The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 28, 2025

Administered by the federal government, it tracks student performance in fourth and eighth grades and serves as a national yardstick of achievement. Related: Our free weekly newsletter alerts you to what research says about schools and classrooms. The only bright spot was progress by higher-achieving children in math.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 11, 2025

The solution, one that has strong bipartisan support, is as prominent as John Hancocks signature: a generational investment in teaching students how the government works. When it comes to civics, the federal government usually plays a limited role, reasonably restricted from imposing a national curriculum.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Text messages to parents about their school-aged children led to better grades and attendance. Based on these early successes, education leaders in government and nonprofit organizations sought to bring the power of text messages to hundreds of thousands of students. 1/2) Hi [first_name]. You shouldn’t throw them all out.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

But he’s never seen anything like the volume of recruiting materials pouring in since his fourth child reached her senior year in high school this fall. “If Those are the most recent available admission figures reported to the federal government, and do not include institutions with open admission, which take 100 percent of applicants.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 8, 2022

But education researchers who study the teaching profession say the threat is exaggerated. Attrition is definitely up, but it’s not a mass exodus of teachers,” said Dan Goldhaber, a labor economist at the American Institutes for Research (AIR), a nonprofit research organization. . And on Aug.

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A Principal's Reflections

JANUARY 10, 2016

It is a common misconception that today’s learners can seamlessly transition from the routine use of devices for personal reasons to using them for learning, research, and enhanced productivity. Our program began early in the school year with assemblies for every grade level.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 13, 2025

Taking college courses through dual enrollment has been the most rewarding part of my high school experience so far. As a teenager at Lake Nona High School in Orlando, I get to explore my interests in public relations and communications by taking courses at a nearby community college, Valencia.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 8, 2018

Red states are where the annual issuance of new high school equivalency diplomas has fallen by more than 50 percent between 2012 and 2016. Their best shot at earning one is passing a high-school equivalency exam, what was known as the GED before 2014 but has now splintered into three exam options: the new GED , the TASC and the HiSET.

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ED Surge

APRIL 3, 2024

This large economic and racial divide between two adjacent districts in Michigan shows that school segregation persists in the 21st century. That’s one of the main findings of a new report from researchers from the think tank New America. Across roughly 60 pages, researchers analyzed 24,658 pairs of districts that share a border.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 7, 2021

A 2018 review of the research evidence for reducing class sizes found only small benefits in reading and no benefits in math, on average. Cutting class size appears to be increasingly popular as school districts figure out how to spend their $190 billion in federal money for coronavirus relief, according to media reports.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 14, 2021

As online schooling plays an increasingly large role in education, researchers say more work needs to be done to understand and address why some families have a harder time accessing the internet. At the same time, the government helped developers build new suburban subdivisions exclusively for white people.

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A Principal's Reflections

NOVEMBER 4, 2013

Optimally, we inspire our students to pursue a career in which they will be posing relevant questions, and using research and inquiry to answer those questions to contribute to humanity’s general body of knowledge or, through technology and engineering, solve problems. Literacy skills are the foundation upon which these outcomes are built.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

Anne Henderson, National Association for Family, School, and Community Engagement. Out-of-school factors weigh heavily on student success, studies show, and research indicates family engagement can lead to higher grades and test scores, improved attendance and better behavior. One that centered on listening.

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Teaching American History

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

To give students insight into the work of historians, Czarnecki assigns research projects in all of the courses she teaches at Bishop Seabury Academy in Lawrence, Kansas. She also pursues her own research. Then she muses, “More graduate students should submit their research papers, because you never know.” Czarnecki says.

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ED Surge

MARCH 5, 2025

San Francisco is seen as a global tech capital, yet even here, high school students are shockingly ill-equipped to survive in the modern digital age. The school where I teach science is nestled in the historic Mission District of San Francisco, mere miles from the sprawling campuses of X, Meta and Google.

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Teaching American History

MAY 6, 2025

Paradoxically, her love of this history had led her to major in classics as an undergraduate at UCLA, so as to read the Latin and Greek texts the Founding Fathers read as they formulated their plans for self-government. Then one of my high school juniors would raise a hand and ask a good question. Next, her father called.

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TCI

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

History and one semester of civics in high school. Responding to these concerns, the federal government increased funding for K-12 civics and history education funding from $7.75 Provide detailed guidance in both subject areas. Create user-friendly organization and presentation of learning standards.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 10, 2019

A mounting body of evidence indicates that technology in schools isn’t boosting student achievement as its proponents had hoped it would. Eighth graders who reported using computers to conduct research for projects had higher reading test scores than those who didn’t use computers for research. Weekly Update.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

An Israeli study found long-term benefits from high school remedial instruction taught by the students’ teachers after school. There is considerable research on the benefits of intervening early when a child is falling behind at school. But researchers occasionally find things that work with high schoolers.

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Let's Cultivate Greatness

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Even though the USs largest political party by far is independents, Democrats and Republicans influence everything about how government in the US operates. Thats why its essential to cover them in your high school Civics & Government class. Its just a fact. But how do you do that and still be totally neutral yourself?

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Let's Cultivate Greatness

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Its easy to focus on just the President when teaching the Executive Branch, but its important also to stress the role of the four million other people who make up this branch of government. Here are some of my favorite lessons and activities for teaching the executive branch in my high school Civics and Government class.

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Catlin Tucker

AUGUST 22, 2016

My Twitter feed is full of articles and blogs discussing the research on homework, particularly at the elementary level, and how counterproductive it can actually be. In the long run, I think this break from academic tasks beyond the classroom will actually keep students more engaged at school. ” As I read this, I felt guilty.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Now they are demanding a greater role in school policy and the decisions that shape their educations. The reality is that in most school governance systems, young people are systematically marginalized … and students play absolutely no role.” Related: Students have their own demands for school reopening.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Four-year-old children who attended public pre-K in Tulsa, Oklahoma, in 2005-06 were far more likely to go to college within a couple years of graduating high school than children who did not attend, according to a 15-year study of 4,000 students. But in high school, an advantage for the preschoolers re-emerged.

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Let's Cultivate Greatness

MAY 31, 2024

Teaching civics and government is different from teaching history—it really requires a different set of go-to lesson ideas and projects. Below are some of my favorite activities from my high school Civics classroom. Many of them should also work great if you teach middle school.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 21, 2023

State and local governments spent $113 billion subsidizing public universities and colleges and providing financial aid in the last fiscal year, according to the State Higher Education Executive Officers Association. The government and other sources, such as U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 9, 2024

But the 20 rising 10th graders in Lisa Rodriguez’s class at Brookline High School were finishing a lesson on exponents and radicals. Experts say that’s because these students are less likely to attend high schools that offer higher-level math or to be recommended by their teachers for honors or AP classes, regardless of mastery.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 24, 2023

Life at her new school started to change for the better when she began learning the music of her Native Hawaiian culture. “It Metro Nashville Schools invested alongside the Save The Music Foundation to ensure that high schools across the district provide instruction and classroom space for music technology, production and songwriting.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 13, 2021

As part of a $4 billion initiative called Race to the Top, the federal government tried to persuade states to measure the performance of teachers, rank them, pay bonuses to the best teachers and fire the worst ones. Research documented giant student achievement improvements in Washington, D.C., Teaching quality deteriorated in Dallas.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 12, 2024

Yancy Sanes teaches a unit on the climate crisis at Fannie Lou Hamer High School in the Bronx – not climate change, but the climatecrisis. He is unequivocal that he wants his high school students to be climate activists. “I I need to take my students outside and have them actually do the work of protesting.”

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 8, 2021

Developer: Michigan State University Research. Developer: University of Michigan and Michigan State University Research. Developer: Stanford University Research. High school Advanced Placement. Developer: University of Washington Research. Government and Politics curriculum. Curriculum. Curriculum.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

About 85 percent of high school graduates in 2019 had taken at least one course in career and technical education, or CTE. Students suit up for medical assistant class at Walker High School in Livingston Parish, Louisiana. Until then, students’ post-high school employment outcomes remain a mystery.

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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. Meanwhile, politicians, pundits , and researchers argue that schools and students would be worse off without them. And here we are…back at the end of the first paragraph.

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Political Science Now

OCTOBER 1, 2024

This summer, the American Political Science Association partnered with Montgomery County Public School (MCPS) District’s Summer Rise Program to offer three high school students the opportunity to gain experience in political science knowledge production and higher education non-profits.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 19, 2024

students did not make progress in catching up in the most recent 2023-24 school year and slid even further behind in math and reading, exacerbating pandemic learning losses. “At Unfortunately, data from the past two school years no longer support this conclusion. One report documented that U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

That data follows the big declines in reading and math scores on the most recent Nation’s Report Card and the release of a study showing that high-needs districts have been recovering from the pandemic more slowly than their wealthier counterparts, worsening long-standing achievement gaps.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 26, 2022

Over the 17 years I have taught high school chemistry, the challenges in education have become more acute — even before the pandemic we were scrambling to provide our students with meaningful instruction online and to find ways to get all our students to actively engage in learning. It gives me hope for the future.

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