The Hechinger Report

MARCH 9, 2020

There’s so much information and so many personal stories about how the coronavirus has negatively affected the global community from health, economic, psychological and social perspectives. However, there are ways we can lean into our shared humanity, and I hope these suggestions can help spark that change for your school.

Psychology 131

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

More than 50 percent are economically disadvantaged. Every child deserves a high-quality education that recognizes and respects his or her dignity and humanity, and that relishes in the stories of school and community. ” This other side of the equation — student empowerment — has been just as essential.

Humanities 108

Humanities Cultures Leadership Economics 108

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 29, 2017

We needed to do a better job getting the word out,” said Van Ton-Quinlivan, the system’s vice chancellor for workforce and economic development. Skilled trades show among the highest potential among job categories, the economic-modeling company Emsi calculates. Industry could do a better job communicating.”.

Economics 111

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 20, 2020

Ninety-six percent of children at the Walton Avenue School, a K-5 school in the Bronx he’d founded in 2013, face economic hardship, and about a third are homeless. Russo himself has embodied the sixth: “effective school leadership.” They even dressed as aliens in order to ask why they weren’t being treated as human.

Elementary School 145

Elementary School Professional Development Leadership Humanities 145

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.

K-12 95

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 30, 2017

Black primary-school students who are matched to a same-race teacher performed better on standardized tests and face more favorable teacher perceptions according to recent findings from the German economic research group Institute of Labor Economics. Is it because black teachers are better educators?

Elementary School 65

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 18, 2017

Parents and their students aren’t defining this demand in terms of the critical-thinking and leadership skills that broadly educated individuals gain. The lifelong economic benefit that a college graduate will realize is a welcome byproduct of earning a degree, but it cannot be a primary motivator in the pursuit of a higher education.

Economics 95

Economics Critical Thinking Leadership High School 95

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

That’s driving institutions to beef up career services staffs and budgets, promote career directors to the highest levels of leadership and start offering career advising to students from the time they put down their first-year deposits. “If For most students, the change can’t happen soon enough.

Humanities 138

Humanities Professional Development Critical Thinking Leadership 138

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 5, 2021

But now a convergence of factors — a dwindling pool of traditional-age students, the call for more educated workers and a pandemic that highlighted economic disparities and scrambled habits and jobs — is putting adults in the spotlight. But in the midst of his studies, he stumbled and had to retake an economics course.

Economics 144

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 29, 2018

Leave this field empty if you're human: Nearly half of first-generation students who did continue went to community colleges, which spend less per student than many public primary and secondary schools , and where the odds of ever graduating are also comparatively low. Sign up for our newsletter. Choose as many as you like. Weekly Update.

High School 101

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Mahajan, who was part of national leadership at the Self-Employed Women's Association , noted that her interest in early childhood education stemmed from the perspective of motherhood, through which she recognized the importance of quality childcare for women's labor force participation and economic empowerment.

Education 113

Education EdTech Leadership Government 113

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 29, 2018

Businesspeople need to understand human nature more than ever before. Still, to understand human nature, leaders need to do more than crunch numbers. China and other economic rivals add them. In our world, now defined by digital transformation, the human factor takes on even greater importance. Higher Education.

Sociology 75

Sociology Psychology Humanities Cultures 75

ED Surge

AUGUST 15, 2023

Then, during the height of the pandemic and before our return to in-person instruction, an opportunity arose to apply for a school leadership position and I seized it. The pandemic illuminated and exacerbated many of the social, racial and economic inequities that have led to the educational disparities in public school classrooms.

Leadership 98

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 30, 2024

Over the past decade, a growing number of professors in fields as diverse as business, English and the performing arts have integrated their teaching with efforts to minimize their campuses’ waste and emissions, at a time when human-created climate change is fueling dangerous weather and making life on Earth increasingly unstable.

Anthropology 143

Anthropology Economics Psychology Library 143

The Hechinger Report

MAY 4, 2019

Using a four-year degree as a proxy for employability shuts out the most economically vulnerable job seekers. Nonetheless, according to Harvard’s survey of 600 business and human resource leaders, 61 percent of respondents reported tossing resumes without four-year degrees, even if the applicant was qualified.

Economics 112

Economics Civics Research Cultures 112

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 2, 2020

For instance, workers with certificates in construction and other blue-collar trades often make more than liberal arts and humanities majors with bachelor’s degrees , the Georgetown Center found. Tricia Young, a first-grade teacher in North Las Vegas, Nevada, who took short-term courses in subjects such as leadership skills.

Leadership 143

Leadership Tradition High School Elementary School 143

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

K-12 80

K-12 Economics Critical Thinking Cultures 80

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

Related: Debt without degree: The human cost of college debt that becomes ‘purgatory’. Although holistic practices are important, the economic realities of black families and the social structures that perpetuate these realities must also be addressed. Sign up here for Hechinger’s newsletter.

K-12 100

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 21, 2021

Daniel, a human resources researcher with Guild, describes the current programs as having “millions upon millions” of unused dollars, which has led Guild to recommend that its clients drop reimbursement and shift to tuition assistance, which relieves working students of most out-of-pocket costs. Credit: MacLaff Inc.

Education 137

Education Government High School Economics 137

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

In Dallas, eighth graders must choose one of five “ endorsements ” to focus on in high school — among them, STEM (science, technology, engineering and math); business and industry; and the arts and humanities. In a recent class at The Young Men’s Leadership Academy at Fred F. Try experiencing it under quarantine.

Middle School 142

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 6, 2025

Math literacy often contributes to economic success: A 2021 study of more than 5,500 adults found that participants made $4,062 more per year for each correct answer on an eight-question math test. Havens is still involved in the Prison Mathematics Project, but handed leadership of the program over to Jeffers in October 2023.

Sociology 92

Sociology Tutoring High School Leadership 92

ED Surge

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

It exists in nature and it is a cornerstone of our economy, but there’s a lack of consensus among psychologists as to whether competitiveness is learned or if it’s instinctual and part of human nature. Some argue that competitiveness is a trait, while others believe it’s a mix of genetic and environmental factors.

Middle School 115

Middle School Elementary School Psychology Teaching 115

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

My mother thought it ruined me, which shows that alarm about the potential for education to change us is not new, but also that it will always be ill-fated, for at least two reasons: because we humans are made to learn, and because education frees us to be who we are in the process of becoming. We are not made from whole cloth in college.

Economics 116

Economics High School Critical Thinking Research 116

The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2018

Leave this field empty if you're human: HLLC admissions officers look beyond grades and SAT scores to students’ leadership qualities and their interest in the world around them. Saied Beckford, an 18-year-old majoring in economics and computer science, lives on the seventh floor of a residence hall that houses many HLLC students.

Social Justice 93

Social Justice Economics Public School Library 93

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.”.

K-12 111

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

Leave this field empty if you're human: There are a number of changes that must be made immediately to offset this growing crisis: College governance is weak and ineffective and must be immediately adapted to meet new oversight demands, with the faculty playing a more important role in creating an innovative educational enterprise.

Leadership 84

Leadership Economics Government Tradition 84

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. The meetings are a way for families to meet other families, get connected with resources and prepare children for kindergarten.

K-12 102

K-12 Library Leadership Economics 102

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

It’s unfair, it’s discriminatory, and it disadvantages already economically disadvantaged kids,” said Jack Fletcher, co-founder of the Texas Center for Learning Disabilities in Houston and one of the first scientists to question the discrepancy model’s validity. Dyslexia is the most common reading disability.

Psychology 145

Psychology Elementary School High School Humanities 145

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 23, 2019

But the neighborhood just to the north, Hancock Park, is 71 percent white, with a median income of $85,000; the student body, meanwhile, is 79 percent Latino, 12 percent African-American, 7 percent Asian, and 64 percent “economically disadvantaged,” drawn from Koreatown, Mid-City, and neighborhoods farther afield. Tammy Kim/Hechinger Report.

Charter School 111

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2017

Chief executives of public doctoral institutions make $430,283 on average, the human resources organization CUPA-HR reports; of privates, $626,487. These are complex corporations that require real bold leadership. These are complex corporations that require real bold leadership. They’ve cut courses. They’re cutting faculty.

Government 94

Government Leadership Economics Teaching 94

ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Her school is located in Houston’s Fifth Ward neighborhood and serves a student body that is nearly 100 percent classified as economically disadvantaged. A former superintendent of nearby Spring Branch Independent School District, he is now a professor of educational leadership and policy studies at the University of Houston.

Library 145

Library Heritage High School Elementary School 145

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

“When you look at college mission statements, they’re loaded with grand pronouncements about the skills and habits of mind they’re going to inspire in their students,” said Alexander McCormick, an associate professor of educational leadership and policy studies at Indiana University Bloomington. Sign up for our Higher Education newsletter.

Civics 111

Civics Leadership Economics High School 111

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

Leave this field empty if you're human: Besides the 26 percent of Alamosa students who are already chronically absent, Burnett’s data show that another 27 percent are considered at risk of becoming so. Of the district’s nearly 91,000 students, 69 percent were considered economically disadvantaged during the 2016-17 school year.

Elementary School 100

Elementary School Public School Cultures Leadership 100

Geogramblings

JULY 26, 2024

She studied human geography at the University of Leeds and has since worked in various sustainability-related roles, focusing on mental health, student engagement, and climate education. A Lifelong Commitment to Sustainability Born and raised in Leeds, Zoe has always had a deep connection to her hometown.

Geography 68

Geography Education Economics Cultures 68

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 17, 2016

This means that without computer science education, we are not prepared for the economic needs of our future. I have said it before, CSEd is a new human right that should be accessible to all students, regardless of race, gender or socioeconomic status, and universal access inevitably closes the digital divide. “It

K-12 73

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

Leave this field empty if you're human: Sitting on the floor of their library, the dozens of students dressed in red and navy blue were an eager audience. Sign up for our newsletter. Choose as many as you like. Weekly Update. Future of Learning. Higher Education. Mississippi Learning. The results track with international data.

Charter School 94

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 8, 2018

Leave this field empty if you're human: Lessons in leadership, management, supervision and delegation have been part of their training. Bill helped to spur post-World War II economic growth, today’s support of education for military students will benefit our nation’s economy and those who have served our country. Weekly Update.

Leadership 59

Leadership Economics Humanities Cultures 59