must open their doors to students through internships, summer employment opportunities, research intensives and other experiential learning options.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 16, 2025

Credit: Kirk Carapezza In this episode, hosts Kirk Carapezza and Jon Marcus break down how we even got to the point at which the traditional college admission process required students to spend time and money with no guarantee of success. So I asked him, how did he end up at those schools? Kirk] Well, sometimes, says Jennifer Delaney.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 5, 2021

But now a convergence of factors — a dwindling pool of traditional-age students, the call for more educated workers and a pandemic that highlighted economic disparities and scrambled habits and jobs — is putting adults in the spotlight. Traditional institutions have treated adults “as a kind of afterthought,” he said.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

She watched from the backseat in August 2012 as the city gave way to the causeway, miles and miles of concrete bridge she hoped would ferry her to the future she’d been promised. His was a brash mission shared by a new breed of charter school leaders who said they could succeed where traditional neighborhood schools had failed.

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Anthropology for Beginners

NOVEMBER 13, 2022

There is much disagreement about whether the study of public administration can properly be called a discipline, largely because of the debate over whether public administration is a subfield of political science or a subfield of administrative science (Kenneth 2012) [1].From Policy research. Programme evaluator and designer 3.

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Political Science Now

JULY 11, 2024

Her research agenda focuses on political science pedagogy, campus-based civic engagement, and pop culture & politics. In addition to teaching traditional political science courses, she serves as campaign manager for the campus-wide voter mobilization program Vote Oswego and coordinator of SUNY Oswego’s broader civic engagement efforts.

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