The Hechinger Report

MAY 29, 2019

They belong to students who have come to college later in their lives than traditional undergraduates. Yet at a time when universities nationwide are aggressively recruiting students like Souza, who face a myriad of obstacles traditional-aged students don’t, the kind of help she’s gotten on this campus is more of an exception than the rule.

Tradition 111

Tradition Economics Government High School 111

ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

I think there are a lot of tech companies that are purely online—everyone from Zoom to Coursera—[and they] are definitely suffering because when there is the offline option, then there's always going to be kind of a shift back to that when it becomes available, which is obviously what's happened post-pandemic. You chose to move into the U.S.

EdTech 120

EdTech Government High School Tradition 120

Anthropology for Beginners

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

These scholarly traditions produced a wealth of theory and data that has been discovered by contemporary anthropology, but they do not constitute the historical back ground of the anthropology of peasantry. Such an analysis often arises from developmentalists who focus on traditional obstacles to industrialisation and 'modernisation'.

Anthropology 100

Anthropology Sociology Economics Cultures 100

ED Surge

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

One of the draws to credentialing programs is that they afford learners unparalleled flexibility while requiring a considerably smaller investment of time than traditional degree programs. In the higher education setting, a lot goes into the governance structure around creating course content.

Social Justice 107

Social Justice EdTech Tradition Government 107

Moler's Musing

OCTOBER 26, 2024

We tackled the Boston Tea Party with Number Mania to dig into key details and wrapped up with an inquiry lesson on “having a voice in government.” It’s a fun and creative way to get them thinking beyond the text, and I was hoping it would engage their imaginations a bit more than traditional worksheets. On to the next!

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 26, 2019

Bechtel could readily recite the definition of satire. But most schools are more like Corte Madera – governed by schedules, academic standards, report cards and other ties to traditional measures of student achievement – and there, the pilot was a mix of triumph and struggle. But what else was she learning in this maker space?

Education 111

Education Project-Based Learning Charter School Tradition 111

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 22, 2018

But there’s no common definition yet for what personalized learning actually is.”. EL’s definition puts two elements at its core: “expeditionary learning” projects and small groups of students called Crews who stick together from grade to grade and meet daily along with a teacher adviser to support and challenge each other.

Middle School 111

Middle School Library Tradition Elementary School 111

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 15, 2022

Consumers are definitely ready for something different.”. Related: Most college students don’t graduate in four years, so college and the government count six years as “success”. It’s “definitely a lot more challenging,” said Zanca, at Wentworth. But it has been, hands-down. Credit: Noah Willman for The Hechinger Report.

Tradition 111

Tradition High School Political Science Psychology 111

Let's Cultivate Greatness

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Its easy to focus on just the President when teaching the Executive Branch, but its important also to stress the role of the four million other people who make up this branch of government. Here are some of my favorite lessons and activities for teaching the executive branch in my high school Civics and Government class.

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Civics Government Critical Thinking Social Studies 52

Anthropology News

OCTOBER 7, 2024

Beginning in the 1960s, with extensive foreign aid, the Tibetan exile government in India built an infrastructure of Tibetan medium schools specifically for Tibetan refugee children. The translocal nature of Tibetan diasporic kinship bonds has a history that extends beyond current transnational migrations. We are hoping for that still.”

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

Literally thousands of institutions have been recommending candidates for licensure without a common definition of successful teaching via “home-grown” assessment instruments that measure teaching and learning with minimal or no evidence of reliability and validity. in comparison to the nationally recommended standard of 42.

Teaching 81

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

And eighth-grade co-teachers Abby Jolma and Toni Giebel let kids sit on wobbly chairs — short stools with a curved base — yoga balls, or traditional chairs while they learn math and science. What is definitely tied to brain health, Hillman said, is physical fitness. There were definitely some pretty serious unintended consequences.”.

Elementary School 109

Elementary School Middle School Charter School Humanities 109

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 16, 2017

Students study for classes at a government school on the edge of the Thar Desert. About 65 percent of India’s students attend similar government schools, many with dismal outcomes. Photo: Kim Palmer for The Hechinger Report. He gives the same stock speech. Photo: Kim Palmer for The Hechinger Report. With over 1.3

Heritage 81

Heritage Government Economics Library 81

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 7, 2018

It is definitely a financial burden.”. There are institutional measures that we have from the federal government, from the state, from our board of directors. It’s definitely one of those situations where you don’t know whether you’re making the right decision, but when you find what you want to do, things just click,” he said.

Psychology 111

Psychology Advocacy Government Tradition 111

The Hechinger Report

MAY 22, 2024

To give students more time to weigh options, more than 200 colleges and universities pushed back their traditional May 1 commitment deadlines, some until June 1, according to the American Council on Education, which keeps an updated list. It’s definitely been frustrating because I’ve been trying my best.” GREENVILLE, S.C.

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High School Government Middle School Education 132

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 6, 2020

He likes the self-paced curriculum that allows students to complete a course in significantly less time than at a traditional school. Part of Altus Schools, a network of K-12 alternative charter schools in Southern California, it even won recognition from the federal government for its operation.

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Charter School K-12 Tradition High School 98

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Less-selective colleges and universities, which were desperate to fill seats as the pandemic began last spring, offered financial aid to students from higher-income families that didn’t meet the federal definition of having financial need. For that reason, it has traditionally benefited students from higher-income families.

Tutoring 144

Tutoring High School Private School Economics 144

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

Since 2012, when the government exhorted more écoles maternelles to open their doors to 2-year-olds, the rate of participation in France’s “priority education networks”—networks of schools that serve heavily low-income, immigrant communities that are targeted for extra social support—has steadily risen.

Teaching 85

Teaching Education Government Tradition 85

Anthropology News

AUGUST 11, 2024

These traditional vocabularies continue to obscure the people, places, and acts of creativity on the peripheries of mainstream narratives. And here in South Africa where Koffi Kouakou resides, a newly elected Coalition Government is still going through teething challenges of its own. Prompt generate a definition for NFT.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Rural voters are convinced that their communities get less government spending than they deserve. Nicholas Jacobs: I’m an assistant professor of government at Colby College in Waterville, Maine. It’s a Mississippi tradition where politicians come to make speeches. It’s contributing to anger and alienation.

Education 127

Education Government High School Economics 127

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 25, 2018

But at the nation’s most selective schools, where most students follow the traditional pipeline from high school to a degree within four years — and from which many go on to leadership roles in government and industry — veterans like Fendler are an anomaly.

Political Science 109

Political Science Sociology History Leadership 109

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2019

Half a million people have left Puerto Rico in the last decade, first after the government cut services in a scramble to try and pay back its $123 billion in debt and then in response to the catastrophe of Hurricane Maria. A mass exodus of the island’s residents, coupled with crippling debt, has fueled the closures.

K-12 94

K-12 Middle School Tutoring Cultures 94

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

The reasons include a federal law so little-known that people charged with implementing it often fail to follow the rules; nearly non-existent enforcement of the law by federal and state governments; and funding so meager that districts have little incentive to survey whether students have stable housing.

Advocacy 83

Advocacy Government Public School High School 83

Anthropology News

APRIL 30, 2024

This shift detached investors from the personal aspect of a debt relationship, allowing them to earn 20 to 30 percent annual interest—significantly higher than the 3 to 5 percent offered by traditional banks. Now I am part of a crime in their definition.”

Archiving 98

Archiving Anthropology Social Science Economics 98

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 9, 2018

After decades of demands that this be fixed, a new report from the Government Accountability Office finds that students who transfer among colleges and universities still lose more than 40 percent of the credits they’ve already earned and paid for. It was definitely a grind.” Higher Education. Mississippi Learning.

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Advocacy Research Government Tradition 107

Anthropology News

DECEMBER 18, 2024

However, the government policies fail to outline practical measures, leaving a gap in the market for exploring professional standards. In their operations, the role of delegated children extends beyond traditional care work, which is typically limited to daily caregiving tasks.

Anthropology 52

Anthropology Cultures Tradition Government 52

ED Surge

APRIL 10, 2023

Among the biggest barriers to making after-school programming more robust and widespread are insufficient government funding, staffing shortages, and in some areas, a lack of transportation. They're definitely still there,” says Melissa Mister, chief of strategy and staff for After School Matters.

Tutoring 109

Tutoring K-12 Charter School Leadership 109

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 23, 2020

So, there are faculty that are kind of leading the efforts, but definitely students working in facilities to create the face shields. DELECE SMITH-BARROW: I think these waivers will definitely change the admission cycle. I mean, who’s getting together to do the work? DELECE SMITH-BARROW: Right now, it’s a good mix.

Tutoring 73

Tutoring Government Tradition Education 73

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 9, 2016

In 1978, just a few years before Helgeson’s birth, the American Indian Religious Freedom Act became law, finally affirming the right of country’s indigenous people to access sacred sites, worship in traditional ceremonies and use materials they consider sacred artifacts, like eagle bones, that are restricted to non-Indians.

K-12 74

K-12 Cultures High School Psychology 74

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2021

Federal and state governments have allocated extra money for mental health services and school districts across the country are scrambling to beef up supports. It’s scary at first talking to someone when you never have before, but it is definitely worth it,” said Rose.

Tutoring 141

Tutoring Middle School Elementary School High School 141

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2018

And government oversight is lacking. While private schools are essentially monitored by affluent, tuition-paying parents who opt into them, no such checks exist for schools that serve foster youth, who by definition have been cut off from their families. Oliver Francis, of Philadelphia, was placed in foster care because he was truant.

Education 110

Education Charter School Public School Private School 110

Strange Maps

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

In 1981, the state government funded a documentary that tried to reconcile the sunken continent theory with continental drift, and show Lemuria as scientifically valid. Weirder still is the fact that “Lemuria” now is used by the British government to describe its tiny territorial holdings in the Indian Ocean.

Humanities 52

Humanities Museum Government History 52

Ashleigh's Education Journey

MAY 11, 2015

Pre-teaching vocabulary is not having kids look up definitions or other boring and inefficient practices. We fit two boxes on one page, and we almost always add a definition, example, and picture. Interactive notebooks are more fun for students than traditional note taking. Step 3 Review with games.

Social Studies 52

Social Studies Teaching Geography Tradition 52

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

2U has historically given colleges only the opportunity to partner through a traditional revenue share, in which it offers its full suite of services in exchange for a cut of the tuition. It’s a simpler, more profitable market that also has an unlimited source of debt financing courtesy of the federal government.”.

Education 73

Education Advocacy Economics Political Science 73

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 23, 2017

You’re definitely dirty enough.”. About one in 10 of this year’s entering Air Force Academy cadets is older than the traditional age, the academy reports — often returning to school after years of military service, as in Callan’s case. Callan, looking on, was more supportive. Flight, by my command … forward, march!”.

Education 45

Education Tutoring Tradition Political Science 45

Zinn Education Project

JANUARY 8, 2024

I had always heard the traditional narrative of how the home front came together to support the war effort, but the stories told in the book showed me the myriad ways this was not true for African Americans. I will definitely present this unit again. portraying Doris Miller, proceeds to use the gun to fight the Japanese pilots.

History Education 52

History Education History Education Social Studies 52

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Government is kind of leading from the rear here. He’s definitely turned around. This year’s been great because we’re all back in the building and I get to see [my students] every day, but there’s definitely a learning gap and a social, behavior, social awkwardness gap going on. It was definitely a shift. Resiliency.

Oral History 144

Oral History History High School Middle School 144