The Hechinger Report

JULY 9, 2024

The debate is about the best mix — what are AI’s most effective roles in helping students learn, and what aspects of teaching should remain indelibly human no matter how powerful AI becomes? But, there aren’t enough human tutors available nor enough money to pay for them, especially in the wake of pandemic-induced learning loss. “And

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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

APRIL 9, 2025

If you’re sitting in the shoes of a district leader, taking a multi-pronged approach is probably very sensible, said Jennifer DePaoli, a senior researcher at the Learning Policy Institute, who has studied school safety. Related: Schools are surveilling students to prevent gun violence or suicide.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 3, 2024

Researchers from the University of California, Irvine, and Arizona State University found that human feedback was generally a bit better than AI feedback, but AI was surprisingly good. On a five-point scale that the researchers used to rate feedback quality, with a 5 being the highest quality feedback, ChatGPT averaged a 3.6

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 5, 2022

I took calculus as a high school senior. Only 20 or so students at the large Catholic all-girls school I attended in Chicago were in the class. Yet calculus continues to enjoy a singular status in high school advanced math. It was the ultimate destination on the advanced math track.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 25, 2020

Prominent members of the education research community are enthusiastically pushing for a dramatic increase in tutoring. Related: Cheaper human tutors can be highly effective, studies show. And just as importantly, I wanted to know what researchers know about using novices to do this kind of work.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 23, 2025

We rewarded students for getting the right answers, for competing rather than collaborating, for mastering subjects rather than navigating human relationships. In 2020, 44 percent of high school youth reported having no source of supportive relationships either adults or peers, a reduction by half from a decade earlier.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Text messages to students at more than 700 high schools across 15 states also failed to improve the number of students who applied or enrolled in college, according to a 2020 study. In the latest failure of texting, researchers nudged more than 800,000 high school students to apply for federal financial aid.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 1, 2023

One of the few replicated findings in education research is that daily, individualized tutoring during the school day really helps kids catch up academically. The problem is that this kind of frequent tutoring is very expensive and it’s impossible to hire enough tutors for the millions of American public school students who need help.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 8, 2024

Researchers are starting to document how AI bias manifests in unexpected ways. Inside the research and development arm of the giant testing organization ETS, which administers the SAT, a pair of investigators pitted man against machine in evaluating more than 13,000 essays written by students in grades 8 to 12. for the humans.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

A ‘Knowledge Revival’ A 2025 book by 10 education researchers in Europe and Australia, Developing Curriculum for Deep Thinking: The Knowledge Revival , makes the case that students cannot learn the skills of comprehension and critical thinking unless they know a lot of stuff first. Weve all been there.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 8, 2021

Researchers at the Digital Promise-led Center for Integrative Research in Computing and Learning Sciences ( CIRCLS ) believe that over the next five to 10 years, AI in the education space will see a significant growth. The post Researchers say AI will ‘greatly impact’ the future of education appeared first on The Hechinger Report.

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Digital Promise

MARCH 6, 2019

This blog post was updated on March 6, 2019 to include more current research, information, and opinions on grit in the classroom. Angela Duckworth, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania, was teaching seventh grade math in New York City public schools when she noticed that her best students were not necessarily her smartest students.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2019

That meant he had to overcome even more obstacles than other Mexican immigrants, unable to communicate with most of his classmates and teachers at North Hollywood High School. “I But he learned Spanish and then English, staying after school for tutoring and moving on to honors and Advanced Placement classes. Weekly Update.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Bowen, a principal research associate at the Urban Institute, wanted to fill the dearth of accessible teaching resources with sessions on coding, cartography, and—of course—Bowen’s pet-prolific workshop on data collection and visualization. It’s not like we’re born as human beings knowing how to read a bar chart,” Schwabish says.

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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. Schools have embraced inclusion.

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Cult of Pedagogy

APRIL 28, 2024

After some trial and error, I have developed my own method for teaching annotation, which I’ll share here, along with the process my colleague Irene Yannascoli uses at the high school level. Click here to make a copy of the high school process for your Google Drive. Responsive annotation does just this.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Julie York, a computer science and media teacher at South Portland High School in Maine, was scouring the internet for discussion tools for her class when she found TeachFX. Her application is called TalkMoves, and a version of Jacob’s research is now being used by the tutoring company Saga Education to train first-time tutors.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 25, 2021

19, 2021 to eliminate the essay portion of the SAT may have delighted millions of current and future high school students but its discontinuation could also be a loss for students of color and those whose primary language isn’t English. The College Board’s decision on Jan.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 17, 2025

And two episodes of our narrative series about the growing skepticism of college made the cut, both of which focused on how students are changing how they think about what to do after high school. But some teaching experts say tutoring should be reserved for humans who can motivate and understand the students they work with.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 18, 2024

More on the Future of Learning “ PROOF POINTS: Asian American students lose more points in an AI essay grading study — but researchers don’t know why ,” The Hechinger Report “ An education chatbot company collapsed. The post AI vs. humans: Who comes out ahead? appeared first on The Hechinger Report.

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A Principal's Reflections

FEBRUARY 10, 2013

New Milford High School joined thousands of other schools and educators across the country to showcase how digital learning is changing education. The only thing though is that this day was just like any other typical day at my school as digital learning has become an embedded component of our school''s culture.

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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. Hancy Maxis spent 17 years incarcerated in New York prisons.

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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

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

This story also appeared in Mind/Shift The latest warning sign comes from college admissions test maker ACT, which compared students’ ACT test scores with their self-reported high school grades between 2010 and 2022. Grade inflation accelerated after 2016 and intensified during the pandemic, as schools relaxed standards.

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A Principal's Reflections

SEPTEMBER 24, 2017

All one has to do is take a look at the evolution of the human species to see how important innovation has been leading to society as we now know it. As a result, we have seen some pretty amazing changes in a short period in schools across the world. New ideas leading to improvements have been occurring since the beginning of time.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 2, 2020

High school students comfort each other on Chicago’s South Side. A new Chicago study shows that students who attend schools that foster soft skills do better in high school and beyond. We hear the phrase “failing schools” a lot but what really defines a failing school? Weekly Update.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Email Address Choose from our newsletters Weekly Update Future of Learning Higher Education Early Childhood Proof Points Leave this field empty if you’re human: While the reading and math “wars” have gotten a lot of attention in education in recent years, writing instruction has not received that same focus.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 23, 2025

SSTRIDE introduces middle and high school students to real-world medical environments, giving them firsthand exposure to health care settings that might otherwise feel distant or inaccessible. Research shows that students exposed to careers in science or medicine at an early age are far more likely to pursue these fields later in life.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 8, 2024

An overhaul last year meant to simplify the process only made things worse, with delays and technical problems that led to even lower completion rates and contributed to a decline of 7 percentage points in the proportion of high school seniors going directly to college, according to the National College Attainment Network, or NCAN.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 19, 2023

This story also appeared in Mind/Shift The researchers found that students who spent more time in class solving practice problems on their own and taking quizzes and tests tended to have higher scores in math. Researchers didn’t prove that teachers’ choices on how to spend class time caused GCSE scores to go up.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 25, 2024

Two years ago, when I visited Westwood High School in Mesa, a suburb of Phoenix, every incoming freshman started the year in a very unusual way. Early research also indicates students assigned to educator teams made more growth in reading and passed Algebra I at higher rates than their peers.

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The Effortful Educator

FEBRUARY 23, 2025

Over a century of research shows evidence of improved student performance when retrieval practice (also called the testing effect) is used as a method of learning and assessment in the classroom. (1) I have written pretty extensively about when, why, and how I infuse retrieval practice into my high school classroom.

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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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Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Maritime High School in Des Moines, Washington—a collaborative project between the Port of Seattle , the Northwest Maritime Center , Duwamish River Cleanup Coalition , and Highline Public Schools —welcomed its inaugural freshman class this month. That feels like a problem—a huge injustice.”.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 7, 2024

A trio of researchers at the University of Michigan, including one whose surname begins with W, documented an unintended consequence of grading in alphabetical order. The study is described in a 2024 draft paper posted on the website of SSRN, formerly known as the Social Science Research Network.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 20, 2020

Hotter classroom temperatures and polluted air are affecting children’s brains at school, according to a new body of education research. (AP Education researchers have traditionally focused on the obvious ingredients of teaching and learning, such as instruction, curriculum, student motivation and school funding.

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