Race and Equity Archives - The Hechinger Report

Project-based learning, a popular practice that uses lots of poster boards and student presentations, is billed as an antidote to boring classrooms where teachers drone on. Advocates say that hands-on projects motivate students to learn, think critically, solve problems and work collaboratively with their peers. But it’s an open question whether students can learn every […]

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PROOF POINTS: Four new studies bolster the case for project-based learning

PROOF POINTS: A warning sign that the freshman class will shrink again in the fall of 2021

PROOF POINTS: When parents got involved in schools, kids did no better

PROOF POINTS: White and female teachers show racial bias in evaluating second grade writing

PROOF POINTS: Covid-19 has been bad for college enrollment — but awful for community college students

PROOF POINTS: Black college enrollment sharply down during Covid summer of 2020

PROOF POINTS: Survey reveals stark rich-poor divide in how U.S. children were taught remotely during the spring school closures

White men have the edge in the school principal pipeline, researchers say

OPINION: ‘For our many Black and Brown children, the threats to their physical safety now and into the future are eating away at their insides’

OPINION: ‘We commemorate Juneteenth — why not make that sentiment last all year?’