The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 3, 2017

Now add fees for student activities, fees for athletics, fees for building maintenance , fees for libraries — even fees for graduation, the bills for which often arrive just as students and their families thought they were finally done paying for their higher educations. Dropout rates have also fallen.

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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 11, 2016

million — between the ages of 16 and 24 who have left school without receiving a diploma or its equivalent, according to the National Center for Education Statistics. He realized that some students don’t succeed on the conventional academic path, and ran a school for dropouts on Arena Boulevard. percent of students — roughly 2.5

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

now live in poverty, a mark hit in 2013 for the first time in 50 years, according to the Southern Education Foundation. For these students, poverty brings a host of other disadvantages, most beyond the school district’s control: broken homes, transient living situations, and a lack of educational support at home.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 4, 2019

Sign up for our Higher Education newsletter. Higher Education. Closing this educational divide matters for individual students and for the U.S. She blamed the high dropout rates on the fact that many students have to juggle school with full- and part-time jobs, leaving little time for academics. Weekly Update.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 14, 2019

Minnesota ranks among the most educated states in the country, with nearly half of adults aged 25 to 64 holding an associate degree or higher. He estimated that nearly one in three new jobs created through 2026 will require education beyond high school. Will jobs go begging? Our future economic vitality depends on this.”.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 9, 2019

Photo: Education Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images. Thorsett is the president of Willamette University at a time the higher education sector is grappling with a historic enrollment decline and financial challenges that cry out not for incremental change, but for radical solutions. Business was flagging. Middle-class ones.

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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. But to the parents, it’s worth it.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 30, 2018

It may have been one of the biggest back-to-school sales ever: a 64 percent drop in the advertised cost of a college education. Utica College, which reduced its tuition in 2016, lowered its dropout rate, President Laura Casamento said. Sandy Baum, higher education consultant and economist. Baenninger said.

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MindShift

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

Left untreated, mental health concerns can contribute to high school dropout rates. While educators often want to assist these students, many feel unsure of what to say, especially during a mental health crisis. Spreading the Word. At Lewis and Clark, Wardrip has put her new knowledge to good use.

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The Principal of Change

MARCH 19, 2017

Everyone wants to be a great teacher, but do all educators do things that keep them up to date and moving forward in their work? October 28, 2012 Learner Focused February 17, 2013 Moving Forward. This would obviously apply to any profession.

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Bryan Alexander

NOVEMBER 10, 2015

Continuing with our reading of Richard DeMillo’s Revolution in Higher Education: How a Small Band of Innovators Will Make College Accessible and Affordable (2015) ( publisher ; Amazon ): this week we’re discussing chapter 2, “Shifting Landscape.”

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 27, 2018

As Louisiana struggles to balance its budget in face of a nearly $1 billion shortfall, lawmakers face a stark choice: Shrink a program that once made the state a national model in education, or end it entirely. A college education for everyone’. Higher Education. Choose as many as you like. Weekly Update. Future of Learning.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

BOSTON — When the Boston Public Schools opened the Margarita Muñiz Academy in 2012, it was a first-of-its kind dual-language high school meant to address issues faced by the city’s growing Hispanic population. And the dropout rate among the first Muniz cohort, the class of 2016, was just 2.5

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

SEPTEMBER 3, 2012

Join me Tuesday, September 4th, for a live and interactive FutureofEducation.com webinar with Ron Wolk, to discuss his book Wasting Minds : Why Our Education System Is Failing and What We Can Do About It. education system. psid=2012-09-04.1719.M.9E9FE58134BE68C3B413F24B3586CF.vcr&sid=2008350 Eisenhower. "I

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 1, 2018

According to state data, the number of young people in state juvenile justice facilities dropped from 901 at the end of 2012 to 386 in 2017. In 2016, 45,567 young people were held in facilities nationwide, down 20 percent from 2012.) The online coursework is designed by the education company Pearson.

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Marketplace K-12

FEBRUARY 5, 2016

Major online education provider K12 Inc., That same year K12 rebranded a number of its resources under a separate legal entity called Fuel Education, focusing on “personalized learning” platforms, as well as consulting, teacher professional development, and online courses. Udell as its CEO. an operator of alternative schools.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 6, 2022

Johnson is the principal of Mississippi’s Collins Elementary School, where the paddle remains a staple of the educational experience. As of late April, educators pulled out the paddle 20 times on kindergartners, twice on first graders, 31 times on second graders, 16 times on third graders and 10 times on fourth graders.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 15, 2019

These also show that Nichols has reduced the number of dropouts, holding onto $5.4 It’s expanding graduate programs and providing custom education for area businesses, increasing income from those sources by 46 percent. Many are desperate to fill seats; higher education institutions of all kinds had nearly 2.1

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

now live in poverty, a mark hit in 2013 for the first time in 50 years, according to the Southern Education Foundation. For these students, poverty brings a host of other disadvantages, most beyond the school district’s control: broken homes, transient living situations, and a lack of educational support at home.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 2, 2019

Carver alumni also rose up in the spring of 2012, when the Recovery School District opted to phase out Carver as a direct-run school and bring in operator Collegiate Academies. In 2012, during the protests, Bryant, the principal, was hired to head up Carver Collegiate, one of the two “academies” formed under the Carver name. “For

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 28, 2016

It was as predictable as night following day that this week’s release of results from the National Assessment of Educational Progress would be followed by weeping and gnashing of teeth on a biblical scale. Many educators, including former U.S. And scores increased for every major ethnic group between 1971 and 2012.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 3, 2017

But bilingual education isn’t the school’s only innovation. The Muñiz Academy opened in 2012 as one of Massachusetts’ first “innovation schools,” free from many district policies and granted flexibility with its curriculum, budget, school schedule and annual calendar, among other things. Higher Education. Weekly Update.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 20, 2019

They also share one abiding theme: Parents know the risk of dropping out of school and want desperately for their children to get through high school and beyond in their education. High school dropouts are much more likely to be unemployed and earn thousands of dollars less per year than people with higher levels of education.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 6, 2017

Understanding that cost is an issue that won’t be solved immediately, we asked educators to identify the other biggest obstacles to a timely graduation. Students who are worried about debt sometimes work more and then reduce their course load,” said Robert Kelchen, a professor of higher education at Seton Hall who studies student debt.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 8, 2017

The city’s educational experiment, ripping up nearly an entire district to replace it with the new model, meant charters here, including KIPP Renaissance, were under intense pressure to show academic results — fast. During the 2012-13 school year, Renaissance had one of the highest suspension rates in the city.

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MindShift

OCTOBER 27, 2016

Research has shown that a majority of the educators who teach English-language learners (ELLs) are creating their own instructional materials — often with little oversight — that don’t necessarily match the student’s grade level or the rigor required by state academic standards. Those statistics recently prompted the U.S.

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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. For higher education institutions to continue at that pace or boost it, they’ll need to find new ways of educating a student body increasingly composed of people who are the first in their family to enter college.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2016

It’s also part of a subtle attempt to address a growing problem the United Kingdom has in common with the United States: After decades in which men in college far outnumbered women, boys are entering higher education in ranks so low that the balance on campuses has dramatically reversed. Campuses here, overall, are 56 percent female.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 9, 2017

In 2012, city officials became convinced that the school could not improve and began the process of shutting it down. Until recently, education reform has prioritized the growth of charter schools, enforcement of strict discipline and high-stakes testing. Related: The end of “no excuses” education reform?

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Neo LMS

OCTOBER 2, 2018

In the last on our series about the challenges in higher education, we will examine how universities and colleges are managing the fast pace of change in teaching methods and curricula. According to UNESCO, global demand for higher education is expected to grow from 100 million students currently to 250+ million by 2025.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Buffalo educators hoped Eve’s new program would give more children — particularly children of color — a chance at enrichment and advanced learning. Buffalo’s struggle to create an integrated, equitable gifted program demonstrates a longtime challenge that has recently gained attention: Gifted education in America has a race problem.

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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

OCTOBER 10, 2021

But now, as graduation rates stagnate, the Covid-19 pandemic threatens to make them even worse and the Biden administration proposes spending $62 billion to improve completion at higher education institutions with large proportions of low-income students, it’s attracting unaccustomed scrutiny. After lobbying by universities and colleges, Sen.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 9, 2017

You’re in purgatory,” said Nicole Smith, vice president of Georgetown University’s Center on Education and the Workforce. By 2025, more than 60 percent of Georgia jobs will require some kind of post-secondary education, and now only 45 percent of the state’s young adults meet that criterion.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 6, 2022

When she started at a new school in the fall of 2012, she breezed through the timed math tests. From the tiniest kindergarteners to college-ready high school seniors, nearly all students had their education disrupted starting in March 2020. This story also appeared in USA Today. Their failure is my failure.”.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

More than two-thirds of those students — about 70 percent — are women , according to Education Department data analyzed by the Institute for Women’s Policy Research. Among single, Black and Latino fathers, the dropout rate is about 70 percent. That’s where education becomes a second or third or fourth priority to everything else.”

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