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Research-Influenced Learning Spaces

A Principal's Reflections

The effect of learning spaces on various behaviors—territoriality, crowding, situational and personal space—has been the focus of some sociological and environment behavioral research. & Kobbacy, K. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 1(1), 4–12. Godwin, K., & Barrett, P., Moffat, J., & Cheryan, S., Ziegler, S.,

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OPINION: Why school ratings can backfire

The Hechinger Report

At the K-12 level, we have seen how school ratings can boost or depress property values and shift who seeks to enroll in a given school. At the K-12 level, we have seen how school ratings can boost or depress property values and shift who seeks to enroll in a given school. The trouble is, it doesn’t work.

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A Fifth of Students at Community College Are Still in High School

ED Surge

Some of them travel to the campus during the school day to take courses in introductory English, history, psychology and sociology. Of the nearly 10,000 students enrolled at Brookdale Community College in central New Jersey, about 17 percent are still in high school. We are trying to reach every high schooler in some way,” McElroy says.

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What happened when a South Carolina city embraced career education for all its students

The Hechinger Report

Related: Blurring the lines between K-12, higher ed and the workforce. But the increasing focus on industry needs in K-12 has also drawn criticism. These programs still offer all the traditional classes of a typical school. An engineer from Michelin talks to kindergarten students at A.J. Whittenberg.

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Many Hispanic students never have a teacher who looks like them

The Hechinger Report

Other stories will look at how the decline of traditional preparation programs has cut off a pipeline of black teachers and two efforts to identify more potential teachers from low-income, minority neighborhoods. percent of teachers in 2011-12, up from 3 percent in 1987-88, according to National Center for Education Statistics.

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Inside the Reardon-Hanushek clash over 50 years of achievement gaps

The Hechinger Report

She just published a study, “ The Global Increase in the Socioeconomic Achievement Gap, 1964 to 2015 ,” in the American Sociological Review, a peer-reviewed journal, in May 2019. She’s now an assistant professor at the University of Toronto’s Ontario Institute for Studies in Education.

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Progress in the Deep South: Black students combat segregation, poverty and dwindling school funding

The Hechinger Report

Jacobs became principal at the school, which serves grades 7 through 12, last fall and has been a teacher and administrator for more than 20 years in Avoyelles Parish. The plantation where Solomon Northup — whose story was told in the movie “12 Years a Slave” — was enslaved is located in Avoyelles Parish.