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PROOF POINTS: Professors say high school math doesn’t prepare most students for their college majors

The Hechinger Report

This story also appeared in Mind/Shift But those same students don’t have many of the math skills that professors think they actually do need. But that’s maybe 20 percent. The other 80 percent, what about them?” Majors that require calculus were excluded.

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Bringing ‘inclusive innovation’ to school districts

The Hechinger Report

The Sunnyside district, where roughly 90 percent of students are Hispanic, signed on at the start of the pandemic, after discovering that many of its ninth graders were struggling with the demands of recently adopted state standards for social science. There was much more emphasis on critical thinking and primary source investigation.

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OPINION: With a skeptical public, higher education must do a better job explaining why college is worth the investment

The Hechinger Report

Generally, colleges of arts and sciences are large academic units within a university that offer a range of department-led majors and areas of study, research and creative activity: from the arts (e.g., English and other languages, history, religious studies), the social sciences (e.g., In addition, the median income for U.S.

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Elevating Social Studies with High-Quality Instructional Materials

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Social studies is more than just a subject—it provides the foundation for understanding and engaging with the world around us. According to the National Council for Social Studies (NCSS) , social studies is the integrated study of social sciences and humanities to promote civic competence.