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Fostering Powerful Use of Technology Through Instructional Coaching

Digital Promise

Throughout the project, we gathered data through surveys and conducted in-depth case studies to better understand the conditions necessary for classroom coaching to effectively foster more powerful use of technology for teaching and learning. To learn more about our findings, read the full report. 2 Kraft, M. Blazar, D., & Hogan, D.

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Students Today Are Learning All The Time. Can Schools Keep Up?

Edsurge

For more than 15 years, Project Tomorrow has run the popular survey effort called Speak Up , which polls hundreds of thousands of students and adults about learning trends and makes the local data available to individual districts. EdSurge: Tell us a little about the Speak Up Survey. For students today, learning is a 24/7 enterprise.

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OPINION: Why Black student parents are at the epicenter of the student debt crisis — and what we can do about it

The Hechinger Report

When I graduated with a bachelor’s degree from William & Mary in 2003, I desperately needed a job. But we know from an analysis of federal data that nationally, one in five college students is parenting, more than a third of Black college students are parents, and nearly half of all Black female undergraduates are mothers.

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New research offers hope to first-generation college grads

The Hechinger Report

The report’s findings came from an analysis of three different national surveys that followed almost 50,000 students from high school onward. Nearly 36 percent of undergraduates who began college in 2003-04 were students whose parents had never attended college at all.

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Are science fairs unfair?

The Hechinger Report

In a study published last year, Grinnell surveyed 302 students (from high school through graduate school) about their experience with science fairs. As part of his analysis, he uncovered that while the students generally enjoyed participating in science fairs, they didn’t care for the competition. Related: Take our audience survey.

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As schools reopen, will Black and Asian families return?

The Hechinger Report

While many families are eager for a return to in-person learning this fall, others are not: Surveys show that some families are reluctant to return — and, that Black and Asian families are the most likely to feel this way. Before the pandemic, the number of Black families homeschooling was rising swiftly, doubling between 2003 and 2018.

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Most immigrants outpace Americans when it comes to education — with one big exception

The Hechinger Report

Two economists from the University of Colorado and the University of Texas at Austin studied data from a monthly survey conducted by the Census Department and the Bureau of Labor Statistics from 2003 through 2016 and found that U.S. Generally speaking, the more years in school and the more degrees earned, the better.