The Hechinger Report

JUNE 27, 2020

Johnson also didn’t want her children to go through the next two months with no educational tools beyond the worksheets she’d picked up from the Greenville Public School District and limited access to online materials through Kentiona’s phone, shared between the four of them. Meanwhile, education is just one role schools fill.

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The Innovative Educator

JUNE 22, 2013

Here’s the roundup of what''s been popular on The Innovative Educator. Jul 15, 2010, 1786 5 ways innovative educators can spice up their LinkedIn. Jun 9, 2013, 1610 3 ways to decrease the teacher dropout crisis Jun 4, 2013, 1156 The packet-driven classroom May 19, 2013, 981 Use social media to shine on school quality reviews.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 12, 2023

Across the country, schools have shifted toward career-focused education in recent years, reviving a long-running debate on whether the purpose of education is to prepare students for jobs or to be well-rounded citizens. One week per month, engineers from local industries visit the classrooms and talk to students about their careers.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 12, 2023

The year was 2010, and Michael Gibson found himself on the first day of a research job at a hedge fund run by the controversial billionaire Peter Thiel. Thiel had long been looking for a way to blow up higher education. In fact, these days skepticism of higher education is rising. Gibson had little experience in finance.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 26, 2019

Department of Education. The only way I know that this can be changed is when there’s access to higher education.”. Even low-income students with the highest standardized test scores are more than three times less likely to go to top colleges than higher-income students , according to the Education Trust. That’s about 2 percent.

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Edsurge

JUNE 1, 2020

This week, Bergman’s efforts have found a new home in AllHere , an education technology startup that is acquiring the technology assets of EdNudge. When Bergman started looking into this topic in 2010, “there was a lot of existing research about the effectiveness of parent engagement. But sometimes these efforts backfire.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

The same phenomenon is true in higher education. We got around to talking about education, and she told me that she had to drop out of college because her sister’s children were in a dangerous situation; they needed a new caretaker. Tyler’s story is a classic example of how higher education has become a blind spot in our society.

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Learning with 'e's

NOVEMBER 24, 2011

Rigid curriculum, lack of resources and bad student behaviour may also be high on the list for many educators. In an excellent expose on learning styles , Riener and Willingham (2010) argue this: ".learning-styles 2010) The Myth of Learning Styles. Others would say unsupportive leadership, or the dreaded government inspection.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 6, 2019

My parents always stressed how powerful an education is and how it is the key to success,” Keenan said. For more stories about education, opportunity, and how people learn subscribe to the Educate podcast. In higher education, colleges are using analytics to keep students enrolled and continue collecting tuition dollars.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 11, 2018

Through their efforts, along with those of other outside arts organizations, they are introducing theater to more and younger participants, at an age when education experts say children are especially poised to benefit from it. Related: Can testing save arts education? Higher Education. percent of all roles, though Asians are 5.6

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2021

Overton’s placement in the college-level course with a companion course, called a co-requisite, is part of a developmental education redesign launched by the Alabama Community College System in 2018-19. That is the traditional way that developmental education has worked. “I was very thankful for taking that lab course,” she said. “It

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

As the country undergoes a period of historic racial reckoning, with nearly every sector of society examining its role in racial injustice, higher education needs to do the same. Student parents are incredibly motivated to complete their postsecondary education and have, on average, higher GPAs than their nonparenting peers.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 4, 2019

This story is a part of our Map to the Middle Class project, in which readers ask questions about educational pathways to financial stability and then we investigate. They cited research showing that the proportion of job listings requiring a four-year degree increased by more than 10 percentage points from 2007 to 2010. .

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 16, 2015

Department of Education’s National Center for Education Statistics. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan said. Latest graduation rate data shows highest level in 5 years. students are graduating from high school at a higher rate than ever before, according to data released today by the U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 18, 2018

Factor in the higher dropout rate among nonwhite students in rural high schools, and the odds that black and Hispanic students from areas like this will ever earn degrees are just as low as for their urban counterparts. That compares to a national average of 69 percent, the National Center for Education Statistics reports.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

Though many educators don’t distinguish between immigrants and refugees, the International Rescue Committee defines a refugee as someone “who has been forced to flee his or her home because of war, violence or persecution, often without warning.”. This is one of the pieces that we sometimes miss as educators. Covid-19 upended that.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 19, 2020

Richard Vedder, an economics professor emeritus at Ohio University and national expert on higher education finances, began teaching at O.U. He says the university’s quality of education has declined, leaving the campus with “a crisis on our hands.” offered an affordable, quality education. Credit: Donovan Lynch. “It

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 17, 2017

I would have been a dropout.”. Their positions were created by and are funded through Say Yes to Education Buffalo, a local chapter of a New York City-based nonprofit. In Buffalo, a Rust Belt city still grappling with high poverty and an under-educated population , the results of the Say Yes program have exceeded expectations.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Emerging at the height of the pandemic, pods (or “hubs” as they are sometimes called) were organized primarily by middle-class, college-educated parents and community groups to provide safe, supportive spaces for virtual learning. Related: Communities hit hardest by the pandemic, already struggling, could face a dropout cliff.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 10, 2017

In Spokane, 48 percent of 2014 graduates who received free or reduced-price lunch — a typical indicator of poverty — went on to higher education the following year, compared to 65 percent of those who didn’t receive subsidized meals, according to state data. Related: Most colleges enroll many students who aren’t prepared for higher education.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2023

After graduating from high school, she did what was expected of her — dropped education, worked and pitched in at home as her parents did. Nationally, the number has dropped by 37 percent since 2010 — nearly 2.6 DALLAS — Daisy Donjuan’s family never saw the value in college. percent, or by more than 1.5 million students.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 13, 2017

This story was produced jointly by inewsource San Diego, a data-focused investigative news organization, and The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. Related: Most colleges enroll many students who aren’t prepared for higher education.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 22, 2017

Between the 2010-11 and 2014-15 school years, Mississippi’s progress on narrowing the black/white graduation gap placed it among the nation’s top ten states. A learning disability does not necessarily preclude a student from mastering a general education curriculum. Source: “Building a Grad Nation”. percent to 75.4

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 18, 2023

Credit: Don & Melinda Crawford/Education Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images For decades, a handful of individual states and schools have offered financial assistance to Native students. There are “so many people that are stuck in poverty and stuck in situations where they can’t get an education,” Hall said. “I

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 7, 2018

The proportion of overage students — those who have been retained for at least one grade — hovers around 40 percent for New Orleans high school students, according to an analysis of 2014 data by researchers at Education Research Alliance for New Orleans, which is based at Tulane University. Higher Education. Sign up for our newsletter.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

And many students aren’t, said Sara Goldrick-Rab, a professor of higher education policy at Temple University and co-author of an ongoing six-year study at 42 public universities and colleges of practices that promote division or equality. Sign up for our Higher Education newsletter. I definitely felt that division.”.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 5, 2016

Why It Matters: More minority and low-income grads going to college could require stronger commitment to educate them. According to one respected tally , just under 55 percent of students who entered college in 2010 had earned degrees after six years – an increase of two percentage points since 2009. Read more about higher education.

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MindShift

JULY 13, 2016

Developmental or remedial education forms a core service of community colleges, with a staggering 68% of all community college students taking at least one remedial course , most commonly English or math. First, students who are enrolled in even one remedial course have a high chance of dropping out.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 8, 2017

Martin liked KIPP Believe, but when he was looking at high schools, he was apprehensive about enrolling at KIPP Renaissance, which opened in 2010. “At KIPP Renaissance moved into the building in 2010, adding a new grade each year until it fully ousted Douglass in 2014. (The acronym stands for Knowledge is Power Program.).

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 16, 2017

Beth Rabbitt, CEO of education nonprofit The Learning Accelerator. There’s tremendous hype swirling around personalized learning, with money pouring in from foundations and education technology companies eager to capitalize on the trend. We know how education reform is. Personalized learning is easy to bastardize.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 10, 2022

“He starts telling me, ‘I don’t want to do this,’ ” one adviser, Portia Cook, was recounting to her colleagues from the state program, called Advise TN, about a student at the top of his class who had changed his mind about continuing his education. “ ‘You’re talking about four more years of school? They don’t think that anymore.”.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 3, 2023

Community colleges can help lift students into the middle class, but their enrollment has plummeted and their dropout rates are high. Advocates for community colleges defend them as the underdogs of America’s higher education system, left to serve the students who need the most support but without the money required to provide it. (The

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 7, 2024

Gifting myself with an education is a part of my recovery,” said Nomi Badboy, 43, one of three students attending this week’s meeting of the school’s collegiate recovery program. Education is an example of what’s called “recovery capital,” something earned that makes long-term recovery more likely.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 3, 2018

This story about the opioid crisis and foster care was produced as part of a series, “Twice Abandoned: How schools and child-welfare systems fail kids in foster care,” reported by HuffPost and The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. WAR, W.Va. ? Cruey let him.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 26, 2018

The Plano region added more than 114,000 jobs between 2010 and 2015, according to the city’s economic development team. The demographic that we serve is the demographic that is becoming the majority of higher education. More than 50 percent of higher education students are Pell grant students.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 2, 2017

Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos, on a September speaking tour, told students she felt they mostly “just follow the same schedule, the same routine — just waiting to be saved by the bell” and that the U.S. The school opened in 2010. We focus on gifted education. Higher Education. Student Voices. Do they feel that way?

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Harlem Children’s Zone, the renowned nonprofit providing social and academic support to low-income families in Central Harlem, has announced a new initiative to replicate its community-based model of family and educational services nationwide. Sign up for our higher education newsletter. This story also appeared in The Washington Post.

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