Inside one of the thousands of schools that still paddles student
WEBJun 6, 2022 · Local records for Covington County School District, obtained by The Hechinger Report, show that the district logged more than 1,300 paddlings since August 2018. State records, in contrast, show that the district paddled its last student on Oct. 25, 2017. 19 states still allow corporal punishment in public schools.
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 ...
How could Project 2025 change education? - The Hechinger Report
WEBJul 23, 2024 · The proposals in the 2025 Presidential Transition Project — known as Project 2025 and designed for Donald Trump — would reshape the American education system, early education through college, from start to finish.. The conservative Heritage Foundation is the primary force behind the sprawling blueprint, which is separate from the much less detailed Republican National Committee 2024 ...
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.
Online testing and education led to a rise in cheating, data shows
WEBAug 7, 2020 · Data show the rate of cheating on tests is on the upswing. A student takes an online exam for a business course. One online proctoring company has provided figures showing a dramatic increase in cheating since education went online because of the coronavirus. Credit: Katie Falkenberg/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images.
Economists find free community college can backfire - The …
WEBSep 16, 2019 · Sarah Goldrick-Rab, a professor of higher education policy and sociology at Temple University, argues that the authors didn’t fully factor in the psychological power of free community college to low-income Americans. “Low-income students overwhelmingly still don’t attend college,” Goldrick-Rab wrote to me in an interview conducted by email.
Teaching children to read isn’t easy. How do kids actually learn to …
WEBMar 30, 2020 · Research shows young children need explicit, systematic phonics instruction to learn how to read fluently. Credit: Terrell Clark for The Hechinger Report. Teaching kids to read isn’t easy; educators often feel strongly about what they think is the “right” way to teach this essential skill. Though teachers’ approaches may differ, the ...
Internships matter more than ever — but not everyone can get one
WEBMar 30, 2024 · Ninety percent of the program’s participants were from historically underrepresented groups, and 60 percent were first-generation college students, according to The Washington Center. The participants’ ages ranged from 18 to 43. Online internships can be more accessible than in-person programs. Faris Nabeel, a University of Arkansas ...
How social studies can help young kids make sense of the world
WEBJul 12, 2018 · BROOKLYN, N.Y. — One of the longtime goals of public education is to produce young people capable of participating in the democratic process. Experts say that requires regular and high-quality social studies lessons, starting in kindergarten, to teach kids to be critical thinkers and communicators who know how to take meaningful action.
Middle school’s moment: What the science tells us about …
WEBAug 16, 2021 · CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — In a middle school hallway in Charlottesville, Virginia, a pair of sixth grade girls sat shoulder to shoulder on a lime-green settee, creating comic strips that chronicled a year of pandemic schooling. Using a computer program called Pixton, they built cartoon panels, one of a girl waving goodbye to her teacher ...