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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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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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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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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Digital Promise

JULY 17, 2017

Over the years, I’ve been involved in developing research programs and projects in education technology, games, and virtual reality. As I’ve developed my thinking around funding and conducting research in learning technologies, I always come back to an unpublished technical report written by one of my early mentors in the Navy.

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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

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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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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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

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

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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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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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

We should instead be asking this: Why are we so laser-focused on the graduates of a tiny number of schools, presuming they are the rightful inhabitants of leadership posts in business and government? Research reveals the degree to which these schools fuel the pipeline for some of the most prestigious leadership roles in America.

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Political Science Now

MARCH 11, 2024

In the APSA Public Scholarship Program, graduate students in political science produce summaries of new research in the American Political Science Review. There may be several ways to deal with this challenge politically, including government stipends or agreements. This piece, written by Irem B.

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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

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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Sapiens

MARCH 19, 2024

To uncover this past, a team launched the country’s first archaeological research. Edsiley Encarnação leads researchers through dense growth to the ruins of São Tomé’s oldest sugar mill. Our research at Praia Melão is of global importance, as it explores the origins of plantation slavery in the 16th century.

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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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Anthropology News

OCTOBER 7, 2024

Beginning in the 1960s, with extensive foreign aid, the Tibetan exile government in India built an infrastructure of Tibetan medium schools specifically for Tibetan refugee children. The translocal nature of Tibetan diasporic kinship bonds has a history that extends beyond current transnational migrations.

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Political Science Now

APRIL 12, 2024

In the APSA Public Scholarship Program, graduate students in political science produce summaries of new research in the American Political Science Review. Simultaneously, she mentions these ventures as key players of territorial expansion as crucial powers in governing and exploiting lands. This piece, written by Irem B.

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Anthropology.net

OCTOBER 14, 2024

[Image Courtesy: Jamie Kidston, ANU] The Laili Rock Shelter Discovery The Laili rock shelter, located in northern East Timor (also known as Timor-Leste), has been the focus of extensive research conducted by archaeologists from Australian and UK universities, including the Australian National University (ANU) and Flinders University.

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Political Science Now

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

The Executive Director provides leadership and vision; gives strategic advice to the governing officials and committees and implements their goals; communicates with members; manages the staff and budget, oversees all Association activities; and represents the Association to the outside world.

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Anthropology News

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

My research examines religious environmentalism in Mainland China and Taiwan today—how religious cosmologies, ethics, dietary practices, and rituals may contribute to an alternative ontology of environmental protection that slows climate change. The government wants to protect wildlife populations in the mountains.

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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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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 29, 2024

But traditional internships are not universally accessible. “At Not everybody is a traditional 18- to 22-year-old student,” Churches said. Between two similar job candidates, an internship in the industry is “the number-one tie-breaker,” said Joshua Kahn, associate director of research and public policy at NACE.

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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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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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ED Surge

MAY 20, 2024

Mysa’s tuition costs parents who don’t receive aid around $20,000 a year, comparable to what it costs the government to educate a student in a public school. The COVID-19 pandemic drove a big increase in homeschooled students, according to Johns Hopkins University’s Homeschool Hub , a collection of homeschooling research and resources.

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Political Science Now

MARCH 14, 2024

Louis , Petra Schleiter , University of Oxford , Jonathan Homola , Rice University and Dalston Ward , Eth Zurich Research shows that sexist attitudes are deeply ingrained, with adverse consequences in the socioeconomic and political sphere. Read the full article.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Which all begs the question: Should we expect the traditional education system to add responsibilities when we already know that it has not been able to keep up over the past few years? We need to encourage innovation in our education system and explore learning opportunities that can work alongside traditional public schools.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 20, 2023

Ben Kaufman, director of research and investigations at the Student Borrower Protection Center Make School’s disastrous downfall, as documented by a Student Borrower Protection Center report provided to The Hechinger Report, should sound alarm bells about partnerships like this, advocates for students warn.

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ED Surge

APRIL 19, 2022

According to the Community College Research Center , federal Pell Grants currently can only be used for programs totaling at least 600 hours over 15 weeks. But there is still more that the government can do to help higher education and employers partner to support people who are trying to land better careers.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 8, 2022

For the past five years, researchers have been carefully counting all the degrees, certificates and badges available for people to earn in the U.S., The effort, run by the nonprofit Credential Engine, marked its half-decade this week with a virtual convening to describe its latest research report and a reception in Washington, D.C.,

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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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Society for Classical Studies

APRIL 11, 2024

Pagán, University of Florida Department of Classics According to the Italian Renaissance philosopher and historian Francesco Guicciardini, “Cornelius Tacitus teaches those who live under tyrants quite well the way of living and governing themselves prudently, just has he teaches tyrants the ways of founding tyranny.”

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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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Let's Cultivate Greatness

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Below, I share my lesson sequence for teaching the expressed powers of Congress in my high school Civics and Government class. Still, they also deliberately designed the new government not to be all-powerful. Check out this blog post to learn how I teach the principles of the Constitution , like limited government.

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