The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 11, 2018

In September, the House Ways and Means Committee passed the Family Savings Act of 2018 , which would allow college graduates to use 529 plans to cover student debt. Meanwhile, lawmakers are looking to further expand the uses of 529 plans. Currently, any capital gains or dividends produced by 529 savings plan investments are not taxed.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 3, 2020

a research analyst for higher education at Ed Trust. In 2018, it spent 16.5 Campus culture is a major factor in student success, research has found. Valerie Gonzalez, a 2018 Ashtabula graduate, wanted to attend Ohio University but couldn’t afford it. Credit: Aaricka Washington for The Hechinger Report.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

I learned truths about European imperialism and the humanness before slavery — how colonists from all over Europe stuck their flagpoles into African soils, controlling nations and influencing heritage for centuries. She retells history with expert analyses of historical artifacts, primary sources and thorough research. Du Bois, Ph.D.

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Anthropology.net

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

Led by Associate Professor Jason Toohey and Professor Melissa Murphy, their research 1 sheds light on monumental megalithic architecture dating back approximately 4,750 years. Excavations starting in 2018 unearthed artifacts and charcoal samples, enabling precise radiocarbon dating. 1 Toohey, J. Murphy, M. Chirinos Ogata, P.,

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 19, 2018

In a working paper distributed this month by the National Bureau of Economic Research, they documented that most immigrant groups either arrived with high levels of education or their U.S. Immigrant Groups over the Long Term: The Second Generation and Beyond , a March 2018 working paper by Brian Duncan and Stephen J.

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Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

Education Innovation Clusters (EdClusters) are local communities of practice that bring together educators, entrepreneurs, funders, researchers, and other community stakeholders (including families, local government, and nonprofits) to support innovative teaching and learning in their region. — Kim Smith (@k12kimsmith) July 17, 2018.

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Anthropology News

JANUARY 24, 2024

I was in Accra, Ghana, for my field research at the time, and the other participants were located in Oslo, Norway. Thanks to the work of writers and researchers like Ivorian-Norwegian Yacoub Cissé and Franco-Cameroonian historian Olivette Otele, we now have books like 400 Years of Black Norway and African Europeans: An Untold History.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

Pulling students from Coahoma County and its county seat of Clarksdale, the school serves an area of the Mississippi Delta known for its rich blues heritage, low incomes and abysmal educational outcomes. Both the Clarksdale and Coahoma systems were rated F on the state’s 2018 school report cards and are eligible for state takeover.

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Sapiens

APRIL 23, 2025

Traveling Treasures is a new project led by a team of anthropologists that puts Liberians directly in touch with their dispersed cultural heritage through immersive technologies designed to bridge continents and histories. WHEN STUDENTS DONNED virtual reality headsets for the first time last year at William V.S.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 27, 2025

And research shows that even when students know they need help, they dont always seek it. At a competitive research university, one student is focusing on hopefulness, rather than happiness, as the opposite of depression. It was named in honor of former student Sean Locke, who died by suicide in 2018.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 19, 2023

In too many places, admissions processes send a message that dual-language learning is not for everyone (when research shows that actually it is ). And a 2018 paper found “no credible evidence that bilingual education adds or creates burden for children. We all know the research is counter to that.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

MINNEAPOLIS — Charles Golding looked for two things when he was researching colleges: a top economics program and a connection to his native culture. Angela Richards graduated from the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities in 2018. Photo: Caroline Preston/The Hechinger Report.

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Cultures Heritage Economics History 145

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 12, 2023

In 2018, after a decade-long consultation process, South Dakota adopted new standards designed to expand and improve instruction of Native American studies. The department also concluded that the 2018 Oceti Sakowin Essential Understandings may be in violation of the executive order.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

The number of students taking The College Board’s Advanced Placement tests in Chinese, French, German, Italian, Japanese or Spanish rose 68 percent from 2008 to 2018. In some academic fields research is going global. Yet college language course enrollments are plummeting. The Modern Language Association reported a 9.2

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 21, 2020

Black children who grew up in low-income households in the county just 15 years after a landmark school desegregation victory were likely to enter their mid-thirties with a household income of $24,000, according to a 2018 analysis of Census Bureau data by a Harvard and Brown team of researchers.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 18, 2025

Around the country, community colleges are stepping in to run apprenticeship programs for heritage industries, such as logging and aquaculture, which are too small to run. In 2018 Gannons company had jobs to do, and the machines to do them, but nobody to do the work. Related: Interested in innovations in higher education?

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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Through uranium-thorium (U-Th) dating, researchers have identified these artworks as some of the oldest known examples of parietal art, potentially created by Neanderthals over 66,000 years ago. In Maltravieso, researchers analyzed samples from multiple panels, including the Galería de la Serpiente and Sala de las Pinturas.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 6, 2024

Teachers experimented, made their lessons more hands-on and followed the latest research. In 2018, the district needed roof work on school buildings but didn’t have the money to complete it, Grimes said. “You know the saying, ‘When you know better, you do better?’” Ezzell told me. That’s what happened.”

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Anthropology News

OCTOBER 29, 2024

In the following, I offer two compelling moments from my dissertation and consider how two research participants define and experience being a #NoSaboKid. For the anonymity of the research participant, I will be paraphrasing the following Twitter exchange. Even if L.A.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 28, 2021

Ríos, the school’s librarian, holds a paper flower made by students for a Mexican heritage celebration. Only 53 percent of women in their 20s who gave birth in their teens hold a traditional high school diploma, compared to 90 percent of women who didn’t, according to Child Trends , a research organization focused on young people.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

Some research suggests that the number of black-led schools has been in decline since its peak in the 1990s. When Fuller called Trump “a despicable human being” at an education conference in early 2018, his school lost a grant (he declined to disclose the donor). But that may not tell the whole story, Teasley says.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 14, 2020

Educators encourage students to share their personal stories as a way to feel proud of their heritage, recognize how strong they are and process trauma. Still, between October 2018 and September 2019 more than 75,000 unaccompanied minors — children who arrived in the U.S. We were three. Now it’s only me,” he said.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

As a researcher who spends his days trying to find evidence-based ways to make schools better, I’m at something of a loss. The Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025 proposes to “eliminate” and “redistribute the various congressionally approved federal education programs across the government.” I guess we’re doing this (again).

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 9, 2021

All are groups that researchers worry will bear the fallout of disrupted learning during the pandemic. Almost 1 in 10 of the state’s educators left the classroom from 2010 to 2018. At Stuart Academy, students scored lower in math, reading and science during the 2018-19 academic year compared to other middle schools in the district.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 9, 2018

Roseanne Barr arrives at the Los Angeles premiere of “Roseanne” on Friday, March 23, 2018 in Burbank, Calif. New research from different fields shows that black families’ opportunities are limited because of their race. Related: Who benefits from research on racial disparities? Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 29, 2018

High school students hold a banner while marching to the South Boulder Recreation Center to vote and turn in election ballots in early voting in Boulder, Colorado on Thursday October 25, 2018. Photo by Cliff Grassmick/Digital First Media/Boulder Daily Camera via Getty Images. The late, great historian Carter G.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 12, 2024

That said, there were some notable actions: Before the pandemic, Trump signed a tax law that increased the child tax credit from $1,000 to $2,000 per child, although research found higher-income families benefited significantly more from the change than low-income families. billion for the Child Care and Development Block Grant.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

But Education does oversee and pay for some smaller early learning programs and early childhood research. The Department of Education also is home to several research centers that focus on young children, many of which conduct long-term students or research aimed at improving the lives of infants and toddlers with disabilities.

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