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The Hechinger Report
JUNE 14, 2023
By many measures, schools here made big gains under Gordon and the ambitious 11-year effort to overhaul the education system that he helped create. The effects of poverty on education make further gains a daunting challenge. Cleveland Metropolitan School District CEO Eric Gordon meets with colleagues at his office.
The Hechinger Report
SEPTEMBER 16, 2020
When I graduated with a bachelor’s degree from William & Mary in 2003, I desperately needed a job. As the country undergoes a period of historic racial reckoning, with nearly every sector of society examining its role in racial injustice, higher education needs to do the same. In addition, I had $30,000 in student debt.
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The Hechinger Report
JANUARY 15, 2021
Half of Black borrowers who first entered college in the 2003 defaulted on their student loans within 12 years; the comparable figure for white students is 21 percent. Higher education segregation is specifically why Black borrowers have so much more debt,” he said. Sign up for our higher education newsletter.
The Hechinger Report
MAY 8, 2020
But now, as educators everywhere try to figure out how to do their jobs remotely, the coronavirus pandemic has highlighted the instability of relying on one counselor, or just a few, to guide hundreds of students through new academic hurdles, prepare them for an uncertain future and triage their mental health crises. It’s also suicide. ”.
The Hechinger Report
FEBRUARY 8, 2024
I was a little taken aback,” said Sims, who went on to found The Abecedarian Group, a child care and education consulting agency. They found 1,362 fatalities in child care from 1985 through 2003, 75 percent of them in home-based care, both licensed and unlicensed. Wow, I couldn’t find any of them.”
The Hechinger Report
FEBRUARY 10, 2020
But a troubled school system is nothing new in a state that has long failed to provide all of its children with an equal, integrated education. Holmes decision, black students in the Mississippi Delta remain shut out from an equal education. The effects of these inequalities in public education ripple throughout children’s lives.
The Hechinger Report
JUNE 1, 2021
State officials often bemoan a lack of college-educated workers for their economies, yet very few states track this problem. They say that with states regularly cutting education funding, they need the private agencies to retrieve as much money as they can. Her principal balance of $2,712 grew to more than $4,600 by December of 2019.
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