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The Professional Development Problem

EdNews Daily

Recent studies, including the Gates Foundation, the TNTP Project and Harvard research, all report failing grades from administrators and teachers alike, which is one certainty we can begin with. The training in this area is mostly academically focused, such as common core standards and STEM. With research from the U.S.

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What happened when a South Carolina city embraced career education for all its students

The Hechinger Report

Credit: Ariel Gilreath/The Hechinger Report. Whittenberg, a public elementary school in downtown Greenville, South Carolina, that focuses on science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) in its curriculum. Credit: Ariel Gilreath/The Hechinger Report. “We Credit: Ariel Gilreath/The Hechinger Report.

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Kids are failing algebra. The solution? Slow down.

The Hechinger Report

At the beginning of 2021, The Hechinger Report’s members (individual readers who donated money to our nonprofit news organization) asked us if we would report on the best practices for helping the nation’s public school system recover from the pandemic. Credit: Sarah Garland for The Hechinger Report. Your stories. math-teaching?experts.?

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Some kids have returned to in-person learning only to be kicked right back out

The Hechinger Report

Although national data on discipline for the current school year isn’t expected to be public for several years, The Hechinger Report requested data from a dozen medium and large school districts around the country and found that in some of them, exclusionary discipline is down, even way down. Credit: Kelly Field for The Hechinger Report.

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Colleges are using big data to track students in an effort to boost graduation rates, but it comes at a cost

The Hechinger Report

Photo: Jill Barshay/The Hechinger Report. This podcast about colleges using predictive analytics is produced by APM Reports. Photo: Jill Barshay/The Hechinger Report. The idea is to find trends and patterns in huge amounts of historical data and use those patterns to predict the future. It wasn’t always this way.

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After the pandemic disrupted their high school educations, students are arriving at college unprepared

The Hechinger Report

Credit: Erika Rich for The Hechinger Report. Credit: Erika Rich for The Hechinger Report. “It Erika Rich for Hechinger Report Credit: Erika Rich for The Hechinger Report. Credit: Erika Rich for The Hechinger Report. Their failure is my failure.”.

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Quantifying the risks of working while in college

The Hechinger Report

This report from Georgetown University’s Center on Education and the Workforce highlights the special difficulties for low-income students of working while in college. Among low-income working learners who work 15 or more hours a week, 59 percent have a C average or lower,” the report states.

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