The Hechinger Report

MARCH 21, 2024

And colleges across the country are bracing for a shrinking number of graduating high schoolers after 2025 to have an effect on their enrollment. But Davenport’s president, Richard J. Pappas, said that the college has had good enrollment for the last three semesters, and the Casa Latina program is not just about boosting those numbers.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 27, 2019

It’s that fewer than one in five of adults in the entire surrounding Humphreys County have at least an associate degree, according to census data analyzed by the nonprofit advocacy organization Complete Tennessee. Walker Valley High School in Cleveland, Tennessee, is surrounded by rolling hills and factories.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 19, 2021

Related: More people with bachelor’s degrees go back to school to learn skilled trades. Prices vary, from $5,250 to become a CT scan technician to $11,550 to learn how to give sonograms to $14,450 for a certificate in brewing science. “They get skilled workers, and we get to expand the services we offer,” Paliwal says.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 1, 2016

Resource from KnowledgeWorks aims to highlight the importance of teaching and learning as presidential debates continue. Amid a heated presidential contest, KnowledgeWorks has released an Education Playbook to put the spotlight on teaching and learning in the U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 6, 2017

His school and his state are trailblazers in personalized learning, a method that tailors instruction to students’ individual interests and learning speeds. Personalized learning advocates had big hopes for ESSA, enacted in 2015. About 20 other states sprinkled elements of personalized learning into their plans.

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edWeb.net

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Dr. Gonzales’s district is reaching out to local non-profits for help with the shift to 100% online learning, which cannot be done quickly or cheaply, especially at a time when the district is receiving less state funding. Arati Nagaraj is an education consultant, edtech advisor and school board trustee in the San Francisco Bay Area.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 17, 2018

In Ohio, however, lawmakers were surprised to learn that high school kids were earning college credits, at taxpayer expense, by taking gym. Remedial education, which forces some college students to re-take math and English they should have learned in high school, is being eliminated in states including Florida and California.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 10, 2017

By 2025, four additional subject areas will be included: a second language, the arts, health and physical education. When such a system works, it’s meant to offer students clarity about what they have to learn and how they are expected to demonstrate they’ve learned it. Key tenets of proficiency-based learning.

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MindShift

JANUARY 30, 2019

It’s that fewer than one in five adults in the entire surrounding Humphreys County have at least an associate degree, according to census data analyzed by the nonprofit advocacy organization Complete Tennessee. And it isn’t happening only in Tennessee.

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Edsurge

MARCH 5, 2024

Through a state program called Commonwealth Cares for Children (C3), which was funded at $475 million for fiscal year 2024 and which the governor has recommended be renewed at the same level for fiscal year 2025, nearly 93 percent of licensed providers in the state are receiving monthly stipends. It all has to come together for it to work.”

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 24, 2023

The special education system can be “incredibly difficult for everybody,” said Ramona Hattendorf, director of advocacy for the Arc of King County , which promotes disability rights. Barrera, whose son attended the Auburn School District, south of Seattle, said she often felt cut out of his learning.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 7, 2019

Juliet won’t finish high school before 2025, but the 11-year-old already has big plans: She wants to be a mechanical engineer. She has learned to use technology-enabled woodcutting tools and is at work creating a virtual tour of her school, Laing Middle School in Charleston County, using another drone she built in the school’s Fab Lab.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 27, 2021

Poorly maintained buildings make it harder for kids to learn, research shows , and can cause health problems for both the country’s 50 million students and 6 million staff , who spend a third of their waking hours in schools. It’s happened before. In 1917, floodwaters ripped Seward’s first schoolhouse from its foundation.).

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 18, 2022

Box 942849, Sacramento, CA 94249-0025; (916) 319-2025 Kevin McCarty Dem Dem - 07 Contact Form [link] kevinmccartyca Capitol Office, 1021 O Street, Suite 4250 P.O. Special thanks to our iSchool advocacy interns Cybell Garcia Koehl, Heidi Miller, and Leigh Carroll for their work on putting this altogether.

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Libraries Advocacy Social Media Study 36

MindShift

JULY 7, 2019

Juliet won’t finish high school before 2025, but the 11-year-old already has big plans: She wants to be a mechanical engineer. She has learned to use technology-enabled woodcutting tools and is at work creating a virtual tour of her school, Laing Middle School in Charleston County, using another drone she built in the school’s Fab Lab.

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Robotics Elementary Training STEM 44

The Thinking Stick

DECEMBER 16, 2024

On the show this week we loved learning with Crayola’s Cheri Sterman. Ready to learn more about our amazing guest? Cheri has served as vice-chair of the Partnership for 21st Century Learning and on the executive boards of the National Association for the Education of Young Children and the National Child Development Council.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Several times a week, teachers at Tiny Images, an early learning program in Fairmont, Nebraska, load up babies and toddlers into four- and six-seater carts and take the children on buggy rides through the building. They stop first to visit residents in the assisted living wing before continuing on to those in the nursing home.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 11, 2025

This week is National Civic Learning Week , when thousands of Americans will demonstrate just how we can do this. States, on the other hand, establish high school graduation requirements and provide broad instructional guidance through learning standards. It must be taught and learned by each new generation.

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Policies Learning Advocacy Course 87

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 24, 2024

She had a hold on her account, she eventually learned, because of an unpaid $2,000 bill. It would also help colleges, whose leaders are worried about the declining number of 18-year-olds who will graduate from high school starting in 2025. Before she could even think about going back to college, the pandemic hit.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 6, 2024

The students of bilingual aide De La Rosa were still learning the language, so while she read the same story, she went slower, translating words, acting out emotions and showing them pictures on her iPhone. Experts, books, videos, detailed lesson plans — to teachers at the time, it felt like a blur of continuous learning.

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Edsurge

JUNE 8, 2023

Stuck in Limbo In a recently released report , immigration advocacy organization FWD.us By 2025, no undocumented high school graduates will be eligible for DACA under current rules.” They have the same question after learning that she went to college after receiving DACA protection: “How did you do it?”

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Education Advocacy Policies Report 168

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 31, 2025

Project 2025, the conservative policy handbook organized by the Heritage Foundation, which the Trump administration has been following closely, calls for eliminating Head Start altogether. Its really held up as a model of quality in early learning. based think tank New America. But I will say this: We have great research.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

Credit: Matt Stensland for The Hechinger Report Once there, however, Siyuja discovered how little shed learned at the Supai school. Because of a teacher shortage, children learned in classes that combined students from three or even four grades. Their tribes seal is reflected from a window onto a wall in the council chambers.

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Elementary Education Report System 118

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 9, 2025

His wife, Leslie Johnson-Simmons, said she saw her creative, smart and chatty daughter retreat into herself as she tried to learn to spell like other first graders in her class at a private school in Louisiana. And it would be, P, C, K, something, no matter how many times. She began to clam up, and that wasnt my child, Johnson-Simmons said.

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Education Report Training Policies 96

eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2025

As 2024 moves into 2025, educators greet a new year with uncertainty. Pandemic-related learning loss and academic inequities remain a hurdle, particularly as COVID relief funding dries up. we must make sure all students have ample opportunities to learn about power grid and clean energy technologies.

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EdTech Industry System Assessment 142

eSchool News

DECEMBER 27, 2024

Shortages also contribute to serious situations where kids are locked in small rooms, teachers physically hold down students, or children disrupt their classmates learning because they havent learned how to regulate their own behavior. Language barriers and virtual instruction added further difficulties to their learning.

How To 107

How To Education Policies Training 107

Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

In 2012, Pearson, Cengage Learning, and Macmillan Higher Education sued Boundless Learning, claiming that the open education textbook startup had “stolen the creative expression of their authors and editors, violating their intellectual-property rights.” Boundless’s materials have been archived by David Wiley’s company Lumen Learning.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Enforcement actions undertaken in these locations have a ripple effect,” said Heidi Altman, the director of federal advocacy at the National Immigration Law Center. A family friend picked Martinez up early from school, and she later learned from her dad — who was working out of state on a construction job — that her mother had been detained.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 31, 2025

We wouldn’t take our kids to the doctor to learn reading and math, and we don’t want a primarily medical model overseeing education, she said. Denise Marshall, CEO of the Council of Parent Attorneys and Advocates, said the move would take us back 50 years. While Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

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Education Advocacy Policies Report 134

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 2, 2024

The proposal would “help address the shortage of child care through smart removal of cost-­increasing red tape,” testified Elizabeth Patton, state director of Americans for Prosperity Kansas, a conservative advocacy group. People will get hurt.”

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