The Hechinger Report

MARCH 17, 2023

In the winter of 2019, a group of college faculty members, education consultants and government employees from the Department of Education and the National Security Agency were discussing how to address a talent gap in cybersecurity — there were more 300,000 job openings in the growing sector and no one qualified to fill them.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 22, 2023

Last month, when more than 200,000 students who had been victims of misconduct by their colleges began getting the news that their federal student loans were cancelled, Amanda Luciano felt a sense of satisfaction — and a pang of despair. I’m frustrated, because, what can I do? A federal judge ruled last fall, in Sweet v.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Brown loves — and has long loved — learning about history, civics, geography and government, in part because he had teachers who brought infectious energy and enthusiasm to those lessons. He recognizes the challenges that will come with it — the field has changed so much in just his four years of college, he notes — yet he is undeterred.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Researchers painstakingly pieced together data from a swath of government sources and news reports, cataloging more recent data from the 2021-22 school year for some states but having to reach as far back as 2014-15 for others. The data coming out really indicate that this is a highly localized and contextualized problem,” Nguyen says.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 27, 2023

When Iowa Wesleyan University announced in March that it would close, its biggest creditor was a federal government agency that had loaned it $26 million and then — in an attempt to help the university survive —softened the terms and extended the repayment period. It was the Department of Agriculture. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack.

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EdNews Daily

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

By the age of 12, I was working after school in a local mall scooping ice cream and baking Cinnabons. At 17, I became a waitress at TGI Friday’s to help pay for college in any way possible. I attended junior college and then went on to a local four-year university in Chicago to attain my teaching certificate.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Email Address Choose from our newsletters Weekly Update Future of Learning Higher Education Early Childhood Proof Points Leave this field empty if you’re human: In some states, child care can cost as much as college tuition. Because child care is not primarily funded by the federal government, the quality and cost vary by state.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 1, 2020

With a new administration coming in, there’s bound to be lots of talk about things like making college free and how to help people afford higher education. News rankings of America's Best Colleges. John Warner: The idea is that colleges would compete their way to excellence. How is a public college infrastructure?

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 8, 2023

Despite the presence of a nearby government school, Sodi’s son and two daughters study at the Assembly of God Church in the Indian border town of Rupaidiha, where Sodi himself once studied. Hindi, the medium of instruction there, is easier for Awadhi speakers to comprehend than the Nepali used at the local school.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 10, 2024

This placement is no accident, said Bridgette Murray, a retired nurse and local community leader: “The highway plan in the 1950s was used to divide communities of color.” Black colleges and universities historically combined the idea of using education for advancement and liberation, with the struggle for civil rights.”

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

The American Indian College Fund’s 2019-20 Student Ambassador cohort. For the last six years, the American Indian College Fund has selected a group of talented students and alumni for leadership training to speak about education issues impacting Native Americans. Credit: Caitlin Alysse/American Indian College Fund 2019.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 25, 2023

Dora Bray Magilke had been unemployed for over a month when someone from her local career center in Branson, Missouri, reached out in the summer of 2020 with an offer. Magilke qualified for a government grant to go back to school, she was told, at a place the center suggested: an online company called MedCerts.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 2, 2024

Example of a hypothetical scattergram showing test scores and grades of past applicants to a college. The latest study, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences in October 2023 , tracked the college applications of 70,000 students at 220 public high schools over five application cycles, from 2014-15 to 2019-20.

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EdTech Magazine

MAY 2, 2018

SIGN UP : Get more news from the EdTech newsletter in your inbox every two weeks! Microsoft needs government approval because the power level will be above what FCC rules allow for personal use. Hillman Community Schools will give students devices to use on the bus, Superintendent Carl Seiter said in The Alpena News. Pull Quote.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

The 4,000-student school district offers classes in agriculture and health sciences, courses in coding and welding, and internships at the local hospital and the district offices. As college costs soar and demand for skilled labor rises, programs that prepare students for well-paid work are gaining popularity. Do they earn good wages?

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 21, 2021

News & World Report released its first-ever rankings of public elementary and middle schools in the United States. Related: After ‘Varsity Blues’ scandal, lots of talk about overhauling college admissions. colleges reinforce or reduce inequality? State and local school report cards already do this. Last week, U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Shareef, 30, had started working as a server a decade earlier, after realizing he couldn’t afford the price of a four-year college degree. The federal government alone runs dozens of training-related programs, and state and nonprofit programs abound, too. Saeed Shareef badly wanted to get out of the restaurant industry.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 27, 2022

After graduating in the spring of 1981, she planned to forgo college and head straight to the job market. But after decades of feeling underpaid and undervalued in various jobs, Golden realized that maybe her father was right – maybe she needed to earn a college degree. She earned a 3.8

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 4, 2023

The schools were recently in the news for their relatively strong performance on what’s known as the Nation’s Report Card, the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP). That model of connecting families and local leaders to school communities can be a force for all schools. Sign up for Hechinger’s newsletter.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 23, 2020

Washington state’s free-college program, enacted by law in 2019, is considered one of the nation’s most generous. Numbers like these could make any student or family inquire about free-college programs. Related: How one country with close parallels to the United States has made college free. GPA, and were launched by July 2020.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

Each new day brings another round of headlines about the struggles of the nation’s colleges to adapt to the coronavirus pandemic, the arrival of freshmen in reduced-occupancy dormitories, the limitations of remote learning and a sports season that seems unlikely to get off the ground.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 4, 2020

She said that the counselor from a college-enrollment effort was “a game changer” in helping her plan, apply, pay for — and navigate — her journey to campus. You could easily find reasons why Kali Lindsay should not be in college right now. 8,947), where college-going is not a given. Credit: Chloe Bordenaro.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 22, 2020

At the college level, Hispanic and Black students have lower completion rates of STEM majors; according to the National Science Foundation, in 2016 Hispanics earned 13.5% Local universities and colleges can also partner with teachers and school districts to provide additional STEM homework support in the interim.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2021

We need bridge builders — intermediaries that play a vital role in workforce development by connecting learners, educators and employers, helping them to speak a common language and resolve local supply and demand mismatches. The need to address these problems isn’t new, of course. Alarmed and outraged, the community stepped in.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 3, 2021

Before he was finished taking classes at a local trade school, Phiasiripanyo had employers lining up. The region’s colleges acknowledge they can’t keep up with the demand. Our programs are full,” said Nathan Barry, dean of career and technical education at Metropolitan Community College in Omaha. “We

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 22, 2022

It is a crisis, and I don’t think it’s widely recognized yet that it is,” said Jason Lane, dean of Miami University’s College of Education, Health and Society. They’re more prone to depression, live shorter lives, need more government assistance, pay less in taxes, divorce more frequently and vote and volunteer less often.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Some school districts, local governments and nonprofit groups across the country have galvanized this youth activism by giving students opportunities to participate in leadership roles and democracy in ways that go beyond civics classes and student government. Andrew Brennen, National Geographic education fellow.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 20, 2023

The college wanted to offer students a hands-on learning experience in a lucrative tech field blooming in the Bay Area. What you have is trusted brand-name schools, from community colleges to state universities, knowing that they have these valuable brands, and literally renting them out to for-profit companies.”

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

This was long-awaited good news for the 3.6 It is by no means an easy path to college graduation, but it is far better than what their Dreamer peers face without DACA protections. Credit: College Track. Undocumented students without Social Security numbers are unable to access government dollars, not even via stimulus checks.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

For decades, the distinction between community colleges and four-year colleges has been clear: a student’s stay at community college is generally shorter, and admission is largely open, often oriented around job skills. Related: Why so few students transferring from community college to university.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 17, 2019

Formerly homeless, Dorothy Gorder now is living with her 3-year-old son and their cat in an apartment she got with help from the local housing authority and the community college she attends. It was Tacoma Community College, or TCC, that helped her finally find a home for herself and her youngest son, now 3.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 27, 2020

My Hechinger Report colleagues have written many stories about how low-income students don’t get nearly as much help as wealthy students do when it comes time to apply to college. The gap in college counseling is yet another example of how students who need more tend to get less in the United States.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Embargos usually refer to government orders to restrict commerce or block the exchange of goods with another nation. The intent of these punitive measures is to isolate a country and create difficulties for its governing body. Simply adding more money to schools is unlikely to increase educational equity.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 18, 2023

But after decades of a falling birthrate, it has far too few of another important resource: college students like these. universities and colleges, Inaba says. This story also appeared in Los Angeles Times The colors of nature are abundant in this nation in the spring. million now.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 16, 2024

Okay, so you’re going to college. But will the college you pick still have its lights on by the time you get to graduation? It’s a question more and more families are asking as universities and colleges face financial and enrollment challenges, close or merge. Jon: This is College Uncovered. Kirk: Is there a pool?

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edWeb.net

JANUARY 21, 2021

Between the recent presidential election, COVID-19, and racial unrest, our students are barraged with 24/7 access to news and media that can be real, fake, or altered. As both news and media types of journalists are content creators, the relationship between professional and citizen is significant for us to consider with our students.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 13, 2022

Gavin Newsom described a proposed spending hike for California’s public colleges and universities. Colorado is proposing spending more than $95 million to bring school districts and colleges together to speed up training of the workers employers need. “We “Investing in our conveyor belt for talent.”. That’s how Gov.

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