The Hechinger Report

APRIL 7, 2024

Gifting myself with an education is a part of my recovery,” said Nomi Badboy, 43, one of three students attending this week’s meeting of the school’s collegiate recovery program. Education is an example of what’s called “recovery capital,” something earned that makes long-term recovery more likely. and Canada.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 28, 2017

Project Unicorn is an advocacy initiative focused on improving data interoperability within K-12 education. Or as the Hechinger Report noted: “Educators, students, policy makers and the public must be able to understand and use the data. based nonprofit that advocates for more effective use of educational data.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 8, 2022

The humanities field has not recovered from that free fall, recently published data from the National Center for Education Statistics show. Miriam Hamburger, a 2017 religious studies graduate from Occidental College, is a good example. They are therefore invaluable within a host of interesting and impactful professions.

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The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

She is the 2017 New Jersey State School Counselor of the Year. In terms of young women, school counselors and really all educators can help young women and really all of our students learn more about computer science and technology by thinking about how it intersects with every area of interest. Date: February 5, 2018.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 20, 2018

Earlier this week, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative named Sandra Liu Huang as its head of education, filling a vacancy created when Jim Sheldon, the former deputy secretary of the U.S. Department of Education, left the organization this summer. The development of the technology platform has been run by CZI since 2017.)

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 10, 2018

Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Mississippi Learning newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes with trends and top stories about education in Mississippi. Photo: Jackie Mader/The Hechinger Report. Subscribe today! Others offer subjects like science and art and virtual field trips to animated farms.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

Long Beach, CA—Improving students success won’t hinge on shiny new gadgets or high-tech early alert systems based on AI or big data. A 2017 study from the lab found that nearly two thirds of community college students are food insecure. One challenge is there’s no federal data to back up these trends. “We

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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. percent or higher in suburban, town, and rural districts,” according to a 2017 report from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES).

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Edsurge

MARCH 1, 2017

Now in its seventh year, the annual gathering brings together thousands of entrepreneurs, educators and industry experts from around the world for four days stacked with panel discussions , workshops , an expo hall , meetups , film screenings —plus plenty of after-hours shindigs. to 11:00 p.m. Higher Ed 12:30 p.m. 5:00 p.m.

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NeverEndingSearch

JULY 21, 2021

Joyce : What’s different about this study and why is sharing these data so important? We actually have been working since 2017, to try to get this data project funded. This is a piece of hard data relating to equity. Our data is the most recently published NCES data available at the time.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

College advisors and education leaders gathered in Nashville, Tenn., According to Hoori Kalamkarian, a researcher at the Community College Research Center who also spoke Thursday, technology-assisted advising could play a role—provided that any data collected doesn’t algorithmically reinforce biases.

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Edsurge

APRIL 15, 2020

Nearly 19 million students applied for financial aid during the 2017-2018 year, according to the U.S. Department of Education. The foundation was established last summer by Seldin and her husband to support projects related to immigration reform and higher education. Development work for SwiftStudent began in December 2019.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 28, 2017

Launched in 2015, Future Ready Schools ®, a collaboration of over 60 national and regional organizations, led by the Alliance for Excellent Education , lays out a framework for change and provides a myriad of free tools and resources, as well as support for district and school-based leaders. Data and Privacy. Community Partnerships.

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eSchool News

MARCH 16, 2018

In a letter to the Institute of Education Sciences , a number of ed-tech and advocacy organizations point out that many students lack home access to the internet connectivity they need to complete homework and use online learning resources. “This is critical.” “This is critical.”

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Edsurge

MARCH 18, 2021

In 2014, when Tennessee unveiled a statewide scholarship to cover tuition expenses at community colleges, the program was praised for making higher education possible for more people. For example, in the 2017 cohort, 26 percent of white participants graduated on time, compared to only 9 percent of Black participants. Free For Whom?

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 11, 2023

Brentwood Union Free School District gave out 466 long-term suspensions from 2017-18 to 2021-22. The New York State Education Department does not collect data on suspension lengths, but public records requests to 17 of the state’s largest school districts uncovered more than 6,200 suspensions of more than 20 days from 2017-18 to 2021-22.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 9, 2020

At an event in April 2019, Diane Jones, the Education Department’s principal deputy undersecretary, said the department was considering an experiment to help colleges offer income-share agreements (ISAs), a form of financing where students who borrow money promise to pay back a percentage of their future income as repayment.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 24, 2020

Because CARES Act money can be given only to students eligible for financial aid, Deborah Santiago, chief executive officer of Excelencia in Education, is worried about the many low-income or first-generation students who don’t know how to properly apply for aid. Plus, federal data won’t reflect recent changes in a student’s household income.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

New York City, for example, began offering its 1 million public school students free breakfast and lunch in 2017. Higher Education. But there hasn’t been much data analysis until now, when one Missouri study finds that the fears might be overblown and that our statistics on student poverty rates haven’t changed much. “We

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 26, 2019

Women are overrepresented in the lowest paying jobs, and women in high-paying professions are paid less than their male counterparts, according to data from the U.S. during the 2015-16 school year were women, according the data compiled by the National Center for Education Statistics. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

The school’s website promised a “rigorous education experience” delivered by highly qualified teachers. At OHDELA, enrollment more than doubled to about 5,200 students in the 2020-2021 school year, according to state data. Nemergut enrolled all three girls. Soon Nemergut and her kids, who live in Conneaut, Ohio, noticed problems.

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edWeb.net

APRIL 14, 2021

That philosophy is also reflected in his district’s emphasis on viewing education through a social justice lens. To meet these goals, they start with the perspective of advocacy for all, especially BIPOC, high-poverty, LGBTQ, religious, and other populations within their schools. An educator for more than 20 years, Dr. Baron R.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 16, 2019

His “quiet and relentless advocacy brought hundreds of African Americans into space industry jobs in the Deep South, helping to shift perceptions of black people in ways both subtle and profound,” wrote Michael Fletcher in the story. Underrepresentation Based on Education. Trade Industry. Black-Owned Firms. Percentage Black-Owned.

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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. Sign up for our Higher Education newsletter. Higher Education. Weekly Update.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

The challenge of attracting students into and graduating them from education departments at colleges predates the pandemic, experts say, and yet the pressures of the past two years have worsened the situation at some institutions. King, consultant for research, policy and advocacy at the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 12, 2017

Brief Description: Students will write a 500- to 750-word letter to specific members of the Louisiana State Senate and House education committees. Learn a simple advocacy technique that gets members of the community involved in a relevant legislative/policymaking process. Relevant data on the issue. Email: morrishd@legis.la.gov.

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ProfHacker

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

This CFP comes by way of Kirsti Cole, who with Holly Hassel has just published Surviving Sexism in Academia: Strategies for Feminist Leadership (Routledge, 2017). Reductions in state funding to universities place ever greater pressure on faculty and staff to make cuts, seek new ‘revenue streams’and do less with less.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Some teachers in Hickory Public Schools, where Viewmont Elementary is located, have been focusing more on the science of reading in recent years, spurred in part by the influence of a local education college. Hank Weddington, dean of the college of education at Lenoir-Rhyne University in Hickory, calls the effort “a civil rights issue.”.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 18, 2020

Forty-five percent of public schools nationwide had at least one SRO in the 2017-18 school year. Arrest data reveals that juveniles who are exposed to the criminal justice system are more likely to drop out of high school and even less likely to attend college than their peers who aren’t. The presence of SROs is one of those paths.

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MindShift

JUNE 5, 2019

In classrooms around the building, the school’s ninth-graders whizzed through an online mental health survey that would soon deliver real-time data to the group in the conference room. The 2017 version found that 17% of Colorado middle and high school students reported considering suicide and 7% reported making one or more attempts.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2022

“We have this huge digital divide that’s making it hard for [students] to get their education,” she said. David Silver, the director of education for the mayor’s office, said people talked about the digital divide, but there had never been enough energy to tackle it. The homework gap isn’t new.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

AUGUST 6, 2020

Our professional guests: Lian Chikako Chang, a "data storyteller," started the Pandemic Pods group on Facebook in July; just weeks later, the group includes more than 35,000 members. I work on a freelance basis, turning your company's data into earned media coverage by telling compelling, data-driven stories through graphics and text.

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Doug Levin

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

Otherwise, here’s what caught my eye this past week – news, tools, and reports about education, public policy, technology, and innovation – including a little bit about why. A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 38 Edition). No endorsements; no sponsored content; no apologies for my eclectic tastes.

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Doug Levin

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

Otherwise, here’s what caught my eye this past week – news, tools, and reports about education, public policy, technology, and innovation – including a little bit about why. A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 38 Edition). No endorsements; no sponsored content; no apologies for my eclectic tastes.

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EdTech Industry Survey Laptops 150

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

The eSchool News K-12 Hero Awards recognize the dedicated efforts of education professionals across K-12 departments, including IT, curriculum, instruction and administration. The program received an influx of inspiring nominations that highlight the innovation and selflessness of educators in schools and districts across the nation.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Now they are demanding a greater role in school policy and the decisions that shape their educations. They are also seeking to use this moment to educate teens about elections and voting and turn them into lifelong voters. “The Andrew Brennen, National Geographic education fellow. Credit: Alison Yin for The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 5, 2022

And a slightly higher percentage of nonwhite teachers than white ones—45 percent vs. 42 percent—said that they were considering leaving their position last school year, researchers at the University of Arkansas’ College of Education & Health Professions found.

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