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 1, 2018

According to state data, the number of young people in state juvenile justice facilities dropped from 901 at the end of 2012 to 386 in 2017. In 2016, 45,567 young people were held in facilities nationwide, down 20 percent from 2012.) The online coursework is designed by the education company Pearson.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

BOSTON — When the Boston Public Schools opened the Margarita Muñiz Academy in 2012, it was a first-of-its kind dual-language high school meant to address issues faced by the city’s growing Hispanic population. And the dropout rate among the first Muniz cohort, the class of 2016, was just 2.5 That’s the goal, anyway.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 3, 2017

But bilingual education isn’t the school’s only innovation. The Muñiz Academy opened in 2012 as one of Massachusetts’ first “innovation schools,” free from many district policies and granted flexibility with its curriculum, budget, school schedule and annual calendar, among other things. Higher Education. Weekly Update.

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MindShift

OCTOBER 27, 2016

Research has shown that a majority of the educators who teach English-language learners (ELLs) are creating their own instructional materials — often with little oversight — that don’t necessarily match the student’s grade level or the rigor required by state academic standards. Those statistics recently prompted the U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 26, 2018

At Berea College, 82 percent of students receive Pell grants , federal financial aid reserved for low-income students; the mean family income for first-year students at Berea is less than $30,000, the school reports, and students typically graduate $5,800 in debt, according to the Department of Education.

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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. During the 2012-13 school year, Renaissance had one of the highest suspension rates in the city.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Eve, on the city’s majority-Black East Side, 13 first graders, all of them Black, Latino or Asian American, folded paper airplanes in their basement classroom as part of an aerodynamics and problem-solving lesson. And admissions for gifted programs tend to favor children with wealthy, educated parents, who are more likely to be white.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 3, 2018

This story about the opioid crisis and foster care 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. WAR, W.Va. ?

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 11, 2016

million — between the ages of 16 and 24 who have left school without receiving a diploma or its equivalent, according to the National Center for Education Statistics. He realized that some students don’t succeed on the conventional academic path, and ran a school for dropouts on Arena Boulevard. percent of students — roughly 2.5

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

now live in poverty, a mark hit in 2013 for the first time in 50 years, according to the Southern Education Foundation. For these students, poverty brings a host of other disadvantages, most beyond the school district’s control: broken homes, transient living situations, and a lack of educational support at home.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

More than two-thirds of those students — about 70 percent — are women , according to Education Department data analyzed by the Institute for Women’s Policy Research. Among single, Black and Latino fathers, the dropout rate is about 70 percent. That’s where education becomes a second or third or fourth priority to everything else.”

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

now live in poverty, a mark hit in 2013 for the first time in 50 years, according to the Southern Education Foundation. For these students, poverty brings a host of other disadvantages, most beyond the school district’s control: broken homes, transient living situations, and a lack of educational support at home.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 20, 2019

They also share one abiding theme: Parents know the risk of dropping out of school and want desperately for their children to get through high school and beyond in their education. High school dropouts are much more likely to be unemployed and earn thousands of dollars less per year than people with higher levels of education.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 20, 2019

They also share one abiding theme: parents know the risk of dropping out of high school and want desperately for their children to get through high school and beyond in their education. Back then, coal miners on average earned the equivalent of about $75,000 per year in today’s dollars, and no formal education was required. “I

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 9, 2017

In 2012, city officials became convinced that the school could not improve and began the process of shutting it down. Until recently, education reform has prioritized the growth of charter schools, enforcement of strict discipline and high-stakes testing. Related: The end of “no excuses” education reform?

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EdNews Daily

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

The United States faces a serious educational crisis. Teachers are leaving the classroom almost as quickly as colleges and universities prepare them. 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? By Franklin Schargel.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 11, 2018

One of the more radical transformations in public education today begins with a simple greeting each morning among second-graders. The Department of Education declined to offer more details on its plan, but it has already sparked pushback: In mid-December, more than 50 members of Congress sent DeVos a letter opposing any changes.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

Turning around struggling high schools is the toughest work in education reform. Yet, inside the building, a new vision for the education of low-income students of color has taken root. 84 percent of this Chicago high school’s students graduate on time and 52 percent of them now go to college, an 11-point increase from 2012.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 24, 2022

Fifty years have passed since Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 went into effect. The law guarantees the right to an education for pregnant and parenting students. Some educators still believe that having pregnant or parenting teens in school or providing services like nurseries will encourage other students to get pregnant.

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Hack Education

MARCH 3, 2017

Education Politics. Details about the education-related elements of his speech from NPR , The New York Times , Education Week , and The Washington Post. ” More on changing her tune from The Chronicle of Higher Education. ” Here it is: the worst education “take” of the year.

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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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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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Hack Education

OCTOBER 28, 2016

Via Education Week ): “ Hillary Clinton Campaign Releases $500 Million Anti-Bullying Plan.” ” Via The Chronicle of Higher Education : “For Some Republicans, Trump ’s Higher-Ed Proposals Reflect ‘Lost Opportunity’ ” Via Inside Higher Ed : “ Trump Threatens Visas for Those From China.”

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