The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Traditional public schools alone aren’t responsible for the student debt or skilled labor crises — but a longstanding Massachusetts education experiment has shown promise at addressing both. There’s no reason that Massachusetts alone should hold the recipe for successful vocational-technical education.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 26, 2020

When the coronavirus hit in the spring of 2020, student surveys indicated that four-year colleges would be hit the hardest this fall, with many students turning to cheaper two-year community colleges until the pandemic ended. At two-year community colleges, which educate about 40 percent of America’s college students, it was worse.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Thirty-five colleges and universities shut down in 2021, a 70 percent decrease from 2016, when a peak of 120 colleges shuttered, according to an analysis of federal data by the State Higher Education Executive Officers Association (SHEEO). Roughly 500 were closed because of a merger or a consolidation with another college.

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Kaplan Dropout Analysis Report 105

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Thousands of other students around the country are leaving college — some because of mental health issues, others for financial or family reasons – and educators worry that many have left for good. The dropout spike was even more startling for community college students like Izzy, an increase of about 3.5 Students just are not OK.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 6, 2022

Andrea Hernandez studied the multiplication table nearly every day during the summer between her third and fourth grade years. From the tiniest kindergarteners to college-ready high school seniors, nearly all students had their education disrupted starting in March 2020. In March 2020, his twin brother became his only classmate.

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Education Course Report Policies 129

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 17, 2022

million students from fall 2019 to fall of 2021, according to state data leaving campuses worried about their future and potential students with fewer of the opportunities offered by higher education. When Daisy Lopez began at UC Riverside in the fall of 2020, she and her family had just been evicted and were homeless.

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Dropout Policies Data Report 107

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 12, 2023

Across the country, schools have shifted toward career-focused education in recent years, reviving a long-running debate on whether the purpose of education is to prepare students for jobs or to be well-rounded citizens. One week per month, engineers from local industries visit the classrooms and talk to students about their careers.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 10, 2021

Curley told Jake she’d love to have him in the class, which covered topics such as study skills, but he needed to promise to upload his assignments every week and come to the live Zoom session every Monday morning. I wanted to take [the class] just to like, push myself and to further my education, and also to get ready for college,” he said.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 18, 2018

The push to reach these dropouts by Mississippi and other states, including Indiana and Tennessee, reflects a growing recognition that there just aren’t enough students coming out of U.S. Go Back” campaign in Indiana, among the several states trying to get college dropouts to finish their college educations. Higher Education.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 13, 2021

When the kids showed up, educators could see even more clearly how uneven their learning has been during the pandemic. Last year, researchers at NWEA, an independent nonprofit assessment company, published an analysis of data from the autumn 2020 MAP Growth tests of more than 4 million public school students. Read the stories.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 22, 2023

Over and over, we read news stories and research studies demonstrating that Black learners face huge barriers in attending and completing college and gaining a strong economic foothold. We are calling for action in four areas: Making higher education truly accessible and affordable for Black learners and their families.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 19, 2023

She studies how burdensome paperwork and processes often prevent poor people from accessing health benefits. Tameka’s kids have essentially been out of school since COVID hit in March 2020. Tameka’s kids have essentially been out of school since COVID hit in March 2020. Tameka is her middle name. Where did they go?

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 18, 2020

Educators typically loathe the idea of denying anyone an opportunity to learn, which is what happens in a randomized controlled trial. Even rarer in education is a replication of this kind of experiment to see if something works in a different setting. The Ohio result was statistically similar.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 20, 2022

Suspensions and expulsions plummeted during the 2020-21 school year, as most school districts closed their buildings and put instruction online to slow the spread of Covid. Studies show not only is it ineffective at improving students’ future behavior, it can also do the opposite. And three days was a lot to miss.”.

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Personalized Learning Learning Data Report 138

Edsurge

JULY 29, 2020

In the early months of 2020, her team expanded an attendance campaign called “All In,” from four to 25 schools across the district, which is home to 85 public schools in total. In elementary school, frequent absences are linked to a higher likelihood of dropout—even if attendance improves over time.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 19, 2020

Richard Vedder, an economics professor emeritus at Ohio University and national expert on higher education finances, began teaching at O.U. He says the university’s quality of education has declined, leaving the campus with “a crisis on our hands.” offered an affordable, quality education. That is $3,792 in 2020 dollars.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2022

In 2020, there were 39 million or one out of every five American adults under 65 who had dropped out of college and never finished their degrees, according to the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center. Floyd said he lost interest in his studies, was doing poorly in his classes and didn’t want to burden the family with tuition bills.

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Dropout Survey Study Report 130

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 29, 2022

One of the coolest and simultaneously heartbreaking things to see was that right around March-April 2020, interest in becoming a volunteer with Teen Link just skyrocketed,” said Zanny Shehata, Teen Link’s volunteer coordinator. Plenty of students are willing to take on these roles. Right now, the line has 58 teen volunteers — 18 of them new.

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Accessibility Training Dropout Survey 97

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 9, 2017

You’re in purgatory,” said Nicole Smith, vice president of Georgetown University’s Center on Education and the Workforce. By 2025, more than 60 percent of Georgia jobs will require some kind of post-secondary education, and now only 45 percent of the state’s young adults meet that criterion. His grades plummeted.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 10, 2021

Lassen, who graduated from Hamilton High School in 2020, took a year off after high school. Lassen, who Bohannon describes as “like a brother,” wants to study to become a barber and Bohannon will study nursing at College of the Desert. She was elated by the news that she’d been accepted to study nursing. Read the series.

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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. You don’t have to have a dime in your pocket and you can get your education.”

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Company Training Industry Dropout 137

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2022

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. We have this huge digital divide that’s making it hard for [students] to get their education,” she said. OAKLAND, Calif.

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Digital Divide Broadband Chromebook Survey 112

The Hechinger Report

JULY 11, 2023

Fewer than 40 percent of students say they are flourishing, according to the national Healthy Minds Study. The Healthy Minds Study found that over 65 percent of students report loneliness, defined as lack of companionship and feeling left out or isolated. Student mental health is in a fragile and dangerous place on our campuses.

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Social Media Report Study Outcomes 79

MindShift

MARCH 6, 2020

Originally posted on Chalkbeat on March 3, 2020. Several schools where large numbers of students graduate in the fifth year are dedicated to educating teens who fall behind on credits or face other barriers to graduation. They still get a diploma, which is a good thing,” Rumberger said.

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Dropout Data Report Study 37

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 24, 2023

Purvis is in her first year of study for an associate degree in nursing at Everett Community College. The 27-year-old is also one of more than 6,000 Washington community and technical college students enrolled in the state’s Integrated Basic Education and Skills Training (I-BEST) program. Math has revolutionized every industry.”

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Industry Training Report Course 74

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 19, 2020

As part of an introductory economics class, Swiss students had the option to work in study groups with their peers. That’s what a University of Zurich graduate student found in an experiment conducted in 2018 and 2019 involving more than 600 college students and 150 study groups. That’s the worst.”.

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Study Dropout Groups Course 134

The Hechinger Report

MAY 19, 2022

Wilkins-Walker teaches career and technical education at West Philadelphia High School, where she has worked for a decade. The pandemic will create that dropout crisis if schools just focus on 11th and 12th graders and trying to catch them up. Related: More studies mark the pandemic’s toll on student achievement.

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Dropout Chromebook Report System 105

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. That is the traditional way that developmental education has worked. “I was very thankful for taking that lab course,” she said. “It

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 28, 2022

The university has done this by luring out-of-staters with in-state tuition prices and by breaking with long-standing attitudes through which higher education sometimes alienates rather than embraces prospective applicants. Related: Colleges’ new solution to enrollment declines: Reducing the number of dropouts. Department of Education.

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How To Report Training Comparison 114

The Hechinger Report

JULY 13, 2021

So, we’ve spent several months traveling the country learning from schools applying best practices and from researchers and educators who have studied what works. Educators and school leaders are scrambling to figure out how to regain ground next year in a course that often makes or breaks students’ life chances.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2023

After graduating from high school, she did what was expected of her — dropped education, worked and pitched in at home as her parents did. The underlying hope is that these navigators and these coaches help students manage to navigate the inevitable bumps that will come up and be able to persist in their academic studies.”

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Outcomes Report Meeting Study 89

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

A wrestler and physical education major, he suffered a concussion and a sprained ACL. 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. She believes mental health education should be required.

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Training Meeting Report Policies 123

Edsurge

AUGUST 11, 2016

Some people researching education technology might not spend their days wondering how their work fits into this existential question—but George Siemens isn’t "some people." That’s his explanation for how he thinks about the role of education in the 21st century. A researcher, theorist, educator, Siemens is the digital learning guy.

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Digital Learning Technology MOOC Learning Analytics 60

The Hechinger Report

JULY 17, 2017

Beginning with the class of 2020, all Chicago Public School students who meet traditional academic requirements necessary to graduate must also present a post-graduation plan before they can cross the stage to receive their diploma. The adage, “To whom much is given, much is expected,” can’t just apply to high school graduates.

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Policies Study Report Training 62

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 24, 2020

Dixie Vega, a senior at Heritage High School, has already been accepted to California State University, San Marcos, where she wants to study early childhood development. The College Board, which administers the SAT, cancelled the May 2, 2020, test and will be reviewing whether to hold June 6 testing. Why are they first to be cut?

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Accessibility Policies Chromebook Exercises 105

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 10, 2022

“He starts telling me, ‘I don’t want to do this,’ ” one adviser, Portia Cook, was recounting to her colleagues from the state program, called Advise TN, about a student at the top of his class who had changed his mind about continuing his education. “ ‘You’re talking about four more years of school? They don’t think that anymore.”.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2016

It’s also part of a subtle attempt to address a growing problem the United Kingdom has in common with the United States: After decades in which men in college far outnumbered women, boys are entering higher education in ranks so low that the balance on campuses has dramatically reversed. Campuses here, overall, are 56 percent female.

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