The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 24, 2020

Hernandez, a 33-year-old mother of four and high school dropout, had already overcome an array of obstacles on her nearly five-year journey. “No No matter how much I studied, I was failing,” Hernandez said, recalling the pediatric and medical-surgical care course that almost felled her. “I I was just so frustrated.”.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 4, 2019

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. based advocacy group Excelencia in Education, said universities need to go beyond that sort of passive outreach, especially for students who may be hesitant to seek out help. “We

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Marketplace K-12

JUNE 9, 2016

Secretary of Education Arne Duncan has joined the board of directors for Pluralsight , a Utah-based ed-tech company that provides online courses in various subjects, including software development and information technology, the news site Fast Company reported Thursday. Cross-posted from the Politics K-12. Former U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 13, 2017

Rodriguez’s placement test scores dictated at least a year of these low-level math courses. It prohibits these schools from placing students in remedial courses unless those students are “highly unlikely to succeed in transfer-level coursework.”. They cost the same as regular classes but don’t count toward a bachelor’s degree.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 24, 2017

I also definitely want to be heavily involved in advocacy for young black youth, or, for youth in general, and just promoting student leadership. And, of course, you know, have your science and math, and learn how to write. I want to use my master’s degree to change that. But, I still want to be president, too.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 6, 2017

“The bad news is we’re not seeing a lot of innovation or discussion around personalized learning,” said Claire Voorhees, national policy director for the Tallahassee, Florida-based Foundation for Excellence in Education, an advocacy group for personalized learning. Yet, that idea didn’t play out in most states’ first-year ESSA plans.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 13, 2021

“Frankly, students didn’t lose anything, they just never had the opportunity to learn it,” said Allison Socol, an assistant director at The Education Trust, a nonprofit education research and advocacy organization. Over the course of the 2020-21 school year, 15 graduate students worked up to 20 hours a week, with some earning $14.70

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 6, 2017

They talked about students who aim for a four-year finish but fail to take the right courses in the right order. 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. THE 12-CREDIT FALLACY.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 7, 2019

The practice of holding on to students’ transcripts prohibits them from enrolling in another college, which will need proof of courses taken, and can result in the loss of a job offer. Black women earn just 61 cents for every dollar earned by their white male counterparts, according to analysis by the nonprofit advocacy group Equal Pay Today.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 7, 2024

After graduating this spring, she plans to transfer to nearby Western Washington University, where talks are underway to expand recovery supports thanks in part to advocacy from students in the Breaking Free club. “But this college, this club, has given me hope for the future — I know that there is one.”

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 15, 2017

They wanted her to take an online college course and look for work in Brunswick in a “paid position that utilizes her theater/drama interest and skills,” according to a draft of the IEP. That course is available to both general and special education students and provides students with opportunities to volunteer in the community. “As

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

All students with disabilities need to develop strong self-advocacy and communication skills to make sure they’re getting the supports they’re due, especially in the sink-or-swim real world. And he always did well in his honors and college prep courses at Noblesville High School in Indiana.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2023

She watched as they fell behind in everything from academic courses to physical education. Crawford says that sometimes they only received two lessons per week and that there was no teacher instruction, which made it hard for them to learn. Her sixth grader soon was at risk of being unable to move up to seventh grade in fall 2023. “I

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MindShift

JUNE 18, 2020

A national survey by the advocacy group ParentsTogether found big gaps by income in the ability to access emergency learning. In this time, as in previous educational disruptions, teenagers are most at risk for being knocked off course. But access to home support is arguably even more important. Give teens one-on-one support.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 17, 2016

Of course, “Have more students graduated?” Less than one-third of graduates completed only a college-ready course of study, and just 13 percent finished a career-ready course sequence only. How High Is the Bar? is a very different question than “Are more young adults prepared for success after high school?”

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 16, 2017

Those connections start with one-on-one mentoring, in which teachers meet with students weekly to discuss short-term goals, such as completing a certain number of units in a history course, and long-term goals that stretch into college and career. The daily schedule for sixth graders at Walsh Middle School in Framingham, Massachusetts.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 10, 2021

They’re pulling a bait and switch on students,” said Yolanda Watson Spiva, president of the advocacy group Complete College America. Dropout rates rose in the fall of 2020 to their highest level since 2012, the Clearinghouse reports. Related: Some colleges ease up on pushing undergrads into picking majors right away.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 1, 2018

Jennifer Pokempner, director of child welfare policy at Juvenile Law Center, a legal advocacy group in Philadelphia, said the Seita program is “seen as a model.” He ended up with a B in the course. His campus coach has been especially helpful in guiding him, he said: “If I’m struggling in school, that’s the first person that I go to.”

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2019

For decades, nonprofit advocacy groups and corporate donors have targeted K-12 education for intervention. His larger argument, though — that the alliance between education policymakers and billionaire technologists could undermine the role of teachers and the public sphere — has only become more relevant.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 24, 2024

That falling number comes on top of enrollment declines from the pandemic and difficulties related to last year’s Free Application for Federal Student Aid , said Charles Ansell, vice president for research, policy and advocacy at Complete College America. Despite such challenges, Mims kept pushing herself back toward education.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

During his fourth year, Thorne started teaching an African American Studies course that he designed. It was his dream, and he began teaching the course a couple years before debates about teaching Black history and critical race theory swept the nation. Credit: Grace Beahm Alford/Staff.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 3, 2019

ver the course of a century, California built the country’s top-ranked public research university and its largest and most affordable community college system. The university system has gotten an infusion of money to add more courses and advisors and reduce bottlenecks. I definitely want to be out of here in four years,” Soberano said.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

Fuller launched his chief advocacy arm for school choice, the Institute for the Transformation of Learning, housed at Marquette University, more than two decades ago. Relying on conservative donors, is not, of course the only way to fund a black-controlled school. The trade-off.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 21, 2017

Ten years later, the couple sat across a wooden table from Caleb, now 16, a high school dropout and, as of September, survivor of a suicide attempt. Students like Caleb continue to languish in GNET schools while the lawsuit continues its course. The state of Georgia filed a motion to dismiss the lawsuit in October.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

Via Inside Higher Ed : “Appeals court ruling continues decade-long legal battle between Georgia State University and three publishers over what constitutes ” fair use “ of course materials.” Via The Chronicle of Higher Education : “Economic Boom Isn’t Helping Some Student-Loan Debtors , Advocacy Group Says.”

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 22, 2022

In addition to rigorous course schedules, students often hold jobs and have off-campus responsibilities, making it logistically difficult for them to travel to another state for an abortion procedure. Beyond student advocacy networks, young people can also seek help through hotlines and abortion funds. Often they don’t have cars.

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Hack Education

JULY 28, 2017

Trump’s budget, of course, cuts $9.2 “ Is higher ed creating the next dropout factories? It’s building this little web that turns the user into a mostly passive consumer of mostly western corporate content,” says Ellery Biddle, Global Voices’ advocacy director. ” $100,000. ”).

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Hack Education

MARCH 10, 2017

” Trump’s favorite techie is, of course, Peter Thiel. Following up on ProPublica reporting , “ Florida to Examine Whether Alternative Charter Schools Underreport Dropouts.” “New study raises concerns about impact of automated social media advocacy on education coverage,” says Alexander Russo.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 6, 2018

Only about one in five of 2016 graduates got full-time jobs in legal offices, the advocacy organization Law School Transparency reported. Many students take online courses from for-profit colleges in other states. That was far below the state average.

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 28, 2016

” Via the Education Law Center : “Several New Jersey civil rights and parent advocacy organizations have filed a legal challenge to new high school graduation regulations recently adopted by the State Board of Education. ” “A Conveyor Belt of Dropouts and Debt at For-Profit Colleges ” by Susan Dynarski.

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