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Community colleges tackle another challenge: Students recovering from past substance use

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APRIL 7, 2024

Credit: Leah Fabel for The Hechinger Report Collegiate recovery programs began appearing at four-year institutions in the late 1970s, offering services like sober-living dorms, life skills classes and recovery coaches. Credit: Leah Fabel for The Hechinger Report But the toughest scrambles are often for staff and funding. and Canada.

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While focus is on fall, students? choices about college will have a far longer impact

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MAY 29, 2020

Now, just as happened in the last recession, it is likely to take them even longer and cost more, while — after years of hard-won progress — dropout rates rise and graduation rates fall. The Hechinger Report, which produced this story, is also housed at Teachers College.). Credit: Eric England for The Hechinger Report.

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

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APRIL 26, 2019

Rivera Pichardo for The Hechinger Report. Rivera Pichardo for The Hechinger Report. Of those who do enroll at universities on the island, fewer than half earn degrees, even after six years , the advocacy group Excelencia in Education reports, compared to more than 58 percent of college students nationwide.

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

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APRIL 14, 2022

Credit: Javeria Salman/ The Hechinger Report. “We Credit: Javeria Salman/ The Hechinger Report Boxes of #OaklandUndivided devices wait for student pickup at Castlemont High School in May 2021. Credit: Javeria Salman/ The Hechinger Report. Credit: Javeria Salman/ The Hechinger Report. The homework gap isn’t new.

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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. At IU Northwest in 2017, Latinx students like Perez had a six-year graduation rate of just 28 percent, while the graduation rate for white students was 35 percent. Aaron Cantú, for The Hechinger Report. GARY, Ind. — I have two little ones and their dads don’t help me,” said Perez, 45. “I

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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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Most college students don’t graduate in four years, so college and the government count six years as “success”

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OCTOBER 10, 2021

Colleges have gradually moved the finish line to give themselves credit for success if students graduate in six years — or even eight years, which is what consumers find reported on the government’s newest consumer website, College Scorecard. Credit: Kate Flock for The Hechinger Report. After lobbying by universities and colleges, Sen.

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

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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

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NOVEMBER 23, 2022

In 2017, Thorne’s last year as a high school teacher, he was one of only about 1,436 Black male teachers in South Carolina, or less than 3 percent of the total teacher workforce, according to the state’s department of education. That last rejection in spring 2017 was the last straw for Thorne. Why didn’t you tell us?

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The messy reality of personalized learning

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JULY 10, 2019

Tammy Kim, for The Hechinger Report. Nearly two decades ago, the reporter Todd Oppenheimer documented the aggressive rise of emerging Silicon Valley technologies — personal computers and the Internet — in the nation’s public schools. Tammy Kim, for The Hechinger Report. Tammy Kim, for The Hechinger Report.

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From foster care to college

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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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Is California saving higher education?

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DECEMBER 3, 2019

Photo: Alison Yin for The Hechinger Report. Photo: Alison Yin for The Hechinger Report. Lumina is among the many funders of The Hechinger Report, which co-produced this story.). Photo: Alison Yin for The Hechinger Report. It took a burden off my shoulders,” Deas says. SAN JOSE, Calif.

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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. Photo: Amadou Diallo for The Hechinger Report. Photo: Amadou Diallo for The Hechinger Report. In 2017 the school received more than $462,000 in contributions, according to IRS filings. MILWAUKEE, Wis. — He’s forced to make up the deficit from donors. The trade-off.

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

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JUNE 6, 2022

This story also appeared in Mississippi Center for Investigative Reporting. 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. Credit: Tara García Mathewson/The Hechinger Report.

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JULY 28, 2017

DeVos reported a new investment of between $250,001 and $500,000 in the Michigan-based Neurocore , according to a financial disclosure form that was certified by government ethics officials on Wednesday.” Bloomberg reports that “ Trump Administration Tapping Tech CEOs for STEM Policy Approach.” ” $100,000.

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