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OPINION: Why Black student parents are at the epicenter of the student debt crisis — and what we can do about it

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

When I graduated with a bachelor’s degree from William & Mary in 2003, I desperately needed a job. 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. In recent years, as U.S.

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Seeing the Pandemic as an Opportunity for Change

edWeb.net

JANUARY 12, 2021

He serves on the boards of numerous national and local organizations, including the Economic Policy Institute, the National Equity Project, and The Nation. Noguera was recently appointed to serve as a special advisor to the governor of New Mexico on education policy. About the Hosts. Dr. Daniel A. Dr. Daniel A.

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Funding School Services in the Midst of Multiple Crises

edWeb.net

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Susan Gentz is a partner at K20Connect, a consulting consortium of experts focused on education leadership, technology and policy. Susan comes from a strong policy background as a former staffer in the United States Senate and legislative aide in the Iowa House of Representatives. About the Presenters.

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Why haven’t new federal rules unleashed more innovation in schools?

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 6, 2017

And it has everything to do with the policies of the states.”. The bad news is we’re not seeing a lot of innovation or discussion around personalized learning,” said Claire Voorhees, national policy director for the Tallahassee, Florida-based Foundation for Excellence in Education, an advocacy group for personalized learning.

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One of the poorest cities in America was succeeding in an education turnaround. Is that now in peril?

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 14, 2023

Decades of chronic underfunding is often at the root of the struggles in districts like Cleveland to serve high proportions of Black and Latino students from low-income backgrounds, said Allison Rose Socol, a vice president at The Education Trust, an education advocacy group.

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The number of grandparents raising grandchildren is up, thanks in part to the opioid epidemic

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 1, 2016

based nonprofit focused on an intergenerational approach to policy. 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. . $4 billion — The amount the U.S. That’s a common restriction nationwide.

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Inside Maine’s disastrous roll out of proficiency-based learning

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 19, 2019

Ragan Toppan, a junior at Deering High School, took part in a walkout last fall to protest a change in the school’s grading policy. The result today is a patchwork of local policies, with pockets of proficiency-based grading surrounded by schools that have stuck with traditional methods of evaluating students — or reverted to them recently.

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Do income-based repayment plans drive young borrowers of color deeper into debt?

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 15, 2021

Part of the reason, Steinbaum argues, is a policy meant to help students cope with their increasing debt loads. The policy does seem to have saved some people from default, by reducing the amount required in the monthly payments. What’s driving that spike is the interest, which builds up year after year. percent in 2010.

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Interactive: Explore who gains most from canceling student debt

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Throughout most of the Department of Education’s life as a guarantor of loans and a direct lender, student borrowing remained below $20 billion per year , according to a 1998 report from the Institute for Higher Education Policy. He would also like to see a policy that removes any associated negative marks from Americans’ credit histories.

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Trump’s budget axes campus-based childcare for low-income students

The Hechinger Report

MAY 24, 2017

Since 2003, spending has remained fairly steady at about $15 million. Advocacy groups like the Young Invincibles and the Institute for Women’s Policy Research have argued that expanding campus-based childcare for low-income families would help boost graduation rates. Bush, when funding hit a high-water mark of $25 million.

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Counseling kids during the coronavirus: A tough job made even tougher

The Hechinger Report

MAY 8, 2020

Just before this crisis began, Arizona was poised to spend millions more on boosting its thin roster of counselors, thanks in part to the advocacy of students like Kumar. But it wasn’t until the ASCA adopted a national model in 2003 that mental health gained an official role in school counseling duties.

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REINVENTING.SCHOOL Today with Howard Blumenthal - "Paying for School" with Andreas Schleicher #reinventingschool #learningrevolution

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MAY 14, 2020

More about this week's guests: Andreas Schleicher is Director for Education and Skills, and Special Advisor on Education Policy to the Secretary-General at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) in Paris.

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Scrutiny of colleges that get billions in GI Bill money remains mired in bureaucracy

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 11, 2019

Internal government documents, watchdog reports and interviews with veterans’ policy advocates, government staffers and other officials suggest that little has been done to crack down on colleges accused of predatory behavior. Since the 2003 invasion of Iraq, the number of veterans using the benefit has doubled, to nearly 900,000 last year.

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A ‘shockingly broken system’: More than a dozen states are failing to meet child care safety regulations

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

“For the most part, they are sort of operating outside of the traditional system and accountability,” said Smith, now the director of the early childhood development initiative at the Bipartisan Policy Center, a nonpartisan think tank. Systems like background checks and data tracking are key safety mechanisms in any industry.

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Segregated schools are still the norm. Howard Fuller is fine with that

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

In a state that sends one out of every eight black men to prison, the highest rate in the country , this neighborhood bears a disproportionate brunt of the mass incarceration policy, with more African-American men from here locked up than from any other zip code in Milwaukee County. Black schools for black children. The trade-off.

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‘You can’t help but to wonder’: Crumbling schools, less money, and dismal outcomes in the county that was supposed to change everything for black children in the South

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Since 2003, public schools in the state have only been fully funded twice. Since the MAEP went into full effect, the state education budget met the minimum required in only two years, 2003 and 2007. In 2003, when Robert Clark retired, his son Bryant Clark ran for his father’s old seat.

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Public colleges shock students by sending them to costly debt collection agencies

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 1, 2021

Sánchez, senior associate at the public policy group HCM Strategists. “I Brendan Mullican, a former student at Sam Houston State, served in the Navy for four years, including in the Middle East during the 2003 Iraq War. Sánchez, senior associate at the public policy group HCM Strategists. I don’t know that anyone is winning.

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The Politics of Education Technology

Hack Education

DECEMBER 2, 2016

It treats “ed-tech” as the result of markets and industry and “innovation,” and not as the result of policy or history. ” Trump might not have proposed any solutions, but he’s identified the problems: Setting up problems is the most important part of policy work. Take criminal justice.

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OPINION: Why Black student parents are at the epicenter of the student debt crisis — and what we can do about it

Seeing the Pandemic as an Opportunity for Change

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Funding School Services in the Midst of Multiple Crises

Why haven’t new federal rules unleashed more innovation in schools?

One of the poorest cities in America was succeeding in an education turnaround. Is that now in peril?

The number of grandparents raising grandchildren is up, thanks in part to the opioid epidemic

Inside Maine’s disastrous roll out of proficiency-based learning

Do income-based repayment plans drive young borrowers of color deeper into debt?

Interactive: Explore who gains most from canceling student debt

Trump’s budget axes campus-based childcare for low-income students

Counseling kids during the coronavirus: A tough job made even tougher

REINVENTING.SCHOOL Today with Howard Blumenthal - "Paying for School" with Andreas Schleicher #reinventingschool #learningrevolution

Scrutiny of colleges that get billions in GI Bill money remains mired in bureaucracy

A ‘shockingly broken system’: More than a dozen states are failing to meet child care safety regulations

Segregated schools are still the norm. Howard Fuller is fine with that

‘You can’t help but to wonder’: Crumbling schools, less money, and dismal outcomes in the county that was supposed to change everything for black children in the South

Public colleges shock students by sending them to costly debt collection agencies

The Politics of Education Technology

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