The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 24, 2017

Teachers create research projects and present their findings to colleagues. Across the country, individual schools and districts have been piloting personalized learning for several years with some impressive results,” according to a white paper published by Rhode Island about its efforts to personalize learning.

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Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

Education Innovation Clusters (EdClusters) are local communities of practice that bring together educators, entrepreneurs, funders, researchers, and other community stakeholders (families, local government, nonprofits) to support innovative teaching and learning in their region.

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ED Surge

MAY 17, 2022

Researchers at the University of Michigan have developed a VR experience that lets students step into the virtual set of a final scene in the classic Orson Welles film “Citizen Kane.” At Harvard University, researchers gathered a “Harvard Future of Teaching & Learning Task Force” that issued a report in recent weeks. “We

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 24, 2017

Digital Promise gathered developers, researchers, educators, and thought leaders from the educator professional development field on January 9-10 in Redwood City, California, for The Future of Educator Micro-credentials Summit. Investigate through research and supporting guiding questions to prepare solutions.

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 29, 2017

This translates to limited upward mobility for them and their children; children of parents with low literacy skills have a 72 percent chance of being at the lowest reading levels themselves, according to the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), which diminishes the worker pipeline for the future.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 29, 2023

The initial findings of this survey found huge support for play among parents, but researchers found some misconceptions around how to best use play to support learning. But research is finding when there’s a learning goal, that guided play yields the best results for that. It’s really important.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Will you release a white paper, or tools? We think we'll have research and tools. We were very much influenced by the book “Power and Prediction: The Disruptive Economics of Artificial Intelligence.” It's written by three economists out of the University of Toronto. What kind of output do you think you'll have?

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Digital Promise

MARCH 4, 2019

While small, the study of sixth-graders at a Boston charter school adds to a still-growing body of research about a role for mindfulness in the classroom. The Findings. They designed a study focusing on sixth-graders in another Boston-area school. Provide teachers with dedicated time to engage in mindfulness practice themselves.

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Digital Promise

APRIL 18, 2017

By articulating a specific research-backed skill and assessing evidence of that skill in practice, micro-credentials can transform a district’s culture of professional learning. As both interest in and adoption of micro-credentials continues to grow, building incentive structures and value propositions for micro-credentials proves critical.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 12, 2023

The year was 2010, and Michael Gibson found himself on the first day of a research job at a hedge fund run by the controversial billionaire Peter Thiel. It’s a cause that Thiel has long championed, and a friend there tipped Gibson off that the libertarian billionaire was looking for a researcher at his fund. in it at Oxford University.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 13, 2016

Here’s a partial list: rejuvenated a struggling educational leadership program at Iowa State University, including doubling our program’s enrollment, faculty, and tuition revenue; graduated 13 Ph.D.

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Digital Promise

JUNE 23, 2016

The report offers a glimpse of the emerging findings of AbD’s multiyear research initiative, exploring the promises, practices, and pedagogies of maker-centered learning. expand research that examines maker experiences through a learning lens. To read more research-based articles on education, visit Usable Knowledge.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 19, 2020

Meanwhile, flagships and major research campuses saw a 1.4 Last fall, a white paper by O.U.’s A June 2020 study by the Brookings Metropolitan Policy Program shows enrollments at regional public universities across six states — Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio and Wisconsin — have fallen by over 10 percent since 2011.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 17, 2018

Research shows a Montessori education can affect a student’s achievement. Nearby, another student poked holes in a piece of white paper with a large push pin to create outlines of shapes. Access to true Montessori materials is one element that research shows makes a difference in the success children have in Montessori.

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Political Science Now

MARCH 12, 2024

Core parts of the mission also include advancing research on disability and developing and promoting curricular materials on disability. Her research and teaching interests include American politics, gender, caregiving, and disability politics and policy. Hirschmann is Geraldine R. from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

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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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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

mainly comes in a few fixed shapes and sizes: the research university, the liberal arts college, the community college, the technical college. If you don’t come up with a different structure with different incentives, things won’t change,” Sanjay Sarma, an MIT professor who led the creation of the white paper, told EdSurge in an interview. “If

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Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

EduvateRI recently exemplified the power of this model through the public release of their personalized learning paper , which aimed to “ignite a statewide conversation” by sharing the contributions and aspirations of organizations and individuals across the state. The power of bringing these stakeholders together is monumental.

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Ben Newmark

JANUARY 31, 2025

This uncertainty has led some researchers to argue dyslexia does not exist as a medical condition and instead is related to the great complexity of the English phonic code which makes it especially hard to learn compared to most other languages. The brazen doublethink can be astonishing.

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Anthropology News

DECEMBER 27, 2024

I was interviewing Yuna (all names in this article are pseudonyms), one of my interlocutors for my research on suicidalityincluding suicidal thoughts, plans, and attemptsamong young South Korean women in their twenties and thirties. Data Source: 2024 White Paper on Suicide Prevention (Ministry of Health and Welfare, 2024).

Psychology 52

Psychology Anthropology Social Justice Economics 52

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Recent research has tied the presence of police in schools to an uptick in student discipline, especially for children of color, and a decrease in graduation and college enrollment rates. Black youth and Black Lives Matter Seattle-King County lead a silent march of an estimated 60,000 people in June to show support for Black lives.

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