A decade of research on education inequality in America
Jun 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 ...
Inside one of the thousands of schools that still paddles student
Jun 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.
PROOF POINTS: Seven new studies on the impact of a four-day …
Aug 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.
PROOF POINTS: What research tells us about gifted education
Oct 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.
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Evidence increases for reading on paper instead of screens
Aug 12, 2019 · This reading research also runs counter to well-intended advice for students to save money. A July 2019 report from the National Association of College Stores shows a record high 22 percent of college students are using free online course materials, up from 3 percent in 2015. Thanks to free online texts, overall spending on materials has decreased.
The rich-poor divide on America’s college campuses is getting …
Dec 17, 2015 · And even though only one-fifth of American households earn $100,000 or more per year, and 13 out of 14 of them would have sent their children to college even without them, those families get more than half of $34 billion a year in politically popular federal tuition tax credits, the Tax Policy Center calculates.
The enduring relevance of a liberal-arts education - The Hechinger …
Dec 5, 2013 · By connecting diverse ideas and themes across academic disciplines, liberal-arts students learn to better reason and analyze, and to express their creativity and their ideas. They are capable of thinking and acting globally and locally. Those attributes are worth attaining to lead a more fulfilling life.
PROOF POINTS: New higher ed data by race and ethnicity
Feb 20, 2023 · The share of Americans with a college degree rose from 38 percent in 2009 to nearly 46 percent in 2021 – an increase of eight percentage points. Every race and ethnicity saw gains. The eight-percentage point gain was the same for both Black and white adults. But racial gaps continue. In 2021, there remained an enormous 40 percentage point ...
How free college tuition in one country exposes unexpected pros …
Oct 18, 2016 · Niessler and Steinbock are students at, and Alt the president of, Freie Universität Free University Berlin They embody the surprising ambivalence, unexpected nuances, and general pros and cons of making university tuition free, as has happened in the last few years in Germany and is proposed in the United States by Democratic presidential candidate …