The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Map reprinted from The Postsecondary Outcomes of High School Dual Enrollment Students A National and State-by-State Analysis (October 2024) Community College Research Center. million students in the fall of 2021 and roughly 300,000 students in the early 2000s. Dual enrollment is exploding. During the 2022-23 school year, nearly 2.5

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 18, 2021

After years of discussion, New York City announced in October 2021 that it is overhauling gifted and talented programs, eliminating the testing of thousands of 4-year olds and the city’s separate education system of schools and classrooms for students who score high on this one test. Among Hispanic students, it’s 5 percent.

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Sapiens

MAY 7, 2025

Perhaps most infamously, in 2021, the Museum of the Bible in Washington, D.C., As an archaeologist who teaches at Emory and conducts research in Iraq, I have grappled over these questions and decided yes: Learning with and from these objects can help amend their problematic acquisitionso long as that recent history pervades the lesson.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

In the latest failure of texting, researchers nudged more than 800,000 high school students to apply for federal financial aid. Researchers sent texts about how to fill out financial aid forms, how to collect the required information and deadlines. (1/2) Researchers are confident that nudging texts did produce real benefits.

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Sapiens

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

The Roti Collective, a community-based research project, explores the layered histories that brought a flatbread from the Indian subcontinent around the world. In many cases, making roti wasnt a willful choice but an economic necessityor part of unpaid domestic laborwithin a highly gendered and classed society. where I teach.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 16, 2024

The less-selective schools that graduate high shares of low-income students help them succeed not only by reducing financial barriers, but also by providing an array of academic support through learning communities, peer support and undergraduate research experiences.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 17, 2022

This sobering anecdote comes from a research project led by Kelly Slay, an assistant professor at Vanderbilt University, who has been conducting in-depth interviews with admissions officers in 2022 to understand how the elimination of SAT and ACT testing requirements has been playing out inside colleges and universities.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 6, 2025

Math literacy often contributes to economic success: A 2021 study of more than 5,500 adults found that participants made $4,062 more per year for each correct answer on an eight-question math test. Sherry Smith understands that kind of anxiety. She didn’t even want to step foot into a math class.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 25, 2021

19, 2021 to eliminate the essay portion of the SAT may have delighted millions of current and future high school students but its discontinuation could also be a loss for students of color and those whose primary language isn’t English. The College Board’s decision on Jan. They found that the essay scores and verbal test scores can diverge.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

They can be a part of society, said Maureen McGuire-Kuletz, co-director of the George Washington University Center for Rehabilitation Counseling Research and Education. In 2021, 23 states were spending less on pre-ETS than the 15 percent required by law. That was the hope. Related: Become a lifelong learner.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 18, 2022

The good news, according to the latest achievement data, is that learning resumed at a more typical pace during the 2021-22 school year that just ended. The big picture takeaway is that learning mirrors pre-pandemic trends,” said Karyn Lewis, a researcher at NWEA, which sells assessments to schools to track student progress.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 12, 2022

On March 16, 2021, a 21-year-old white man went on a targeted shooting rampage across Atlanta, driving 30 miles to three massage businesses and killing eight people, the majority of whom were Asian women. A vigil attendee honored the victims of the anti-Asian spa shootings in Atlanta by remembering their names on March 21, 2021.

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ED Surge

MARCH 5, 2025

When I began my classroom career in 2021, I expected my school would embody the same tech-forward identity I observed at the district level. During the pandemic, our district embodied this tech-forward identity by providing Chromebooks and hotspots for all students to go fully remote for an entire academic year of virtual learning.

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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 in the 2021-22 academic year after plunging 3.4 percent in September 2021 compared to a year earlier.

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Digital Promise

MARCH 4, 2021

The education system needs to consider a grander vision of success that includes economic stability and positive life outcomes. Digital Promise (@DigitalPromise) March 2, 2021. How do you envision Digital Promise putting research to work to improve opportunities for students moving forward?

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

In the post-war boom of the 1950s, college students were confident of their economic futures and many studied liberal arts subjects such as English, history and philosophy. Current economic anxieties that erupted with the pandemic in 2020 are certainly not helping the humanities now. “It’s That’s true for college students too.

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Anthropology.net

APRIL 16, 2025

A new study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences offers 1 one of the most detailed archaeological analyses to date of the roots of economic inequality. Further Reading and Related Research Kohler, T. Journal of Archaeological Research , 29, 371–413. Bogaard, A., Feinman, G. Peterson, C. Hamerow, H.,

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ACRE

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

What is Econ Challenge: The National Economics Challenge (NEC) is the country’s only economics competition of its kind for 9-12th grade students. School: * School District: * Subject & Grade Level * Ex: 9th grade Economics, 11th grade AP Civics and Econ Competition Category: * Which division will your students be participating in?

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Beginning in 2016, a team of education researchers, vision specialists and philanthropists sought to rectify this problem in Baltimore, one of the poorest U.S. That enabled researchers at Johns Hopkins University to randomly assign schools to participate. That leaves some 12 to 15 percent of U.S. school children with blurry vision.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 27, 2021

It’s well-known that women have been especially impacted by pandemic-related economic upheaval. That’s actually slightly lower than the percentage of mothers with school-age children who were not working as of January 2021, according to the United States Census Bureau.). Some experts say that’s why more support is needed for parents.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 12, 2021

Scholars are trying to understand why more rural students don’t pursue studies that could lead to well-paying careers for themselves and a more productive economic future for their communities. Some of the clues are contained in this June 2021 data analysis conducted by two researchers at Claremont Graduate University and Indiana University.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Credit: Cavan Images The research on early childhood education can seem as messy as a playground sandbox. Researchers studied the children who attended in 2005-06 and saw an immediate academic bang, followed by disappointments. Earlier research has also found long-term benefits from preschool. college and university.

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Anthropology.net

MAY 11, 2025

The people buried in Dahwa’s tombs were part of a larger economic and social landscape—one that spanned oceans and deserts, and that brought not just goods but biological entanglements. ” The micro-CT data, stored and shared for future researchers, may help resolve other puzzles. Related Research Robbins, G.,

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 23, 2023

If a comprehensive student support program can work in Montana the way that it has worked in other places, the state could see more degrees and less debt, spurring economic stability for rural towns and the state as a whole. That means illuminating a winding path through the Rockies toward a postsecondary degree.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 27, 2023

Policy Center , a nonpartisan research organization. Almost half the students in the district – 48 percent – were absent for 10 percent or more of the 2021-22 school year. Educators and researchers also worry that Washington’s pandemic trends are playing out nationwide. I’ve been focused on the economic reasons.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 30, 2023

A 2021 study showed that the pandemic disproportionately impacted Black students, prompting a heightened distrust of education. In 2021, mid-pandemic, the exact same proportion of students gave this positive response. And there is every reason to expect disruptions in student learning post pandemic.

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Anthropology.net

APRIL 17, 2025

0321082 The site’s stratigraphy mirrors larger historical arcs, suggesting that purple dye wasn't merely a luxury good but also a node in a larger economic and symbolic system. Related Research Sukenik, N., DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0321082 ” Antiquity , 95(383), 1-18. link] Mylona, D.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 24, 2021

Many students, including but not limited to students with dyslexia, need one-on-one, research- and evidence-based instruction, and schools need well-trained, experienced teachers who have the necessary skills to give students a fighting chance to catch up. This year, it was 47 percent. It’s time to face this literacy loss head-on.

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ED Surge

MARCH 23, 2023

Most were designed to educate clergy, according to research by Phillip R. Arrington, in 1860 the economic value of enslaved peoples in the U.S. With such industrial, technological, infrastructural, societal and economic growth occurring in the country, higher education became seen as a key pathway to success. Despite the U.S.

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Anthropology News

JANUARY 23, 2025

Even with increased interactions through evangelizing, there have been growing anti-Chinese sentiments in Zambia in recent years, often based in economic inequalities between the countries. According to the China Africa Research Initiative at John Hopkins University, Zambia owed Chinese creditors US$ 6.6

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 6, 2021

The result is that we are losing the energy, intelligence and creativity young people could and should bring to New York’s economic recovery. We are losing the energy, intelligence and creativity young people could and should bring to New York’s economic recovery. The time is right.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

In July the Board of Regents at the University of Wisconsin convened to finalize the budget for the 2021-22 academic year. The Covid-19 pandemic had walloped the system, leading to a net loss of nearly $170 million as of spring 2021. State experts thought the system risked falling further behind.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 5, 2021

This call pictured above was one of more than three million umpire calls analyzed by researchers in a 2021 study finding that short breaks refresh an umpire’s attention span. The study, “ The Dynamics Of Inattention In The (Baseball) Field ,” is a draft paper circulated by the National Bureau of Economic Research in June 2021.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 2, 2024

Academic researchers have been trying to find out how these scattergrams, which have been widely adopted by U.S. The researchers found that applications to these schools plummet after students see the scattergrams. high schools over the past two decades, are influencing students.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Like hundreds of school districts, Aspire purchased an online tutoring service for the spring of 2021 to help these students. The nonprofit charter school network also invited a team of university researchers to study whether the online tutoring service was helping students. This story also appeared in Mind/Shift.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 7, 2022

That teachers stop improving after three years was, perhaps, an overly simplistic exaggeration but it was based on sound research at the time. Other researchers, including Stanford University’s Eric Hanushek , found the same. . .” He argued that teacher effectiveness should be measured and good teachers rewarded.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

A large body of research shows that Black students are likely to learn more when they are taught by a Black teacher. Quantitative researchers have found better results for Black students taught by Black teachers in Texas , Florida , Missouri , Tennessee and North Carolina. “I Credit: Cheryl Gerber for The Hechinger Report.

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