The Hechinger Report

MAY 10, 2021

Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut, pictured above, was one of 99 colleges that adopted test-optional admissions between 2005-6 and 2015-16. He then compared these diversity gains to what happened at a similar group of colleges that didn’t adopt test-optional policies until after 2015-16. and DePaul University in Chicago.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Credit: Lillian Mongeau for The Hechinger Report That’s slowly changing — for some disabilities. 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. 17 at 8 p.m. Eastern, 7 p.m.

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eSchool News

MAY 9, 2018

In December, our center issued its third state-by-state report card on high school personal finance education. Report cards also were issued in 2013 and 2015. Our report cards are among several advocacy efforts. It’s that important.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Six newsrooms joined together to report on the problem and find solutions for America’s reading problem. In North Carolina, reading scores barely budged in the five years between 2015 and 2019. Credit: Ariel Gilreath for The Hechinger Report. Credit: Ariel Gilreath for The Hechinger Report. Reading Remedies.

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 29, 2017

Although low-skilled adults have minimal access to educational opportunities, I outlined in my 2015 blog post some ways in which technology has the potential to provide critical access to quality, personalized learning experiences for this underserved population. In fact, according to U.S.

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Waterford

JANUARY 14, 2020

According to student stress statistics, nearly half (45%) of the teenagers polled reported that they’re stressed all the time, and 70% report that anxiety or depression are “major problems” for themselves or their peers.[9,11] In fact, one-fifth of all children report that they worry a lot.[14] Johnson, S.B., Riley, A.W.,

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 24, 2021

Indeed, many advocacy groups, including the Learning Policy Institute and Ed Trust , are recommending extending learning time next year. The 1983 report A Nation at Risk highlighted how much more instructional time children received in other industrialized nations. appeared first on The Hechinger Report. average of 180 days.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 20, 2020

She reported it through official channels, she said, but never got so much as an apology — and the white student continued to say the word. Torrey enrolled at the university fully aware that the student body president had been called the same epithet in 2015; she hoped things had changed. This story also appeared in USA Today.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 16, 2021

Credit: Shae Hammond for The Hechinger Report. Across the country, some state lawmakers have begun to respond to the demands of student activists and Native advocacy organizations. Monica Braine , who is Assiniboine and Hunkpapa Lakota , and Sol Traverso , who is of Athabaskan descent, contributed reporting for this story.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 10, 2018

Photo: Sarah Garland/The Hechinger Report. This is common in rural areas, according to a new report by the Center for American Progress, which found in some states, the federally-funded program accounts for one-third of all child care centers. on The Hechinger Report ?and A child plays at a Head Start program in Mississippi.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 22, 2018

Last year alone, more than 900,000 low-income students who applied for and were found eligible for state financial aid for college never received it, because states ran out of money, according to a new analysis of state data by The Hechinger Report. Related: Report: Universities relying more on tuition than state and local money.

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Waterford

APRIL 10, 2020

Over 40% of teachers report feeling high stress every day during the school year, which ties teaching with nursing as having the highest stress rate of any career.[13] National Immigrant Women’s Advocacy Project, June 2014, pp. InnovAiT, May 2015, 8(6), pp. Retrieved from ucf.edu: [link]. and Molina, M. and Watson, M.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 22, 2018

But since it wasn’t our house, they could use the bathroom first,” Kimberly, 12, told the child advocacy organization Children’s Defense Fund for their The State of America’s Children 2014 report. Yet it gave itself a D on its report card earlier this year. But at school, she was labeled truant. “I percent, but was also 2.0

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 10, 2018

Photo: Jackie Mader/The Hechinger Report. It just goes against everything we know about child development and what’s best for children,” said Josh Golin, executive director of the nonprofit advocacy group Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood. LeMya Vaughn completes an activity on her kindergarten readiness program, UPSTART.

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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. Photo: Jackie Mader/The Hechinger Report. In the fall of 2015, African-American student retention was 87.2 More than a third of U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Pearson, the parent company of Connections Education, the second largest for-profit online charter operator, reported enrollment growth in its virtual schools division of 20 percent in 2020. Gary Miron, an education researcher who co-authored a National Education Policy Center report on for-profit charter schools. At Stride Inc.,

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 28, 2022

Credit: Valerie Plesch for the Hechinger Report. A few months earlier, according to a state report provided by Richmond, AJ had once threatened to knock another student down to steal his belt; his special education team had stepped in and concluded he posed no threat of harm to himself or others. How depressed was he feeling?

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 26, 2019

“You have teachers who give everything for children — sometimes spending more time than parents — but society doesn’t respect or pay teachers what they are worth,” Michelle Santos told the Hechinger Report. during the 2015-16 school year were women. It’s because we’re mostly women,” she explained.

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Edsurge

MARCH 18, 2021

But as soon as more people showed up to campuses in 2015, Tennessee higher ed leaders discovered a problem: Students were surprised by the additional costs of going to college. It even inspired President Obama to pitch a similar federal program.

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E-rate Policies Study Accessibility 136

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 10, 2021

Credit: Camilla Forte for The Hechinger Report. Feliza Ortiz-Licon, chief policy and advocacy officer at Latinos for Education, a nonprofit group, said that administrators and educators who want to address racial disparities in college completion need to look at the entire system and take responsibility for their part in it.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 27, 2018

In 2015, she started Breathe for Change. According to a 2014 report by the Alliance For Excellent Education, a national policy and advocacy organization, roughly half a million U.S. Nankin explained that her students started using the yoga, wellness and social-emotional practices she was teaching them with their own students.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Credit: Alison Yin for The Hechinger Report Photo by Alison Yin for The Hechinger Report. Credit: Alison Yin for The Hechinger Report. Credit: Charlotte West for The Hechinger Report. Credit: Alison Yin for The Hechinger Report. Credit: Alison Yin for the Hechinger Report. said Mendoza.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Photo: Jon Reis for The Hechinger Report. Photo: Laura Pappano for The Hechinger Report. The Modern Language Association reported a 9.2 Photo: Jon Reis for The Hechinger Report. ITHACA, N.Y. And few of them learned it in school. Yet college language course enrollments are plummeting.

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Course Study Report Policies 88

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 13, 2017

Urban Institute analysis from 2015. Hoffman Early Learning Center , which opened in 2015, currently hosts federally funded Head Start programs that provide free pre-K programs to qualifying low-income families with 3- and 4-year-olds. According to a 2015 analysis by the Washington D.C. appeared first on The Hechinger Report.

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Education Analysis Advocacy Trends 80

The Hechinger Report

JULY 30, 2019

NPR reported that at least five individuals each offered to pay the accumulated debt of $22,000, representing dozens of students who hadn’t paid for meals. million in missing resources ,” according to a 2015 report on education funding by the nonprofit advocacy group EdTrust. For a 1,000-student high school, it means $1.2

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 27, 2017

It’s also a mindset that many teenagers appear to lack, according to research Damon carried out at the Stanford Center on Adolescence: About 20 percent of high school kids report being purposeful and dedicated to something besides themselves.

Advocacy 158

Advocacy Guidelines Report Personalized Learning 158

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 17, 2017

When Kylie Jones brings home her report card, it doesn’t have any A’s, B’s or C’s. According to 2015-16 state accountability data, high-needs students in the district performed better than high-needs students statewide in both English language arts and math, and, overall, district students showed more growth than the students statewide.

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Common Core Advocacy System Personalized Learning 93

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

The researchers created 56 tasks for students in 12 states, and collected 7,804 student responses from January 2015 until June 2016. The report suggests that schools must teach students the skills they need to be savvy consumers of news and information they encounter online. Sign up for our Blended Learning newsletter.

Social Media 40

Social Media Blended Learning Advocacy Study 40

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

The Department of Education said they would look into the possibility, The New York Times reported. The grant was created in 2015 under the Every Student Succeeds Act to provide funding for three key areas: creating safe and healthy schools, supporting a well-rounded education and increasing effective use of technology.

Advocacy 68

Advocacy Policies Training Technology 68

Iterating Toward Openness

AUGUST 31, 2022

Leveraging the “No Significant Difference” Effect for OER Advocacy. They had an important role to play in OER advocacy. The original OLI-Statistics course comes to mind here, as reported by Lovett ( 2008 ). One example of a study with stronger controls is Allen, Guzman-Alvarez, Molinaro, and Larsen (2015).

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OER Outcomes Comparison Study 147

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

I wrote a piece about these concerns back in 2015 in the early days of the new free lunch option. students from 2013-14 before the community eligibility option went into effect nationwide through 2015-16 , its second year. The post How a federal free meal program affected school poverty stats appeared first on The Hechinger Report.

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Data Analysis Advocacy Policies 89

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 6, 2017

Photo: Kate Flock for The Hechinger Report. Personalized learning advocates had big hopes for ESSA, enacted in 2015. We’re not quite seeing the bold jump to innovation that we would like to see,” said Chip Slaven, a senior advocacy advisor for the Alliance for Excellent Education, which works to improve high schools.

Personalized Learning 68

Personalized Learning Policies Advocacy Assessment 68

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 23, 2019

We saw the first big leap of results in the 2015-16 year,” Marwell remembered. “I EducationSuperHighway’s advocacy supported the district’s efforts perfectly. This story about classroom connectivity was produced by The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education.

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E-rate Digital Divide Classroom Laptops 48

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 25, 2019

Together with three other researchers at Harvard, UCLA and Stanford, she set up an elaborate experiment with more than 15,000 middle and high school students in California during the 2015-16 school year. Another 2015 study found that non-monetary rewards were useful in getting young kids to attend an after-school tutoring program.

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Study Groups Advocacy Conference 80

The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2020

How Schools Are preparing – and Not Preparing – Children for Climate Change,” reported by HuffPost and The Hechinger Report, a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. Half of the 20 most destructive wildfires in state history have occurred since 2015. Are We Ready?

Digital Divide 115

Digital Divide Laptops Accessibility Online Learning 115

edWeb.net

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

In the report, Social, Emotional, and Academic Development Through an Equity Lens , from The Education Trust, researchers found most families of color don’t think schools are set up for their students to succeed. Nancy is a P-12 Research Associate and leads the Social, Emotional, and Academic Development work at EdTrust.

Education 63

Education Secondary Policies Professional Learning 63

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 12, 2017

Overall, the number of students who were held back in third grade dropped from 3,064 at the end of the 2014-15 school year to 2,307 at the end of 2015-16. In 2015, 52.4 Kellogg is among the many funders of The Hechinger Report.). appeared first on The Hechinger Report. That’s what the state has put in place.

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Elementary Training Advocacy Strategy 75