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.

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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!

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2024

On the international Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) , American 15-year-olds rank toward the bottom of economically advanced nations in math achievement. Traditional math proponents worried that the document would water down math instruction in California, hinder advanced students and make it harder to pursue STEM careers.

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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.

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Anthropology News

JANUARY 31, 2024

The economic significance of shipbreaking means that national and international NGOs seeking to ban the industry in Bangladesh remain unpopular. Migrant workers often take the riskier jobs and may miss out on both official training and labor documentation entitling them to work-related compensations.

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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.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

It’s a threat to the nation’s global economic competitiveness and national security. This back-to-school-season, the Education Reporting Collaborative, a coalition of eight newsrooms, will be documenting the enormous challenge facing our schools and highlighting examples of progress. It calculated that had the U.S.

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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.

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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.

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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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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ED Surge

MAY 20, 2022

District and State Education Leaders Are Holding Steady A crucial data point to remember is that challenges to SEL’s well researched and extensively documented practices have emerged from politically motivated actors, not from educators. And it is , even if some parents aren’t so sure they like the term “SEL.” communities, and education too.

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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.

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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 ".

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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.

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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.”

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 19, 2023

In Atlanta, where Tameka lives, parents must present at least eight documents to enroll their children — twice as many as parents in New York City or Los Angeles. One of the documents — a complicated certificate evaluating a child’s dental health, vision, hearing and nutrition — is required by the state. But it was never found.

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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.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

We are in the vanguard, too, of real solutions: Much of the research documenting the climate crisis and advancing potential responses originates from colleges and universities. Yet, both the scale of the problem and the currently under-utilized asset of higher education highlight the urgent need to do much more.

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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.

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Zinn Education Project

MAY 30, 2024

I wanted them to connect the current economic struggles of people of color by staying alert to these dynamics from the past. Loewen (author of Lies My Teacher Told Me ) documents the history of towns across the United States (not just the South) that exclude African Americans and other people of color through racist violence.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 28, 2024

Others were asked to send their parents’ documents for verification. It wouldn’t surprise me if those students’ documents were among the FAFSA program’s thousands of unread emails , indicative of its widespread failure. Try a different browser.”

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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.

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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.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Even for students who are poor enough to qualify for free tuition, it’s been a turbulent year to submit documents and meet paperwork deadlines to receive financial aid. If they don’t, they are much less likely to rise from poverty and join the middle class — and that loss will ultimately affect the nation’s economic growth.

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