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网页Vague school rules at the root of millions of student suspensions. Read the whole series. Inequality is the biggest story in education. We investigate disparities and solutions that might close the gaps. We’re a nonprofit and provide this …
Summit Learning shows promise for personalized learning despite …
网页by Tara García Mathewson May 2, 2020. Emily Carrasco, an eighth grade science teacher at Rhodes Junior High in Mesa, Arizona, has used laptops in class for years. She said her school’s adoption of the Summit Learning Program hasn’t changed the amount of time students spend online. Credit: Tara García Mathewson/The Hechinger Report.
Teaching children to read isn’t easy. How do kids actually learn to …
网页2020年3月30日 · 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 ...
PROOF POINTS: What research tells us about gifted education
网页2021年10月18日 · 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 — …
Inside one of the thousands of schools that still paddles student
网页2022年6月6日 · During the 2019-20 school year, the first year the ban was in effect, corporal punishment rates plummeted statewide. Immediately before the ban, state totals indicate 12,607 students were paddled 21,476 times. The following year, state totals indicated 3,669 students were paddled 5,316 times — a drop of 70 percent.
A decade of research on education inequality in America
网页2020年6月29日 · 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 ...
PROOF POINTS: Seven new studies on the impact of a four-day …
网页2022年8月29日 · The answer matters because hundreds of thousands of students at more than 1,600 schools across 24 states were heading to school only four times a week by the spring of 2019, according to one estimate.The number of four-day schools had exploded by more than 600 percent from 20 years earlier in 1999, …
America's reading proficiency scores were dropping before the …
网页2021年11月10日 · The Wenatchee School District in Washington state switched all students to phonics-based reading instruction a few months before the pandemic. The district has long struggled with low reading scores, especially among its English learners, who make up nearly a quarter of the enrollment.
How social studies can help young kids make sense of the world
网页2018年7月12日 · 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.
How could Project 2025 change education? - The Hechinger Report
网页2024年7月23日 · 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 ...