The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2022

You don’t have a computer, you don’t have internet, you can’t even access distance learning,” Silver said. RELATED: Racial segregation is one reason some families have internet access and others don’t, new research finds. We need to change that.”. “We We can’t afford not to.”. The homework gap isn’t new.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 28, 2022

Related: Colleges’ new solution to enrollment declines: Reducing the number of dropouts. That’s up from 83 percent in 2014 , the earliest year for which the figure is available from the U.S. In Tennessee, which made community college free in 2014, enrollment stayed more or less flat before falling significantly when the pandemic hit.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 7, 2021

That’s 73,000 additional graduates (above existing stretch goals) between 2014 and 2020, exceeding our 10-year goal of 68,000 in just six years. Additionally, our members are on track to double their founding goal and graduate 136,000 additional graduates by 2025.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 11, 2016

This model demands more resources than those available to a traditional high school, but given that the typical high school dropout costs the state an estimated $300,000 over their lifetime , Cesene argues that the math is elementary. Massi, who picked up Javier’s case in 2014, said she helped her deal with tough problems at home.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 18, 2023

Documentation depends on the information families can access to prove their lineage. Oregon , for example, allows members of Washington’s Chinook Indian Nation , which is fighting to regain its federal recognition, to at least access in-state tuition because the Chinook have tribal boundaries in Oregon. Her credit score took a hit.

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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. Old Dominion students in 2014-2015 paid $1,429 each in athletics fees alone, accounting for 65 percent of the athletics budget.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Between 2014 and 2018, the economy improved as it recovered from the Great Recession, and that could have pushed some students to leave school for a strong job market. Community colleges have a broad access mission, often with limited resources and funding.”. Plus, the job market plays a role in the increase.

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techlearning

MARCH 5, 2018

The district faced challenges with dropouts and reduced graduation rates due to failed classes, school transfers, and absences due to weather and medical issues. Founded in 2014, this progressive, project-based-learning school has infused adaptive tech into all facets of its program. Many students matriculate behind grade level.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 15, 2019

Colleges are closing or merging at an accelerating rate, from about eight per year between 2004 and 2014, to an estimated 20 per year moving forward, with small private colleges particularly vulnerable. These also show that Nichols has reduced the number of dropouts, holding onto $5.4

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 30, 2018

Utica College, which reduced its tuition in 2016, lowered its dropout rate, President Laura Casamento said. The school quickly reversed course, in 2014, by raising tuition sharply and reinstating scholarships, and its enrollment bounced back. Baenninger said. The sticker price was untenable.”.

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MindShift

JUNE 27, 2016

But it was the GI Bill, along with the Truman Commission calling for more Americans to have access to higher education, that changed everything: By the 1960s, a massive expansion of local colleges spread across the country to serve individual communities’ needs, both to expand who could go to college and to train skilled workers for better jobs.

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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.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 4, 2019

In 2014, the labor market analysis firm Burning Glass Technologies tried to capture the extent of degree inflation. If this movement continues to gather steam, researchers say, it could aid not only individual job seekers but also the U.S. economy by helping businesses hold onto workers and by boosting the middle class. Degree inflation.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 2, 2016

The median household income in Oktibbeha County for black residents is $21,795 annually while the median income for white households is almost double, at $41,501, according to American Community Survey 2014 estimates. The school district had a 27 percent dropout rate in 2014. I struggled at first just to keep up.”.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

The top 20 percent of earners saw their incomes rise by 95 percent in real terms between 1979 and 2014, whereas the middle three quintiles recorded just 28 percent growth, according to the Congressional Budget Office. And as wages have flat lined, college costs have spiraled.

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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. They are less likely to have parents or role models around them with degrees, or see job opportunities that require one.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 9, 2017

Yuna Ishikawa was in her senior year of high school in 2014 when she made the drive with her mother from Oberlin, Ohio, to visit Wellesley College in Massachusetts. Barton Hepburn Professor of Economics at Wellesley College, speaks at a panel discussion there. Photo: Richard Howard Photo: Richard Howard.

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

Though the rate of low-income students in the district has steadily increased in the last decade, so have graduation rates, to 83 percent in 2014. Compared to white and affluent students, low-income and minority students have less access to nearly every type of educational benefit. In 2012, the district was one of 16 U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 1, 2016

Only 40 percent of older students with children manage to get degrees or certificates within six years, a lower proportion than their traditional-age classmates, and dropout rates are higher among older students with kids. Sign up for our Higher Education newsletter. 40% of U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 1, 2018

Students have access to hundreds of courses while they are in Illinois’ juvenile justice facilities, but they tend to focus on math, language arts, social studies and science. Students technically have access to hundreds of courses, but Jones-Redmond said the district focuses on math, language arts, social studies and science.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 14, 2020

The gifted program at Eve opened two years ago as a way to increase access to Buffalo’s disproportionately white, in-demand gifted and talented programs. There are gifted dropouts. In 2014, a group of Buffalo parents filed a racial discrimination complaint with the U.S. Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights.

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

Though the rate of low-income students in the district has steadily increased in the last decade, so have graduation rates, to 83 percent in 2014. Compared to white and affluent students, low-income and minority students have less access to nearly every type of educational benefit. In 2012, the district was one of 16 U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 15, 2019

Since 2014, the university has offered online video courses similar to those at Elizabethtown, but starting this fall, it will also host meetings over Zoom exclusively for first-generation parents, she said.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 15, 2017

BRUNSWICK, Maine — Kate Lord didn’t have a plan when she graduated from Brunswick High School in 2014. Read the whole series, “ Willing, able and forgotten: How high schools fail special ed students,” here. Sign up for our newsletter. For two years, she was unemployed. For 20 hours a week, she lines muffin pans and preps dessert trays.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 13, 2017

Only 1 percent of African-American students and 2 percent of Latino students who enrolled in the lowest level of remedial math in 2014 made it through an entry-level college math class within two years (the amount of time it’s supposed to take to earn a full associate’s degree).

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 5, 2016

According to the report: The number of Latinos graduating from high school is projected to reach 920,000 students by 2025 – an increase by 50 percent since 2014. Fueling the decline will be decreases in the overall student population and growth among specific student groups.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 27, 2016

To the right of the computerized door allowing access to the classrooms and living spaces for the students, a sign adorned with a cute Easter duck reads “hello!” Related: Dropouts try to find their way back to school. Judge Thomas H. Broome is the youth-court judge for Rankin County. Photo: Imani Khayyam.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

When he got to Purdue University in 2014, he didn’t have a system for organizing his deadlines. It would be too easy to forget to write something down in the first place, or he might forget to check his planner, making the whole effort pointless. There would be times that I would forget I even had an assignment,” he said.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 10, 2022

In Alabama, recent high school graduates’ college-going in 2020 fell to 54 percent, down 11 percentage points since 2014; and in Idaho, to 39 percent, down 11 percentage points since 2017. Related: Colleges’ new solution to enrollment declines: Reducing the number of dropouts. Credit: Austin Anthony for The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 8, 2017

KIPP Renaissance moved into the building in 2010, adding a new grade each year until it fully ousted Douglass in 2014. Yet the fate of the school ultimately rested in the state capital, Baton Rouge, and the locals couldn’t persuade state officials to preserve it.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 16, 2017

Basecamp schools then receive mentoring from and troubleshooting by Summit staff, as well as PLP access throughout the academic year. Still, there are some stalwart critics, notably Benjamin Riley, who visited many personalized-learning classrooms from 2010 to 2014 as the policy and advocacy director for the NewSchools Venture Fund.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 7, 2024

At two-year institutions, admission is accessible, tuition is affordable, and flexible coursework fits into schedules complicated not only by jobs and families, but counseling, support groups and doctor visits. “I I don’t know why we weren’t trying to do this years ago,” Miller said.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 27, 2019

It’s a crazy cycle,” said Adrian Huerta, an assistant professor of education at the University of Southern California who focuses on college access and gender. “We It’s about equal access for everyone. To discourage dropouts, the length of high school was shortened from four years to three, though the effect of this has been mixed.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 22, 2020

To expand their scope, they co-founded an organization called Unafraid Educators to organize teachers and to help students access college. For her part, Rhodes feared that she and her colleagues had inadvertently misled their first cohort of immigrant students. “We

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 30, 2018

Aimed at curbing dropouts, improving graduation rates and sending more kids to college and other postsecondary programs, the corps is designed to offset a growing achievement gap in this relatively affluent but increasingly diverse state. “When there’s a budget cut, counselors are the first to go.”. percent are Hispanic and 7.6

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 1, 2018

Federal legislation passed in 2014 aimed to reduce barriers to foster youth working after-school jobs, playing sports and participating in other activities, but implementation has been uneven. “I Youth who remain in the child welfare system until age 21 have more time to access federal financial aid and assistance from social workers.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2019

That push officially began in 2014, when Deborah Gist, then the state’s commissioner of education, announced a public-private “innovation partnership” to merge traditional and computerized pedagogy. She added, “Facebook plays no role in the Summit Learning Program and has no access to any student data.”).

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