MindShift

DECEMBER 22, 2016

Excerpted from Making Science: Reimagining STEM Education in Middle School and Beyond by Christa Flores, published in 2016 by Constructing Modern Knowledge Press. These informal educational outlets do a good job spreading science literacy to the general public in a joyful and engaging manner. 2003; Cornett 1986).

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 10, 2017

By 2015, the most recent year for which the figure is available, it owed $75.3 The annual cost of servicing this accumulated debt more than doubled, from $21 billion in 2003 to $48 billion in 2012, the most recent period for which it has been calculated by researchers at the University of California, Berkeley. That’s up from $28.7

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 27, 2018

As educational opportunities, science fairs let students tackle the scientific method hands on. For starters, there’s a growing sense among some scientists and educators that many science fairs aren’t actually very good at teaching kids about, well, science. But the fairs also have problems. Another downside to competition?

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Bryan Alexander

APRIL 18, 2016

Jon McGee’s Breakpoint (2015, Johns Hopkins) offers a very solid, useful, and accessible analysis of current trends in higher education. For example, “There are 1000 more degree-granting colleges and universities today [2015, presumably] than there were in 1996.” million in fall 1994 to 17.6

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Bryan Alexander

APRIL 18, 2016

Jon McGee’s Breakpoint (2015, Johns Hopkins) offers a very solid, useful, and accessible analysis of current trends in higher education. For example, “There are 1000 more degree-granting colleges and universities today [2015, presumably] than there were in 1996.” million in fall 1994 to 17.6

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 6, 2019

My parents always stressed how powerful an education is and how it is the key to success,” Keenan said. For more stories about education, opportunity, and how people learn subscribe to the Educate podcast. In higher education, colleges are using analytics to keep students enrolled and continue collecting tuition dollars.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 25, 2017

Nearly 40 percent of students starting at 4-year public institutions took at least one developmental (or college-level readiness) course while enrolled from 2003 to 2009. We want to rebuild the whole education culture, start at the beginning,” he says. At the high-school level, ANSEP has multiple programs.

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MindShift

JANUARY 24, 2019

This story about STEM education was produced by The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. Black and Hispanic men held less than 7 percent, total, of science and engineering jobs in 2015. Sign up for our newsletter. QUINCY, Wash. —

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 24, 2019

Alessandra, a student at Pioneer Elementary School in rural Quincy, Washington, spent part of the fall term in an enrichment class focused on teaching elementary-age students the principles of engineering design through a curriculum designed by educators and scientists at Boston’s Museum of Science. “I

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

In 2005, Joan Didion published The Year of Magical Thinking , which chronicles her husband’s death in December 2003, shortly after their daughter had fallen into septic shock and been placed an induced coma. I want to start this year’s review of education technology acknowledging grief. What do we believe about education?

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 8, 2020

In 2003, Jessica Tuchman Mathews, president of the Carnegie Endowment, a think tank, wrote an op ed asking those very questions about the U.S. Related: Let’s invest in black kids who pursue STEM the way we do black kids on the football field. They are taught to do so. government’s decision to go to war with Iraq.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 17, 2017

Compare that to the public university system in Illinois, which has cut its higher education budget so deeply that Moody’s downgraded seven universities, including five to junk bond status. Higher Education. Many of these same universities have suffered some of the nation’s deepest cuts to public higher education. Weekly Update.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 23, 2019

Among black college graduates with a degree in STEM, 27 percent are from historically black colleges. Rising college costs, the student loan crisis and federal budget cuts have broadly hamstrung higher education. And private historically black colleges saw a 42 percent decline in federal funding between 2003 and 2015.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 29, 2022

Even so, its enrollment had dwindled from a high of 2,250 students in 2003 to about 1,000 by 2020. Our culture has been ‘heads down, do the work, support, educate, graduate kids,’ ” said Tony Allen, the president of Delaware State. Sign up for our higher education newsletter. The pandemic intensified that mission.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 31, 2017

Betsy DeVos, President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to be the next Secretary of Education, testifies during her confirmation hearing before the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee in the Dirksen Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill January 17, 2017 in Washington, DC. Photo: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 2, 2016

The business of education technology overlaps with the politics of ed-tech. One of the flaws, I think, of much of the reporting on education technology is that it treats “ed-tech” as a product without a politics and without a practice. The politics overlap with privacy. The US Presidential Campaign.

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