The Hechinger Report

APRIL 6, 2025

As we studied the results of our educational research from 2019, a colleague turned to me with a conclusion that mirrored my own personal experience: School leaders are a mess! As a result, these highly educated, respected leaders were quite literally falling apart physically and emotionally.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 14, 2025

A typical career trajectory in early care and education might follow like this: start as an assistant teacher in a classroom, eventually gain the experience to move up to lead teacher, and if youre ambitious and able, one day become the assistant director, director or even owner of a program. On paper, it seems reasonable.

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Digital Promise

MARCH 2, 2021

How can school districts create more equitable opportunities and dismantle systemic barriers facing many students, families, and educators? They recently reflected on their learning, and six strategies for advancing educational equity emerged. The post Six Strategies for Equitable Education Systems appeared first on Digital Promise.

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ED Surge

MARCH 23, 2023

These short courses offer students the opportunity to study behavioral health, which aligns with jobs in our region related to human services, sociology, counseling, psychology and social work. Most were designed to educate clergy, according to research by Phillip R. From 1890 to 1940, higher education in the U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 16, 2020

What if our hope that public education can erase inequality is in vain? If there was ever a time to ask big, heretical questions about American K-12 education, it’s when schooling has been thrown into chaos by a pandemic, and Americans’ faith in institutions, including schools, is at ebb tide.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 21, 2021

But after 27 years with a company with education benefits — benefits Thomas pitches to other employees — she still hadn’t taken advantage of them herself. “I Thomas earned her bachelor’s degree in July 2019 though an online program; she is now on her way to an MBA. million students are using employer-provided education benefits.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 26, 2020

“Things will never be the same in higher education!” Those who expected radical disruption in the wake of the Great Recession now seem to believe that it’s the coronavirus that will lead to a massive migration of students away from in-person learning and toward the promised land of tech-infused distance education.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 18, 2019

Now, scholars are detecting the same type of biases in the education product industry — even in a federally curated collection of research that’s supposed to be of the highest quality. Higher Education. Department of Education launched in 2002 to help educators decide which educational products to buy.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 13, 2020

Education Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images). In September 2019, I wrote about a review of the research on how to teach critical thinking by University of Virginia professor Daniel Willingham. Higher Education. Schunn, published October 2019 in the journal of Contemporary Educational Psychology.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

Critical thinking is all the rage in education. Some argue that critical thinking should be the primary purpose of education and one of the most important skills to have in the 21st century, with advanced machines and algorithms replacing manual and repetitive labor. Higher Education. Choose as many as you like. Weekly Update.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

climate report highlighted how our dire climate crisis is “unequivocally” and “irreversibly” caused by humans. It’s long overdue that we acknowledge the harms we as humans are causing to the planet. In short, we have an urgent and largely unacknowledged education crisis that starts in the early years. A recent U.N.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

In 2019, a year before Brown Wright was hired, less than 20 percent of students were proficient on the school’s reading assessments, the principal said. Artificial intelligence has been used for years in education to monitor teaching quality , teach classes , grade assignments and tailor instruction to student ability levels.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

But the research process is slow and methodical, and finally in 2019, there is more conclusive evidence that the whirring lobes of plastic are harmful to learning. Higher Education. A German study published in January 2019 found that both fidget spinners and doodling impaired memory. So 2017, right? Choose from our newsletters.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 8, 2024

AI and humans scored essays differently by race and ethnicity “Diff” is the difference between the average score given by humans and GPT-4o in this experiment. Diff” adjusts this raw number for the randomness of human ratings. That might sound self-serving for an employee of a company that specializes in educational measurement.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 16, 2019

. In 1967, on the first international comparison of educational achievement in math, the United States ranked 11 out of 12 nations. Department of Education considers the U.S. performance is,” said Tom Loveless, an education expert who was formerly at the Brookings Institution. Higher Education. was Sweden.

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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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Teaching Anthropology

MAY 8, 2023

Marilou Polymeropoulou, University of Oxford, School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography Active learning is a well-established pedagogical strategy in secondary and tertiary education where independent learning and critical thinking are nurtured. 2019) and at raising learner satisfaction as they enjoy their courses more (Lumpkin et al.,

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 1, 2023

One of the few replicated findings in education research is that daily, individualized tutoring during the school day really helps kids catch up academically. This story also appeared in Mind/Shift In theory, educational software could be a cheaper alternative. What if you were to marry humans with technology?

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Digital Promise

MAY 18, 2021

GBUL has remained dedicated to scholars, families, and educators throughout the pandemic. GBUL continues to remain active on four advisory work groups to advocate for many educational requirements of the 2021 legislative session (i.e., Board of Education case who said, “A lawyer is either a social engineer or a parasite on society.”

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 13, 2023

Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Future of Learning newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every other Wednesday with trends and top stories about education innovation. When a student can see themselves in their educational environment, when they see their own story … it’s very engaging.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 16, 2023

Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Higher Education newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every other Thursday with trends and top stories about higher education. Application figures suggest increased interest in Spelman over the past few years.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 16, 2020

But Ron Dahl, who directs the Institute for Human Development at the University of California, Berkeley, argues that adolescence is actually a second opportunity to invest in children because of the enormous brain development during this period. “It’s Higher Education. ” Sign up for Jill Barshay's Proof Points newsletter.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

But college professors didn’t report a similar academic deterioration with their humanities students. Department of Education documented rising grades on high school transcripts between 2009 and 2019, while 12th grade math scores fell on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP).

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Some solutions in education are expensive. Higher Education. Leave this field empty if you're human: The history of early college high schools dates back to the 1960s with the founding of Bard College at Simon’s Rock in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, a private school. Department of Education. Are they worth it?

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C3 Teachers

MAY 5, 2025

Fast forward to 2024: I now support educators across more than twenty districts through Genesee Valley BOCES. In a grading calibration session, I shared that we were launching a regional Holocaust Educator Network (HEN), funded by a local synagogue that had recently closed. Holocaust Memorial Museum Teacher Fellow in 2019.

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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. This story also appeared in NBC News.

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Digital Promise

MARCH 6, 2019

This blog post was updated on March 6, 2019 to include more current research, information, and opinions on grit in the classroom. We’ll take a deeper dive into her research and consider the role of grit in the classroom in 2019, nearly six years after Duckworth delivered her TED Talk. An Overview of Angela Duckworth’s Research on Grit.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

From the presidential campaigns to local races, Democrats and Republicans both acknowledged that our early care and learning systems are not functioning for families, educators or their communities. In 2023, 3,200 parents were employed in early care and education, and 5,600 children had benefited from the program, Day said.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2021

Overton’s placement in the college-level course with a companion course, called a co-requisite, is part of a developmental education redesign launched by the Alabama Community College System in 2018-19. That is the traditional way that developmental education has worked. “I was very thankful for taking that lab course,” she said. “It

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ED Surge

AUGUST 28, 2024

Still, despite these challenges, I believe my story is important — not only to create a better understanding of Muslim culture and Muslim women’s identity, but also to build a more welcoming educational environment for Muslim educators and students. Yet again, I was met with apprehensive and displeasing looks.

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ED Surge

MAY 3, 2024

News outlets have detailed the rollout by the Texas Education Agency of a natural language processing program, a form of artificial intelligence, to score the written portion of standardized tests administered to students in third grade and up. Like many AI-related projects, the idea started as a way to cut the cost of hiring humans.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 25, 2021

He was also the commissioner of the National Center for Education Statistics in the Department of Education for three years during the Obama Administration. Each hand-written essay is read by two human graders and given a numerical mark in each of three categories, for a total of six marks per essay.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 17, 2023

As a student at Poughkeepsie High School in upstate New York and then as a high school educator in the Bronx, I’ve observed, both inside and outside the classroom, that many of us develop unconscious biases. As educators, it is crucial that we learn and understand our students’ stories in order to build meaningful relationships with them.

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ED Surge

MARCH 12, 2024

By 2019 that had fallen to just 41 percent. To help us dig into these questions, we invited three experts with rich perspectives for this week’s episode of the EdSurge Podcast: Shalin Jyotishi, a senior advisor of education, labor, and the future of work at New America. So what is happening here?

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

One of the most promising uses of technology in education seemed to be a cheap one: nudging text messages. Based on these early successes, education leaders in government and nonprofit organizations sought to bring the power of text messages to hundreds of thousands of students. Educators in this country could learn from that lesson.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 17, 2024

And Wells agreed earlier this year to convert the land-use zoning for the campus from institutional to mixed use, which would allow the buildings and land to be used, and sold, for non-educational purposes. Related: Interested in innovations in the field of higher education? Subscribe to our free biweekly Higher Education newsletter.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

It was the first time in 23 years that a national coalition came together to create science education standards and the first time such standards formally recommended the teaching of climate change. It’s part of an international movement to try and make change that grew out of the Youth Climate Strikes of 2019. They raise cattle.

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