The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 1, 2018

AT&T may have committed $450 million since 2008 through its Aspire program to support making education a stronger, data-driven enterprise, but corporate America can play a bigger role, especially in light of numerous recent statements about the need for an educated workforce. Future of Learning. Higher Education.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 15, 2023

When Alexandra Logue served as the chief academic officer of the City University of New York (CUNY) from 2008 to 2014, she discovered that her 25-college system was spending over $20 million a year on remedial classes. Department of Education. The majority of these students dropped out without degrees.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

The subprime lending crisis of 2008, however, was a clear example of people being sold the American Dream without being given the tools to realize it. The same phenomenon is true in higher education. Tyler’s story is a classic example of how higher education has become a blind spot in our society. How would she afford it?

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 6, 2019

My parents always stressed how powerful an education is and how it is the key to success,” Keenan said. In meetings with his academic adviser during the second semester of his freshman year, Robinson said he learned that though his GPA was solid, the school’s computer algorithm saw trouble.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 11, 2016

Some people researching education technology might not spend their days wondering how their work fits into this existential question—but George Siemens isn’t "some people." That’s his explanation for how he thinks about the role of education in the 21st century. A researcher, theorist, educator, Siemens is the digital learning guy.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 19, 2023

This story also appeared in The Associated Press After more than a year of some form of pandemic online learning, students were all required to come back to school in person. Remote learning didn’t hold their attention. But it was traumatic when, in Fall 2021, they figured out it had happened.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 11, 2018

Through their efforts, along with those of other outside arts organizations, they are introducing theater to more and younger participants, at an age when education experts say children are especially poised to benefit from it. Related: Can testing save arts education? Future of Learning. Higher Education. Weekly Update.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 14, 2019

Minnesota ranks among the most educated states in the country, with nearly half of adults aged 25 to 64 holding an associate degree or higher. He estimated that nearly one in three new jobs created through 2026 will require education beyond high school. Will jobs go begging? Our future economic vitality depends on this.”.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 30, 2018

It may have been one of the biggest back-to-school sales ever: a 64 percent drop in the advertised cost of a college education. Utica College, which reduced its tuition in 2016, lowered its dropout rate, President Laura Casamento said. Sandy Baum, higher education consultant and economist. Baenninger said.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 13, 2021

So he has no idea if they’re learning. So, we’ve spent several months traveling the country learning from schools applying best practices and from researchers and educators who have studied what works. Your stories. Read the stories. Connecting with kids has been a struggle, too. Few speak up. I’m very worried.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

Working on a farm and running the weekly market, she has learned to identify food crops and to care for them, she said. Higher Education”. Higher Education.” Sign up for our Higher Education newsletter. A scientist does laboratory research on plants; at the farm, she said she is “on the ground” with them.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 26, 2019

At the Telstar Freshman Academy in Maine, service learning is included as part of the curriculum. Bailey Fraser, 15 (left), and her stepsister Leah Kimball, 15, volunteer with Edible Bethel during their service learning block. Sign up for the Future of Learning newsletter. Future of Learning. Higher Education.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 24, 2019

To her left, Makayla offered: “My sunshine share is the part where we learned about oak trees.” Future of Learning. Higher Education. Mississippi Learning. Education officials also cite the counseling and mental-health services the school receives from a handful of local organizations. “It Weekly Update.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

OCTOBER 26, 2015

I don’t follow higher education very closely, so this is all from 10 feet away. Competency-Based Education is something I’m hearing more and more about, which is neither bad nor good, but worth understanding more carefully. .” 4 General Examples Of Innovation In Higher Ed. That’s good. Which is dumb.

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Edsurge

MAY 11, 2017

That’s why it might come as surprise to hear AspirEDU , an educational analytics company, pitch their Dropout Detective software as an “academic credit score” for students. But Chris Munzo, executive vice president of AspirEDU (and fan of metaphors), compares Dropout Detective to a gym membership—it only works if you use it.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 29, 2019

In the decades following, the school became one of the city’s most prestigious educational and cultural institutions. “To Now she wants others to learn that history. A student jumps off a bus to enter McDonogh #35 Senior High School before the start of the school day March 19, 2008 in New Orleans, Louisiana.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 17, 2017

I would have been a dropout.”. Their positions were created by and are funded through Say Yes to Education Buffalo, a local chapter of a New York City-based nonprofit. In Buffalo, a Rust Belt city still grappling with high poverty and an under-educated population , the results of the Say Yes program have exceeded expectations.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 2, 2019

But in August 2008, the state-run Recovery School District included only one Ninth Ward high school in its first master plan for building construction. But here, I learned it was important to build it both from the inside-out and the outside-in.”. It was rumored the school might be built in the Lower Ninth Ward.

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Groups Report Industry Dropout 99

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 8, 2017

The city’s educational experiment, ripping up nearly an entire district to replace it with the new model, meant charters here, including KIPP Renaissance, were under intense pressure to show academic results — fast. Douglass was the worst-performing school in the state in 2008. LaRoche also sought to invest more in extracurriculars.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2020

With the debt problem for black students in particular reaching urgent levels, The Education Trust and The Hechinger Report have partnered on a series of op-eds to amplify the voices of people studying solutions to the black student debt crisis. A black bachelor’s degree recipient is more likely to default than a white college dropout.

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Policies Dropout Outcomes Report 136

eSchool News

JUNE 27, 2017

For all our conversations about edtech and curriculum and funding and unions and building schools and transportation and testing and every other thing, education is about people. More specifically, education is about relationships. Nothing happens in education without relationships. I love meeting people in the education biz.

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Edsurge

APRIL 28, 2017

A popular narrative in the employment market today is that a "skills gap" exists between the abilities employers seek in candidates and the capabilities that new college graduates gain through postsecondary education. high-profile dropouts and the rise of the so-called “ anti-credential.” The awareness gap is easy to fix.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 9, 2019

The Hechinger Report is collaborating with The New York Times to produce Bulletin Board, page 2 of the Times ’ s education supplement, Learning. Many teachers today try to give students more say in what and how they learn. Vita Blanco at her graduation celebration at a friend’s home in Vancouver, Wash.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 4, 2019

Sign up for our Higher Education newsletter. Future of Learning. Higher Education. Mississippi Learning. 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. Choose as many as you like.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 20, 2019

The Hechinger Report traveled to three counties with very high numbers of adults without a high school credential to learn about the obstacles schools and families must overcome to provide and obtain this essential first step to a middle-class life. They need to get an education,” Washington said. MARKSVILLE, La. —

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 20, 2019

The Hechinger Report traveled to three counties with very high numbers of adults without a high school credential to learn about the obstacles schools and families must overcome to provide and obtain this essential first step to a middle-class life. Rita Sandlin knew what she wanted for her children.

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Dropout Report Libraries Resources 75

EdNews Daily

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

The United States faces a serious educational crisis. In the first ten months of 2018, public educators quit at an average rate of 83 per 10,000 on staff. What subjects are losing the most educators? In addition to educational disruption, what are the costs to school systems? By Franklin Schargel.

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Dropout Training Report Social Media 130

The Hechinger Report

MAY 30, 2018

“Since my parents didn’t get much education, it’s hard to talk to them about my schoolwork and applying to college, or how to plan my time and get everything done,” says Mariano Almanza, 18, pictured speaking with his Coronado High School guidance counselor, Colleen McElvogue. Photo: Sarah Gonser for The Hechinger Report.

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Dropout Report Training Outcomes 111

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 1, 2018

T his story about foster care and higher education was produced as part of a series, “Twice Abandoned: How schools and child-welfare systems fail kids in foster care,” reported by HuffPost and The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. KALAMAZOO, Mich.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

Turning around struggling high schools is the toughest work in education reform. In this ongoing series, The Hechinger Report is visiting high schools that have beaten the long odds to learn what’s behind their success. Yet, inside the building, a new vision for the education of low-income students of color has taken root.

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Report Competency Based Learning Common Core System 93

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Then she was summoned to the financial aid office, where she learned that the university, part of the California State University System, was giving her a grant of up to $1,500 to help her get across the finish line. “I But California, with a higher education budget for 2019-2020 of $18.5 That didn’t make Deas feel any better.

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Education Policies Course System 98

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 27, 2018

As Louisiana struggles to balance its budget in face of a nearly $1 billion shortfall, lawmakers face a stark choice: Shrink a program that once made the state a national model in education, or end it entirely. A college education for everyone’. Future of Learning. Higher Education. Mississippi Learning.

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Dropout Policies STEM Outcomes 83

Doug Levin

MARCH 5, 2017

Ever wonder how stories covered by popular edtech outlets – such as edSurge, eSchoolNews, Tech & Learning, and THE Journal – get selected? Filter bubbles are bad, including in educational technology. Tagged on: March 3, 2017 How to Tell a Secret in the Digital Age | New York Times → Education reporters take heed.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 31, 2019

But away from the political debates and television lights, educators in the Patchogue-Medford school district have been quietly cultivating a different image. The recession forced the district to lay off 50 educators, but as its finances improved, the district prioritized bilingualism.

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Hack Education

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

Education Politics. ” The Department of Education press release : “U.S. ” The Department of Education press release : “U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos Issues Statement on New Title IX Guidance.” ” Via NPR : “ Trump And Transgender Rights : What Just Happened? .”

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Education Khan Academy Robotics MOOC 46

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 6, 2022

Johnson is the principal of Mississippi’s Collins Elementary School, where the paddle remains a staple of the educational experience. As of late April, educators pulled out the paddle 20 times on kindergartners, twice on first graders, 31 times on second graders, 16 times on third graders and 10 times on fourth graders.

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Elementary Handbook Report Policies 145

Hack Education

DECEMBER 12, 2017

This is part six of my annual look at the year’s “ top ed-tech stories ” Some of the most oft-told tales in education in recent years have the following plot: the students all move from “brick-and-mortar” to “online.” Online education, we’re still told, will be education’s disruptor.

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