The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 25, 2017

Since the late 1990s, nearly two-thirds of selective public universities reduced the share of traditional-aged students they enrolled from the bottom 40 percent of the income scale. Related : The troubling use of ‘merit aid’ at public flagships and research universities . At some universities, the answer appeared to be yes. .

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 6, 2019

In 2014, the Obama Administration jolted the education world with a report detailing unfair and racist school discipline practices across the country. Leave this field empty if you're human: Early research seemed promising. At last, more sophisticated research has been commissioned, and the results are starting to trickle in.

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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

DECEMBER 10, 2017

The number of pre-kindergarten seats in New Orleans has dropped substantially since Hurricane Katrina, and researchers think it’s connected to the shift to independent charter schools. The biggest takeaway for me,” said researcher Lindsay Weixler, “is the mismatch between decentralized school governance and an optional program like pre-k.”.

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TCI

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Research shows that active learning increases student performance, reduces failure rates, and fosters deeper critical thinking. In the 1980s and 1990s, research confirmed the effectiveness of active learning , leading to its integration into modern teaching methodologies across K-12 and higher education.

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Digital Promise

MAY 4, 2021

As a researcher and innovation leader, I wanted to explore the “why” behind the low proficiency rates. When I began to explore peer-reviewed research and insights from reputable sources, I also began to uncover opportunities to strengthen student mindset and build the foundational skills needed to tackle complex problems in STEM.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 29, 2020

And researchers have a growing body of evidence showing it’s incredibly effective. They work with two students at a time in a special class that follows a Saga Education curriculum tailored to the needs of each student and aligned with their school’s curriculum for their traditional math class.

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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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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

These days she works as the senior adviser to the chancellor on transformation at the City University of New York’s graduate center, and she co-wrote the book with a postdoctoral research associate at the university, Christina Katopodis. Active learning wins. He's a huge activist and advocate of active learning.

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Pedagogy to Share

AUGUST 21, 2023

Researchers in a broad range of fields working with a variety of age groups have recommended Nearpod for generating active and engaging learning experiences, motivating students, and facilitating timely assessment (e.g. Burton, 2019; Buttrey, 2021; Mallinson, 2022; Mattei & Ennis, 2014; Messina et al., Buttrey, K. Tang & L.

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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. This work is possible.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 29, 2017

Data from 911 two- and four-year colleges revealed that 96 percent of schools enrolled students who required remediation in the 2014-15 academic year, the most comprehensive recent numbers. Indeed, research has shown that students who enroll in these remedial courses often never even make it into the classes that will count toward a degree.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 14, 2022

The research evidence is clear. But he changed his classroom approach after 2014, when Canadian Louis Deslauriers joined the physics department. Half the students in introductory physics classes were randomly assigned to learn the concept of static equilibrium the traditional way through lectures.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 22, 2018

The teen birth rate plunged more than 60 percent from 1991 to 2014, the most recent year of data. Nearly a quarter million teenage girls, ages 15 to 19, gave birth to babies in 2014. By contrast, 90 percent of women who did not give birth as teens obtained a traditional high school diploma. But it is hardly a problem solved.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 8, 2018

Their best shot at earning one is passing a high-school equivalency exam, what was known as the GED before 2014 but has now splintered into three exam options: the new GED , the TASC and the HiSET. In 2014, the old GED the exam was revamped and the two new exams, TASC and HiSET, entered the market.

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Digital Promise

MARCH 19, 2018

Previous research has shown that most users of online education look fairly similar to the average college graduate — suggesting that digital learning isn’t yet the great educational equalizer it has the potential to be. The researchers were also able to test whether admission to OMSCS provided an otherwise absent path to a graduate degree.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 10, 2019

Research shows that math anxiety is prevalent, and the effects of this can linger long after students finish school, interfering with their ability to use quantitative reasoning in their professional and civic lives. Here’s the latest research on how. According to surveys , the majority of Americans dislike and fear math.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 16, 2018

By 2014 nearly 6,000 students a year were earning their bachelor’s degrees from a community college. The results of the study were slated to be released Monday at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association in New York. Most popular bachelor’s degree programs offered by FL community colleges in 2014.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

Barbara Means, an educational psychologist at SRI International, a California-based research institute, says that while there is no hard data on the number of these schools, a reasonable estimate would be somewhere between 250 and 500. Sharon Lynch, a science education professor at George Washington University in Washington D.C.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 15, 2023

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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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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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

White students with special needs are far more likely to graduate with a traditional diploma than are their black and brown peers. Nationally, 76 percent of white students in special education who exited high school in 2014-15 earned a traditional diploma. For the next five years, Therapy Thursdays became a family tradition.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2019

Rolling cabinets stocked with dozens of the laptops sit in classrooms where teachers assign them to students for everything from researching hereditary DNA to writing essays. Yet, the 2014 bond sale used to buy Chromebooks for James Lick and the rest of the East Side Union High School District schools has a much different structure.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

The Teach to One study was conducted by an outside group, the Consortium for Policy Research in Education (CPRE), based at Teachers College, Columbia University. But the research evidence hasn’t been terribly strong. The Hechinger Report is also based at Teachers College but is not affiliated with CPRE.). See Figure 2 on p.

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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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Digital Promise

APRIL 24, 2018

In math education, the problem is not quite so dire – but it’s time to start breaking a few of our own traditions. As education researchers, we see two different ways that educators can build alternative mathematics courses. In a traditional classroom, students act as passive observers, watching an expert correctly work out problems.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 26, 2021

At one table, the conversation turned to the growing pains of changing course from the traditional “sage on a stage” teaching model, where a teacher holds forth at the front of the classroom while students listen, to a student-focused, personalized model. “We Credit: Sarah Gonser for The Hechinger Report. It would be way too costly.”

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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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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

DECEMBER 16, 2018

In a recent article , Emily Hanford reported that many educators rely on ineffective means of teaching students to read and ignore substantial research that demonstrates better outcomes from phonics instruction than from the whole language approach. It isn’t enough merely to know the phonics rules. Sign up here for our newsletter.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 28, 2022

The university departs from traditional practice by involving all its faculty and staff in recruiting students. It could be a researcher who goes to the local high school to give a presentation. That’s up from 83 percent in 2014 , the earliest year for which the figure is available from the U.S. People want that.”.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 18, 2021

Since 2014, the partnership program has poured federal funds into established child care programs that serve low-income children, including the most popular non-parental form of infant and toddler care: home-based care. In Brush, Araujo now focuses her days around lessons from a research-based curriculum provided by Early Learning Ventures.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 22, 2019

These are just a few potentially lifesaving research projects that students have undertaken in recent years at universities in New York and Maryland. That’s noteworthy because students usually have to wait until later in their college experience – even graduate school – to start doing serious research. A closer look.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

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. Sign up for Jill Barshay's Proof Points newsletter. Choose as many as you like. Weekly Update.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 13, 2017

Eboni Walker, executive director of the Hoffman Early Learning Center, is currently recruiting “families who value the research that shows children learn best in these diverse environments.”. We want families who value the research that shows children learn best in these diverse environments.”.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 28, 2019

Since former President Barack Obama launched his My Brother’s Keeper initiative in 2014 to support black and Latino boys and young men, nearly 250 communities across 50 states have launched programs under its umbrella. Ann Hermes/The Christian Science Monitor via Getty Images. “It shows that it works.”

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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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