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OPINION: Instead of panicking over test scores, let’s rethink how we measure learning and student success

The Hechinger Report

Research in economics and psychology shows that these tests fail to measure key traits like perseverance, motivation and conscientiousness qualities that strongly predict long-term success. Meanwhile, factors like ninth grade GPA and attendance may be better predictors of high school graduation rates than any standardized test.

Economics 112
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Teaching the Constitution in the Context of Human Behavior

Teaching American History

“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. That’s why good teaching about citizenship involves students in an intentional study of human behavior.”

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‘Easy to just write us off’: Rural students’ choices shrink as colleges slash majors

The Hechinger Report

Cloud State University in Minnesota is cutting 42 degree programs , for example, including criminal justice, gerontology, history, electrical and environmental engineering, economics and physics. In all, more than 25 programs have now been eliminated there, many of them in the humanities.

Geography 133
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OPINION: Ask not what can be done with a humanities degree

The Hechinger Report

My older siblings were going to nursing and medical school and all of my cousins were pursuing engineering, science and business degrees. A just-under-the-surface skepticism about the usefulness of a humanities degree as job preparation. What can’t you do with a humanities degree?” Drawing on data from the U.S.

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OPINION: Community colleges can be the engine of economic recovery. But first, they must adapt

The Hechinger Report

Over the past 12 months, we have been part of an Opportunity America working group studying the changes needed for community colleges to become the engine for both economic mobility and national competitiveness. The post OPINION: Community colleges can be the engine of economic recovery. Related: Special Report on Community Colleges.

Economics 139
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OPINION: Why Relational Intelligence is the key to thriving in the AI era

The Hechinger Report

We rewarded students for getting the right answers, for competing rather than collaborating, for mastering subjects rather than navigating human relationships. In 2020, 44 percent of high school youth reported having no source of supportive relationships either adults or peers, a reduction by half from a decade earlier.

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OPINION: ‘If we don’t act now, working-class Americans will keep slipping economically’

The Hechinger Report

We invest trillions of dollars to fulfill this promise, yet half of Americans don’t earn a post-high school credential of any kind by the age of 30. If we don’t act now, working-class Americans will keep slipping economically. . Today, there are 32 million working-class adults in America who aren’t earning a living wage.

Economics 109