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The Hechinger Report
MAY 5, 2024
Education has become a major battleground for the attempted anti-racist paradigm shift of diversity, equity and inclusion work; mirroring society, this work remains stuck in a cycle of advancement and retaliation. Education administrators at all levels need to act now to resist a rising tide of efforts against social science knowledge.
The Hechinger Report
JANUARY 12, 2023
Across the country, schools have shifted toward career-focused education in recent years, reviving a long-running debate on whether the purpose of education is to prepare students for jobs or to be well-rounded citizens. One week per month, engineers from local industries visit the classrooms and talk to students about their careers.
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The Hechinger Report
OCTOBER 21, 2021
Although USN&WR has proclaimed itself “the global authority in education rankings,” a healthy degree of skepticism is appropriate. School and college rankings can distort normal educational processes, reinforcing social hierarchies that govern who enrolls in a school, how those students are treated and what happens to them thereafter.
The Hechinger Report
MARCH 15, 2017
Why It Matters: Homelessness and part-time work derail many students’ educations, leaving them in debt with no degree. Sign up for our Higher Education newsletter. The Topic: Some community college students are too poor to afford food and housing. About 14 percent of community college students are homeless, the survey shows.
The Hechinger Report
FEBRUARY 28, 2021
But by getting substitutes from its community into classrooms in this unusual year, the district has managed, for now, to find local solutions to a problem that is confounding educators in its state and across the nation. Many school districts report an ongoing daily struggle to put adults in front of students. That’s disastrous to do that.
The Hechinger Report
JANUARY 29, 2017
Each year, when they get to campus, more than half a million American college students have to take so-called remedial or developmental education classes to teach them basic math and English skills they should have learned in high school. Mary Fulton, a senior project manager and policy analyst at the Education Commission of the States.
The Hechinger Report
FEBRUARY 2, 2020
Courses range from “The Sociology of Sport” to “Songwriting and Singing in a Prison Choir” and are primarily taught in person through the University of Iowa or through an associate-degree program with Iowa Central Community College. Related: Diverse future of the Midwest has already arrived in one Iowan school.
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