The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Based on these early successes, education leaders in government and nonprofit organizations sought to bring the power of text messages to hundreds of thousands of students. In the latest failure of texting, researchers nudged more than 800,000 high school students to apply for federal financial aid. 1/2) Hi [first_name].

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ED Surge

MAY 9, 2025

Not only do these courses offer students a jump-start on credits once they get to college, but they also equip them with skills like time management, critical thinking and study habits that researchers say encourage them to enroll and stay in college. The number of dually enrolled students has boomed in recent years.

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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. To better understand roti through both the personal and the political, I created the Roti Collective in 2021. Based on our extensive research and experience, this is still true.)

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The Effortful Educator

MARCH 2, 2025

The two end up sharing a flat in London and working to solve crimes for the British police and government, monarchs, aristocrats, and others. All studies included confederates; people who were part of the research team, but appeared to be regular participants. Teachers need to tell students about this type of research.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 22, 2025

As I met with global educators and researchers over the course of several days, a few key themes emerged as ones to keep an eye on in the early childhood space this year: 1. Meanwhile, in Ireland, leaders designated more than 546 million euros in new government funding for early childhood between 2022 and 2024.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 11, 2025

The solution, one that has strong bipartisan support, is as prominent as John Hancocks signature: a generational investment in teaching students how the government works. When it comes to civics, the federal government usually plays a limited role, reasonably restricted from imposing a national curriculum.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 7, 2021

A 2018 review of the research evidence for reducing class sizes found only small benefits in reading and no benefits in math, on average. Georgetown University professor Marguerite Roza tracks school spending and she’s also seeing a new 2021 trend of schools’ hiring more teachers in order to reduce class size s.

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TCI

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

State Evaluations Reveal Gaps in Civics Education In 2021, The Thomas B. Responding to these concerns, the federal government increased funding for K-12 civics and history education funding from $7.75 Fordham Institute evaluated the state-of-state standards for civics and history across all fifty states.

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Anthropology.net

MAY 8, 2025

The line labeled G = 0.695 indicates the mean of 182 comparableestimates of wealth inequality in state-governed societies in which slavery did not play a major role inproduction for the period from 300 BCE to 2000 CE. Related Research Scheidel, W. Princeton University Press. link] Borgerhoff Mulder, M., Hertz, T., link] Bogaard, A.,

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 5, 2023

In 2021, Canada’s leaders committed $30 billion (about $24 billion in U.S. Having women in positions of power — including Chrystia Freeland, the nation’s first female minister of finance — was crucial to ushering the proposed program through Parliament in 2021, experts say, despite continued opposition from some conservative lawmakers.

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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

AUGUST 25, 2021

18, 2021, in Brunswick, Maine. Researchers say there’s likely been more progress – and some steps backward – since then, as they watch for the results of new federal programs established this spring. The American Rescue Plan in March 2021 created the $7.2 The devices are headed to seventh and eighth graders.

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ED Surge

MAY 8, 2025

For decades weve said this is a system that blends and braids funding to serve kids, Steve Barnett, director at the National Institute for Early Education Research, said. The positive trend is enrollment is going up; almost every state had an increase, Allison Friedman-Krauss, associate director for policy research at NIEER, said.

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Anthropology.net

APRIL 16, 2025

But the way those lands were used—how they were divided, worked, and governed—did more than sustain life. The researchers combed through the physical traces left behind by ancient households—47,000 of them, to be precise—spanning over 1,700 sites across the globe. Further Reading and Related Research Kohler, T.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 13, 2021

(Source: Map is Panel A, Figure 1 in The Effect of Teacher Evaluation on Achievement and Attainment: Evidence from Statewide Reforms , December 2021 EdWorking paper at the Annenberg Institute at Brown University). Research documented giant student achievement improvements in Washington, D.C., Teaching quality deteriorated in Dallas.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 23, 2023

They were notified that there was a spot for them in a nearby child care center that had recently signed on to a government-led initiative to lower parent fees to just $10 a day. In 2021, the country’s leaders committed $30 billion (about $24 billion in U.S. Then, in September 2022, the family experienced a dramatic shift in fortune.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 20, 2022

Public two-year community colleges achieved a new budgetary milestone in fiscal year 2021 as they reaped 6 percent more money per student from state and local governments than public four-year institutions did for their regular operating expenses: $9,347 versus $8,859 for each student. College is optional. percent that year.

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ED Surge

APRIL 20, 2023

For example, teachers serving schools with high levels of student poverty were far more likely to report that their students lacked appropriate remote-learning workspaces free of distractions during the pandemic, according to research from the U.S. Government Accountability Office. The nonprofit aims to promote equity in education. “I

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 27, 2021

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.). Yet these employment changes have hit moms of young children hard, the RAPID-EC survey data found. Some experts say that’s why more support is needed for parents.

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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. These test score analyses don’t offer explanations, but researchers shared a range of theories. One report documented that U.S.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Over the past few months, district and charter leaders from 11 districts participating in Digital Promise’s Data Ready 2021 cohort have created actionable data interoperability implementation plans centered on a high-need use case anchored in secure data use, data management, and data integration.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 2, 2023

That triggered a series of financial setbacks and, by October 2021, she owed more than $10,000 in back rent. Research continues to show the harmful impact of housing instability on kids’ learning: Each time students switch schools, for example, they are more likely to fall behind academically and less likely to graduate.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

State match to local investments A partnership between local and state governments with revenue from sin taxes like those on gambling is expanding access to child care for those who need the most help. About 13% of children who qualified for assistance were accessing the program in 2021. Alabama has the flexibility to do so.

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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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Political Science Now

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

He is also a Research Associate at the Center on the Politics of Development at the University of California, Berkeley, and a Fellow at the Governance and Local Development Institute. Nau III Assistant Professor of the History and Principles of Democracy at the University of Virginia. Read about the funded projects.

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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 News

JANUARY 23, 2025

Like Jehovahs Witness congregations in the rest of the world, Kombela Central Mandarin Congregation is governed by local elders in charge of pastoral work, selecting speakers, and directing public preaching. According to the China Africa Research Initiative at John Hopkins University, Zambia owed Chinese creditors US$ 6.6

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 24, 2022

The average college student spent $339 on course materials in the 2021-2022 academic year, or about $38 per course, according to an annual student spending survey from the National Association of College Stores , a foundation that collects information about retail in higher ed. In part, students are using more free content.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2022

In 2020, there were 39 million or one out of every five American adults under 65 who had dropped out of college and never finished their degrees, according to the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center. In June 2021, Collins Aerospace – which had then become a unit of defense giant Raytheon Technologies Corp.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 8, 2021

Developer: Michigan State University Research. Developer: University of Michigan and Michigan State University Research. Developer: Stanford University Research. Developer: University of Washington Research. Government and Politics curriculum. Curriculum. 2nd grade social studies. Curriculum. 6th grade science.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 17, 2023

The federal government limits how much it loans undergraduates. Graduate students constitute only 16 percent of postsecondary students, but they received almost half of the $95 billion in new federal student loans issued in 2021-22, according to the most recent data available. Borrowing for graduate school has since soared.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Teacher BrieAnne Stout (center) guides students through a closing circle during a forest school session in Tijeras, New Mexico on February 3, 2021. Spending so much time outdoors also promotes physical activity and motor development, the research finds. Credit: Adria Malcolm for The Hechinger Report.

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Cult of Pedagogy

JANUARY 21, 2024

Just this month, a group of researchers published their findings on the impact of district capital projects and used test scores to draw conclusions. Meanwhile, politicians, pundits , and researchers argue that schools and students would be worse off without them. And here we are…back at the end of the first paragraph.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

The telemedicine program was launched in fall 2021 by Guilford County Public Schools, North Carolina’s third largest school district, as a way to combat chronic absenteeism. If they’re feeling sick, they can walk in to the school’s health clinic, log on to a computer, and connect with a pediatrician or a family medicine provider.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Without it, kids can’t attend virtual classes or complete homework at home, and families can miss out on critical healthcare or government services. We’ve seen the federal government step up and say, ‘You know what, we need to pay for that.’”. percent of eligible Americans were enrolled in the federal EBB initiative as of October 2021.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 30, 2024

There is a long overdue movement in states and districts across the country to update K-3 reading and math curricula to ensure they adhere to research-proven practices. States invested well over $10 billion in pre-K programs in 2022-23, and the federal government invested $11 billion in Head Start.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

That’s what researchers at Kansas State University set out to quantify when they began crunching the numbers on teacher vacancies for all 50 states. That's one of the things that I think that we — this includes researchers and policymakers and the public — have to decide,” Nguyen says. “At Source: Kansas State University.

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