The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 6, 2025

More recent research, however, suggests that prediction may have been overly optimistic. Stanford University researchers have been studying Washington, D.C.s $33 When researchers looked at these students test scores, they found minimal to modest improvements in reading or math. That feels minimal, just a day or so, Lee admitted.

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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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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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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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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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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. Related: Our free weekly newsletter alerts you to what research says about schools and classrooms.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 8, 2024

This is an edition of our climate change and education newsletter. They’d researched topics including solar energy and composting, acquiring skills in project management and finance as they developed their business plans. Sign up here. Imagine engineering students retrofitting campus buildings to make them more energy efficient.

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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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Sapiens

MARCH 11, 2025

That night in Sala Patagn stuck with me as my dissertation research took shape. The national government also incentivized European settlement on these lands, with the goal of economically and ethnically incorporating these territories into the new Argentine nation-state.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

The cuts “take away from us, our education.” Rural Americans already have far less access to higher education than their counterparts in cities and suburbs. Related: Interested in innovations in higher education? Subscribe to Hechinger’s free biweekly higher education newsletter. That kind of frustration is growing.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Map reprinted from The Postsecondary Outcomes of High School Dual Enrollment Students A National and State-by-State Analysis (October 2024) Community College Research Center. It’s not clear that an early taste of higher education encourages more students to go to college who wouldn’t have otherwise. Dual enrollment is exploding.

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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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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 27, 2021

Laila Ibrahim and Amy Monroy, students participating in the YARI Project, give a virtual presentation of their research on “How do the racial and ethnic background of students and teachers affect student-teacher relationships within the classroom?” ” in late November. Credit: YouTube.

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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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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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ED Surge

APRIL 3, 2024

This large economic and racial divide between two adjacent districts in Michigan shows that school segregation persists in the 21st century. That’s one of the main findings of a new report from researchers from the think tank New America. Across roughly 60 pages, researchers analyzed 24,658 pairs of districts that share a border.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 15, 2021

Yet some of the strongest research evidence points to an intensive type of tutoring as a way to help children catch up. Education researchers call it “high-dosage” tutoring and it has produced big achievement gains for students in studies when the tutoring occurs every day or almost every day.

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A Principal's Reflections

SEPTEMBER 14, 2014

Change is a word that is thrown around in education circles more and more each day. We are made to think that education is in a downward spiral and that students are ill prepared to succeed in college and/or careers that require students to think and apply learning differently. Image credit: [link] ?The Forced change rarely works.

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Sapiens

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Researchers primarily applied this system to Eurasia and Africa, but other evolutionary frameworks have been applied not only to those regions but also to the Americas.) This approach to archaeological research places value on the continuous cultural and social development of humans. Instead, we advocate for “deep history.”

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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. 1/2) Hi [first_name]. You shouldn’t throw them all out.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 5, 2023

That has not deterred a trio of researchers from trying to quantify that influence. Kraft and two other researchers from Harvard University and the University of Virginia turned to the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health , a periodic survey of 20,000 teens from 1994 into adulthood.

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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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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 20, 2021

What if higher education isn’t the “great equalizer” after all? According to a new analysis of Federal Reserve data, higher education may not only reflect but also exacerbate racial inequities. Black grads earn less than their white peers at every level of education attainment. The wage gap is significant.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 16, 2024

But nationally just under half of these students graduate from four-year institutions within six years, compared with more than two-thirds of students who receive neither Pell Grants nor direct subsidized loans, according to federal education data. Related: Interested in innovations in the field of higher education?

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 20, 2024

Early research is finding that the new artificial intelligence of large language models, also known as generative AI, is approaching the accuracy of a human in scoring essays and is likely to become even better soon. Researchers fed these same student essays – ungraded – into ChatGPT and asked ChatGPT to score them cold.

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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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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

MARCH 23, 2025

Education systems were built on the belief that if we filled young minds with enough knowledge, progress would follow. Secure, loving interactions with caregivers and educators wire the brain for resilience , self-regulation and problem-solving. But schools alone cannot solve our existing education and relational crises.

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Sapiens

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Because DNA encodes proteins, this research addressed a fundamental question: How much do individuals of the same species vary genetically? But despite huge strides in genetics research—leaving no doubt about the validity of Lewontin’s conclusions— genetics curricula taught in U.S. On the bus, Lewontin turned his attention to humans.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 17, 2022

This sobering anecdote comes from a research project led by Kelly Slay, an assistant professor at Vanderbilt University, who has been conducting in-depth interviews with admissions officers in 2022 to understand how the elimination of SAT and ACT testing requirements has been playing out inside colleges and universities.

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A Principal's Reflections

MAY 28, 2017

Learning spaces had to conform to the perceived rule of law in education. We pitched a book idea to ASCD that wouldn’t just tell educators what they should be doing, but more importantly show them how it could be done. Research underpins each key to provide greater rationale and substance for the ideas presented.

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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 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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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

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

This broken developmental education model has long been a barrier to student success. Reforming it is one of higher education’s biggest challenges and opportunities. Related: Interested in innovations in the field of higher education? Subscribe to our free biweekly Higher Education newsletter.

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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

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Rider oversees career and technical education in Allen Parish, a region of rural Louisiana known for pine forests and the state’s largest casino. About 85 percent of high school graduates in 2019 had taken at least one course in career and technical education, or CTE. Louisiana bet big on career education.

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