The Hechinger Report

MARCH 18, 2024

An early warning and intervention system, called BARR, pictured above, was one of the most successful education interventions to come out of the Department of Education’s research and development program that issued $1.4 Under this program, called Investing in Innovation or i3, the federal government gave out $1.4

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 18, 2020

Eli Clark has been waiting nearly a year for their high school to complete an evaluation that would determine special education services. The family hoped Eli could get an Individualized Education Program (IEP), a legal document that qualifies students for special education and lays out the services and accommodations they will receive.

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TeachThought

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Being on my county’s Special Educational Needs and Disabilities Board, Im keenly aware of this impact on a teachers day especially when every teacher Ive ever met is so dedicated to meeting every students individual needs. Educators are familiar with Kahoot!, Challenge No. and Jotform.

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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. Today, Gentry is the CEO of Partners for Rural Impact.

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ED Surge

JULY 19, 2024

That’s particularly the case in K-12 classes, where teaching materials may be hard to parse, according to the preprint of a research article that argues that many of these students have to figure out how to access basic documents on their own, outside of school. But there’s a push to change that. It will mean they have to act fast.

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Teaching American History

APRIL 8, 2025

These are free to attend for all social studies teachers and can be in historical locations, school districts, and educational service centers. For a few hours, teachers can dive into the content of primary source documents through a discussion with colleagues facilitated by a scholar. Email us at info@teachingamericanhistory.org !

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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. The foundation’s results in several small, rural counties are eye-popping.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

In 2020, California’s State Board of Education adopted criteria and guidance to award a State Seal of Civic Engagement to students who demonstrate excellence in civics education. In my 20 years as an educator, I have seen firsthand how service-learning engages students as they become leaders in their communities.

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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

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.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 29, 2021

In each of these situations—and many more—the federal government makes possible the collection, analysis and dissemination of information that would otherwise not flow. When the federal government does this, it acts not as a regulator or as a funder, but as an information aggregator and distributor. Right now, most of what the U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Email Address Choose from our newsletters Weekly Update Future of Learning Higher Education Early Childhood Proof Points Leave this field empty if you’re human: In some states, child care can cost as much as college tuition. On average, child care employees and early educators earn less than half as much as K-12 teachers.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

Michelle McLaughlin said Michael’s education did not prepare him for college or career. This story was produced by The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education, in partnership with the Huffington Post. Our son’s education was a waste. Higher Education.

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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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Teaching American History

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

“To be a good member of your community, you really have to understand why people do the things that they do,” says Bryan Little, who teaches both on-level Government and AP Government at McPherson High School in McPherson, Kansas. For Little, government class entails “constitutional study and human behavior study side by side.”

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 17, 2023

In a 1987 opinion piece in The New York Times, William Bennett, former President Ronald Reagan’s Secretary of Education, explained how he thought federal policy was partly to blame for rising college tuition. The federal government limits how much it loans undergraduates.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 21, 2021

While writing a recent column about teachers conducting educational studies in their own classrooms, I was curious about when they might need to inform their students’ parents about this research and obtain parental permission. No one would study educational interventions that they believe would harm children.

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Teaching American History

APRIL 2, 2024

Discussion of primary documents. A supportive and engaged group of educators. During the seminar, the teachers discuss primary documents on the seminar topic with the guidance of a scholar, who acts as the seminar leader. Teaching American History hosts Multi-Day seminars at no cost to American history and government teachers.

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Studies Weekly

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Primary sources include: Personal correspondence and diaries Government and civil documents Speeches and oral histories Audio and video recordings Photographs and posters Unfortunately, most textbooks provide just facts and figures, not an immersive experience.

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Passion for Social Studies

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Teaching high school students about these stages prepares them with knowledge about the decision-making process and how their participation impacts the government. It even includes video links, answer keys, and editable documents! They are complex processes involving nomination, campaigning, voting, and counting.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 9, 2023

A brief on their findings was published in November’s issue of the academic journal Educational Researcher. The quantities were notable, researchers explained, because of well-documented parental concerns over other people having access to their children’s information. They found that students were identifiable in 4.9

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Studies Weekly

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Lesson 4: How Does Our Government Work? 18, 2020 • Studies Weekly Learning Objectives: Students will identify the three branches of the federal government. Vocabulary and Definitions: constitution: the document that sets up a system of fundamental principles according to which a nation, state, corporation, etc., is governed.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Scores on Advanced Placement government tests are consistently among the lowest across all AP offerings. With the upcoming national elections — and every election thereafter — we need to make civic education a top priority. READ MORE Children should study the primary documents of the U.S.

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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

AUGUST 8, 2022

But education researchers who study the teaching profession say the threat is exaggerated. Department of Education released a national survey of more than 800 schools on Aug. Many teachers go into special education but soon quit the classroom. And on Aug. Most departures were filled with new hires. Indeed, the U.S.

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Living Geography

DECEMBER 8, 2024

I am very proud to currently have the role of Vice President: Education of the RGS-IBG. I chair the RGS' Education Committee and have a place on the RGS Council for the duration of my term. For the avoidance of doubt all references to education in this document refer to education of compulsory school-age students in any setting.

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Sapiens

OCTOBER 23, 2024

The connection between poor water quality and serious threats to health, such as gastrointestinal infections and diarrhea, are well-documented. Peru’s northern coast regularly suffers droughts followed by torrential rains, some so severe the Peruvian government has declared states of emergency multiple times over the past few years.

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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. We’re narrowing in on where nudging is useful.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

In a report publicly released in October 2020 , the Government Accountability Office (GAO) counted 99 school data breaches over the past four years, from July 2016 to May 2020, that compromised the personal information of thousands of students in kindergarten through high school. That’s more than four times greater. Why the discrepancy?

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 27, 2020

That marks the fifth straight year of growth in the number of school counselors, bringing the student-to-counselor ratio down to the lowest level since the federal government began counting counselors more than 30 years ago. The biggest one-year increase in student counseling was documented in Washington, D.C., schoolchildren receive.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

A couple of years ago I got a call from an occupational therapist who introduced herself as a member of my son Corey’s special education team. Fast forward to last spring, when Corey’s new special education case manager called from his new school. I hadn’t realized Corey had an occupational therapist.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Victor Lavy , an Israeli economist who helped design the remedial high school program and who conducted the initial evaluation, used government records to track the students through their early 30s. 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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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 19, 2024

One report documented that U.S. Where are we going to find an additional year to make up for these kiddos before they leave the education system?” These companies may have a business motive in sounding an alarm to sell more of their products, but the reports are produced by well-regarded education statisticians.

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Moler's Musing

APRIL 30, 2025

Students question the bot like they would a biased newspaper article, a government document, or a historical speech. More accurate? More complete? Would you use this response? This turns AI into the text not the shortcut. Why Fray-I works: It puts students in the drivers seat. Theyre not copyingtheyre critiquing.

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Cult of Pedagogy

JANUARY 21, 2024

First, an education leader stands behind a podium with charts and graphs, releases a memo, or otherwise puts the most recent scores out in the world. Teachers and students can point to how the NCLB-related tests have negatively impacted education. Standardized tests are part of the educational landscape, and they’re not going away.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 8, 2021

Government and Politics curriculum. Better results for project-based learning were documented on a variety of tests, from Advanced Placement exams in high school to annual state assessments in math and reading in sixth grade. Students had to document their learning process as they added their ideas and built a device.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Education policy leaders at the federal level and beyond were exploring the growing role of competency-based education and non-traditional providers —and calls were growing for stronger connections between universities and the world of employment. To start off, it’s worth thinking back to 2016.

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