The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

By the time she walks across the stage at Drexel University’s commencement ceremony in 2027, Natelauri will have spent 11 years of her life – and a lot of money – on higher education, including seven years at the Community College of Philadelphia, working part-time toward an associate degree in business.

Leadership 130

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Moler's Musing

MARCH 8, 2025

One of the biggest challenges in history education is engaging students in meaningful analysis while encouraging collaboration and critical thinking. Document-Based Investigation Primary sources can be intimidating, but Snorkl makes them interactive. Summarize the document in one sentence. Summarize the document in one sentence.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Rural young people who aspire to a higher education have long had fewer choices than their urban and suburban counterparts, contributing to far lower rates of college-going. People in rural America already have far less access to higher education than people in cities and suburbs. Kirk: So how can we close these gaps?

Education 128

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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.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 7, 2021

Gavin Newsom who leads the state’s Council for Postsecondary Education, to develop a vision for the future of higher education that could be a model for the rest of the country — if it can get past the obstacles in its path to implementation. Related: California higher education reforms are tackling the biggest challenges.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 4, 2020

That’s a problem because the data don’t lie: Two-thirds of all jobs and 80 percent of all “good” jobs (paying a median wage of $65,000) demand a postsecondary credential, according to research by Georgetown University’s Center on Education and the Workforce. Having done farm work as a teen, Ayers agreed. To do this, Ayers spends about $4.7

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Digital Promise

APRIL 6, 2015

Those of us who invest ourselves in Education Innovation Clusters believe they present unique opportunities to improve many aspects of the ed ecosystem. EICs are local communities of practice that bring together education stakeholders across the usual boundaries that separate them. But how will we know if they do? If so, how?

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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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Digital Promise

MARCH 29, 2022

strengthening regionally specific industry-educator partnerships. The Kentucky Valley Education Cooperative (KVEC) provides free, competency-based flexible, professional learning opportunities for rural K-12 educators via micro-credentials. Read the complete KVEC case study here. million from the U.S.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 12, 2024

Access to high-quality education is widely recognized as a pivotal tool for alleviating poverty, mitigating the spread of disease and malnutrition, fostering children's overall welfare and empowering women. Lauren Lichtman Head of Strategy & Partnerships Learning Equality Learning Equality offers educational opportunities for the 2.6

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

For most of my career, I’ve worked toward creating access for children who have historically been excluded from high-caliber educational experiences in education and technology. Yet I learned that education and enrichment programs can only do so much. Education and enrichment programs can only do so much.

Education 102

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 19, 2018

education levels by the second generation — the first generation of children to be born in this country. The key appears to be education because higher educational attainment is associated with economic success, social status, better health, family stability, and life opportunities. years of education.).

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C3 Teachers

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Historians gather, analyze, and interpret documents to construct narratives. The challenge of making history education more inquiry-based isn’t new. It’s about the complex interplay of economic, geographic, and social factors that drive people to make choices, often leading to unforeseen outcomes. In 1916, Charles H.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 20, 2020

Hotter classroom temperatures and polluted air are affecting children’s brains at school, according to a new body of education research. (AP Education researchers have traditionally focused on the obvious ingredients of teaching and learning, such as instruction, curriculum, student motivation and school funding. Weekly Update.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 9, 2023

charter school may be a front-runner in providing financial education, but in recent years, many others have followed suit. 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.

K-12 117

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

One of the most promising uses of technology in education seemed to be a cheap one: nudging text messages. Based on these early successes, education leaders in government and nonprofit organizations sought to bring the power of text messages to hundreds of thousands of students. None of these guidelines are absolute.

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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. Texas, for example, educates 367,000 more students, a 7 percent increase over the past decade, but the number of employees has surged by more than 107,000, a 16 percent jump. See detailed graphs below.

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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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TeachThought

MAY 4, 2024

Depending on your workplace or educational attainment, potential roles include: Community Health Educator Insurance Underwriter Chief Executive Officers (CEOs) Community Service Manager Sense of Objective As a healthcare manager, your contribution is crucial in overseeing healthcare administration and ensuring seamless facility operations.

Economics 130

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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. That’s not to say schools fly entirely blind.

Economics 139

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 27, 2023

This story also appeared in The Washington Post It wasn’t the Department of Education that made the loan, or the Treasury or Interior departments, or any of the many government departments that support academic research. The decline of rural higher education is also widening one of America’s biggest equity challenges.

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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.”

Museum 144

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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). I don''t know about you, but I have learned much more about leadership from Filip and am further convinced that there is not a more rewarding job in the world than that of an educator.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 23, 2020

With the debt problem for black students in particular reaching urgent levels, The Education Trust and The Hechinger Report have partnered on a series of op-eds to amplify the voices of people studying solutions to the black student debt crisis. ” African Americans heavily rely upon higher education as the gateway to upward mobility.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 11, 2021

But one stark difference threatened Kiernan’s chances of similarly reaching his full educational potential. As we emerge from the current economic crisis, we must fundamentally rethink the American social safety net, which was built in the mid 20th century, when steady employment and employer-provided benefits were the norm.

Economics 130

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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). And the education field can hardly afford to lose more teachers, Allegretto notes.

Economics 104

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Thiel had long been looking for a way to blow up higher education. Thiel was trying to change the public conversation about higher education, and at the time, 13 years ago, even practices like gap years were pretty uncommon. In fact, these days skepticism of higher education is rising. Millions of students in the U.S.

Economics 125

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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 135

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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. Students generated a list of demographic factors presumed to influence voting choices—age, gender, ethnic group, occupation, education level, religious affiliation.

Humanities 52

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 13, 2023

Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Future of Learning newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every other Wednesday with trends and top stories about education innovation. When a student can see themselves in their educational environment, when they see their own story … it’s very engaging.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 27, 2023

Within six months of high school graduation, only 51 percent of the class of 2022 enrolled in post-secondary education, down from 56 percent from the class of 2019. The city had been improving rapidly before the pandemic and it’s depressing that its bleak education statistics have sharply deteriorated. Based on these trends, the D.C.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Credit: Cavan Images The research on early childhood education can seem as messy as a playground sandbox. 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.

K-12 135

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 24, 2024

Since the release of ChatGPT in November 2022, educators have pondered its implications for education. The need for guidelines is discussed in every college meeting, but I’ve noticed a worrying reaction among students that educators are not considering: fear. Related: Interested in innovations in the field of higher education?

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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 Sign up for the Hechinger newsletter.

Elementary School 112

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 18, 2015

I hope that you will read the standards yourself and also share some thoughts with CCSSO about whether you feel that they adequately describe an effective school leader for today and tomorrow… — Please list any additional dispositions that you believe educational leaders need that are not listed on page 9 of the ISLLC 2015 standards.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 26, 2020

At two-year community colleges, which educate about 40 percent of America’s college students, it was worse. 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. The number of new students is down 23 percent.

Economics 137

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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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