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FEBRUARY 4, 2025

They can be a part of society, said Maureen McGuire-Kuletz, co-director of the George Washington University Center for Rehabilitation Counseling Research and Education. Credit: Yunuen Bonaparte for The Hechinger Report Before 2014, state vocational rehabilitation agencies primarily worked with adults. That was the hope.

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Second, we advocate for the development of an action plan for educating the not-so-common learners that is research-based, achievable, and reaches beyond any current educational reform initiative for school improvement. Why we have chosen to title this work Beyond Core Expectations is twofold. Who Are the Not-So-Common Learners?

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Anthropology.net

JANUARY 8, 2025

Wallacea, the sprawling chain of islands in eastern Indonesia that includes Timor-Leste, has long been a crossroads of cultures, languages, and genetics. Researchers analyzed 254 newly sequenced genomes, uncovering evidence of extensive gene flow from West Papua into the islands of Wallacea.

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Anthropology.net

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Human societies are built on layers of culture, law, and technology, yet beneath it all, some of the oldest instincts in the animal kingdom continue to shape our world. Modern consumer culture, Colombo suggests, is another expression of this primal drive. Related Research Sapolsky, R. Penguin Random House. DOI: 10.1111/nyas.13391

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A Principal's Reflections

MARCH 13, 2016

By committing to systematic integration of the model, we transformed the culture, the conversation, as well as the results in our district. We wanted a viable, research-based tool that would allow for collaboration regardless of hierarchy or prior knowledge. In the 2014-15 school year, we earned a 97.9%

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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 4, 2024

By comparing the DNA of these ancient canids to that of modern dogs, wolves, and older Siberian wolf populations, the researchers uncovered genetic relationships. Alternatively, some wild canids may have been kept as pets and others hunted,” the researchers noted. Journal : Science , 2014. lupus/familiaris ).

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 10, 2024

In 2014, the district pushed algebra to ninth grade from eighth grade, in an attempt to eliminate the tracking, or grouping, of students into lower and upper math paths. Researchers have shown that districts around the country dont use the same criteria when grouping students into higher or lower math classes.

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A Principal's Reflections

APRIL 2, 2017

We showed that embracing innovative practices aligned to a sound pedagogical foundation could create a learning culture rooted in meaningful learning and relationships. We scratched the surface in 2013 as I worked with her to include a chapter on branding in Digital Leadership, which later came out early in 2014. Order your copy TODAY!

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 28, 2019

A 10th grader, above, answers a question in one of those classes, which offers black history and culture along with social-emotional lessons and academic and college advice. Stanford University researchers studied a special class expressly for black teenage boys in Oakland, California, called the Manhood Development Program.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 12, 2023

But the latest national study from a Stanford University research group calculates that students, on average, learned more at charter schools between the years of 2014 and 2019 than similar students did at their traditional local public schools. Others had a more lenient culture. There’s lots of pathways to success.”

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Digital Promise

NOVEMBER 21, 2014

In a connected world, everyone can have access to meaningful experiences with global peers that challenge their assumptions and build their capacities to collaborate and learn effectively across cultural borders. One of the most powerful is exchange : relationships built among people from different cultures in a common environment.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 20, 2021

By recruiting and then mentoring new teachers of color, listening to these teachers’ requests, supporting the development of culturally responsive curricula and promoting educators of color into administrative and district leadership positions, Phoenix Union is getting steadily closer to aligning its teacher and student populations.

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Anthropology.net

MARCH 17, 2025

Credit: @ASOME-UAB By analyzing the production and circulation of ceramic vessels in what is now Murcia, Spain, researchers have been able to trace the shifting borders of El Argar’s influence. Perhaps most significantly, this research provides a methodological blueprint for identifying ancient borders elsewhere.

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Anthropology.net

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Unlike bones and tools, words do not fossilize, leaving researchers to scour DNA for clues. Research suggests that mutations in the human NOVA1 gene may have played a role in the development of language. Research suggests that mutations in the human NOVA1 gene may have played a role in the development of language.

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 18, 2019

In this second post, we explore how Powerful Learning is authentic and challenging, share research that grounds these two principles, and provide resources to support your own learning and teaching practices. Research shows that student engagement increases when relevance, value, and authenticity are maximized. Yeager, D. Chaiklin, S.

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 15, 2014

As we all take time to reflect on 2014, now is also a good time to look forward to 2015. At Digital Promise, we saw tremendous growth in 2014. At Digital Promise, we saw tremendous growth in 2014. I recently heard the sentence, ‘Treating kids equitably is not treating them the same.’ ” Aubrey Francisco.

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 22, 2019

In this third post, we explore how Powerful Learning is collaborative and connected, share research that grounds these two principles, and provide resources to support your own learning and teaching practices. Knowledge is built through social interactions 1 in a collaborative culture 2. Situated Cognition and the Culture of Learning.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 10, 2022

It’s an area where we could build what a current research study calls “commonsense solidarity” by focusing on bread-and-butter issues such as school funding. They do not have the necessary funding to offer professional development to boost culturally relevant and responsive teaching. Sign up for Hechinger’s newsletter.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

Felecia Commodore came into her job search armed with a University of Pennsylvania doctorate in higher education and published research papers. citizen or permanent resident research doctoral recipients in 2014 were black and 6.5 percent of research doctoral recipients are black and 6.5 percent of U.S. percent and 17.6

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Digital Promise

MARCH 11, 2019

In the field of engineering, for example, women earned fewer than 20 percent of doctorates in 2014. As researchers who study how stereotypes and other psychological factors can dissuade girls from pursuing careers in math and science, we believe that parents and educators can help turn things around and close the gender gaps in STEM.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 25, 2016

By 2014, for lower-income students (those eligible for a federal Pell grant), it reached 51 percent — nearly the same as for non-Pell students. Its graduation rate for first-generation students went up 32 percent between 2010 and 2014. We have a culture that supports you,’ ” said Holloman. Photo: Terrell Clark. That’s huge.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Huinker led a math education revolution in the district when, between 2004 and 2014, almost every teacher in Milwaukee Public Schools received this type of training. After the partnership ended in 2014, standardized test scores in math continued to rise incrementally. New district leaders abruptly ended that work.

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ED Surge

MAY 13, 2024

In partnership with researchers at Vanderbilt University, the Southern Regional Education Board (SREB), a nonprofit that works to improve public education across 16 states in the Southeast, has been examining the next generation’s interest in the teaching profession and has published their findings in a report released in April.

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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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Anthropology.net

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Yet, new research from Dartmouth anthropologists suggests that risky play, such as climbing and swinging, fulfills an evolutionary need crucial to child development and resilience. ” The researchers connect this concept to our evolutionary history.

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ED Surge

JUNE 22, 2023

When researchers asked 290 college students about what advice they’d been given in high school, the researchers found that it was stratified by race. We didn’t have a counselor, so I just did my own personal research on how to apply to colleges,” says one student quoted in the report. My school was very, like, underfunded.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

Many argue that our culture discourages girls from excelling at math. 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. Weekly Update.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 19, 2021

Soon, I realized that the environment and priorities of corporate research left me isolated, uninspired and unfulfilled. These programs target “borderline proficient” students and use research-proven interventions to help them cross into the “proficient” range academically. Sign up for Hechinger’s newsletter.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 6, 2016

From just before the recession until 2014, the latest year for which figures are available, higher education central system office staffs grew by nearly 4 percent, according to federal data analyzed by the American Institutes for Research in collaboration with The Hechinger Report. It does take a few years to change a culture.”.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 16, 2021

Students have six years to graduate high school and obtain an associate degree for free, in an early college model that is becoming increasing durable, as new research shows. P-TECH Newburgh first opened in 2014 (along with 16 other P-TECH schools that began in New York State that fall), helped by state grants and public-private partnerships.

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 14, 2016

Beginning in fall 2014, the students and teachers at Burbank Elementary School in Hayward, California, embarked on a new and ambitious program to integrate arts across the curriculum. In another project, students used Photoshop Elements to create typographical portraits of people and characters they researched in class.

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 8, 2019

They are connecting across cultural and national borders to promote global awareness and tolerance. Education researchers and neuroscientists are learning more about how people learn. In 2014 the FCC modernized the E-Rate program to make it more affordable for schools and libraries to upgrade their internet connection speeds.

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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 13, 2024

By analyzing distinctive genetic markers, researchers quantified this percentage, shedding light on the enduring impact of interbreeding events in human evolutionary history. This enduring presence has been a source of fascination for anthropologists and geneticists alike.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 24, 2022

According to the most recent federal data I could find from 2014-15, almost 90 percent of high school principals said they offered online credit recovery in their schools and estimated that 15 percent of their students used these software programs. That forced researchers to conduct the experiment in the summer.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 7, 2021

The good news is, we can break out of this competitive mode; a group of 11 public research universities is already showing how that’s done. That’s 73,000 additional graduates (above existing stretch goals) between 2014 and 2020, exceeding our 10-year goal of 68,000 in just six years.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

In 2014, schools had a new way to give students free breakfast and lunch, paid for by Uncle Sam. We don’t need to panic,” said Cory Koedel, a University of Missouri economist who presented his preliminary findings at a conference of the National Center for the Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Education Research (CALDER) in January 2019. “If

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

But in the last decade, more and more researchers have advocated for what Menéndez does during purple time – what they call “translanguaging.” In 2014, he says, not a single one of his students had heard of translanguaging but in each of the last couple years, he has gotten several questions from his students about the model.

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