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The Hechinger Report
DECEMBER 16, 2020
This flies in the face of common sense and human history, deBoer argued. These myths are harmful, in deBoer’s view, because they lead us to conflate academic ability and human worth. In the author’s telling, the Cult of Smart is “the notion that academic value is the only value, and intelligence the only true measure of human worth.
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
AUGUST 5, 2021
Adults with workplace skills such as human resources training or financial management deserve credit for such college-level learning, said Mathew Bergman, an associate professor at the University of Louisville who is a national expert in adult learning and teaches in the program. “If Some even earn degrees — but leave without getting them.
Digital Promise
AUGUST 2, 2017
” Fleming, a human rights advocate, explains that the circumstances Ada is living under could be defined as an armed conflict or a war zone. Right now, our conversation in the United States about education policy and practice is so polarized, and so dismissive of the other side,” explains Levinson. Willie “J.R.”
The Hechinger Report
JULY 5, 2023
Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Future of Learning newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every other Wednesday with trends and top stories about education innovation. Because in a very short time since our founding in January 2021, we and our moms have been making a difference.”
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