The Hechinger Report

MARCH 27, 2018

In principle, kids who participate will not only learn about science but may also be inspired to join the next generation of scientists and engineers. Grinnell even suspects that competitive science fairs might hinder learning — and there’s some research to back him up. 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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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. Using design to help others learn science is not intuitive, however, once practiced you will see how humanistic and authentic it is to incorporate design in any subject.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 6, 2019

In meetings with his academic adviser during the second semester of his freshman year, Robinson said he learned that though his GPA was solid, the school’s computer algorithm saw trouble. For more stories about education, opportunity, and how people learn subscribe to the Educate podcast. But some STEM majors are tougher than others.

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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

Forty-nine percent of the jobs in science and engineering were held by white men in 2015, according to the National Science Foundation’s report on “ Women, Minorities and Persons with Disabilities in Science and Engineering.”. Black and Hispanic men held less than 7 percent, total, of science and engineering jobs in 2015.

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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. For the University of Alaska, that number is even higher: an internal study shows 60 percent of students required developmental coursework over the last 10 years.

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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. “In time of trouble, I had been trained since childhood, read, learn, work it up, go to the literature. No evidence.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 8, 2020

I’ve learned that children can handle troubling and even traumatic news, if there is a nurturing parent or teacher present to help them make sense of the events. I worry that if kids as young as my son learn from our environment not to ask “Why war? when it comes to war don’t learn that there are alternatives.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 17, 2017

Future of Learning. Mississippi Learning. The University of Wisconsin is where human embryonic stem cells first were isolated, and it has since become a center of stem cell research. Related: Universities and colleges struggle to stem big drops in enrollment. Sign up for our newsletter. Choose as many as you like.

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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. Trump also signed a bipartisan bill making $255 million in funding permanent for STEM programs at HBCUs and other institutions that serve high numbers of Black, Hispanic, and Native American students.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 31, 2017

DeVos’ remarks at the hearing fueled an unusually fierce opposition throughout the country, stemming from her track record of supporting initiatives at odds with many citizens’ conceptions of public education and civil rights. The Nevada Virtual Academy has a 2015-16 graduation rate of 67%. Pallas weighs in. And maybe it does.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 2, 2016

Challenges to accreditation and certification and the steady drumbeat of “everyone should learn to code” are connected to politics as well as to the business of ed-tech. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan announced in October of last year that he’d step down at the end of 2015.

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