The Hechinger Report

MARCH 15, 2025

Huge sums are also going into marketing and advertising for it, documents show. Online education is another revenue stream from a different market, said Duha Altindag, an associate professor of economics at Auburn University who has studied online programs. Big first-year lecture classes subsidize small senior seminars.

Economics 117

Economics Tutoring Educational Technology Tradition 117

Moler's Musing

MARCH 8, 2025

Document-Based Investigation Primary sources can be intimidating, but Snorkl makes them interactive. Upload a primary source document excerpt and ask students to: Highlight key phrases and annotate their meanings. Summarize the document in one sentence. Summarize the document in one sentence.

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Primary Sources History Critical Thinking History Education 52

A Principal's Reflections

FEBRUARY 12, 2012

Working with partners, they had to choose one painting from each category, study it by paying particular attention to the political, economic, religious, social, industrial, and/or artistic way in which it captures/criticizes some aspect(s) of the period 1500-1800, and record their impressions accordingly. Using the Poll Everywhere, Mrs.

Library 274

Library History Cultures Educational Technology 274

Active History Teacher

MARCH 15, 2023

My tips implementing hexagonal thinking: Identify the key concepts that need reviewing: Consider the history, culture, economics, and politics of a unit. Don’t forget to include people, battles, documents, dates etc!

History 195

History Pedagogy Middle School Economics 195

Teaching American History

MARCH 19, 2024

Teaching American History’s Documents and Debates volumes present s American history as a series of topics. Below is a sampling of topics from Documents & Debates, v.2. Each topic contains an introductory essay, a curated and excerpted set of documents, and a series of discussion questions to guide understanding of the topic.

History 52

History Teaching American History Government 52

Anthropology.net

APRIL 16, 2025

A new study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences offers 1 one of the most detailed archaeological analyses to date of the roots of economic inequality. Expansive farming was sponsored by the palace through loans of plough oxen to share-croppers, documented in Linear B texts. Hamerow, H., Lawrence, D.,

Archaeology 52

Archaeology Civics Economics Government 52

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 1, 2022

Like the well-documented effects of traffic fines and court fees, the penalties resulting from federal student loan default plunge too many Americans deeper into financial instability, perpetuating rather than helping to resolve the vicious cycle of poverty.

Government 145

Government Economics Advocacy Education 145

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

And they cover professional communications etiquette: how to send a professional email to your boss, for example, and how to fold and mail a physical document. Students also develop resumes and practice interview skills, including by conducting a recorded virtual job interview that she critiques at the end of the term.

Leadership 133

Leadership Teaching Education Economics 133

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 9, 2023

states have adopted laws or policies requiring personal finance education before students graduate from high school, bringing the total number to 30 states, according to the Council for Economic Education. Less than a quarter, or 24 percent, of millennials demonstrate basic financial literacy, according to the Council for Economic Education.

K-12 121

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C3 Teachers

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Historians gather, analyze, and interpret documents to construct narratives. It’s about the complex interplay of economic, geographic, and social factors that drive people to make choices, often leading to unforeseen outcomes. But history is not merely the study of the past; it’s about understanding how we come to interpret the past.

History 52

History Social Studies History Education Economics 52

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 20, 2020

Leave this field empty if you're human: We’ve known for quite some time that pollution is bad for your health but researchers are documenting how it affects our brains. Sefi Roth, an economist at the London School of Economics, is an author of both studies. Mississippi Learning. Proof Points. Early Childhood.

Economics 142

Economics Research Humanities High School 142

Digital Promise

MARCH 29, 2022

Micro-credentials have proven to be an economically feasible option for competency-based professional development, allowing educators to complete modules remotely in their classrooms or homes and earn continuing education credits. Read the complete TSU case study here.

K-12 156

K-12 Professional Development Economics Learning Science 156

Anthropology.net

APRIL 17, 2025

“This is the first time we’ve been able to document half a millennium of continuous, large-scale production of mollusk-based purple dye in a single place,” said Golan Shalvi, lead author of the study and director of excavations at the University of Haifa’s Zinman Institute of Archaeology. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0321082

Archaeology 52

Archaeology Artifacts Economics Cultures 52

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Georgetown University’s Edunomics Lab documents the divergence between the growth of school staff and students. The first act followed the Great Recession of 2008, as schools added back staff that they had been forced to cut in the economic downturn. See detailed graphs below.

Tutoring 140

Tutoring Economics Public School High School 140

TeachThought

MAY 4, 2024

This qualification covers vital areas like health economics, resource management, and health informatics, enabling seamless integration of teams, systems, and technologies for optimized delivery. HOM professionals can work across the globe The healthcare industry, a significant employer worldwide, demands forward-thinking managers.

Economics 130

Economics Leadership Humanities Research 130

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

They eventually rose above their parents’ economic station by about seven percentile points on the national income ladder, rising, for example, from the 30th to 37th percentile. The study is part of a larger body of work in which Lavy has documented positive results from intervening with older students.

Tutoring 131

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Source: “Nudging at scale: Experimental evidence from FAFSA completion campaigns,” March 2021 issue of Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization. Text reminders of deadlines and general tips might not be sufficient to help students who cannot locate documents or need help answering a question.

Research 145

Research High School Economics Elementary School 145

ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Earlier this month, a new study in Nature revealed a key predictor of economic mobility: connectedness. The analysis also yielded a new species of school-level data, charting the degree of economic connectedness within individual high schools and colleges across the country.

Economics 139

Economics Research Tradition Cultures 139

Anthropology for Beginners

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

The category includes archaeological remains, buildings and structures, landscapes and places, towns and neighborhoods, objects, historical documents, folk traditions, and other things associated with and valued by people. These include objects significant to the archaeology, architecture, science or technology of a specified culture.

Archaeology 130

Archaeology Cultures Anthropology Heritage 130

Political Science Now

APRIL 4, 2025

Others have criticized dating apps well-documented track record of exposing users to racism and sexism, among other forms of physical and psychological harm. Her dissertation examines how early to mid-twentieth-century radicals theorized the organization of economic power in the United States and strategized for its rearrangement.

Political Science 47

Political Science Psychology Tradition Economics 47

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 11, 2021

The advantages of parental leave for children are well documented and range from better language and socioemotional outcomes during toddlerhood to increased breastfeeding in infancy, which itself is associated with enhanced cognitive development.

Economics 131

Economics Government Tradition Research 131

ED Surge

AUGUST 22, 2022

The disparity between what teachers are paid and what their peers in other, comparable professions earn has reached an all-time high, according to findings published this month by the nonprofit Economic Policy Institute (EPI). After all, teachers in those states are making just two-thirds of the pay of their peers.

Economics 104

Economics Teaching Research Education 104

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 23, 2020

For many, attempting to climb the economic ladder means trading one form of economic distress for another. colleges and universities have uncovered an overabundance of records documenting their culpability in slavery, America’s gravest sin. Meanwhile, the black student loan-debt crisis needs urgent remedies.

Social Justice 125

Social Justice Psychology Economics Humanities 125

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 27, 2023

This support, through a program set up to promote rural economic development and from the federal agency that works the most with rural places, underscores how important local universities and colleges are to those communities — and the vulnerability of a growing number of them. Iowa Wesleyan, for example, had an estimated $55.1

Economics 140

Economics Library Government Museum 140

Anthropology News

JUNE 27, 2024

Angela Jenks guided medical anthropology students through an analysis of direct-to-consumer artificial intelligence/machine learning (AI/ML) medical apps like Symptomate and DermAssist, teaching them to analyze this emerging technology while situating these apps in their historical, social, and economic contexts.

Anthropology 105

Anthropology Archaeology Pedagogy Archiving 105

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 27, 2023

Morgan Polikoff, an associate professor of education at the University of Southern California, is collecting reports from around the country to summarize what is happening in schools beyond the well-documented nationwide slide in test scores. “My I’ve been focused on the economic reasons.

High School 113

High School Charter School Tutoring Middle School 113

Teaching American History

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Documents from the founding reveal the framers’ acute awareness that human self-interest inclines those in politics to exploit any opportunity to gain power. For this reason, as James Madison wrote in Federalist 51 , the design of American government connects “the interest” of each public official to “the constitutional rights” of his office.

Humanities 52

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Sapiens

OCTOBER 23, 2024

As this happens, more people will encounter a confluence of water-related challenges , including substantial disease risks, constrained economic opportunities, and political instability. The connection between poor water quality and serious threats to health, such as gastrointestinal infections and diarrhea, are well-documented.

Anthropology 136

Anthropology Government Cultures Psychology 136

ED Surge

DECEMBER 12, 2023

And studies show that the majority of the students who graduate from college end up economically much better off than those who don’t go to college. But Strachman counters that as the cost of college increases, colleges aren’t living up to that promise of economic opportunity. Millions of students in the U.S.

Economics 125

Economics Charter School High School Tradition 125

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.

Economics 91

Economics Leadership Tradition Humanities 91

A Principal's Reflections

MAY 28, 2010

Attached to his email was a document that contained his well thought out responses to comments on his blog post (see below). Late Thursday afternoon I looked at my Blackberry and saw an email from Filip Piasevloi, the student who wrote the amazing guest post entitled " A Student''s Perspective on Leadership ".

Leadership 150

Leadership High School Economics Cultures 150

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 28, 2023

The comparatively poor working situation of American adjuncts “is a sad story,” said Jassim, who teaches corporate finance, real estate investment and managerial and engineering economics at McGill University. “It The research is among the latest to document the woes of what has grown into an army of 792,000 U.S. It breaks my heart.”

Museum 145

Museum Anthropology Teaching Research 145

The Hechinger Report

MAY 21, 2018

Harvard University’s Roland Fryer set out to test just that in an experiment , published in the June 2018 issue of the American Economic Review. Across the 34 most developed countries that make up the Organization for Economic Cooperation Development, teacher specialization begins around sixth grade, on average.

Elementary School 112

Elementary School Economics Project-Based Learning Tradition 112

Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 18, 2015

The standards and the actions listed below them don’t really reflect in any way the ‘innovative’ disposition that is cited earlier in the ISLLC draft document. Everything that’s listed here in the new ISLLC standards is arguably important.

Leadership 92

Leadership Economics Education 92

Digital Promise

APRIL 6, 2015

What will we observe, document, and measure to test our hypotheses and iterate our own practice? It goes beyond the classroom to encompass goals like procurement reform, educator professionalization and autonomy, and economic development. But how will we know if they do? Are we studying those things too? If so, how?

Education 82

Education Economics Public School Cultures 82

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Studies of the Perry preschool in Ypsilanti, Michigan and the Abecedarian preschool in Chapel Hill, North Carolina documented higher levels of educational attainment and higher earnings for children who attended. Earlier research has also found long-term benefits from preschool.

K-12 137

K-12 Elementary School High School Research 137

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 13, 2023

Late last year, the White House announced it would put that idea into action, and soon will launch a 10-year plan to revitalize Native languages, under the umbrella of a new initiative to advance educational equity and economic opportunity for Native Americans.

Teaching 144

Teaching K-12 Heritage Government 144