The Hechinger Report

APRIL 15, 2019

One of the big justifications for gifted-and-talented education is that high achieving kids need more advanced material so that they’re not bored and actually learn something during the school day. Their academic needs cannot be met in a general education class, advocates say. Higher Education. Choose as many as you like.

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Survey Study Exercises Report 111

Edsurge

APRIL 4, 2017

I have a suspicion that these simple words—“every” and “all”—are often overlooked by the hundreds of people who make up an educational organization. These are the students often forgotten by the educational system, despite promises to serve every child. In part, it's because of the diverse group of students we serve.

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Bryan Alexander

SEPTEMBER 18, 2015

Amid the huge complexity and many challenges of American higher education, what’s going on with university graduate programs? The Council of Graduate Schools issued a new report looking at trends for 2004-2014, offering a fine glimpse into where things have gone, and hints about the future ( pdf ). were temporary residents.”

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 7, 2018

The day after the launch, for example, Espino and classmate Jaime Sanchez were learning Python programming through Udacity, an online education platform that offers “nanodegrees.” For example, the Silicon Valley Education Foundation’s summer program, Elevate Math, is raising algebra readiness, a critical first step on the STEM success track.

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Robotics STEM Company Software 87

edWeb.net

APRIL 1, 2021

By combining the small group focus with short cycles of improvement, schools can truly create a system where every child is receiving the best possible education. Administrators and educators need to look at their own actions and determine what role they play in student outcomes. Examine adult practices. Make learning collective.

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Bryan Alexander

APRIL 4, 2016

A new study of PhDs produced by American universities reveals some f ascinating and important developments. The humanities are minor, as are the social sciences and education. Education in particular has taken a hit (see below, too). In 1994, 29% of all S&E doctorates were awarded to temporary visa holders.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 30, 2019

Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Future of Learning newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every Wednesday with trends and top stories about education innovation. Joel Herbst, assistant dean of preK-12 schools and educational programs at Florida Atlantic University. Subscribe today!

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Edsurge

JANUARY 10, 2017

When it first opened its doors in 2004 as a part of the Civic Committee of the Commercial Club of Chicago, the organization took a leading role in opening charter schools across the city—130 of them, to be exact. You can’t really tell from the website—every school has a different approach,” observed one study participant.

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Elementary System Study STEM 60

MindShift

JANUARY 20, 2017

We also learned—and have experienced in our careers as mathematics educators and researchers—that spatial reasoning is a curiously unacknowledged and neglected area of the curriculum. Below we offer our Top Five reasons why, as educators, we should care about spatial thinking when we plan, observe, and assess mathematics in our classrooms.

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Pearson STEM Training Study 28

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 3, 2018

Higher Education. A 2012 study published by the National Bureau of Economic Research found that most high-achieving low-income students don’t apply to any competitive colleges. There’s an education happening outside the classroom with people our kids otherwise wouldn’t come into contact with.” . Sign up for our newsletter.

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MindShift

AUGUST 16, 2021

The recent conversions represent a return to old ways of educating early adolescents. Up until about 1900, the American education system operated on a two-tier structure, with eight years of primary school followed by four years of secondary school.

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Elementary Secondary Study Report 64

Hack Education

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

.” This was what the mother of a nineteen-year-old killed by a bomb in Kirkuk said on an HBO documentary quoted by Bob Herbert in The New York Times on the morning of November 12, 2004. I want to start this year’s review of education technology acknowledging grief. Education Technology and (Decades and Decades of) Quackery.

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Technology Education Report Training 40

Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

This talk was delivered at MIT for Justin Reich’s Comparative Media Studies class “Learning, Media, and Technology.” ” The full slide deck is available here. Thank you for inviting me to speak to your class today. Collaboration. Personalization. Problem-solving. Self-directed learning. The “maker movement.”

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TeachThought - Learn better.

APRIL 2, 2015

by Grant Wiggins , Authentic Education. One main concern was to try to avoid a common problem with traditional training studies, the outcomes of which have been somewhat discouraging. Why Students Don’t Always Transfer What They Seem To Understand.

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Strategy Handbook Examples Exercises 40

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 27, 2017

To some, this might sound like little more than classic “Mean Girls” behavior, as immortalized in the 2004 cult teen flick, but it can include mean boys, too. While parental and family influence can’t be understated, increasingly, educators say, it’s falling to schools to provide those lessons to students. Each has a stem, and petals.

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Social Media Survey Groups Report 40

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 16, 2021

David Rosenberg, Education Resource Strategies. The recent conversions represent a return to old ways of educating early adolescents. Up until about 1900, the American education system operated on a two-tier structure, with eight years of primary school followed by four years of secondary school.

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Elementary Report Secondary Study 116

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Buffalo educators hoped Eve’s new program would give more children — particularly children of color — a chance at enrichment and advanced learning. Buffalo’s struggle to create an integrated, equitable gifted program demonstrates a longtime challenge that has recently gained attention: Gifted education in America has a race problem.

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Education Elementary Report Data 145

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 8, 2017

That’s an extreme example of a surprising shift besetting all of higher education. Department of Education. Related: Universities and colleges struggle to stem big drops in enrollment. Maybe [admissions officers] should be going into middle schools and start talking to fifth-graders about the benefits of college education.”.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 30, 2018

So says a 2017 study published by the Institute of Policy Studies. About one-third of all black collegians earn degrees in either a STEM-related (science, technology, engineering and math) field or in business, according to my analysis of integrated post-secondary education data system (IPEDS), the national dataset of college outcomes.

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Dropout STEM Analysis Company 83

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 17, 2018

It’s where districts and schools decide to spend their money,” Worth, a veteran educator who has also taught in Greene County’s traditional public schools, explained. Department of Education. Board of Education decision. Some schools spend their money on overhead. We spend it on students.”.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 4, 2018

Olympic athletes and hopefuls may comprise only a tiny handful of the nontraditional-age adults trying to get higher educations. American higher education long ago stopped being the exclusive sphere of the 18-year-old undergraduate right out of high school, tossing a Frisbee on a manicured quadrangle. Higher Education.

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