The Hechinger Report
JULY 10, 2023
A growing problem in American classrooms is that teachers don’t resemble the students they teach. The small slice of Black teachers has actually shrunk slightly over the past decade from 7 percent in 2011–12 to 6 percent in 2020–21, while Black students make up a much larger 15 percent share of the public school student population.
The Hechinger Report
MAY 19, 2022
PHILADELPHIA — At first, Marie Wilkins-Walker was just happy to be back in a classroom. On the floor below Wilkin-Walker’s classroom, David Thiebeau had begun to notice similar challenges. The pandemic will create that dropout crisis if schools just focus on 11th and 12th graders and trying to catch them up.
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The Hechinger Report
MAY 22, 2023
Little wonder that a recent report reveals that Black public community college enrollment dropped by 26 percent, or almost 300,000 students, between 2011 and 2019 and by another 100,000 students during the pandemic, bringing Black community college enrollment levels back to where they were more than two decades ago.
The Hechinger Report
JANUARY 20, 2022
Her online coursework gave teachers no reason to take issue with her classroom behavior. The consequence was an unwelcome reminder that the pandemic isn’t the only thing that can keep her from the classroom. But in October, less than two months after returning to in-person learning in Sacramento, California, she was suspended again.
MIND Research Institute
NOVEMBER 8, 2016
But her extraordinary work also extends beyond the classroom, where she works with groups such as the Assistance League of Santa Ana and CENA ensuring that students are ready to start their school year with uniforms and school supplies and food for the holidays. Driving Innovation Award: Hyundai Motor America.
The Hechinger Report
AUGUST 6, 2019
For an absurd example, if dropouts tended to take classes on Thursdays in their first semester at college, but students who completed their degrees didn’t, then you might worry about current students who are currently taking classes on Thursdays. The dropout problem got a lot worse in the 1990s when more people started attending college.
The Hechinger Report
DECEMBER 1, 2017
Related: How one district solved its special education dropout problem. Within each disability, there is variance in severity and how the disability reveals itself in a classroom. As recently as 2011, more students with disabilities in Louisiana dropped out than graduated. It would not work for Matthew, Comeaux suspected.
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