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Kamala Harris
Can teachers live where they work?
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Many kids grow up thinking their teachers live at school. Children become stupefied at the sight of their teacher at a grocery store or a restaurant. …
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Mississippi
Automation is remaking Mississippi jobs: Are workers ready?
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Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Mississippi Learning newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes with trends and top …
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Brown University
Moving outside the comfort zone with an internship
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I first walked into the immaculate lobby of a prestigious investment banking firm in Midtown Manhattan three years ago. The thought of an internship …
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Students
Working in college interferes with studies but boosts adult earnings
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Working while in college is risky. A 2018 Georgetown University study found that students who worked had lower grades and were more likely to drop …
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Students
Four ways to break the cycle of food and housing insecurity on campus
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For my last two years of high school, I was homeless. My father gave me the option of sharing our circumstances with teachers, counselors and …
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Education
One surprising barrier to success in college: Understanding higher education lingo
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ATHENS, Ga. — Leslie De Santos furrowed her brow as she read the passage. The four sentences contained terms such as “litigation,” “adjudicative,” …
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Students
Most ed tech is made for student use. But it’s all created by adults.
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Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Future of Learning newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every Wednesday with …
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Education
The difference equal and equitable education and how success plans help
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If we did in health care what we do in education, we’d say this to everyone who walks through the hospital door: “We prescribe the same treatment for …
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Education
Climate change advocacy missing from school leaders
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By the time wildfires tore through his home county of Sonoma, California, Park Guthrie was already convinced that the clock on the climate …
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University of Utah
A new way of helping students pay for college: Give them corporate jobs
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SALT LAKE CITY — On the third floor of a downtown office building, Solomon Kalapala was chatting with a Microsoft customer on one computer screen …
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New Orleans, LA
Community members be allowed to work school construction jobs
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Building a new school can benefit a community in more ways than one. Sure, there’s the value of a new educational institution where students can take …
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College & University
Rural students often go unnoticed by colleges. Can virtual counseling put them on the map?
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RED WING, Minn. — Cayanne Korder long believed college would be her ticket out of this rural factory town of about 16,000 people. As far back as …
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Students
Is it time to focus on national college access instead of free college?
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There’s a national conversation about “free” college taking place in statehouses and dining rooms across America. There are many students who want to …
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Education
Research shows lower test scores for fourth graders who use tablets in schools
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A mounting body of evidence indicates that technology in schools isn’t boosting student achievement as its proponents had hoped it would. The latest …
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$TEACHER VOICE: How sixth-graders can relate — to math$
Problem-Based Learning
TEACHER VOICE: How sixth-graders can relate — to math
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Sixth grade can be a difficult year, filled with plenty of pre-teen angst and drama. Students are engaged in a constant battle, trying find their own …
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Refugees
Not going it alone: International education programs in an age of isolation
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The Hechinger Report is collaborating with The New York Times to produce Bulletin Board, page 2 of the Times’s education supplement, Learning. In the …
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OPINION: Is this minority group too small to have a voice on campus? -
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Can members of the ethnic minority that comprises the largest Asian-American group in Wisconsin feel truly included on the state’s flagship campus at …
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Latinx
Universities try to catch up to their growing Latinx populations
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GARY, Ind. — The first time Hsiulien Perez attended Indiana University Northwest, in the early 1990s, she had just graduated from high school and …
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New Orleans, LA
The late New Orleans chef Leah Chase was a teacher at heart
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Professional educators vigorously defend the title of teacher and rightly so. Teachers perfect their craft through their daily interactions with …
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College & University
Telling low income students to skip college is a dangerous message
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When I was a teenager, I made a deal with my dad: I could join his paint crew, painting houses part-time, but only if I promised to go to college. My …
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Education
A scholar revives the argument for racial integration in schools
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Rucker Johnson, an economist, sees himself as a poster child for school integration. His grandfather was denied admission to the University of West …
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Education
OPINION: This playful pre-K is no longer sole purview of the elite
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Visitors didn’t trek to this exhibit to view famous works of art or historic artifacts. They were at Boston University to visit “The Wonder of …
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Education
Luck or merit? The admissions argument that won't go away
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It happens all the time: You work hard all of your young life to achieve admission to an elite educational institution with very high standards, and …
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Education
Despite being recruited, older students in college are often left to struggle
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PORTLAND, Ore. — Under gray skies, smiling 8- and 9-year-olds in shiny raincoats skip across the Portland State University campus. Infants and …
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College & University
A Game of College: Can you get into college and finish a degree without taking on too much debt?
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It’s your junior year of high school, and you want to go to college. You’ve heard your salary can be a lot higher if you have a bachelor’s degree, …
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Science
Daughters in STEM — This is how we can get girls into science
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A few nights ago, I took my 7-year-old daughter out for dinner at our favorite Mediterranean restaurant. After examining the menu, we decided to order …
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Education
Inside the Reardon-Hanushek clash over 50 years of achievement gaps
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Measuring achievement gaps between rich and poor might seem like a straightforward exercise for education experts. Simply look up the test scores for …
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Pre-school
OPINION: Three ways to help teachers support our youngest learners
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Despite the gridlock that has become synonymous with the nation’s capital, in 2008 Washington, D.C., enacted something groundbreaking. It rolled out …
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Teaching
Can “playful assessments” tell us whether maker education works?
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PORTOLA VALLEY, Calif. – Frame by frame, the simple round face sketched by seventh grader Annabelle Bechtel erupted into laughter in stop-motion …