The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 20, 2022

In September, the NAACP Legal Defense Fund released a report recommending school districts institute a moratorium on all suspensions and modify school discipline policies to be trauma-informed and supportive. In 2017 it banned suspensions for students in kindergarten, first and second grade. Some districts appear to be doing just that.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 9, 2017

Nonetheless, he made it through the rest of high school, and kept his GPA high enough to be accepted at Georgia State University, where he wanted to study to be a history teacher. “My Besides, his study habits were pretty poor – he hadn’t needed to study much in high school. My mom graduated a year early from high school.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 9, 2019

Colleges are also working to reduce their numbers of dropouts on the principle that it’s cheaper to provide the kind of support required to keep tuition-paying students than to recruit more. Davenport University graduates who can’t find jobs in their fields of study within six months get up to 48 additional credit hours free.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 26, 2019

It is not good policy to keep Puerto Rico economically on a downturn in what feels like an endless loop of economic underperformance. It is not good policy to keep Puerto Rico economically on a downturn in what feels like an endless loop of economic underperformance,” said Aponte, who also served as U.S. Department of Education.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 14, 2019

Though some programs have helped lower dropout rates and improved graduation rates for students of color, the gap in the percentage of students finishing a degree has barely budged across the 30 community colleges in the Minnesota State Colleges and University system. “If Students study over lunch at St. High cost of dropping out.

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edWeb.net

MARCH 16, 2020

Panelist Phyllis Jordan, editorial director at FutureEd, pointed to the results of the organization’s analysis of states’ 2017 ESSA plans, which require one non-academic indicator for school assessments. Chronically absent middle schoolers have lower grades and test scores that increase dropout potential. Data that Drive Solutions.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 5, 2018

In New Orleans, the large number of dropouts who lack HiSET credentials drives the astronomically high count of so-called “opportunity youth.” Until 2017, New Orleans high schools had no internal options to help students who fell so far behind a conventional diploma seemed impossible. “My My grades were perfect.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 19, 2020

said Christina Ciocca Eller, an assistant professor of sociology and social studies at Harvard University who studies regional public universities. The Brookings study counts 100 regional public universities serving 1.2 The problems pre-date Nellis, who arrived in 2017. There is big tension over purpose and identity.”.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 11, 2018

An annual study of Broadway and the 16 top nonprofit theaters in New York City, put out by the Asian American Performers Action Coalition, shows that from 2006 to 2016, Asian actors were hired for 3.7 Bush-era No Child Left Behind policies and the 2008 recession. Lee won a Tony Award last June for her work with NAAP.)

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 1, 2020

college students with lifetime diagnoses of mental health conditions in 2017 was 36 percent, compared with 22 percent in 2007. According to the American Psychiatric Association , the percentage of U.S. But now, we must take them on with a renewed sense of urgency.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

Data from the 2021 Healthy Minds Study shows 34 percent of college respondents struggling with anxiety disorder and 41 percent with depression — rates that have risen in recent years. Just this week, I saw several petitions like, ‘We have to change the administration’s policies.’ ”. I wanted to focus on prevention.”

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 1, 2018

Students have access to hundreds of courses while they are in Illinois’ juvenile justice facilities, but they tend to focus on math, language arts, social studies and science. According to state data, the number of young people in state juvenile justice facilities dropped from 901 at the end of 2012 to 386 in 2017.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 3, 2017

The Muñiz Academy opened in 2012 as one of Massachusetts’ first “innovation schools,” free from many district policies and granted flexibility with its curriculum, budget, school schedule and annual calendar, among other things. Last year, students studied the Latino influence in U.S. Music saved my life,” Pinales said. But what is it?

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 20, 2019

Less than one-half of 1 percent of children from the poorest fifth of American families attend elite colleges and universities, according to one 2017 study. I asked Jerome Lucido, executive director at the University of Southern California’s Center for Enrollment Research, Policy and Practice, how admissions can be fixed.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 18, 2018

It’s all part of a statewide push to “personalize” learning, giving students more of a say over what — and where — they study. Among Act 77’s aims: to reduce high school dropout rates, particularly among low-income students. (In Field trips to local employers are another. Sign up for our newsletter. Choose as many as you like.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2022

We [didn’t] want this to be a Band-Aid fix,” said Jordan Mickens, a Leadership for Educational Equity public policy fellow who served as #OaklandUndivided’s project manager until August 2021. In 2017, he left teaching to work in education technology at Clever, a digital platform for schools.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2020

With the debt problem for black students in particular reaching urgent levels, The Education Trust and The Hechinger Report have partnered on a series of op-eds to amplify the voices of people studying solutions to the black student debt crisis. A black bachelor’s degree recipient is more likely to default than a white college dropout.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 10, 2022

That’s down 11 percentage points since 2017. “He In Arizona, 46 percent of high school graduates in 2020 went to college the following fall, a drop from more than 55 percent in 2017. They stick to a policy of advertising prices few consumers pay but that discourage many from applying. Last year, it was less than 53 percent.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Two chairs by the fireplace sit ready for one-on-one tutoring, a cluster of ottomans nearby can accommodate a study group, and spaces to hunker down with a book or notes abound: a couch by the front door layered with pillows and blankets, a desk tucked into a corner, a fire table on the patio, and a backyard. I’ll just sleep in my car.”

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 23, 2019

As Cure Violence’s senior director of science and policy Charles Ransford explains it, you have to address problems including PTSD, drug use and trauma before a student can sit in a classroom. Convincing these young dropouts to give school another try can be challenging, Caldeira said. And that’s just Massachusetts.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 8, 2017

Thousands of local black teachers were fired and replaced with a much whiter teaching force, while strict “no excuses” discipline policies resulted in thousands of students being suspended and expelled. The school jettisoned its “no excuses” policy, provided more training to teachers and tried to attract more locals to the faculty.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2023

Other districts embrace virtualization as a disciplinary measure and have started to develop official policies around using this punishment. Another study found that Latino students were more likely to receive disciplinary action than white students.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 26, 2020

Banks — all people of color — validated the need for black teachers in New Orleans schools through their studies on teachers of color. In a 2017 study , Wright and his team showed that students of color placed with a teacher of color were less likely to argue or act out than minority students placed with white teachers.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 9, 2019

In June 2017, weeks after finishing his first year of college at Columbia University, Shariq Jumani was struck by a car while crossing Riverside Drive near campus. After a year of hospital stays and rehabilitation, Jumani was well enough to resume his studies. Supporting students with brain injuries, one campus at a time.

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EdNews Daily

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

Among teachers who transferred between schools, lack of planning time (65 percent), too heavy a workload (60 percent), problematic student behavior (53 percent), and a lack of influence over school policy (52 percent) were cited by the U.S. A study by the business school at the UCLA, Los Angeles, showed that the U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 30, 2018

David Hawkins, executive director for education content and policy for the National Association for College Admissions Counseling. As of 2016, the most recent year for which data is available, graduation rates among participating schools had risen from 65 percent to nearly 80 percent , while dropout rates declined.

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The Hechinger Report

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. During his fourth year, Thorne started teaching an African American Studies course that he designed.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 30, 2018

So says a 2017 study published by the Institute of Policy Studies. According to findings from the left-leaning public policy organization Demos, the median white adult who attended college has 7.2 Students walk on the campus of historical Morehouse College in Atlanta Ga. Photo: AP Photo/W.A. Mississippi Learning.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 1, 2018

College students often decamp from their universities during the summer to intern, study abroad or just get a break from dining hall food. Later that day, she planned to study for her summer session classes, English and public speaking, and to meet with an advisor. Sign up for the Hechinger newsletter. KALAMAZOO, Mich.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2019

Intermediary funders and education-policy groups that depend on their grant dollars — including iNACOL, Excel in Ed, the Learning Accelerator, Big Picture Learning and Jobs for the Future — have, in turn, made personalized learning a priority. Yet the academic and policy research behind it is thin.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 20, 2019

He went to work to help his dad support his siblings, but he also remembered his mom’s insistence that he study. For students who aren’t fluent in English, some state policies put them at a further disadvantage. After his mother died, Mayko’s world was shattered, and his perspective shifted with the tumult. It had been constant.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

Over dinner, LSU President Alexander noted that he’d immediately suspended Greek life after Gruver’s death and set up a task force to study it, but at the time, he’d made sure to add a supportive statement: “Many of our Greek organizations represent all that is good about our university.”

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 3, 2023

School is very important to me because I want to keep studying,” she said. “I Deishangelxa started kindergarten at Ana Hernandez Usera elementary school in 2017, the year Hurricane Maria struck the island. Since 2017, natural disasters have pounded the island — decimating homes, crippling the power grid and gutting infrastructure.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Jaelyn Deas at her work-study job at San Jose State University. 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. It took a burden off my shoulders,” Deas says.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 27, 2018

Karriem Bennet, senior at Warren Easton High School in New Orleans, reads her letter at a campaign rally protesting cuts to Louisiana’s merit scholarship program, TOPS, on April 4, 2017, at the Peoples Health New Orleans Jazz Market. At the time, a third of Louisiana’s adults were high school dropouts. Photo: Cheryl Gerber.

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Doug Levin

MARCH 5, 2017

Here’s what caught my eye this 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 9 Edition). No endorsements; no sponsored content; no apologies for my eclectic tastes. government.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

In a state that sends one out of every eight black men to prison, the highest rate in the country , this neighborhood bears a disproportionate brunt of the mass incarceration policy, with more African-American men from here locked up than from any other zip code in Milwaukee County. He’s forced to make up the deficit from donors.

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