The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

However, researchers at Georgetown University project that by 2031, 72 percent of jobs will require some type of education or training after high school. Traditional higher education has reached an inflection point. This is how we will be able to better foster prosperity and facilitate our nation’s promise of economic mobility.

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A Principal's Reflections

MARCH 3, 2024

In today's rapidly changing world, where new challenges and technologies emerge at an unprecedented pace, students need to be relevant thinkers to successfully navigate the complex social, economic, and environmental issues they will face. It encourages deeper cognitive processes and critical thinking.

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Anthropology.net

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

The vibrant shades offered by ochre became instrumental in creating artwork that spanned the boundaries of the Stone Age, preserving a tradition that endures in many modern cultures worldwide. The enduring tradition of ochre use in Eswatini and beyond showcases the remarkable consistency in human expression across time.

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TeachThought

MAY 15, 2024

A Sign Of The Times: Statistics Outgrowing Other STEM Fields Title: Embracing Statistics: A Pillar of Modern STEM Education In today’s rapidly evolving landscape of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM), statistics is emerging as a pivotal discipline, transcending its traditional role as a mere supporting tool.

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Anthropology.net

APRIL 30, 2025

For decades, they were thought to be remnants of an earlier, Ice Age aesthetic, part of a vast visual tradition called the Irregular Infill Animal Period (IIAP). Of the 151 rock art sites identified, 22 preserved animal depictions that broke stylistically with the earlier IIAP tradition. Related Research David, B., McNiven, I.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

A cornerstone of this effort has been what is called “corequisite support,” which is designed to address the shortcomings of traditional remediation. More than 20 states have adopted corequisite support to supplement or replace traditional approaches to remediation. Subscribe to our free biweekly Higher Education newsletter.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 28, 2025

Related: Our free weekly newsletter alerts you to what research says about schools and classrooms. More than two-thirds of students in the bottom 25 percent are economically disadvantaged. By contrast, fewer than a quarter of the students in the top 25 percent are economically disadvantaged. That’s a big deal.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 15, 2025

Bringing down the price of a degree was certainly a key part of the appeal when online higher education began, said Richard Garrett, co-director of that survey of online education managers and chief research officer at Eduventures, an arm of the higher education technology consulting company Encoura. Online was going to be disruptive.

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Anthropology.net

MARCH 27, 2025

Among the architectural remnants and everyday artifacts, researchers have uncovered compelling evidence of early copper use and production.​ ​ These findings challenge the traditional timeline, which places the advent of copper metallurgy in the Chalcolithic period, around 4000 BCE. c) Chisel axe.

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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.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Map reprinted from The Postsecondary Outcomes of High School Dual Enrollment Students A National and State-by-State Analysis (October 2024) Community College Research Center. asked Kristen Hengtgen, a policy analyst at EdTrust, a nonprofit research and advocacy organization that lobbies for racial and economic equity in education.

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Anthropology.net

MARCH 4, 2025

The research, published in Antiquity 1 , challenges long-held assumptions that this part of Africa was a historical void waiting to be "awakened" by foreign traders. “Kach Kouch decisively challenges the notion that the north-western Maghreb was essentially terra nullius prior to Phoenician arrival,” the researchers write.

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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 19, 2024

” How Horn Modification Was Achieved Using advanced analysis, the researchers determined that the horn deformations were not natural. The deliberate alteration of sheep horns likely mirrored this tradition, transforming them into living symbols of the elite’s ability to dominate and reshape the natural world.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 28, 2024

These skills matter whether you’re hoping to score an A on a research presentation, perform a soliloquy or secure funding from a venture capitalist. I can say, without hesitation, that they succeeded in traditional academics in part due to the skills learned in their education and pursuits in the arts.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 23, 2025

We continue to treat relationships as secondary a soft issue compared to academic rigor or economic productivity. As LinkedIns chief economic opportunity officer notes, relationship skills are essential in an increasingly relationship economy. Thats why some of the most effective initiatives dont look like traditional schools at all.

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Anthropology.net

APRIL 14, 2025

Drawing on data from over 50,000 ancient homes spread across six continents and 10,000 years of human history, the research team measured the economic disparities of the past through one of its most visible clues: the size of people's houses. Others developed traditions or institutions that emphasized reciprocity and mutual aid.

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A Principal's Reflections

JUNE 25, 2013

PIRG Panelist Nicole Allen discussed her work as Public Interest Research Group (PIRG)’s Textbook Advocate. The economics are staggering. Nicole’s work has resulted in hundreds of professors across the country choosing free texts over traditional costly textbooks and lowering the cost of higher education for thousands of students.

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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.

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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

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. Last fall she was scrambling to submit applications to programs that she and Zoe have found only through word of mouth and hours of research. That was the hope.

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Teaching American History

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

To give students insight into the work of historians, Czarnecki assigns research projects in all of the courses she teaches at Bishop Seabury Academy in Lawrence, Kansas. She also pursues her own research. Then she muses, “More graduate students should submit their research papers, because you never know.” Czarnecki says.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 20, 2020

Hotter classroom temperatures and polluted air are affecting children’s brains at school, according to a new body of education research. (AP Education researchers have traditionally focused on the obvious ingredients of teaching and learning, such as instruction, curriculum, student motivation and school funding. Weekly Update.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Earlier this month, a new study in Nature revealed a key predictor of economic mobility: connectedness. The analysis also yielded a new species of school-level data, charting the degree of economic connectedness within individual high schools and colleges across the country. For the past two years, VNL has worked with the Annie E.

Economics 137

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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.

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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.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Students seeking a traditional four-year college experience in their home state must travel more than 225 miles to Montana State University in Billings. Alyssa Ratledge is a research associate at MDRC, a nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization that is conducting an evaluation of Montana 10.

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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?

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 19, 2022

Each of these lenses — technological, economic and geopolitical — offers substantial truth. Before unpacking these benefits, let’s differentiate between a “modern” educational problem, like climate change, and its more traditional counterparts, like teaching algebra. He also serves as the senior research advisor at Panorama Education.

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Studies Weekly

MAY 6, 2025

Encourage Musical Traditions : What can musical clues tell us about people and their environments? Ask your students to reflect on how music has been part of their family traditions. Using Music to Teach Economics Work songs are a fascinating window into labor history and economic systems. What message does it send?

Social Studies 52

Social Studies Teaching Primary Sources Heritage 52

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.

Economics 98

Economics Archaeology Anthropology Humanities 98

Anthropology.net

MAY 11, 2025

Traditional methods could only go so far. The people buried in Dahwa’s tombs were part of a larger economic and social landscape—one that spanned oceans and deserts, and that brought not just goods but biological entanglements. Related Research Robbins, G., Ancient skeletal evidence for leprosy in India (2000 BC).

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K-12 Archaeology Humanities Economics 53

Political Science Now

APRIL 4, 2025

In the APSA Public Scholarship Program, graduate students in political science produce summaries of new research in the American Political Science Review. On the one hand, Kugelberg argues, dating apps have the potential to address many of the injustices that people face in the traditional (non-digital) dating world.

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Society for Classical Studies

DECEMBER 2, 2024

This issue is still avidly researched and debated by scholars of different fields. The Fifth Interdisciplinary Conference is an opportunity for Polish and international speakers, considering and analyzing the issue from a variety of perspectives, to exchange research experience. Mutual relations in the field of religion.

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Cultures Tradition History Economics 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?

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Tradition Leadership Economics Research 140

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 132

Economics Cultures Community Engagement Research 132

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 127

Economics Learning Science Tradition Research 127

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.

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