Inside one of the thousands of schools that still paddles student
WEBJun 6, 2022 · During the 2017-18 school year, more than 69,000 students received corporal punishment almost 97,000 times nationwide.. Corporal punishment has been on the decline in the United States for the last several decades, in part because of growing evidence that it harms students’ wellbeing and academic performance while also failing to improve their …
A decade of research on education inequality in America
WEBJun 29, 2020 · That didn’t mean there was a giant 70 percent improvement from $1,500. The Trump administration added together all sources of funds, including federal funding, which amounts to 8 percent of total school spending, while the Obama administration excluded federal funds, counting only state and local dollars, which make up more than …
Analysis finds hundreds of colleges show serious financial warning …
WEBAug 4, 2020 · Now, with the added pressures of the coronavirus pandemic, the fabric of American higher education has become even more strained: The prospect of lower revenues has already forced some schools to slash budgets and could lead to waves of closings, experts and researchers say.
Teaching children to read isn’t easy. How do kids actually learn to …
WEBMar 30, 2020 · If children can’t master phonics, they are more likely to struggle to read. That’s why researchers say explicit, systematic instruction in phonics is important: Teachers must lead students step by step through a specific sequence of letters and sounds.Kids who learn how to decode words can then apply that skill to more challenging words and …
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 …
How could Project 2025 change education? - The Hechinger Report
WEBJul 23, 2024 · The proposals in the 2025 Presidential Transition Project — known as Project 2025 and designed for Donald Trump — would reshape the American education system, early education through college, from start to finish.. The conservative Heritage Foundation is the primary force behind the sprawling blueprint, which is separate from the much less …
PROOF POINTS: What research tells us about gifted education
WEBOct 18, 2021 · After years of discussion, New York City announced in October 2021 that it is overhauling gifted and talented programs, eliminating the testing of thousands of 4-year-olds and the city’s separate education system of schools and classrooms for students who score high on this one test. I wanted to know what the research evidence says about […]
The enduring relevance of a liberal-arts education - The Hechinger …
WEBDec 5, 2013 · This dichotomy was explored in a thought-provoking article in The Wall Street Journal by Peter Cappelli of the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School. After outlining the ways many colleges are responding to concerns about cost and career benefits by creating new, specialized courses that teach skills students will need in the workplace, …
The rich-poor divide on America’s college campuses is getting …
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PROOF POINTS: Lessons from college dropouts who came back
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