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APRIL 19, 2019

Kelly Field, for The Hechinger Report. To answer that question, The Hechinger Report combed through grant databases, legislative records and lobbying disclosures, looking for the forces and funding behind LD 1422. Kelly Field, for The Hechinger Report. The Gates Foundation is among the many funders of The Hechinger Report.).

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OCTOBER 31, 2020

U-46 was one of 53 districts across the United States that spent a statistically significant amount less state and local money on high-poverty schools than on lower-poverty schools, according to a new Hechinger Report analysis of how districts disburse funding. But he’s not surprised. That’s a problem. Who could argue that it’s not?”

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JULY 22, 2016

Photo: Alison Yin/Hechinger Report. Gates is among the funders of The Hechinger Report, which produced this story.). Department of Education reports, or 13 times as many as visited a previous federal website without postgraduate incomes listed. Cal students in the Doe Library at UC Berkeley. You wanna buy a college education?

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JULY 1, 2016

The last time schools were fully funded, in 2008, the state spent roughly $2.56 Nancy Loome, executive director and founder of the Parents’ Campaign, a nonprofit and grassroots education advocacy organization. Census data. The post Schools in the poorest state become even poorer appeared first on The Hechinger Report.

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2016

By 2014, the latest year for which data is available, that number had risen to 2.7 In 2008, the bill that finally made it through the legislature gave grandparents a way to get a power of attorney without spending the time and money to secure guardianship or full custody of the children they were raising. million in 2005 to 7.1

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MAY 23, 2019

This month an article in the student newspaper at Pierce College, a two-year college in Los Angeles, said that the campus store there has reported several incidents of students opening the shrink-wrap of a textbook in the store without buying it and taking a picture of the access code so they can use it in their course. Who Owns Student Data?

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2019

Whitney Curtis for The Hechinger Report. Whitney Curtis for The Hechinger Report. Whitney Curtis for The Hechinger Report. Whitney Curtis for The Hechinger Report. In the 109-page report, the school board was singled out for special scorn for allegations that it failed in its duty to vet the district’s spending.

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JUNE 4, 2019

Aaron Cantú, for The Hechinger Report. 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. Aaron Cantú, for The Hechinger Report. Aaron Cantú, for The Hechinger Report. GARY, Ind. — The bad news?

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

Research suggests average families need twice the poverty level amounts to meet their basic needs, the report says. According to a 2015 report by the advocacy non-profit Child Care Aware, the average cost of center-based infant care in Louisiana—one of the four poorest states in the nation—was roughly $110 a week in 2014.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

White students could lose four to eight months of learning by June 2021, and students of color could lose six to 12 months, according to a McKinsey & Company report published in December. Related: New data — Even within the same district some wealthy schools get millions more than poor ones. Sign up for Hechinger’s newsletter.

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Doug Levin

AUGUST 28, 2017

I recently revisited the central prediction of the influential 2008 book, Disrupting Class – that the growth in computer-based delivery of education will accelerate swiftly until, by 2019, half of all high school classes will be taught over the Internet – in two blog posts ( here and here ). public high schools (42.5

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Doug Levin

AUGUST 28, 2017

I recently revisited the central prediction of the influential 2008 book, Disrupting Class – that the growth in computer-based delivery of education will accelerate swiftly until, by 2019, half of all high school classes will be taught over the Internet – in two blog posts ( here and here ). public high schools (42.5

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

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. Columbia declined to share demographic data for its New York City students.) Fitzsimmons contributed reporting. Liset Cruz and Emma G.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 1, 2022

Data from the 2020-2021 academic year shows that 42 colleges previously designated as HSIs dipped below the threshold that qualifies them. This is the first time in two decades that the total number of HSIs has fallen, according to the advocacy group Excelencia in Education, which tracks colleges that are at and around the HSI threshold.

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JUNE 17, 2018

Photo: Terrell Clark/The Hechinger Report. The analysis used federal enrollment data for the 2015-16 school year, the most recent year for which that data is available from the U.S. Photo: Terrell Clark/The Hechinger Report. But if you look at the numbers and data, that just doesn’t bear out. GREENSBORO, Ga.

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DECEMBER 3, 2019

Photo: Alison Yin for The Hechinger Report. Related: Colleges are using big data to track students in an effort to boost graduation rates, but it comes at a cost. Photo: Alison Yin for The Hechinger Report. Lumina is among the many funders of The Hechinger Report, which co-produced this story.). SAN JOSE, Calif.

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JUNE 17, 2020

Capella and Strayer have also reported increases in visits to their websites and requests for information. This trend concerns many student-protection advocacy groups, which point out that the colleges that stand to gain are among those with the most troubling records. appeared first on The Hechinger Report.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 1, 2016

” asks The Hechinger Report , with the hellish-scenario game we get to play for the next four years. ” The Autistic Self Advocacy Network issued a statement on the nomination of Jeff Sessions as US Attorney General. ” Via The Chronicle of Higher Education : “In a report released on Wednesday, the U.S.

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JULY 7, 2016

At least one Orthodox Jewish institution, Yeshiva Toras Chaim Talmudic Seminary of Denver, also opts out of Title IV, according to documents provided in response to a Freedom of Information Act request filed by The Hechinger Report. The New Republic reports that students at Patrick Henry complain administrators there mishandled cases of rape.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 13, 2019

Department of Education reports. Related: New data show some colleges are definitively unaffordable for many. Lumina is a funder of The Hechinger Report, which produced this story.). Forty-two states have their own goals, and some are on track to reach them, or report that they’re ahead of schedule.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

The Horizon Report. The organization, which was founded in 1994, was best known for its annual Horizon Report, its list of predictions about the near-future of education technology. But as the ed-tech sector is never willing to let a bad idea die, the report will live on. The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade.

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JUNE 6, 2022

This story also appeared in Mississippi Center for Investigative Reporting. Collins Elementary School, in southeastern Mississippi, paddled students more times than almost any school in the country in 2017-18, the last year for which there is national data. Credit: Tara García Mathewson/The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 6, 2016

According to a Pew Research Center analysis of census data, nine of the ten states with the most rapid Hispanic growth are located below the Mason-Dixon Line. Disclaimer: Harrison-Henderson, a former journalist, wrote several articles for The Hechinger Report before she worked for the state.). We haven’t kept up.”.

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AUGUST 11, 2016

Martin had the lowest ratings possible for achievement and improvement on its state report card that year. told The Hechinger Report. Barack Obama (D-IL) as he speaks to supporters at a rally in a high school gymnasium January 23, 2008 in Dillon, South Carolina. Secretary of Education John B. How Obama found Dillon. Obama asked.

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Hack Education

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

Department of Education Launches New English Learner Data Story.” ” “Data story” is a fancy way of saying “website.” Department of Education on Monday distributed proposals for rewriting the gainful-employment rule , which the Trump administration halted last summer,” Inside Higher Ed reports.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2020

How Schools Are preparing – and Not Preparing – Children for Climate Change,” reported by HuffPost and The Hechinger Report, a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. How we are teaching – and not teaching – kids about climate change appeared first on The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 24, 2017

The promise of big data versus the menace of Big Brother. Having accurate graduation rates and alumni earnings information may help students, including those who are undocumented, find the right college, said Chad Marlow, advocacy and policy counsel at the American Civil Liberties Union. Some would look worse.

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