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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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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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.

Tradition 87

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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. A traditional competitor such as N. The Economy 2.0: Krugman and R.

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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

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 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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Sapiens

OCTOBER 30, 2024

As our team of researchers drove southeast through Utah toward Bears Ears National Monument , changes in the landscape unfolded around us. The co-management plan recognizes the deep cultural legacies of Indigenous peoples and establishes a legal basis for ceremonial and traditional practices such as gathering medicines, food, and firewood.

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CORE Econ

OCTOBER 23, 2024

In a two year long journey, Weikai Chen, Assistant Professor of Economics at Renmin University of China, made it to the city-level stage of the 13th Beijing Young Teachers’ Teaching Skills Competition. I am an assistant professor at the School of Economics at Renmin University of China in Beijing. My name is Weikai Chen. Which parts?

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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.

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Anthropology for Beginners

AUGUST 17, 2023

The most embedded interviews in this sense take place within the context of long-term participant observation, after researchers have made efforts to establish a place within the nets of social relations of the people they will be interviewing. Roughly the ethnographic approaches can be divided into the following traditions.

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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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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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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

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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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.

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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

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.”

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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

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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.

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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.

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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

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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.

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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.

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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 139

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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.

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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

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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 67

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Studies Weekly

MARCH 15, 2024

The National Institute for Early Education Research (NIEER) reports that many states still do not have a universal pre-K policy, and some do not have any state-funded preschool at all, but those numbers are quickly changing as the universal pre-K movement catches on across the nation. National Institute for Early Education Research.

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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.

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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 138

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Sapiens

OCTOBER 23, 2024

As this happens, more people will encounter a confluence of water-related challenges , including substantial disease risks, constrained economic opportunities, and political instability. Over the next few years, she partnered with the rest of us, researchers focused on household water insecurity , epidemiology, and social work.

Anthropology 96

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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 108

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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.

Economics 137

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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

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.

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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 57

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