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 ...
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.
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 ...
America's reading proficiency scores were dropping before the …
WEBNov 10, 2021 · 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.
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.
Why college graduation rates are measured over six years instead …
WEBOct 10, 2021 · As the White House proposes spending billions to improve completion rates, colleges measure successful graduation rates at six and even eight years. Fewer than half of college students graduate within four years, but colleges and the federal agency that regulates them have long measured completion as taking six years, not four.
What’s school without grade levels? - The Hechinger Report
WEBJul 30, 2018 · HUNTER, N.D. — On windswept fields outside Fargo, North Dakota, a bold experiment in education has begun. In a lone building flanked by farmland, the Northern Cass School District is heading into year two of a three-year journey to abolish grade levels. By the fall of 2020, all Northern Cass students will plot their own academic courses to ...
How free college tuition in one country exposes unexpected pros …
WEBOct 18, 2016 · Niessler and Steinbock are students at, and Alt the president of, Freie Universität Free University Berlin They embody the surprising ambivalence, unexpected nuances, and general pros and cons of making university tuition free, as has happened in the last few years in Germany and is proposed in the United States by Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.
First grade is critical for reading skills, but some kids are way behind
WEBNov 14, 2021 · 40 percent — The number of first grade students “well below grade level” in reading in 2020, compared with 27 percent in 2019, according to Amplify Education Inc. First grade in particular — “the reading year,” as Miller calls it — is pivotal for elementary students, when their literacy skills “really take off.”.
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 ...