The Hechinger Report

JULY 9, 2024

He had a helper: As Thompson paced around the class, peppering them with questions, he frequently turned to a voice-activated AI to summon apps and educational videos onto large-screen smartboards. As AI tools proliferate and their capabilities keep improving, relatively few observers believe education can remain AI free.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

For decades, education policy has lurched from one test score panic to the next, diverting resources from what we know matters building students socioemotional skills, fostering strong relationships with teachers and peers and supporting enriched home environments that drive long-term success. Related: Become a lifelong learner.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 12, 2025

The Education Reporting Collaborative, a coalition of eight newsrooms, is investigating the unintended consequences of AI-powered surveillance at schools. Related: A lot goes on in classrooms from kindergarten to high school. Keep up with our free weekly newsletter on K-12 education. Monday, March 10, 2025.

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A Principal's Reflections

NOVEMBER 19, 2023

Pursuing improvement is a never-ending process because the landscape of knowledge, technology, and human understanding is in a perpetual state of evolution. Furthermore, the human capacity for growth and learning is boundless. My work with Quest Academy Junior High School (UT) validates why change succeeds or fails.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

A just-under-the-surface skepticism about the usefulness of a humanities degree as job preparation. My aunts, uncles and parents were keenly aware that they themselves had benefited substantially from America’s grand expansion of the public higher education system post-World War II. What can’t you do with a humanities degree?”

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

In our tech-driven world, the value of human connection can’t be overstated. But as pressures to deliver future-focused curricula grow, how can educators ensure that students build these important life skills alongside their technical expertise? Are there established standards for soft skills in education?

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Sapiens

OCTOBER 2, 2024

schools stokes misconceptions about race and human diversity. On the bus, Lewontin turned his attention to humans. His results have been replicated time and again over the last 50 years, as datasets have ballooned from a handful of proteins to hundreds of thousands of human genomes.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 28, 2023

On a Friday morning in March, students and teachers gathered at a hip hotel here to reimagine what their high schools could be. The delegation from Calvin Coolidge High School was thinking big — as in, global. Yet measuring whether a redesigned high school is working as intended, and why, is difficult to do.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 23, 2025

Education systems were built on the belief that if we filled young minds with enough knowledge, progress would follow. We rewarded students for getting the right answers, for competing rather than collaborating, for mastering subjects rather than navigating human relationships. for adults and children.

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Teaching American History

JANUARY 28, 2025

Board of Education , finding segregated schools inherently unequal. Given the deliberate vagueness of the instruction, Southern school authorities delayed compliance. I was only dimly aware that my father served on the local Human Relations Committee. Might those white parents whose children drew black teachers complain?

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

The cuts “take away from us, our education.” Rural Americans already have far less access to higher education than their counterparts in cities and suburbs. Related: Interested in innovations in higher education? Subscribe to Hechinger’s free biweekly higher education newsletter. That kind of frustration is growing.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 4, 2024

As I reflected on both definitions, I realized that the unseriousness we associate with playfulness is at the core of why it’s a shunned approach to education. Giving students the space to do what they need gives them the power as human beings to decide how to use their time. But I am not saying that this should be every day.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 3, 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. The class is being launched with the help of education nonprofit Remake Learning.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Alphina Kamara wonders what might have happened if she’d been introduced to science and engineering careers at her Wilmington, Delaware, high school. When she asked an administrator at Mount Pleasant High School about this apparent disparity, she said she was told that the audio engineering course was created for “regular students.”.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 8, 2025

One of the first times I felt like I was in community was in my high school jazz band as a teenager. I auditioned to be a part of the Ravinia Scholars , joining a group of teenage musicians from high schools all over Chicago. Dignity: How is my/our human value celebrated?

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Rural young people who aspire to a higher education have long had fewer choices than their urban and suburban counterparts, contributing to far lower rates of college-going. People in rural America already have far less access to higher education than people in cities and suburbs. Kirk: So how can we close these gaps?

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

If you are in the education field, its likely that you are dealing with AI in some way. AI readiness has emerged as a key focus area for forward-thinking educators. As AI becomes more pervasive, educators recognize that these skills are not just for future computer scientists or tech professionals.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Although I knew I had a passion for teaching before entering college, I always had this idea in my head that teaching K-12 education wasn’t a real or appropriate profession for an Ivy League, engineering graduate like myself. On the spectrum of professional experience for K-12 teachers, I am decidedly on the greener side.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Schools need to tap into the same sense of wonder that led early humans to seek unifying stories to explain their place in the world — and teachers need to do more to incorporate myths, jokes and riddles into curriculum and teaching practices, from the earliest grades up through high school.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 18, 2024

I’m personally really interested in how schools will handle critical AI literacy, where both students and educators devote the time and resources to think critically about what AI is, the wonderful things it can do, and just as importantly what it can’t, or shouldn’t do on our behalf.

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ED Surge

JUNE 1, 2022

The educators were state winners of the Teacher of the Year program , hosted annually by the Council of Chief State School Officers. Department of Education and celebrated at a gala in their honor. I'm a human being. I'm a human being that sometimes needs to eat food and go to the bathroom when I want to,” she says.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 25, 2025

Geiger began to see less humanity shining through and more instances of words like cornerstone and bedrock that are not commonly used by typical teenagers. Subscribe to our free biweekly higher education newsletter. When students use AI to help write their essays, he said, they are wasting a valuable opportunity.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 12, 2023

Dixie Ross has taught every level of math offered in Texas public high schools and trained hundreds of AP calculus teachers in summer institutes. So it makes sense that some teachers who answered the survey want to know how high-performing countries are teaching math, along with what cultural barriers might be in the way. “Are

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 6, 2025

While there dont appear to be any studies specifically on the effect of math education for people in prison, a pile of research shows that prison education programs lower recidivism rates among participants and increase their chances of employment after theyre released. Related: Interested in innovations in higher education?

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ED Surge

JANUARY 17, 2025

The challenge of getting and keeping the attention of students in schools and colleges was the topic of several of our most popular episodes of the EdSurge Podcast over the past year. Part of that involved the question of whether schools should ban smartphones one of the biggest policy debates of the year in K-12 education.

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ED Surge

MARCH 13, 2024

“As educators, we must tell the truth — to ourselves and then to our students,” writes Deaunna Watson, director of diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging at a Montessori school in Cincinnati. Sometimes, though, the truth can be difficult to face and uncomfortable to talk about. They are meaningful, in and of themselves.”

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Fortunately, in light of democracy’s fragility, there has been a steady increase in initiatives from federal and state governments to incorporate civics education in K-12 classrooms. In 2020, California adopted a State Seal of Civic Engagement that high school students can earn upon graduation.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 21, 2021

The Lourie Center’s therapeutic nursery program offers a comprehensive early childhood program that provides education and clinical services. Lucas’ teachers and therapeutic staff at the Lourie Center were able to provide remarkably nurturing, attentive care and education for Lucas. He is happily preparing for kindergarten next fall.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 8, 2021

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. The assembled group also discussed various new design concepts for how to apply AI in education. Subscribe today!

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 19, 2021

As humans continue to unleash greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, fires, hurricanes, floods, droughts and heat waves are intensifying, in some cases forcing kids to flee their homes and classrooms and shattering their sense of security. High School, in California, and her daughter, Eva Morris, who lost their home in the Dixie Fire.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 21, 2021

She’d married not long after graduating from high school in 1981, had three children soon after that, and then gone to work for McDonald’s to make ends meet after her marriage ended. But after 27 years with a company with education benefits — benefits Thomas pitches to other employees — she still hadn’t taken advantage of them herself.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 27, 2022

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. Experts say much of what we see marketed as the metaverse from education technology companies isn’t actually the metaverse.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

The emphasis on phonics in many schools is still relatively new and may need more time to yield results. But a growing chorus of education advocates has been arguing that phonics isnt enough. Some educators are calling for schools to adopt a curriculum that emphasizes content along with phonics. Weve all been there.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 24, 2021

Tsang, whose company provides stock research for investors, is among the many employers weighing the quality of a bewildering proliferation of education credentials on applicants’ resumes and transcripts — and whether or not they’re even real. This doesn’t mean that all the education isn’t valid, said Uranis.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 20, 2024

And that’s a major reason why middle and high school teachers don’t assign more writing to their students. Even an efficient high school English teacher who can read and evaluate an essay in 20 minutes would spend 3,000 minutes, or 50 hours, grading if she’s teaching six classes of 25 students each.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 30, 2025

Humans are wired for healing, growth and recovery. is a child and adolescent psychiatrist and the founder and CEO of The Human Potential L.A.B., whose mission is to leverage scientific knowledge and technologies to transform what people understand and what institutions do to unlock human potential. We need partners to heal.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 24, 2022

Some edtech entrepreneurs are eager for Web3 to arrive and change education. It’s an ecosystem that could transform schools—sites for teaching and learning—into marketplaces—sites for buying and selling. Before forging our own ponderous chains, then, let’s explore what Web3 innovators might have in store for education.

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