The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

In a 2017 study by the American Council on Education, a higher education association, researchers found that individuals who identified as something other than white held just 17 percent of college and university presidencies in 2016, while representing 42 percent of students enrolled in 2015.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

They can be a part of society, said Maureen McGuire-Kuletz, co-director of the George Washington University Center for Rehabilitation Counseling Research and Education. For 10 years, the states pre-employment program has languished, with leadership turnover and bureaucratic infighting rendering it largely ineffective.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 15, 2022

Now a doctoral student in education leadership policy at Texas Tech University, Williams often thinks about the student loan debt she is still accruing. Now, he studies the impact of student loan debt on the ability of Black people to advance economically, he said. After she had her degree in hand, it was time to start paying.

Economics 144

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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 94

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Sapiens

OCTOBER 15, 2024

The late David Graeber was an American professor of anthropology at the London School of Economics. His best-known writings challenged views in liberal economics about the origins of money, attempting to reconceive the historical relationship between debt and social institutions.

Anthropology 135

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Our mission to prepare students and graduates to lead calls upon us to actively address what leadership means in a changing global climate. As stewards of our communities, we serve as hubs of learning and research, and now we must incorporate climate literacy and climate action too.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

OCTOBER 20, 2020

And, research has shown economic mobility, achieving higher standards of living than your parents, has declined as inequality in America continues to grow. A majority of us are economically vulnerable. Associate Professor of Educational Leadership, University of Kentucky. Director, Center for Next Generation Leadership.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 12, 2022

The silence from colleagues and school leadership was particularly invalidating. The voices above represent just a handful of the 80 Asian American K-12 educators who gathered with EdSurge Research in the summer of 2022 to connect in small groups and reflect on their experiences working in U.S. schools in recent years.

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TeachThought

MAY 4, 2024

This qualification covers vital areas like health economics, resource management, and health informatics, enabling seamless integration of teams, systems, and technologies for optimized delivery. HOM professionals can work across the globe The healthcare industry, a significant employer worldwide, demands forward-thinking managers.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 29, 2023

The area is economically depressed, with the highest unemployment rate in the state and an economy reliant on tourism. Yet it’s precisely programs like SAP that the House leadership appears all too willing to cut. My questions for the House leadership are these: Which students should we not support?

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Those are four of the top five emotions K-12 teachers reported feeling back in 2017 — well before the pandemic and 18 months of unfinished learning, trauma and economic instability. Research shows that fostering SEL improves students’ academic achievement by an average of 11 percentile points.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

The measures that researchers have traditionally used to gauge adolescent well-being have become sharply out of step with the reality of adolescent life. “I Researchers have pointed to the introduction of smartphones — the iPhone was introduced in 2007 — and the rise of social media as the culprit. What happened then?

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Digital Promise

JUNE 15, 2016

While every school is unique, research has identified several elements that can almost universally increase the chances for successful teacher development and create a powerful and positive school community. Effective Administrator and Teacher Leadership. Cultivating leadership in staff, parents, and community partners.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Lincoln County is rural and rugged, forged by industry and ecology and steeped in a complicated history of extraction, exploitation and economic struggle. Economic uncertainty in the 1990s and 2000s forced fluctuations in demand. We want to build leadership in these communities,” she said. They’re doers.

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ED Surge

MAY 5, 2023

Research shows that teacher quality is the most important school-related factor influencing student achievement. According to a report published in 2017 by the Economic Policy Institute, large urban districts spend approximately $20,000 on every new hire.

Social Justice 145

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Political Science Now

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

His research excavating the largest indigenous language archive in the early 19th century reveals a different history from the present understanding about Hawaii today. Tourism as an economic component of genocide continue to target native Hawaiians for removal today.

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Political Science Now

MARCH 1, 2024

The American Political Science Association is pleased to announce the Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant (DDRIG) Awardees for 2023. The APSA DDRIG program provides support to enhance and improve the conduct of doctoral dissertation research in political science.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 9, 2020

First, do your research. 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. Here are five ways that we can start combating anti-Asian sentiment in schools: .

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Digital Promise

JUNE 30, 2020

Leaders understood that the future of work was scarce in their community, but it took time, research, and even legislative catalysts to break down silos and deeply engage with each other to collectively address the problem. Instead, it was a culmination of multiple conversations between various institutions over the course of years.

Economics 118

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Sapiens

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

He told me this one evening several years ago, shortly after he began collaborating in my field research. At first, some Shuar people were hopeful about the economic opportunities promised to them. Lawyers and engineers followed, along with hopeful promises to local people of never-seen-before development, jobs, and economic growth.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 22, 2020

For people who have been involved with the justice system as defendants, prioritizing higher education is a necessary safeguard for social and economic success, both during and after incarceration. Education opens doors to self-confidence and leadership. And that must include people caught up in the U.S. justice system.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

DECEMBER 14, 2018

AI-powered systems are doing legal research, diagnosing cancer, writing music, serving as network newscasters, and doing surgery. As a researcher and former university educational leadership faculty member, Wayne should know better than this. The declining economic value of routine cognitive work. Image credit: N.Y.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

It’s up to those of us in leadership positions to prevent this. Bring all of these data sources to your leadership team, and begin to explore appropriate goals. Here are the top 10 skills needed for today’s workforce, as identified by the World Economic Forum: 5. The question is, why do we allow it to happen?

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 1, 2019

With 20 percent of its 400-plus students diagnosed with a learning disability and about half of its kids coming from families in economic need, McCourt nonetheless outperforms citywide averages on state-mandated Regents exams, graduation rates and postsecondary enrollment. This may be a missed opportunity. The school is thriving.

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Political Science Now

MARCH 14, 2025

Dr. Holden held numerous on academic appointments and leadership positions at the American Political Science Association (APSA), serving as the APSA President (98-99), Vice President (76-77), and numerous APSA committeesincluding the Ethics Committee and the APSR Editorial Board (89-92), the Ralph J.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 30, 2017

The research is overwhelming. 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.

Elementary School 63

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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. And, while other researchers have concluded that “well-implemented” community schools can improve student outcomes, the model is not always implemented well.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 3, 2023

Students take a weekly sustainability class and participate in monthly field study days that send them into the community to conduct research on topics like land use, pollution and food equity. But over the years, it has expanded its purview to social and economic sustainability, too, said Tenner, the executive director.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 17, 2020

Stanford Medical School Professor Daria Mochly-Rosen delivers a TEDMED talk about how, frustrated by the slow process of bringing to market a drug that she discovered, she founded an international organization to help speed up the transformation of academic research into usable products. Photo: TEDMED/YouTube. It seemed the obvious next step.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 4, 2019

But now some workforce organizations, researchers and regional civic leaders are pushing back — persuading companies to look beyond academic credentials and to instead hire people based on their skills. If this movement continues to gather steam, researchers say, it could aid not only individual job seekers but also the U.S.

Economics 112

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

We are seeing economically disadvantaged communities starting to lag in their rate of learning as measured by standardized testing. Leaders holding the power of the purse will need to recognize that the new playing field is still unequal, and that economic disparities among communities will continue to yield different learning outcomes.

Economics 108

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 22, 2018

The focus of our effort— Inclusive Innovation —is supported by research summarized in the report, Making Innovation Benefit All: Policies for Inclusive Growth from Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). The post Inclusive Innovation: Designing for Equity appeared first on Digital Promise.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Erin Roberts, a teacher leadership specialist. It is a research-based approach that experts say is essential for helping children — especially those who struggle — learn to read. Related: What parents need to know about the research on how kids learn to read. 1 in the nation for growth in reading.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 6, 2016

More institutions should see the cultivation of neighborhoods as a requisite of leadership development. Paul Quinn College is taking that approach through its new African American Leadership Institute. Paul Quinn is literally harvesting the land so leadership naturally grows amongst those who cultivate it.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 18, 2017

New research shows that failing to get more Hispanics to go to college will lower incomes for all Americans. This story from the Hechinger archive lays out what researchers project will happen if there is not an increase in the number of nonwhites going to and through college. And they’ll all be hurtling toward college age.

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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 143

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

TNTP researchers plunged into a giant pool of data housed at Stanford University that tracked hundreds of millions of students’ scores on state tests at more than half the elementary and middle schools in the nation from 2009 to 2018. In that study, Chicago emerged as the nation’s most effective school district.

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