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 ...
PROOF POINTS: What research tells us about gifted education
WEBOct 18, 2021 — 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 — are labeled “gifted” and given extra services.
Inside one of the thousands of schools that still paddles student
WEBJun 6, 2022 — 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.
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.
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 four-day weeks.
Analysis finds hundreds of colleges show serious financial warning …
WEBAug 4, 2020 — Nationwide, more than 500 colleges and universities show warning signs in two or more metrics. The problems were not evenly spread among states. 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.
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.
Sold a story: How teaching kids to read went so wrong
WEBOct 20, 2022 — 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 ...
How social studies can help young kids make sense of the world
WEBJul 12, 2018 — 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.