The Hechinger Report
NOVEMBER 29, 2021
A student practices how to use a knee mill, a metalworking machine, during a manufacturing class. More than 100,000 adults earned earned entry-level manufacturing certifications at community and technical colleges between 2005 and 2018, but only 40 percent worked in manufacturing afterward. It could be twice as many.
The Hechinger Report
JANUARY 3, 2018
Only 11 percent of the students who entered UMPI in 2005 graduated in four years, and only 30 percent graduated in six — all at a time when the region desperately needs more college grads. Only 11 percent of the students who entered UMPI in 2005 graduated in four years, and only 30 percent graduated in six.
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The Hechinger Report
APRIL 15, 2022
The once-steady flow of international students to the United States increased every year from 2005 until 2019 , when anti-immigration sentiment, tension with China and other problems began to chip away at the numbers. Related: Colleges’ new solution to enrollment declines: Reducing the number of dropouts. Then Covid decimated them.
The Hechinger Report
JULY 13, 2021
Educators and school leaders are scrambling to figure out how to regain ground next year in a course that often makes or breaks students’ life chances. Of those who failed both semesters in 2005-06, only 15 percent graduated in four years. I think this is a lost school year for most kids.”. I’m very worried. Ishmael Brown Jr.,
The Hechinger Report
JANUARY 7, 2018
Most students lost months or even years of school time after Katrina hit in 2005. Early this past December, the state released guidance to explain how to institute alternatives to retention in fourth grade, to comply with a resolution passed by the Board of Elementary and Secondary Education in October.
The Hechinger Report
MARCH 22, 2020
That week, he also had intense conversations with teachers, as he tried to figure out how to make up for the 60 days he’d missed. Though he had been replaced as drum major, he played in the band’s percussion section for a few evening parades, twirling the cymbals with a special flair.
The Hechinger Report
DECEMBER 8, 2017
His mother, Tyra Hales, signed him up for a youth team at a park near their home in Gentilly, a predominantly black neighborhood that was inundated by Hurricane Katrina’s floodwaters for weeks in 2005. The first thing McCloud did when he arrived at Renaissance in January was to figure out how to get weekly progress reports on his players.
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