Using virtual reality to help students with disabilities
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College dreams often melt away in summer months. ‘Near-peer’ counseling is...
Monnojan Tasnia, a 19-year-old who moved to New York City from Bangladesh four years ago, works with her Bridge Coach, Ruth Camacho, at the International High School for Health Sciences in Elmhurst,...
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A school where character matters as much as academics
At Capital City Public Charter School, eighth grader Nia Reese delivers a 40-minute presentation aimed at convincing panelists that she is prepared to move on to the campus’ high school. Photo: Amadou...
View ArticleOPINION: From a former teacher, four ways to take the drama out of math class
You could almost call it math class drama. Or you could just call it sad: “I’m not good at math.” “Math is my worst subject.” “It’s okay if you don’t understand. I wasn’t good at math either.” Does...
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It’s not about sex: Teaching young children where babies come from (and other...
Kids’ antics, like when they decide to “play doctor,” as illustrated in this still from an “Amaze, Jr.” video, can embarrass parents and make it hard for them to know what to do next. Illustration...
View ArticleWill AI really transform education?
For all the talk about how artificial intelligence could transform what happens in the classroom, AI hasn’t yet lived up to the hype. AI involves creating computer systems that can perform tasks that...
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How you talk to your child might make them smarter
Excerpts of adult explanations from a working paper, “How does a switch work? The relation between adult mechanistic language and children’s learning,” by Katelyn Kurkul et al. Young children who were...
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New routes to success in learning are popping up around the country
The Hechinger Report is collaborating with The New York Times to produce Bulletin Board, page 2 of the Times’s education supplement, Learning. Vita Blanco at her graduation celebration at a friend’s...
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A school district wades through a deluge of social-emotional curricula to...
Meghan Groves, a teacher at Washington-Lee Elementary School, in Bristol, Virginia, leads her first graders in “closing circle,” where they talk about how their day went. Caroline Preston/The...
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Helping students with intellectual disabilities conquer college
Courtney Jorgensen is a freshman in the Aggies Elevated program for students with intellectual disabilities Photo: Kim Raff for The Hechinger Report LOGAN, Utah — It was Day One of orientation for the...
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Elizabeth Warren shows she understands education in ways charter advocates...
2020 Democratic Presidential candidate Sen. Elizabeth Warren at a Warren Town Hall event at Simpson College in Indianola, Iowa on Sunday, October 20, 2019. (Photo by Melina Mara/The Washington Post...
View ArticleOPINION: More Latinx students gain diplomas on time thanks to ‘early college’
Across the United States, colleges are experimenting with new ways to increase the number of students on their campuses while helping them achieve their academic goals within a targeted timeline to...
View ArticleAs Republicans stress political fiction over facts, students’ math and...
Last week, the National Center for Education Statistics released the 2019 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) for mathematics and reading in the fourth and eighth grades. The top-level...
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How one Navajo Nation high school is trying to help students see a future...
Chinle High senior Cooper Burbank shooting hoops with his younger brother. Burbank hopes to get bachelor’s and master’s degrees in engineering. Photo courtesy of Caitlin O’Hara Nachae Nez is a...
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Students take their future into their own hands on climate change activism
Students participate in a global walkout for Climate Change in downtown Los Angeles, California on March 15, 2019. Young people, inspired by Greta Thunberg, are calling on politicians to act on...
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Wealthy cities can afford to expand pre-K: What about everyone else?
Ready, Set, Enroll parent ambassadors Gloria Hicks, center, and Joan Van tell a young man about preschool options. Though he didn’t have children of his own, he said he has several young nephews and...
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How one country with close parallels to the United States has made college free
Pilar Vega Martinez, a nursing student at the University of Chile, benefited from free tuition in Chile — until she got sick and missed classes. Now the perk will run out for her before she finishes...
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Is California saving higher education?
Jaelyn Deas at her work-study job at San Jose State University. Juggling a major in international business and a minor in Japanese, Deas fell behind on her path to graduation until the university...
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Let’s invest in black kids who pursue STEM the way we do black kids on the...
The Grambling State University students of Team MiEye were winners of the top prize of the BizTech Challenge, held at the Bayou Classic in New Orleans last month. Photo: Andre Perry for The Hechinger...
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Low-income districts find ways to help students make music
Trombone players in the David Douglas High School Marching Band march in the Starlight Parade in downtown Portland in June. Photo: Ariane Kunze for The Hechinger Report PORTLAND, Ore. — Luke Said, 18,...
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