The Hechinger Report

JULY 25, 2017

Classic studies by psychologists James Stigler of UCLA and the late Harold Stevenson, detailed in their 1994 book The Learning Gap , compared videotaped lessons in eighth-grade math in several countries. The post To err is human – and a powerful prelude to learning appeared first on The Hechinger Report. classrooms.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 6, 2025

Math literacy often contributes to economic success: A 2021 study of more than 5,500 adults found that participants made $4,062 more per year for each correct answer on an eight-question math test. Math helped Paul Morton after he left prison, he told me. When he began his 10.5 years in prison, he only could do GED-level math.

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Geography Education

MAY 1, 2024

In a new book called La Cucina Italiana Non Esiste (literally “Italian Cuisine Does Not Exist”), food historian Alberto Grandi claims, among other things, that Italians only discovered tomato sauce when they emigrated to the Americas, where tomatoes are native, in the 19th century.” Or where your croissant is from?

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ACRE

OCTOBER 31, 2022

It’s #EconEdMonth, the time of year where we highlight resources and strategies for teaching Economics across disciplines and content areas. This year, I asked a few Arkansas teachers to share what they love about teaching economics. I have fallen in love with teaching Economics! Here is what they had to share.

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Political Science Now

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

Ours is a post-industrial era, characterized by unprecedented technological innovation and economic growth. ”” A closer look at the managerial practices of technology companies like Google and Amazon brings digital capitalism’s dependence on human labor—what Pinheiro calls “the human abode of automation”—into focus.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 16, 2020

This flies in the face of common sense and human history, deBoer argued. These myths are harmful, in deBoer’s view, because they lead us to conflate academic ability and human worth. In the author’s telling, the Cult of Smart is “the notion that academic value is the only value, and intelligence the only true measure of human worth.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

climate report highlighted how our dire climate crisis is “unequivocally” and “irreversibly” caused by humans. It’s long overdue that we acknowledge the harms we as humans are causing to the planet. She is currently writing a book on the future of learning. A recent U.N. This is the crisis facing early childhood.

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ED Surge

JUNE 22, 2023

It’s like a conceited human who will present a detailed lie with a straight face, and so it’s hard to detect. It’s like a conceited human who will present a detailed lie with a straight face, and so it’s hard to detect." The book it cited with such confidence doesn’t exist. So Ashok K. Kakar admits it’s a work in progress.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 23, 2025

For many students, seeing doctors who look like them featured in posters or books can challenge internalized doubts and dismantle societal messages that suggest they dont belong in medicine. read more STUDENT VOICE: Humanities are in trouble in the state of Florida. Sign up for Hechingers weekly newsletter.

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Anthropology for Beginners

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Application of Archaeology Archaeology is the study of human past through material remains. archaeologists study past humans and societies primarily through their material remains – the buildings, tools, and other artifacts that constitute what is known as the material culture left over from former societies. How were those pots used?

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ACRE

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Women have always worked, and yet their economic contributions are often undervalued. Her economic history research expands 200 years to provide an account of women’s participation in labor markets over time and describe the history of women’s continuing economic liberation. Dr. Claudia Goldin wanted to understand why.

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Teaching American History

MAY 21, 2024

Instructor: John Moser (Ashland University) Course Materials: Syllabus , Course Packet , Game Book 610: American Foreign Policy (June 23 – 28) Students examine events and issues in the foreign policy of the American republic. Instructors: Eric C. Instructor: David F.

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ED Surge

APRIL 25, 2023

I recognized that nobody had trained me on how to provide therapeutic or even just human care in a crisis,” she says, noting that such care is essential before effective learning can happen. Krauss is the author of a new book, “ Whole Child, Whole Life: 10 Ways to Help Kids Live, Learn, and Thrive.” Why, and what do you mean by that?

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 26, 2021

Now, based on the latest science and human behavior, I predict that on-campus classes will not be safe until late 2022. First, I moved the thousands of books cluttering my office space to storage. By July, like a lot of my colleagues in academia, I was already making some more permanent changes to my teach-from-home set up.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 18, 2018

We wanted to see what the United States could learn from an education system that consistently receives top marks from UNICEF , the OECD and the World Economic Forum. The point, he said, is “the human values and the human principles that one learns in childhood. Why should we bother to learn from a small country of just 5.5

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 23, 2019

This story is part of our Map to the Middle Class project , where we ask readers what they want us to investigate about educational pathways to economic stability. Joseph Aoun, president of Northeastern University, has written the book on this question. Is a four-year degree still the best way to obtain a well-paying job?

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 27, 2020

Everybody’s already talking about program reviews,” said Rudy Fichtenbaum, a professor of economics at Wright State University in Ohio and president of the American Association of University Professors. Any time they see an opportunity to attack particularly the humanities and the social sciences, that’s what they’ll go after.”.

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ED Surge

MARCH 12, 2024

He recently served as the first civil society fellow in artificial intelligence and machine learning at the World Economic Forum, where he led research on AI, job quality and work augmentation. Ben Wildavsky, author of the new book, “ The Career Arts: Making the Most of College, Credentials, and Connections.”

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 17, 2023

We compiled the stories into a book, “Poughkeepsie Pride: The Stories of Our Immigrants,” and distributed copies to the local community. The sharing of stories is as human and fundamental as breathing itself. Despite our differences, stories are what keep our bond of humanity intact. And the process begins at the foundation.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 28, 2023

I entered college in 1989 with an interest in human rights advocacy, planning to be a lawyer. in English from an Ivy League school followed and then a career that more than justified it: 10 years as a professor, author of a well-received book, 15 years leading nonprofit organizations. I am a poster child for the English major.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 22, 2018

A recent study by the United Negro College Fund found that HBCUs like Grambling State have a combined annual economic impact of nearly $15 billion. These critics fail to recognize that the economic impact of HBCUs is significant. In North Carolina, the economic impact nearly surpasses $2 billion, while creating more than 15,000 jobs.

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Political Science Now

JULY 30, 2024

The Merze Tate – Elinor Ostrom Outstanding Book Award , formally the APSA Best Book Award, is presented annually by the American Political Science Association (APSA) to honor the best book on government, politics, or international affairs. Dr. Olukunle P.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Her school is located in Houston’s Fifth Ward neighborhood and serves a student body that is nearly 100 percent classified as economically disadvantaged. The library had long been central to life at the campus, and Dowda said students were rarely seen without a book in hand. But again, her tenure would be short-lived.

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Catlin Tucker

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

This could mean considering how a community or group (which could be as small as the classroom or as large as humanity) would perceive the subject or how it might affect or be affected by it. We: The class discusses wider applications of the concept in fields like engineering or economics and its societal impact.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 5, 2021

The increase in umpire errors buttresses the idea that humans have only so much attention span that can be depleted after a period of intense effort or concentration. The good news, according to this study, is that humans can quickly reset their attention spans.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 21, 2018

“These studies are important because they tell us that teacher-student relationships matter,” said Tyrone Howard, a professor of education at the University of California, Los Angeles, who is writing a book on the research about students’ relationships with their teachers and how well they learn. ”I

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Marginal Revolution

JANUARY 19, 2024

An excellent book with sound conclusions, think of it as moderate Julian Simon-like optimism on environmental issues, but with left-coded rhetoric. Think of this as a sequel to Kyle Harper’s tract on Roman plagues and their political import , this look at the Antonine plague and its impact has both good history and good economics.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 30, 2017

That is the major finding of a new report by the Economic Policy Institute, in which researchers Emma Garcia and Elaine Weiss analyzed kindergarten readiness data for socioeconomic groups in 1998 and 2010 to see if gaps in academic readiness have shrunk over time. Sign up for our newsletter. Choose as many as you like. Weekly Update.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 30, 2024

Over the past decade, a growing number of professors in fields as diverse as business, English and the performing arts have integrated their teaching with efforts to minimize their campuses’ waste and emissions, at a time when human-created climate change is fueling dangerous weather and making life on Earth increasingly unstable.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 13, 2023

Email Address Choose from our newsletters Weekly Update Future of Learning Higher Education Early Childhood Proof Points Leave this field empty if you’re human: By the close of this century, at least half of the more than 7,000 languages spoken today will become extinct – and that’s according to the rosiest of linguistic forecasts.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 19, 2023

And what we're really working on is what would a human-centered, a relationally centered version of education look like if it could be empowered by and supported by AI? We were very much influenced by the book “Power and Prediction: The Disruptive Economics of Artificial Intelligence.”

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Cult of Pedagogy

APRIL 18, 2023

Her 2021 book, Equity-Centered Trauma-Informed Education , is one I wish I’d had available to me before I started teaching; it would have made a world of difference in how I saw my students and designed my classroom practices. All of those things feel really similar. ” Effective trauma-informed education is not just for the kids.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 29, 2019

In addition to its reputation as an international powerhouse in the field of economics and a home to multiple Nobel Laureates, the school has grounds that are designated as an official botanic garden. The University of Chicago moved its economics department into the former home of the Chicago Theological Seminary. Weekly Update.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 30, 2017

Black primary-school students who are matched to a same-race teacher performed better on standardized tests and face more favorable teacher perceptions according to recent findings from the German economic research group Institute of Labor Economics. Is it because black teachers are better educators?

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 18, 2022

The Carteret Public School District, in a diverse area of northern New Jersey, cobbled together several strategies at Columbus, which enrolls nearly 700 students, about 75 percent of whom are economically disadvantaged, according to district administrators. Credit: Caralee Adams for The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 8, 2020

They miss their friends, their freedom and learning from a human being instead of a screen, but their chances of graduating are unlikely to change. And even without technology problems, catastrophic job losses are plunging some families into economic peril. Luis Gallardo, student, University of California, Berkeley.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Jon: But the decline in college opportunity for rural high school graduates is only widening social, economic and political divides between rural America and the rest of the country. They have an economic impact. Megan Hickerson: And I knew the humanities, because the humanities are always under attack these days, right?

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