The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 28, 2019

If we don’t act now, working-class Americans will keep slipping economically. . We need to focus on investing more resources in designing innovative solutions that provide job skills for working-class adults, connecting these Americans to better economic opportunities. Related: Out of poverty, into the middle class.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 24, 2021

This year, it was 47 percent — a 68 percent increase that disproportionately impacted Black and Hispanic students, according to a report by Amplify , a national K-8 curriculum and assessment company that analyzed data from 400,000 students across 1,400 schools over the last two years. This year, it was 47 percent.

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 2, 2019

While there has been considerable focus on developing K-12 computational thinking pathways in major U.S. The Floyd County and Pikeville teams got a glimpse of SFSD’s comprehensive K-12 computing pathway through the eyes of the students.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 26, 2021

Now, based on the latest science and human behavior, I predict that on-campus classes will not be safe until late 2022. Squinting at my 16” laptop screen 12 hours every day while communicating with students and grading their papers was growing painful, so I bought a 34” curved ultra-wide external monitor ($570).

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 13, 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: By the close of this century, at least half of the more than 7,000 languages spoken today will become extinct – and that’s according to the rosiest of linguistic forecasts.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

The result is clear: Schools can serve as economic engines when directly engaged in developing the talent pipeline essential to local employers. Leave this field empty if you're human: Through students like Gutierrez, we have seen our goals realized. Sign up for our newsletter. Choose as many as you like. Weekly Update.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Imagine if every student learned how to apply creative thinking to every subject throughout their educational experience, from K-12 through college. Even though 65 percent of students learn more effectively by doing and creating , the opportunities to do so are too rarely available.

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ED Surge

MARCH 20, 2024

Teaching creativity and creative thinking in K-12 has always been valued but often challenging to implement. Michael Trucano from the Brookings Institution commented that the divide we will see is where some kids get taught just by AI, and other kids get taught by AI plus a human, which is obviously way better.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 25, 2017

While not everyone in her economically and ethnically diverse classes masters all the math, “what I know for sure is that my kids never give up on my class.”. The post To err is human – and a powerful prelude to learning appeared first on The Hechinger Report. You can see her method in an online Teaching Channel video.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 16, 2020

If there was ever a time to ask big, heretical questions about American K-12 education, it’s when schooling has been thrown into chaos by a pandemic, and Americans’ faith in institutions, including schools, is at ebb tide. This flies in the face of common sense and human history, deBoer argued.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

As a result of de jure housing segregation during the 20th century and de facto housing segregation today, coupled with the inequitable and often unconstitutional ways in which public K-12 education is funded, too many black students are concentrated in under-resourced K-12 schools and require developmental courses in college.

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DECEMBER 1, 2023

Women have always worked, and yet their economic contributions are often undervalued. Her economic history research expands 200 years to provide an account of women’s participation in labor markets over time and describe the history of women’s continuing economic liberation. Dr. Claudia Goldin wanted to understand why.

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ED Surge

MAY 3, 2024

Like many AI-related projects, the idea started as a way to cut the cost of hiring humans. Still, some educators and parents alike felt blindsided by the news about auto-grading essays for K-12 students. A quarter of the scores awarded will be reviewed by human scorers.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 24, 2018

That’s about $1,000 more than the national average per pupil spending in K-12 , as calculated by the National Center for Education Statistics. . Department of Health and Human Services deems “affordable.” But,” she added, “what if higher-income kids are needed to make pre-K more productive for disadvantaged kids?” .

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 17, 2019

Leave this field empty if you're human: Automation affects workers around the world — nearly half of the employers surveyed by the World Economic Forum last year expected automation would reduce their workforce by 2022. As machines become more important, we need to get better at being human. Develop human skills.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 20, 2020

Leave this field empty if you're human: We’ve known for quite some time that pollution is bad for your health but researchers are documenting how it affects our brains. Sefi Roth, an economist at the London School of Economics, is an author of both studies. Sign up for Jill Barshay's Proof Points newsletter. Weekly Update.

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APRIL 8, 2024

She got up early and stayed open late to accommodate people who worked 12-hour shifts and needed to drop kids off as early as 5 a.m. There was enough space — three units and one house — for four classrooms, and as soon as renovation was completed on the first room, she enrolled 12 more kids. The timeline for renovation grew longer.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 29, 2018

The real angst of my economically fortunate friends pales in comparison to the financial challenges and difficult choices faced by parents who don’t have much discretionary income but need out-of-home care for a young child. Grover (Russ) Whitehurst is a senior fellow in economic studies at the Brookings Institution. Weekly Update.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 4, 2023

As we embark on this journey of learning, Adobe is collaborating with educators in K-12 and higher education to develop free opportunities for professional growth. That’s why Adobe also leads conversations on AI in education with global and cross-industry education partners like the World Economic Forum’s Education 4.0

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ED Surge

MAY 16, 2024

Is absenteeism a problem in college as well as at the K-12 level? And now we have more humane guidelines around that. You think there might be an economic prompt, if nothing else, to maximize this experience, but it sounds like that's not the case for everybody? I mean, I think they're very aware of the economic reality.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2018

Families often need support in this part of the state, an area struggling to keep up with the economic growth of the high-tech Triangle region, the metropolitan home of the state capital, Raleigh, about an hour away. Related: Speaking kids home language in pre-K could provide a lifelong advantage. Sign up for our newsletter.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 30, 2018

” Statistics show they are the lowest academically performing group of students in K-12 schools and are four times more likely than native English speakers to drop out of high school. Currently, 13 percent of our 25,000 K-12 students fall into this group, with 42 different languages spoken and used by students and families.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 22, 2019

Department of Health and Human Services found that lowering the costs of child care paid by parents significantly increases the likelihood that a mother will work. Related: Wealthy cities can afford to expand pre-K: What about everyone else? And research from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Sign up for our newsletter.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 22, 2016

For America to become the world leader in college degrees — and to reap the economic and social benefits that come with that success — we must close the educational attainment gap between Latinos and their white counterparts. In 2014, Latinos represented 26 percent of students enrolled in K-12 education.

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 3, 2018

Anyone studying the humanities probably has a story of someone raising a skeptical eyebrow and asking: “What do you plan to do with that?” But that perception might be overly simplistic, according to a new working paper from the National Bureau of Economic Research. Read the original version here.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 24, 2020

Leave this field empty if you're human: In some cash-strapped Mississippi school districts, families only have to drive one county over to see what a well-resourced school district looks like. But for legislators, the endgame of school district mergers is often saving administrative costs, not reducing economic segregation.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 17, 2016

These new skills and knowledge are the new fundamental requisites for K-12 studies, college studies, 21 st century jobs and ensuring lifelong earning in the digital innovation economy. This means that without computer science education, we are not prepared for the economic needs of our future.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Last year, 45 percent of Latinos had at least some college education, compared with 35 percent in 1992, according to the study, Latino Education and Economic Progress: Running Faster but Still Falling Behind. Academic preparation and racial disparities in K-12 education clearly play a role in who graduates from college.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 18, 2018

We wanted to see what the United States could learn from an education system that consistently receives top marks from UNICEF , the OECD and the World Economic Forum. The point, he said, is “the human values and the human principles that one learns in childhood. 12) Revamp teacher training toward a medical and military model.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

After agreeing to take on 10 summer interns from the Prepare Rhode Island program last summer, Cathy Desjarlais, a human resources manager at biotech company Amgen’s Rhode Island site, had reservations about the new interns, apprehensive they would display the behavior issues Butler described. These are also 19th-century skills.”.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 16, 2018

Computer science curriculum: Senate Bill 2096 would direct the state Board of Education to develop a mandatory K-12 computer science curriculum, to include instruction on topics like coding and computer programming. Leave this field empty if you're human: Home Economics Curriculum: House Bill 16, authored by Rep.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 5, 2016

We talk about the lack of diversity in technology and dearth of economic opportunities for black and Hispanic young people as a problem now. But in the future, it will be major economic crisis, once people of color become the majority of our workforce. The white seasonally adjusted unemployment rate in October of this year was 4.3

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 13, 2022

Economic and workforce development have been disrupted, so proposals that link education and the economy are going to be priorities on governors’ agendas,” said Tom Harnisch, vice president for government relations at the State Higher Education Executive Officers Association, or SHEEO. The Colorado School of Mines. Eric Holcomb.

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 9, 2019

AI + HI (Human Intelligence) = Educational Equity. To achieve educational equity by addressing learner variability, we need to blend AI (artificial intelligence) with HI (human intelligence) through data. The New Equity Battlefield: Computing for All.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

This story is part of our Map to the Middle Class project , where we ask readers what they want us to investigate about educational pathways to economic stability. He asks : What are the projections for the size of the middle class assuming current economic and demographic trends? This question comes from Kieran Hanrahan.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Eastern Kentucky University shut down theater, economics and other majors. The Vermont College System was losing $8 million to $12 million a year. A disproportionate number of humanities and science programs are being dropped. Henderson State reports a $78 million deficit; North Dakota State, $10.5 million and climbing.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 2, 2020

In February 2020, Jackson presented these early findings at conference of the National Center for the Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Education Research (CALDER) and the paper was circulated by the National Bureau of Economic Research. Sign up for Jill Barshay's Proof Points newsletter. Choose from our newsletters. Weekly Update.

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