The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2024

On the international Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) , American 15-year-olds rank toward the bottom of economically advanced nations in math achievement. Tens of thousands of teachers and parents flocked to her 2013 online course on how to teach math. But she didn’t address their legitimate research questions.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

A new book by Arthur Levine and Scott Van Pelt asks, How will America’s colleges and universities adapt to remarkable technological, economic and demographic change? A 2019 Gallup poll reported that a decreasing proportion of Americans consider a college degree to be very important — from 70 percent in 2013 to 51 percent in 2019.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Lincoln County is rural and rugged, forged by industry and ecology and steeped in a complicated history of extraction, exploitation and economic struggle. Economic uncertainty in the 1990s and 2000s forced fluctuations in demand. So, too, was the idea of becoming a non-traditional student in a traditional classroom setting.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 18, 2018

That’s the “doomsday scenario” Vermont is trying to avoid through programs like Randolph Union’s, says Joan Goldstein, the state’s commissioner of economic development. In Vermont in 2013 18 percent of economically disadvantaged students dropped out of high school compared to only 3.5 percent from 18 percent in 2013).

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ED Surge

APRIL 18, 2023

He calls today’s high school and college students and other members of Gen Z the “solidarity generation,” because of their skills in organizing on social media and interest in working across traditional partisan divides on issues like gun control, environmental protection and racial justice. They've thought through them.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

It’s going to be a rebalancing of economic prosperity,” Gallup senior economist Jonathan Rothwell said, noting the trend of colleges closing and the resulting effects on their communities could parallel the impact the declining manufacturing sector has had on some areas. Moody’s projects the number of closures will continue to rise.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 29, 2017

We needed to do a better job getting the word out,” said Van Ton-Quinlivan, the system’s vice chancellor for workforce and economic development. Skilled trades show among the highest potential among job categories, the economic-modeling company Emsi calculates. As with a lot of education challenges, money is also a big problem.

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 7, 2019

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 23, 2024

The first of those, math for welders, rolled out in 2013. 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. Any move over 2 percent, we call that a win,” he said. Applied algebra is her last chance.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 8, 2018

“It’s a clear trend,” said Tom Hilliard, a senior fellow at the Center for an Urban Future, which primarily studies economic growth in New York. All three new tests are more rigorous than the old GED and were designed to mirror the changes in traditional high schools with the introduction of Common Core standards.

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Anthropology for Beginners

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

iii] According to anthropologist George Dalton, “Peasants were legal, political, social, and economic inferiors in medieval Europe. These scholarly traditions produced a wealth of theory and data that has been discovered by contemporary anthropology, but they do not constitute the historical back ground of the anthropology of peasantry.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 29, 2024

But traditional internships are not universally accessible. “At Not everybody is a traditional 18- to 22-year-old student,” Churches said. At any college now, the first thing the parents ask is, ‘How are the internships?’ ” Anthony Carnevale, director of the Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce, said.

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Digital Promise

MARCH 19, 2018

In their study, Goodman, Melkers, and Pallais examined data on spring 2014, fall 2014, and spring 2015 applicants to the OMSCS, alongside fall 2013 and fall 2014 applicants to the MSCS. The researchers suspect that the Georgia Tech degree may be particularly attractive to students because it is not labeled “online” — it’s a traditional M.S.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Critics respond that replacing traditional A to F grades with new forms of assessments is like a college-level version of participation trophies. The number of college students with one or more mental health problems has doubled since 2013 , according to a study by researchers at Boston University and elsewhere.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 21, 2020

Although Khan Academy was one of the first online learning organizations to promote the idea that kids could learn at home at their own pace, Khan denied the suggestion that working with traditional schools was a significant change in direction, instead calling it “a natural evolution of our work.”.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 22, 2016

For America to become the world leader in college degrees — and to reap the economic and social benefits that come with that success — we must close the educational attainment gap between Latinos and their white counterparts. Investing in what works for Latino students is an investment in America’s economic future.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 13, 2017

The regional research group Southern Education Foundation found that in 2013, poor students accounted for 51 percent of the public school population. In addition, 84 percent of students enrolled in public school were deemed economically disadvantaged in 2014. The majority of students currently in public schools in the U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2019

Cory Koedel, an associate professor of economics and public policy at the University of Missouri. At the end of the day, it’s just this big item that needs to be paid,” said Cory Koedel, an associate professor of economics and public policy at the University of Missouri who studies public pensions. “If

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 8, 2022

Any shift in the workforce to the advantage of workers without degrees carries obvious implications for economic mobility and equity. When Gallup asked Americans in 2019 about the value of college degrees, just 51 percent answered “very important,” down from 70 percent in 2013. trillion in student loans.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 15, 2021

Fewer students equal less revenue for community colleges, which could lead to cuts at the very institutions so many depend upon as a first step toward economic mobility. Instead of spending the fall semester watching a parade of instructors on his bedroom computer monitor, he decided to keep his job at a coffee shop and wait out the pandemic.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 2, 2016

In July 2013, the Mississippi legislature mandated the consolidation of Starkville and Oktibbeha County school districts in an effort to save money and ensure a better education for students in the low-performing Oktibbeha County schools. This economic divide was mirrored in the school system. Photo: Nicole Lewis.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 2, 2017

In the 2013-14 school year, 86 percent of the city’s black pre-K students attended “racially isolated” nonwhite schools — the highest rate in the nation. More than 4,000 preschoolers were on waiting lists in traditional and charter schools. in the current school year, up from 11 percent in 2013-14. leads a classroom lesson.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 22, 2018

Kids in traditional schools sometimes act like they’re on a cruise ship, where they sit on deck and teachers bring them stuff to do,” Berger said. “We Kids in traditional schools sometimes act like they’re on a cruise ship, where they sit on deck and teachers bring them stuff to do. Ten schools began using the model in 1993.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2018

Overall, the campus has attracted nearly 60 percent more students from Newark since 2013, the result of a concerted effort by Rutgers and other local groups to boost college-going rates in the city, university officials said. “We Treasury secretary or chairman of the Federal Reserve, and influence economic policy from within the system.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 10, 2016

Jonathan Johnson, a former teacher in New Orleans, thinks there’s a quicker way for more African-American youth to reach high paying jobs in this city of sharp racial and economic divides. NEW ORLEANS – The path from poverty to the middle class doesn’t have to go through college. That’s in keeping with national statistics.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 24, 2020

But now the professional degree that could propel her entire family toward the economic stability they had never known was vanishing from sight. “I On a trip back home to the Dominican Republic, she began dating Jesus Hernandez; they married in 2013. At BMCC, whose students are among the most economically disadvantaged in the U.S.,

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 25, 2016

Other stories will look at how the decline of traditional preparation programs has cut off a pipeline of black teachers and two efforts to identify more potential teachers from low-income, minority neighborhoods. NASHVILLE, Tenn. Hispanics are on track to make up more than a quarter of the U.S. population as a whole by 2060. The share of U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 3, 2016

There is something of an annual tradition among New York City mayors and school chancellors. Syracuse also stands out for having the highest suspension rate among the state’s traditional school districts. Nearly half of Syracuse’s 20,000 students were suspended during the 2013-14 school year. Photo: Emmanuel Felton.

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 9, 2019

In 2013, the majority of schools across the country were not equipped to implement an innovative and technology-rich curriculum. Traditional stories rely on 2D technologies like paper or images. Take a look below at our proposed sessions, as well as proposed sessions from members of our HP Teaching Fellows program.

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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 23, 2023

B) Plan view of Coro Trasito cave, showing the location of the 2011 and 2013 test-pit and the area of the extended excavation. Contrary to traditional beliefs, the team's findings showcased diversified livestock practices beyond transhumance. (A) Above: Image of the southern slope of Sierra de Tucas (Huesca, Spain). DOI: 10.3389/fearc.2023.1309907

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 16, 2021

Segregating public school children on the basis of race or ethnicity is inherently suspect,” he wrote in his 2013 decision. In this poster, the association highlights the fact that traditional methods of finding gifted children often miss children who are low-income, nonwhite or do not speak English at home. Report it here.”.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 18, 2016

Instead of attending neighborhood schools with students of the same race and economic status, as most children do in Mississippi, Osborn went to school with an even mix of black and white classmates, some from the town’s wealthy subdivisions and others from Clinton’s poorer areas. They’re also extremely successful.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 20, 2016

To achieve this goal, we began with underlying systemic policy changes, including: Universal access for all children of active duty military and DoD civilians regardless of family socio-economic status. The resource component established a cost sharing model (minimum 50:50 match) and between public investment and families.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 25, 2016

SASKATOON, Saskatchewan — The students in the crowded hall fall silent as Darlene Speidel, an elder and “knowledge keeper” of native traditions, says a prayer in the Lakota language over soup and bannock, a kind of flat bread. “It Photo: Liam Richards. It’s not simply putting out a mat and saying, ‘Why aren’t the indigenous students coming?’”

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Traditional language learning in the U.S. percent decline in course offerings between 2013 and 2016. Costel-Tudor Voica, a junior from Moldova majoring in economics, said that being in a class with native speakers was thrilling: “I can take my Chinese to the next level.”. is in trouble. Is this approach an answer?

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 5, 2016

STR is one of 658 alternative teacher prep programs nationwide according to a 2013 U.S. I think if you strip away the emotion, the district was saying: ‘We just want you to be a traditional school foundation. These are teachers that are unlike any other being produced by local providers.” (STR Department of Education report.).

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 4, 2017

According to a National Center for Education Statistics report , children with behavioral problems are the most common target group for alternative school programs, which served more than 575,000 students in 2013 (the most recent year for which data is available). Related: Can ‘Sober High’ schools keep teenagers off drugs?

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