The Hechinger Report

MAY 22, 2018

“When these programs were designed, it was an acknowledgment that there were low-income students who had need, and of the importance of going to college,” said Carrie Warick, director of policy and advocacy at the nonpartisan National College Access Network. One of the easiest places to cut the budget is in financial aid.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 28, 2018

Even though more than half of Mississippi’s public high school graduates in 2015 were African American, they only made up 10 percent of that fall’s freshman class at the University of Mississippi. African-Americans comprised 10 percent of freshmen at Ole Miss in 2015, an 8-percentage-point drop since 2010. . More than a third of U.S.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 14, 2018

Pam: I think that one of the things that particularly — in states like Virginia where the resources that localities have access to can be wildly different. So you wouldn’t find, for example, with technology — Albemarle has been in a one-to-one environment for a number of years now, as has Charlottesville City.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 16, 2023

This back-to-school season, the Education Reporting Collaborative, a coalition of eight newsrooms, will be documenting the enormous challenge facing our schools and highlighting examples of progress. Advocacy focused on math disabilities has been less widespread than that for reading disabilities.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2020

So far, the pandemic has revealed the challenges of conducting education remotely as well as uneven access to Wi-Fi and devices such as laptops. The Miami-Dade school district, for example, adopted a plan back in 2012 to close the digital divide. Half of the 20 most destructive wildfires in state history have occurred since 2015.

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NeverEndingSearch

JULY 21, 2021

For example, one of the things that we learned was that the majority of Hispanic school districts are twice as likely not to have school libraries as the majority non-Hispanic districts. Deb : Using the NCES (National Center for Education Statistics) data from 2015/2016 school year to the 2018/2019. Joyce : Thanks, Deb. 2021, July).

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

The sixth annual Global Education Conference , our free four-day online event bringing together educators and innovators from around the world, runs today Monday, November 16 through Thursday, November 19, 2015 (November 20th in some time zones). We invite all to attend! A full listing of sessions is below. You're going to be blown away.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 10, 2021

In some states, the graduation rate gaps are particularly acute: At every four-year public college in Illinois and Missouri with data available, for example, there was a gap of at least 14 percentage points between white and Black students in 2019. What are you going to do?” Ortiz-Licon said. The financial challenges.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

That meant he wouldn’t get wheelchair-accessible transportation, tuition help or voice-activated software from the agency — all of which he qualified for under federal law. “I Some people need a hearing aid, for example; others require voice-activated note-taking software or screen-readers for college.

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Fractus Learning

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

But I don’t see my advocacy as a zero-sum game. Girls have easier access to same-gender reading role models (moms, pre-school and elementary teachers, school librarians and children’s librarians are typically female), and now they also have access to role models in male-dominated fields and professions. Every rule. Every player.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

The new federal education law, the Every Student Succeeds Act , or ESSA, also provides increased access to funding for physical education by including the subject in its definition of a “well-rounded education.”. “At At least we’re at the table now,” said Carly Wright, advocacy director for SHAPE. “It Gina Dresang, fifth grade teacher.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 4, 2018

Fifty-five percent who started in 2015 were gone by the following year, the most recent period for which the figures are available, according to U.S. Access without success is not really solving the problems we need to solve, especially for the most disadvantaged,” said Vandal.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2023

We are speaking about an equal right, an equal opportunity to access education,” said Sabrina Bernadel, legal counsel at the National Women’s Law Center. When the kids are academically on target, for example, you don’t want them to lose that momentum, and we allow [virtual] as an option.” It just depends.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 29, 2017

There may be no better example of this in 2017 than “personalized learning.” Indeed, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative has paid for some of that very press coverage, funding for example “an EdSurge Research series about how personalized learning is implemented in different school communities across the country.”

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 17, 2018

Every time users click “allow” when an app asks them to enable location services or provide access to their contacts, microphone or folders, they are potentially making a transaction: sharing their personal information in exchange for using the app. Since the project began in 2015, the privacy team has evaluated nearly 300 education apps.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 2, 2023

Research continues to show the harmful impact of housing instability on kids’ learning: Each time students switch schools, for example, they are more likely to fall behind academically and less likely to graduate. The law has since been amended several times; school districts now must identify and enroll any student experiencing homelessness.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 4, 2019

Between 2000 and 2015, the number of Latinx college students more than doubled , to 3 million. Between 2000 and 2015, the number of Latinx college students more than doubled , to 3 million. Ortiz knew she had Pell Grant aid coming in, but didn’t know how to access it. Census Bureau. Debra Santiago, CEO, Excelencia in Education.

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Edsurge

JULY 11, 2018

Since then, you’ve helped redefine student success in ways that go beyond academics and made learning science more accessible to teachers.” Shelton, who had served in the Department of Education during the Obama administration, began meeting with the pair in 2015 after he had joined the online graduate education company, 2U.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 4, 2016

In Tennessee, however, half of the residents found eligible for VR services in 2015 didn’t get any, according to federal data. Yet the state left $14 million in federal VR dollars on the table in 2015 and again in 2016, even as the agency temporarily shut its doors to new clients. More than 40 percent of counselor positions are vacant.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 31, 2020

In Indianapolis Public Schools, for example, the Center for Inquiry School 84 has a lower portion of kids getting free or reduced-price lunch than any other school in the district, at just 8 percent. Certain special education programs can drive up costs, for example. Related: A decade of research on the rich-poor divide in education.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 26, 2018

Jessica Thompson, policy and research director, The Institute for College Access and Success. Department of Education ; the figures are for 2015-16, the most recent period available. Arkansas Baptist, for example, has suffered an enrollment slide and budget problems that have forced it to impose staff pay cuts. Weekly Update.

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MindShift

DECEMBER 3, 2020

That task may be easier than ever, thanks to six years of advocacy by the We Need Diverse Books campaign. When doing class readings of One Crazy Summer by Rita Williams-Garcia, for example, she stops to chat with students about the characters’ grandmother pressing their hair. Excluding #OwnVoices.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

Kinser’s example is just one of many ways the companies’ incentives aren’t totally aligned with those of the colleges. The company, along with the school it partnered with, Concordia University-Portland, paid $1 million to settle the lawsuit in 2015 and acknowledged no wrongdoing. Skewed incentives. But it was costly.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 16, 2017

Basecamp schools then receive mentoring from and troubleshooting by Summit staff, as well as PLP access throughout the academic year. Nineteen pilot schools participated in 2015; this year, the number skyrocketed, with 113 more joining the Basecamp ranks. Stephen Boulas, student at Walsh Middle School, a Summit Basecamp school.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 21, 2017

Students like Moises and Lina, for example, wouldn’t be eligible under the Cuomo proposal. We can’t leave behind families who need more assistance to close that financial gap,” said Ian Rosenblum, the executive director of Education Trust–New York, a nonprofit education advocacy group that published a report about the Excelsior Scholarship.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 3, 2017

If public education is ever going to meet the needs of low-income students, ideas for change must get beyond the constant war of words fueled by advocacy journalism, partisan blogging and fake news. Trump and Betsy DeVos are examples of why a free press is needed now more than ever. Photo: Drew Angerer/Getty Images.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

The Trump administration is pushing to make college costs, outcomes and other information more accessible as an alternative to regulating institutions with high costs and poor results. It has to be visible to students, and it has to be usable,” said Debbie Cochrane, executive vice president of the Institute for College Access & Success.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 21, 2017

The Georgia program caught the attention of the Department of Justice, which launched an investigation that lasted several years, and resulted in a 21-page letter of findings in July, 2015, and a lawsuit in August, 2016. Leslie Lipson, counsel to the Georgia Advocacy Office. Again, the result is stunted learning.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

It was shut down again a year later in 2015 when a surprise inspection of Manu-Lee’s home found her with 14 children in her care, eight of them infants — four times the legal number of infants for a home-based provider. Georgia , for example, had zero serious injuries in 2022; Ohio , which also counts serious “incidents,” had nearly 19,000.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 21, 2017

The odds of a GI Bill recipient graduating from San Diego Mesa College, just eight miles away, for example, are one in 100, these most recent available data reveal. And San Diego State’s figures go through 2012, while Florida State’s cover the period through 2015. Things do not appear to be improving.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 17, 2018

Many charters hire teachers who don’t belong to a teachers union or haven’t gone through a traditional teacher preparation program, for example. The analysis used federal enrollment data for the 2015-16 school year, the most recent year for which that data is available from the U.S. Department of Education. Board of Education decision.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 17, 2023

Credit: Lily Estella Thompson for The Hechinger Report Following Meryl’s death, Ketron decided to continue her daughter’s advocacy. Credit: Lily Estella Thompson for The Hechinger Report Across the country, the number of GSAs is at a 20-year low, according to GLSEN, an LGBTQ+ education advocacy nonprofit.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 3, 2019

It’s one example of the many ways that California is taking on seemingly intractable problems that are plaguing higher education nationwide. The goal, writes historian John Aubrey Douglass, was “broad access combined with the development of high quality, mission differentiated, and affordable higher education institutions.”.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 28, 2020

In fact, the federal government provided child care subsidies to just one in six children eligible to receive them in 2015, according to the U.S. This is a major investment that the country should make in terms of supporting early childhood and access to child care.”. Credit: Photo: Lillian Mongeau/Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Shyra Adams vividly remembers the days after the death of Tony Robinson, an unarmed Black teenager killed in 2015 by police in her hometown of Madison, Wisconsin. Since the 2015-16 school year, teachers and staff at Oakland schools called the police more than 9,000 times, according to data included in the new resolution. million.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

You can read the series here: 2010 , 2011 , 2012 , 2013 , 2014 , 2015 , 2016 , 2017 , 2018 , 2019. The real digital divide, this article contends, is not that affluent children have access to better and faster technologies. (Um, Certainly “free” works well for cash-strapped schools. Um, they do.) Online Grade Portals.

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Hack Education

AUGUST 26, 2016

Via NPR : “Months after the Obama administration advised school districts that transgender students should be given access to bathrooms based on their gender identity, a federal judge in Texas has blocked the guidance from going into effect – for now.” Me, I guess.). ” More via The Atlantic. The CEO: Loraine Petrillo.

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