Dropout How To Policies STEM 
The Hechinger Report
JANUARY 12, 2023
Whittenberg, a public elementary school in downtown Greenville, South Carolina, that focuses on science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) in its curriculum. Whittenberg Elementary School of Engineering, a school focused on STEM curriculum in Greenville, South Carolina. Credit: Ariel Gilreath/The Hechinger Report.
The Hechinger Report
MAY 15, 2023
The confusion stems from the study design. That switch from algebra to stats is a big one for a lot of students,” said Lindsay Daugherty, a senior policy researcher at the RAND Corporation who has studied remedial education and efforts to reform it. Some researchers argue that the shift to statistics might have made the difference.
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The Hechinger Report
JULY 13, 2021
Educators and school leaders are scrambling to figure out how to regain ground next year in a course that often makes or breaks students’ life chances. Math courses are “the most significant barrier to degree completion in both STEM and non-STEM fields,” the authors concluded. Here’s how it all adds up. I’m very worried.
The Hechinger Report
APRIL 6, 2022
Now, after two years of cobbled-together pandemic learning, many college students not only are less prepared than they should be, they’ve forgotten how to be students. It seemed like there needed to be a policy and expectation change in the face of an emergency situation,” Patterson said. Credit: Erika Rich for The Hechinger Report.
The Hechinger Report
APRIL 26, 2019
It is not good policy to keep Puerto Rico economically on a downturn in what feels like an endless loop of economic underperformance. It is not good policy to keep Puerto Rico economically on a downturn in what feels like an endless loop of economic underperformance,” said Aponte, who also served as U.S. Department of Education.
The Hechinger Report
JANUARY 20, 2022
In September, the NAACP Legal Defense Fund released a report recommending school districts institute a moratorium on all suspensions and modify school discipline policies to be trauma-informed and supportive. Studies show not only is it ineffective at improving students’ future behavior, it can also do the opposite.
The Hechinger Report
OCTOBER 8, 2018
New faculty at Dickinson College attend a training session about how to help students who might be foundering. Yet only a surprisingly small minority of colleges and universities explicitly include their faculty in this work and teach them how to do it, though that number is beginning to grow. CARLISLE, Penn. That’s $13.3
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