The Hechinger Report

JUNE 12, 2023

So it makes sense that some teachers who answered the survey want to know how high-performing countries are teaching math, along with what cultural barriers might be in the way. “Are It takes time, and money, and human capital and training,” Coleman told me in a follow-up conversation. So did the issue of U.S. one educator asked.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 23, 2019

Between 2000 and 2017, room and board costs for students living off campus rose 24 percent at public four-year universities after inflation, according to data from the National Center for Education Statistics analyzed by The Hechinger Report. 59 percent of households headed by an undergraduate or graduate student were “rent burdened” in 2017.

Economics 71

Economics Humanities Cultures Research 71

Sapiens

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

A humanities and social science doctoral student from Manipur, India, takes readers on a journey through ordinary moments interwoven with violence. “A 2017 December. 2017 Nduikeu. A Mausoleum of Our Everydays” is part of the collection Poems of Witness and Possibility: Inside Zones of Conflict.

Social Science 78

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Sapiens

JANUARY 25, 2024

A nopheles mosquitos that carry malaria-causing parasites spread the disease to humans. In both these cultural traditions, children were believed to have been sent from the spirit world to plague their parents. However, there are variations in genes that have been linked with resistance to malaria.

Economics 79

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

The idea behind the Muñiz Academy, named for the longtime principal of Boston’s first dual-language elementary school (the Rafael Hernandez K-8 school), was that many Hispanic students would do better in schools that support their cultural background and, with it, the Spanish language. That demands flexibility on the part of teachers.

High School 111

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 24, 2017

Subconsciously, we turn to our teachers to make us better human beings and we look forward to experiences that they will give us. I feel like school should be a place where I can learn about their culture and where they came from and for them learn about mine. You’re basically their second source of knowledge. Let me just quit.”

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 31, 2020

He went on to say: “The man for whom my institution is named promoted individual liberties and advocated for the enslavement of humans. Washington’s response: “The question is a legitimate one — and it’s worth considering.” It’s a legacy with which we must deal.”. Related: Students sick of ‘lip service’ from universities over racism.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 3, 2019

Even kindergarten students get a taste – during a “Sustainable Solutions” unit, they assume the perspective of a sea creature and use CoSpaces Edu software to animate both a healthy ocean ecosystem and one cluttered by human garbage. The technology can also show students the effects the changing climate is having on human society.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 4, 2023

Chelsea Helena, education attorney at Neighborhood Legal Services of Los Angeles County LA USD's internal records show the district made 138 opportunity transfers districtwide from the 2017-18 school year through the 2021-22 school year.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 23, 2018

The vast majority of the school’s students — and in 2017, all of them — are accepted into at least one college. This community in rural Lewis County made headlines in 2017 when all 43 of its graduating seniors were accepted into two- or four-year colleges. 43 — The number of students in Onalaska High School’s 2017 graduating class.

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Political Science Now

APRIL 16, 2024

Challenges that the RAs mentioned included time management, bureaucratic accounting and payroll procedures, and feelings of self-doubt; the lab’s culture of inclusion and independence mitigated some of these challenges. Read more … ] Article: Creating and Implementing an Undergraduate Research Lab in Political Science, by Aaron C.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 2, 2021

People hired through the programs also tend to stay on the job longer; such programs can also broaden a company’s culture by attracting employees, including workers of color, whose life experiences are outside the high school-to-college career arc common in white-collar workplaces. Aon, a London-based insurance giant, opened its U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 10, 2019

The history of genocide is the history of the Chinese Cultural Revolution , of the genocide in Darfur , of so many other crimes against humanity. A 2017 graduate of Kean University, Cubilete is involved in her community, visiting children’s hospitals and the elderly. The history we were learning about was my history, too.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 11, 2019

“Grit,” a best-selling book by University of Pennsylvania professor Angela Duckworth, may have swept parenting and education pop culture but research scholars say they are finding mounting evidence that it doesn’t add up. “As a human, the criticism doesn’t feel good,” Duckworth said. Choose as many as you like.

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Anthropology News

APRIL 30, 2024

In response to widespread social unrest caused by the collapse of digital Ponzi schemes, the Chinese state intensified regulation in 2017, accelerating the market’s decline. Here, the integration of human and cybernetic systems through app design further solidified people’s belief in the stability and power of P2P platforms.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

New York City, for example, began offering its 1 million public school students free breakfast and lunch in 2017. Leave this field empty if you're human: Many sounded alarms that $16 billion a year in federal aid for low-income students could be misdirected to not-so-poor schools. Sign up for Jill Barshay's Proof Points newsletter.

Advocacy 89

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

Yet this is about more than counselor numbers; students are pressing for an array of tools and, critically, a culture shift. Two students died by suicide, in fall 2017 and summer 2018, said Beth DeJongh, an associate professor of pharmacy practice who knew both and had one in class at the time. Counselor burnout is real.)

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 18, 2017

I also work to create a culturally relevant curriculum. Sydney Chaffee, 2017’s National Teacher of the Year, is ninth-grade humanities teacher at Codman Academy Charter Public School of Dorchester, Massachusetts. Related : PODCAST: What happens when students get into college—but can’t afford to attend?

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 3, 2017

Besides offering all classes in both English and Spanish and embracing the language and culture of its a predominantly Latino student body, administrators prioritized a host of highly regarded improvement strategies in the school’s design. Ferneidi Pina Baez, a 2017 graduate, counts that as her favorite project of the year.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 4, 2019

Leave this field empty if you're human: But after years working seasonal jobs sorting equipment at the local Ford plant and dealing blackjack at nearby casinos, Perez wanted to rise to a management position — and she couldn’t without a bachelor’s degree. Sign up for our Higher Education newsletter. Choose as many as you like.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 23, 2019

Leave this field empty if you're human: “Playing a game of insults, that’s all well and good,” said Jennifer Dean, an educational consultant and former English teacher who has a Ph.D Should you ding a lesson because it doesn’t include diverse authors or cover culturally diverse topics? Weekly Update.

High School 107

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 5, 2019

Black Student Union students say the school tells them durags perpetuate gang culture, but they say the durag ban unfairly continues the criminalization of black men. Durags are used to create the wave hairstyle. Photo by Sarah Reingewirtz/MediaNews Group/Pasadena Star-News via Getty Images.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 18, 2018

Leave this field empty if you're human: Social studies is typically considered the most suitable subject area for developing citizenship skills and knowledge. These historic national protests should be seen as a call to improved social studies education and a culture that supports student voice and political participation.

Civics 72

Civics Social Studies History Critical Thinking 72

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 23, 2018

Our new learning design and schedule allow us to differentiate and accelerate instruction, offer new learning opportunities in both STEM subjects and the humanities, and increase the amount of time available for teacher planning and professional development. Related: How high school would be different if students could design it.

Professional Development 66

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Anthropology 365

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Institutional academic cultures often contribute to these mental health challenges, suggesting that these concerns are not purely individual but systemic within academia. The project invited students to consider how scientific knowledge develops and is situated in the historical and cultural dimensions of the times.

Anthropology 40

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 4, 2019

In the fall of 2017, he moved to Boston and enrolled in a community college, planning to transfer to a four-year program. Nonetheless, according to Harvard’s survey of 600 business and human resource leaders, 61 percent of respondents reported tossing resumes without four-year degrees, even if the applicant was qualified.

Economics 112

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 28, 2017

There were other Latinos and other minorities there, but they also rejected their own culture. When I came over here, I started being more proud of my culture. Not only in our smarts or technology, but to help us progress as a human race: preparing us to tackle the issues that they couldn’t defeat. It was just horrible.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 16, 2019

The increase included $753,687 more than was spent in 2017-18 for accompanists, instruments, travel, entry fees and uniforms, among other essentials. There is no society, there is no human culture, without the arts.”. If we dug up a buried culture, we’d still find their art. The arts are the arts.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 1, 2018

Three weeks of facing harassment in another country were the main source of culture shock, which influenced how I reflected on my studies. Leave this field empty if you're human: Two women described how they were treated differently when visiting France, and a debate ensued. Sign up for our newsletter. Choose as many as you like.

High School 78

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 11, 2017

Take a look below at our proposed sessions, and click each link to vote now through August 25, 2017. Anyone can vote for a proposed panel through SXSW’s PanelPicker process, whether you plan to attend the conference or not, once you create a free PanelPicker account. VR for Good – Can “Cause-Based” VR Save Us? Short Answer: Yes!

EdTech 66

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ED Surge

AUGUST 28, 2023

In 2017, it advanced its message through a celebrity-studded network TV special , featuring Tom Hanks and James Corden doing karaoke on a school bus. In 2015, it created the Super School Project, a contest to distribute millions of dollars to proposals for innovative high schools. Student disengagement is not a totally new problem.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 30, 2018

But as the movement against seat-time learning grows, more schools nationwide will be grappling with grade levels, deciding whether to keep them or to hack through thickets of political, logistical and cultural barriers to uproot them. Others, however, echo Northern Cass superintendent, Cory Steiner. “I’d Weekly Update. Future of Learning.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 18, 2022

To make sure the content is exciting and relevant to kids, classroom libraries are stocked with culturally relevant books that represent Columbus’ diversity (the principal reported that 38 percent of students are Hispanic, 27 percent are Black, 17 percent are Asian, and 12 percent are white). Credit: Caralee Adams for The Hechinger Report.

Elementary School 115

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ED Surge

JULY 12, 2023

Department of Health and Human Services, reveals the extent of the loss. Between 2005 and 2017, nearly half of all licensed home-based programs closed. Data collected over the past two decades by the Administration for Children and Families, a division of the U.S. Some are attracted to the small-group aspect of it, the intimacy.

History 79

History Humanities Cultures Education 79

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 8, 2019

Nicole Molière entered a classroom at Harriet Tubman Charter School after she was selected to be part of an innovative local teacher training residency that aims to put excellent — and culturally competent — teachers into high-poverty schools. Photo: Cheryl Gerber for The Hechinger Report. You shut kids down when you shame them.”.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 30, 2018

“The best teacher is going to be the human teacher. A 2017 study by the RAND Corporation found that 17 percent of teachers in the personalized learning schools surveyed said they devote a least a quarter of class time to tutoring students one-on-one, compared to just 9 percent of teachers surveyed nationwide. Weekly Update.

Charter School 102

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 8, 2016

In Boston Public Schools, Superintendent Tommy Chang has placed an emphasis on culturally and linguistically inclusive schools. Ángel Díaz, 16, works on an assignment in his Spanish-language humanities class at Margarita Muñiz Academy in Boston. Photo: Tara García Mathewson.

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