The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

In a 2016 survey by Harvard’s Center for Education Policy Research, 94 percent of middle school math teachers said they analyzed student performance on tests in the prior year, and 15 percent said they spent over 40 hours on this kind of data analysis. The emerging answer from education researchers is no.

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A Principal's Reflections

JANUARY 28, 2024

Influential leaders guide and inspire their teams and play a crucial role in shaping educational policies and practices that meet diverse student needs. Exceptional leaders successfully lead their teams toward the future by engaging in the most fundamental form of research: observing and understanding human nature.

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ED Surge

MARCH 20, 2025

One school choice researcher identified Milwaukee as having the most evolved legislation for making private school options accountable to families. Instead, families tend to rely on recommendations from friends and neighbors, researchers say. Some are skeptical of past research on the politically charged topic of voucher programs.

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A Principal's Reflections

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

However, the most important elements stem from the fact that we trust our students to use their devices as tools for learning, enhanced productivity, and to conduct better research. Time is spent working with them on digital citizenship and the creation of positive digital footprints that they can be proud of.

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A Principal's Reflections

FEBRUARY 22, 2015

Even though countless studies have debunked this means to truly assess teacher effectiveness states have moved full steam ahead ignoring the research. What results is the proliferation of an industrialized model of education that reformers claim they want to get away from, but the policies they support only help to sustain it.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 24, 2024

campuses fell from 45 percent in 1996 to 37 percent in 2016 , the Pew Research Center found using the most recent available federal data. That group of students is their bread and butter,” said Jinann Bitar, director of higher education research and data analytics at The Education Trust, which advocates for equity in education.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 30, 2019

What stands out for me is how popular education trends, from social-emotional learning to school discipline, aren’t standing up to scientific scrutiny. The research evidence for education technology continues to be weak. Scientific research on how to teach critical thinking contradicts education trends.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Public trust in higher education has reached a historic low. However, researchers at Georgetown University project that by 2031, 72 percent of jobs will require some type of education or training after high school. Her career spans more than 25 years in education policy and research in the public and nonprofit sectors.

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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

OCTOBER 30, 2017

That is the major finding of a new report by the Economic Policy Institute, in which researchers Emma Garcia and Elaine Weiss analyzed kindergarten readiness data for socioeconomic groups in 1998 and 2010 to see if gaps in academic readiness have shrunk over time. Related: New research finds “Magic 8” preschool practices.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 22, 2024

The debate reignited among university professors during the pandemic with the 2021 online publication of a commentary in the journal Educational Psychology Review. Soon after, another group of prominent education researchers issued a rebuttal. Some educators prefer inquiry; some prefer direct instruction.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MARCH 2, 2022

Similarly, “another pair of researchers also reviewed studies on the use of data analysis in schools, much of which is produced by assessments throughout the school year, and reached the same conclusion. We implement benchmarking assessments and professional learning communities (PLCs). We make graphs and charts and tables. All of that time.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Education journalist Emily Hanford has argued that the failure to teach phonics in the early elementary years may be the problem. Research evidence certainly backs a phonics approach when first teaching kids how to read words but students need a lot more than word recognition to become good readers. Department of Education tracks.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 16, 2021

Alejandra Acosta, a higher education policy analyst at New America and an author of the report, said: “We all knew that the internet was important before the pandemic but didn’t realize how important it was. Alejandra Acosta, higher education policy analyst, New America.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

That’s what we all are holding our breath about right now,” said Karin Garver, an early childhood education policy specialist at the National Institute for Early Education Research (NIEER), who recently published a report that looked at how the pandemic could impact state-funded pre-K.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 5, 2020

Research shows there is a clear need for this: A 2015 survey found only 20 percent of early-career principals in schools with pre-K classrooms felt “well-versed” in early ed; and a 2017 nationwide scan by New America found in most states, principals start without “the knowledge and skills they need to best serve young students.”.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2023

Research has shown that Black students are less likely to be suspended and more likely to be placed in gifted classes when they are taught by Black teachers. Researchers drilled into the data to try to understand what is going on. The researchers next looked at the timing of Black students’ departure from the pathway to teaching.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Overall, about 63 percent of virtual for-profit schools were rated unacceptable by their states in the latest year for which data was available, according to a May 2021 report by the University of Colorado’s National Education Policy Center (NEPC). Related : The pandemic’s remote learning legacy: A lot worth keeping. Stride Inc.,

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 22, 2023

New research suggests one way to consider the question: by looking at how the mix of students in a given course affects their grades. Researchers were able to look through grades for every course taken by students of different personal backgrounds. The study was conducted using administrative data from 20 colleges.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 11, 2022

Two researchers from the University of Maryland and Harvard University waded into this mess. Focusing on math instruction, the researchers compared students’ math scores with surveys that the fourth and fifth-grade students had filled out as part of an experiment. “The Deciding what constitutes good teaching is a messy business.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

It’s not surprising in some ways,” says the lead researcher on the study, Jing Liu. Liu, who is an assistant professor of education policy at the University of Maryland at College Park, surmises that taking a class in computer science helps some students overcome popular misconceptions about coding.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 29, 2020

Private tutors long educated the aristocracy and continue to supplement the education of kids whose families can afford it. And researchers have a growing body of evidence showing it’s incredibly effective. Saga Education embeds tutoring into the school day. The results are, as one researcher puts it, “blockbuster.”.

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Cult of Pedagogy

JANUARY 21, 2024

Just this month, a group of researchers published their findings on the impact of district capital projects and used test scores to draw conclusions. Teachers and students can point to how the NCLB-related tests have negatively impacted education. And here we are…back at the end of the first paragraph.

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Digital Promise

APRIL 1, 2019

In recent years, education leaders have hailed curriculum choice as a low-cost way to improve student success. Although the researchers saw substantial variation in achievement growth among the schools using each particular curriculum, there were no differences in average student achievement growth between curricula.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 7, 2016

The report , from the Center for Education Policy Research at Harvard University, found encouraging, but mixed, results for a California-based charter school network and a Maryland school district that used this math program, made by DreamBox Learning. The recommended level of use is 60 to 90 minutes per week.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 10, 2022

But two recent academic papers, synthesizing dozens of reading studies, are raising questions about the effectiveness of these expensive education policies. There’s no litmus test for dyslexia and education experts say the diagnosis covers a range of reading problems. The research is there,” she said. Science evolves.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

We cannot say, based on this data, that bias causes white-Black educational disparities, but our study is one of the first in the United States to measure the relationship between teachers’ implicit racial biases and several key measures of student success. Related: Teachers go to school on racial bias.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

For decades, education reform around the world has been dominated by the rhetoric that we should use experimental research to figure out “what works.”. If we can just find the most effective solutions using science, the thinking goes, then the best policies can and should be widely used. For example, the U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

The socialist candidate for president who made it a centerpiece of her campaign in 2013, Michelle Bachelet, won by a two-to-one margin; the Chilean congress passed it by a vote of 92-2; and the conservative who succeeded Bachelet has continued the policy. Related: How free college tuition in Germany exposes unexpected pros and cons.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 9, 2023

It’s time for adults to recognize and help caregiving adolescents through federal, state and local educational policies, so they do not need to choose between caregiving and school activities. This work is also led by Elizabeth Olson , Connie Siskowski, and the Rhode Island Department of Education.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 25, 2018

The United States is lagging behind other wealthy nations when it comes to preparing students for workforce changes wrought by automation, according to a new study by a research group affiliated with The Economist magazine. Related: With a focus on equity, Estonia has quietly joined ranks of the global education elite.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 23, 2020

Rules about how old the student is permitted to be or how many credit hours can be taken, for example, create unforeseen challenges, said Tiffany Jones, Education Trust’s senior director of higher education policy. Tiffany Jones, senior director of higher education policy, The Education Trust.

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Education Policy Government Education Research 137

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 4, 2023

A pair of Stanford University education researchers studied whether the settlement made a difference, and their conclusion was that yes, it did. The researchers characterized the reading improvements as larger than those seen in 90 percent of large-scale classroom interventions, according to a 2023 study.

Tutoring 136

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 27, 2024

Although the idea is relatively new in education, many schools tried a different version of it – evaluating and paying teachers based on how much their students’ test scores improved – in the 2010s. The researchers and districts shared ideas on how to set performance targets.

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Digital Promise

JUNE 19, 2019

In this series, we take a closer look inside our new paper, “ Micro-credentials and Education Policy in the United States: Recognizing Learning and Leadership for Our Nation’s Teachers.”. Scholarly investigations of these efforts have shown to have little or no effect on both shifts in teachers’ practices and their effectiveness.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 11, 2020

According to the latest survey data from the Pew Research Center, 73 percent of adults have broadband internet at home. For the kids in their homes, that means trying to read assignments, write papers, do research and take quizzes with tiny screens and tinier keyboards. But Holland is not optimistic.

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Digital Promise

JUNE 26, 2019

In this series, we take a closer look inside our new paper, “ Micro-credentials and Education Policy in the United States: Recognizing Learning and Leadership for Our Nation’s Teachers.”. We believe so, if the following matters of policy and practice are addressed: Controlling for quality. Designing for effectiveness.

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