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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Anthropology.net

MARCH 25, 2025

These tools, characterized by a prepared-core technique that allowed for precise flake removal, have long been studied using traditional measurements. This new study offers a different lens: analyzing the entire three-dimensional structure of the core to assess how shape is controlled across different regions and tradition.

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Anthropology.net

MAY 2, 2025

“The archaeological record here was practically a blank page,” noted Seyyed Milad Hashemi of Tarbiat Modares University, the project’s lead researcher. The 2021 Eyvanekey field project sought to change that. Yet the lithic traditions here were not carbon copies of what was happening in the Levant or the Caucasus.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 12, 2023

In 2005, Yale researchers released a study that changed perceptions of school discipline in early grades. What research has shown is that nobody is immune to these things. We’re finding that kids make meaning of themselves way earlier than the traditional child development textbooks suggested,” Sabol said.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 9, 2023

A new research review finds inconsistent benefits for students with disabilities who learn alongside general education peers. But a recent international analysis of all the available research on special education inclusion found inconsistent results. Again, more research is needed to confirm this statistically.

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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

JUNE 12, 2023

But the latest national study from a Stanford University research group calculates that students, on average, learned more at charter schools between the years of 2014 and 2019 than similar students did at their traditional local public schools. million students across 40 states. million students, there were signs of improvement.

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Anthropology.net

MARCH 26, 2025

New research by Lorena Becerra-Valdivia, published in Nature Communications 1 , suggests that humans did not simply follow stable climates but adapted to fluctuating conditions, sometimes settling in areas experiencing severe cold. Although a single lithic tradition/category is assigned to each site, some contain more than one (e.g.,

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Anthropology.net

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Credit: Gabriel Ugueto The findings, published in Quaternary Science Advances 1 , come from a research team led by Matthew R. The researchers propose that these markings, found in association with human footprints, may represent the earliest known use of a human-drawn transport system. Related Research Bennett, M. Science.

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Anthropology.net

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

This discovery, led by Eslem Ben Arous and a team of international researchers, forces a reconsideration of how Homo sapiens adapted to diverse ecological challenges across the continent. Researchers analyzed plant wax biomarkers, stable isotopes, phytoliths, and pollen to reconstruct the ancient climate. Their conclusion?

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Digital Promise

JUNE 24, 2021

Many educators are asking, “How do I find the tools that we can leverage to achieve our vision for the 2021-22 school year?”. When edtech tools incorporate research about learning from the start, learners are the center of product design. Look for intentionally designed edtech tools that are likely to support meaningful learning.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 10, 2022

A review of 24 studies on the Orton-Gillingham method , published in the July 2021 issue of the peer-reviewed journal Exceptional Children, found no statistically significant benefit for children with dyslexia. The research is there,” she said. This theory still needs to be tested. Science evolves.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Education policy leaders at the federal level and beyond were exploring the growing role of competency-based education and non-traditional providers —and calls were growing for stronger connections between universities and the world of employment. To start off, it’s worth thinking back to 2016. But these are by far the exception.

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Anthropology.net

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

These European burials included individuals with "eastern-type" traits—characteristics often associated with nomadic steppe traditions. The researchers found no widespread East Asian ancestry among the European populations of the Carpathian Basin following the Huns' arrival. Related Research de Barros Damgaard, P.,

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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. Four new studies released in February 2021 are helping to fill this void. Curriculum. Curriculum.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 22, 2024

Some call it explicit or traditional instruction. The debate reignited among university professors during the pandemic with the 2021 online publication of a commentary in the journal Educational Psychology Review. Soon after, another group of prominent education researchers issued a rebuttal. Some studies show inquiry is better.

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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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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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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 29, 2024

Related: Education research, condensed. Separate research has found that some of the most popular materials that teachers grab from internet sites, such as Teachers Pay Teachers, are not high quality. Writing lesson plans has traditionally been a big part of a teacher’s job. Teacher-curated materials may be disjointed.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 14, 2021

Clifton was among 30 teachers around the country participating in a new effort, funded by the former CEO of Google, to encourage more teachers to conduct high-quality classroom research, from miniature randomized controlled trials to A/B tests, a type of split experiment often used by online retailers.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 9, 2024

“What we’re seeing now is a combination of a leveling off and a big question mark as to where this long-term trend will go,” said Brian McKenzie, director of research at the Council of Graduate Schools. It reached its highest level ever in 2021, as workers who had been laid off or furloughed opted to get graduate degrees. percent to 6.5

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 13, 2022

By the 2021-22 school year, districts and charter networks across the country were facing what many dubbed a crisis of absenteeism. Agua Fria Union High School District had just 6 percent of in-school suspension days assigned because of attendance problems in 2021-22, compared with 40 percent in 2017-18. So why would I go?”.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Students seeking a traditional four-year college experience in their home state must travel more than 225 miles to Montana State University in Billings. There’s also a big payoff: According to Montana state officials, of Montana jobs paying more than $50,000 a year created between 2011 and 2021, 63 percent went to degree holders.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Preliminary research from the nonprofit assessment group NWEA suggested that students would retain only 70 percent of last year’s gains in reading when they returned for the 2020-21 academic year compared with a typical school year. During the pandemic, these challenges have been exacerbated.

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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.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Currently, its enrollment of close to 25,000 children in the 2021-22 school year represents 44 percent of the state’s eligible 4-year-olds. Currently, its enrollment of close to 25,000 children in the 2021-22 school year represents 44 percent of the state’s eligible 4-year-olds. million for the program.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

At OHDELA, enrollment more than doubled to about 5,200 students in the 2020-2021 school year, according to state data. Gary Miron, an education researcher who co-authored a National Education Policy Center report on for-profit charter schools. At Stride Inc., Related : The pandemic’s remote learning legacy: A lot worth keeping.

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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. Despite the U.S.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 26, 2022

Innovation has tended to originate in the nontraditional sector, where experimentation abounds, then migrate to traditional institutions. Today, in the nontraditional sector, organizations and services have abandoned key elements of traditional higher education practice. Overall, “primarily online institutions” in the U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2021

Administrators are crafting plans for the 2021-22 school year to help children catch up on what they may have missed in math during the pandemic. For example, research by McKinsey & Company found that Black and Hispanic students are less likely to have access to technology. Credit: Courtesy of KATHY NEUMANN.

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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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Pedagogy to Share

AUGUST 21, 2023

Researchers in a broad range of fields working with a variety of age groups have recommended Nearpod for generating active and engaging learning experiences, motivating students, and facilitating timely assessment (e.g. Burton, 2019; Buttrey, 2021; Mallinson, 2022; Mattei & Ennis, 2014; Messina et al., Buttrey, K.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 23, 2024

Some researchers think these small-scale efforts to teach math in context could transform how it’s taught more broadly. Students in the study who were taught math through an applied approach performed significantly better on two of three standardized tests than those taught math in a more traditional way. Applied math is so fun.”

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 18, 2021

As districts address unfinished learning, evaluate student growth, and re-engage school communities during the 2021-2022 school year, data equity can highlight where support is needed and help schools better support students’ experiences and needs. They’re also leveraging the cohort as a research-driven professional learning community. “We

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 6, 2021

He chose to take the class online, but a recent body of research based on the experience of more than 10,000 students at the University of California, Irvine, might have informed his decision. This data analysis at a more selective four-year university echoes earlier research that scholars have conducted at for-profit and community colleges.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 6, 2021

And career and technical education, or CTE, schools, with their higher graduation and college-going rates than traditional comprehensive high schools, are producing strong candidates. The Summer Youth Employment Program alone will employ 75,000 young people in 2021. Importantly, proven work-based learning models already exist.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 29, 2022

We know that kids love it and so do parents and teachers,” said Emily Morton, a researcher at NWEA, a nonprofit assessment company, who has studied four-day school weeks around the country. The research evidence isn’t clear. The researchers focused on rural students. There are crazy high approval ratings for this policy.”

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