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. So, too, was the idea of becoming a non-traditional student in a traditional classroom setting.

Economics 88

Economics History Archiving Tradition 88

Anthropology for Beginners

MAY 17, 2021

The long history of ethnographic research especially because of the dominant paradigm of functionalism, scholars have been of the perception that villages were self sufficient units that doesn’t really have a strong connection with the urban centres. These two communities represented the most and the least developed types.

Anthropology 130

Anthropology Tradition Economics Cultures 130

ED Surge

MARCH 23, 2023

In order to understand the significance of microcredentials, their ability to help meet workforce demands , and the dilemma these short-term credentials are causing to traditional higher education, we must first walk through the ways college has evolved during its nearly 400 years of history in our nation. According to historian Benjamin T.

Education 125

Education Sociology Economics Tradition 125

Anthropology.net

OCTOBER 14, 2024

[Image Courtesy: Jamie Kidston, ANU] The Laili Rock Shelter Discovery The Laili rock shelter, located in northern East Timor (also known as Timor-Leste), has been the focus of extensive research conducted by archaeologists from Australian and UK universities, including the Australian National University (ANU) and Flinders University.

Humanities 70

Humanities Heritage Archaeology Artifacts 70

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

By traditional measures of well-being, America’s children and teens should be doing well. 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 Subscribe today! Fewer teens are taking up smoking. What happened then?

Tradition 113

Tradition Leadership Economics Research 113

ED Surge

MARCH 20, 2024

Stacie Johnson Leader of Professional Development at Khan Academy Johnsrud: The World Economic Forum this past year reported that creative thinking is the number-one skill needed across industries globally in the next five years. EdSurge: Some people feel that being creative means being artistic and, therefore, claim to be “not creative.”

Pedagogy 124

Pedagogy Advocacy K-12 Economics 124

ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Traditional methods of calculus instruction may be knocking students off the path to these vital occupations, which is why advocates warn that getting diverse students into these careers may require instructional models more responsive to students. That the traditional lecture method of teaching calculus isn’t as effective as active models.

Tradition 120

Tradition Teaching Economics Research 120

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 25, 2017

Since the late 1990s, nearly two-thirds of selective public universities reduced the share of traditional-aged students they enrolled from the bottom 40 percent of the income scale. Related : The troubling use of ‘merit aid’ at public flagships and research universities . There is an important caveat to the study’s conclusions.

Research 94

Research Tradition Economics Education 94

Anthropology for Beginners

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Imperialist archaeologies (largely those developed in Britain and America) exert theoretical hegemony over research in the rest of the world through extensively engaging in research abroad, playing a major role in training either foreign students or those who subsequently obtain employment abroad, and in the dissemination of texts.

Archaeology 130

Archaeology Museum Cultures Economics 130

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.”

Economics 95

Economics Cultures Community Engagement Research 95

ED Surge

MARCH 12, 2024

For the study, researchers interviewed 6,015 enrolled students, 5,012 formerly enrolled students who never completed their program and 3,005 adults who never enrolled in higher education. How startlingly pressing concerns over mental health and well-being are for college enrollment and participation, according to one of the researchers.

Economics 110

Economics Tradition Research Education 110

Political Science Now

AUGUST 1, 2024

Comparative Historical Analysis Full Day Short Course 9:00am – 5:00pm Comparative historical analysis (CHA) encompasses a methodological tradition that has been widely used for studying problem-driven, macro-historical questions. CHA builds a bridge between these two research traditions and developed a heterodox methodological toolbox.

Political Science 50

Political Science Tradition Economics Cultures 50

Anthropology for Beginners

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

iii] According to anthropologist George Dalton, “Peasants were legal, political, social, and economic inferiors in medieval Europe. These scholarly traditions produced a wealth of theory and data that has been discovered by contemporary anthropology, but they do not constitute the historical back ground of the anthropology of peasantry.

Anthropology 100

Anthropology Sociology Economics Cultures 100

ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

The World Economic Forum's 2023 Future of Jobs Report highlighted creative thinking as a top skill for the future. Research has shown that the more students are able to create, the more they thrive. The creator economy is booming, with 200,000 new creative jobs created in the United States in 2023 alone.

EdTech 112

EdTech Advocacy Critical Thinking Social Studies 112

Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 23, 2023

Employing a pioneering approach that integrated carbon and nitrogen stable isotope analysis with archaeozoological studies, the research provided unique insights into the intricate nature of these early societies' animal husbandry. Notably, the study highlighted the increasing economic significance of pigs during the Neolithic period.

Archaeology 52

Archaeology Economics Humanities Government 52

ED Surge

MARCH 12, 2024

He recently served as the first civil society fellow in artificial intelligence and machine learning at the World Economic Forum, where he led research on AI, job quality and work augmentation. Ben Wildavsky, author of the new book, “ The Career Arts: Making the Most of College, Credentials, and Connections.”

Economics 116

Economics Tradition Humanities Cultures 116

Political Science Now

MARCH 11, 2024

In the APSA Public Scholarship Program, graduate students in political science produce summaries of new research in the American Political Science Review. The researchers took a closer look at the voting patterns in the coal-dependent areas, comparing them before and after the JTA was introduced. This piece, written by Irem B.

Political Science 57

Political Science Economics Government Tradition 57

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 1, 2024

They also determined the research questions they’d ask of the data — such as whether social media use during class reduces comprehension and retention. She said emerging research suggests that courses like data science could have “more potential for bringing students into STEM” than the traditional preparatory math courses.

High School 135

High School Tradition Economics Teaching 135

ED Surge

JUNE 9, 2022

But if the point of higher education is to buoy economic mobility, those lists that make headlines every year aren’t showing the whole picture. That’s the argument made by researchers at the think tank Third Way, who developed a new way to rank the nation’s colleges. It’s through this lens that things start to look different.

Economics 98

Economics Tradition Research Education 98

Digital Promise

MARCH 28, 2022

The pandemic has intensified the need to leverage digital tools, such as micro-credentials, to promote local economic growth. I know for me and traditional classroom settings, when you talk about a semester, that’s a long time. I think that part of it is great and new.

Economics 116

Economics Learning Science Tradition Research 116

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 23, 2024

Some researchers think these small-scale efforts to teach math in context could transform how it’s taught more broadly. Students in the study who were taught math through an applied approach performed significantly better on two of three standardized tests than those taught math in a more traditional way.

Education 134

Education High School Tradition Psychology 134

The Hechinger Report

MAY 6, 2021

The result is that we are losing the energy, intelligence and creativity young people could and should bring to New York’s economic recovery. We are losing the energy, intelligence and creativity young people could and should bring to New York’s economic recovery. The time is right. Can the proposed three-tier initiative work?

High School 144

High School Economics Project-Based Learning Tradition 144

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 23, 2020

Schools are linchpins of a community’s overall physical landscape and of what researcher Eric Klinenberg defines as social infrastructure: the physical places and organizations that shape the way people interact. School traditions often connect one generation to the next, providing a sense of community stability and cohesion.

Archiving 136

Archiving Economics Tradition Government 136

Political Science Now

AUGUST 5, 2024

DuBois to recover their understanding of the integral importance of social mobility and the eradication of caste in the fight for civil rights, a tradition Ferguson calls anti-caste constitutionalism. Ferguson’s project is an ambitious one in which he engages with the political thought of Black theorists like Frederick Douglass and W.E.B.

History 52

History Political Science Economics Tradition 52

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

By traditional measures of well-being, America’s children and teens should be doing well. 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 Subscribe today! Fewer teens are taking up smoking. What happened then?

Tradition 54

Tradition Advocacy Leadership Economics 54

Anthropology.net

MARCH 5, 2024

Unveiling Gold Treasures and Ritual Offerings Within the sacred confines of the tomb, researchers uncovered a dazzling array of gold artifacts, including intricately crafted bracelets, belts adorned with gold beads, and symbolic ornaments such as crocodile-shaped earrings and gold-covered sperm whale teeth earrings. 1 Martínez, E.

Archaeology 52

Archaeology Artifacts Heritage Cultures 52

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. Research shows that the following features of effective leadership can improve student achievement (Leithwood et al.,

Research 49

Research Education Professional Development Leadership 49

ED Surge

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

As consensus builds among many researchers, policy experts and elected officials that the U.S. You’re not enabling economic mobility at $12 an hour. How do they resolve that tension between economic development and individual mobility?”

Education 101

Education Economics Government Tradition 101

Anthropology News

AUGUST 21, 2024

In January 2020, I carried out preliminary research in Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia, where rampant wildfires had engulfed wide swaths of the country each year since August 2010. The farm was inspired by the work of André Marcel Voisin , a French biochemist, farmer, and author known for developing a “rational grazing” method.

Anthropology 89

Anthropology Humanities History Economics 89

A Principal's Reflections

SEPTEMBER 14, 2014

The fact that there is no valid research base to support these mandates just builds greater resentment for the change process. Where there still is forced change turmoil, economic instability, and mistrust run rampant. This is a great example of forced change. Forced change rarely works.

K-12 346

K-12 Leadership Professional Development Cultures 346

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

This inequality compounds systemic economic disparities. Drawing on these interviews, our research found that there are actions that institutions and policymakers can take to address students’ lack of access to nutritious food. Black, Latino and Native American students were at even greater risk.

Tradition 125

Tradition Economics Research Education 125

ED Surge

MAY 6, 2022

Limited access to support: In our research and work with providers , we understand that home-based providers struggle to gain access to loans, relief grants and material support necessary to survive the pandemic and build economic stability. Here are some ideas to get started: Families. Celebrate and thank your provider.

Economics 100

Economics Teaching Tradition Cultures 100

ED Surge

DECEMBER 19, 2023

It was only in the ’70s that we started recruiting traditional-aged students onto a campus. We had to negotiate with our traditional faculty who really controlled what we could do and not do — to get a little bit of breathing space to do what we wanted to do. We think we'll have research and tools. So it was always in our DNA.

EdTech 98

EdTech Humanities Tradition Economics 98

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 29, 2024

But traditional internships are not universally accessible. “At Not everybody is a traditional 18- to 22-year-old student,” Churches said. Between two similar job candidates, an internship in the industry is “the number-one tie-breaker,” said Joshua Kahn, associate director of research and public policy at NACE.

Government 120

Government Tradition Professional Development Critical Thinking 120

The Hechinger Report

JULY 21, 2023

There’s been a devaluing of anything that sits outside the model of the traditional conception of a faculty member,” said Adrianna Kezar, a professor of higher education at the University of Southern California and director of the Pullias Center for Higher Education at USC’s Rossier School of Education.

Economics 82

Economics Cultures Tradition Teaching 82

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

College attendance among Black students dropped a whopping 8 percent during the summer of 2020, compared with the summer of 2019, according to the first “ Stay Informed ” report published in September 2020 by the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center. Racial protests added to those stresses, affecting some groups more than others.

Tradition 134

Tradition Economics History Research 134

ED Surge

APRIL 19, 2022

According to the Community College Research Center , federal Pell Grants currently can only be used for programs totaling at least 600 hours over 15 weeks. Such partnerships are imperative to our efforts to develop new opportunities for social and economic mobility for our students, 64 percent of whom are students of color.

Government 114

Government Economics Tradition Research 114