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JULY 25, 2022

An international study by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development found that students who had more books at home reported that they enjoyed reading more. It’s noteworthy that the 2018 PISA reading test was a computer-based assessment in the vast majority of countries. Credit: Jill Barshay/The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 20, 2020

Hotter classroom temperatures and polluted air are affecting children’s brains at school, according to a new body of education research. (AP Education researchers have traditionally focused on the obvious ingredients of teaching and learning, such as instruction, curriculum, student motivation and school funding. Weekly Update.

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JUNE 10, 2019

The latest research comes from the Reboot Foundation, which released a study in June 2019 that shows a negative connection between a nation’s performance on international assessments and 15-year-olds’ self-reported use of technology in school. Photo: Tara García Mathewson/The Hechinger Report. Choose as many as you like.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 30, 2020

Ward is unusual, too, because she had made the leap from college admissions to private school to public school, and she is trying to bring the individualized approach of private college counseling to large, economically diverse public schools where she can make a bigger difference. Credit: Photo: Alison Yin for The Hechinger Report.

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DECEMBER 11, 2023

rose is because academic performance in once higher ranking countries, such as Iceland and the Slovak Republic, fell by even more since the previous testing round in 2018. Neither India nor China, which topped the rankings in 2018 , participated in the 2022 PISA. Both its math and reading scores rose considerably between 2018 and 2022.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 4, 2020

Now, with the added pressures of the coronavirus pandemic, the fabric of American higher education has become even more strained: The prospect of lower revenues has already forced some schools to slash budgets and could lead to waves of closings, experts and researchers say. Over the last decade, enrollment slipped as the economy grew.

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Political Science Now

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Prior to joining the University of Arizona, she was an assistant professor in the political science department at the University of Pittsburgh from 2018 to 2024. in political science from the University of California, Merced in 2016 and 2018, respectively, and a B.A. in economics from Stanford University in 2013.

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APRIL 16, 2025

A new study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences offers 1 one of the most detailed archaeological analyses to date of the roots of economic inequality. Further Reading and Related Research Kohler, T. Journal of Archaeological Research , 29, 371–413. Bogaard, A., Feinman, G. Peterson, C. Crema, E.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 6, 2025

When he was released in 2018, Maxis immediately applied for a masters program at Columbia Universitys Mailman School of Public Health. Math literacy often contributes to economic success: A 2021 study of more than 5,500 adults found that participants made $4,062 more per year for each correct answer on an eight-question math test.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 10, 2020

If you look at data from the National Center for Education Statistics, you can see steady gains made between 2000 and 2018. Higher education is America’s most effective engine of economic and social mobility, and it plays a historically important role in creating a thriving democracy. Now is not the time to lose focus.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

TNTP researchers plunged into a giant pool of data housed at Stanford University that tracked hundreds of millions of students’ scores on state tests at more than half the elementary and middle schools in the nation from 2009 to 2018. In that study, Chicago emerged as the nation’s most effective school district.

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DECEMBER 24, 2024

By the summer of 2018, it had been more than 30 years since Maronda Mims had started her college journey. percent or a little more than 1 million people from the previous year, according to the most recent data from the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center. Nationally, there were 36.8

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

As the math educator in residence at Just Equations, a nonprofit focused on the intersection of math and equity, I research math education and I think a lot about my years in the classroom. In one of the lessons , students accessed the Agriculture Department’s Food Access Research Atlas to locate food deserts in their city.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 27, 2023

This story also appeared in The Washington Post It wasn’t the Department of Education that made the loan, or the Treasury or Interior departments, or any of the many government departments that support academic research. Credit: The Gazette Rural colleges and universities have significant economic value to their surrounding communities.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 21, 2018

Two studies on elementary schools published in June 2018 point to the importance giving teachers and students plenty of time to form relationships. Harvard University’s Roland Fryer set out to test just that in an experiment , published in the June 2018 issue of the American Economic Review. Students may learn more.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

But a third of those who moved to Vermont said they are likely or very likely to stay for good , according to a survey by the University of Vermont’s Center for Research on Vermont and the Vermont Futures Project. That works out to somewhere between 8,700 and 10,900 new Vermonters, the local economics firm EPR projects. Metro area.

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Anthropology News

JANUARY 23, 2025

November 2018. Even with increased interactions through evangelizing, there have been growing anti-Chinese sentiments in Zambia in recent years, often based in economic inequalities between the countries. According to the China Africa Research Initiative at John Hopkins University, Zambia owed Chinese creditors US$ 6.6

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

It’s a bit of a perfect storm for these institutions,” said Jason Stein, research director of the Wisconsin Policy Forum. Phillip Levine, professor of economics, Wellesley College, and founder of MyinTuition, a net-price calculator. between 2010 and 2018. State experts thought the system risked falling further behind.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 6, 2021

The result is that we are losing the energy, intelligence and creativity young people could and should bring to New York’s economic recovery. We are losing the energy, intelligence and creativity young people could and should bring to New York’s economic recovery. The time is right.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Credit: Cavan Images The research on early childhood education can seem as messy as a playground sandbox. Researchers studied the children who attended in 2005-06 and saw an immediate academic bang, followed by disappointments. Earlier research has also found long-term benefits from preschool. college and university.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

A large body of research shows that Black students are likely to learn more when they are taught by a Black teacher. Quantitative researchers have found better results for Black students taught by Black teachers in Texas , Florida , Missouri , Tennessee and North Carolina. “I Credit: Cheryl Gerber for The Hechinger Report.

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Digital Promise

MAY 16, 2019

Special thanks to Estella Gonzalez, Assistant Director of Economic Opportunity at BakerRipley , our partner organization in Houston, Texas, for sharing her family’s story. Estella Gonzalez is the Assistant Director of Economic Opportunity at BakerRipley.

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Digital Promise

MAY 14, 2019

Across Canada, researchers and educators have documented the need to transform how the provinces assess literacy and consider more innovative designs. For example, British Columbia revised its Foundational Skills Assessments in 2018 to include collaboration and self-reflection.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 28, 2022

It was circulated by the National Bureau of Economic Research in March 2022. Here’s why: major public research universities, including prestigious flagship universities, charge different prices to different students through financial aid awards. Data source: Emily Cook, Tulane University.

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MAY 22, 2020

As early as late February, institutions really had to pivot the way that they were recruiting international students traditionally,” said Mirka Martel, head of research, evaluation and learning at the Institute of International Education. If fewer international students enroll, the economic fallout will be severe.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 11, 2021

These jobs, which employed up to 36 percent of all Americans full or part time in 2018, rarely offer access to employer-provided health insurance, paid sick time, paid family leave, minimum wage guarantees or basic labor protections. But too many others, like Peter and his family, have been harmed by the gig economy.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 22, 2022

The disparity between what teachers are paid and what their peers in other, comparable professions earn has reached an all-time high, according to findings published this month by the nonprofit Economic Policy Institute (EPI). Oklahoma, Virginia and Arizona—notably, some of the states whose teachers went on strike in 2018—are not far behind.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 11, 2020

In another measure of the massive economic toll of the pandemic on higher education, the resulting shutdowns have been singularly devastating to the college towns in which these campuses are situated. Related: What has happened when campuses shut down for other disasters? “For Mindy Domb, whose district includes Amherst.

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Society for Classical Studies

JANUARY 29, 2025

CFP: Ancient Leadership Series for SAGE Business Cases kskordal Wed, 01/29/2025 - 08:32 Image Since 2018, SAGE Business Cases (SBC) has been inviting authors to contribute to its Ancient Leadership series. as well as global antiquity, India, China, Africa, Americas, etc.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 18, 2023

That’s taken a dramatic toll on colleges and universities, with severe consequences for society and economic growth — a situation now also being faced by the United States, where the number of 18-year-olds has begun to drop in some states and soon will fall nationwide.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 20, 2023

circulated by the National Bureau of Economic Research in February 2023. Public school choice ended up increasing overall arrests and days incarcerated for young men, the researchers concluded in a draft paper, “ Does School Choice Increase Crime? circulated by the National Bureau of Economic Research in February 2023.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 27, 2020

According to 2018 study by the U.S. We must provide resources and support to families during and after this disruption, especially in mathematics, which often show the steepest losses over summers and time outside of school,” the NWEA researchers urged. More recent studies show that the summer is a pivotal period for student learning.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2024

In 2018, Congress increased annual funding for CTE, which now exceeds $1.4 You can’t see that in most places,” said Daniel Kreisman, an economics professor at Georgia State University who helped launch an effort to inform CTE policymakers by compiling data and producing research. Louisiana bet big on career education.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 11, 2019

Taking advantage of the event’s popularity, organizers of the Bayou Classic teamed up with Louisiana-based NexusLA, an economic development organization, to host a pitch competition between teams of tech-savvy college entrepreneurs. workforce in all industries since 2001.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 21, 2019

National Center for Education Statistics blog, December 2018. In a December 2018 report , the U.S. “There is more spread across states in state and local funding than ever before,” wrote Marguerite Roza, the director of the Edunomics Lab , a research center at Georgetown University, in an e-mail. spends less.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

There’s an adage many researchers and policy wonks live by: What gets measured, gets done. Schools are good when teachers bring the best out of their students — regardless of their economic backgrounds — with a rigorous curriculum and engaging arts and sports programs.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 30, 2024

Scores on an international math test fell a record 15 points between 2018 and 2022 — the equivalent of students losing three-quarters of a school year of learning. Students reported less enjoyment, less interest and more anxiety around the topic, said Doris Lewalter, an educational researcher at the Technical University of Munich.

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