Dangerously Irrelevant

MARCH 24, 2016

John Hattie, Professor of Education at the University of Auckland, spent 15 years synthesizing the vast body of peer-reviewed, meta-analytical research pertaining to student achievement. Hattie went on to state: It would be difficult to find another educational practice on which the evidence is so unequivocally negative. (p.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 22, 2016

After a survey from the initial pilot cohort of a hybrid Spanish class that we launched in 2014-2015, we found that 100% of the hybrid students in both sections of the pilot successfully completed the class, compared to 85% of the students in the 7 totally asynchronous (online) sections of the Spanish 1A class running in the same semester.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 7, 2021

That’s 73,000 additional graduates (above existing stretch goals) between 2014 and 2020, exceeding our 10-year goal of 68,000 in just six years. Higher education has to get comfortable with trial and error. Taken together, our experiences over the past seven years show that real change is possible in higher education.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 4, 2018

Texas A&M University at Texarkana has one of the lowest retention rates of public higher-education institutions; 55 percent who started in 2012 were gone by 2016. Enrollment at the beginning of the academic year just ended was up 13 percent from 2014 , to 2,038. Department of Education data analyzed by The Hechinger Report.

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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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EdTechTeam

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

“Ongoing research shows that family engagement in schools improves student achievement, reduces absenteeism, and restores parents’ confidence in their children’s education” (Garcia & Thornton, 2014). Educational technology is an effective way to communicate with parents. 2014, November 14). with using Remind.

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Marketplace K-12

FEBRUARY 5, 2016

Major online education provider K12 Inc., In 2014 K12 suffered a big blow when the 10,800-student Agora Cyber Charter School in Pennsylvania ditched the private management company in favor of managing its own operations. He came back to Renaissance Learning in 2012, and served on its board of directors until 2014.

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The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

Thank you, Pam for your time and wisdom and I hope everyone has enjoyed this four-part series with a truly remarkable educator. ” We have a significantly low dropout rate and high on-time graduation rate in Albemarle. Vicki: So, educators, we’ve gotten so many great thoughts here. I just so appreciate you as an educator.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 28, 2022

The university has done this by luring out-of-staters with in-state tuition prices and by breaking with long-standing attitudes through which higher education sometimes alienates rather than embraces prospective applicants. Related: Colleges’ new solution to enrollment declines: Reducing the number of dropouts. Department of Education.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 7, 2024

Gifting myself with an education is a part of my recovery,” said Nomi Badboy, 43, one of three students attending this week’s meeting of the school’s collegiate recovery program. Education is an example of what’s called “recovery capital,” something earned that makes long-term recovery more likely.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 14, 2019

In September 2019 the Department of Education’s Office of Federal Student aid released data showing two consecutive years of falling default rates. Higher Education. More than 15 percent of these graduates and dropouts defaulted in both time periods. ” The Department of Education also released default rates by state.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 22, 2020

Even with his impressive list of accomplishments, Elliott worried that his education would be derailed. “I Related: From prison to dean’s list: How Danielle Metz got an education after incarceration. Educators can change this,” she said. Educators can change this.”. But my school had my back.”.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

Michelle McLaughlin said Michael’s education did not prepare him for college or career. This story was produced by The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education, in partnership with the Huffington Post. Our son’s education was a waste. Higher Education.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 13, 2015

students attend blended classes on campus and take online courses from home, and district educators say a personalized learning solution has had a positive impact in a number of academic areas. The number of high school students being held back a grade dropped in the 2014-15 school year by nearly two-thirds—from 19 down to 7.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 15, 2019

Colleges are closing or merging at an accelerating rate, from about eight per year between 2004 and 2014, to an estimated 20 per year moving forward, with small private colleges particularly vulnerable. These also show that Nichols has reduced the number of dropouts, holding onto $5.4 Gretchen Ertl for The Hechinger Report.

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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

DECEMBER 15, 2017

This story was produced by The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education, in partnership with the Huffington Post. BRUNSWICK, Maine — Kate Lord didn’t have a plan when she graduated from Brunswick High School in 2014. for former general education students.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

This story was produced by The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education, in partnership with the Huffington Post. He knew it would be easy; he said tests in his special education classes almost always were. Credit: Melissa Lyttle for HuffPost.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 22, 2017

According to a new report by Civic Enterprises and the Everyone Graduates Center at Johns Hopkins University, during the 2014-15 school year, the difference between the graduation rates of black and white students in the state was one of the smallest in the country. A cohort is the number of first-time ninth graders in a school year.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 26, 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. Higher Education. Subscribe today! BRYANT POND, Maine — EB Hoff, 14, was running for class treasurer of the Class of 2022.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 18, 2018

Higher Education. But Goldstein, who helped create a hands-on manufacturing course at Randolph Union in 2014, says “retention is much easier than recruitment.” For most educators, it’s a cultural shift, and one that comes with additional, often uncompensated, work. Sign up for our newsletter. Choose as many as you like.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 17, 2016

Jones, senior vice provost for undergraduate studies at Temple University, and Paul Tough, author of the upcoming book, “Helping Children Succeed: What Works and Why,” presented some promising solutions this month during a session at the Education Writers Association’s National Seminar at Boston University.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 18, 2023

Credit: Don & Melinda Crawford/Education Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images For decades, a handful of individual states and schools have offered financial assistance to Native students. There are “so many people that are stuck in poverty and stuck in situations where they can’t get an education,” Hall said. “I

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 26, 2020

The class-action lawsuit was filed by Student Defense, a national legal defense network focused on higher education, and a Des Moines law firm, Wandro & Associates P.C. Department of Education. What we found was that La’James was withholding the money that students were entitled to and pushing them into financial ruin.”.

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The Innovative Educator

DECEMBER 31, 2016

Over the course of the past year, we have lost three innovative educators. Because each educator was generous with sharing their thoughts and ideas, they leave behind a digital legacy that can live on to inspire others. Below is a little insight about each of these educators. I hadn’t heard much from Deven after 2014.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Sign up for our Higher Education newsletter. Higher Education. In December 2013, there were 29 million people with some college education but no degree. These data alarm the experts, considering all the messaging about the need for postsecondary education. Choose as many as you like. Weekly Update. Future of Learning.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 10, 2017

In Spokane, 48 percent of 2014 graduates who received free or reduced-price lunch — a typical indicator of poverty — went on to higher education the following year, compared to 65 percent of those who didn’t receive subsidized meals, according to state data. Related: Can $10 million build the ideal high school? Destiny Roupe, John R.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 2, 2016

Their schools were crumbling and had twice been taken over by the Mississippi State Board of Education for failing to provide students with an adequate education. It’s about improving education for all kids,” said school district Superintendent Lewis Holloway. Related: Schools in the poorest state become even poorer.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 7, 2018

The proportion of overage students — those who have been retained for at least one grade — hovers around 40 percent for New Orleans high school students, according to an analysis of 2014 data by researchers at Education Research Alliance for New Orleans, which is based at Tulane University. Higher Education. Weekly Update.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

This story is part of our Map to the Middle Class project , where we ask readers what they want us to investigate about educational pathways to economic stability. Higher education has long been viewed as the key to higher earnings and financial security. Photo: Kate Flock for The Hechinger Report. Sign up for Hechinger’s newsletter.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 27, 2016

Related: Pipeline to Prison: How the juvenile justice system fails special education students. Detention almost always has a negative impact on the education of young people. It further explained that providing an education for detained young people is necessary to support communities and the kids’ future success.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 9, 2018

This crucial juncture, and its far-reaching implications for those who don’t meet the mark, is why some educators are focusing their literacy efforts on the school years that come before third grade — hoping through innovation to offset what could be a terrible and lasting deficit in children’s reading skills.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2022

“We have this huge digital divide that’s making it hard for [students] to get their education,” she said. David Silver, the director of education for the mayor’s office, said people talked about the digital divide, but there had never been enough energy to tackle it. It was so much bigger than just education.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 4, 2019

This story is a part of our Map to the Middle Class project, in which readers ask questions about educational pathways to financial stability and then we investigate. In 2014, the labor market analysis firm Burning Glass Technologies tried to capture the extent of degree inflation. Related: Test prep to get into vocational education?

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Educator Innovator

JULY 14, 2014

At the end of the 2014 school year, Oakland Unified School District (OUSD) honored 24 graduating seniors from 12 different high schools. Valerie Panameno from Fremont High School conducted research on the impact of Latino parents’ education levels on their children’ success in schools. There is no textbook to teach civic engagement.

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MindShift

JUNE 27, 2016

While her particular case may be unique, Gnyp’s path to higher education is more typical of an American college student than what is often portrayed in the media: the recent high school graduate showing up on a leafy college campus away from home for a four-year college experience. From Access to Completion.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 9, 2017

Yuna Ishikawa was in her senior year of high school in 2014 when she made the drive with her mother from Oberlin, Ohio, to visit Wellesley College in Massachusetts. Sign up for our Higher Education newsletter. Read more about higher education. Photo: Richard Howard Photo: Richard Howard.

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