The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

A recent experiment in a high school provides a cautionary tale. Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania found that Turkish high school students who had access to ChatGPT while doing practice math problems did worse on a math test compared with students who didn’t have access to ChatGPT.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2020

This story about high school in Chicago was produced by The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. Devin Evans is a 12th-grade literature and history teacher at Butler College Prep Charter High School on Chicago’s far South Side.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 7, 2024

The study is described in a 2024 draft paper posted on the website of SSRN, formerly known as the Social Science Research Network. It is currently undergoing revisions with the academic journal Management Science. The researchers detected grading bias against the end of the alphabet in a wide range of subjects.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

But it’s been controversial, causing “ knock-down, drag-out math wars ” that have included parent protests, threats and academic-on-academic social media spats about whether calculus should be reworked. In an early morning class, bleary-eyed and still vibrating from coffee, the instructors met with high school-aged students.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 7, 2021

One high school study of small science classes concluded that class size had to fall to 10 or fewer students to reap academic gains. The Tennessee experiment lowered class size to 15 to generate its results. That’s hardly practical. Tiny benefits from expensive class size reduction efforts are common. “The

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ED Surge

APRIL 19, 2024

The goal is to improve science literacy among high school students by making lessons meaningful and relevant to their lives through a teaching method called project-based learning. The curriculum also primes students for college and potential careers in science.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 26, 2021

Teams from the USHMM and the Rowan Center developed and deployed and then gathered feedback about these projects from a number of stakeholders, including scholars, museum professionals, middle and high school teachers, college students and a general audience.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 5, 2020

Incoming first-year students missed out on community when the coronavirus canceled their high-school graduation ceremonies, proms and chances to say goodbye to their favorite teachers. Amy Bass is Professor of Sport Studies and Chair of the Division of Social Science and Communication at Manhattanville College in Purchase, New York.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 10, 2023

In a world driven by race, class, caste and difference, we don’t do enough in schools to candidly confront those realities with an attentive awareness. And finally, sometimes it makes sense to set our local contexts aside and explore the universality of a particular content area such as math, or physics, or social science.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2024

Without starting algebra in middle school, it was difficult to progress to high school calculus, an important course for college applications. The first draft discouraged tracking children into separate math classes by achievement levels, and proposed delaying algebra until high school.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 24, 2021

In a state with 96 percent of its teaching staff being white, choosing teaching was to be no different,” the 27-year-old high school teacher in Minneapolis wrote in her blog this winter. The 2020-21 school year was Lane’s first at the predominantly Black high school on the outskirts of North Minneapolis that she chooses not to name.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 9, 2023

Dalgaard, a senior researcher at VIVE—The Danish Centre for Social Science Research, initially found over 2,000 studies on special education inclusion. And, even if co-teaching proves to be effective over multiple studies, not every school can afford to hire two teachers for every classroom.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 16, 2019

” These student quotations, contained in a 2018 report from Just Equations , cut to the core of the problem: The teaching and structure of high-school math courses present critical barriers to math learning, educational achievement and equity. .”‘ “I despise the way it is taught.”

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

She says the research program helped her make friends with fellow students and also stretched her courage and social skills. “It Ruiz, who had enrolled at Oxnard College after high school because of its free tuition program, says that transferring to UCLA has been a positive experience so far. Good job, I’m proud of you.’

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 29, 2018

. It’s a powerful advantage for young people: Career and technical education (CTE) prepares graduates with skills to enter the workforce directly after high school. A college education builds on the basics from high school to prepare young people for career success, lifelong learning and citizenship.”

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 2, 2021

Bekoe said she’s been dealing with the stress of trying to keep her family safe on top of the constant juggling act of managing her own work as a social science researcher with her children’s online school work. Malika, a high school senior, understands that stress. Parents and teachers aren’t fooling us.”

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 19, 2022

percent for high school graduates with no college. Bourdieu studied ways power is transferred and maintained across generations, claiming that your college marks you, reproducing the class status you inherit from your family, with your social position frozen. percent, compared with 5.8

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Shortly after graduation, Sheliya received a full-time job offer based on her efforts in this service-learning project — not a bad outcome for a high school service-learning project.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 26, 2023

Generally, colleges of arts and sciences are large academic units within a university that offer a range of department-led majors and areas of study, research and creative activity: from the arts (e.g., English and other languages, history, religious studies), the social sciences (e.g., In addition, the median income for U.S.

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 4, 2018

Our new video illustrates a few possibilities: mathematical reasoning in elementary school by creating algorithms; social sciences in middle school by working with data; and physical sciences in high school by using simulations. Supporting Computational Thinking in K-12 Public Schools.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 7, 2018

Most students at the high school, on San Jose’s East Side in the southern end of Silicon Valley, are from Mexican immigrant families. Nearly all will be the first in their families to go to college; some will be the first to complete high school. No physics in high school. Espino’s mother works as a cook.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 24, 2023

The study, “ A Kindergarten Lottery Evaluation of Core Knowledge Charter Schools: Should Building General Knowledge Have a Central Role in Educational and Social Science Research and Policy? ” Department of Education), the National Science Foundation and two private foundations. Content is hard.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 7, 2022

The Sunnyside district, where roughly 90 percent of students are Hispanic, signed on at the start of the pandemic, after discovering that many of its ninth graders were struggling with the demands of recently adopted state standards for social science.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 24, 2022

Called Crypto, Culture, & Society , the group organizes courses that bring knowledge from the arts, humanities and social sciences into conversations about the Web3 world being dreamed into reality. But Bhaumik Patel thinks the learning DAO he’s part of puts a twist on the concept. Students could get in on the action, too.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 1, 2018

Roosevelt Montás, who spoke no English when he arrived in New York City at age 12 from the Dominican Republic, leads Columbia University’s Freedom and Citizenship summer program for New York City high school students. Nearly half — 46 percent — major in the humanities or social sciences, Lee said. What do people think?”.

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ED Surge

JULY 26, 2023

I am a social sciences and Spanish teacher and a mother of three children, and with that comes the social and self-imposed pressure to show that all the pieces of my life fit together like a shiny mosaic. At our all-girls high school, students want to impress their teachers to gain approval and self-worth.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 15, 2023

What we don’t know from this study is how to help students who are behind in math learn college algebra, a course that is similar to intermediate high school algebra, which remains a requirement for many business, health and engineering majors. It’s going to take a lot more and a lot of other support.”

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ED Surge

MAY 9, 2023

The collaborative aspect of CoCo has caught the attention of high school students like Nagamitesh Nagamuralee, who introduced the beta version in his robotics clubs in his former middle school in Lexington, Massachusetts. This kind of collaboration doesn’t exist in Scratch or Code.org.

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Political Science Now

MAY 16, 2024

The Andrew Carnegie Fellows Program provides philanthropic support for scholarship in the humanities and social sciences that addresses important and enduring issues confronting our society. David Broockman , Associate Professor, University of California, Berkeley, The Nature and Origins of Political Polarization in America Lisa A.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 31, 2017

The UC Davis California History Social Science Project frames current events within their historical context , connecting students’ present to the past. We might even take a cue from Michael Hathorn’s high school history students in Hartford, Vermont and use tools like Google SketchUp to make a historical model of our city or town.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 14, 2023

Devon Brenner is the director of Social Science Research Center and a professor in the department of Teacher Education and Leadership at Mississippi State University. Pallas is the Arthur I. Gates Professor of Sociology and Education at Teachers College, Columbia University.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 27, 2017

Education Secretary Betsy DeVos has praised vocational schools and/or community colleges as “noble pursuits” for low-income people who can’t afford a four-year bachelor’s program. On its surface, that sounds like a generous, open-hearted argument.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 2, 2023

Social science does not support that. Credit: Ishwarya Daggubati for The Hechinger Report Drawing on the tension between the two worldviews, her work presents students with moral dilemmas about nature and opportunities to take civic action on behalf of the wild world. She said that just giving kids facts is not going to be effective.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 6, 2017

Let’s say you are a Florida State University student looking for a class to fulfill its history/social science requirement. Instead of taking some random history course, you might choose “History of Science,” which counts toward both F.S.U.’s It’s hard to cope.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 8, 2019

She’d dropped out of high school her junior year. Cohen High School, more than half the city’s black adults didn’t have even a high school diploma, let alone a university credential. But even that goal felt unreachable after Metz became pregnant in 1985, her junior year of high school.

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ED Surge

JULY 20, 2022

This second cohort includes eight talented educators teaching at public, charter, independent and parochial schools, from Hawaii to Michigan: Whitney Aragaki (she/they), high school biology and environmental science teacher at Wai?kea kea High School in Hilo, Hawai‘i.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 9, 2021

It draws nearly 90 percent of its enrollment from Massachusetts and the rest of New England , a region in which the number of high school students has been falling. Amodeo remembered being surprised when she was a high school senior to get personal calls from colleges to which she’d applied, and “constant emails.

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