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Persuasion as a Catalyst for Change

A Principal's Reflections

The power of social media then connected the both of us leading to him Skyping with the students at New Milford High School, a personal dialogue over the years, and his endorsement of my new book on Digital Leadership. His presentation focused on the research presented in his new book To Sell is Human.

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Despite popularity with parents and teachers, review of research finds small benefits to small classes

The Hechinger Report

in 2014, the most recent federal data available. There’s a general consensus among education researchers that smaller classes are more effective. (In When I have written about unrelated educational reforms, researchers often compare them to the effectiveness of class size reductions to give me a sense of their relative impact.

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Learn more about: How has Federalism Shaped (and Constrained) Native American Political Rights?

Political Science Now

She began her academic career in the political science department at Washington University in Saint Louis. Her book How the States Shaped the Nation: American Electoral Institutions and Voter Turnout, 1920-2000 was published in 2014 with the University of Chicago Press (Chicago Studies in American Politics).

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What 3 Charts Can Tell Us About College Graduation Trends

ED Surge

These rates align pretty closely with what researchers have found. The Community College Research Center at Columbia University reports that—among first-time students who started at a community college in 2014—15 percent had both transferred to a university and earned a bachelor’s after six years. Major Question Source: U.S.

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Colleges’ promises to diversify face one challenge: finding black faculty

The Hechinger Report

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 were Hispanic, according to the National Science Foundation. Felecia Commodore.

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PROOF POINTS: Inside the perplexing study that’s inspired colleges to drop remedial math

The Hechinger Report

When Alexandra Logue served as the chief academic officer of the City University of New York (CUNY) from 2008 to 2014, she discovered that her 25-college system was spending over $20 million a year on remedial classes. Some researchers argue that the shift to statistics might have made the difference.

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Why do suspension rates vary so much in Mississippi—and how can districts change that?

The Hechinger Report

In Wilkinson County, Hollandale and Tishomingo County, less than 1 percent of students were suspended from school during the 2014-15 school year. Extensive research shows school suspensions have a negative impact on students and can widen achievement gaps , decrease attendance rates and increase the likelihood of students passing a course.