The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 13, 2024

Like many high school chemistry teachers, Angie Hackman instructs students on atoms, matter and, she says, how they “influence the world around us.” That’s because so many students, even incoming ninth graders, arrive at the school without basic reading skills, according to Douglas Fisher, an administrator at the school.

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ED Surge

JULY 10, 2024

Ethan, a high school junior studying to become a secondary history teacher in our Academy for Teaching and Learning, was presenting findings from his extensive research to the staff at our school. The one I started with was a multimedia challenge asking students to share what high school is like for them.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 13, 2025

A trio of researchers argues that it’s unclear where students with disabilities learn the most and recommends that teachers and parents focus first on interventions students need. Ideally, from a research perspective, youd want to randomly assign students with disabilities to both types of classrooms and see where they learn more.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 29, 2024

More than 75 percent of elementary school math teachers said they used their school’s recommended materials, but fewer than 50 percent of high school math teachers said they did. Related: Education research, condensed. The survey results varied by grade level. Teacher-curated materials may be disjointed.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 10, 2025

Since then, reading researchers have come up with many ideas to foster comprehension. But what we often see in classrooms is actually devoid of high-quality strategy instruction or knowledge-building instruction. Related: Our free weekly newsletter alerts you to what research says about schools and classrooms. Some didnt.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 12, 2024

If we graded schools on how accurately they grade students, they’d fail. Nearly six out of 10 course grades are inaccurate, according to a new study of grades that teachers gave to 22,000 middle and high school students in 2022 and 2023. I’ll be keeping my eye out for solutions with evidence behind them.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

In recent years high schools across the country have been adding computer science courses, and there is a movement to make them ubiquitous. It’s not surprising in some ways,” says the lead researcher on the study, Jing Liu. But we need the numbers so we can show it concretely.” We are far from achieving equity in this space.”

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 26, 2024

Two University of California, Berkeley, researchers documented how they tamed AI hallucinations in math by asking ChatGPT to solve the same problem 10 times. The bot, called Khanmigo, told me I had answered a basic high school Algebra 2 problem involving negative exponents wrong. Researchers grouped similar answers together.

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A Principal's Reflections

JANUARY 27, 2019

When I wrote Uncommon Learning back in 2015, the premise was to set the stage as to how we could create schools that work for kids. A good deal of the strategies presented came from what we successfully implemented at New Milford High School where I was the former principal. Then, changes were made.

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MAY 22, 2023

One of the most powerful can be quality research, especially peer-reviewed studies. When trying to get the ball moving, leverage quality research. In this piece of #EDvice I discuss to vital role research plays in both initiating and sustaining the change process. Journal of Research on Technology in Education, 42(4), 357-377.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 1, 2025

It was fourth-period Basic Algebra 8 class on a gray October morning at Braham Area High School. Eighth grade, they’re just in full-on puberty, hormones, said Zach Loy, another math teacher at the high school, an hours drive from Minneapolis. Sign up for the Hechinger newsletter. BRAHAM, Minn.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

A survey of college professors indicates that most fields of study don’t require many of the math topics that high school students learn in high school. Credit: Kevin Wolf/ Associated Press The typical ambitious high school student takes advanced algebra, trigonometry, pre-calculus and calculus.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 20, 2024

Every student needs a chance to practice these vital skills from kindergarten through high school. The selection of the learning outcome options in Chart the Course was informed by 11 focus groups made up of students, educators, higher education leaders, policymakers, researchers, curriculum designers and industry professionals.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 6, 2025

More recent research, however, suggests that prediction may have been overly optimistic. Stanford University researchers have been studying Washington, D.C.s $33 When researchers looked at these students test scores, they found minimal to modest improvements in reading or math. For one student, 1.3

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Theres a half-billion-dollar federal program that is supposed to help students with disabilities get into the workforce when they leave high school, but most parents and even some school officials dont know it exists. I just wish we could have gotten help while he was still in high school. That was the hope.

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A Principal's Reflections

APRIL 7, 2019

Below are three questions that kids should be able to answer if learning is relevant : What they learned Why they learned it How they will use what they learned outside of school Image credit: Erik Francis To dig a little deeper Robin Roberson discusses two fundamental ways to provide relevance to students aligned to research.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 20, 2025

Imagine youre a student in high school or college. She had the high school students watch a recorded lecture. Afterward, they all took the same exam graded by teachers at the school. Class is about to start. You are faced with a notable dilemma: Should you whip out a notebook or a laptop to take notes?

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A Principal's Reflections

APRIL 2, 2023

To help you get started, I've compiled ten specific strategies that I used during my tenure as a high school principal and now help other leaders with during coaching cycles. You can align critical feedback to current research by keeping a document of effective pedagogical techniques found in your readings.

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A Principal's Reflections

OCTOBER 24, 2021

Innovative Environment and Pedagogy Provision of an effective and supportive learning environment that enables participating at-promise learners to improve their academic performance to attain applicable performance standards and graduate from high school. Curriculum and standards attainment doesn’t equate to real-world preparedness.

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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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A Principal's Reflections

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

I made an effort to align every point of critical feedback to current research. As you come across research that supports the types of effective pedagogical techniques you wish to see in your classrooms, archive it in a document that you can refer to when writing up observations. This is leading by example at its best.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 24, 2024

In recent years, a growing body of research has looked at the impact of college ‘deserts’ — sometimes defined as an area where people live more than a 30-minute drive to a campus — and found that those residing close to a college are more likely to attend.

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A Principal's Reflections

AUGUST 19, 2018

Growing up as a child I played numerous sports recreationally and in high school. Upon entering high school I was not the best athlete by any means, but football was one sport where I excelled more than others, and this led to some time playing in college.

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A Principal's Reflections

MARCH 14, 2021

During one session, Jill Angelucci, an assistant principal from George Rogers Clark High School, shared an extraordinary artifact that resulted from professional learning that had been implemented throughout the year.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Spokane Public Schools issued a new districtwide policy that bans the use of smartphones or smartwatches in classrooms during instructional time. And at least four states — Indiana, Louisiana, South Carolina and Florida — have enacted statewide bans limiting school smartphone access.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Many adults, as well as the vast majority of my high school-age peers, don’t seem to understand how government works and as a result don’t trust it. And as I began my freshman year of high school this fall, I joined the O’Connor Institute Ambassadors Online Civics & Debate Club.

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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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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

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

Research in economics and psychology shows that these tests fail to measure key traits like perseverance, motivation and conscientiousness qualities that strongly predict long-term success. Meanwhile, factors like ninth grade GPA and attendance may be better predictors of high school graduation rates than any standardized test.

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A Principal's Reflections

OCTOBER 23, 2022

There is also a robust research base to validate its importance. for feedback in his synthesis of 800 meta-analyses of education research studies. The valuable information, in many cases, aligns with what the research has said constitutes good feedback. Research says good feedback is targeted, specific, timely.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 17, 2024

While women are not just outpacing men in degrees — girls are doing better academically and completing high school on time more frequently than boys — the push for parity has been moving at a glacial pace in STEM. About 28 percent of high school girls reported that they avoid classes with low female enrollment.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 10, 2024

LIFO is not very good for kids,” said Dan Goldhaber, a labor economist at the American Institutes for Research, speaking to journalists about expected teacher layoffs at the 2024 annual meeting of the Education Writers Association in Las Vegas. A more detailed list of teacher layoff laws by state is in the appendix.

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A Principal's Reflections

OCTOBER 16, 2016

Recess in particular is needed not just in our youngest grades, but also even through the middle and high school years. Read about why high school should be more like kindergarten and the point becomes clearer. Research has found that play develops students in four ways: physical, cognitive, social, and emotional.

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A Principal's Reflections

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

Housed in the dining room for ease of access by all, the copper and cream books with gold trim were a staple resource for my brothers and me when we had to do any research for school work. This was reinforced to me recently when I met with a group of high school students in New York.

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ED Surge

MARCH 19, 2024

Research shows that everybody finds things like that annoying, but if you're a first-generation college student, those start to trigger worries about belonging, because there's a belonging uncertainty there,” he says. Walton has spent decades researching how to foster a stronger sense of belonging in education settings.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 11, 2025

Our CivxNow research shows that students performed demonstrably better on NAEP civics when they had stand-alone eighth grade civics courses, when they studied the Constitution quite a bit or a lot and when civics was a primary responsibility for their teachers. Civics is a full-year high school course in only seven states.

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A Principal's Reflections

AUGUST 21, 2022

A meta-analysis of 213 school-based, universal social and emotional learning (SEL) programs involving 270,034 kindergarten through high school students showed promising results. Relevance : There is a great deal of research out there on the importance of relevance in the classroom and school, which you can read HERE.

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