The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

A 2019 study of texting and providing other information to almost 800,000 low- and middle-income students who scored in the top 50 percent on the PSAT and the SAT found no change in the types of colleges that students enrolled in. But as the texts reached larger numbers of people, they stopped working.

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ED Surge

MAY 3, 2024

Like many AI-related projects, the idea started as a way to cut the cost of hiring humans. A 2019 investigation by Vice found that at least 21 states use natural language processing to grade students’ written responses on standardized tests. A quarter of the scores awarded will be reviewed by human scorers.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 16, 2020

This flies in the face of common sense and human history, deBoer argued. These myths are harmful, in deBoer’s view, because they lead us to conflate academic ability and human worth. In the author’s telling, the Cult of Smart is “the notion that academic value is the only value, and intelligence the only true measure of human worth.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 17, 2023

The sharing of stories is as human and fundamental as breathing itself. Despite our differences, stories are what keep our bond of humanity intact. Alhassan Susso teaches government, economics and personal development at the International Community High School in New York City. And the process begins at the foundation.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 25, 2021

However, a 2019 study by the College Board , the organization that owns and earns revenue from the SAT, detailed how the essay portion increased the ability to predict how well an applicant would do in college English and writing classes. The College Board charges only $16 more for the optional essay portion.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 28, 2019

Nevada and Michigan will join them in the upcoming 2019-20 school year. Leave this field empty if you're human: It’s easy to argue about this extensive and muddy body of research. Early Grade Retention and the Human Capital Development of English Learners.” Sign up for Jill Barshay's Proof Points newsletter.

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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Broader Implications This research emphasizes the cultural significance of silk beyond its economic value. The legacy of the Shu State lives on in the region’s continued dominance in global silk production, a testament to its enduring influence on human civilization. The Yangtze River: Harmony Between Humans and Nature.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 8, 2022

jobs like registered nurse, human resources assistant, or help desk technician.) Any shift in the workforce to the advantage of workers without degrees carries obvious implications for economic mobility and equity. in, say, the humanities might get workers off to a slow start. trillion in student loans. The American B.A.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 26, 2022

Last fall, in the district, nearly half of teacher absences went unfilled, compared with 26 percent in fall 2019. Chad Golden, executive director of human resources, also added a position in his office dedicated to recruiting substitutes. Jay Midwood, chief of human capital for the district, recalled his thinking at the time.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 7, 2021

That’s largely because of the daunting economic and life stressors, which worsened during the pandemic. Although student parents have higher grade point averages than their peers, they are already far less likely to graduate than peers without children.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 5, 2021

By month’s end, there were 665 (including Reilly), which was more than double the college’s June 2019 applications. “We Missouri’s Fast Track Workforce Incentive Grant, created in 2019 to target those 25 and older, has a “clawback” provision so students who don’t fulfill requirements must repay it as a loan with interest.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 22, 2019

Source: Adam Looney and Constantine Yannelis in the August 2019 issue of Economics of Education Review. Leave this field empty if you're human: Experts haven’t typically worried about people with large student loan balances. It’s a staggering number: $1.5 trillion in student debt. Choose as many as you like.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

“[The students] move away from that algorithmic knowledge of mathematics, just following steps and just working like a little robot,” says Daniela Zamora Zuniga, a former economics student who was a learning assistant from 2019 through 2022. But people are messy. “My

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 21, 2021

Thomas earned her bachelor’s degree in July 2019 though an online program; she is now on her way to an MBA. which owns and operates a group of McDonald’s restaurants in Louisiana, is pictured with her spouse, Larry Thomas, after receiving her bachelor’s degree in July 2019 from Colorado Technical University.

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Anthropology News

AUGUST 21, 2024

The fires of 2019 and 2020 were especially devastating, with NASA’s Earth Observatory showing plumes of smoke covering the region. Narratives of climate apocalypse and Anthropocene dystopia often evoke Christian narratives of the end-times, with environmental change as a symptom of insufficient human piety.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 15, 2018

In San Antonio, the CAST schools are also one prong of a larger effort by a local school district to promote integration in one of the most economically segregated cities in the country. One year in, that approach to economic integration, dubbed “diversity by design,” is working. Mississippi Learning.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 19, 2019

Leave this field empty if you're human: Beginning in 1997, a series of laws and regulations were put into place to monitor and fix how schools across the country put children of different races and ethnicities in special education. Morgan presented his research findings at a conference of the Society for Prevention Research in May 2019.).

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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. Sign up for Jill Barshay's Proof Points newsletter. Choose as many as you like.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 5, 2019

The immediate coverage of an important July 2019 study on Latino children in America emphasized how they are increasingly “segregated” from white children at school. The darker the blue, the more Latinos enrolled. Source: Bruce Fuller, University of California, Berkeley Photo: Zaidee Stavely for The Hechinger Report. Proof Points.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 4, 2019

Using a four-year degree as a proxy for employability shuts out the most economically vulnerable job seekers. 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. in February 2019.

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Sapiens

OCTOBER 30, 2024

These values rest on the belief that humans are apart from natural systems rather than a part of these systems, creating tensions for federal land managers and residents. These tensions point to a fundamental disconnect in understandings of how humans and landscapes are connected. What’s going on back there to have that blocked off?

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 17, 2022

SAN FRANCISCO — On a Friday evening in the fall of 2019, Maria Flores stood waiting with her “crazy heavy” duffel bag and her teenage son outside the office of a man whose home she cleans. In 2019, the two were evicted from the apartment Mateo had lived in since birth. But the idea persisted and turned into a plan and then a place.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

Leave this field empty if you're human: But another way to think about educational inequality is to analyze how students fare at the same institution. Black and Latino students also often encounter more financial hardship in college and drop out for economic reasons. Sign up for Jill Barshay's Proof Points newsletter. Weekly Update.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 27, 2019

Leave this field empty if you're human: They’re both highly regarded quantitative researchers at Stanford University. Hanushek is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, a politically conservative center for research on economic and social issues based at the university. Proof Points.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 29, 2019

In addition to its reputation as an international powerhouse in the field of economics and a home to multiple Nobel Laureates, the school has grounds that are designated as an official botanic garden. The privilege of attending is costly, at $57,642 for the 2019-20 academic year. Pete D'Amato/The Hechinger Report. Weekly Update.

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Anthropology News

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

The question of which socio-economic dynamics aggravate and/or hinder treasure hunting has become one of my focal points during my field research in the Trabzon region in northeastern Turkey. The local topography they surveilled incessantly did not necessarily evoke any human activity other than some spectral conjuring of symbols.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 20, 2019

25796 May 2019. Leave this field empty if you're human: “We see something that worked,” said Sarah Cohodes, a professor at Teachers College, Columbia University, and one of the study’s three authors. But it was circulated by the National Bureau of Economic Research in May 2019. Weekly Update.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

After agreeing to take on 10 summer interns from the Prepare Rhode Island program last summer, Cathy Desjarlais, a human resources manager at biotech company Amgen’s Rhode Island site, had reservations about the new interns, apprehensive they would display the behavior issues Butler described. These are also 19th-century skills.”.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 18, 2022

The Carteret Public School District, in a diverse area of northern New Jersey, cobbled together several strategies at Columbus, which enrolls nearly 700 students, about 75 percent of whom are economically disadvantaged, according to district administrators. In 2019, 70 percent were on grade level, said Rotundo.

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Sapiens

OCTOBER 23, 2024

As this happens, more people will encounter a confluence of water-related challenges , including substantial disease risks, constrained economic opportunities, and political instability. The Jakarta Post reported that Sumba went 249 days without rain in 2019. An estimated “1.8 billion people drink unsafe water ” and some “2.4

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 20, 2024

They later waded through a wetland and scouted for beaver dams as part of a lesson on how humans can support water restoration. In early 2019, they began working with the nonprofits Empower Schools and Lyra Colorado to formally create a regional collaborative and visited a similar project in South Texas.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

It’s unfair, it’s discriminatory, and it disadvantages already economically disadvantaged kids,” said Jack Fletcher, co-founder of the Texas Center for Learning Disabilities in Houston and one of the first scientists to question the discrepancy model’s validity. Dyslexia is the most common reading disability.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 15, 2023

During the 2019-20 school year, in response to racial unrest and protests around the United States, Black students and alumni across the country shared about their negative experiences in majority-white elite institutions on “Black at” Instagram pages. It felt like I signed up to move mountains and raise valleys. And in a sense, I did.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Her school is located in Houston’s Fifth Ward neighborhood and serves a student body that is nearly 100 percent classified as economically disadvantaged. When Wheatley High received a seventh “F” rating from the Texas Education Agency in 2019, it triggered the state takeover of the district. I was like, ‘This is horrible.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 16, 2018

School calendar flexibility: House Bill 126 would establish a Trimester School Pilot Program that would involve up to 12 school districts during the 2019-20 and 2020-21 school years. Leave this field empty if you're human: Home Economics Curriculum: House Bill 16, authored by Rep. Higher Education. Mississippi Learning.

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Digital Promise

JUNE 30, 2020

But not everyone has reaped the benefits of Nashville’s economic growth equally, particularly among the approximately 55,000 adults without high school degrees. American Job Center (via Mid Cumberland Human Resource Agency). In 2019, they pursued and received multiple funding opportunities from Vanderbilt University, the Joe C.

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 9, 2019

Click each link that interests you to vote now through August 23, 2019. AI + HI (Human Intelligence) = Educational Equity. To achieve educational equity by addressing learner variability, we need to blend AI (artificial intelligence) with HI (human intelligence) through data. Connected: The Power of Digital Learning Every Day.

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