The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

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ExcelinEd

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

In fact, the National Student Clearinghouse (NSC) has identified 36 million Americans who are part of the “Some College, No Degree” population, those with some postsecondary education and training but who haven’t completed their program and are no longer enrolled. Creating Reverse Transfer Policies for All Types of Postsecondary Institutions.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 4, 2017

Once the University of Texas–Pan American (in Edinburgh) and the University of Texas–Brownsville, the two distinct institutions had smaller student populations, along with limited access to state funding. The number of students with commuter visas pales in comparison to the campus’ population of about 27,500.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 28, 2023

It’s a moment when XQ Institute’s agenda — that schools should offer more project-based learning, allow more flexibility in their schedules, and assign classwork more explicitly connected to career paths that interest students — may excite education leaders searching for solutions. For comparison, in its 2022 fiscal year , D.C.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 10, 2016

Educators prefer to call the new exams assessments, because they’re so different in form and format from traditional standardized tests. The push to find the best way to test the arts is coming from arts educators themselves in many instances. Yet access to arts education remains unequal. It’s a parity thing.”.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 29, 2017

The numbers reveal a glaring gap in the nation’s education system: A high school diploma, no matter how recently earned, doesn’t guarantee that students are prepared for college courses. Higher education institutions across the country are forced to spend time, money and energy to solve this disconnect. One of those is Maryland.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 6, 2016

The results do matter, and American educators will lose out if they dismiss the findings so easily. By taking the results seriously, educators can examine the practices and policies of countries that do well on the test and see what they can do to improve practice in this country. Robert Rothman is a Washington-based education writer.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 25, 2016

Advocates for “free college” claim that fully subsidizing public tuition is necessary to avert a student debt “crisis” that is crippling college graduates and reducing access. The cost of higher education has been rising well above inflation for decades, and reducing tuition prices to zero would almost certainly increase enrollment demand.

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Learning with 'e's

AUGUST 10, 2015

This remark from John Holt epitomises progressive education. Tethered technologies such as fixed line telephones are on the wane, while for the first time younger generations are accessing traditional media such as television and radio on their mobiles more that they are via TV and radio sets. Should education go completely mobile?

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 23, 2016

TARTU, Estonia—Most educators and policymakers can rattle off a list of international educational powerhouses: Korea. Even as educators from around the world flock to Finland to discover its magic formula, Estonia, just a two-hour ferry ride away, has not aroused the same degree of interest. Photo: Sarah Butrymowicz.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 11, 2019

Richard Baca joined the New Mexico National Guard for the education benefits promised to him through the GI Bill, but after returning from two deployments to Iraq he became mired in difficulties with a for-profit university and has at least temporarily given up on getting a degree. Photo provided by Richard Baca.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 18, 2017

It’s that, in spite of its skyrocketing cost — and the $138 billion a year in taxpayer money it gets from federal financial aid alone — traditional higher education makes no such guarantee. “A A higher education is one of the most expensive purchases a person will make in their life. Sign up for our Higher Education newsletter.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 3, 2016

More than ever, education leaders must design policies and instructional practices to best support these students. We shouldn’t be surprised — or punish educators — when the students we’ve identified as such perform that way. Around 5 million children in U.S. schools are learning English as a new language, about one in ten students.

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MindShift

AUGUST 11, 2016

A group of recent studies on technology in education, across a wide range of real-world settings, have come up far short of a ringing endorsement. But countries that invested the most in technology for education in recent years showed “no appreciable results” in student achievement. ” That’s right.

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EdTechSandyK

MARCH 7, 2012

Notes from panel discussion/concurrent session at SXSWedu 2012 Geoff Wurzel, TechNet Wurzel was one of the influencers on Senate Bill 6 and the creation of the Instructional Materials Allotment in Texas. Rob Lippincott, PBS PBS is working toward making more content digital (after spending over 40 years making TV educational).

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Learning in Hand

NOVEMBER 12, 2014

I had a great time encouraging educators to give students as much ownership over their devices and learning as possible. Sketchnoting is helping make your thinking visible and shareable as you are reading a professional book, watching a movie clip, reading an educational blog post or article or listening to a lecture of conference keynote.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

I pick ten trends and themes in order to closely at the recent past, the near-term history of education technology. Of course, if you look for those education technology writers who are independent from venture capital, corporate or institutional backing, or philanthropic funding, there is pretty much only me.). Any day now.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 21, 2017

billion a year in GI Bill benefits that come with them offer nowhere near as much support, and their student veterans rarely get degrees, according to data obtained from the Departments of Defense, Education and Veterans Affairs. And San Diego State’s figures go through 2012, while Florida State’s cover the period through 2015.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

According to the state Department of Education, hundreds of thousands of parents like Gobert are thought to be financially at-risk and should warrant help from the Child Care Assistance Program, the only state-administered initiative in Louisiana that assists low-income families to pay for care and education for children under the age of 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. In England, the country at large is instead investing in the education of young children right from the start. No country can serve as is a perfect comparison to the U.S.,

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