The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 17, 2018

Nilsson is an English teacher by training, but he has embraced the “digital humanities,” teaching students how to code to answer questions about books, speeches, news coverage, rap lyrics and more. That’s up from 12 states in 2013, when Code.org launched, aiming to expand access to computer science in U.S. Subscribe today!

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Teaching American History

JANUARY 21, 2025

How does one reconcile Kings devotion to human equality and individual rights with his later call for a Bill of Rights for the Disadvantaged and a guaranteed annual income? I Have a Dream speech, which ranks among the most famous speeches of the 20 th century.

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ED Surge

MARCH 12, 2024

In 2013, a little over a decade ago, the number of young people who thought a college degree was very important was 74 percent, according to a Gallup poll. He is currently a visiting scholar at the University of Virginia’s School of Education and Human Development. By 2019 that had fallen to just 41 percent. So what is happening here?

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

Students study the human body on skeletons, using clay to make organs. Often, students struggling in these subjects find ways around taking them in traditional high schools, and, lacking the mandatory prerequisites, are ineligible to take advanced math and science classes in college. Photo: Kathleen Lucadamo. NEW LONDON, Conn.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 29, 2020

Leave this field empty if you're human: Recent college graduates, working as Americorps members, serve as Saga’s tutors. They work with two students at a time in a special class that follows a Saga Education curriculum tailored to the needs of each student and aligned with their school’s curriculum for their traditional math class.

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Anthropology 365

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Johnson, University of Texas at San Antonio As the human population continues to expand into what was once wilderness, people increasingly come in contact with wildlife. Living with Javelinas explores how humans and nonhumans can coexist in ways that respect the autonomy and agency of all beings involved.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 21, 2018

Fryer convinced the Houston school district to randomly assign 23 elementary schools to adopt specialized teaching for two years, from the fall of 2013 to the spring of 2015. Harvard University’s Roland Fryer set out to test just that in an experiment , published in the June 2018 issue of the American Economic Review.

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Sapiens

OCTOBER 15, 2024

In 2013, Graeber wrote an article for the obscure left-wing magazine STRIKE! Such roles are prevalent in areas such as finance, admin, law, marketing, and human resources. Traditional models of the market economy, he writes, are centered on the “production” of material goods and their “consumption.”

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 18, 2018

Leave this field empty if you're human: Vermont has one of the oldest populations in the United States and, the Vermont State Data Center reports, is now tied with Connecticut for the lowest birth rate in the nation. In Vermont in 2013 18 percent of economically disadvantaged students dropped out of high school compared to only 3.5

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 29, 2017

While a humanities class such as English costs a college just $52 per student credit, a respiratory therapy class costs $265 , according to a 2013 report by the Institute for Higher Education Leadership & Policy. Industry could do a better job communicating.”. As with a lot of education challenges, money is also a big problem.

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Catlin Tucker

JANUARY 17, 2022

Emotional engagement encompasses a teachers’ feelings about, degree of dedication to, and emotional response to their work (Perera, Vosicka, Granziera & McIlveen, 2018; Klassen, Yerdelen & Durksen, 2013). It makes me feel more approachable and human when I share my life experiences with them. Students love this activity.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

But Native American and Muslim leaders say they believe rates have increased in their communities as well, after the pandemic gave families the time and space to reflect on whether traditional schools were really serving their needs. Related: Schools provide stability for refugees. Covid-19 upended that. You’re stronger minded.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 11, 2017

Moheeb is part of a new program that is challenging the way teachers and students think about academics, and his school is one of hundreds that have done away with traditional letter grades inside their classrooms. While it may work to improve math skills, it is unlikely to help students advance in the humanities, she said.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 22, 2023

I do miss having a social life a little bit,” she said of forgoing the traditional long summer break. The University of Minnesota Rochester is relatively small and new — it graduated its first class in 2013 and has 617 undergraduates — freeing it from some of the entrenched traditions that can stifle change in higher education.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

And eighth-grade co-teachers Abby Jolma and Toni Giebel let kids sit on wobbly chairs — short stools with a curved base — yoga balls, or traditional chairs while they learn math and science. Department of Health and Human Services. They need it,” Giebel says of the bouncing and fidgeting she now observes constantly during classes.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 8, 2018

Leave this field empty if you're human: Yet high schools around the country, while encouraging students to go into STEM fields, aren’t fully preparing them to do so. Based on a survey of physics teachers, the American Institute of Physics estimated that just 39 percent of the class of 2013 took even a single physics class in high school.

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Anthropology for Beginners

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

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. The roots of the anthropological interest in peasants were elsewhere, in the comparative study of the human condition.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 20, 2016

Most of the universities combined the software with human instruction, but a few courses were delivered entirely online. Almost 20,000 college students and 300 instructors participated in the experiment over the course of three terms between 2013 and 2015. What SRI found was sobering.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 27, 2019

Decades of research, both about educational best practice and the way the human brain works, say these types of motivators are dangerous. In traditional schools, it’s easier to offer a steady stream of rewards and punishments to keep students in line. Students don’t take traditional classes. and another 100 abroad).

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Dangerously Irrelevant

NOVEMBER 30, 2015

High school student Jeff Bliss famously said in 2013 , “If you would just get up and teach them instead of handing them a freakin’ packet, yo. East Campus proves that every day, reclaiming students’ brilliance that too often gets lost in our more traditional systems. It’s kids in here that don’t learn like that. Related Posts.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 8, 2022

jobs like registered nurse, human resources assistant, or help desk technician.) When Gallup asked Americans in 2019 about the value of college degrees, just 51 percent answered “very important,” down from 70 percent in 2013. in, say, the humanities might get workers off to a slow start. trillion in student loans.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2018

According to a national 2015 study, on a single day in 2013, the most recent comprehensive data available, kids in those facilities numbered 55,916, 37 percent below the figure for 2004. Federal legislation passed earlier this year is designed to nudge states to further reduce the number of kids in residentials. .

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Anthropology 365

APRIL 11, 2023

Humans and Javelinas: Something Something… I need a title … This study is motivated by the broad pressing question: How do we live in a world full of difference? In these regions, their lives become entangled with those of the humans with whom they share these spaces.

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 14, 2016

Since President Obama’s ConnectED announcement in 2013 in Mooresville, NC , there has been more than $10 billion committed as part of the five-year program to transform American education. Two of our VILS locations are on Maui, Hawaii, which has an extraordinarily rich culture and strong community traditions.

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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. John Jones asks a question to his students in AP Human Geography on August 18, 2016.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 22, 2016

Today, they represent more than 17 percent of all higher education students in 2013-14, and that representation is expected to grow. Our analysis has shown that three policy areas—academic preparation, institutional capacity, and financial aid—can support the achievement of Latino and post-traditional students.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 9, 2016

But for students who may not have a home computer or Internet access, whose parents don’t speak English or haven’t been to college, or who don’t come from a traditional family, the application itself sometimes seems like just one more barrier between them and their dreams. It is now made up of about 700 member institutions.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 4, 2017

Leave this field empty if you're human: Demands for a radical overhaul of the Orleans Parish school system in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in 2005 were predicated on low test scores. In the previous survey year, 2013-14, that school had reported no use of restraints and seclusions on special education students.

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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. AI + HI (Human Intelligence) = Educational Equity. To achieve educational equity by addressing learner variability, we need to blend AI (artificial intelligence) with HI (human intelligence) through data.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 29, 2017

A student who places into the lowest-level English course might still struggle with something as elementary as subject-verb agreement, said Melvin Brooks, associate dean of English, Humanities, Visual and Performing Arts at BCCC. based think tank Education Trust in 2013, where she studied this issue nationally.

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Anthropology.net

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

In the heart of northeastern China lies the Shiyu site, a treasure trove of ancient artifacts that has recently rewritten the narrative of human migration. Unearthing Clues to Ancient Migration For decades, the Shiyu site has tantalized archaeologists with its rich deposits, hinting at a long and complex history of human habitation.

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Anthropology.net

JUNE 23, 2024

Their findings showed no evidence of a significant population decline before European arrival, instead suggesting that the islanders maintained their traditions and population levels until contact. Previous estimates of the island’s agricultural capacity varied widely, with one 2013 study 5 suggesting that between 4.9

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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

AUGUST 25, 2018

Leave this field empty if you're human: Although intensive family supports can be costly, research shows the need is clear. Over the years it expanded to seven locations before consolidating into its three current sites, which include a new campus, Belmont Cragin, built in 2013. Sign up for our newsletter. Choose as many as you like.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 30, 2018

The best teacher is going to be the human teacher. Pane predicts that if the personalized learning trend continues, it could upend traditional notions of what a classroom looks like. “I Students use Summit only one hour per day during “personalized learning time”; the rest of the day they’re in traditional classrooms.

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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. is in trouble. Yet college language course enrollments are plummeting. The Modern Language Association reported a 9.2 percent drop in college language class enrollments and a 5.3

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 12, 2018

They are two-week intensive courses that take children outside the classroom and beyond the traditional subjects. Achievement First was responding to what co-founder Dacia Toll describes as a wake-up call in 2013. Where the model pushes boundaries is in the addition of learning experiences called “expeditions.” Weekly Update.

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