The Hechinger Report

JULY 22, 2016

They say it’s easier to learn the odds of winning Powerball than of graduating, or to comparison-shop for a mattress than to compare the actual cost of tuition, fees, and other expenses among schools. Tom Allison, deputy policy and research director at the millennial advocacy group Young Invincibles, is skeptical of this argument. “I

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Iterating Toward Openness

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

In my recent post I asked us each to consider what “what is the real goal of our OER advocacy?” ” Stephen answers that his goal is access for all, and takes me to task for wanting more. Stephen’s goal is access for all. To me, access for all is a waypoint and not the end point.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 31, 2020

Most districts didn’t budget in a way that allowed comparisons of school-level spending. And Sanders said administrators are brainstorming ways to spread out access to the district’s best teachers, perhaps virtually, so that students get more opportunities than the ones available to them in their assigned neighborhood schools.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 14, 2021

A key priority at the meeting: Ensuring all children had access to a good education and skilled teachers. Over the decades, however, local PTAs shifted their attention and efforts away from advocacy work to fundraising for individual schools. Classroom access should be considered the bare minimum, she said. Credit: Dawn Larson.

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Marketplace K-12

MARCH 22, 2016

New York City public schools today announced plans to move forward on a proposed Amazon contract for an online e-book marketplace for educators, after the deal stalled for seven months while concerns about accessibility for blind and visually impaired users were addressed. The Marketplace. Amazon Top Pick for Contract to Create N.Y.C.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2019

The building is not completely ADA accessible. But Robbins, the University of Connecticut professor, takes a different view: It’s a matter of convenience for school districts that don’t want to put in the time and effort to seek out comparisons. Conflicts of interest? Whitney Curtis for The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

According to a 2015 report by the advocacy non-profit Child Care Aware, the average cost of center-based infant care in Louisiana—one of the four poorest states in the nation—was roughly $110 a week in 2014. The average state, by comparison, spends half its welfare dollars on those goals, according to the LBP report.

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NeverEndingSearch

DECEMBER 20, 2017

However, at each level—middle school, high school, and college—these variations paled in comparison to a stunning and dismaying consistency. In the November 2016 Executive Summary , the researchers shared: When thousands of students respond to dozens of tasks there are endless variations. That was certainly the case in our experience.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 27, 2020

Implementing distance learning for schools like Hopi High would have been difficult even under the best of circumstances — the school is located on a vast reservation where families often lack access to internet and computers. By comparison, only around 30 percent of BIE schools were doing the same. We are on an unlevel playing field.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 11, 2019

The most trumpeted new approach focuses around a complaint system and a separate GI Bill comparison tool that flags schools the department determines are in trouble. An advocacy group called Veterans Education Success (VES) has collected 113 more from veterans and service members, many of which echo Baca’s criticisms about quality and cost.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 21, 2017

The findings “demonstrate more can be done to support the needs of these non-traditional students,” said Barrett Bogue, spokesman for the advocacy organization Student Veterans of America. At community colleges with 100 or more GI Bill recipients, even the top performers managed to graduate only one in five, federal records show. .

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 24, 2016

By comparison, Medina said he met with the overworked college counselor in his school only twice in four years. A borrower making $35,000 a year with about $30,000 in debt would pay 26 percent more, when adjusted for inflation, than called for by the standard 10-year repayment plan, according to the Institute for College Access and Success.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 17, 2021

By comparison, “the Indian economy and the framework which exists for me, being a citizen of India, was pretty good.”. All students need to have access, or we’re going to exacerbate the opportunity gap.”. Related: How a decline in community college students is a big problem for the economy. When you’re looking at the U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 4, 2016

As a young attorney, she worked for the Children’s Defense Fund, an advocacy group. We’re lucky to have one candidate who has a track record like that,” said Kris Perry, head of the First Five Years Fund, an advocacy group that advises both Republican and Democratic politicians on early childhood policy.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 2, 2016

Since 1970, DeVos family members have invested at least $200 million in a host of right-wing causes – think tanks, media outlets, political committees, evangelical outfits, and a string of advocacy groups. ” Accessibility and Technology (and the Role of Governments and Corporations). What will happen to the FCC?

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 2, 2017

By comparison, just 19% of Democrats believe that colleges’ and universities’ effect is negative.). Google’s motto , remember, is to “organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful.” Google launched a “Be Internet Awesome” digital citizenship campaign.

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