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.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 30, 2021

The push to increase faculty teaching time began before the Covid-19 pandemic — most notably in Wisconsin, where then-Gov. A few months before the pandemic descended, the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh cut the number of part-time adjunct instructors it was using. You have to make compromises.”.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 26, 2023

The grant programs are also part of President Joe Biden’s effort to double the number of school-based mental health professionals. And that’s just a portion of the $1 billion funding increase, with the remaining grants to be doled out over the next five years. Next Thursday, he tells her. That’s awful,” she says. “I

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 27, 2023

Since federal aid to the lowest-income students — usually in the form of Pell Grants — almost always covers the full cost of community college tuition, low-income students don’t benefit, while higher-income students do. That means low-income students can use their Pell Grants and other federal aid for all those other costs of college.

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eSchool News

MARCH 5, 2024

Wisconsin is creating a new literacy office and hiring reading coaches. Other ideas, such as reading grants and an approved curriculum list, didn’t survive the political process. This story was originally published by Chalkbeat. Sign up for their newsletters at ckbe.at/newsletters. newsletters.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 7, 2024

The downturn has pushed community colleges to broaden their approach to recruitment, resulting in an increase in the number of students requiring more support and services, said Taylor Odle, an assistant professor of education policy studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The price tag is not the same,” he said.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 27, 2023

Students who got federal Pell grants, which generally go to families earning $40,000 or less, are five times more likely to default on their loans within 12 years of entering college than their higher-income classmates, according to The Institute for College Access and Success. The maximum Pell Grant this year is $6,895 per student.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 2, 2023

Similar legislation is pending in Arizona and Wisconsin. Of these, three-fifths said their universities and colleges reduced the grants they’d been awarded, rather than their loans or work-study hours. That includes California , where a ban will take effect this year. The others: Maryland , New Jersey , Washington and Pennsylvania.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MARCH 27, 2023

Millie Gonzalez ( @whittemorlib ) Library Dean, Henry Whittemore Library, Framingham State University Millie Gonzalez is the Library Dean for the Henry Whittemore Library. She also served as the university’s Interim Chief Diversity Officer for two years. Additionally, Ms.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MARCH 22, 2023

Millie Gonzalez ( @whittemorlib ) Library Dean, Henry Whittemore Library, Framingham State University Millie Gonzalez is the Library Dean for the Henry Whittemore Library. She also served as the university’s Interim Chief Diversity Officer for two years. Additionally, Ms.

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 16, 2015

. “What you find out very quickly as teachers is not just the power of using technology in the classroom, but the power to extend learning, to carry it beyond just the school day,” says Brian Nicol, communications coordinator and, until recently, a teacher at the Wisconsin school district. Share them in the comments.

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Educational Technology Guy

MAY 18, 2012

Dylan Hoffman, a 2nd grader from Wisconsin has won. He has won a $30,000 college scholarship, Chromebook computer and $50,000 technology grant for his school. Google has announced the winner of this year''s Doodle 4 Google competition. This year''s them was "If I could travel in time, I''d visit."

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edWeb.net

APRIL 23, 2021

Associate Professor of School Psychology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, there has been an increase of nearly one-third of kids accessing mental health services within an emergency room setting. According to Nathaniel von der Embse, Ph.D.,

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MIND Research Institute

MAY 24, 2023

Initial ESSER I deadlines have already passed, but due to staffing shortages and other setbacks in school districts, seven states—including Illinois, Indiana, North Carolina, Mississippi, Ohio, Texas, and Wisconsin—and Washington D.C. have been granted an extension to spend ESSER I funds (March 30, 2024).

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MIND Research Institute

JUNE 30, 2022

Milwaukee Public Schools (MPS) is the largest school district in Wisconsin and serves over 77,000 K-12 students. Nearly seven years ago, a handful of MPS schools began piloting ST Math through a grant provided by the TOSA Foundation. The Challenge: Meeting the Needs of All Learners.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Earlier this month, a Wisconsin district placed several teachers on leave following a lesson on ancient Mesopotamia, downloaded from Teachers Pay Teachers, which asked students to decide how to punish a slave. In a recent review of the site’s top 100 U.S. There are signs the company is listening and responding to these ongoing concerns.

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Edsurge

MAY 13, 2017

In our work with institutions that have received grants to implement comprehensive programs for technology-enhanced advising reform (Integrated Planning and Advising for Student Success, or iPASS), we see this a lot. Northeast Wisconsin Technical College: Emphasizing Systems Thinking.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 8, 2020

Others, like Kyra Swenson, who works with 1-year-olds at the Wood’s Hollow Children’s Center in Fitchburg, Wisconsin, worry about their health and that of their family. Pyrena Hui, who runs a San Francisco-based child care center out of her home, has applied for a one-time state grant that would provide her with $65.89

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 30, 2021

At the University of Wisconsin, administrators are acknowledging the mental health difficulties of the pandemic year by urging first- and second-year students to establish healthy coping mechanisms and participate in a 30-day meditation challenge through the Healthy Minds Innovations app (which does not connect students with therapists).

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eSchool News

APRIL 6, 2021

Engineering educator Nels Lawrence of Kaukauna High School in Kaukauna, Wisconsin was also recognized with an honorable mention in this year’s award. To learn more about the Vernier Engineering Award and this year’s winning projects, visit www.vernier.com/about-us/grants/engineering-contest. About Vernier Software & Technology.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 11, 2020

Wisconsin, Virginia, Georgia and Minnesota posted some of the biggest gaps in how children fare; all four states had counties that were on the top 50 and bottom 50 lists. The rate is more than six times higher than in Slope County, North Dakota, which has the lowest child hunger rate in the country.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MARCH 31, 2023

Millie Gonzalez ( @whittemorlib ) Library Dean, Henry Whittemore Library, Framingham State University Millie Gonzalez is the Library Dean for the Henry Whittemore Library. She also served as the university’s Interim Chief Diversity Officer for two years. Additionally, Ms.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

I received a truly great graduate education, earning my doctorate in 1985 at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, an institution I’d put up against any other I could have attended, public or private. It is hard for people to imagine the loss of conditions they have always had and, therefore, take for granted.

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techlearning

APRIL 20, 2018

(April 20, 2018) — Social-emotional learning company Aperture Education today announced the recipients of its 2018 micro-grant program for schools and out-of-school-time organizations. The micro-grant program provides up to $20,000 to help the winners get started in assessing students’ social and emotional competencies.

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Doug Levin

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

" Tagged on: August 30, 2017 Wisconsin District Denies Some Students Enrollment in Virtual Schools | Education Week → A Wisconsin school district is under fire from virtual-school proponents for not allowing its students to enroll in full-time online schools outside the open-enrollment window required by state law.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 15, 2022

WASHINGTON — Like many high school seniors, Grant Austin Robert Simms was bombarded with marketing materials from colleges that showed euphoric students enjoying athletics, extracurricular clubs and the excitement of living on campus. This story also appeared in The Washington Post. Credit: Noah Willman for The Hechinger Report.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

The organization behind the event was Achieving the Dream, a nonprofit that has provided grant support to colleges working to implement student success technologies like degree planning systems, early-alerts and predictive analytics. Jeffrey Rafn, president of Northeast Wisconsin Technical College.

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MindShift

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

They’re rigorous schools, and many were built on federal land grants meant to serve the “industrial classes.” Another factor: The federal Pell Grant program, which helps students “who display exceptional financial need,” hasn’t kept pace with the increased cost of college.

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techlearning

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

These Brown Baggers established partnerships with the 1Million Project by Sprint and the Kajeet Homework Gap Grant that provided low-cost internet and wifi hotspots for student in need in their district. Omaha PS took an approach of pushing digital literacy and digital citizenship with a five year public service grant from Cox.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 17, 2020

global competitiveness [and] national security and lead to innovations that grow our economy while improving quality of life,” the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities proclaimed. Marc Levine, emeritus professor of history, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. The money will “enhance U.S.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 28, 2020

With $250,000 from ECMC Foundation and a matching grant from Strada Education Network, the Emergency Coaching Network will provide up to 5,000 students at participating institutions with support from InsideTrack coaches specially trained to assess and support across a range of challenging situations.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 26, 2016

On average, $1 out of every $3 that public research universities and land-grant institutions spent on financial aid in the 2014-15 academic year went to students without financial need, according to a new analysis of institutional aid data that I conducted. As I wrote in February , the University of Wisconsin at Madison is a case in point.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

And many teachers take it for granted that the same is not true during the school year. Allison DeGraaf, director of learning and innovation, Janesville, Wisconsin, school district. “I They don’t have to prepare students for tests that will impact their own reputations as well as their schools’.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 15, 2017

The survey was produced by the Wisconsin HOPE Lab in collaboration with the Association of Community College Trustees. Half said they have no permanent places to live and move frequently because they can’t pay for rent or utilities. Those who are homeless said they live in shelters, cars, abandoned buildings or outdoors.

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Bryan Alexander

JUNE 1, 2015

This week the state government of Wisconsin has adjusted its attack on public higher education. According to the Wisconsin State Journal , the new proposal “if it stands would be tied for the largest cut in System history and would mark the fifth time in the last six budget cycles that the universities took a significant funding cut.”

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 10, 2019

million Education Innovation and Research expansion grant will take the Pathway Project to schools in Arizona, Illinois, Minnesota, Nevada, Texas and Wisconsin over the next five years. Over the last 20 years, 10 school districts in Southern California have adopted cognitive strategies instruction.

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Doug Levin

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

" Tagged on: August 30, 2017 Wisconsin District Denies Some Students Enrollment in Virtual Schools | Education Week → A Wisconsin school district is under fire from virtual-school proponents for not allowing its students to enroll in full-time online schools outside the open-enrollment window required by state law.

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