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Research-Influenced Learning Spaces

A Principal's Reflections

When designing the space, it’s important for educators not to overstimulate and thus detract students’ ability to focus but to provide enough stimuli to enhance the learning experience. In these environments, students demonstrated smaller learning gains than in cases where the decorations were removed (Fisher, Godwin, & Seltman, 2014).

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We don’t know how many students in college aren’t ready for college. That matters

The Hechinger Report

Each year, when they get to campus, more than half a million American college students have to take so-called remedial or developmental education classes to teach them basic math and English skills they should have learned in high school. Mary Fulton, a senior project manager and policy analyst at the Education Commission of the States.

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College admissions is already broken. What will happen if affirmative action is banned?

The Hechinger Report

In 2014, Blum began the suit against Harvard for allegedly discriminating against Asian American applicants like Michael Wang , a one-time high schooler from California who began raising awareness about what he saw as discrimination against Asian Americans in the college admissions process after he was rejected by Harvard the previous year.

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At Georgia State, black students find comfort and academic success

The Hechinger Report

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. It means I have a level of comfort here,” said Lewis, a junior sociology major.

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The paradox of working while in college

The Hechinger Report

Higher Education. ” “The optimal outcome, of course, is for student to both work and complete a degree,” said Douglas, who is also a visiting professor of education at Trinity College in Hartford. But getting an education matters too. Choose as many as you like. Weekly Update. Future of Learning. Proof Points.

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Colleges’ new solution to enrollment declines: Reducing the number of dropouts

The Hechinger Report

“Until we had a deep look at ourselves, we didn’t realize that we were selling them [students] short,” said James Capp, assistant provost for academic operations and planning at Florida Atlantic University, which Dickinson attends and where, as recently as 2014, fewer than one in five students was managing to graduate within four years.

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OPINION: Lessons from Mississippi: Is there really a miracle here we can all learn from?

The Hechinger Report

In recent months, the phrase has been associated with Mississippi’s performance on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), known as the Nation’s Report Card. Devon Brenner is the director of Social Science Research Center and a professor in the department of Teacher Education and Leadership at Mississippi State University.