A Principal's Reflections

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

I often tell audiences during keynotes and workshops that my role isn’t to tell anyone what to do, but instead to get educators to think critically about what they do. The fact for many in education is that we teach the way we were taught and lead the way we were led. Initially, this can be a tough pill to swallow.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 8, 2024

This is an edition of our climate change and education newsletter. I was struck by how professors in fields as diverse as theater, economics and architecture were participating in the “living lab” model. Our responsibility is to ensure we have educated our students to capably deal with these challenges and identify the solutions.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

For decades, education policy has lurched from one test score panic to the next, diverting resources from what we know matters building students socioemotional skills, fostering strong relationships with teachers and peers and supporting enriched home environments that drive long-term success. What role do families play?

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 3, 2024

College-educated adults hold the key to reshaping how to support Black and Latinx students getting to and through the college process so that they can unlock their full potential and achieve the “holy grail” of economic mobility. Related: Interested in innovations in the field of higher education?

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

The core of teaching is instruction and helping kids grow and develop, and anything that pulls teachers away from that purpose is going to make them unsatisfied, says Michael Gottfried, a professor in the Graduate School of Education at the University of Pennsylvania and a co-author of the study. Using data from the U.S.

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Sapiens

JANUARY 14, 2025

In the Ecuadorian Amazon, an anthropologist explores how the Shuar people are betting on dragon fruit cultivation to reclaim economic autonomy and political sovereignty. In Ecuador, this has created a boom that is changing the economic fortunes of many Indigenous Amazonians. This article was originally published at YES!

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Parsing education data into snack-sized servings. Thats according to a survey of 700 elementary and middle school teachers by Study.com, an online learning platform, that queried educators in January about student achievement. And all kinds of parents from all walks of life not just parents, but caregivers.

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A Principal's Reflections

MARCH 3, 2024

In today's rapidly changing world, where new challenges and technologies emerge at an unprecedented pace, students need to be relevant thinkers to successfully navigate the complex social, economic, and environmental issues they will face. It also sets the stage for effective personalized learning. However, the premise remains the same.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

The chatbot interviewer is part of an experiment by two professors at the London School of Economics, who argue that AI could change the game when it comes to measuring public opinion in a variety of fields. “It It could really accelerate the pace of research,” says Xavier Jaravel, one of the professors leading the experiment.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 29, 2024

In exchange, residents would qualify for in-district tuition and trigger a long-term plan to build out college facilities in this rural stretch of Texas, which is positioning itself to tap into the economic boom flowing into the smaller communities nestled between Austin and San Antonio. percent — falls to about half of the state rate.

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A Principal's Reflections

APRIL 22, 2018

A few years back the World Economic Forum came out with an article titled The 10 skills you need to thrive in the Fourth Industrial Revolution. The key to future-proofing education and learning is to get kids to think by engaging them in tasks that develop cognitive flexibility.

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A Principal's Reflections

JUNE 23, 2019

Below is a synopsis from the World Economic Forum (WEF): As technological breakthroughs rapidly shift the frontier between the work tasks performed by humans and those performed by machines and algorithms, global labor markets are likely to undergo significant transformations. So, what does this all mean? Skills are not enough, in my opinion.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 6, 2025

But she said it was encouraging to move the needle at all, with this group of economically disadvantaged students. Much of what schools actually try in education is rarely studied and analyzed rigorously. But I question the economic value when the benefit is so tiny. more days of school, on average, over a 180-day school year.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 28, 2025

In reading, students slid below the devastatingly low achievement levels of 2022, which many educators had hoped would be a nadir. The test, the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), is often called the nations report card. More than two-thirds of students in the bottom 25 percent are economically disadvantaged.

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Zinn Education Project

OCTOBER 31, 2024

American Coup: Wilmington 1898 tells the story of how “self-described white supremacists used intimidation and violence to destroy Black political and economic power and overthrow Wilmington’s democratically-elected, multi-racial, Reconstruction era government. The Zinn Education Project developed lessons to accompany the film.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Like learning to read by third grade, taking eighth grade math is a pivotal moment in a child’s education. Algebra in eighth grade is a gateway to a lot of further opportunities,” said Dan Goldhaber, an economist who studies education at the American Institutes for Research, in a recent webinar. Department of Education.

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Zinn Education Project

MARCH 7, 2025

Stanley demonstrates how attacks on education and historical memory support authoritarianism, undermining public understanding of past struggles for justice. Stanley doesnt just diagnose the problem he also offers strategies to resist these attacks, from advocating for historical literacy to supporting educators under fire.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Educators do a disservice to students by implying that college bestows the only path toward financial independence and employment. An improved system would better balance college preparation with career and technical education. Related: Interested in innovations in the field of higher education?

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TeachThought

MAY 15, 2024

A Sign Of The Times: Statistics Outgrowing Other STEM Fields Title: Embracing Statistics: A Pillar of Modern STEM Education In today’s rapidly evolving landscape of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM), statistics is emerging as a pivotal discipline, transcending its traditional role as a mere supporting tool.

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Moler's Musing

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

This got students thinking about the political, economic, and regional tensions that led to the war while allowing them to summarize key ideas concisely an essential skill as we transitioned into the concept of sectionalism. How did economic and political differences lead to sectionalism? history for decades.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 12, 2022

The morning after the news broke, however, Asian American educators across the country largely had to show up for work as if nothing out of the ordinary had happened. Meanwhile, in a department meeting in a Boston-area high school, three Asian American educators “chose to be vulnerable because we needed to share.

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ED Surge

MARCH 23, 2023

Community colleges, which have historically served as comprehensive institutions offering associate degrees with transfer articulation agreements to four-year colleges, have also served as workforce drivers through their array of educational credit and non-credit courses. Arrington, in 1860 the economic value of enslaved peoples in the U.S.

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Sapiens

MARCH 11, 2025

Through the violent military campaign known as the Conquest of the Desert , the Argentine government gained control over the southern portion of the continent, killing and displacing Indigenous peoples and moving to assimilate the rest through educational and religious initiatives.

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Passion for Social Studies

APRIL 12, 2025

Board of Education (3:16) Citizens United v. Affirmative Action (4:44) Unit 4: American Political Ideologies and Beliefs Examine how personal beliefs about politics and government are shaped by factors like family, education, and media. Ideology and Economic Policy (6:14) 4.10 Ideology and Economic Policy (6:14) 4.10

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 8, 2024

Education and education access are directly connected to economic growth. Despite the dysfunction in Congress, especially over border issues and foreign aid, there are key education bills that can provide not only solutions for the issues they address but also models for getting things done across a range of other issues.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 25, 2024

Reporting on early childhood is an immense privilege, and I appreciate the conversations and story ideas you send my way, as well as the many early educators, experts and parents who have welcomed me into their classrooms and lives. I am so grateful for your readership this year. Wishing you the best in the new year.

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ED Surge

MAY 2, 2025

Weve historically segmented it from preschool and seen it as a lower priority from an educational perspective. But from a family and generally economic well-being perspective, having adequate care is extremely important. The lack of investing in early childhood education particularly in the FFN network is nothing new.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 16, 2025

This looming demographic cliff has been on the minds of education leaders for nearly two decades, dating back to the start of the Great Recession. Related: Interested in innovations in the field of higher education? Subscribe to our free biweekly Higher Education newsletter. Here are some ideas about how that could happen.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 19, 2022

Each of these lenses — technological, economic and geopolitical — offers substantial truth. So, what might a new perspective — climate change as a “modern” educational problem — look like? Also, politically, education is an enduring priority. In algebra, educators worry about content knowledge and conceptual understanding.

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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?

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 23, 2022

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. Subscribe today! The next step is for people to think about how this blurring can happen at scale, he said.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 30, 2024

Related: Interested in innovations in the field of higher education? Subscribe to our free biweekly Higher Education newsletter. Across the country, colleges and universities offer scores of programs designed to help students from underrepresented groups succeed in STEM education and prepare for tech careers.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 15, 2025

Among the surprising answers is that colleges and universities are charging more for online education to subsidize everything else they do, online managers say. Yet 83 percent of online programs in higher education cost students as much as or more than the in-person versions, an annual survey of campus chief online learning officers finds.

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Anthropology.net

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

From political power struggles to economic inequality and environmental exploitation, an evolutionary past rooted in dominance, survival, and competition still drives much of human behavior today. The drive to secure food and territory manifests in economic competition and resource hoarding.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Alongside this meteoric rise of students and resources, researchers are trying to understand who is taking advantage of these early college classes, whether they’re expanding the pool of college educated Americans, and if these extra credits help students earn college degrees faster and save money. The post Dual enrollment has exploded.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 2, 2024

In 2023, EdSurge published a record number of stories on early care and education — the most we’ve run since we began covering the age group nearly five years ago. We spoke with educators and families in West Virginia to understand what that historic funding enabled them to do — and the “impossible choices” they now face.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 23, 2023

For many rural students, higher education means waking up before the sun four days a week, then driving an hour through cornfields or pine forests to reach the only college for 100 miles. For the more than 33 million people living in education deserts, college-going can be a drastically different experience.

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