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Facing a white-collar worker shortage, American companies seek a blue-collar solution

The Hechinger Report

The dean’s list student ended up a college dropout, a gay 20-something cut off from his parents after coming out, and working at a UPS Store in a job he described as “retail drudgery” while running up credit card debt and stringing out his college loans. but Allen made it through, graduating in December 2020.

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How one city closed the digital divide for nearly all its students

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After schools went remote in 2020, Jessica Ramos spent hours that spring and summer sitting on a bench in front of her local Oakland Public Library branch in the vibrant and diverse Dimond District. Oakland’s partnership, known as #OaklandUndivided , launched in May 2020. OAKLAND, Calif. It was all hands on deck.

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The Prison to College Pipeline

The Hechinger Report

But that decades-long ban will end this summer, thanks to legislation passed in 2020. The Center for Hope and Redemption can be seen from the main entrance of Pollak Library at California State University, Fullerton. So one day in 2020, Conner let Cavitt know that he was done with Project Rebound and would be moving out of the house.

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Child care, car seats and other simple ways to keep teen moms in school

The Hechinger Report

BROWNSVILLE, Texas — On a chilly morning just before Valentine’s Day 2020, Viviana Longoria, 16, joined the stream of girls getting off the bus at Lincoln Park School, infant bucket seats in tow. At a regular school, there’s so much drama,” Viviana said back in February 2020. No, sweetie,” she tells them. They’ve moved on.”).

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Are the challenges of Puerto Rico’s schools a taste of what other districts will face?

The Hechinger Report

Deishangelxa started kindergarten at Ana Hernandez Usera elementary school in 2017, the year Hurricane Maria struck the island. She was 8 in January 2020, when earthquakes rocked the island, closing her school for three months while engineers inspected its physical structures to make sure they were safe for students to return.

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Is California saving higher education?

The Hechinger Report

Jaelyn Deas and her four best friends shared everything, including late-night study sessions in the library at San Jose State University and a never-ending preoccupation with how they’d pay for their tuition there. But California, with a higher education budget for 2019-2020 of $18.5 “It took a burden off my shoulders,” Deas says.

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

The Hechinger Report

Collins Elementary School, in southeastern Mississippi, paddled students more times than almost any school in the country in 2017-18, the last year for which there is national data. During the 2017-18 school year, more than 69,000 students received corporal punishment almost 97,000 times nationwide. And we can say yes.”.