The Hechinger Report

JUNE 21, 2021

While writing a recent column about teachers conducting educational studies in their own classrooms, I was curious about when they might need to inform their students’ parents about this research and obtain parental permission. Consent is required, however, when the research involves something that isn’t “normal” classroom practice.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

There’s a general consensus among education researchers that smaller classes are more effective. (In When I have written about unrelated educational reforms, researchers often compare them to the effectiveness of class size reductions to give me a sense of their relative impact. In math, it found no benefits at all.

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The Hechinger Report

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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Anthropology.net

APRIL 16, 2025

But the way those lands were used—how they were divided, worked, and governed—did more than sustain life. The researchers combed through the physical traces left behind by ancient households—47,000 of them, to be precise—spanning over 1,700 sites across the globe. Further Reading and Related Research Kohler, T.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 4, 2020

They’d spent the past decade grappling with declining enrollments and weakening support from state governments. Many factors can cause colleges to struggle financially, according to a review of the data and interviews with 39 college finance researchers, student advocates, state officials, school administrators and faculty members.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 5, 2023

For many years, the province of Quebec has shown the potential benefits of government funding for child care. Our federal government realized the popular success of the ‘$10 a Day’ branding,” said Sharon Gregson, provincial spokesperson for the Coalition of Child Care Advocates of BC.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 21, 2023

The site, CollegeForTN.org , was updated in 2018 after the legislature asked for additional information to be posted publicly. “We The federal government and private organizations do provide some information, but that data isn’t always useful or accurate enough for students. The government and other sources, such as U.S.

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Anthropology News

JANUARY 23, 2025

Like Jehovahs Witness congregations in the rest of the world, Kombela Central Mandarin Congregation is governed by local elders in charge of pastoral work, selecting speakers, and directing public preaching. November 2018. Lusaka, Lusaka Province, Zambia. Jehovahs Witnesses are a highly centralized organization. Central Zambia.

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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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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 27, 2020

According to the most recent federal data from the 2018-19 school year, there are now almost 118,000 school counselors in U.S. According to the most recent federal data from the 2018-19 school year, there are now almost 118,000 school counselors in U.S. Nevada bucked the national trend.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 21, 2021

The number of open badges awarded nearly doubled from 24 million in 2018 to 43 million in 2020. What’s more, our research revealed a clearer sense of employers’ motivations: they want better hiring results, to create new pathways for greater workforce diversity, and they’re pinched for talent.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Some school districts, local governments and nonprofit groups across the country have galvanized this youth activism by giving students opportunities to participate in leadership roles and democracy in ways that go beyond civics classes and student government. Things … the government does affect us, but we can’t vote,” she said.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 6, 2022

Research findings leave room for debate about just how bad corporal punishment by teachers is for kids, especially in the United States. Still, researchers say they can draw parallels. The research does not support that at all,” she said. She has also analyzed data about corporal punishment use in schools. And we can say yes.”.

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The Hechinger Report

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. In the 2017-2018 school year, 34 percent of international students were from China.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

Ever since enslaved blacks arrived on the shores of the English colony of Virginia in 1619 , white legislators at various levels of government have designed laws to explicitly control and suppress black people. Research has shown that diverse decision-making bodies are better problem solvers than homogenous ones.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2022

In 2020, there were 39 million or one out of every five American adults under 65 who had dropped out of college and never finished their degrees, according to the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center. Charter Oak State College, an online college run by the state of Connecticut for adult learners, accepted him in 2018.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Our governments need to be working in partnership with tech companies to put the Netflix of online learning into action,” she added. “I Still, research shows that digital-resource usage hasn’t reached its full potential. I don’t understand why that isn’t happening — now.”.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 27, 2023

When Iowa Wesleyan University announced in March that it would close, its biggest creditor was a federal government agency that had loaned it $26 million and then — in an attempt to help the university survive —softened the terms and extended the repayment period. It was the Department of Agriculture. The USDA loaned Iowa Wesleyan $26.4

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Political Science Now

APRIL 22, 2025

Building faculty capacity outside the classroom includes both understanding governance processes and structures and creating cultures and conversations. She was granted tenure in 2010 and promoted to Senior II Tenured Faculty in 2018. Before his career in higher education, Rogelio worked in the federal government at the U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 16, 2019

The study called into question the survey methods of a variety of sources, including leading researchers from the Hope Center for College, Community, and Justice at Temple University, founded and led by Sara Goldrick-Rab. Government Accountability Office. Rather, researchers are likely stumbling over the tip of a much larger iceberg.

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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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Political Science Now

MARCH 21, 2024

The American Political Science Association is pleased to announce the Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant (DDRIG) Awardees for 2023. The APSA DDRIG program provides support to enhance and improve the conduct of doctoral dissertation research in political science.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 8, 2021

Developer: Michigan State University Research. Developer: University of Michigan and Michigan State University Research. Related 2018 Hechinger coverage. Developer: Stanford University Research. Developer: University of Washington Research. Government and Politics curriculum. Curriculum. Curriculum.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 6, 2021

The internships could be in government, in nonprofit organizations or in the private sector. In New York City, for example, in 2018 more than 71,000 of the 328,000 public high school students took career and technical education courses, including ones in fashion design, pharmacology and accounting.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 22, 2023

When she needed money to start college, she was advised to borrow from a private lender instead of the federal government and, because of that, she’s stuck with $81,000 debt. I’m frustrated, because, what can I do? I’d be in the same position as these other people had my loans been federal, period,” said Luciano, who is now 37.

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The Hechinger Report

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

OCTOBER 23, 2020

The researchers examined only free-college programs that are state-funded, allow anyone in the state to enroll, cover tuition costs at two-year or four-year institutions, don’t require a minimum ACT score of 20 or a 3.0 In 2018, when Ed Trust last reported on statewide free-college programs, only 15 met their benchmarks.)

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 14, 2024

While evaluation of the Tennessee program continues, researchers and program officers point to three lessons learned so far: The scholarship program hasn’t helped many low-income students financially. In 2018, Tennessee added coaching and mentoring for low-income students to give them extra support.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

In Michigan, for example, the flagship campus at Ann Arbor gives out about $14,200 per full-time student with demonstrated financial need — the difference between what the federal government determines their family can be expected to pay for college and the actual cost. Photo: Sarah Butrymowicz/The Hechinger Report. GPA into a 3.2. “If

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Political Science Now

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Rouse , Arizona State University , Isabella Alcaiz , University of Maryland , College Park , Alejandra Marchevsky , California State University, Los Angeles Research has shown that as the size of government assistance programs grow, and the recipients of such programs are increasingly non-white and/or non-citizen, public support for them declines.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 17, 2019

Researchers, including those who work for the test companies, have known wealth is strongly correlated with outcomes on standardized tests for years. The three charts below reflect those national averages for the 2018 test, except in the case of family income level, for which 2016 data are the latest available.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 10, 2024

In 2016, despite research showing that students who used computers more often at school performed much worse on reading and math PISA tests, the Finnish government announced it would spend millions of euros on ramping up digital learning. American schools can learn valuable lessons from Finnish education, both positive and negative.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 7, 2019

According to a 2018 study from the Center for American Progress , “if Black and Hispanic bachelor’s degree recipients were as likely to major in engineering as white students, this country would have produced 20,000 more engineers from 2013 through 2015.”. We must improve the opportunities for out-of-school learning for black children.

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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. According to the government’s report, education spending rose for the third straight year in 2015-16 to $11,841 per student in kindergarten through 12th grades. That’s a 2.9 percent from 2013-14. spends less.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

A 2018 study found that more than half of the students who worked at least 15 hours per week had grade averages of C or below. A 2018 study found that more than half of the students who work at least 15 hours per week had grade averages of C or below.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

A man watches an artificial intelligence (AI) news anchor from a state-controlled news broadcaster, on his computer in Beijing on November 9, 2018. The higher-order thinking that researchers predict will survive impending technological advancement is precisely the one in teachers’ toolkits. Photo: NICOLAS ASFOURI/AFP/Getty Images.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

More than 100,000 adults earned earned entry-level manufacturing certifications at community and technical colleges between 2005 and 2018, but only 40 percent worked in manufacturing afterward. While a total of 119,000 people succeeded in getting two types of manufacturing certificates through 2018, we don’t know how many failed.

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