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

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

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 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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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Alabama First Class Pre-K stands out in the South, where investment in preschool education has traditionally lagged. The program received recognition from the National Institute for Early Education Research in 2006 when it met all 10 of the organization’s standards for preschool programs.

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Digital Promise

JUNE 12, 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.”. see this 2002 Education Week report ). Will teachers be recognized for their leadership in ways that they find meaningful?

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 12, 2023

Districts across the country have been ramping up career education programs spurred, in part, by federal legislation updated in 2018 that provides funding for career education (commonly referred to as Perkins V ), said Matt Giani, a research associate professor in sociology at the University of Texas at Austin who studies education policy.

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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. and 3 percentile points better on standardized assessments.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 23, 2020

“The pessimistic view is that [students] are going to hate it and never want to do this again, because all they’re doing is using Zoom to reproduce everything that’s wrong with traditional passive, teacher-centered modes of teaching,” said Bill Cope, a professor of education policy, organization and leadership at the University of Illinois.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Not just an actual desert, but an education desert,” Walsh said. But both are in regions where a drop in the number of traditional-age undergraduates is looming , according to the Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education, which tracks this. Related: Canada treats its adjunct professors better than the U.S.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 22, 2018

The focus of our effort— Inclusive Innovation —is supported by research summarized in the report, Making Innovation Benefit All: Policies for Inclusive Growth from Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). The post Inclusive Innovation: Designing for Equity appeared first on Digital Promise.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

But other measures to guide borrowers to learn about repayment options and enter into repayment plans could also help, higher education policy experts say.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 24, 2019

Traditional Powerhouse (Underrepresented Student Graduation Rate) — Men’s teams: Yale leads the pack with a 97 percent graduation rate for underrepresented students. Elizabeth Salinas is a senior associate for HCM Strategists ’ postsecondary policy team. That’s why we gave the classic bracket a twist.

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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. Leave this field empty if you're human: But another way to think about educational inequality is to analyze how students fare at the same institution.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 30, 2018

The already converted policymakers, school leaders and teachers ready to transform traditional schooling came to this annual conference last week from around the world to share a common refrain: Out with the old. In a nutshell, here’s some of what the Mainers have been saying: Stop shoving new ways of education down our throats.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 16, 2018

Now a team of University of Florida researchers has looked back at the results of this experiment and come to a surprising conclusion: four-year state schools actually saw an increase in business even as two-year institutions expanded into their terrain. But they did not harm four-year public universities. (AP AP Photo/J Pat Carter).

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 24, 2016

Over the past several years, at the same time that the words “screen time” became shorthand for children zoning out, several researchers and educational experts have been taking an entirely different track. Today’s preschoolers — the class of 2030 —will still need to be able to read in the traditional sense. Doctor’s orders!

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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. The pandemic created disastrous academic deficits for U.S.

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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.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 5, 2021

But now a convergence of factors — a dwindling pool of traditional-age students, the call for more educated workers and a pandemic that highlighted economic disparities and scrambled habits and jobs — is putting adults in the spotlight. Traditional institutions have treated adults “as a kind of afterthought,” he said.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

Lisa Snell, a senior fellow of education at Stand Together Trust, a libertarian think tank, said that over time more private schools and educational providers will open in the state, creating greater market competition and pushing down costs. Hungerman’s own research, conducted in partnership with an economist at the U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2019

Rolling cabinets stocked with dozens of the laptops sit in classrooms where teachers assign them to students for everything from researching hereditary DNA to writing essays. Using computers and online resources in the classroom is part of a growing trend in education. Students being able to access it is critical,” Porter says.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

The proportion of high-achieving students from families making more than $250,000 a year applying through early decision is nearly twice that of high-achieving students from families that make less than $50,000, research commissioned by the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation shows.

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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

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Through All City Council, Oakland students have a louder voice in local education policy than students in many cities, but young people say it’s not enough. The council’s two student directors serve on the Oakland Board of Education in an advisory capacity and regularly meet with their adult counterparts.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 8, 2018

Faculty were responsible for scholarship and research, and that’s all.”. billion a year, collectively, in foregone tuition, according to a review of 1,669 institutions by the Educational Policy Institute. Faculty were responsible for scholarship and research, and that’s all.” Students who leave cost colleges $16.5

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 1, 2019

Researchers have found academic benefits to black and Latino students who have teachers who share their race or ethnicity, but the nation’s student population is far more diverse than its predominantly white teaching force. According to Brandon Brown, CEO of the Mind Trust, about two-thirds of these fellows are people of color.

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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. It’s important to know.

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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

JUNE 13, 2022

As young people, families and educators near the end of yet another hectic pandemic school year, new research studying the early impact of remote learning offers a sobering look at experiences and outcomes, including interrupted and incomplete learning. million students across the country.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 20, 2023

Ben Kaufman, director of research and investigations at the Student Borrower Protection Center Make School’s disastrous downfall, as documented by a Student Borrower Protection Center report provided to The Hechinger Report, should sound alarm bells about partnerships like this, advocates for students warn.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 21, 2019

Within each subject, schools identified learning targets, clearly explaining what students would need to demonstrate in order to be considered “proficient” — a shift away from the traditional system’s emphasis on logging seat time to earn credits and progress. considered passing. Elizabeth Hewitt for The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 4, 2018

That, in turn, contributes to the fact that more than a third of students who start college still haven’t earned degrees after six years, the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center reports , often piling up loan debt with no payoff. At some types of institutions, they’re flat or getting worse, according to the data.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 21, 2023

There’s been a devaluing of anything that sits outside the model of the traditional conception of a faculty member,” said Adrianna Kezar, a professor of higher education at the University of Southern California and director of the Pullias Center for Higher Education at USC’s Rossier School of Education.

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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.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 9, 2018

Education Secretary Betsy DeVos has frequently praised the state as a model of “school choice” with a taxpayer-funded voucher program for students to attend private school and many charter school options. The NAEP scores showed stellar gains within the traditional public school system. The Urban Institute, a Washington D.C.-based

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 3, 2016

There is something of an annual tradition among New York City mayors and school chancellors. But the annual celebrating of New York City’s feats ignores deeper differences, say educators and education policy experts, who contend that those upstate cities exist in an entirely different world. Photo: Emmanuel Felton.

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