The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 1, 2025

Credit: Patience Zalanga for The Hechinger Report There was a logic behind that: In a traditional course sequence, finishing calculus is easier if students take Algebra I by eighth grade since they can continue on to geometry, Algebra II, precalculus or trigonometry, and then calculus their senior year.

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Anthropology.net

MARCH 14, 2025

Yet, despite its central role in human evolution, determining when and how language first emerged remains a challenge. Fossils do not speak, and ancient DNA does not carry recordings of conversations. Credit: CC0 Public Domain A new genomic study, published in Frontiers in Psychology 1 , approaches the problem differently. Palgrave Macmillan.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Figures released last week show that dual enrollment grew another 7 percent in the fall of 2024 from a year earlier, even as the number of traditional college freshmen fell. Exactly how much all of this is costing the nation isn’t known.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 6, 2025

In New Zealand, where schools operate far more independently than traditional public schools in the United States, it would be the job of principals like Rodgers to determine how best to teach the countrys math standards. Related: Widen your perspective. Our free weekly newsletter consults critical voices on innovation in K-12 education.

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Catlin Tucker

MARCH 18, 2016

I’m beyond excited to bring all of my ideas to fruition as I work to make my perfect teaching position a reality for the 2016-2017 school year. Ultimately, I hope to prove that pockets of innovation can happen on traditional school campuses.

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Anthropology.net

APRIL 14, 2025

Others developed traditions or institutions that emphasized reciprocity and mutual aid. People in different places made different choices about governance, resource sharing, and social cooperation. Some communities implemented checks and balances that curbed wealth concentration. These decisions mattered—and they still do. Bogaard, A.,

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Anthropology 365

APRIL 23, 2025

The book draws on anthropologys four-field tradition to show how our ways of knowingwhether biological, linguistic, archaeological, or culturalare always shaped by politics, language, funding, and history. He was asking anthropologists to stop pretending that science speaks for itself. Is Science Racist?

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 3, 2016

This week, as we celebrate Digital Promise’s fifth anniversary , we also welcome the districts who are part of the 2016-2017 cohort of the League of Innovative Schools. And now, meet the 2016-2017 cohort: Bristol Warren Regional School District. Compton Unified School District. Covina-Valley Unified School District.

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Anthropology.net

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

The research, published in Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences 1 , presents compelling micro-archaeological evidence that fire was not just a survival tool but a defining cultural trait of the Gravettian tradition. 2017) – Discusses the micromorphological analysis of combustion features in Paleolithic sites.

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Anthropology News

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

President Jokowi Widodo, more commonly known as ”Jokowi,” and Vice President Jusuf Kalla surprised the public when attending Indonesia’s 2017 State of the Union Address (SOTU) by wearing traditional attire. Consequently, any traditional ethnic attire he wears inherently signifies Indonesian identity.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 22, 2020

Brian Stack is principal of Sanborn Regional High School in Kingston, New Hampshire, and co-author of Breaking With Tradition: The Shift to Competency-Based Learning in PLCs at Work (2017). He is co-author of Breaking With Tradition: The Shift to Competency-Based Learning in PLCs at Work (2017).

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Catlin Tucker

JANUARY 13, 2021

The development of a social presence in a class has been shown to positively impact both engagement and learning outcomes (Richardson, Maeda, Lv & Caskurlu, 2017; Swan, 2019). This work developing the social presence in our courses and helping students feel valued as members of a learning community must be ongoing. 10 minutes).

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Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

Richland School District Two will launch summer classes in high school credit CS and coding instruction in summer 2017 to compensate for limited teacher-led instruction during the traditional school year. Forging meaningful partnerships with institutions of higher education.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 25, 2020

The University of La Verne in Southern California has had twice as many traditional undergraduates sign up for the summer as it did last year. The University of La Verne in Southern California doubled summer enrollment among traditional undergraduates this year, the school said. Credit: Iris Schneider for The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2021

A task force studying the problem in 2017 found those layers of developmental coursework were a barrier for many students, who would become discouraged and drop out, according to Brad Fricks, director of academic affairs for the community college system. That is the traditional way that developmental education has worked.

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Anthropology.net

MARCH 31, 2025

The shift from a hunter-gatherer existence to an agrarian lifestyle stands as one of the most profound transformations in human history. Traditionally, scholars have attributed this Neolithic transition to external factors like climatic shifts or the allure of fertile lands. Szécsényi-Nagy, A., Mallick, S., ​ Rivollat, M.,

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 14, 2020

It’s “flipped” because it’s the opposite of the traditional structure in which students first learn from a teacher’s in-class instruction. In other words, 64 percent of the students in a flipped classroom tend to surpass the average score in a traditional classroom. There’s less rigorous research in high schools and lower grades.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Agua Fria Union High School District had just 6 percent of in-school suspension days assigned because of attendance problems in 2021-22, compared with 40 percent in 2017-18. is an alternative school that welcomes students who didn’t find the behavioral or academic support they needed in traditional schools. So why would I go?”.

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ED Surge

APRIL 3, 2025

Colleges are embracing the need for students to get out of the classroom, says LaDale Winling, a history professor at Virginia Tech and author of the book Building the Ivory Tower: Universities and Metropolitan Development in the Twentieth Century, which came out in 2017.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 9, 2018

In 2017, public institutions received about $5,892 in state and local appropriations per each student enrolled full-time, down from $6,055 in 2016. Tuition revenue for each full-time student increased from $5,792 in 2016 to $6,009 in 2017. million in 2012 to 11 million in 2017.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 25, 2023

In 2017, I formed an after-school student activism and leadership club with a small group of seventh grade students. For my students, leading this PD session and experiencing a shift in the traditional power dynamic opened up a new sense of advocacy possibilities.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 9, 2018

Fourth-graders didn’t improve in 2017 in either subject. The average performance of the nation’s fourth- and eighth-graders mostly held steady in math and reading from 2015 to 2017, now marking a decade of stalled educational progress, according to the results of a test released Tuesday. Photo: Jackie Mader/The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

In 2016, The School for Creative Studies, in Durham, North Carolina, prevented black students from wearing traditional head wraps, or geles , a symbol used to represent the students’ connection with Africa — during Black History month, no less! School districts are not the only entities hiding their racism behind laws that provide cover.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 5, 2017

James Lawrence, a 2017 graduate of the Traip Academy in Kittery, Maine, holds wooden duck decoys he made for an art credit his senior year. James Lawrence planned to open his own welding business after his 2017 graduation from the Robert W. Photo courtesy of Susan Johnson. Traip Academy in Kittery, Maine.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 22, 2020

In the 2017-2018 school year, 34 percent of international students were from China. In the 2017-2018 school year, it had more international students than any other historically black college or university. Institutions are now scrambling to rethink how they recruit and teach students from abroad as they prepare for fall 2020. “As

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

One day in 2017, Lauren Neuwirth sank into a chair in her university’s financial aid office feeling out of options. Chok Ooi founded Kenzie Academy in 2017 to help close the gap between workers’ skills and the needs of the growing tech industry in Indianapolis and beyond. Traditional loans are a scam,” he added. “I

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

The report focused on the average student debt for four-year graduates from the class of 2017, which is $28,650, up just one percent from the level of the class of 2016. Only 8 percent of Hispanic degree holders and 3 percent of white degree holders defaulted within that time period.

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 15, 2019

Rather than taking a traditional multiple choice test at the end of their unit on weather, sixth grade students at Gilbert Middle School in South Carolina created their own live weather reports—complete with green screens and fake snow.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Education policy leaders at the federal level and beyond were exploring the growing role of competency-based education and non-traditional providers —and calls were growing for stronger connections between universities and the world of employment. To start off, it’s worth thinking back to 2016. But these are by far the exception.

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Digital Promise

MARCH 31, 2017

The League of Innovative Schools team had the opportunity to visit multiple districts in the first quarter of 2017 — and we have so much more to see! — Mentor Schools (@mentorschools) February 3, 2017. — Melissa Gedney (@melissaged) February 9, 2017. — Vina Vo (@vinavo) March 7, 2017.

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Students of History

MAY 24, 2024

This prestigious scholarship, which has been awarded each year since 2017, recognizes a college-bound senior who has excelled in history education. This year marked the first time that applicants were required to submit video essays on their favorite history lessons, as opposed to traditional essays.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 23, 2024

Since 2017, 93 percent of students taking it have passed, and 83 percent have achieved all the course’s learning goals, including the ability to use arithmetic, geometry, algebra and trigonometry to solve welding problems, school data show. Even modest gains like that are hard to achieve, said Navarro Chandler, a dean at the college.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

That has caused a lot of anxiety among traditional public school advocates, and a lot of anxiety with progressives and Democrats who just really oppose this. In 2017, the city made a $750,000 early childhood investment. For every $2 a parish generates, the state adds $1.

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Digital Promise

APRIL 7, 2017

The district provides opportunities to its students through its emphasis on the fundamental ABCs – adapting, balancing, and collaborating – which they will highlight at the spring 2017 League of Innovative Schools meeting in late April. Adapting to create innovative environments. As a result of a $13.8

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 15, 2020

RAND continued to track the children through seventh grade in 2017, after an additional two years of not attending the summer school. One small exception was in math but the initial fourth-grade improvement in math scores was short-lived and it dissipated by the start of fifth grade. The evidence from previous programs doesn’t apply here.”.

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Digital Promise

JULY 14, 2020

Empirical studies suggest that instructional coaching can be more effective than traditional professional development workshops in creating meaningful change in teacher practice and student achievement. Over the past decade, instructional coaching has increasingly attracted the interest of researchers and practitioners alike.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 29, 2020

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. At this point, the model, which serves about 3,500 kids in around two dozen schools in Chicago, New York City and Washington, D.C.,

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