The Hechinger Report

MAY 17, 2016

To increase the number of Americans with degrees by 33 percent in less than a decade, colleges will have to get much better at serving the kinds of students who have historically fallen through the cracks, and they will have to do so fast to meet that target. Graduation rates for poor students haven’t budged much in the past four decades.

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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

OCTOBER 2, 2016

The median household income in Oktibbeha County for black residents is $21,795 annually while the median income for white households is almost double, at $41,501, according to American Community Survey 2014 estimates. The school district had a 27 percent dropout rate in 2014. Others feared violence between students.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Between 2014 and 2018, the economy improved as it recovered from the Great Recession, and that could have pushed some students to leave school for a strong job market. Plus, the job market plays a role in the increase. Economic motivation is a factor,” Ryu said. For many of these students, life gets in the way, higher education experts say.

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MindShift

JUNE 27, 2016

One of Weaver’s main responsibilities at Nashville State is to try to meet the financial gap between grants, loans and scholarships and what students can afford. Since most community college students come from low-income backgrounds, many struggle to juggle multiple responsibilities, work and stay in school long enough to graduate. “And

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 18, 2023

Tribes have to meet several criteria in their petitions for federal recognition, including proof they’ve had decades of a collective identity, generations of descendants and long-standing, autonomous political governance. That’s because the U.S. She deferred her loan payments until she no longer could. Her credit score took a hit.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 4, 2019

Meetings, not so much. So many meetings.”. In 2014, the labor market analysis firm Burning Glass Technologies tried to capture the extent of degree inflation. In half an hour, he needed to join a conference call about changes to the company’s website. He had been at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt for four months. Coding he liked.

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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. What began as an awareness campaign through a website and documentary video led Yasser and his peers to bring their issue to school board meetings to get the district to hear their demands.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2022

Jordan Mickens, who spent his first year as a teacher at Castlemont High School in 2014, said he vividly remembers the technology divide his students faced compared with those in the wealthy areas surrounding Oakland. When he taught at Castlemont in 2014, the school had only one Chromebook cart. “To

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 6, 2017

Melanie Tucci calculated that she would have to work about 30 hours a week as well as take out loans to make it through college when she started at Temple in 2014. Nearly 40 percent of them get no credit for any of the courses they have completed and lose 27 credits on average — or about a year of school, according to a 2014 federal study.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 5, 2016

Well prepared, well resourced, full-pay students: Those are the students all institutions want because they help them meet their bottom line,” said Joe Garcia, president of the organization that released Tuesday’s report, the Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education. The national average is nearly 70 percent. ” .

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MindShift

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

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

high school with a traditional diploma, proving that his disability didn’t prevent him from meeting the same standards as his peers. Ensuring that all children with disabilities have appropriately ambitious goals and the chance to meet challenging objectives is a priority for the department,” DeVos said in a July speech.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

During his sophomore year, Nelson and his parents hired an advocate who began attending meetings with them. Thorossian said she was disappointed to learn that Nelson and his parents had been unable to work out their issues with the school system during yearly meetings to finalize his Individualized Education Program, or IEP.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 1, 2016

And the gap is even wider in some other states, the commission calculates, where older learners would have to make up 60 percent or more of new college graduates in order to meet degree goals. Sign up for our Higher Education newsletter. The Gates Foundation is among the funders of The Hechinger Report , which produced this story.).

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 15, 2019

Since 2014, the university has offered online video courses similar to those at Elizabethtown, but starting this fall, it will also host meetings over Zoom exclusively for first-generation parents, she said. Students walk across the campus of UCLA.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 15, 2017

BRUNSWICK, Maine — Kate Lord didn’t have a plan when she graduated from Brunswick High School in 2014. Gunn said the district provides professional development for teachers that focuses on transition and has recently begun sending a teacher each month to a regional group meeting to discuss transition topics. Sign up for our newsletter.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 1, 2018

In 2014, an Illinois Department of Juvenile Justice remedial plan, created as part of a settlement agreement following a 2012 lawsuit against the department, specifically called for a blended-learning model to resolve inadequate educational opportunities in the system.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 2, 2019

At Carver, an initially adversarial relationship between charter operator Collegiate Academies and school alumni has faded, as principal Jerel Bryant checks in with Carver grads through regular phone calls, monthly meetings with a small group of alumni advisors and a staff that now includes about a dozen Carver alumni. “I

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 27, 2016

In a December 2014 “Dear Colleague” letter from the Departments of Justice and Education, then-Secretary of Education Arne Duncan and then-Attorney General Eric Holder wrote to state superintendents and attorney generals across the nation, asking them to continue their investment in correctional education.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 23, 2019

When Matt Johnson’s girlfriend was killed in gang crossfire in 2014, leaving him a single father to a 3-year-old girl, he knew it was time to do something different with his life. Not everyone is convinced that sending gang members to college is the best way to meet their needs or better their communities.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

Nationally, 76 percent of white students in special education who exited high school in 2014-15 earned a traditional diploma. where there is just one school district, 77 percent of white students with special needs who exited during the 2014-15 school year left with a diploma, while just 57 percent of their black and Latino peers did.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

Experts estimate that up to 90 percent should be able to graduate high school meeting the same standards as general education students, ready to succeed in college and careers. When he got to Purdue University in 2014, he didn’t have a system for organizing his deadlines.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 11, 2016

This model demands more resources than those available to a traditional high school, but given that the typical high school dropout costs the state an estimated $300,000 over their lifetime , Cesene argues that the math is elementary. Massi, who picked up Javier’s case in 2014, said she helped her deal with tough problems at home.

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techlearning

MARCH 5, 2018

The district faced challenges with dropouts and reduced graduation rates due to failed classes, school transfers, and absences due to weather and medical issues. Founded in 2014, this progressive, project-based-learning school has infused adaptive tech into all facets of its program. Many students matriculate behind grade level.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 14, 2020

There are gifted dropouts. He proposed a Venn diagram: Giftedness is where creativity, above-average ability and commitment to completing a task meet. In 2014, a group of Buffalo parents filed a racial discrimination complaint with the U.S. While gifted education generally took off in the U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 18, 2018

Factor in the higher dropout rate among nonwhite students in rural high schools, and the odds that black and Hispanic students from areas like this will ever earn degrees are just as low as for their urban counterparts. But you have a PTSA meeting and nobody will show up.”. But you have a PTSA meeting and nobody will show up.”.

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

Though the rate of low-income students in the district has steadily increased in the last decade, so have graduation rates, to 83 percent in 2014. Eastwood often fondly recalls when Middletown High School’s newly renovated stadium hosted a regional track meet. The rest of the country is starting to pay attention as well.

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

Though the rate of low-income students in the district has steadily increased in the last decade, so have graduation rates, to 83 percent in 2014. Eastwood often fondly recalls when Middletown High School’s newly renovated stadium hosted a regional track meet. The rest of the country is starting to pay attention as well.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

BE2T exists to meet these two needs. Fellows receive monthly stipends that start at $450 and rise each year, up to $700, in an attempt to combat steep post-secondary dropout rates — 33 percent of black college students drop out after one year of college, often because of financial shortfalls.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 9, 2017

Last year, 23 percent of the school’s third-graders passed the state reading test, up from 0 percent in 2014. All students at P.S. 154 begin their day with a morning meeting. At one school in the Bronx, for example, the community partner and the principal didn’t meet until the first day of school last year. Photo: Tal Bar-Zemer.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 27, 2019

Like their counterparts all over the world, most of the students here avoid taking classes that are scheduled to meet on Fridays, giving themselves a head start on their weekends. To discourage dropouts, the length of high school was shortened from four years to three, though the effect of this has been mixed.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 16, 2017

Those connections start with one-on-one mentoring, in which teachers meet with students weekly to discuss short-term goals, such as completing a certain number of units in a history course, and long-term goals that stretch into college and career. Choi wouldn’t put a target on further expansion.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 1, 2018

Later that day, she planned to study for her summer session classes, English and public speaking, and to meet with an advisor. Federal legislation passed in 2014 aimed to reduce barriers to foster youth working after-school jobs, playing sports and participating in other activities, but implementation has been uneven. “I

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 21, 2017

ATLANTA — Brent Agnew remembers feeling a sense of relief when he left the meeting called to discuss his 6-year-old son Caleb’s anxiety attacks. Ten years later, the couple sat across a wooden table from Caleb, now 16, a high school dropout and, as of September, survivor of a suicide attempt. Photo: Jesse Pratt Lopez.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 20, 2019

Seventy-nine percent of Latino students graduated from Sampson County schools last year, up 3 percentage points from 2014 and just about matching the state average. The program held evening meetings for families in Spanish, with Latin American food, to help connect parents to the school. But significant obstacles remain.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 6, 2018

Half of all new principals quit their jobs within three years, according to a 2014 study. But today he still has a few more things to do before tomorrow’s meeting with the board. Rural school leaders have some of the most complex, multifaceted jobs in education. They also have some of the highest turnover.

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