The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 31, 2024

So when you have a situation like these storms that continue to keep coming …” Now help is arriving from an unexpected source: The University of Vermont, or UVM, the state’s flagship higher education institution, has opened a new center to help rural communities like this one.

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Edsurge

APRIL 16, 2024

The number of Latino students who are going to college is on the rise, and they don’t all fit the profile of what institutions might consider the typical freshmen on campus. The nonprofit researches and promotes policies around Latinos in higher education. Too often, employers recruit from the same 20 institutions,” she says.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 29, 2024

One that is quietly taking place at colleges and universities is a major, expedited shift to online learning. Even after campuses reopened and the health threat diminished, colleges and universities continued to offer more online courses and added more online degrees and programs. percent versus 1.1 percent versus 1.1

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eSchool News

APRIL 2, 2024

These screening tools, often referred to as universal mental health screeners, are not in the purview of most school administrators; however, when they become aware of these types of tools, most express strong interest in their own school using one (Wood & McDaniel, 2020).

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Edsurge

AUGUST 18, 2021

They ranked institutional financial constraints as the top challenge facing their campuses in a survey conducted in fall 2020 and published this week by the Association of American Colleges & Universities. Concern about reduced resources was expressed at both private and public institutions. That’s welcome news to Finley.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2024

Critics say she misrepresents research to make her case and her ideas actually impede students. Now, with a new book coming out in May, provocatively titled “MATH- ish ,” Boaler is fighting back. This is a whole effort to shut me down, my research and my writing,” said Boaler. “I That tells us something.”

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

As these events demonstrate, our students, faculty, staff and institutions are at severe and sustained risk from the increasingly destabilized climate. As stewards of our communities, we serve as hubs of learning and research, and now we must incorporate climate literacy and climate action too.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 3, 2024

the University of Texas at Austin seemed like the best fit. Then came Texas Senate Bill 17, which became law on January 1 , making it illegal to have DEI offices and programming in public universities. For me, as a new resident of Texas and a first-year Ph.D. I disagree.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 18, 2024

often placing kids onto university tracks or vocational education starting at age 10. College-bound kids stay in school for three more years, ending with an entry exam for university. amid growing disenchantment with university education. And there’s not only apprenticeship or university, there are some studies in between.”

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 28, 2023

This story also appeared in The Washington Post As an adjunct faculty member at a Canadian university, Jassim has four teaching assistants to help him grade assignments and answer questions. The Redpath Museum on the campus of McGill University in Montreal. The arts building at McGill University in Montreal. It breaks my heart.”

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 27, 2023

When Iowa Wesleyan University announced in March that it would close, its biggest creditor was a federal government agency that had loaned it $26 million and then — in an attempt to help the university survive —softened the terms and extended the repayment period. million in 2016, more than the university’s annual operating budget.

Policies 120

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 15, 2023

Overlooked in the trove of sensitive data released by Harvard during the affirmative action lawsuit is the outsize role that performing research can play in helping students get into elite colleges and universities. MIT even features “ Research” and “Maker” portfolios sections in its application. While I was getting my Ph.D.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 25, 2024

Now comes the first partnership between a higher education institution and OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, and a new flurry of question marks. Students will not have access to it unless they are working with faculty, staff or researchers who get accounts. A lot of us outside ASU will be looking at this with interest.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

As American schools work to turn around math scores that plunged during the pandemic, some researchers are pushing for more attention to a set of research-based practices for teaching math. Puskar Experts say math research hasn’t gotten as much funding or attention, especially beyond the elementary level.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 9, 2024

But to pursue a teaching degree at a public, comprehensive university, she’ll need to commute four hours roundtrip or leave the town she grew up in and loves. “I just fit in with them,” Crank said during a shift one February day at the Big Blue Smokehouse, where she works as a waitress. But it is somewhat of an experiment.”

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

There are about 2,800 four-year public and nonprofit private colleges and universities in the United States. Yet as we await the Supreme Court’s decision on the use of affirmative action in college admissions, the nation’s gaze is once again narrowed to the most elite and selective 100 institutions: the so-called top 5 percent.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Thirty-five colleges and universities shut down in 2021, a 70 percent decrease from 2016, when a peak of 120 colleges shuttered, according to an analysis of federal data by the State Higher Education Executive Officers Association (SHEEO). The remaining 8,986 branch campus closures occurred at 2,011 different institutions.

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Kaplan Dropout Analysis Report 101

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 6, 2023

Austin Community College is one of 50 community colleges in Texas that researchers analyzed to determine how much ought to be spent educating students. But these institutions, which educate 10 million students a year or 44 percent of all undergraduates , have a terrible track record; fewer than half their students end up earning degrees.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 23, 2021

This story also appeared in GBH News. “To emerge from the pandemic even stronger, institutional leaders must embrace long-term change. GBH News covered the previously obscure practice with the Hechinger Report earlier this year , which prevents mostly low-income Black and Hispanic students from graduating or landing jobs.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 7, 2024

But she admitted to feeling overwhelmed: Her four kids were trying her nerves, her ailing father was requiring more of her time, and a bad-news ex had left her with a destructive puppy and a lingering disbelief that she can pull it all off. Ray Lombardi, 50, listened thoughtfully. Today, more than 170 programs exist across the U.S.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

Some want to gain better job prospects, others seek to socialize in new circles, while still others just want an educational way to entertain themselves. Research is revealing that these reasons may influence how far someone is able to travel toward proficiency. That’s the kind of question asked by researchers who study motivation.

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Learning Training Company Study 206

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

On his way out, he praised the Annapolis institution , which is known for its Great Books curriculum that emphasizes key texts from Western civilization, for staying “mostly outside the culture wars that are challenging our society.” Perhaps by starting a new university.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 26, 2023

All too often, education research falls short of giving educators on-the-ground actionable advice. However, a recent controversy around Carol Dweck’s well-known growth mindset gives me hope that we can move forward with research that can better inform and support practitioners and students. So how do we do that?

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Edsurge

AUGUST 24, 2022

million in the latest data from the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center--a big historical change. With the exception of wartime, the United States has never been through a period of declining educational attainment like this ,” says Michael Hicks, director of the Center for Business and Economic Research at Ball State University.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 26, 2023

Brought sharply into focus during the 2007-8 Great Recession — and seemingly every month since in the news and on social media — the U.S. In one sense, they’re schools that hide in plain sight on many university campuses. Colleges of arts and sciences are the beating hearts of many universities.

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Education Robotics Social Media Study 90

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 6, 2023

The University of Central Arkansas is testing out a solution it says will largely eliminate financial barrier to a bachelor’s degree for families earning less than $100,000 per year. The University of Central Arkansas is a far less selective institution, accepting 90 percent of all applicants.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 13, 2023

According to the most recent report released by the National Institute for Early Education Research (NIEER), a majority of 3- and 4-year-olds received no preschool education in 2021-22. As a nation struggling to get our financial house in order, universal preschool is the kind of investment we need.

Outcomes 92

Outcomes Report Trends Accessibility 92

The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2023

Research has shown that Black students are less likely to be suspended and more likely to be placed in gifted classes when they are taught by Black teachers. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences. Researchers drilled into the data to try to understand what is going on. Retrieved from [link].

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2023

A good example is the Accelerated Study in Associate Programs , or ASAP, at the City University of New York (CUNY). The ASAP model was designed in 2007 to address institutional barriers to student success, particularly for CUNY’s low-income students. Sign up for Hechinger’s newsletter.

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Strategy Trends Outcomes Report 119

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 28, 2022

They argue that higher tuition prices have actually made college cheaper for many lower-income Americans and enabled more of them to attend some of the nation’s most prestigious institutions. Public Universities , is still a draft paper, meaning it has not yet undergone peer review and may still be revised.

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Analysis Trends Data Report 83

eSchool News

JANUARY 4, 2024

Rather than encouraging teachers to ban mobile phones, institutions should adopt a research-based approach to technology in the classroom, which can power the classrooms of tomorrow. In fact, new research is already showing great potential to improve their educational outcomes when introducing AR.

Smartphone 122

Smartphone Outcomes Laptops Mobility 122

NeverEndingSearch

NOVEMBER 1, 2020

A new study from the Stanford History Education Group (SHEG): Educating for Misunderstanding: How Approaches to Teaching Digital Literacy Make Students Susceptible to Scammers, Rogues, Bad Actors, and Hate Mongers , reveals some of the issues. The first asked students to evaluate the trustworthiness of a news story from a satirical website.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 11, 2022

The influential education economist Eric Hanushek, a senior fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution, argues that good teachers raise their students’ achievement. Two researchers from the University of Maryland and Harvard University waded into this mess.

Survey 136

Survey Elementary Study Report 136

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 24, 2023

This story also appeared in Mind/Shift The nine authors, most of whom hail from the University of Virginia, issued a press release trumpeting it as the first long-term study of a knowledge-rich curriculum and the first to show outsized gains on state assessments. They said the gains were large enough to catapult U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 2, 2023

That meant she could accept an invitation to the University of California, Berkeley, which had offered her a generous amount of financial aid. Then, when she told the university about these other gifts she’d earned, something mysterious happened: The aid that Berkeley had agreed to give her was suddenly reduced.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 15, 2023

Institutional affiliation indicates whether a private, nonprofit institution is associated with a religious group or denomination. In the case of institutions for which those five full years were not available, the graduation rate was calculated from the available years. Hate crimes are reported by institutions to the U.S.

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Data Policies Report Analysis 73

Edsurge

MAY 30, 2019

New research by a scholar at Columbia University argues that the way colleges measure their performance today isn’t working, and that in some cases it can do more harm than good. News and World Report and other magazines, federal requirements, or new state requirements around “performance-based funding.”

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