2014 Education Sociology 
A Principal's Reflections
JULY 23, 2017
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).
The Hechinger Report
JANUARY 29, 2017
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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The Hechinger Report
OCTOBER 11, 2022
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.
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. It means I have a level of comfort here,” said Lewis, a junior sociology major.
The Hechinger Report
MARCH 6, 2022
“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.
The Hechinger Report
JUNE 17, 2019
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.
The Hechinger Report
AUGUST 14, 2023
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.
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