The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 18, 2021

I wanted to know what the research evidence says about the model that New York is discarding and how education researchers would remake gifted and talented programs. Researchers have been studying ways to diversify the ranks of gifted-and-talented programs. Among whites, 8 percent get tapped for gifted classrooms.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 20, 2024

According to the most recent NAEP results , between 2019 and 2022, student performance in data analysis, statistics and probability fell by a full 10 points for eighth grade students, representing what some experts consider a full grade level in lack of progress. Related: Become a lifelong learner.

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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 2, 2024

. “The structure aligns with theoretical models predicting the use of specialized heating techniques for birch tar production, a hallmark of Neanderthal ingenuity,” the researchers note. Journal of Archaeological Research, 22 (4), 563–602. How Did Neanderthals Make Tar? Kozowyk, P. Poulis, J. A., & Langejans, G.

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Political Science Now

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Join the APSA Committee on the Status of Graduate Students in the Profession for a virtual workshop on best practices for funding your research with small gra nts. In 2018-2019, she was a Fox Fellow at the MacMillan Center at Yale University. She earned her Ph.D. in Political Science from Michigan State University.

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Anthropology.net

APRIL 10, 2025

But researchers turned to another molecular witness: ancient proteins. “Retrieving this kind of molecular evidence from a fossil recovered from the sea floor — that would have been impossible even a decade ago,” noted Sheela Athreya, a paleoanthropologist not involved in the research. . A Species or a Population?

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A Principal's Reflections

MAY 26, 2019

As much as this has been a game-changer for so many, we now have better access to research and evidence of improved student outcomes to really hone in on the types of changes that are needed in classrooms, schools, and districts across the world. You can see the tweet below. What specific challenges do you face in education?

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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. That’s exactly what a team of University of Chicago researchers tried with 1,000 students in six high schools in Chicago and New York City. And that will work for them.”

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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 4, 2024

By comparing the DNA of these ancient canids to that of modern dogs, wolves, and older Siberian wolf populations, the researchers uncovered genetic relationships. Alternatively, some wild canids may have been kept as pets and others hunted,” the researchers noted. Journal : Journal of Anthropological Archaeology , 2019.

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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. Denning and his researchers reviewed all the studies on nudging to try to answer these questions.

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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 4, 2024

By analyzing one million words of Akkadian cuneiform, researchers unearthed fascinating connections between emotional states and specific body parts, offering fresh insights into human emotional experience through time. However, researchers caution that linguistic descriptions alone may not capture the full scope of emotional experience.

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Anthropology.net

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

But a new study, conducted by researchers at the University of Ferrara and published as a preprint on bioRxiv 1 , challenges this oversimplified account. Instead, the researchers found that the first light-skinned individuals did not appear until the Mesolithic period (~12,000 years ago), and even then, they were rare.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 8, 2024

Researchers are starting to document how AI bias manifests in unexpected ways. Inside the research and development arm of the giant testing organization ETS, which administers the SAT, a pair of investigators pitted man against machine in evaluating more than 13,000 essays written by students in grades 8 to 12. Garbage in, garbage out.

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Anthropology.net

MARCH 31, 2025

In these sites, researchers have identified numerous child-sized hand stencils and finger tracings. 2019 Implications for Understanding Prehistoric Societies The active participation of children in creating cave art compels a reevaluation of social structures in Upper Paleolithic societies. Credit: Prof. Marco Romano; Romano et al.

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A Principal's Reflections

DECEMBER 30, 2018

During the past year, I attempted to connect more research to either further validate my thoughts or illustrate how educators were implementing proven strategies with an innovative angle into practice. As research has shown, movement is an essential component of learning. Here’s to a fantastic 2019!

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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Researchers from the ROOTS Cluster of Excellence at Kiel University have introduced a groundbreaking way 1 to apply modern philosophical concepts, like the United Nations Human Development Index (HDI), to ancient societies, offering fresh perspectives on how and why these communities thrived. Philosophy of archaeology.

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Anthropology.net

JANUARY 17, 2025

“Melka Wakena’s unique high-altitude setting offers valuable insights into how early humans adapted to challenging environments,” the researchers wrote. Stone Selection as a Window into Hominin Cognition The researchers aimed to understand how early Acheulian toolmakers selected stones for their tools.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 26, 2024

In a crowded marketplace with fierce competition for scarce dollars, savvy entrepreneurs embrace research to inspire, hone and scale their businesses. Your concept needs the backing of credible, empirical evidence that follows a research-to-practice trajectory. What research substantiates your product or service?

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Her application is called TalkMoves, and a version of Jacob’s research is now being used by the tutoring company Saga Education to train first-time tutors. A researcher at the University of Southern California, she has been working on AI-based professional development for math teachers for several years.

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Catlin Tucker

JULY 19, 2020

Research has established a clear connection between teachers’ feelings of self-efficacy, their level of engagement at work, and their job satisfaction (Granziera & Perera, 2019). My goal was to create a course that would help teachers to develop higher levels of confidence as they approach the new school year.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

However, researchers at Georgetown University project that by 2031, 72 percent of jobs will require some type of education or training after high school. According to the National Center for Education Statistics, the cost of college increased by 180 percent after inflation from 1980 to 2019-20.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 15, 2025

Tokona te Raki/Mori Futures Collective, a think tank focused on youth, has been working since 2019 to persuade schools to voluntarily end the practice by 2030. The research into the benefits or harms of academic tracking or streaming show mixed results. In 2016, a group of researchers compiled all the best U.S-based

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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! If we want to preserve educational leaders and the schools they serve, we must make leaders a priority. This begins with helping leaders define success.

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Anthropology.net

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Researchers focused on key historical periods: pre-human Australia, periods of Indigenous habitation, and the era following British colonization. This buildup of vegetation created conditions primed for severe fires, as seen in the catastrophic 2019–20 Black Summer fires.

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Teaching Anthropology

APRIL 13, 2024

Journal of Research and Practice of College Teaching. The virtual mystery web-tool: An online hybridized problem-based learning teaching tool created by students for students. Currents in Teaching and Learning , Special Issue: Digital Pedagogies 12(2), 33-43. Fukuzawa, S. Special issue: Innovative Teaching Personal Essays, 3, 2, 8-14.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 5, 2025

Those brains grow through a process scientists have coined serve and return , when a caregiver and a child engage in back-and-forth exchanges like a lively game of tennis, according to researchers at Harvard University. Educators who have participated in the program say its had a deep impact.

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HistoryRewriter

JANUARY 17, 2024

Recent Environmental Studies scholarship has utilized archetypes in sustainability research to better understand corporate motives and evidence-based policymaking. Was it George P.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 12, 2023

But the latest national study from a Stanford University research group calculates that students, on average, learned more at charter schools between the years of 2014 and 2019 than similar students did at their traditional local public schools.

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Anthropology.net

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Related Research Sapolsky, R. The ability to create a more just and sustainable future, Colombo suggests, may depend not just on technological progress, but on a deeper understanding of the ancient forces still shaping human behavior. Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst. Penguin Random House. DOI: 10.1111/nyas.13391

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 23, 2025

This years NAEP scores revealed that in both reading and math, most fourth- and eighth-graders still performed below pre-pandemic 2019 levels. In New Hampshire, play-based learning has been mandated in early grades on the basis of strong research on the effectiveness of guided play. for adults and children.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

In 2019, just over one-third of students in the U.S. Preliminary research from the nonprofit assessment group NWEA suggested that students would retain only 70 percent of last year’s gains in reading when they returned for the 2020-21 academic year compared with a typical school year. Many other states are enacting similar legislation.

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Political Science Now

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

Her research interests included the areas of health policy issues, program performance evaluation, Black women, and related political issues. Henderson established the Diasporas and Politics (DAP) project in 2019 to analyze the influence of racial and religious diasporas in world affairs. He received his Ph.D. He has a BA.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Community colleges have 14 percent fewer students in the fall of 2021 than they had two years ago, according to a preliminary enrollment report from the National Student Clearinghouse’s Research Center. percent fewer undergraduate students now than there were in the fall of 2019 before the pandemic. “If That adds up to 6.5

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

million students calculated that in the spring of 2021 students in each grade scored three to six percentile points lower on a widely used test, the Measures of Academic Progress or MAP, than they did in 2019. Students in grades 3 through 8 slid 6 percentage points in reading on state tests in the spring of 2021 compared to 2019.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 17, 2021

The number of eighth graders who said they read 30 minutes or more a day, besides homework, declined by 4 percentage points between 2017 and 2019. Researchers at the American Institutes for Research, a nonprofit research organization, are digging into whether kids are reading less — perhaps distracted by their digital devices.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 29, 2025

During a call, Carr noted that these declines continue trends that predate the pandemic, going back to 2019. Still, Kurz and researchers like him hope to find lessons about the causes of the disparities in coming weeks. Unsurprisingly, these struggling students are less likely to read for pleasure and less likely to show up to school.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 19, 2024

At the end of 2021-22, we optimistically concluded that the worst was behind us and that recovery had begun,” wrote Karyn Lewis, a researcher at NWEA, one of the assessment companies. The average sixth grader knows more today in 2024 than he or she did in first grade in 2019. One report documented that U.S. One is phonics.

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ED Surge

MARCH 4, 2025

While math scores have stayed relatively the same since 2022, the last time the test was administered, theyve yet to hit what they were in 2019. Ed Venit, a managing director at EAB, an education and consulting research firm, and his colleagues have found that students entering college now will likely struggle the most in math.

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