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Vote for Digital Promise in the 2020 SXSW EDU PanelPicker

Digital Promise

It may be August, but we’re already planning ahead for SXSW EDU in March 2020. “Challenge Collaboratives” are a model of research-practice partnerships that engage educators and researchers across contexts and geographies to create outputs and outcomes that benefit schools nationwide.

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PROOF POINTS: Slightly higher reading scores when students delve into social studies, study finds

The Hechinger Report

A September 2020 study from the Thomas B. Fordham Institute found that elementary school students who studied more social studies, including geography, history and civics, scored higher on fifth grade reading tests. Credit: Jason Bachman/Flickr.

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Voices at the Center: Asian American Educators Rising

ED Surge

A participant at a Black Lives Matter protest in Las Vegas on May 30, 2020. Despite hailing from vastly different geographies and circumstances, the dozens of educators we talked with shared that they often struggled in their own school communities with feeling both hyper-visible and invisible as Asian Americans. on March 21, 2021.

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An unnoticed result of the decline of men in college: It’s harder for women to get in

The Hechinger Report

A spokesperson said that Brandeis does not currently use gender as a factor in its admissions process, and its acceptance rates were 31 percent for men and 35 percent for women for 2020. At each school, men were at least 2 percentage points more likely than women to be accepted in both 2019 and 2020.

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How to raise rural enrollment in higher education? Go local

The Hechinger Report

Lindsay also faced a huge cultural obstacle — geography. Given the educational and economic divide between rural and nonrural America, this may be the most important college access program you’ve never heard of. Ashlyn Walker and Cheyenne Mattox, both Class of 2020, sat nearby, masked and socially distanced.

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OPINION: Why the national teacher shortage is really a distribution problem

The Hechinger Report

In 2020, 24 percent of teachers were considering leaving their current state or the profession within five years; a year later, that number had grown to 30 percent, a Brookings Institution report found. Not surprisingly, a concerning number of educators have grown dissatisfied with their jobs and are eyeing exits.

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College Uncovered: The Rural Higher Education Blues

The Hechinger Report

Jon: But the decline in college opportunity for rural high school graduates is only widening social, economic and political divides between rural America and the rest of the country. They have an economic impact. Sixteen of them have closed just since 2020. Kirk: So how can we close these gaps? Jon: Right, Kirk. Philosophy.

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