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PROOF POINTS: Long-term college benefits from high-quality universal pre-K for all

The Hechinger Report

A more recent study published in 2018 of low-income preschool centers in Chicago linked attendance in the 1980s to higher rates of earning college degrees 30 years later. But those were tiny preschool programs for low-income children dating back to the 1960s and 1970s. The advent of universal preschool for all children is more recent.

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Want resilient and well-adjusted kids? Let them play

The Hechinger Report

When the researchers compared information about the inmates’ childhoods with a population outside the prison, they found that the comparison group could provide abundant examples of free play in childhood, while the group inside prison largely could not. Play is one of the main ways that children really consolidate their learning.

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Kids struggle to read when schools leave phonics out

The Hechinger Report

Principal Kathy Bast leads a discussion with her teachers on the reading science, March 2018. At the end of the 2018 school year, after the principals and kindergarten teachers were trained in the reading science, 84 percent of kindergarteners met or exceeded the benchmark score. Emily Hanford | APM Reports. Kelly Butler was alarmed.

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Black teachers matter, for students and communities

The Hechinger Report

The Shanker report found that between 2003 and 2011 the white teaching workforce in Washington more than doubled, from 16 to 39 percent, while the black share declined precipitously, from 77 to 49 percent. Charter schools in the district have different grade configurations and staffing considerations, precluding an apple-to-apples comparison.

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For safer schools, we need more hugs, not more guns

The Hechinger Report

“In less than 18 years, we have already seen more deaths related to school shootings than in the whole 20th century,” said Antonis Katsiyannis, Clemson University researcher and the lead author of a 2018 study on school shootings. But why is connectedness so important?

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The looming decline of the public research university

The Hechinger Report

In fact, the researchers who run this year-old, $750,000 lab at OSU’s Spine Research Institute resort often to Hollywood comparisons. The House Republicans’ 2018 budget plan rejects that idea, at least for medical research.). It’s a reveal reminiscent of a James Bond movie. China could catch up by 2030 based on current trends.