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. And the states extremely decentralized school governance system has hampered haphazard efforts to get the services into schools. That was the hope.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

In a 2016 survey by Harvard’s Center for Education Policy Research, 94 percent of middle school math teachers said they analyzed student performance on tests in the prior year, and 15 percent said they spent over 40 hours on this kind of data analysis. The emerging answer from education researchers is no.

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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

In 2022, only 22 percent of eighth graders tested proficient or above in understanding how this countrys constitutional democracy is supposed to work and how to apply that knowledge. When it comes to civics, the federal government usually plays a limited role, reasonably restricted from imposing a national curriculum.

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Teaching American History

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

A Conversation with Sonja Czarnecki Sonja Czarnecki, 2022 MAHG Graduate “In order to understand history, you have to do history,” Sonja Czarnecki insists. To give students insight into the work of historians, Czarnecki assigns research projects in all of the courses she teaches at Bishop Seabury Academy in Lawrence, Kansas.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 30, 2024

Scores on an international math test fell a record 15 points between 2018 and 2022 — the equivalent of students losing three-quarters of a school year of learning. Students reported less enjoyment, less interest and more anxiety around the topic, said Doris Lewalter, an educational researcher at the Technical University of Munich.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

In 2022, the state division got creative. 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. Providers couldnt increase compensation to attract and retain qualified teachers.

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Teaching American History

MAY 6, 2025

This blog was originally posted on May 5, 2022. Paradoxically, her love of this history had led her to major in classics as an undergraduate at UCLA, so as to read the Latin and Greek texts the Founding Fathers read as they formulated their plans for self-government. But there was never time to research extra things!

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ED Surge

MARCH 5, 2025

Google It As a student, part of my schooling involved library classes, computer classes and English classes, during which I received dedicated instructional time using Mozilla Firefox and Google to do research for school projects. We were taught not to plagiarize and to cite our sources.

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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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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Canadian labor groups have also supported the efforts , something that has recently become a more prominent strategy in the United States, especially after efforts to pass child care legislation faltered in 2022. For many years, the province of Quebec has shown the potential benefits of government funding for child care.

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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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ED Surge

JUNE 25, 2024

In 2022, only about 270,000 families (about 1.6 government invests in home visiting programs, and funding is set to expand. Then, in 2010, the federal government invested in home visiting programs for the first time with the creation of the Maternal, Infant and Early Childhood Home Visiting ( MIECHV ) program. “It

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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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ED Surge

MAY 29, 2024

It was during a trip to the grocery store in 2022 with her two young kids that somebody told Valencia about the home visiting program. Yet in 2022, only about 270,000 did. Beginning this year , the federal government will match $3 for every $1 in non-federal funds spent on home visiting programs, up to a certain amount.

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Political Science Now

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Pepinsky , Cornell University , dm Reiff, Hungarian Research Network , and Krisztina Szab, Royal Holloway, University of London The 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine was a watershed moment in European politics. The Ukrainian Refugee Crisis and the Politics of Public Opinion: Evidence from Hungary By Thomas B.

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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

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

There is considerable research on the benefits of intervening early when a child is falling behind at school. But researchers occasionally find things that work with high schoolers. An earlier version was circulated by the National Bureau of Economic Research.). Lavy modeled it after an on-the-job teacher training program.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 23, 2023

Then, in September 2022, the family experienced a dramatic shift in fortune. 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. It’s like I won the lottery,” Petersen said. Could Milwaukee provide the answer?

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 2, 2023

Researchers randomly assigned 21 elementary and middle schools to receive arts education first and watched what happened to 8,000 of their students in grades three through eight. To the researchers, that was good news. More schools signed up than the program could handle. That didn’t happen.”. Disciplinary infractions were 3.6

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ED Surge

JANUARY 12, 2023

So when Parks learned during a conference for student-government leaders about a program that teaches young adults to offer mental health support to their peers, she thought it would work well at Marshall—and even beyond, at colleges throughout West Virginia. Alyssa Parks. Photo courtesy of WVHEPC.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 10, 2024

In 2016, despite research showing that students who used computers more often at school performed much worse on reading and math PISA tests, the Finnish government announced it would spend millions of euros on ramping up digital learning. The data also showed a strong association between digital distraction and student achievement.

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ED Surge

MAY 30, 2024

The grant money comes from the CHIPS and Science Act, which passed in 2022 and includes $50 billion to expand semiconductor manufacturing and research in the United States. New York in 2022 passed the Green CHIPS Act, which provides tax incentives for companies to expand semiconductor manufacturing there.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 24, 2023

As advocates for music and arts education, we see an opportunity to continue to hold school and government leaders accountable, and to lock in investment in music and the arts as we build healthy, resilient communities. We need to keep our voices strong at this moment. students do not have access to music in their schools.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

And in 2022, 36 states enacted policies promoting career training for high schoolers, college students, and adults, according to Advance CTE , a professional organization for state CTE leaders. “You I think we’re doing a great job, but I have no data or research.” Without that, they’re making decisions in the dark.”

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 1, 2024

Though the two studies used different methods, they arrived at strikingly similar numbers for the average growth in math and reading scores during the 2022-23 school year that could be attributed to each dollar of federal aid. The academic gains per aid dollar were close to what previous researchers had found for increases in school spending.

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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. Community colleges don’t receive these sorts of funds.

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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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ED Surge

AUGUST 12, 2022

This week, the Aspen Institute announced its 2022 Ascend fellows, a cohort of 22 individuals hailing from a range of disciplines including medicine, research, entrepreneurship, government and policy, and nonprofit leadership and advocacy. A lot of people talk about the issue of hiring. It’s not an issue. It’s not an issue.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

It claims that its drop in diversity is not because it went back to required testing in 2022. Tools that work for expanding economic diversity don’t necessarily do the same thing for racial diversity, as research indicates. Research suggests that test-optional or test-free admissions can be one tool in a broader set of reforms.

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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. One 2022 study found that children who went to preschool in Tennessee ended up worse off , on average, than those who stayed home. Earlier research has also found long-term benefits from preschool. college and university.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 15, 2024

Ever since the pandemic shut down schools in the spring of 2020, education researchers have pointed to tutoring as the most promising way to help kids catch up academically. Researchers have previously found that it is important to schedule in-person tutoring sessions during the school day, when attendance is mandatory.

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ACRE

JANUARY 9, 2023

The 2022 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences (in Memory of Alfred Nobel) has been awarded to three economists; Ben S. Dybvig for their “research on banks and financial crises.” An important finding in their research is why avoiding bank collapses is vital. Watch the Presentation: In December 2022, Dr. Brian C.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 27, 2024

Then, in 2020, Harvard University’s Center for Education Policy Research announced that it was going to test the feasibility of paying tutoring companies by how much students’ test scores improved. The federal government would eventually give schools almost $190 billion to reopen and to help students who fell behind when schools were closed.

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ED Surge

APRIL 19, 2022

According to the Community College Research Center , federal Pell Grants currently can only be used for programs totaling at least 600 hours over 15 weeks. But there is still more that the government can do to help higher education and employers partner to support people who are trying to land better careers.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 19, 2024

In late 2022, the White House released a “Blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights,” hoping that it would strengthen privacy rights. If you ask some researchers, though, it’s not enough. The report, “ Wicked Opportunities ,” also calls for more investment into research and development. And last year, the U.S.

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