The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

citizenship test, which assesses basic knowledge of American history, according to new survey results released earlier this month by the Woodrow Wilson Foundation. Officials from the Woodrow Wilson Foundation say these results point to longstanding problems with the way American history is taught in schools. history to be lacking.

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Anthropology.net

AUGUST 19, 2024

Despite these difficulties, researchers have identified several ancient sites that suggest early hominins were utilizing fire well before the appearance of modern Homo sapiens. The largest drop in the size of the chewing teeth in the history of human evolution occurred around 1.8 In Kenya, controlled fire dating back 6 1.6 Karkanas, P.,

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A Principal's Reflections

APRIL 2, 2017

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. One thing that Trish and I emphasize throughout the book is how the strategies presented connect to research. However, there was more to this story. Order your copy TODAY!

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Anthropology.net

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Human history is not just about where we came from but how we adapted to the ever-changing environments we encountered. By the 1990s, genetic research began to challenge the Multiregional hypothesis. However, genetic research presents a different picture. Related Research Fu, Q., The Multiregional Evolution hypothesis.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 13, 2024

Yet research suggests that more Black teachers in the classroom can help boost Black student outcomes such as college enrollment. 2014: That’s the year that Wilcox County High School, in rural Georgia, held its first school-sponsored, racially integrated prom. . Related: Become a lifelong learner. But the A.P.

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Political Science Now

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Her research and teaching interests include American political development, political history, voting and elections, state politics, political geography, sovereignty, Native American political rights, political parties, partisanship, and political institutions. She specializes in American politics. Read about the funded projects.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 10, 2022

After all, Pennsylvania has a long history of refusing to fund public schools adequately. 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. Related: “Kids who have less, need more”: The fight over school funding.

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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. The interplay between Neanderthals and Homo sapiens offers a unique lens to study adaptation, survival, and the shared history of humanity.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Between 1998 and 2014, the percentage of freshmen intending to major in science increased among most ethnic and racial demographics and also among women, according to a study by the National Science Foundation. History proves otherwise. Black Lives Matter, demanding conversations around racism at research institutions.

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Digital Promise

JUNE 30, 2016

Technology integration can be one of the most challenging topics to find quality research on. Edutopia’s tech integration review explores some of the vast body of research out there and helps you navigate useful results. To read more research-based articles on Online Learning, visit the Edutopia website.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 20, 2021

All students, including white students, benefit from having teachers of color, according to a summary of the research by the Learning Policy Institute. And students of color do better academically and are more likely to graduate and go to college if some of their teachers look like them, research shows. These are educators.

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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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Anthropology News

JULY 17, 2024

My ethnographic research at Launch revealed the complex spatial and affective politics of black youth aspiration in a postapartheid city. When we met in 2014, he was a confident grade twelve student who saw his Launch education as “a ticket” to a life beyond the township. They are participating in a discussion.

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Teaching American History

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Lindblom is the 2013 Arizona Teacher of the Year and a 2014 Graduate of the MAHG program. The course would prepare students for her fast-paced junior-level AP American History class. A study of Cherokee Indian removal during the 1830s would inform her on a part of history she knew little about.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 10, 2017

In Spokane, 48 percent of 2014 graduates who received free or reduced-price lunch — a typical indicator of poverty — went on to higher education the following year, compared to 65 percent of those who didn’t receive subsidized meals, according to state data. Photo: Sarah Butrymowicz.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 17, 2019

A new study from a Rutgers research center also finds that students who work while in college earn higher salaries afterwards. The researchers calculated similar income spikes for working students in bachelor’s degree programs. Previous research has relied on student academic records. Proof Points.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 11, 2022

The film is a straightforward history lesson and explainer, and a great way to understand this highly fraught debate over fairness and meritocracy. The film also provides a clear picture of the arguments and history behind the specific lawsuits the court will soon hear, and shows how they have divided Asian American and other communities.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 8, 2018

The changes were supported by researchers from Stanford, Berkeley and Silicon Valley. San Francisco Unified did something unusual — it studied the research that shows the ineffectiveness of tracking and shallow curricula, and made bold decisions based on knowledge of the relevant research.”.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 23, 2019

When Matt Johnson’s girlfriend was killed in gang crossfire in 2014, leaving him a single father to a 3-year-old girl, he knew it was time to do something different with his life. in crime reduction, according to a 2014 evaluation conducted for the Massachusetts Executive Office of Health and Human Services.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

Researchers are studying rapid changes in remedial education, from the elimination of placement exams to making remedial classes optional. In recent history, roughly half of first-year college students have been sent to remedial classes in math, English or both, according a 2016 Center for American Progress report. Proof Points.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 31, 2022

Back in 2016, Ben Herold of Education Week reported that grade-school students who took the computerized version of a different test, the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC), in 2014-15 scored lower than students taking the paper-and-pencil version. Research has shown mixed results.

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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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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 26, 2018

At the time, The New York City Department of Education was developing a research division focused solely on student motivation. In fact, down the hallway from his algebra class, two industrious history teachers were trying out their own strategies. Gallin’s school was one of them. But that didn’t really work.

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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. I’m talking about black female instructors who are scientists and researchers.

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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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ED Surge

DECEMBER 6, 2023

To build on our founders’ mission, the school began offering a women’s studies elective titled “Women and Society”, which I have proudly taught since 2014. The course covers the history of feminism then and now, which includes an extensive lesson on gender violence.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

The Pew Research Center estimates that “middle income” families (whose annual earnings were about two thirds to double the national median) make up about 52 percent of the population, compared with 61 percent in 1970. First, it’s worth noting that talking about the middle class can be tricky because there’s no universal definition.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 6, 2016

Derrick Fields, 9, works on his assignment during a Spanish-language history lesson at Sherman Elementary School in San Diego, California. This was pretty normal stuff for a fourth grade history lesson, except for one thing: The entire lesson — from the textbooks to the teacher’s instructions to the students’ short essays — was in Spanish.

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Digital Promise

JULY 27, 2016

Research shows that when students learn with compassionate or altruistic intentions, they view their academic work as more meaningful and beneficial (4,5). To read more about the research on Student Motivation, visit the Student Motivation page on our Research Map. Grit: A Short History of a Useful Concept. Citations.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 24, 2020

In our research , we ask refugee children and families about the purposes of education, and they are clear and consistent in their replies: The purposes of education are to help them make a future. It’s not what keeps us alive, but it’s essential to what makes it worthwhile to be alive. But what kind of learning meets this high bill?

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 28, 2019

That might seem like a reasonable approach but there’s controversy among researchers about whether repeating third grade is ultimately helpful. One 2014 study found that kids who were held back when they were young were less likely to graduate from high school. Sign up for Jill Barshay's Proof Points newsletter. Higher Education.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

I have been a faculty member since 2000, working at several research universities. In addition, I give talks, conduct research and workshops and do consulting related to diversifying the faculty across the nation. In 2014, for the first time, the nation’s K-12 student population was majority minority. I will do so here.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 15, 2018

The non-profit organization Mentor, which works to ensure that everyone “has the supportive relationships they need to grow and develop,” conducted a national survey in 2014 of youth aged 18 to 21 and found that one in three reported growing up without a mentor of any kind. But not enough companies provide these opportunities.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 4, 2020

Now, with the added pressures of the coronavirus pandemic, the fabric of American higher education has become even more strained: The prospect of lower revenues has already forced some schools to slash budgets and could lead to waves of closings, experts and researchers say. Its endowment dropped from $12 million in 2014 to $8.2

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 11, 2020

The fiscal fates of colleges and college towns are closely intertwined, said Marguerite Roza, director of the Edunomics Lab at Georgetown University, a research center focused on school finance. Will history repeat? Municipal agencies can’t easily scale up or down based on population changes, Roza said.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

His mother chaired the university’s history department. For instance, research from the think tank the Brookings Institution, where I am a Rubinstein fellow, found big cities gained more people in the three-plus years after the 2010 Census than the entire previous decade. For instance, they generate $14.8

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 6, 2017

But finishing in four years matters, because research shows that the longer it takes, the less likely a student is to make it to graduation. A quarter of students drop out after four years, according to the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center. Some states’ figures are even higher.

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