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. Source: Equitable Grading Project, “Can We Trust the Transcript?”

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ED Surge

MARCH 10, 2025

elementary, middle and high schools, and the results were striking. Dr. Evans highlighted a high school student from one of the studys focus groups who took his request one step further when he asked, Why arent all our textbooks in large print?

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 7, 2019

It is also the developmental foundation for mastery of content that is the focus of elementary, middle and high school. More K-12 schools are emphasizing the noncognitive skills that students can access throughout their schooling and careers. Sandra Husk , a former schools superintendent, is the CEO of AVID Center.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 19, 2016

As high schools across the country make the move to competency education models, many parents question what it will mean for their child as they enter the college admission process. For parents concerned that colleges won’t understand their child’s competency-based high school transcript, consider this.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 12, 2023

And how is that impacting the choices young people are making about what to do after high school? And he wrote the white paper for it around the time of that bagel meetup for the Thiel Fellowship. And families across many income brackets are more open to waiting on college or skipping it altogether.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 13, 2016

Some of you know that I’m headed back to higher education (after a 4-year hiatus to keep a promise to my daughter that she could finish high school here in Ames, Iowa). I will be an Associate Professor of Educational Leadership at the University of Colorado-Denver starting in August.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

A group of professors at Massachusetts Institute of Technology dropped a provocative white paper in September that proposed a new kind of college that would address some of the growing public skepticism of higher education. This week, they took the next step toward bringing their vision from idea to reality.

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