The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 14, 2019

Though some programs have helped lower dropout rates and improved graduation rates for students of color, the gap in the percentage of students finishing a degree has barely budged across the 30 community colleges in the Minnesota State Colleges and University system. That is not who we serve today.”. Free tuition, mentoring.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 18, 2020

The treatment was a multifaceted and expensive program that included not only free tuition and books for three years, from 2015 to 2018, but also a $50 a month stipend. Students were required to attend college full time, participate in a first-year seminar and meet frequently with an adviser.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 1, 2017

As of 2016, Louisiana and 23 other states had alternative diploma or certificate options specifically for students with disabilities, each state with its own system. Related: How one district solved its special education dropout problem. How one district solved its special education dropout problem. Here’s why they’re not.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 6, 2020

Indeed, in 2015, when The Charter School of San Diego received a Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award, a prestigious federal award recognizing businesses, health care systems, educational institutions and nonprofits for performance excellence, the school was cited for high levels of satisfaction among parents and students.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 2, 2016

At the start of the 2015 school year, about 800 new students — the majority African-American—from schools in Oktibbeha County prepared for their first year in the newly consolidated Starkville Oktibbeha County Public School District. Jones came to Starkville High in 2015 from East Oktibbeha County High School. Photo: Nicole Lewis.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 1, 2018

Students have access to hundreds of courses while they are in Illinois’ juvenile justice facilities, but they tend to focus on math, language arts, social studies and science. Students technically have access to hundreds of courses, but Jones-Redmond said the district focuses on math, language arts, social studies and science.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

OCTOBER 26, 2015

Asynchronous access to this content, especially when this access is not through a dated university learning management system, but something more authentic to the student, maybe even accessed on their own mobile devices. Widen access for all students regardless of income level or, in many cases, general literacy levels.

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Edsurge

JULY 28, 2016

The district is also known for having one of the largest dropout rates and one of the highest pupil-to-teacher ratios in the country. I begin to ponder: Have the rigorous demands of the Nevada Academic Content Standards and my extensive evaluation system decimated my learners joy of reading?

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 22, 2020

So a social worker called his home on a December morning in 2015 when he didn’t come to school. I see a lot of black kids like me lost to the system,” Elliott said. I see a lot of black kids like me lost to the system. Supreme Court on down, have begun reconsidering how the justice system treats young people.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

And the dropout rate among the first Muniz cohort, the class of 2016, was just 2.5 We have to make space for them to access the content.”. Citing figures from a New American Economy report, Walsh says Massachusetts businesses posted nearly 15,000 positions seeking bilingual candidates in 2015. The class listened attentively.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 13, 2017

But it’s another thing to actually have support systems to deal with the students that are there.”. We kept saying, ‘Oh, it’s because they have issues at home, they have to work, it’s the public school system,’” she said. “We Other state systems, such as those in West Virginia, North Carolina and Florida, have begun similar efforts.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 26, 2018

We’re about to start a national system of urban work colleges as well as a national consortium or urban work colleges,” its president, Michael Sorrell, said in April. The Plano region added more than 114,000 jobs between 2010 and 2015, according to the city’s economic development team.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 27, 2017

According to a new study they published in March, two in three community college students they surveyed are food insecure — an increase of 50 percent from their 2015 report. Colleges should develop support systems to reflect that. Colleges should develop support systems to reflect that. That’s a good start, but it’s not enough.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

A 2017 study by the Houston Independent School District, for example, found that students participating in AVID in 2015-16 enrolled in higher-level courses and received higher scores on AP exams and on standardized tests than those who did not. An independent study conducted in Washington state showed similar results.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2023

Sometimes, there is no system in place for tracking how many students are being punished this way or how many days of in-person classroom learning they are forced to miss. “We 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.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 8, 2017

Douglass alumni and 9th Ward residents were livid after superintendent Paul Vallas, who was brought down from Philadelphia to turn around the city’s school system after Katrina, argued that the community hadn’t cared about Douglass for 40 years. In 2013, the school narrowly avoided an F rating on Louisiana’s school accountability system. “In

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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. Lowe, acknowledged. percent of the U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 10, 2022

Proportion who had confidence in higher education in 2015: 57 percent. Samantha Gutter is chief access and outreach officer at the Tennessee Higher Education Commission, which surveyed high school seniors about college and found that they were reluctant to go into debt. Proportion who thought so before the pandemic: 60 percent.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 14, 2020

The gifted program at Eve opened two years ago as a way to increase access to Buffalo’s disproportionately white, in-demand gifted and talented programs. million public school students were identified as gifted in 2015-16, about 6 percent of the total school population, according to the federal Department of Education. Nationally, 3.3

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2019

To critics like Jordan, Philadelphia’s approach epitomizes the low priority school systems place on counseling. Megan Lello, a school district spokesperson, said her agency recognizes the importance of school counseling: Since 2015, the district has added 85 counselors and just one police officer, she said.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 16, 2017

The centerpiece of Summit’s franchising effort, called Basecamp, is its Personalized Learning Platform, or PLP, a free, open-sourced learning management system that boasts a full curriculum for grades 6 through 12, including projects, online learning resources and tests. More than two-thirds of them are district-run schools.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 3, 2023

Community colleges can help lift students into the middle class, but their enrollment has plummeted and their dropout rates are high. Advocates for community colleges defend them as the underdogs of America’s higher education system, left to serve the students who need the most support but without the money required to provide it.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 30, 2018

Aimed at curbing dropouts, improving graduation rates and sending more kids to college and other postsecondary programs, the corps is designed to offset a growing achievement gap in this relatively affluent but increasingly diverse state. “When there’s a budget cut, counselors are the first to go.”.

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Dropout Report Training Outcomes 111

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

He was voted Blythewood High’s 2015-16 Teacher of the Year. You can kind of rationalize somebody’s frustrations if you feel a level of trust in the system, a level of trust in your school,” he said. But by that point, Thorne had also started helping out with the football team as a coach.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 21, 2017

At the meeting, a special education teacher had recommended taking the boy out of Martin Elementary School, in a town 10 miles southwest, and placing him in Georgia’s Network for Educational and Therapeutic Support, or GNETS, a statewide system for children with “emotional and behavioral disorders.”.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 3, 2017

When a state budget impasse drained money from public universities and colleges in Illinois beginning in 2015, some were forced to lay off hundreds of employees, shorten their semesters, even warn they might shut down. We’re creating a caste system in public higher education,” Harnisch said. Enrollment plummeted.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2019

The state’s largest district, in Providence, has dramatically increased its spending on web-based instructional programs, from $158,000 in the 2011-12 school year to $928,000 in 2015-16, the latest data available. What does it mean to have your educational system uploaded for commodification and surveillance?”

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 2, 2017

After the most devastating hurricane season on record, it’s clear that many cities have a stake in developing an exchange system to help deal with disasters. Determining proper building codes, recommending proper land use, and building better levee systems are ways that universities can help communities.

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Education Analysis Study Report 75

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Then she was summoned to the financial aid office, where she learned that the university, part of the California State University System, was giving her a grant of up to $1,500 to help her get across the finish line. “I She considered quitting, or transferring to a community college. I walked out of the office crying. The upshot?

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 22, 2021

Universities doing this say they’re “creating greater access and opportunity,” as Fairleigh Dickinson put it, or moving to “strengthen educational value,” according to Rider. Tuition continued to go up and dropout rates have barely improved since 2015, according to the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center.

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Dropout Data Survey Report 138

The Hechinger Report

MAY 25, 2016

The guidelines included ensuring trans students have access to the restrooms, locker rooms and sports teams that align with their gender identity. ” For places like Mississippi, with its chronically underfunded education system, where federal dollars are important, “that could be a big hit,” Sadker said.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 24, 2022

Some of the reasons for the decrease include teens waiting longer to have sex, increased access to contraception and popular reality TV shows such as “16 and Pregnant,” which depicted the struggles of young moms. But these same students who don’t have access to medically accurate, up-to-date information have to live with the consequences.

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Report Accessibility Outcomes Social Media 136

Hack Education

JUNE 16, 2017

.” Via Inside Higher Ed : “The Department of Education last week outlined changes to civil rights investigations that advocates fear will mean less consistent findings of systemic discrimination at colleges.” ” Landed, founded in 2015, will pay half of a teacher’s down payment for a home.

Education 44

Education Coursera MOOC Kaplan 44

Hack Education

MARCH 3, 2017

The funding actually occurred in November 2015 but was not disclosed until required by law. million in Series A funding from University Ventures and New Markets Venture Partners for its “automatic motivational support system.” The devices will be monitored through a tracking system developed for this purpose.”

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 12, 2017

It has shaped the administrative imaginary – and that in turn has shaped how schools have built capacity (or much more likely outsourced capacity ) and defined capacity altogether – notably in response to what’s been consistently framed as the challenge of access and the necessity of choice.

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