Racial bias affects early math education. Researchers are trying to stop that
Researchers say more resources, teacher awareness needed to combat racial bias in math lessons.| The Hechinger Report
PITTSBURGH — Saisri Akondi had already started a company in her native India when she came to Carnegie Mellon University to get a master’s degree in biomedical engineering, business and design. Before she graduated, she had co-founded another: D.Sole, for which Akondi, who is 28, used the skills she’d learned to create a high-tech insole […] The post A largely invisible role of international students: Fueling the innovation economy appeared first on The Hechinger Report.| The Hechinger Report
ELYRIA, Ohio — Nolan Norman had no idea what microelectronic manufacturing entailed when his adviser at Midview High suggested he take the school’s new class on it last year. Yet once he started fusing metal to circuit boards, he says he was hooked. “When I was little, I thought that wizards made these things,” the […] The post Colleges struggle to make manufacturing training hot again appeared first on The Hechinger Report.| The Hechinger Report
Read in English. SAN ANTONIO — Ximena tenía un plan. La joven de 18 años de Houston iba a comenzar clases este otoño en la Universidad de Texas en Tyler, donde le habían concedido una beca de 10.000 dólares al año. Esperaba que eso le permitiera alcanzar su sueño: un doctorado en Química, seguido de […] The post Texas fue pionero en dar matrículas estatales para los inmigrantes indocumentados. Ahora está dando marcha atrás. appeared first on The Hechinger Report.| The Hechinger Report
Rigorous research rarely shows that any teaching approach produces large and consistent benefits for students. But tutoring seemed to be a rare exception. Before the pandemic, almost 100 studies pointed to impressive math or reading gains for students who were paired with a tutor at least three times a week and used a proven curriculum […] The post Tutoring was supposed to save American kids after the pandemic. The results? ‘Sobering’ appeared first on The Hechinger Report.| The Hechinger Report
Illinois hospital staff will soon be required by law to refer parents of severely premature infants to services that can help prevent years of intensive and expensive therapy later, when the children are older. The new law follows reporting from The Hechinger Report that exposed how hospitals often fail to connect many eligible parents to […] The post After Hechinger story, Illinois passes law requiring hospitals to connect parents of premature babies with life-changing therapies appeared f...| The Hechinger Report
After a three-year pause prompted by the pandemic, the clock on student loan repayments suddenly started ticking again in September 2023, and forbearance ended last September. For millions of borrowers like Shauntee Russell, the resumption of payments marked a harsh return to financial reality. Russell, a single mother of three from Chicago, had received $127,000 […] The post OPINION: The resumption of student loan payments means students will need new policies — and our help appear...| The Hechinger Report
MOREHEAD, Ky. — The summer after ninth grade, Zoey Griffith found herself in an unfamiliar setting: a dorm on the Morehead State University campus. There, she’d spend the months before her sophomore year taking classes in core subjects including math and biology and electives like oil painting. For Griffith, it was an opportunity, but a […] The post These federal programs help low-income students get to and through college. Trump wants to pull the funding appeared first on The Heching...| The Hechinger Report
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 […] The post What Trump’s education cuts mean for literacy appeared first on The Hechinger Report.| The Hechinger Report
Léelo en Español. SAN ANTONIO — Ximena had a plan. The 18-year-old from Houston was going to start college in the fall at the University of Texas at Tyler, where she had been awarded $10,000 a year in scholarships. That, she hoped, would set her up for her dream: a Ph.D. in chemistry, followed by a […] The post What’s happened since Texas killed in-state tuition for undocumented students appeared first on The Hechinger Report.| The Hechinger Report
Researchers say more resources, teacher awareness needed to combat racial bias in math lessons.| The Hechinger Report
A recap of how the great recession affected higher education in 2008 to help us think through what might and might not repeat this time around.| The Hechinger Report
Growth mindset for kids: Carol Dweck argues that adults can help foster the belief that the brain is like a muscle that can grow stronger through hard work.| The Hechinger Report
State funded initiatives in Ohio and other parts of the country are working to strengthen child care teachers’ knowledge and confidence in working with young children with disabilities and developmental delays.| The Hechinger Report
A cash transfer program for high schoolers resulted in better attendance and more financial literacy, but no improvement in grades.| The Hechinger Report
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Maggi’s home in a suburban neighborhood here is a haven for local families. It’s a place where after just a few weeks in Maggi’s family-run child care program this spring, one preschooler started calling Maggi “mama” and Maggi’s husband “papa.” Children who have graduated from Maggi’s program still beg their parents to […]| The Hechinger Report
As the Trump administration announces sweeping steps to make it more difficult for colleges and universities to welcome international students, some schools are more vulnerable than others to potential drops in enrollment.| The Hechinger Report
The blows keeping coming, from the end of affirmative action to outright interference in who leads college campuses.| The Hechinger Report
Community colleges should be an avenue into high-value STEM degrees for students from low-income backgrounds, but just 2 percent of students who begin at a community college earn a STEM bachelor’s degree within six years. Here are ways to improve the process.| The Hechinger Report
Nory Sontay Ramos was deported to Guatemala — a country she barely remembers.| The Hechinger Report
Black youth are frequently among the most civically engaged young people in the country, yet they are too often absent from conversations about civic excellence and receive too little civic education.| The Hechinger Report
As the Trump administration issues executive orders related to DEI, the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association is considering dropping references to DEI in favor of “person-centered care.| The Hechinger Report
There’s new momentum behind letting students cash in their life skills toward degrees, saving them time and money and helping colleges recruit new customers by giving what’s called credit for prior learning.| The Hechinger Report
An affordable bachelor’s degree remains the No. 1 lever for financial, professional and social mobility in America — and we need more college graduates. Yet supports for first-generation college students are eroding. This needs to change.| The Hechinger Report
But administration relents on yanking data from researchers| The Hechinger Report
The persistent chaos and confusion and rigid policies in our schools choke the joy out of learning and breed an education culture defined by fear and distrust, turf wars and a widely acknowledged resistance to change. To fix our schools, we must improve school culture.| The Hechinger Report
High school apprenticeships are slowly spreading, as young people become more disillusioned with four-year college and well-paying jobs that don’t require bachelor’s degrees go begging.| The Hechinger Report
Education leaders warn of layoffs, larger classes and slashed services as the Trump administration withholds federal K-12 funding — hitting California and Texas hardest.| The Hechinger Report
We want to know how the Trump administration is affecting higher education and life on your campus.| The Hechinger Report
At universities in California, Illinois, Louisiana and Texas, students report changes to campus clubs and activities, diminished research opportunities and fears for international students’ safety.| The Hechinger Report
Nebraska’s teachers are learning how to do inclusion well.| The Hechinger Report
In Mahmoud v. Taylor, parents claim that a Maryland county’s board of education violated their religious rights by failing to provide an opt-out for their children from a read-aloud of a book with LGBTQ+ themes. The decision could have wide ramifications.| The Hechinger Report
Americans are losing trust in journalism and turning away from legacy media and local newspapers are closing at an alarming rate. There is a great way to address these challenges: School newspapers. But too few schools have them.| The Hechinger Report
Generative artificial intelligence technology is rapidly changing the labor market. In response, colleges are increasingly looking for ways to offer AI courses to their students to keep up with employer demands.| The Hechinger Report
The pay-it-forward approach to covering the cost of college stretches the return on financial aid and can help fill shortages of workers in critical industries.| The Hechinger Report
We cover inequality and innovation in education with in-depth journalism that uses research, data and stories from classrooms and campuses to show the public how education can be improved and why it matters.| The Hechinger Report
The Trump administration has undertaken draconian efforts to gut education research and dismantle public education, including our higher education system, often considered to be the world’s best. We need to defend education.| The Hechinger Report
Nebraska is a case study of what can happen when schools prioritize including students with disabilities in ways research shows helps all students learn.| The Hechinger Report
El College Board modificó los criterios de concesión de becas del National Recognition Program, en una medida que podría desplazar decenas de miles de dólares de becas de estudiantes negros y latinos a estudiantes blancos.| The Hechinger Report
Is the four-year college degree losing its grip on Americans’ dreams? This story also appeared in GBH News Just as American colleges reach the demographic cliff — a steep decline in the number of 18-year-old prospective freshmen — higher education faces mounting pressure from all sides. President Donald Trump has targeted universities, slashing federal research […]| The Hechinger Report
The Abecedarian Project, a decades-long research project that has followed Black children through adulthood, has found that some of the early cognitive benefits for girls lasted longer than they did for boys — a sign of the challenges that Black boys face as they get older.| The Hechinger Report
Large-scale replication in high-poverty schools yields mixed results| The Hechinger Report
This story is part of a collaboration between the Institute for Nonprofit News’ Rural News Network and Canary Media, South Dakota News Watch, Cardinal News, The Mendocino Voice and The Maine Monitor, with support from Ascendium Education Group. It is reprinted with permission. This story also appeared in Canary Media DECATUR, Ill. — A fistfight at a high school football game nearly defined Shawn Honorable’s life. […]| The Hechinger Report
New Jersey sends the highest proportion of students with disabilities to separate schools out of any state. Parents say districts rely too much on these schools rather than improving their own services.| The Hechinger Report
The College Board changed its criteria for an awards program that could shift tens of thousands of scholarship dollars from Black and Latino students to white students.| The Hechinger Report
Students who struggle with abstract math are effectively barred from pursuing degrees that offer a potentially high starting salary, and that’s wrong| The Hechinger Report
The reading wars are back. The debate has elicited vindication for proponents of phonics and distress for defenders of a so-called “balanced” approach.| The Hechinger Report
Students graduating from college today face an uncertain job market, mass firings in the federal government, a wild stock market and fears of recession. They also expect mental health support and work-life balance in the careers they pursue, and to help them find that, many colleges are adjusting their career-counseling efforts.| The Hechinger Report
Experts suggest limiting AI to help with brainstorming and checking for mistakes| The Hechinger Report
Deportations, dismissals of book ban complaints and the removal of anti-discrimination policies are just the beginning| The Hechinger Report
For years, much like in the United States, New Zealand has worried about sliding student proficiency in mathematics, as captured by both national and international test scores. Later this month — the beginning of the New Zealand school year — the country is launching an overhaul of mathematics instruction that education leaders hope will reverse the trend. […] The post One country wants to close math achievement gaps by ending academic tracking first appeared on Micro Schools Network.| Micro Schools Network
Some high schools and states are experimenting with ways to integrate literacy instruction across all classes.| The Hechinger Report
