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What’s school without grade levels?

The Hechinger Report

We can’t keep structures that would allow us to fall back into a more traditional system,” said Steiner. “If Two teachers, known as “academic advisors,” were on call to field questions and ensure everybody stayed on task (the teachers also lead weekly seminars or labs to bolster the computer work). Nor are seniors.

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Colleges and states turn their attention to slow-moving part-time students

The Hechinger Report

She transferred to the University of Massachusetts at Amherst a year later because she wanted to try the “traditional college thing” — dorms, dining halls and leafy quads. The seminar covers themes relevant to students’ lives, with topics including hip hop and “The Immigrant Experience.” Photo by Noah Willman for The Hechinger Report.

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What happens when college students discuss lab work in Spanish, philosophy in Chinese or opera in Italian?

The Hechinger Report

Traditional language learning in the U.S. At the first section meeting in early September, 16 students — heritage speakers and language learners — chattered in Chinese and English as they crowded into a seminar room. is in trouble. Is this approach an answer? Most kids don’t want to become a linguist or get a Ph.D.

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More high school grads than ever are going to college, but 1 in 5 will quit

The Hechinger Report

While a larger percentage of high school graduates are going on to higher educations, their actual numbers have declined dramatically, and the number of older-than-traditional-age adults on campus is also down as more are drawn back into the thriving labor market. These trends together mean that there are nearly 2.9

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Tipping point: Can Summit put personalized learning over the top?

The Hechinger Report

A looming question is whether personalized learning that works in, say, a tight-knit, mission-driven charter school can be reliably translated into traditional district schools with many more students, less flexible schedules, keener standardized-test worries and cultures steeped in established ways of teaching and learning.

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 Amid clampdown on DEI, some on campuses push back

The Hechinger Report

Several weeks ago, for example, staff offices at Florida Atlantic University’s Center for Inclusion, Diversity Education and Advocacy in Boca Raton were vacant, with name plates blank and abandoned desks, plus LGBTQ+ flags, posters and pamphlets left behind. There is also mounting resistance to the laws. Cassanello feels compelled to object.

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Speaking Truth to Israel Requires More Than Academic Freedom

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In December 2023, I attended an online seminar featuring the anthropologist Ghassan Hage , a leading expert on race and migration. Protecting academic freedom and freedom of expression is crucial—especially given the widespread silencing of Palestinian human rights advocacy. But doing so does not address the full extent of the problem.