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‘Positive culture shock’ spells challenges and triumphs for Afghan teen students

The Hechinger Report

Attending school in America has been a “positive culture shock” to Marzia Mohammadi, a 17-year-old senior at Mt. Lebanon High School, apart from her regular classes, she chose electives like global studies, business and political science — three of her favorite subjects. Lebanon High School. It was new for them.

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Rural universities, already few and far between, are being stripped of majors

The Hechinger Report

The University of Alaska system has scaled back more than 40 academic programs , including earth sciences, geography and environmental resources, sociology, hospitality administration and theater. The Vermont College System was losing $8 million to $12 million a year. We’re just like lost causes if we’re from small towns.”.

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Some colleges start to confront a surprising reason students fail: Too many choices

The Hechinger Report

So college has become more like the K-12 experience, where we are teaching them how to be adults in the world.”. Those are not necessarily skills that they’re learning in K-12 education.”. Those are not necessarily skills that they’re learning in K-12 education.”. That should not shock anyone.

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Counting your way to a college A

The Hechinger Report

Those results were published in the January, 2018, issue of Games and Culture. Inferring learning gains from their current coursework is complicated across subjects as varied as political science and computer programing. Related: Fitbit for education: Turning school into a data-tracking game.

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What do Philadelphia’s students want? More college counseling

The Hechinger Report

Nor did she understand how to identify schools that would allow her to major in zoology and prepare for her dream job as a veterinarian, but where she could also explore her interests in political science and film. Her mother, an immigrant from the Dominican Republic, had never been to college and didn’t know how to help.

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TEACHER VOICE: When it comes to teacher training, the U.S. could learn a thing or two from Canada

The Hechinger Report

In my own teacher training many years ago, I took various courses in curriculum theory, classroom management, education history and educational psychology along with content-based courses like political science, economics and history. The result has been both the richness and the complexity of diversity.

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Rural schools join forces to make college the rule rather than the exception

The Hechinger Report

In just a few short years, the school has managed to create a culture in which going to college is becoming the norm rather than the exception. Principal Kaplet found it difficult to create a culture of academic achievement when her school’s most motivated learners were spending the bulk of their time on a college campus. Rural ones.