The Hechinger Report

MARCH 11, 2020

Higher Education. Leave this field empty if you're human: “People think it’s about boxes and wires and that’s just the beginning,” said Beth Holland, digital equity and rural project director at the Consortium for School Networking, an industry association for tech directors across the country. Choose as many newsletters as you like.

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ED Surge

APRIL 29, 2024

I believe that placing people, not technology, at the center of these decisions is how educators should embrace AI, discover new ways of incorporating its capabilities, and use its power to promote equitable student success. AI is now reshaping how students learn, and its widespread use has created some complexities in education.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 19, 2020

That’s why both educators and researchers who study child development say the school shutdowns resulting from the coronavirus pandemic may be particularly disruptive for middle schoolers. Like I don’t feel that same like human connection,” said Seamus Lynch, an eighthgrader at Lincoln Middle School in Park Ridge, a suburb of Chicago.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 29, 2020

Students who take time off from four-year universities, opt for community colleges instead or shift to part time all could end up spending longer in school and are more likely to drop out, history and research show. That’s the inescapable lesson of history and research. Credit: Gregory Shamus/Getty Images.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

This office, which would be led by a director of basic needs, would report directly to the undersecretary of education, who has the primary responsibility for higher education policy at the department. We propose that the department create an Office of Basic Needs dedicated to understanding and solving these issues.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 8, 2021

Related: Spotlight swings to for-profit middlemen that may be driving up the cost of online higher education. The benefit to institutions seems fairly clear,” said Clare McCann, deputy director for federal higher education policy at the think tank New America. “It Outsourcing has speeded up during the pandemic.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

In Virginia, for example, more than 50 percent of all black college students attend just four colleges, according to research by the Urban Institute, a Washington think tank. Higher Education. But the researchers didn’t know students’ wealth. Mississippi Learning. Proof Points. Early Childhood.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Sign up for our Higher Education newsletter. Higher Education. Leave this field empty if you're human: Not everyone who enrolls in college will leave with a certificate or degree, but the number of people who drop out or take a break is much higher than experts previously believed. Choose as many as you like. Weekly Update.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 15, 2019

Higher Education. Leave this field empty if you're human: The survey found that instead of moving bright kids ahead to more advanced topics, gifted classrooms are preoccupied with activities to develop critical thinking and creativity, such as holding debates and brainstorming. . Sign up for Jill Barshay's Proof Points newsletter.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

One team of researchers has a surprising answer. Free community college, an increasingly popular idea, is much less effective, actually reducing four-year college education rates while low-income Americans reap the smallest benefits, the researchers found. Higher Education. Choose as many as you like. Weekly Update.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 16, 2018

This is what an equity-driven higher education policy could create, not just in the Bronx but throughout the country. All meaningful efforts to promote educational equity begin with evidence about what works and what doesn’t. Higher Education. Michelle Asha Cooper is president of the Institute for Higher Education Policy.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 17, 2018

“It’s only a handful,” said Barbara Goodson, a researcher at Abt Associates Inc., a research and consulting firm that was hired to analyze the results of the Investing in Innovation (i3) Fund for the Department of Education. Why is innovation so hard in education? We have rarely been able to do it.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 13, 2020

Because those scores were then used to evaluate educators and decide which schools to shut down, testing has changed how math and reading are taught in classrooms and reduced or even eliminated topics that aren’t tested — from civics and science to art and music. There were two camps. The other side argued that scores hadn’t declined.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 23, 2018

Seeking inspiration, she turns to her phone where, for the last 10 months, she’s been receiving text messages with simple educational games, tips on how to engage with Katelynn and reminders of simple learning activities they can do together. Nudges could have a powerful effect on education. Higher Education. Weekly Update.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

Felecia Commodore came into her job search armed with a University of Pennsylvania doctorate in higher education and published research papers. citizen or permanent resident research doctoral recipients in 2014 were black and 6.5 percent of education doctorates are awarded to blacks , they receive just 3.5 percent of U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 4, 2018

There’s a $32 million glass-fronted complex near completion that will house the nursing program and administrative offices, and a new $11 million recreation center that will also have a lab to study kinesiology, or human movement. Sign up for our Higher Education newsletter. Higher Education. Choose as many as you like.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 27, 2019

Measuring achievement gaps between rich and poor might seem like a straightforward exercise for education experts. But despite this apparent simplicity, two prominent education researchers have arrived at different answers. Reardon is a professor at the Graduate School of Education. Mississippi Learning. Proof Points.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 1, 2019

Higher Education. Leave this field empty if you're human: Neal got her start in Teach for America in 2002 and founded a charter high school in Chicago in 2008 that became one of the city’s best. Sign up for the Future of Learning newsletter. Choose as many newsletters as you like. Weekly Update. Future of Learning.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 12, 2018

It is a phrase du jour in the education world and the impetus for conversations about 21st-century career and technical education programs. Research suggests that simply taking a course or two in career and technical education for a few hours a week won’t do much for either job preparedness or academic achievement.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Research before the pandemic often showed poorer outcomes for students in virtual schools versus brick-and-mortar ones. The research paints a grim picture. Because you look at a lot of the data on virtual learning, and it’s been discouraging,” said Diana Sharp, a senior researcher at RMC Research Corp.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 5, 2021

“The message is getting clearer and clearer: This is what our postsecondary population looks like,” said Alexandria Walton Radford, co-author of a new study by the American Institutes for Research that identified 67 “promise” programs across the U.S. that pay college tuition for adults. ?Valissa?White,

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 13, 2017

Forty percent still don’t have a bachelor’s degree six years later, researchers at the University of Utah have found. Pilot programs in 17 states have so far conferred about 20,000 associate degrees in this way over the last five years, a report from the Institute for Higher Education Policy found. Higher Education.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 29, 2017

The rates are “so high that there’s no question students are getting out of high school without the skills they need to succeed in college,” said Alex Mayer, a senior research associate at MRDC, an education and social policy research organization. That’s us.”.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

While it is good news that these results are lighting a fire under the education policy world and highlighting the particular need among students of color, the traditional approach to improving results — more math, more reading, more pressure — seems dubious at best.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 15, 2017

Bristol, who examines national, state and local education policies that affect the recruitment and retention for teachers of color in schools, has been much in demand lately to talk about his research. Color-blind reform policies haven’t done black folk favors in places like New Orleans, Washington D.C. In 2015, a U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 26, 2018

Higher Education. Leave this field empty if you're human: Bey said that as Zuberi goes through the course, things will begin to change for him, the same way they did for Bey when he first joined the program. Researchers tracking state and local district data say Kemp’s situation is not unusual. Sign up for our newsletter.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 19, 2016

Though many states and districts have initiated strategies attempting to get more teachers of color into the classroom, my co-authors and I were skeptical that these efforts based in Human Resources offices were actually making much of a difference overall. And with the diversification of the U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 7, 2024

The downturn has pushed community colleges to broaden their approach to recruitment, resulting in an increase in the number of students requiring more support and services, said Taylor Odle, an assistant professor of education policy studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The price tag is not the same,” he said.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 29, 2019

“These schools are wealthy as heck, and they’re getting basically free advertising by claiming to meet need when they’re not meeting need,” said Sara Goldrick-Rab, a professor of higher education policy and sociology at Temple University. So she and her husband never put aside any money for their college educations.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 17, 2018

“I don’t know anyone who doesn’t want to improve education, but our good intentions can make us unintentionally do the wrong things,” said Frederick Hess, founding director of the education policy studies program at the Washington think tank the American Enterprise Institute. Sign up for our Higher Education newsletter.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Only 13 states publish data on enrollment in arts courses and none publish data on how much time is devoted to the arts, according to a 2019 study by the Education Commission for the States , a nonprofit think tank dedicated to studying education policy. There is no society, there is no human culture, without the arts.”.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 30, 2018

Much of the funding for this educational experiment came from philanthropies set up by Silicon Valley entrepreneurs, who made their money from technology and have argued that introducing more of it in classrooms can transform the education system. But research has been mixed on whether it works. Higher Education.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 6, 2016

Michael Hansen, senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and director of the Brown Center on Education Policy, is among a number of experts who say minority students may be underperforming because they don’t have role models in positions of authority — people who are helping them, and who also look like them. Photo: Jamie Martines.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 1, 2017

However, there is not much research on the life outcomes of students with disabilities who attain high school diplomas versus those who get alternative exit documents. Related: How one district solved its special education dropout problem. Higher Education. There is a dearth of research on the topic. Weekly Update.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 16, 2017

A significant body of research shows that high-quality preschools produce long-term academic and social benefits for children. Only 3 percent of Idahoans under age 5 are served by Head Start, the federal early education program for children living in poverty, according to a report by the National Institute of Early Education Research.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 6, 2018

Although it’s not easy to track participation in online programs, a report by the Evergreen Education Group , a leader in digital learning research, estimated that some 2.7 In 2017, the average score on all AP exams in Mississippi was a 2.2, compared to a 2.84 nationwide. A score of 3 is needed to pass. million students took about 4.5

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 11, 2017

Social Studies teacher Michelle Adler talks to sophomores Maiya Schwartz, left and Emily Terranova about an assignment in an Honors Human Geography class at Gray-New Gloucester High School on Thursday, June 1, 2017. “It’s the long arm of the state,” she says. ” Photo: Gregory Rec/Portland Press Herald.

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