The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Four-year-old children who attended public pre-K in Tulsa, Oklahoma, in 2005-06 were far more likely to go to college within a couple years of graduating high school than children who did not attend, according to a 15-year study of 4,000 students. By third grade, the gap between those with and without preschool often disappears.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

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. Related: Twenty-six studies point to more play for young children.

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MindShift

SEPTEMBER 22, 2015

students are justifiably exhausted and nervous from too much homework — even though some international comparisons suggest they’re sitting comfortably at the average. So any comparison is, to a degree, apples-to-oranges (or, at least, apples-to-pears). That’s just above the study’s average. Well, here goes.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 25, 2016

students in kindergarten through 12th grade that is Hispanic increased from 19 to 25 percent between 2003 and 2013, while the black non-Hispanic population dropped from 17 to 16 percent and the white non-Hispanic population fell from 59 to 50 percent. By way of comparison, white non-Hispanics make up just 31.8 The share of U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

The problem is that many American elementary schools aren’t doing that. “There are thousands of studies,” said Louisa Moats, an education consultant and researcher who has been teaching and studying reading since the 1970s. “This is the most studied aspect of human learning.”

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Training Elementary Report Study 112

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 8, 2016

For comparison, that’s still less that the $32 billion available in tuition support for disadvantaged students though the federal Pell Grant program this year. I think people are misled about the strength and depth of the evidence of scaled-up public preschool studies,” Lipsey said. But the U.S. Photo: Paul J.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

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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