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The Hechinger Report
NOVEMBER 16, 2020
Largely low-income, Hispanic and with parents whose own educations didn’t get past high school, the young people in the Rio Grande Valley of Texas started over the last decade doing something few of their predecessors had done: going to college. The number who went on to higher education inched up, to 57 percent from 56 percent. “We
The Hechinger Report
OCTOBER 10, 2023
LOS ANGELES — Citrus College was Kyshawna Johnson’s third attempt at higher education. But such housing is a rarity at community colleges, where most former foster care students begin their higher education. In 2009, for example, the state passed legislation requiring many schools to give them priority for on-campus housing.
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The Hechinger Report
APRIL 26, 2019
Department of Education. The only way I know that this can be changed is when there’s access to higher education.”. Even low-income students with the highest standardized test scores are more than three times less likely to go to top colleges than higher-income students , according to the Education Trust.
The Hechinger Report
MAY 22, 2019
Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Future of Learning newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every Wednesday with trends and top stories about education innovation. The high school graduation rate in Utah’s Juab School District was 78 percent in 2009. Subscribe today!
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.”.
The Hechinger Report
OCTOBER 9, 2019
Photo: Education Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images. Thorsett is the president of Willamette University at a time the higher education sector is grappling with a historic enrollment decline and financial challenges that cry out not for incremental change, but for radical solutions. Business was flagging. Middle-class ones.
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? Higher Education. But to the parents, it’s worth it.
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