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.
PROOF POINTS: What research tells us about gifted education
WEBOct 18, 2021 · Nationally, more than 13 percent of all Asian students are enrolled in gifted programs compared with just 4 percent of Black students, according to the most recent data from the National Center for Education Statistics. Among whites, 8 percent get tapped for gifted classrooms. Among Hispanic students, it’s 5 percent.
Good Jobs — A map to the middle class - The Hechinger Report
WEBA growing movement of businesses, employees and training groups has been pushing back against “degree inflation” and identifying new ways of getting workers skills; perhaps their efforts offer one path. Meanwhile, labor force experts are increasingly calling for a massive federal investment in programs to retrain workers displaced by 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.
PROOF POINTS: 861 colleges and 9,499 campuses have closed …
WEBNov 21, 2022 · Almost 9,500 campuses closed between 2004 and 2021. Roughly 500 were closed because of a merger or a consolidation with another college. These campuses don’t always shut down physically but students aren’t necessarily able to continue their previous studies there. The remaining 8,986 branch campus closures occurred at 2,011 different ...
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.
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 ...
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.”.
Summit Learning shows promise for personalized learning despite …
WEBby 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.