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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, …
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.
What aspects of teaching should remain human? - The Hechinger …
WEBJul 10, 2024 · The Hechinger Report provides in-depth, fact-based, unbiased reporting on education that is free to all readers. But that doesn't mean it's free to produce. Our work keeps educators and the public informed about pressing issues at schools and on campuses throughout the country.
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 …
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.
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.
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.”.
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.
PROOF POINTS: Seven new studies on the impact of a four-day …
WEBAug 29, 2022 · 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, when only about 250 schools had …
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