The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Southern New Hampshire University used to be unknown outside New England but it’s quickly grown since the 2008 recession to become a national online degree giant with more than 130,000 students. The post Deal with online giant threatens Pennsylvania colleges, Moody’s warns appeared first on The Hechinger Report.

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

TurnItIn became a huge business, bought and sold several times over by private equity firms since 2008: first by Warburg Pincus, then by GIC, and then, in 2014, by Insight Partners — the price tag for that sale: $754 million. These proctoring tools gather and analyze far more data than just a student's words, than their responses on an exam.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 10, 2017

More than 108,000 students who had taken out federal loans withdrew from Georgia’s public colleges and universities between 2013 and 2015, the most recent time period measured in federal data. Since 2008, average tuition increased from $4,700 to $8,400. The Gates Foundation is among The Hechinger Report ’s many funders.).

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 16, 2016

Between 2008 and 2012, the same survey found job satisfaction among principals decreased nine percentage points, from 68 percent to 59 percent. A group of secondary network superintendents debrief after a visit to a classroom at a middle school in Oakland. Photo: Jackie Mader. Training the trainers. Aquino nodded. “Be

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The Hechinger Report

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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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 14, 2019

Kelly Field for The Hechinger Report. With people of color expected to make up a quarter of the state’s population by 2035, these gaps represent an economic threat to Minnesota; unless more residents get to and through college, there won’t be enough qualified workers to fill the jobs that require a post-secondary degree or certificate. “[O]ur

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Edsurge

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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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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The Hechinger Report

JULY 17, 2017

In particular, he noted, the Say Yes provision to share student data went against the closed-shop mentality of the superintendent’s office. One of the more difficult things for us to give up,” said Keresztes, “was our student data. Are our students completing post-secondary education? Are their kids going to college?

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 15, 2017

.” “A new analysis from the Center for American Progress found more than two dozen minority-serving institutions would fail a graduation rate requirement for funding in the proposed House update to the Higher Education Act ,” Inside Higher Ed reports. More on Claypool’s resignation from WaPo’s Valerie Strauss.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

At the time, I wrote about the importance of APIs; the issues surrounding data security and privacy; the appeal of platforms for users and businesses; and the education and tech companies who were well-positioned (or at least wanting) to become education platforms. The company has raised some $77.5

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Graphite Blog

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

Category One: Data Transmission Services and/or Internet Access. This category covers the services necessary to support broadband connectivity in schools and libraries, including data links that connect multiple points, services used to connect eligible locations to the internet, and services that provide basic conduit access to the internet.

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The Hechinger Report

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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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 11, 2021

Credit: Sara Hertwig for The Hechinger Report. The proportion of 25- to 34-year-olds with postsecondary credentials nationwide has been rising, up from 38 percent to 45 percent since 2008, according to the Lumina Foundation, which tracks this. Lumina is among the funders of The Hechinger Report, which produced this story.)

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 1, 2016

The last time schools were fully funded, in 2008, the state spent roughly $2.56 billion on elementary and secondary education. Census data. This story was produced by The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. Schools stand to receive $2.4

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 23, 2016

Apparently, so do most parents, 94 percent of whom take the government up on its offer of free education starting at age 3, according to government data. The study in question, called Effective Pre-school, Primary and Secondary Education (EPPSE), tracked 3,000 children from the mid-1990s through 2008. Photo: Lillian Mongeau.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2017

More effectively reporting data that it already collects and collecting better data on cost, quality and value would provide a number of benefits. Private firms could use data to come up with rankings and ratings to reflect the unique preferences of different students.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 9, 2018

Jill Barshay/The Hechinger Report. However, the latest data from the federal government, covering the 2014-15 school year, still shows an advantage to the wealthy across the nation’s public elementary, middle and high schools. See Table 7 on pages 19 of this report on school district revenues and expenditures.)

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

1 Photo: Cheryl Gerber for The Hechinger Report. Newspapers had reported that nearly everyone in Williams’s graduating class at Sci Academy in New Orleans had been accepted to college, as if they were a group moving toward one unprecedented future together. Lake Pontchartrain glistened as Rinata Williams rode north from New Orleans.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2016

Three of five states that have most reduced their funding per public college and university student from 2008 to 2016 are southern, according to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities , a Washington D.C.-based Lumina is among the funders of The Hechinger Report, which produced this story.). based nonpartisan research institute.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 15, 2018

The 2008 recession may seem like a long time ago, hitting before Barack Obama began his presidency, but public elementary, middle and high schools around the country are still feeling the pinch from it. Department of Education, reported that local, state and federal governments had collectively spent 2.8% See adjacent graph.).

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 26, 2019

. Despite the gridlock that has become synonymous with the nation’s capital, in 2008 Washington, D.C., Early childhood teachers require the same support and rigor in programmatic focus, differentiation and access that their primary and secondary colleagues receive. enacted something groundbreaking. Sign up for our newsletter.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 30, 2018

Photo: Sarah Gonser for The Hechinger Report. Editor’s note: This story on school counselers is part of Map to the Middle Class , a Hechinger Report series exploring how schools can prepare young people for the good middle-class jobs of the future. Photo: Sarah Gonser for The Hechinger Report. COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.

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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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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 2, 2019

The average tuition for a K-12 private day school for the 2008-09 school year was approximately $17,000, according to data collected by the National Association of Independent Schools (NAIS), a membership organization that consistently puts out enrollment reports on the sector. Tuition is getting out of control.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 15, 2017

This story was produced by the Center for Public Integrity in collaboration with StateImpact Oklahoma , a reporting project of NPR member stations in Oklahoma. In 2014, The New York Times reported on Pruitt’s extensive industry ties — which included oil and gas companies, utilities and lobby groups. It was reprinted with permission.

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