History Havoc

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

In sports, economic growth can be measured by attendance figures. After all, any sports franchise needs to draw fans to its games to make money and thus compete within its own league. For this post, I want to look at attendance figures from baseball during the 1880s compared to the growth of some of the cities where these teams played.

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ACRE

JANUARY 9, 2023

The 2022 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences (in Memory of Alfred Nobel) has been awarded to three economists; Ben S. Dybvig for their “research on banks and financial crises.” An important finding in their research is why avoiding bank collapses is vital. Connections to Arkansas Learning Standards: Economics: EM.3.E.3

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 18, 2021

I wanted to know what the research evidence says about the model that New York is discarding and how education researchers would remake gifted and talented programs. Researchers have been studying ways to diversify the ranks of gifted-and-talented programs. Among whites, 8 percent get tapped for gifted classrooms.

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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. Sign up for Hechinger’s newsletters.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 4, 2021

Examining Heterogeneity in High School Impacts ,” was conducted with three other researchers, including John Q. Department of Education’s Institute for Education Sciences and the current head of the University of Chicago’s Consortium on School Research. The researchers also noticed a shift in college behavior.

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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?” Laila Ibrahim, high school researcher. ” in late November.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 15, 2023

Overlooked in the trove of sensitive data released by Harvard during the affirmative action lawsuit is the outsize role that performing research can play in helping students get into elite colleges and universities. MIT even features “ Research” and “Maker” portfolios sections in its application. While I was getting my Ph.D.

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Political Science Now

MARCH 5, 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. Jieun Park is a Ph.D. Jieun Park is a Ph.D.

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Political Science Now

FEBRUARY 22, 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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Political Science Now

MARCH 13, 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

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

In the latest failure of texting, researchers nudged more than 800,000 high school students to apply for federal financial aid. Researchers sent texts about how to fill out financial aid forms, how to collect the required information and deadlines. (1/2) Researchers are confident that nudging texts did produce real benefits.

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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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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

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

JULY 22, 2021

Last week, millions of families received their first monthly payment of the expanded child tax credit, a policy meant to stabilize families with children after more than a year of economic upheaval due to the coronavirus pandemic. This is also what makes the child tax credit in particular stand out from “other well-intended U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 6, 2022

As an assistant professor of economics at City College in New York, Shankar knew that one of the most important requirements of scientific research was often missing from studies of the effectiveness of online higher education: a control group. This is action research on steroids!” This story also appeared in The New York Times.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 1, 2024

While some progress has been made since then, institutions can still do a better job connecting their educational and economic mobility missions; recent research indicates that college graduates are having a hard time putting their degrees to work. Make coursework-career connections a campuswide priority. see College Scorecard ).

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2019

A growing body of research in recent years has made clear that investing in high-quality early childhood development yields tremendous dividends in terms of academic achievement and outcomes later in life. Related: Sending your boy to preschool is great for your grandson, new research shows.

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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.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

Many claim that scientific research proves their wares work. “Education technology is an area where innovation has outpaced rigorous research,” said Vincent Quan, who runs the North American education unit at J-PAL. The J-PAL researchers found nine rigorous studies of it. Can they be believed? Some were positive.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 25, 2021

“The essay may actually have been particularly helpful for predicting the college success of disadvantaged students,” said Jack Buckley, a former head of research at the College Board, via email. A consistent body of research has found that high school grades are more predictive of how a student will do in college.

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Anthropology.net

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

The research, conducted by Kenji Itao and Kunihiko Kaneko from the University of Tokyo, Copenhagen University, and the RIKEN Center for Brain Science, delves into how competitive gift-giving practices contribute to the emergence of economic and social disparities within human societies. 1 Itao, K., & Kaneko, K.

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Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

This year we embarked on a research initiative to learn more about how regional EdCluster ecosystems work, how they diffuse innovation, and how they best support the development and scale of breakthrough learning tools and practices. Collectively, they form the basis for a shared research agenda for Education Innovation Clusters as a whole.

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CORE Econ

OCTOBER 18, 2024

Great news from the Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics ! Microeconomics has been found to devote the highest share of pages to climate change among US introductory economics textbooks. An analysis of introductory economics textbooks. The Economy 2.0: The results leave no doubt: CORE Econ’s The Economy 2.0:

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 10, 2019

The latest research comes from the Reboot Foundation, which released a study in June 2019 that shows a negative connection between a nation’s performance on international assessments and 15-year-olds’ self-reported use of technology in school. Photo: Tara García Mathewson/The Hechinger Report. Choose as many as you like.

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Digital Promise

APRIL 11, 2017

Through these and other observations, Marshall developed a framework for what he called “ economic agglomeration.” Our work on Education Innovation Clusters (EdClusters) grew out of the economic ideas on agglomeration and clustering. This will set the stage for the next phase of research on EdClusters.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Tools that work for expanding economic diversity don’t necessarily do the same thing for racial diversity, as research indicates. Expanding economic opportunity is important, but we cannot forget racial diversity. Research suggests that test-optional or test-free admissions can be one tool in a broader set of reforms.

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ACRE

APRIL 15, 2024

Marcus Witcher and covers the 1932 election, the transition of power from the Hoover to FDR administration, and early economic policies designed to combat the Great Depression. The lesson could be used as a precursor to a unit on the New Deal in history classrooms or as a case study on economic policy impacts in a social science course.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 30, 2017

That is the major finding of a new report by the Economic Policy Institute, in which researchers Emma Garcia and Elaine Weiss analyzed kindergarten readiness data for socioeconomic groups in 1998 and 2010 to see if gaps in academic readiness have shrunk over time. Related: New research finds “Magic 8” preschool practices.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

We’re not saying that all these activities are bad, but that the total is bad,” said Carolina Caetano, one of the study’s authors and an assistant professor of economics at the University of Georgia. Caetano and her research team analyzed the time diaries of 4,300 children and teens, from kindergarten through 12th grade.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

There’s a general consensus among education researchers that smaller classes are more effective. (In When I have written about unrelated educational reforms, researchers often compare them to the effectiveness of class size reductions to give me a sense of their relative impact. In math, it found no benefits at all.

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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

APRIL 22, 2024

Critics say she misrepresents research to make her case and her ideas actually impede students. This is a whole effort to shut me down, my research and my writing,” said Boaler. “I Cognitive science research suggests that students need a lot of practice and memorization to master math. That tells us something.”

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 31, 2024

This kind of work pulls faculty, students and researchers away from grand, picturesque campuses with neat grassy quads like UVM’s and into neighborhoods like Bristol’s mobile home park, 30 miles away and a world apart, where people can be surprised to see them. There is that economic stickiness, whether they like it or not.”

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

As the math educator in residence at Just Equations, a nonprofit focused on the intersection of math and equity, I research math education and I think a lot about my years in the classroom. In one of the lessons , students accessed the Agriculture Department’s Food Access Research Atlas to locate food deserts in their city.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 19, 2024

If you ask some researchers, though, it’s not enough. It wouldn’t be responsible to lean on AI as the quick fix for all our economic shortages in schooling. The report, “ Wicked Opportunities ,” also calls for more investment into research and development. Now, some early data suggests that AI could indeed widen disparities.

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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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