A Principal's Reflections
JULY 23, 2017
The effect of learning spaces on various behaviors—territoriality, crowding, situational and personal space—has been the focus of some sociological and environment behavioral research. 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
Here’s what we do know: During the 2014 academic year, at least 569,751 students at 884 public two- and four-year colleges across 33 states were deemed not ready for some college-level work. Although we only used data from the 2014-2015 academic year in our analysis, we’re making all the datasets we gathered available here.
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
JUNE 17, 2019
Paul Attewell, a sociology and education professor at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, is the second author. The researchers focused on more than 160,000 students under 25 who started either a two-year or a four-year degree program between 1999 and 2008 and continued to track their earnings through 2014.
The Hechinger Report
AUGUST 14, 2023
A recent working paper by economists Kirsten Slungaard Mumma and Marcus Winters compared students who scored just below the threshold for third grade retention on the Mississippi ELA test in 2014-15 with those who scored just a bit above that threshold, tracing the students’ performance for several years. Pallas is the Arthur I.
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.
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