The Hechinger Report

JUNE 16, 2021

It was a moment she’d been waiting for since her freshman year — not just to graduate from high school, but also to wear her traditional Yup’ik headdress and mukluks. That year, 2019, the district changed its policies to allow Indigenous students to wear cultural items along with their caps and gowns. I felt completely violated.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 12, 2021

Understandably, reports indicating that higher education is heading toward a looming enrollment cliff have university administrators nervous. In Chicago, only 42 percent of public school graduates enrolled in four-year colleges in 2019. The remaining 58 percent represent an untapped resource for higher education.

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Education Elements

DECEMBER 29, 2020

I got started with this tradition of predictions in 2010 after reading Disrupting Class, a book by Clayton Christensen and Michael Horn. In their book, they predicted that by 2019, 50% of all high school courses will be online in some blended learning model.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Yet such nondegree certifications aren’t new to higher education: Colleges already offer certifications in everything from digital marketing and data analytics to cosmetology. Today, they are even more common at two-year schools: In 2019, community colleges granted 852,504 associate degrees and 579,822 certificates.

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ED Surge

MARCH 23, 2023

Community colleges, which have historically served as comprehensive institutions offering associate degrees with transfer articulation agreements to four-year colleges, have also served as workforce drivers through their array of educational credit and non-credit courses. From 1890 to 1940, higher education in the U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 6, 2025

But her report also noted that educators have been let down before by various initiatives that failed to make a change in the countrys math achievement scores. Our free weekly newsletter consults critical voices on innovation in K-12 education. Who or what do you trust now? Related: Widen your perspective. Not any more.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 19, 2024

Once the site of an Indian boarding school, where the federal government attempted to strip children of their tribal identity, the Native American Community Academy now offers the opposite: a public education designed to affirm and draw from each student’s traditional culture and language. We’re leading these schools.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 2, 2024

History “may cause them to not see the investment in a public school education as a good use of their time,” said Dallas Pettigrew, director of Oklahoma University’s Center for Tribal Social Work and a member of the Cherokee Nation. Bureau of Indian Education, which are not run by traditional districts.

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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 2, 2024

From Philosophy to Archaeology: The Capability Approach The HDI, widely used today to evaluate well-being through health, education, and living standards, traces its roots to the capability approach developed by philosopher and economist Amartya Sen. American Antiquity, 57(1), 50–56. Teixeira, Í B. University of Lisbon Repository.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 26, 2021

The binders resemble, to a degree, the individualized education programs, or IEPs, that are at the heart of education for students with disabilities. But Arianna and Alanni aren’t special education students. Personalized learning has, in recent years, become one of the most talked-about trends in education.

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APRIL 23, 2025

In 2019, when a student opened fire in one of my classeskilling two students and injuring four othersJon and his wife, Peta (a brilliant anthropologist and an even better person), became an anchor. Marks responded plainly : Racists stole it, he wrote in 2019. That trust extended far beyond the classroom. All I can do is disavow it.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 3, 2020

And that’s the state we find many of our institutions in as the current pandemic lays bare the inequities of our education system. Despite our current shortcomings, we have a great opportunity to rethink how we measure student progress in education and how we use real-time data to address these inequities. schools is an F.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

They say the more relevant content offers a highly engaging entry point to STEM, especially for students who have been turned off by traditional math courses. Related: COLUMN: How can we improve math education in America? Such a decision might preserve coverage of traditional math content. So do at least 99.8

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 5, 2025

Our free early childhood education newsletter tracks the issues. The trend crosses traditional political divides. Other elements of quality, like teacher education and ratios, are only important to the degree to which they change the way that teachers interact with kids, she added. Hess and Michael Q.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 23, 2025

Education systems were built on the belief that if we filled young minds with enough knowledge, progress would follow. This years NAEP scores revealed that in both reading and math, most fourth- and eighth-graders still performed below pre-pandemic 2019 levels. for adults and children. Family hubs in the UK and the U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 30, 2024

Related: Interested in innovations in the field of higher education? Subscribe to our free biweekly Higher Education newsletter. Across the country, colleges and universities offer scores of programs designed to help students from underrepresented groups succeed in STEM education and prepare for tech careers.

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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

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. But what if he’s right?

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 29, 2021

Digital alternatives at residential colleges and other new ways of delivering education have exploded since the pandemic forced schools to shut down in March 2020, forcing a reckoning in a sector already reeling from enrollment declines, rising tuition and unmanageable, often hidden student debt. Credit: Liz Willen for The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 29, 2019

The average performance of the nation’s fourth and eighth graders mostly declined in math and reading from 2017 to 2019, following a decade of stagnation in educational progress, according to the results of a test released on Oct. The one exception was fourth-grade math, with the average score rising by one point between 2017 and 2019.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

In 2019, just over one-third of students in the U.S. achieved National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) proficiency in fourth grade reading. Results from the fall 2020 assessment showed that students in grades 1-8 “lost” an extra 1 percent in reading compared to fall 2019, with high-poverty students “losing” more.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 14, 2020

It’s “flipped” because it’s the opposite of the traditional structure in which students first learn from a teacher’s in-class instruction. But like many trends in education, the novelty took hold before the evidence mounted. Flipped classrooms also free up class time for teachers to help students individually, as a tutor does.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 11, 2022

In addition, I worried about whether we would meet our students' academic, emotional, and social needs, especially for students that attend a non-traditional school. Throughout the pandemic, discussions about supporting students have centered on traditional, comprehensive schools.

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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. It helped out a lot.”.

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Digital Promise

APRIL 25, 2019

In traditional science classrooms, students are often presented with facts and definitions to memorize, or they are asked to follow a predetermined set of instructions to complete a lab activity. However, this model of instruction does not align with our emerging understanding of how students learn science best. Next steps.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Some solutions in education are expensive. Most early college high schools are small public schools, housing grades nine to 12 just like traditional public high schools, though some extend five years. Higher Education. Department of Education. Photo: Kayleigh Skinner. Are they worth it? Choose from our newsletters.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 19, 2024

Where are we going to find an additional year to make up for these kiddos before they leave the education system?” These companies may have a business motive in sounding an alarm to sell more of their products, but the reports are produced by well-regarded education statisticians. One is phonics. How am I going to factor?

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 26, 2020

According to a preliminary October 2020 report from National Student Clearinghouse Research Center that tallied fall enrollment figures from just over half of the nation’s colleges and universities, the number of undergraduate students has fallen 4 percent since the fall of 2019. The number of new students is down 23 percent.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 26, 2019

Backers of project-based learning, and its hands-on relative, maker education, would argue that activities like these not only deepen understanding of academic content but also bolster creativity, persistence, problem-solving and related skills that are critical for success in a rapidly changing world. Chris Berdik for The Hechinger Report.

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Digital Promise

APRIL 25, 2023

This is up from an average of 703 edtech tools during the 2018-2019 school year, representing a more than 200% increase in just three years. Technology in schools can be a critical tool in advancing equity. How to Center Equity in Edtech Guidance At the core of this systems guide is a focus on equity.

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 14, 2019

Digital Promise is excited to announce 14 new districts will join the ranks of the League of Innovative Schools for the 2019-2020 school year. Please join us in welcoming the new 2019-2020 cohort of the League of Innovative Schools! The League is a powerful network of forward-thinking school district leaders. Chesapeake Public Schools.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 29, 2024

The pandemic not only disrupted education temporarily; it also triggered permanent changes. But there are far more students regularly logging into their computers for their classes now than in 2019, according to the latest federal data. 21, 2024 newsletter, “ Fall 2022 IPEDS Data: Profile of US Higher Ed Online Education.”

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ED Surge

MARCH 31, 2022

We’re familiar with the higher education headlines. The world’s complexity has been catapulted to a new level, and higher education is feeling the repercussions like never before. Add in demographic changes, and it’s no surprise that demand is falling for the traditional college experience. They want jobs.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 21, 2020

It was time, thought the ed tech pioneer, to bring his nonprofit online education empire to brick-and-mortar schools — lots of them. And it would provide a key to ensuring more children become proficient in math, a stubborn problem in education nationally. This story also appeared in The Nevada Independent. Students at B.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Some parents like Levy don’t see much value in traditional kindergarten. And for many, kindergarten simply is no longer the assumed first step in a child’s formal education, another sign of the way the pandemic and online learning upended the U.S. percent from the 2019-20 to 2021-22 school year. school system.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 24, 2019

With the lists of the men’s and women’s teams invited to the 2019 NCAA tournament in hand, we developed our formula and set out to see how the competition would fare if we selected teams based on their track records of closing equity gaps and ensuring student success. That’s why we gave the classic bracket a twist.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 19, 2021

A Yale-educated evolutionary biologist and a member of the faculty at Catholic, liberal arts-focused Sacred Heart University, Geffrey Stopper also oversees one of its newest courses: Advanced Craft Beverage Brewing. Americans appear to like the idea of embedding career and technical education into academic degree programs.

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