The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 9, 2023

A new research review finds inconsistent benefits for students with disabilities who learn alongside general education peers. policy has urged schools to keep students with disabilities in the same classrooms with their general education peers unless severe disabilities prevent it. Credit: Lillian Mongeau/The Hechinger Report.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 24, 2022

Some edtech entrepreneurs are eager for Web3 to arrive and change education. Among them: Are crypto-entrepreneurs imagining better systems for education—or just systems that pay off better financially for themselves? Before forging our own ponderous chains, then, let’s explore what Web3 innovators might have in store for education.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

None of that math may be necessary for the vast majority of undergraduates who don’t intend to major in science or another STEM field. Full survey results are slated to be published in the winter 2024 issue of the MathAMATYC Educator , a peer-reviewed journal of the American Mathematical Association of Two-Year Colleges.

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Society for Classical Studies

JANUARY 17, 2025

The program demonstrates the dynamic capacity of the humanities to advance justice and equity in society and illuminates career pathways for recent PhDs beyond the academy. The full roster of partnering organizations and positions is available here. Fellows join an engaged alumni community of PhDs working across a variety of sectors.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 7, 2024

The study is described in a 2024 draft paper posted on the website of SSRN, formerly known as the Social Science Research Network. It is currently undergoing revisions with the academic journal Management Science. Some college instructors seem to be aware of their human frailty.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 20, 2021

The STEM disciplines and social sciences significantly influence the trajectory of American society and the global community in ways that other sectors and fields of exploration cannot match. Technology keeps advancing exponentially, making this an inspiring and high-stakes era. Is it worth it? How do we make it more effective?

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 27, 2020

The course is part of the public university’s African and African Diaspora Studies master’s program, whose previous graduates have gone on to get doctorates or jobs in public policy, diplomacy, law, criminal justice, education, public health and journalism. Ohio has reduced its funding for higher education by $110 million.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Liberal arts skills are really innovation skills, and must not be overlooked in the latest federal and state workforce development and education initiatives. The current, common narrative used in these initiatives pits the liberal arts as an alternative to technology and science. That is simply wrong.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 26, 2023

If asked to assess the current posture of higher education leaders across the nation, it would be reasonable to describe it as a “defensive crouch.” Brought sharply into focus during the 2007-8 Great Recession — and seemingly every month since in the news and on social media — the U.S. dance, film, theater) to the humanities (e.g.,

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ED Surge

AUGUST 12, 2024

Writing centers on college campuses have been around for more than 100 years , and they’re both a resource for students doing assignments and a symbol of the importance in higher education of learning to express yourself in text. Writing doesn’t have that much meaning without a human audience.

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ED Surge

APRIL 4, 2022

With humanities and social science degree completions declining over the past 10 years, college liberal arts programs should consider sharing new U.S For example, social science graduates at the Indiana college depicted in the following graph enter the “finance and insurance” industry more frequently than any other industry.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 26, 2021

Though the past year has put a spotlight on the limits and possibilities of using technology for teaching and learning, we began exploring the utility of using virtual reality as a medium for Holocaust education before the pandemic reshaped the educational landscape. Sensitivity is required. Sign up for Hechinger’s newsletter.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 5, 2022

It’s been more than 10 years since math and science leaders began calling for change. In 2011, a panel of mathematicians and math educators mapped college-prep sequences in high school math and proposed pathways that led not only to calculus but also to statistics, linear algebra and data analysis. Sign up for Hechinger’s newsletter.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 28, 2023

I entered college in 1989 with an interest in human rights advocacy, planning to be a lawyer. Still, my reaction to the current dialogue about humanities is this: The best way to save the English major is to abandon it. Nevertheless, higher education hasn’t had a true redesign of its approach to majors and courses in 50 years.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 5, 2020

To our delight, about a quarter of the college’s faculty — some 30 people — answered the call, raising their hands from the School of Arts & Sciences, the School of Education, the School of Nursing and Healthcare Sciences, the Center for Design Thinking and the Library. Sign up here for Hechinger’s newsletter.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 23, 2019

This story is part of our Map to the Middle Class project , where we ask readers what they want us to investigate about educational pathways to economic stability. As the labor market demands different and evolving skills, what does that mean for higher education? Is a four-year degree still the best way to obtain a well-paying job?

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Of our survey respondents, 90 percent agreed that humanity has the ability to mitigate climate change, 78 percent believed in the power of individual action and more than 80 percent were motivated to be part of the climate change solution. There’s good news in findings like these for educators looking for opportunities to affect change.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 28, 2016

A recent explosion of research from the neurobiological, behavioral, and social sciences has illuminated new knowledge about how children learn. The natural human drive to learn cannot flourish when children are hungry, tired, sick, or living in unsafe, chaotic, unstable conditions.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 10, 2023

Through my work as director of MIT’s Teaching Systems Lab , I’ve asked the question to teachers, school leaders, coaches, researchers and experts of all stripes (think: learning science, instruction, teacher education, culturally responsive teaching and so on), and it typically elicits more pauses and wonderings than answers.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 17, 2018

WASHINGTON — It’s no surprise that much of the conversation at gatherings of university officials these days is about how to prove the value of the liberal arts, once at the core of higher education and now among its most embattled branches. Related: How to save the humanities? Higher Education. Sign up for our newsletter.

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ED Surge

JULY 26, 2023

I am a social sciences and Spanish teacher and a mother of three children, and with that comes the social and self-imposed pressure to show that all the pieces of my life fit together like a shiny mosaic. As educators and students, we must openly acknowledge that imperfection is expected on the road to excellence.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 29, 2018

. It’s a powerful advantage for young people: Career and technical education (CTE) prepares graduates with skills to enter the workforce directly after high school. Students can avoid the expense of higher education and get head starts on careers. Students still believe higher education can be a great complement to CTE.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 15, 2023

Nationwide, the cost of remedial education exceeded $1 billion annually; many colleges operated separate departments of “developmental education,” higher-education’s euphemistic jargon for non-credit catch-up classes. Department of Education. Nobody could tell me if we were doing it the right way,” Logue said.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2023

One of the great debates in education spans more than two millennia. Plato wrote that his teacher Socrates fretted that writing things down would cause humans to become ignorant because they wouldn’t have to memorize anything. educator and a writer, brought this Google search study to my attention in his newsletter, “ Evidence Snacks.”

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 1, 2018

Higher Education. Leave this field empty if you're human: Unlike programs at other colleges and universities, the curriculum focuses on major Western philosophical thinkers and writers via a “great books” program that Montás , who directs Columbia’s Center for the Core Curriculum, considers critical to students’ intellectual development.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

Felecia Commodore came into her job search armed with a University of Pennsylvania doctorate in higher education and published research papers. percent of education doctorates are awarded to blacks , they receive just 3.5 percent of doctorates in the physical sciences. percent in the physical sciences. Felecia Commodore.

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APSA Educate

JUNE 7, 2024

Political Science Educator: volume 28, issue 1 Reflections By Justin Robertson ( justin.robertson@cityu.edu.hk ) The arrival of ChatGPT has sparked existential questions about the future of the humanities and social sciences and has been accompanied in its wake by a … The post Can Chat GPT and Crowdsourced Forecasting Help Students Think About (..)

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 31, 2017

Some folks know that I started my education career as a middle school Social Studies teacher in Charlotte, North Carolina. For instance, if I was teaching Social Studies today… My students and I definitely would be tapping into an incredible diversity of online resources.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 29, 2016

It’s a global initiative, with China launching a new educational Center , and Korean mathematics educators evaluating the practices for teaching mathematics in Korea. In many universities, humanities requirements exist in engineering schools and department, but are fairly modest.

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Edthena

DECEMBER 14, 2023

This data comes from an independent study published in Nature’s “Humanities and Social Sciences Communications.” Self-recorded videos influenced the micro-teaching experience and helped educators identify development gaps, analyze strengths and weaknesses, and reflect upon them.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 30, 2018

The isolated few who conduct terrorist attacks like those on my great-grandfather’s church think of the Coptic people, my people, as sub-human. Higher Education. Leave this field empty if you're human: Because of such extreme language and my deep worries that it is fundamentally undermining our longstanding abilities in the U.S.

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Anthropology News

AUGUST 11, 2024

1929-2024 Leonard Glick Leonard Glick—educator, scholar, anthropologist, former psychiatrist, and wit—passed away peacefully at home with his family shortly after turning 94. In 1972 he left to join the faculty of the two-year-old Hampshire College as full professor and dean of social sciences.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 6, 2017

Understanding that cost is an issue that won’t be solved immediately, we asked educators to identify the other biggest obstacles to a timely graduation. Students who are worried about debt sometimes work more and then reduce their course load,” said Robert Kelchen, a professor of higher education at Seton Hall who studies student debt.

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Jonathan Firth

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

This week the annual Scottish Learning Festival took place in Glasgow, and together with five fellow educators I gave a presentation on the value of psychology to younger learners. Together, my co-presenters and I represented the University of Strathclyde , four local authorities, and Education Scotland.

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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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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 2, 2021

Jennifer Greif Green, an associate professor in the Wheelock College of Education and Human Development at Boston University, said most of a child’s interactions with adults are with their parents and teachers, “so any disruption to that is really going to have an impact on that whole ecosystem and all those relationships.”.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 16, 2019

.” These student quotations, contained in a 2018 report from Just Equations , cut to the core of the problem: The teaching and structure of high-school math courses present critical barriers to math learning, educational achievement and equity. I’m not a math educator, but I work with math educators all the time.

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