The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 5, 2023

More recently, advocates have presented child care as a public good and a right, similar to K-12 education. It’s always been understood that it is good for kids, and it’s good for the economy, and it’s good for society, to have a public led, funded and organized public education system.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Half of the 3,600 colleges and universities that the Clearinghouse tracks have reported their fall enrollment data so far. Low-income young adults appear to be fleeing higher education in the highest numbers because colleges and universities that serve this population saw the largest enrollment declines. percent over two years.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

To better understand the challenge facing students during the pandemic, I led a team of university administrators who interviewed hundreds of students, faculty and staff to identify the causes of hunger on campuses. The State University of New York at Albany has taken this partnership approach with important results.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 29, 2023

Universities tend to have a hard time having a very clear, focused message,” said Eunkyu Lee, associate dean and a professor of marketing at Syracuse University’s Whitman School of Management. Billboards drawing more attention to the campaign line the sides of highways in the region. Here’s what happened.’ ” Spence said.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 3, 2020

ASHTABULA, Ohio — Alexis Turner listened carefully as the administrators at the freshman orientation for Kent State University at Ashtabula ticked through the student groups she could join on campus that fall: English Society, Psychology Club, Student Veterans Association. This story also appeared in Eye on Ohio. Very few have succeeded.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 30, 2020

colleges and universities began shutting down due to the coronavirus pandemic. The truth is that the preponderance of money in higher education, including public subsidies and private philanthropy, flows to students with the greatest wealth. Indeed, just 25 institutions hold about half of all U.S. endowment assets.

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EdTech Magazine

JULY 25, 2018

SIGN UP: Get more news from the EdTech newsletter in your inbox every two weeks! Finding the resources to create a mobile makerspace may seem daunting, but many higher education institutions see the value of introducing K–12 students to STEM and are excited to contribute. “We Future Teachers Are On Board for Mobile Classrooms.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

The following report is part of collaboration between NBCNews.com and The Hechinger Report focused on examining Black and Latino enrollment in flagship universities. This story also appeared in NBC News. Uchenna Ihekwereme walked to the front row of the 150-person auditorium for a political science class at the University of Georgia.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 20, 2022

Public two-year community colleges achieved a new budgetary milestone in fiscal year 2021 as they reaped 6 percent more money per student from state and local governments than public four-year institutions did for their regular operating expenses: $9,347 versus $8,859 for each student. College is optional.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2021

That’s because the nitty-gritty of recovery — empowering aspiring workers with the skills they need to succeed and connecting them to available jobs — inevitably takes place in individual cities and regions with unique needs. Workers have had to rapidly figure out what additional training and skills they need, and where to find them.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 18, 2023

TOKYO — The campus of International Christian University is an oasis of quiet in the final week of the winter term, with a handful of undergraduates studying beneath the newly sprouting plum trees that bloom a few weeks before Japan’s familiar cherry blossoms. universities and colleges, Inaba says. million now.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 13, 2022

Gavin Newsom described a proposed spending hike for California’s public colleges and universities. Those few words also help explain a principal reason many states are boosting their budgets for public higher education more than at any time since 2008 and proposing even higher allocations down the road. That’s how Gov.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

Only a handful of states, colored in blue, are predicted to see an increase in the number of students attending regional four-year colleges and universities between 2012 and 2029. These urban college markets, such as San Diego, may diverge from their state’s or region’s trends. The rest will see declines in students.

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EdNews Daily

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

Schools, districts and other education organizations face daily stumbling blocks to success, including limited funding, political stasis and complacency from portions of the public. This new relationship is saying, no, this is not a handoff. Two-Way Tracking between K-12 and Postsecondary Education.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 6, 2020

Since it seems near certain that the coronavirus pandemic is triggering a new recession right now, I thought it would be useful to recap what happened to colleges and universities during the Great Recession of 2008 to help us think through what might and might not repeat this time around. million, or nearly 16 percent, from 15.6

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

After the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee reviewed the reasons some students were being prevented from registering, it loosened the rules. And after discovering that scholarships and loans were not quite covering some students’ bills, the university developed an emergency fund for retention grants to help them re-enroll. Vaidya said.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 30, 2021

An English professor at Southern Connecticut State University, Cynthia Stretch is used to meeting after hours with her students, many of whom work full time while in college. Related: More colleges and universities outsource services to for-profit companies. This story also appeared in The Washington Post. And not only in Connecticut.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Researchers at Georgetown University have been studying the impact of Tulsa, Oklahoma’s program for two decades. About 71 percent of Oklahoma’s 4-year-olds, and about 61 percent of 4-year-olds in the Tulsa region, were enrolled in pre-K in 2021. Related: Why Oklahoma’s public preschools are some of the best in the country.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 16, 2024

It’s a question more and more families are asking as universities and colleges face financial and enrollment challenges, close or merge. Kirk: In public hearings, one by one, I heard Mount Ida students and their parents blame administrators for the school’s sudden closure. That’s the regional accrediting body.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 9, 2020

The private college near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, promised that the general education courses taken by any student transferring from another accredited institution would count toward a degree — something that doesn’t usually happen, and is among the reasons students who transfer lose many of the credits they’ve already earned and paid for.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Rider oversees career and technical education in Allen Parish, a region of rural Louisiana known for pine forests and the state’s largest casino. One upshot is that policymakers cannot see where public school graduates work or how much they earn. Prospective CTE students and policymakers have no way of knowing.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Even when Adrian recruited him to wrestle and play football, Smith kept his sights set on Michigan State University, which has nearly 50,000 students. I couldn’t say no to getting the degree I wanted from a smaller school instead of at a big university where you’re looking at 200 students in a class,” said Smith, now an Adrian sophomore. “I

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Jefferson , Current Chair of the International Federation of Library Associations & Institutions (IFLA), North American Regional Division, and Past President of the American Library Association (ALA). Social Justice Award by the University of South Carolina. Our special conference chair is Julius C. Cooke, PH.D.,

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

These circumstances are squeezing the university programs that train future teachers. The challenge of attracting students into and graduating them from education departments at colleges predates the pandemic, experts say, and yet the pressures of the past two years have worsened the situation at some institutions.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Jefferson , Current Chair of the International Federation of Library Associations & Institutions (IFLA), North American Regional Division, and Past President of the American Library Association (ALA). Social Justice Award by the University of South Carolina. Our special conference chair is Julius C. Cooke, PH.D.,

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Conference Libraries Social Media Microsoft 41

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 13, 2020

Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange in the midst of the ongoing downturn. College and university endowments that are heavily invested in stocks face tens of billions of dollars in potential losses. The screens before him pulse with worrisome financial news, but Tom Heck exudes Midwestern calm.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 26, 2020

NEW YORK — By the time actress Lori Loughlin pleaded guilty last week to bribing her daughters’ way into the University of Southern California, any notion that the U.S. Credit: Photo courtesy of Georgetown University. Related: Many flagship public campuses leave black and Latino students behind. colleges favor the rich.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 19, 2020

People remove belongings on campus at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, on Wednesday, March 18, 2020. The UNC system announced Tuesday that, due to the coronavirus outbreak, students should return to their permanent addresses unless granted an exception to remain in university housing. Credit: AP Photo/Gerry Broome.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JUNE 1, 2023

With book bans all over the news, intellectual freedom is under attack, with a specific focus on materials and programs related to or representative of marginalized communities. Professor Jamison received her Master of Teaching from Concordia University and her Master of Library Science and Ph.D. from Indiana University.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

PORTLAND, Maine — The ergonomic chairs, glass-walled conference rooms, ubiquitous technology and smell of new carpets and fresh paint scream well-funded startup. And that’s what the Roux Institute is: a brand-new university campus backed by $200 million of donated money. This story also appeared in The Washington Post.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

According to the Institute for Women’s Policy Research, Black students who are raising children borrow an average of $18,100 for college, compared with an average of $13,500 among all students. Colleges and universities must look closely at why the burden of student debt falls disproportionately on Black parents.

Policies 130

Policies Survey Advocacy Accessibility 130

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 16, 2019

Yet, all of this good news nearly overshadows the reality that there is a finite pool of skilled workers for many of the fastest-growing roles, including software development engineers, business analysts, genetic counselors, and nurse practitioners. Job creation continues to be up, with the U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 17, 2018

But private colleges offered the aspiring engineer little financial aid, so he went to a public university and now works as an engineer in Boston. college or university. Instead, he enrolled in a less expensive public university. The University of Massachusetts, Amherst. grade-point average.

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Data Report Policies Survey 111

eSchool News

AUGUST 14, 2023

Nominations for the annual eSchool News K-12 Hero Awards are open through September 1, 2023, and this year, we’re giving you a look at some of the entries that came in by our early-bird deadline. Cumberland County had 85 percent to 90 percent teacher participation in using S.P.I.R.E. reading intervention program.

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Edmentum Digital Divide Professional Learning Industry 84

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 11, 2022

Low-income students who were offered an upfront guarantee of free tuition at the University of Michigan were far more likely to apply and enroll than students who were told they would likely qualify for free tuition. To address this, the university staged an experiment in 2019 involving 1,800 high school students.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 21, 2021

which owns and operates a group of McDonald’s restaurants in Louisiana, is pictured with her spouse, Larry Thomas, after receiving her bachelor’s degree in July 2019 from Colorado Technical University. Funding cuts to public colleges have pushed costs onto students even as Americans’ real wages have been basically stagnant since the 1970s.

Education 128

Education Training Company Survey 128

Edsurge

JULY 2, 2021

In that spirit, a team of early childhood experts at the University of Michigan and the Urban Institute decided to do the sifting and sorting for others in their field. What’s new here is just being systematic.” Knight Chair and professor of psychology at the University of Oregon, during an online event to discuss the report.

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