The Hechinger Report

JULY 22, 2016

It’s the APLU that has most forcefully pushed for tracking individual students through college, which is known as student-unit recordkeeping, and which would make the statistics vastly more precise, but which Congress — lobbied by higher-education groups — banned the government from doing in 2008. How am I going to pay this back?

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Survey Policies Report Data 40

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 4, 2019

From 2008 to 2017, the share of Latinx students at this commuter school of roughly 4,000 rose from 13 percent to 22 percent — the highest of any public university in the state. Ortiz knew she had Pell Grant aid coming in, but didn’t know how to access it. Around campus, there are some signs of the university’s outreach to Latinx.

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Dropout Laptops Study Report 107

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2019

The building is not completely ADA accessible. There are some circumstances in which a noncompetitive sale is the better option: when a district has a low credit rating and is unlikely to attract any bidders, for example, or when the bond deal is complex. Conflicts of interest? Whitney Curtis for The Hechinger Report.

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Report Industry Company Conference 72

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 31, 2020

In Indianapolis Public Schools, for example, the Center for Inquiry School 84 has a lower portion of kids getting free or reduced-price lunch than any other school in the district, at just 8 percent. Certain special education programs can drive up costs, for example. Related: A decade of research on the rich-poor divide in education.

Data 145

Data Elementary Trends Analysis 145

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 11, 2018

“When these kids go off to college there have been lots of studies that say they’re not prepared with the communication, critical thinking and collaboration skills they need,” said Denise Pope, a senior lecturer at Stanford’s Graduate School of Education and a co-founder of Challenge Success, a nonprofit education advocacy group.

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Course Education STEM Industry 100

Digital Promise

JULY 14, 2016

For example, people with diabetes, arthritis, AIDS, cancer and heart disease are often not cured and, yet, with support and appropriate management, they can live fulfilling lives. An example of a social context would be poor communication skills that result in the child not being able to make his/her needs and frustrations known to others.

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Training System Analysis Examples 120

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Programs serving inmates at the troubled Rikers Island jail complex were cut, for example, and the budget for free preschool for 3-year-olds was reduced. To help Columbia expand, New York State condemned land in 2008 in the West Harlem neighborhood of Manhattanville and used eminent domain to seize properties for the university.

Policies 114

Policies Meeting Study Advocacy 114

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 1, 2018

Started in 2008, the Seita Scholars Program is one of several efforts at U.S. The percentage of Seita students to graduate from Western Michigan has ranged from 24 to 44 percent for cohorts that started between 2008 and 2013, according to university administrators. colleges to help students like Mayes.

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System Study Policies Report 110

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 3, 2019

It’s one example of the many ways that California is taking on seemingly intractable problems that are plaguing higher education nationwide. Meanwhile, all but four states are spending less on higher education, per student, than they did in 2008 , according to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, a liberal-learning think thank.

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Education Policies Course System 96

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 17, 2018

Many charters hire teachers who don’t belong to a teachers union or haven’t gone through a traditional teacher preparation program, for example. But many of the 747 charters have implemented policies that critics say make it difficult for lower-income families to access them. Related: How the federal government abandoned the Brown v.

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Report Company Data Meeting 112

Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

That being said, if you’re using a piece of technology that’s free, it’s likely that your personal data is being sold to advertisers or at the very least hoarded as a potential asset (and used, for example, to develop some sort of feature or algorithm). Certainly “free” works well for cash-strapped schools. Um, they do.)

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Pearson MOOC Company Software 145