The Hechinger Report

MAY 15, 2023

When Alexandra Logue served as the chief academic officer of the City University of New York (CUNY) from 2008 to 2014, she discovered that her 25-college system was spending over $20 million a year on remedial classes. A CUNY spokesperson told me that their college system stopped placing new students into remedial classes in the fall of 2022.

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JANUARY 20, 2022

Although national data on discipline for the current school year isn’t expected to be public for several years, The Hechinger Report requested data from a dozen medium and large school districts around the country and found that in some of them, exclusionary discipline is down, even way down. Credit: Kelly Field for The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2021

Overton’s placement in the college-level course with a companion course, called a co-requisite, is part of a developmental education redesign launched by the Alabama Community College System in 2018-19. The system fully implemented the program in the 2019-20 school year and reduced the number of developmental course sections it offered.

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NOVEMBER 12, 2021

Credit: Molly Haley for The Hechinger Report. Credit: Molly Haley for The Hechinger Report. It reports enrolling 313 students this semester. Everybody agrees that our higher education system is broken. Department of Education reports. It seems a bad time to start a university or college.

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Edsurge

JULY 29, 2020

percent (about 10,000 students) in the 2017-2018 school year, to 15.1 By comparison, the state of California reported a 12 percent chronic absenteeism rate among students in 2018-2019, representing 676,000 students. percent (about 150 students) percent during the 2016-2017 school year. Understanding Chronic Absenteeism The U.S.

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AUGUST 6, 2019

Photo: Jill Barshay/The Hechinger Report. ATLANTA — When Keenan Robinson started college in 2017, he knew the career he wanted. Georgia State’s analytics system color codes a student’s risk of dropping out and Robinson’s file was showing yellow, a sign that his plan to go into nursing was risky.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 14, 2019

Kelly Field for The Hechinger Report. Kelly Field for The Hechinger Report. At the system’s seven four-year universities, it’s actually gotten wider. Paul was one of three state colleges to receive a state “equity in education” grant in 2017. Paul is outperforming many of its peers in the community college system.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 9, 2017

Photo: Meredith Kolodner/The Hechinger Report. Students who withdraw are also much more likely to default on their loans; dropouts make up two-thirds of defaults nationwide. The number of dropouts with federal loans at these institutions has grown from 35,443 in 2007-09 to more than 56,600 in 2013-15. [But]

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 2, 2021

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. The Hechinger Report, a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on?inequality

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The Hechinger Report

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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FEBRUARY 7, 2018

Photo: Cheryl Gerber for The Hechinger Report. To lower the dropout rate and keep students on track to earn diplomas, we started a “credit-recovery” program to assist high school students who have lost credit in core subjects due to failing grades or excessive absences. In 2017, we raised it again to 99.7

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AUGUST 8, 2018

Photo: Mike Elsen-Rooney for The Hechinger Report. District officials theorized that students’ disillusionment with the curriculum contributed to Vista High’s 10 percent dropout rate. For the 2017-18 school year, they broke up Vista’s freshman class of almost 700 students into six self-contained “houses.”

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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. This story about supporting college students was produced by The Hechinger Report, a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

Photo: Tara García Mathewson/The Hechinger Report. And the dropout rate among the first Muniz cohort, the class of 2016, was just 2.5 Photo: Tara García Mathewson/The Hechinger Report. percent, compared with a district average of 10 percent. Long taught this unit in English, but the first group to present spoke in Spanish.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 5, 2018

Photo: Judge Evans for The Hechinger Report. 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

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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

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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MARCH 22, 2020

Photo: Cheryl Gerber for The Hechinger Report. I see a lot of black kids like me lost to the system,” Elliott said. I see a lot of black kids like me lost to the system. Photo: Cheryl Gerber for The Hechinger Report. Photo: Cheryl Gerber for The Hechinger Report. But my school had my back.”.

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JULY 26, 2018

But in March of 2017, when Paul Quinn College officially became a work college, it changed the image and perception of what these schools can do and where they can do it. We’re about to start a national system of urban work colleges as well as a national consortium or urban work colleges,” its president, Michael Sorrell, said in April.

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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. And vast inequities remain in both the enrollment and graduation rates for minority students, a recent American Council on Education report found. Courtesy of Jesse Hicks.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 1, 2018

Photo: TARA GARCIA MATHEWSON/The Hechinger Report. 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. In Illinois, Marquell Brown got a firsthand look at the improvements made from 2009 to 2017. Source: PEARSON CONNEXUS.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 5, 2017

school system is a “mess.” The Hechinger Report is running 10 excerpts from the project, to give our readers a sampling of what students really think. 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.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Photo: Nick Chiles for The Hechinger Report. A 2017 study by the Houston Independent School District, for example, found that students participating in AVID in 2015-16 enrolled in higher-level courses and received higher scores on AP exams and on standardized tests than those who did not. Photo: Nick Chiles for The Hechinger Report.

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JULY 28, 2016

The district is also known for having one of the largest dropout rates and one of the highest pupil-to-teacher ratios in the country. As I reflect on the upcoming 2016-2017 school year, I wonder how this negativity has affected my own 5th grade reading classroom.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 1, 2017

school system is a “mess.” The Hechinger Report is running 10 excerpts from the project, to give our readers a sampling of what students really think. 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.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

school system is a “mess.” The Hechinger Report is running 10 excerpts from the project, to give our readers a sampling of what students really think. 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.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 26, 2017

school system is a “mess.” The Hechinger Report is running 10 excerpts from the project, to give our readers a sampling of what students really think. 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.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 3, 2017

school system is a “mess.” The Hechinger Report is running 10 excerpts from the project, to give our readers a sampling of what students really think. 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.

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MindShift

AUGUST 17, 2018

This story about personalized learning was produced by The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. District officials theorized that students’ disillusionment with the curriculum contributed to Vista High’s 10 percent dropout rate. Making changes gradually.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 28, 2017

school system is a “mess.” The Hechinger Report is running 10 excerpts from the project, to give our readers a sampling of what students really think. 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.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

To remedy this problem, California State University, which consists of 23 schools and is the largest university system in the country, has launched an initiative to double its four-year graduation rate in 10 years. She works at a Los Angeles community health clinic as a dental home coordinator. Read more about higher education.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 29, 2019

Jess Clark for The Hechinger Report. When the charter group took over the historic Eleanor McMain High School in 2017, the school still had a colorful mural that had been added to by each graduating class since 1986. His network boasts several of New Orleans’ rare A and B ratings on the state grading system.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 8, 2017

Photo: Emmanuel Felton/The Hechinger Report. Photo: Emmanuel Felton/The Hechinger Report. Douglass alumni and 9th Ward residents were livid after superintendent Paul Vallas, who was brought down from Philadelphia to turn around the city’s school system after Katrina, argued that the community hadn’t cared about Douglass for 40 years.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 10, 2022

That’s down 11 percentage points since 2017. “He Credit: Austin Anthony for The Hechinger Report. Credit: Austin Anthony for The Hechinger Report. 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. Last year, it was less than 53 percent.

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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 Hechinger Report

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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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

20, 2017, in Durham, N.C. 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. In essence, a special education placement exacerbates racial inequalities seen throughout the education system.

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