The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

While data science isn’t a new subject, there’s been growing interest recently in helping students — in both K-12 and higher ed — gain data science skills. But North Carolina State University is taking a different approach to teaching the subject, said Rachel Levy, executive director of the school’s new Data Science Academy.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 29, 2023

With the start of a new year and education conference season just beginning, educators and industry leaders are discovering the biggest education trends for 2023. The past few years have seen a significant transformation for education and edtech, and 2023 will continue to bring new ideas and emerging technologies.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 29, 2022

When kids read that America’s $30 trillion+ debt is accepted by many experts as ‘business as usual’, I wonder how that news will affect their future personal finance decisions. The good news is: Half of the nation’s schools require a financial literacy course. The bad new is: Only half require a financial literacy course.

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Edsurge

MARCH 30, 2023

Dear Mom, My friend and colleague, Jeff Hittenberger, worked with us to launch a new faculty learning community last year. We didn’t have to go further than the daily news to hear of school board meetings, classrooms, grocery stores and libraries being impacted by political polarization in our country.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 2, 2023

Sometime this fall, in a classroom in New York City, second graders will use pipe cleaners and Post-it notes to build a model of a tree that could cool a city street. Disclosure: The Hechinger Report, which produced this story, is an independent unit of Teachers College.)

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

NEW YORK — When planning an election-year trip to the Southwest border for our undergraduate political reporting class last spring, we imagined reprising an award-winning reporting journey we took to a rural swing district in Maine during the 2018 midterms. Amid the pandemic, could we give students hands-on political reporting experiences?

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 26, 2023

And the essay on Russian Blue cats (like my Franny) is full of fun facts that I will definitely share the next time I’m at an awkward dinner party and at a loss for conversation topics. For college students, you can see the appeal. And cheating isn’t new. We’re entering a new chapter.” It may be as old as academia itself.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

The three-year-old Reporting Collaborative includes AL.com, The Associated Press, The Christian Science Monitor, The Dallas Morning News, The Hechinger Report, Idaho Education News, The Post and Courier in South Carolina, and The Seattle Times. READ THE SERIES The foremost principle: Math instruction must be systematic and explicit.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 10, 2023

As an anthropologist of Japan, the topic excited me — until an odd thought emerged: How do you teach a course on Zen and assign grades? On anonymous course surveys, comments have been surprisingly uniform and positive: “I believe Professor Traphagan’s experimental grading model in this class was a great boon,” said one student. “I

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

Guidance counselors who only steer you toward community college. Who “they” are and why they’re hiding education are among the questions Tough tackles in his new book, “ The Years That Matter Most: How College Makes or Breaks Us.” News & World Report rankings and test-prep tutors who charge $400 an hour.

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EdTech Magazine

MAY 29, 2018

SIGN UP : Get more news from the EdTech newsletter in your inbox every two weeks! It’s a modern pedagogical model that measures the impact of educational technology in three domains: translation, transformation and transcendence. How do we tackle that topic? EDTECH: How does leadership play a role in all of this?

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 6, 2020

When kids read that America’s $23 trillion+ debt is accepted by many experts as ‘business as usual’, I wonder how that news will affect their future personal finance decisions. The good news is: Half of the nation’s schools require a financial literacy course. The bad new is: Only half require a financial literacy course.

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Hapara

MAY 25, 2023

Whether they choose topics to explore or decide how they want to showcase what they know, learners are more engaged. According to an eSchool News survey , “65% of American educators say student-led learning is extremely valuable in developing 21st-century skills.” What new Hāpara features make it easier to drive student-led learning?

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 7, 2023

This story also appeared in Mind/Shift Nathalie Saladrigas is an undergraduate at Miami Dade College, where her off-campus housing regularly floods. SUNY-Stony Brook will anchor The New York Climate Exchange , a brand-new, $700 million campus on Governors Island in New York. Related: Climate change: Are we ready?

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

It’s an approach we’ve been using successfully at the Urban Assembly Media High School in New York City, a high school of approximately 400 students. The pandemic is affecting their relationships, their motivation for academics and their aspirations for college and careers. We approach SEL as a sustainable and consistent process.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 23, 2019

This question comes from an anonymous reader, who asks : What degree programs do colleges need to offer students so they can succeed in a workplace dominated by automation and high technology? And what subjects and experiences do students need exposure to while they’re in college? But that learning must be ongoing.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 28, 2020

Catherine Asiedu, left, is struggling to make up her mind about college next year while worrying about costs. With her are classmates Journey Hairston and Ania Wright, all seniors at Buffalo Seminary in upstate New York. Add in new financial pressures like parents who are sick or out of work.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 24, 2021

Summer school is a hot topic right now, for good reason. Already, a small-scale effort is underway in New York City. Well-established summer programs for dyslexic students can also serve as models for how to attack the literacy crisis. This year, it was 47 percent. Katharine Pace Miles, Ph.D.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 28, 2018

According to one Tennessee college professor, you do it by creating immersive learning experiences. Now president of Tennessee’s Motlow State Community College , Torrence talked with EdSurge about what multimodal learning looks like, why it “meets students where they are,” and how it prepares them for success in the workforce.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 29, 2022

After high school, Mohameth Seck enrolled in college. College, Gray noted, may not be right for everyone. When her own son left college after a semester, she gave him the option of several workforce training programs. Related: A handful of colleges are finally providing training in a way consumers want it: fast.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 19, 2021

It’s a model that’s paid dividends for the district. Lindsay Unified has seen significant improvement in academic achievement, graduation rates and the number of students going to college since it created a performance-based system in the mid-2000s. Ushering in a new model. Credit: Charlotte West for The Hechinger Report.

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edWeb.net

MARCH 30, 2021

As controversies about the pandemic, climate change, and social justice continue to make headlines, these same topics also provide opportunities for students to learn and apply media literacy skills that will help them with their course work, personal lives, and civic engagement.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 14, 2020

and Bruce Hecker’s 12th grade English class at South Side High School had the focused attention of a college seminar, with little chitchat or sluggishness despite the early hour. This story also appeared in NBC News. 1 predictor of college success. Amy Stuart Wells, professor at Teachers College. . — It was 7:58 a.m.,

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 9, 2022

This story also appeared in NBC News. CU Boulder has one of the nation’s widest gaps between undergraduate Latinos enrolling in college for the first time and the state’s share of Latino high school graduates, an analysis of federal data by The Hechinger Report and NBC News shows. Credit: Michael Ciaglo for NBC News.

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EdNews Daily

APRIL 10, 2019

The time has come to stop hiding stories of female role models in STEM. The time has come to open the floodgates of information and begin storytelling or telling the stories about the successes of women in STEM so we can motivate the next generation with female role models. Yet how flabbergasting that it remained hidden for so long?

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

They’ve followed news stories and seen video clips of an insurrection at the nation’s capital. According to Diane Hughes, a professor of applied psychology at New York University, “It’s well established that there’s no biological basis for race.” These behaviors and beliefs are learned, and they can be unlearned, too.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 5, 2023

In exchange, he will receive $700 a month for 10 months from the #CaliforniansForAll College Corps program, class credit and experience with food production science. Credit: Marissa Leshnov for The Hechinger Report Vega-Tatum has held jobs before, but College Corps is different.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 21, 2018

We’re talking 160,000 people signing up to study advanced tech topics like data science. The New York Times later declared 2012 as the ‘year of the MOOC,’ and columnists said the virtual courses would bring a revolution. EdSurge: MOOCs were once headline news around the world and now you hardly hear about them.

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Edsurge

MAY 13, 2019

The Seed of a School When Ashton, a New Jersey native, moved to D.C. three years ago to be closer to family, she continued to do the work she had started years earlier at the KIPP Foundation, the New York City Department of Education and the Newark Charter School Fund—improving the quality of urban education across the country.

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EdNews Daily

JULY 30, 2019

For girls in particular, having a lack of female role models in technology careers has been shown to have an adverse effect on their interest level and persistence in computer science.”. To help meet this need, Girls Who Code has created free curriculum materials built around female role models, called Women in Tech. About the Author.

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NeverEndingSearch

OCTOBER 27, 2018

For this generation, news is social, visual, and fast. News is often overwhelming, and it can be difficult for students to tell what news is true and what is false. How students engage with news (executive summary). The News Study’s Executive Summary offers Five Research Takeaways as well as Six Recommendations.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Here, eSchool News highlights the Brooklyn Emerging Leaders Academy–one of its K-12 Hero Awards finalists. As a ninth grade STEAM teacher at Brooklyn Emerging Leaders Academy (BELA), Celina Bertoncini was assigned the task of creating and teaching a brand-new STEAM program–during the height of COVID-19.

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Edsurge

MARCH 17, 2018

Some of these topics include agriculture, communication and information studies, human services, and health science. Each grade has a designated topic, paving the way for every student to explore and become familiar with a wide variety of career possibilities. These stories are what make the switch to PBL so fulfilling.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 17, 2023

Leo Salvatore graduated from college in May 2022 and dreams of becoming a philosopher. Paper has had impressive success marketing its online model of tutoring as a version of high dosage tutoring. Paper has also landed statewide deals with Mississippi, New Mexico and Tennessee, serving millions more students.

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EdNews Daily

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

Each fall, teachers will get a new sea of smiling faces in their classrooms. Almost no other industry operates under this unique business model, where each year your audience is replaced with a completely new one. Teachers know they’ll be serving a new type of student next fall, and it’s important to be in the know as well.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 15, 2022

WASHINGTON — Like many high school seniors, Grant Austin Robert Simms was bombarded with marketing materials from colleges that showed euphoric students enjoying athletics, extracurricular clubs and the excitement of living on campus. A handful of conventional colleges and universities are coming to the same conclusion.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 5, 2017

When kids read that America’s $18 trillion+ debt is accepted by many experts as ‘business as usual’, I wonder how that news will affect their future personal finance decisions. The good news is: Half of the nation’s schools require a financial literacy course. The bad new is: Only half require a financial literacy course.

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