A decade of research on education inequality in America
WEBJun 29, 2020 · An analysis of achievement gaps in every school in America shows that poverty is the biggest hurdle. Rich schools get richer: School spending analysis finds widening gap between top 1% and the rest of us. This story about education inequality in America written by Jill Barshay and produced by The Hechinger Report, a nonprofit, independent news ...
What aspects of teaching should remain human? - The Hechinger …
WEBJul 10, 2024 · The Hechinger Report provides in-depth, fact-based, unbiased reporting on education that is free to all readers. But that doesn't mean it's free to produce. Our work keeps educators and the public informed about pressing issues at schools and on campuses throughout the country.
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WEBKids who use ChatGPT as a study assistant do worse on tests. Many kids can't read, even in high school. Is the solution teaching reading in every class? The Hechinger Report covers education from birth through college with authority, independence and depth. Get our stories in your inbox every Tuesday.
Analysis finds hundreds of colleges show serious financial warning …
WEBAug 4, 2020 · Combined, Ohio and Illinois have more than 10 percent of all the institutions potentially facing trouble. Ohio has 36 institutions with two or more warning signs. Illinois has 26. Roughly 1,360 colleges and universities have seen declines in first-year fall enrollment since 2009, including about 800 four-year institutions.
PROOF POINTS: 861 colleges and 9,499 campuses have closed …
WEBNov 21, 2022 · Thirty-five colleges and universities shut down in 2021, a 70 percent decrease from 2016, when a peak of 120 colleges shuttered, according to an analysis of federal data by the State Higher Education Executive Officers Association (SHEEO). For-profit operators ran more than 80 percent of the 861 institutions that ceased operations between 2004 ...
Sold a story: How teaching kids to read went so wrong
WEBOct 20, 2022 · This podcast, Sold a Story, was produced by APM Reports and reprinted with permission. There’s an idea about how children learn to read that’s held sway in schools for more than a generation – even though it was proven wrong by cognitive scientists decades ago. Teaching methods based on this idea can make it harder for children to learn ...
PROOF POINTS: What research tells us about gifted education
WEBOct 18, 2021 · Gifted and talented programs are especially popular in the South. Maryland has the highest percentage of gifted students at 16 percent. By contrast, in Massachusetts, where students consistently post the highest test scores in the nation, only one half of one percent of students — 0.5 percent — are labeled “gifted” and given extra services.
‘Not waiting for people to save us’: 9 school districts combine …
WEBAug 21, 2024 · Gracie Vaughn and BreAnna Bennet, right, attend different high schools in different school districts. The teenagers roomed together during a summer program at Fort Lewis College in Durango, Colo. Credit: Neal Morton/The Hechinger Report But clustered near the Four Corners in Colorado, the coalition of nine rural districts has partnered with higher education and business leaders to successfully ...
OPINION: How one city got math right - The Hechinger Report
WEBOct 9, 2018 · All students get a solid foundation, and acceleration is offered in 11th and 12th grades. San Francisco Unified has developed a rich middle-school math curriculum that emphasizes depth of understanding, rigor and applications. The middle-school courses provide the indispensable building blocks upon which a solid foundation is established.
More students are dropping out of college during Covid
WEBFeb 10, 2022 · Of the 2.6 million students who started college in fall 2019, 26.1 percent, or roughly 679,000, didn’t come back the next year, according to the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center. That was an increase of 2 percentage points over the previous year, and the highest share of students not …
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