The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Whether they succeed depends on the campus and the year and the community college enrollment – but that’s the goal all nine undergraduate campuses strive toward, said Gary Clark, the associate vice chancellor for enrollment management at the University of California, Los Angeles. Students walk on the UCLA campus.

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eSchool News

MARCH 29, 2024

Since 2013, according to an analysis , policymakers in 37 states have passed laws or implemented new policies related to reading instruction and stakeholders from scholars and journalists to teachers and parent coalitions have weighed in.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

I think it’s an idea,” said Matthew Burns, a professor of special education at the University of Missouri who was among researchers who helped create a Science of Math website as a resource for teachers. Teachers need to give clear and precise instructions and introduce new concepts in small chunks while building on older concepts.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 15, 2023

Overlooked in the trove of sensitive data released by Harvard during the affirmative action lawsuit is the outsize role that performing research can play in helping students get into elite colleges and universities. MIT’s Research Science Institute offers opportunities to “100 of the world’s most accomplished high school students.”

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Meanwhile, it’s a tough time to be a college student, too. 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. Student loans are scary.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 14, 2020

Despite the efforts of college leaders to push ahead with something approximating a normal fall term, the truth is that many of us don’t feel normal. It’s not a question of whether higher education institutions will see a significant uptick in burnout among staff, faculty and graduate students this fall.

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EdTech Magazine

APRIL 5, 2018

SIGN UP : Get more news from the EdTech newsletter in your inbox every two weeks! Towson University started the program to allow high school and college students to get valuable hands-on experience that helps out the university’s bottom line, Campus Technology reports. “So What resulted was likely more than she imagined.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

America’s 1,100 community colleges represent the obvious infrastructure for reskilling and upskilling a workforce that must be reinvented at scale for a new economy. Yet, for community colleges to live up to their promise, they need to shift their focus. Related: Special Report on Community Colleges.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Yet such nondegree certifications aren’t new to higher education: Colleges already offer certifications in everything from digital marketing and data analytics to cosmetology. Today, they are even more common at two-year schools: In 2019, community colleges granted 852,504 associate degrees and 579,822 certificates.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 5, 2020

Online or off, colleges need to help these students form new communities. Each week, students submit a found “artifact” — an image, an object, a news story, a meme — that encompasses both their learning in the course and their personal experience of the coronavirus. We created this course to help make that a reality.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 1, 2020

A recent survey from Active Minds, a mental health nonprofit, found that 80 percent of the high school and college students surveyed are having difficulty concentrating. This additional financial strain may make attending college unrealistic for many. In doing so, they can help maintain gains in workplace diversity and equity.

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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. Make School, a San Francisco-based gaming company turned for-profit educational institution, was already offering a short-term tech boot camp, designed to meet that same goal.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Construction students earned the higher incomes in their early adulthood but healthcare students were more likely to go to college, according to a Massachusetts study. College isn’t for everyone, many argue. Federal legislation has encouraged these programs to prepare students not only for a career, but also for college.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 2, 2022

PORTLAND, Maine — Just beyond the entrance to the onetime department store that now serves as the home of the Maine College of Art & Design is a long room with high ceilings in which students in the gaming and animation programs work. This story also appeared in Portland Press Herald. Credit: Molly Haley for The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 29, 2023

Now, colleges and universities have the chance to build the inverse path — a prison-to-school pipeline — to help people who are incarcerated. And these benefits are above and beyond the ways that a college degree increases every graduate’s employment and earning potential. The potential impact of a prison-to-school pipeline is immense.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 5, 2023

In exchange, he will receive $700 a month for 10 months from the #CaliforniansForAll College Corps program, class credit and experience with food production science. Credit: Marissa Leshnov for The Hechinger Report Vega-Tatum has held jobs before, but College Corps is different.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 31, 2020

College is designed for student to finish in four years, but for many students that timeline is more of a pipedream. Researchers there examined data from the National Center for Education Statistics on nearly 20,000 college alumni who graduated between 2015 and 2016. The longer you’re in college, the more debt you’re acquiring.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

That includes the Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center, which helps members of the military gain proficiency in new languages in as little time as nine months. Johnathan Gajdos Students come to the institute, located on an army installation, to learn one of 16 languages that the military prioritizes for its purposes.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 24, 2022

Children who attended Tennessee’s state-funded voluntary pre-K program during the 2009-10 and 2010-11 school years were doing worse than their peers by the end of sixth grade in academic achievement, discipline issues and special education referrals. Dale Farran, Vanderbilt University’s Peabody College.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

This problem has been created in large part by institutions’ failing to acknowledge that elementary teachers need to acquire specialized content knowledge — not just professional coursework — to be effective. At most of these institutions, the deficiency is not about a lack of sufficient credit hours.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Last year, the pandemic put pressure on a system that was already undeniably stressful for all involved: college admissions. Students and families faced limitations around visiting campuses, colleges and universities grappled with the frustrating realities of remote learning and we all fretted about finances. What have we learned?

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 10, 2021

This story also appeared in NBC News. Why do four-year colleges count graduation “success” as six years? The problem is pervasive: Nationally, white students at public colleges are two and a half times more likely to graduate than Black students, and 60 percent more likely to graduate than Latino students.

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eSchool News

MARCH 14, 2024

Purdue is one of 28 Indiana colleges and universities that received grants from Lilly Endowment to support efforts that integrate science of reading-aligned principles into teacher preparation programs. Providing professional development to faculty across all Purdue colleges, campuses and programs related to literacy.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 14, 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: At the bottom of page 22 of the Supreme Court’s lengthy opinion barring the use of race in college admissions , is a curious three-sentence footnote.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

Jellicorse has autism, which can put up even more obstacles in college than those faced by students who aren’t on the autism spectrum — and which few higher education institutions have historically accommodated, despite a huge jump in the number of people diagnosed with it. But there was something bigger behind this brief exchange.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 28, 2019

Nearly 200 colleges face federal civil rights investigations opened in 2019 about whether they are accessible and communicate effectively to people with disabilities. Among the newer aspects of these kinds of complaints is whether college social media communication meets accessibility standards.

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EdTech Magazine

APRIL 27, 2018

Erika Gimbel is a Chicago-based freelance writer who specializes in B2B technology innovation and educational technology. To mark the 20-year anniversary of the program, Payne spoke about how the Cisco Networking Academy has partnered with learning institutions all over the world. Customer Focused. Buying Cycle. Content Length.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Joy Malak floundered through her freshman year in college. The hardest part about being a new college student, Malak said, “is not the coursework. Critics respond that replacing traditional A to F grades with new forms of assessments is like a college-level version of participation trophies. SANTA CRUZ, Calif. —

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 28, 2020

This year, I put a special focus on pandemic relevant topics, from the effectiveness of tutoring to helping struggling learners catch up to lessons learned from the 2008 recession. Students who attended these high schools were more likely to graduate and attend college. Another way to quantify inequality inside colleges.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 20, 2020

As a college student, I am always thinking of the individuals who have yet to apply to college in the ongoing crisis. I wish the opportunity to attend college was attainable for any student willing and interested in doing so, rather than exclusive to those who have the privilege and resources to navigate the obstacles.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Instead, what mattered was where a teacher went to college. Both Black and white teachers trained at an historically black college or university (HBCU) helped Black students do better in math. HBCU students might have had life experiences before college that helped them better connect with Black children in their professional lives.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 1, 2020

This story also appeared in GBH News and National Public Radio. Now, Smith said, he wants to specialize in infectious diseases. Sam Smith, who is applying to medical schools, says he has been inspired by the example of health care workers during the pandemic; he plans to specialize in infectious diseases. “I

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 17, 2022

When single moms are college students, complications and barriers abound. At Delgado Community College in New Orleans, single moms can join a special section of a college success skills class that caters to their unique needs. Related: How student parents of young kids make it through college.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

He never received extra help or special education services from his Houston-area school district. In 2004, as a new Ph.D., he told his mother that the National Institutes of Health had awarded him a postdoctoral fellowship to study dyslexia, a condition he’d long suspected he had. to get things done,” he said.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 8, 2022

Groom, who was once enrolled at Bowie State University, left college when his first daughter was born. That daughter now has a college diploma. Enrollment, already on a decade-long decline, dropped precipitously during the pandemic, emptying a million seats at two-year and four-year colleges. Groom still does not.

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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. Oltmann’s work has been funded by the American Library Association and the Institute of Museum & Library Services. In this Library 2.0 In this Library 2.0

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 25, 2021

The College Board’s decision on Jan. The essay may actually have been particularly helpful for predicting the college success of disadvantaged students,” said Jack Buckley, a former head of research at the College Board, via email. “The

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