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More high school grads than ever are going to college, but 1 in 5 will quit

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. Department of Education data analyzed by The Hechinger Report. Photo by Ben Smith for The Hechinger Report. Photo: AP photo/Jeannie Nuss.

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These students are finishing high school, but their degrees don’t help them go to college

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 1, 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. Candace Cortiella, the director of The Advocacy Institute. Related: How one district solved its special education dropout problem.

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In Puerto Rico, the odds are against high school grads who want to go to college

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 26, 2019

Rivera Pichardo for The Hechinger Report. So unrelentingly are the cards stacked against them that only 694 high school graduates from all of Puerto Rico went to college on the mainland or abroad in 2016 , the last year for which the figure is available from the U.S. Rivera Pichardo for The Hechinger Report.

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OPINION: Why Black student parents are at the epicenter of the student debt crisis — and what we can do about it

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

But just 3,300 of the more than 4 million student parents received assistance through the program in the 2016-17 school year. At Generation Hope, we are building a policy and advocacy agenda driven by student parents all over the country that will prioritize removing financial barriers to college completion for Black parents.

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Colleges must stop holding students hostage and release their debt

The Hechinger Report

MAY 7, 2019

Andre Perry/The Hechinger Report. The Hechinger Report receives financial support from Lumina. Students who lack food and shelter are at greater risk for dropping out than those who have a steady home to go to, according to a new report published by The Hope Center at Temple University. Many of us have been there.

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How one district went all-in on a tutoring program to catch kids up

The Hechinger Report

JULY 13, 2021

At the beginning of 2021, The Hechinger Report’s members (individual readers who donated money to our nonprofit news organization) asked us if we would report on the best practices for helping the nation’s public school system recover from the pandemic. Your stories. When given the opportunity, then they will succeed.

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She has ‘the heart of a nurse,’ but can she overcome obstacles to her degree?

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 24, 2020

Hernandez, a 33-year-old mother of four and high school dropout, had already overcome an array of obstacles on her nearly five-year journey. “No Credit: Liz Willen/The Hechinger Report. SPECIAL REPORT. Yet our reporting has discovered just how difficult it is to educate and train the next generation of nurses.

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Universities try to catch up to their growing Latinx populations

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JUNE 4, 2019

Aaron Cantú, for The Hechinger Report. So in 2016 she headed back to the 42-acre campus near Gary’s dilapidated downtown to study for a degree in general studies. “I Between 1996 and 2016, their share of overall college enrollment rose from 8 to 19 percent , according to the U.S. Aaron Cantú, for The Hechinger Report.

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The newest form of school discipline: Kicking kids out of class and into virtual learning

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AUGUST 7, 2023

Credit: Zachary Clingenpeel for The Hechinger Report Jennings School District officials did not respond to follow-up questions about Crawford’s case, but a letter addressed to the family said that the boys were transferred to home-school learning at Crawford’s request. Sign up for the Hechinger newsletter.

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STUDENT VOICES: Kids bring into school what they’re dealing with at home. Teachers don’t get that

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 24, 2017

The Hechinger Report is running 10 excerpts from the project, to give our readers a sampling of what students really think. Photo: Magdalena Slapik for The Hechinger Report. I also definitely want to be heavily involved in advocacy for young black youth, or, for youth in general, and just promoting student leadership.

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Schools can’t afford to lose any more Black male educators

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

After the 2016 presidential election in which Donald Trump was declared winner, that feeling has gotten more intense for educators, he said. ” Eric Duncan, part of education advocacy organization Ed Trust’s policy team, said Thorne’s story is one echoed by Black male educators nationwide who feel perpetually overlooked.

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Georgia program for children with disabilities: ‘Separate and unequal’ education?

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 21, 2017

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. His paltry education was much like that of dozens of other children in the GNETS system whose experiences this reporter researched. The truth of it is, we know how to educate these kids.

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From foster care to college

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 1, 2018

T his story about foster care and higher education was produced as part of a series, “Twice Abandoned: How schools and child-welfare systems fail kids in foster care,” reported by HuffPost and The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. KALAMAZOO, Mich.

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Segregated schools are still the norm. Howard Fuller is fine with that

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NOVEMBER 15, 2018

Photo: Amadou Diallo for The Hechinger Report. In 2016 not a single child at “North,” as locals call it, tested proficient in math according to the state’s education department. Photo: Amadou Diallo for The Hechinger Report. Photo: Amadou Diallo for The Hechinger Report. MILWAUKEE, Wis. —

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‘State-sanctioned violence:’ Inside one of the thousands of schools that still paddles students

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 6, 2022

This story also appeared in Mississippi Center for Investigative Reporting. Credit: Tara García Mathewson/The Hechinger Report. Credit: Tara García Mathewson/The Hechinger Report. Credit: Tara García Mathewson/The Hechinger Report. “I Tucked into the first half of the handbook is a section titled “Corporal Punishment.”.

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As feds pull back, states step in to regulate for-profit colleges and universities

The Hechinger Report

JULY 6, 2018

Only about one in five of 2016 graduates got full-time jobs in legal offices, the advocacy organization Law School Transparency reported. Still, a study by the Children’s Advocacy Institute at the University of San Diego School of Law found, they could do much more than they are now. “We

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OCTOBER 28, 2016

But the struggling sector’s political giving is down since peaking in 2012,” Inside Higher Ed reports. Testing, Testing… Via the Hechinger Report : “On a classroom-based test for new teachers , black teachers score lower.” ” The article draws on the latest report from investment bank Berkery Noyes.

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