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AUGUST 8, 2022

Ninety percent of schools have increased the number of substitute teachers on staff or are trying to, according to a July 2022 RAND report, but schools are struggling to find new hires, feeding into an overall perception of shortages. The teaching profession, according to CNN in early 2022, was “in crisis.” The stories are scary.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 6, 2025

More recent research, however, suggests that prediction may have been overly optimistic. Stanford University researchers have been studying Washington, D.C.s $33 When researchers looked at these students test scores, they found minimal to modest improvements in reading or math. For one student, 1.3

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Political Science Now

MARCH 18, 2025

The APSA Diversity and Inclusion Advancing Research Grant supports the advancement of research goals and professional development of early career political science scholars. The grant will award scholars whose research areas focus on one of the following target research areas. Applications are due May 6, 2025. Apply Now

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Anthropology.net

APRIL 16, 2025

According to new research, it may have also reshaped the evolutionary story of humans in Europe and beyond. ” The research may also inform the search for life on exoplanets. ” Further Reading & Related Research Cooper, A. ” Further Reading & Related Research Cooper, A. link] Nilsson, A.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 15, 2025

New Zealand does not track streaming or ability grouping by race or ethnicity, but surveys show it is common: Eighty percent of students are in schools that group students by ability level in mathematics, according to a 2022 survey conducted by the Program for International Student Assessment. Related: Racial gaps in math have grown.

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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 4, 2024

By analyzing one million words of Akkadian cuneiform, researchers unearthed fascinating connections between emotional states and specific body parts, offering fresh insights into human emotional experience through time. However, researchers caution that linguistic descriptions alone may not capture the full scope of emotional experience.

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Teaching Anthropology

NOVEMBER 11, 2023

ELIZABETH KEATING, Professor of Anthropology & Graduate Faculty, Human Dimensions of Organizations, The University of Texas at Austin Teaching through research is recognized as one of the strengths of anthropology. The students used questions I developed and used in my research project. References Keating, E.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 10, 2024

LIFO is not very good for kids,” said Dan Goldhaber, a labor economist at the American Institutes for Research, speaking to journalists about expected teacher layoffs at the 2024 annual meeting of the Education Writers Association in Las Vegas. In some cases, state law mandated that teacher layoffs had to be done by seniority.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

More than a quarter of students were “chronically absent,” meaning they had missed 10 percent of classes or more, during the 2021-2022 school year. For the researchers, that means that absenteeism threatens to aggravate the teacher shortage. Since the pandemic, the number of students who are missing class has risen.

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Maitri Learning

JANUARY 12, 2025

At the recent Montessori Schools of Massachusetts conference, I shared how cutting-edge brain research aligns with and validates core Montessori principles. Recent research by Gotlieb and colleagues (2022) shows that this drive for meaning has profound effects on brain development. Here's a summary of some of those key points.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 20, 2024

According to the most recent NAEP results , between 2019 and 2022, student performance in data analysis, statistics and probability fell by a full 10 points for eighth grade students, representing what some experts consider a full grade level in lack of progress. Related: Become a lifelong learner.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 3, 2024

Researchers from the University of California, Irvine, and Arizona State University found that human feedback was generally a bit better than AI feedback, but AI was surprisingly good. On a five-point scale that the researchers used to rate feedback quality, with a 5 being the highest quality feedback, ChatGPT averaged a 3.6

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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. During the 2022-23 school year, nearly 2.5 Dual enrollment is exploding. That’s up from 1.5

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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

APRIL 14, 2025

The public release of ChatGPT in November 2022 changed the world. The researchers were able to gain access to all the online discussion board comments submitted by college students at an unidentified large public university before and after ChatGPT to compare how student writing quality changed.

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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. Credit: Lillian Mongeau/The Hechinger Report. For the past 25 years, U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 5, 2024

Dozens of nonprofit organizations have promoted the research evidence that it will help their children do better in school. A new wave of research over the past decade has looked at how much parents talk about numbers and shapes with their children, and whether these spontaneous and natural conversations help children learn the subject.

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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 1, 2024

A new biocultural database, developed by researchers at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), reveals the profound connections between Borneo’s rich plant life and the survival, traditions, and identity of its people. Source: Ambio, 2022. Source: People and Nature, 2020. 1 Díaz, S., Demissew, S.,

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 8, 2024

When ChatGPT was released to the public in November 2022, advocates and watchdogs warned about the potential for racial bias. Researchers are starting to document how AI bias manifests in unexpected ways. This was purely a research exercise and these essays and machine scores weren’t used in any of ETS’s assessments.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Research shows that a flexible understanding of numbers is strongly correlated to later math achievement and the ability to solve problems presented in different ways. Unlike the recent surge of evidence on science-based reading instruction, research and emphasis on number sense isnt making its way into schools and classrooms in the same way.

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Anthropology.net

JANUARY 17, 2025

“Melka Wakena’s unique high-altitude setting offers valuable insights into how early humans adapted to challenging environments,” the researchers wrote. Stone Selection as a Window into Hominin Cognition The researchers aimed to understand how early Acheulian toolmakers selected stones for their tools.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 26, 2024

In a crowded marketplace with fierce competition for scarce dollars, savvy entrepreneurs embrace research to inspire, hone and scale their businesses. Your concept needs the backing of credible, empirical evidence that follows a research-to-practice trajectory. What research substantiates your product or service?

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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 2, 2024

. “The structure aligns with theoretical models predicting the use of specialized heating techniques for birch tar production, a hallmark of Neanderthal ingenuity,” the researchers note. Journal of Archaeological Research, 22 (4), 563–602. How Did Neanderthals Make Tar? Scientific Reports, 13 , 16578. 147–165.

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Anthropology.net

APRIL 8, 2025

​ Tracing the Origins To determine the provenance of these artifacts, researchers employed X-ray fluorescence (XRF) technology, analyzing 383 obsidian pieces from 96 sites across Alberta. Through advanced sourcing techniques, researchers continue to piece together the routes and relationships that defined ancient North America.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 29, 2025

In 2022, when the first postpandemic results came back, the nations report card revealed historic declines in math performance, as well as declines in reading scores for fourth and eighth graders. Still, Kurz and researchers like him hope to find lessons about the causes of the disparities in coming weeks.

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Anthropology.net

APRIL 14, 2025

A recent study from a team of researchers working at Korman’ 9, a Paleolithic site in Ukraine’s middle Dniester valley, begins to offer some clarity. Related Research Here are some other studies that complement and contextualize these new findings: Henry, A. Brooks, A. S., & Piperno, D. link] Sorensen, A.

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Anthropology.net

NOVEMBER 30, 2024

Bae of the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa and senior researcher Xiujie Wu from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the research sheds light on a complex evolutionary period in Asia’s late Middle and early Late Pleistocene. Led by Professor Christopher J.

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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. Subscribe to our free weekly newsletter to receive our comprehensive reporting directly in your inbox. Naturally, spending class time on civics helps.

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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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Anthropology.net

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

By directly comparing the stone tools (lithics) of these two cultures for the first time, researchers have found no meaningful technological connection between them. Until now, the Châtelperronian and Uluzzian industries had always been studied separately, often by researchers using different terminology and methodologies.

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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. That number dropped to 10 states in 2022, the most recent year for which data is available. That was the hope. Related: Become a lifelong learner.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 15, 2025

Bringing down the price of a degree was certainly a key part of the appeal when online higher education began, said Richard Garrett, co-director of that survey of online education managers and chief research officer at Eduventures, an arm of the higher education technology consulting company Encoura. Online was going to be disruptive.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 6, 2025

While there dont appear to be any studies specifically on the effect of math education for people in prison, a pile of research shows that prison education programs lower recidivism rates among participants and increase their chances of employment after theyre released. Hancy Maxis spent 17 years incarcerated in New York prisons.

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Cult of Pedagogy

MARCH 2, 2025

In 2018, approximately 15 percent of American students were considered chronically absent ; in 2022, that number had risen to 28 percent. Research shows that the best instructional videos are short (under 6 minutes) and focused. The Pedagogical Challenge of Absenteeism Chronic absenteeism is a huge and growing problem. Far from it!

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

This story also appeared in Mind/Shift The latest warning sign comes from college admissions test maker ACT, which compared students’ ACT test scores with their self-reported high school grades between 2010 and 2022. A’s on the rise Percentage of ACT test takers with a grade point average of A, B, or C from 2010 to 2022 by subject.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

In reading, especially, students are even further behind than they were in 2022, the analysis shows. The researchers emphasized the need to extend state and local money to support pandemic recovery programs that showed strong academic results. Thursday, Feb. Related: Why are kids struggling in school four years after the pandemic?

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 1, 2025

On the National Assessment of Educational Progress, a national test done every two years, Minnesota fell from second place among the 50 states in 2009 on eighth grade math scores to eighth place in 2022 , the latest year of available data. Related: Widen your perspective. To do that, we needed to have them take Algebra I in eighth grade.

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