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.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 12, 2021

In Chicago, only 42 percent of public school graduates enrolled in four-year colleges in 2019. To start with, colleges must consider factors other than the traditional standardized scores when recruiting underserved students from communities with few economic, health and educational resources. Sign up for the Hechinger newsletter.

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Anthropology.net

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Traditional Fire Management and Cultural Burning: A Sustainable Model Indigenous Australians have developed nuanced fire management techniques over tens of thousands of years. This buildup of vegetation created conditions primed for severe fires, as seen in the catastrophic 2019–20 Black Summer fires.

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Anthropology.net

JANUARY 17, 2025

Unlike its predecessor, the Oldowan tradition, which focused on basic percussive technologies, the Acheulian period is marked by a broader use of advanced tools such as handaxes and cleavers. Emerging from the earlier Oldowan tradition around 1.75 The Acheulian culture, which emerged around 1.75 Quaternary International.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Traditional higher education has reached an inflection point. According to the National Center for Education Statistics, the cost of college increased by 180 percent after inflation from 1980 to 2019-20. Related: Interested in innovations in the field of higher education? Subscribe to our free biweekly Higher Education newsletter.

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Anthropology.net

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Their findings upend traditional assumptions. Their goal was to infer eye, hair, and skin color from genetic data while accounting for the challenges of working with low-coverage ancient DNA. Dark pigmentation remained dominant across Europe for much longer than previously thought. DOI: 10.1038/nature13810 Olalde, I.,

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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Opportunities Driving Growth and Innovation The findings challenge traditional narratives attributing the rise of mega-settlements to external pressures like climate change or resource scarcity. American Antiquity, 57(1), 50–56. Teixeira, Í B. University of Lisbon Repository.

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Anthropology 365

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 2, 2024

In some states, it has continued to worsen, even while improving slightly for other students, as in Arizona, where chronic absenteeism for Native students rose from 22 percent in 2018-2019 to 45 percent in 2022-2023. Bureau of Indian Education, which are not run by traditional districts.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 6, 2025

In New Zealand, where schools operate far more independently than traditional public schools in the United States, it would be the job of principals like Rodgers to determine how best to teach the countrys math standards. Related: Widen your perspective. Our free weekly newsletter consults critical voices on innovation in K-12 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 30, 2021

In 2019, just over one-third of students in the U.S. 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. In 2019, Mississippi was the only state in the nation to post significant gains on NAEP assessments.

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Catlin Tucker

APRIL 10, 2023

Other Problems with Traditional Approaches to Review and Retrieval Practice Review and practice are often focused on preparing for an exam instead of being treated as an integral part of every class. This is an unsustainable practice for teachers, especially if they must create review activities for multiple subjects or classes.

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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. Thats why some of the most effective initiatives dont look like traditional schools at all. for adults and children. Family hubs in the UK and the U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 5, 2025

The trend crosses traditional political divides. Since 2019, the program has coached more than 400 teachers in more than 60 child care programs in the area, including center-based and home-based settings. A growing number of cities, states and individual programs, including Texas , Virginia , Mississippi and Washington, D.C. ,

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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. In other words, 64 percent of the students in a flipped classroom tend to surpass the average score in a traditional classroom. There’s less rigorous research in high schools and lower grades.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Today, they are even more common at two-year schools: In 2019, community colleges granted 852,504 associate degrees and 579,822 certificates. A 2019 Gallup poll reported that a decreasing proportion of Americans consider a college degree to be very important — from 70 percent in 2013 to 51 percent in 2019.

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Catlin Tucker

JANUARY 13, 2021

The development of a social presence in a class has been shown to positively impact both engagement and learning outcomes (Richardson, Maeda, Lv & Caskurlu, 2017; Swan, 2019). This work developing the social presence in our courses and helping students feel valued as members of a learning community must be ongoing. 10 minutes).

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Anthropology News

MARCH 4, 2025

However, this does not mean that they have lost interest in the language and traditions of their parents and grandparents. Founded in 2019 by two Arabic and Hebrew professors and descendants of North African Jews, the association aims at helping other descendants of North African Jewish immigrants discover and share their linguistic heritage.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2021

Karolewics, who led the task force, cited research by the Community College Research Center at Columbia University that indicated traditional placement tests were doing a poor job of placing students in developmental course tracks. “It That is the traditional way that developmental education has worked. percent in 2017-2018 to 73.66

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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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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.

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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.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

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. Most of these early college schools are now funded by local and state taxpayers, just as traditional high schools are, along with donations from other foundations.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 19, 2024

The average sixth grader knows more today in 2024 than he or she did in first grade in 2019. Sixth graders in 2024, on average, know far less than sixth graders did back in 2019. At the end of the 2023-24 school year, nearly as many kindergarteners were on grade level for phonics skills as kindergarteners in 2019.

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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

JUNE 21, 2020

To that end, his company built a new software tool designed for classroom use and piloted it in five school districts — including the massive Clark County School District serving Las Vegas and its suburbs — in the 2019-20 school year. million to NWEA in 2019-20 for students in kindergarten through eighth grade to take the assessments.

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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

JANUARY 29, 2024

But there are far more students regularly logging into their computers for their classes now than in 2019, according to the latest federal data. million more students were taking at least one course online — even as the total number of college students fell by more than a million between 2019 and 2022. percent versus 1.1

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Dangerously Irrelevant

JULY 24, 2021

We interviewed leaders at 30 different ‘deeper learning’ schools around the world in 2019 and 2020. Our goal was to try and parse out What do leaders at innovative schools do that is different from their counterparts in more traditional schools ? As you might imagine, we saw some fantastic leading, teaching, and learning.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Some parents like Levy don’t see much value in traditional kindergarten. percent in the 2022-2023 school year compared with the 2019-2020 school year, according to an Associated Press analysis of state-level data. percent from the 2019-20 to 2021-22 school year. school system. school system. Wednesday, Nov.

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ED Surge

MARCH 23, 2023

In order to understand the significance of microcredentials, their ability to help meet workforce demands , and the dilemma these short-term credentials are causing to traditional higher education, we must first walk through the ways college has evolved during its nearly 400 years of history in our nation. Herein lies the dilemma.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

JULY 22, 2021

We interviewed leaders at 30 different ‘deeper learning’ schools around the world in 2019 and 2020. Our goal was to try and parse out What do leaders at innovative schools do that is different from their counterparts in more traditional schools ? As you might imagine, we saw some fantastic leading, teaching, and learning.

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ED Surge

APRIL 12, 2022

The transition to digital has been tough to crack for traditional textbook publishers. When it comes to development and delivery of digital content, [the business model used by traditional publishing] wasn't meant for us in this modern world,” Wiley says. Like other giant textbooks, HMH has strained to navigate the switch to digital.

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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. Such a decision might preserve coverage of traditional math content. The courses have been gaining in popularity, particularly with high school math teachers. So do at least 99.8

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 20, 2020

A 2019 draft, working paper of a study on university students in London also found that exposure to indoor air pollutants was associated with lower exam test scores. Three of her papers came out in 2019. AP Photo/Nick Ut). A 2016 Israel study found that high rates of pollution on the day of an exam tamped down high school test scores.

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Teaching Anthropology

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

It seems that, following on such a rich tradition, writing multimodally is a tangible testament to the recognition and appreciation of the diverse cultures and perspectives that make up the global community while at the same time staying true to the fieldwork condition. Summer is just around the corner -enjoy! Apostolidou, A. Dattatreyan, E.

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