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

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

They can be a part of society, said Maureen McGuire-Kuletz, co-director of the George Washington University Center for Rehabilitation Counseling Research and Education. And the states extremely decentralized school governance system has hampered haphazard efforts to get the services into schools. That was the hope.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Research shows that their expected future earnings and public subsidy savings more than offset the cost of these expensive small high schools. New research suggests that these schools might actually pay for themselves in long-term benefits to both students and the public as a whole. Photo: Kayleigh Skinner. Are they worth it?

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

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. nitially, Malik relied on traditional meetings to get parent feedback. Photo: Caralee Adams for The Hechinger Report.

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ED Surge

MARCH 20, 2025

One school choice researcher identified Milwaukee as having the most evolved legislation for making private school options accountable to families. In Wisconsin, school choice has existed for decades, with expansive options that include vouchers for private schools, public charter schools and traditional public schools.

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 17, 2019

As funders, government agencies, and service providers become increasingly focused on program evaluation results to make evidence-based decisions, evaluators and other researchers seek to answer this question. The post Empowering Community Perspectives in Evaluation Research appeared first on Digital Promise.

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Society for Classical Studies

MARCH 7, 2025

Our goal is to invite graduate students and early career researchers in Classics and Philosophy to explore this important concept. Each paper will be assigned a responder, a senior researcher in the thematic area selected. In this conference, we seek to explore vice and its various manifestations and effects. and moa24@cam.ac.uk

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Sapiens

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

In a memo sent to tribes in the region in March, government administrators expressed concern but said they were unable to deny the permit request. A postcard from early to mid-20th century shows Hopi dancers in traditional regalia in front of Hopi House, a building in honor of Hopi connections to the Grand Canyon.

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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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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 15, 2020

For the past six years, Digital Promise has convened a national network of Education Innovation Clusters (EdClusters)—leaders working to collaborate outside the traditional silos of sector and institution to design and implement transformative learning tools and programs in their communities. Reengaging the role of government.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 5, 2023

For many years, the province of Quebec has shown the potential benefits of government funding for child care. Our federal government realized the popular success of the ‘$10 a Day’ branding,” said Sharon Gregson, provincial spokesperson for the Coalition of Child Care Advocates of BC. “I

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

A majority of public schools have begun providing services that are far afield from traditional academics, including healthcare, housing assistance, childcare and food aid. The number of full-fledged community schools is also believed to be growing, according to education officials and researchers.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 30, 2024

From their responses, and analysis by PISA researchers, several themes stand out, including disconnection from school and teachers, a lack of motivation and a sense that math does not clearly connect to their real lives. The government has mandated an hour of reading, writing and mathematics in school each day and has banned cellphones.

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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. It was even worse for those students juggling sports, debate, student government, or afternoon jobs. Homework has been getting a lot of attention in the media.

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HistoryRewriter

OCTOBER 2, 2023

I want the books to be different from a traditional History or ELA class reading so that students understand the purpose of Ethnic studies is supposed to bring students and communities together. In my traditional History course, I like having students corroborate facts from historical fiction and non-fiction with the facts in our textbook.

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Sapiens

JUNE 25, 2024

A team of researchers will journey by railway to Lac Seul First Nation in Canada to better understand alternative ways of seeing the world. Co-author Mike picked bitterroot for crafting traditional medicine in Lac Seul in 2008. Outsider researchers also rely on Peter Pond’s map of 1785 , where Lac Seul first appears as “Lake Alone.”

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 6, 2021

The internships could be in government, in nonprofit organizations or in the private sector. And career and technical education, or CTE, schools, with their higher graduation and college-going rates than traditional comprehensive high schools, are producing strong candidates. Can the proposed three-tier initiative work?

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 10, 2017

The number of pre-kindergarten seats in New Orleans has dropped substantially since Hurricane Katrina, and researchers think it’s connected to the shift to independent charter schools. The biggest takeaway for me,” said researcher Lindsay Weixler, “is the mismatch between decentralized school governance and an optional program like pre-k.”.

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ED Surge

MARCH 27, 2024

Even before the federal government closed the spigot on billions in emergency funds for schools, declining student enrollment already had districts fretting over how they would balance their books. Texas’ Arlington Independent School District announced earlier this year that 275 staff positions will be cut.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 29, 2020

And researchers have a growing body of evidence showing it’s incredibly effective. They work with two students at a time in a special class that follows a Saga Education curriculum tailored to the needs of each student and aligned with their school’s curriculum for their traditional math class.

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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. Developer: University of Washington Research. Government and Politics curriculum. Curriculum. 2nd grade social studies. Curriculum. 6th grade science.

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ED Surge

JUNE 25, 2024

government invests in home visiting programs, and funding is set to expand. Historically, they’d received state and local funds, as well as money from private foundations, says Sarah Crowne, senior research scientist at Child Trends, a nonprofit research center focused on children and families.

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Sapiens

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Working in Indonesia and Peru, we also use this research, and our close partnerships with local communities and organizations, to spur action that supports gender equality and the basic human right to water. For government authorities, we created policy briefs, translated into Bahasa Indonesian and Spanish.

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Anthropology News

MARCH 27, 2025

Cultural artifacts, traditions, and knowledge do not simply move; they shift, adapt, and sometimes disappear in the process. Like restrictive immigration policies, academic publishing limits movement: Elsevier and Springer charge exorbitant fees for research access, creating knowledge borders that restrict participation.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Education policy leaders at the federal level and beyond were exploring the growing role of competency-based education and non-traditional providers —and calls were growing for stronger connections between universities and the world of employment. To start off, it’s worth thinking back to 2016. But these are by far the exception.

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

Education Innovation Clusters (EdClusters) are local communities of practice that bring together educators, entrepreneurs, funders, researchers, and other community stakeholders to support transformative teaching and learning in their region. You can learn about some of the partners who engage in EdClusters in the graphic below.

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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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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

The lesson seemed a lot more relevant than copying a row of equations from a chalkboard, which I remember from my own more traditional (and boring) math education so many years ago. Imagine Worldwide works with governments, communities, funders and other partners as it attempts to expand throughout Sub-Saharan Africa.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 19, 2024

At the end of 2021-22, we optimistically concluded that the worst was behind us and that recovery had begun,” wrote Karyn Lewis, a researcher at NWEA, one of the assessment companies. These test score analyses don’t offer explanations, but researchers shared a range of theories. One report documented that U.S.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 29, 2024

Providers of some of the most popular standardized tests are rethinking their offerings as new AI tools are challenging traditional techniques for finding out what students know — and allowing new ways to give and score tests. Thousands of students complained about their resulting scores, and some governments launched formal investigations.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 8, 2023

Related: Infants and toddlers in high quality child care seem to reap the benefits longer, research says The pandemic ravaged an already-fragile early childhood care and education industry. Earlier this year, a handful of governors asked the federal government for more funding , but it’s uncertain whether Congress will step up.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

No school governance model is predominant. Related: PROOF POINTS: Four lessons from post-pandemic tutoring research One fear we have is that too many education stakeholders have given up on school improvement because they don’t believe it’s possible. All these findings are consistent with a wide body of literature on what works.

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Sapiens

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Through annual ritual traditions, local people communicate with and care for Mount Everest, or Jomolangma as she is called in the local Sherpa language. Featuring images of their namesake wind horses , lungta prayer flags are a significant symbol in Indigenous Bõn and Buddhist traditions. Affordability poses another challenge.

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HistoryRewriter

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Student A The Underdogs written by Mariano Azuela is an incredibly famous novel of the Mexican Revolution as it highlights several traditions in a narrative format. Literature that was once filled with European tradition now contains Mexican events, culture, tradition, and history. Some were more successful than others.

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ED Surge

APRIL 20, 2022

New research published this week by the Society for Human Resource Management aims to address those questions. That disparity widened among supervisors: 49 percent placed high value on traditional degrees and 28 percent placed high value on alternative credentials.

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Anthropology for Beginners

AUGUST 17, 2023

Fischer, and other German scholars recruited by the Russian government to report on the peoples of the newly explored eastern territories. Approaches: Ethnographic fieldwork tradition has a long history and it is rooted from the 19 th century enlightenment philosophy. Petersburg in the 1760s, where he ed with G. Müller, J.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 27, 2024

IQ tests’ centrality in many schools is now slowly starting to ebb after decades of research showing their potential for racial and class bias, among other issues. IQ scores can also change significantly over time and have proven particularly unreliable for young children. In the early 1970s, Lester, known in court documents as Larry P.,

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