The Hechinger Report

MARCH 11, 2018

Around 2009, Lee learned about the Junior Theater Festival (JTF) in Atlanta, where students from across the country gather for three days to compete, take workshops and nerd out over musical theater. Future of Learning. Mississippi Learning. Photo: Eveline Chao for The Hechinger Report. But to the parents, it’s worth it.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 14, 2019

Others have revamped remedial education, a major stumbling block for students who are forced to repeat subjects they should have learned in high school. College dropouts cost Minnesota millions of dollars in wasted subsidies and lost revenue each year. Related: More Hispanics going to college: The bad news? High cost of dropping out.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 6, 2019

In meetings with his academic adviser during the second semester of his freshman year, Robinson said he learned that though his GPA was solid, the school’s computer algorithm saw trouble. For more stories about education, opportunity, and how people learn subscribe to the Educate podcast. It wasn’t always this way.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 9, 2019

Colleges are also working to reduce their numbers of dropouts on the principle that it’s cheaper to provide the kind of support required to keep tuition-paying students than to recruit more. And for all of the work it’s done to reduce the number of dropouts, the higher education industry has so far barely moved the needle.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

Working on a farm and running the weekly market, she has learned to identify food crops and to care for them, she said. In 2009, the school was down to 167 students, according to Nithya Govindasamy, dean of the work program. A scientist does laboratory research on plants; at the farm, she said she is “on the ground” with them.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 3, 2017

And the resulting decline in borrowing and dropout rates on those campuses suggest the toll that fees were taking on their students. Dropout rates have also fallen. Georgia’s Board of Regents added a $100 “special institutional fee” in 2009 when state funding was cut near the start of the recession. It’s our beacon.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 20, 2019

The Hechinger Report traveled to three counties with very high numbers of adults without a high school credential to learn about the obstacles schools and families must overcome to provide and obtain this essential first step to a middle-class life. The average ACT score was 19, close to the national average, up from a score of 16 in 2009.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 15, 2022

Related: Colleges’ new solution to enrollment declines: Reducing the number of dropouts. That’s because colleges and universities have long been measured by how many “credit hours” students spend in class — 120 to graduate, typically divided into three credit hours per course — rather than what, if anything, they learn during that time.

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The Thinking Stick

JUNE 15, 2016

Let’s see, you made a transition from a PC to Mac operating system, you are learning and are continuing to learn the power of Google Apps for Education. Soon we will be changing learning for students from 3-12 grade across a district. Impacting the learning of roughly 11,000 students. What an honor!

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 17, 2017

Chicago’s mayor, Rahm Emanuel, and the city’s Chief Education Officer Janice Jackson hope to raise a million dollars for the “ Learn. Even though the unemployment rate has improved in the last decade, the class of 2016 joined “a sizable backlog of unemployed college graduates” dating back to 2009, the study found.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

He was frustrated enough by how little he was learning that he and his family were on the brink of suing the school district. Now his teacher had so little faith in his ability to learn that she was offering to help him cheat. “If Even before starting high school in 2009, Nelson knew he wanted to go to college. Weekly Update.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 4, 2019

On a laptop in the nearly empty office, he worked on code for a webpage he was developing for his employer, the learning materials company Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. That timespan should look familiar: The Great Recession lasted from December 2007 to June 2009. He had been at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt for four months.

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EdNews Daily

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

The problem has grown worse as schools and teachers are forced to deal with an increasing number of nontraditional students (minority, impoverished, foster, homeless, autistic) who come from nontraditional homes (single parent, divorce, second or third marriage) and learn in nontraditional ways (via the internet, tablets, social media).

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2019

In another room, children rotate through learning stations, sometimes at screens, sometimes putting pencils to paper. Danusis and her teaching staff practice personalized learning, an individual-comes-first approach, usually aided by laptops, that has become a reformist calling card in education. Future of Learning.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 16, 2018

He’s since watched You-Tube videos and learned to cut his hair himself; he also bought clippers and shears and started a side business cutting hair for black and Hispanic classmates. Future of Learning. Mississippi Learning. He may even learn to ski; Dartmouth has its own mountain. Sign up for our newsletter.

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