The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 6, 2017

Like a handful of states, New Hampshire is taking the opportunity provided by the federal Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) to revise its accountability measures to further individualize education. Claire Voorhees, national policy director, Foundation for Excellence in Education. Higher Education. Weekly Update.

Personalized Learning 68

Personalized Learning Policies Advocacy Assessment 68

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 23, 2019

In addition to the academic demands, she and her friends acknowledged, they’re concerned about the cost of their graduate educations, the debt they may accumulate to pay for it and whether jobs will be available at the other end. Department of Education. Graduate education is being used to subsidize undergraduate education.

Report 103

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 19, 2019

While the state’s Department of Education cycled through commissioners (six in six years) superintendents struggled to figure out the law, largely on their own. Related: Documenting Maine’s failure to implement proficiency-based education. In 2003, the Gates Foundation gave RISC $5.8 Imported from Alaska.

Learning 111

Learning Report System Case Study 111

Hack Education

DECEMBER 2, 2016

The business of education technology overlaps with the politics of ed-tech. One of the flaws, I think, of much of the reporting on education technology is that it treats “ed-tech” as a product without a politics and without a practice. The politics overlap with privacy. The US Presidential Campaign.

Technology 40

Technology Education Facebook Company 40

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 25, 2016

From 2003 to 2015, according to GSU , its graduation rate (finishing a bachelor’s degree within six years of starting) for African-American students rose from 29 to 57 percent. From 2003 to 2015, Georgia State University’s six-year graduation rate for African-American students rose from 29 to 57 percent.

Advocacy 40

Advocacy System Meeting Report 40

Iterating Toward Openness

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

For example, in 2015 I wrote that “My ultimate goal is this: I want to (1) radically improve the quality of education as judged by learners, and (2) radically improve access to education. The question we must each ask ourselves is – what is the real goal of our OER advocacy? And I want to do it worldwide.”

Accessibility 62

Accessibility OER Pearson MOOC 62

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 1, 2016

In order to serve this hidden population, the Senior Services Department in Clayton County, Georgia — where Eschman has raised her grandchildren — started the Kinship Care Program in 2003. At the center, they discovered a group of other kids with similar family arrangements. They begged to go back.

Policies 67

Policies System Groups Advocacy 67

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.

Advocacy 71

Advocacy Policies Report Trends 71

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

We show more detail about where student debt falls most heavily and how different cancellation plans would affect different groups of Americans. That shifted with the 1992 reauthorization of the Higher Education Act. Households in the bottom quarter of net assets are accumulating student loan debt faster than any other group.

Policies 124

Policies Data Report Advocacy 124

Digital Promise

JULY 14, 2016

Positive behavior support is defined by the partnership between the intervention agent and the family, whereby each educates the other about what is desirable, what is a priority and what is realistic. An intervention agent must help to hire and train babysitters, respite providers, in-home education service staff and job coaches.

Training 120

Training System Analysis Examples 120

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 24, 2024

Students have been blocked from going to websites that web-filtering software categorizes as “education,” “news,” or “informational.” But even more concerning, especially for some students who spoke with The Markup, are blocks against sex education, abortion information, and resources for LGBTQ+ teens—including suicide prevention.

Social Media 69

Social Media Libraries Elementary Advocacy 69

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.

Survey 145

Survey Report Elementary Exercises 145

The Hechinger Report

MAY 24, 2017

There are so many cuts to education in President Trump’s budget proposal , it’s understandable that his plan to dispose of a campus-based childcare program hasn’t gotten headlines. Since 2003, spending has remained fairly steady at about $15 million. Sign up for our Higher Education newsletter. Courtesy: Michel Cocuzzo.

Advocacy 74

Advocacy Report Policies Accessibility 74

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 11, 2019

Richard Baca joined the New Mexico National Guard for the education benefits promised to him through the GI Bill, but after returning from two deployments to Iraq he became mired in difficulties with a for-profit university and has at least temporarily given up on getting a degree. Photo provided by Richard Baca.

Report 69

Report Outcomes Company Training 69

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Beginning in 2016, King, an entomologist, sat on a Hawaii child care working group in the legislature and advocated for about a dozen regulation bills. I was a little taken aback,” said Sims, who went on to found The Abecedarian Group, a child care and education consulting agency. Wow, I couldn’t find any of them.”

System 79

System Meeting Data Report 79

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

In 2016 not a single child at “North,” as locals call it, tested proficient in math according to the state’s education department. Where North is now is part of a conscious effort to sabotage black education,” Fuller says. Fuller’s ideas revive a long-standing tradition of African-American educational self-reliance.

Report 97

Report Policies Meeting Groups 97

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.

Outcomes 138

Outcomes Elementary Report Resources 138

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. Sánchez, senior associate at the public policy group HCM Strategists. “I They say that with states regularly cutting education funding, they need the private agencies to retrieve as much money as they can.

Policies 138

Policies Company Report Advocacy 138