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. Thank you to everyone who has read and commented on my weekly stories about education data and research.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 22, 2024

Educators have long debated the best way to teach, especially the subjects of science and math. The debate reignited among university professors during the pandemic with the 2021 online publication of a commentary in the journal Educational Psychology Review. Some educators prefer inquiry; some prefer direct instruction.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 4, 2020

Mendez says she had borrowed $36,000 to pay for her education; she had no idea that the college was teetering on the brink of bankruptcy. Clare McCann, deputy director for federal higher education policy at New America. And state agencies often lack the capacity to provide much financial scrutiny.

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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. But many educators are doing their best to ward off social isolation and learning loss. We’re really concerned about depression.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Education wonks have long raised the alarm about how school discipline is applied unequally among students of different racial and ethnic groups, with Black students facing a disproportionate number of office discipline referrals (ODRs). The study on “frequent teacher referrers” was published in the journal Education Researcher this summer.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 17, 2020

In many ways, teachers are frontline mental health workers,” said Betty Lai, a psychology professor at Boston College who researches the mental health impacts of natural disasters on children. In many ways, teachers are frontline mental health workers” Betty Lai, a psychology professor at Boston College. In the U.S.,

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 13, 2020

Credit: Jill Anderson/Harvard Graduate School of Education. Perhaps nothing has remade American education so profoundly in my lifetime as the 2001 federal law that required states to assess all students every year. In this country, we treat education data as the private sandbox of superintendents and commissioners.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

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. ” Sign up for Jill Barshay's Proof Points newsletter. . Choose as many as you like. Weekly Update.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

My school did not drive me out of education. My students did not drive me out of education,” Aion says. Instead, he says he left because the lack of support and the deep systemic flaws in education had finally become too much.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

This segregated sorting in higher education is somewhat understandable. Higher Education. 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. If we want more college-educated Americans, we need to do something about it.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 12, 2023

Nearly three-quarters of college students said they had experienced moderate to serious psychological distress during the pandemic, according to the National College Health Assessment , a study of more than 33,000 students at 41 higher ed institutions conducted by the American College Health Association in fall 2021.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

And even as college and university enrollment overall declines, some career and technical education programs are reporting growth, and anticipating more of it. “I “I spent a lot of money to end up doing … this,” said Kelly, who is now 28, as his colleagues stowed the equipment before they filed back into a classroom.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 11, 2016

A few years earlier, in-state tuition and living expenses for independent students averaged over $14,000 at public four-year universities for a single year of education. As the chart below shows, most of the earnings premiums for teachers stem from their high levels of education, since the majority of U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 8, 2018

billion a year, collectively, in foregone tuition, according to a review of 1,669 institutions by the Educational Policy Institute. For example, it found, more than 70 percent of faculty and staff didn’t feel qualified to recognize signs of psychological distress in student veterans. Students who leave cost colleges $16.5

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 11, 2017

Data on boys’ underachievement also have often been historically overlooked in media attention and educational policies. Some writers even argue that boys’ educational struggles aren’t “worrisome” because “the workplace is still stacked against [women].”. David Miller , Doctoral Student in Psychology, Northwestern University.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

So it and other schools in the region have started trying to recruit Hispanics, who — like Barrera Cantu — increasingly want college educations. How well they do has implications for all of higher education. Their parents think education is key, but don’t always know how to make that happen.”. Photo: Jesse Pratt.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 9, 2017

Parker Charter Essential School in Devens, Massachusetts, believe multiage education fosters cooperation and collaboration between students, like these ninth- and 10th-graders working together on a Holocaust-related history project. Though there are no hard numbers, educators acknowledge the total is miniscule.). Photo: Stuart Miller.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 23, 2023

However, experts say, while direct admission has proven helpful for college access, that’s only one of the barriers students face to actually enrolling in higher education. Now, high school graduates in New York will have to actively turn down pursuing college. Many students are reluctant about their abilities.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 27, 2017

Atlanta Public Schools is on the leading edge of a new trend in education: getting helpful data to teachers in formats they can understand and leverage with their students. Miriam Greenberg, director of education and communications at Harvard’s Center for Education Policy Research. Also, there’s a psychological factor.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 22, 2016

You wanna buy a college education? At least, that’s how things turn out for the average American graduate, according to the Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce. Department of Education reports, or 13 times as many as visited a previous federal website without postgraduate incomes listed. Of course you do!

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 22, 2020

“No one was considering the psychological toll each reopening plan would take on students,” she said. No one was considering the psychological toll each reopening plan would take on students,” she said. Credit: Chloe Pressley. The non-profit was one of the founding members of the Move Schools Forward campaign.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 17, 2015

Notes from the UNI Education Summit in Cedar Falls, Iowa a couple of weeks ago… Website. I’m glad there are so many educators here; I always feel safer in a room of teachers! He said, “You’ve had a wonderful education. The city department of education sent me out as a substitute. My first day was in kindergarten.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2024

Several weeks ago, for example, staff offices at Florida Atlantic University’s Center for Inclusion, Diversity Education and Advocacy in Boca Raton were vacant, with name plates blank and abandoned desks, plus LGBTQ+ flags, posters and pamphlets left behind. There is also mounting resistance to the laws.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 17, 2023

After trying, and failing, to get the school to sign off on the idea, the group decided to gather monthly at the public library, where its members discussed mental health, sex education and experiences of being queer in rural areas. GLSEN researchers say there may be two somewhat contradictory forces at work.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

Secretary of Education, is giving parents freedom of choice, either to choose charter schools or to use vouchers to buy an education at any school they like, public or private. Thanks to a relatively new state policy, all spring Clarke went to the school library during second period for an online sociology class. “It

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 31, 2025

When Zigler was a child, his family made its way to a settlement house in Kansas City, Missouri; these community-based charities offered a two-generation approach, caring for and educating children while also teaching English and job skills to parents and connecting families with medical care and housing help. based think tank New America.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

Reflecting on the education of the murderer of eight parishioners in the Mother Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina, a teacher interviewed in the GQ article, “ The Making of Dylann Roof ,” recalled Roof as not being “part of the in crowd.” Related: Don’t ever conflate disaster recovery with education reform.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 25, 2016

This year, there is a lot to take stock of, as President-elect Donald Trump, in the midst of populating his cabinet, selected Elisabeth (Betsy) DeVos to be his Secretary of Education. Her qualification to be Secretary of Education? Related: President Elect Trump selects Betsy DeVos as new education secretary, ushering in a new era.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 18, 2016

During the Republican and Democratic conventions, The Hechinger Report will publish a new story each day, examining what the party proposals might mean for the future of education. Our staff reporters will provide education coverage from Cleveland and Philadelphia. There’s a lot more than just getting an education. READ MORE. “As

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