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Which colleges offer child care for student-parents? – The Hechinger Report
Student-parents disproportionately give up before they reach the finish line. Fewer than…
Students with disabilities often snared by subjective discipline rules
For the first 57 minutes of the basketball game between two Bend,…
Vague school rules at the root of millions of student suspensions
A Rhode Island student smashed a ketchup packet with his fist, splattering…
OPINION: With financial aid processes more broken than ever, here’s what families can do – The Hechinger Report
The federal government’s financial aid application, known as the FAFSA, has been…
PROOF POINTS: How Covid narrowed the STEM pipeline
The STEM pipeline – a metaphor for the development of future scientists,…
PROOF POINTS: Only a quarter of federally funded education innovations benefited students, report says
An early warning and intervention system, called BARR, pictured above, was one…
PROOF POINTS: Learning science might help kids read better
A growing chorus of education researchers, pundits and “science of reading” advocates…
PROOF POINTS: Controversies within the science of reading
Four meta-analyses conclude that it’s more effective to teach phonemic awareness with…
OPINION: Federal pandemic learning loss funds should not disappear
It can be easy to think of school closures, remote learning and…
STUDENT VOICE: Teachers assign us work that relies on rote memorization, then tell us not to use artificial intelligence – The Hechinger Report
At the beginning of the school year, each of my 11th grade…
PROOF POINTS: Tracking student data falls short in combating absenteeism at school
Chronic absenteeism has surged across the country since the pandemic, with more…
States bet big on career education, but struggle to show it works – The Hechinger Report
When Kim Rider and her team contact a former student, they aren’t…
PROOF POINTS: Overscheduling kids’ lives causes depression and anxiety, study finds
Psychologists have long warned that children’s lives are overscheduled, which undermines their…
PROOF POINTS: Most college kids are taking at least one class online, even long after campuses reopened
The pandemic not only disrupted education temporarily; it also triggered permanent changes.…
OPINION: Our college students are struggling emotionally. We need to understand how to help them – The Hechinger Report
Our students are struggling. As a college president and a clinical psychologist,…
PROOF POINTS: How to get teachers to talk less and students more
Silence may be golden, but when it comes to learning with a…
PROOF POINTS: Four lessons from post-pandemic tutoring research
Research points to intensive daily tutoring as one of the most effective…
PROOF POINTS: Two studies find scattergrams reduce applications to elite colleges
Example of a hypothetical scattergram showing test scores and grades of past…
OPINION: Why artificial intelligence holds great promise for improving student outcomes – The Hechinger Report
The recent rise of ChatGPT and other generative artificial intelligence tools has…