The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 8, 2018

billion a year, collectively, in foregone tuition, according to a review of 1,669 institutions by the Educational Policy Institute. This story about reducing the number of college dropouts was produced by The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. That’s $13.3

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Edsurge

AUGUST 19, 2016

UPCEA’s eDesign Collaborative ), I spent hours doing my own personal research on my university’s open access policy and scouring the library website. The university has since issued a policy recommending faculty review library resources prior to immediately proceeding to the copyright permission center.

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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 graduated from JW Sexton High School, a STEM-focused magnet school, in 2016. From foster care to college.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

But Lawrence Mishel, a labor market economist with the Economic Policy Institute, sees it much differently: “I think we’re way past that tipping point.”. Approximately 80 percent of college degrees — including in the humanities that Hanrahan’s peers majored in, such as English and History — have labor market value, Carnevale says.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 7, 2018

The state enforced strict policies to retain children who failed high stakes tests, ballooning the ranks of those who were held back. But they have much better tools than they did in 2005 when the retention policy was put into place,” he said. And that means that the retention policy should change with the times.”.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 20, 2019

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. Busing, stemming from a 50-year desegregation order that was just lifted last year, helped to integrate some Avoyelles schools. Photo: Cheryl Gerber for The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 22, 2018

But in this county of fewer than 19,000 residents, just 38 percent of recent high school graduates sought more education, according to the latest available data from the West Virginia Higher Education Policy Commission. That’s well below the statewide rate of 55 percent.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 30, 2019

“Efforts to support students through the summer after high school have expanded substantially in recent years,” said Ben Castleman, an associate professor of education and public policy at the University of Virginia and co-author of a book on summer melt.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

Unfortunately, she added, teachers often don’t know how to address this — a problem that stems from teaching preparation programs. “In In fiscal year 2015, the federal government gave states about $12 billion, or 16 percent of the excess costs, according to a report by the New America Foundation, a nonprofit public policy institute.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 15, 2014

We believe that the development of everything from policies to facilities to lesson plans should be guided by our compass roses, Critical Attributes of 21st Century Education and the Multiple Literacies for the 21st Century. The NEA shared this article that discusses nation-wide efforts to re-engage high school dropouts.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 20, 2022

In September, the NAACP Legal Defense Fund released a report recommending school districts institute a moratorium on all suspensions and modify school discipline policies to be trauma-informed and supportive. Studies show not only is it ineffective at improving students’ future behavior, it can also do the opposite.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 23, 2018

Alana Wolf was accepted to Cornell University, which told her to go somewhere else as a freshman and come back as a sophomore under a little-known policy called conditional admission. Related: Universities and colleges struggle to stem big drops in enrollment. Photo: Michael Farrell for The Hechinger Report. campus as sophomores.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 6, 2022

And during the 2020-21 academic year, UT adopted a policy allowing students to designate up to three of their courses to be graded as pass/fail , rather than with letter grades, Patterson said. It seemed like there needed to be a policy and expectation change in the face of an emergency situation,” Patterson said.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 12, 2021

has just under 9 million available STEM jobs ; 70 percent of them in IT or computers. has just under 9 million available STEM jobs ; 70 percent of them in IT or computers. After the year we’ve had, this is welcome news. However, one major obstacle blocking this potential progress is our nation’s persistent skills gap.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 19, 2023

“One of the biggest problems that we have is kids that are missing and chronic absenteeism,” says Pamela Herd, a Georgetown University public policy professor. I’m really taken aback that a district would set forth a series of policies that make it actually quite difficult to enroll your child.” But it was also about race and class.”

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 30, 2018

So says a 2017 study published by the Institute of Policy Studies. About one-third of all black collegians earn degrees in either a STEM-related (science, technology, engineering and math) field or in business, according to my analysis of integrated post-secondary education data system (IPEDS), the national dataset of college outcomes.

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Hack Education

AUGUST 24, 2018

There are more stories about some of DeVos’s other policies in the for-profit higher ed section below. ” “Free College” The Chronicle of Higher Education asks “5 Key Questions About NYU ’s Tuition-Free Policy for Medical School.” despite having Arizona ’s third-highest dropout rate.”

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 9, 2018

This could be a problem for colleges and universities, about which a slew of opinion polls suggest Americans take a dim view at a time of campus speech controversies, athletic scandals, high dropout rates , sexual harassment and assault, comparatively generous pay for faculty and administrators and complaints about the competence of graduates.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 15, 2017

Jeb Bush’s lieutenant governor, as assistant secretary of elementary and secondary education, the top post at the Education Department overseeing K–12 policy.” ” This stems from a protest at the University of Connecticut. “ Big data could solve the college-dropout problem ,” says The Washington Post.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

When college presidents can’t stem the horrid hazing, we have to hope that students step in. All benefit of the doubt was gone by Monday, when additional charges were announced; a university statement noted that disciplinary process was underway for “32 individuals related to the tragic death of Timothy Piazza.”.

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Hack Education

JULY 28, 2017

” From the Department of Education press release : “Secretary DeVos Accepts President Trump’s Q2 Salary as a Donation for STEM-Focused Camp.” Bloomberg reports that “ Trump Administration Tapping Tech CEOs for STEM Policy Approach.” “ Is higher ed creating the next dropout factories?

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Hack Education

JUNE 16, 2017

” The task force, put together by Entangled Solutions , includes “25 members from think tanks (including education policy wonk Rick Hess from the American Enterprise Institute), colleges (University of Texas), coding bootcamps (Galvanize), investment banking (Tyton Partners), and accounting firms (Ernst & Young).”

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