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

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. Credit: Javeria Salman/ The Hechinger Report.

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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.

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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

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

They’re like the Wild West of education. Their findings on industry certifications were presented at a November 2021 symposium in San Diego of the Institute for Citizens and Scholars (formerly known as the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation). Some are run by industry, others by non-accredited schools.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 6, 2022

He said the fall 2021 semester of first-year calculus was the most difficult he’s had in his 50-year career. From the tiniest kindergarteners to college-ready high school seniors, nearly all students had their education disrupted starting in March 2020. Their failure is my failure.”.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 6, 2021

percent literacy rate , the seventh-lowest among the 50 states, and one of the highest school dropout rates. In 2021, New Mexico had the fourth-lowest per capita income ; many of my students came from low-income families where they were encouraged to earn and not to learn. In 2017 New Mexico had an 83.5

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 15, 2023

Nationwide, the cost of remedial education exceeded $1 billion annually; many colleges operated separate departments of “developmental education,” higher-education’s euphemistic jargon for non-credit catch-up classes. Department of Education. Nobody could tell me if we were doing it the right way,” Logue said.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 10, 2023

LOS ANGELES — Citrus College was Kyshawna Johnson’s third attempt at higher education. But such housing is a rarity at community colleges, where most former foster care students begin their higher education. During the 2021-22 academic year, eight CSU campuses referred students and funneled about $5.2 Another fix is dorms.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 29, 2022

According to the 2021 Washington state Healthy Youth Survey, about 13 percent of the state’s eighth graders said they don’t have an adult to turn to when they feel sad or hopeless. Educators and others are experimenting with new ways to address students’ mental health needs — or reinvent old strategies. Read the series.

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APRIL 30, 2021

The disruptions and changes during the past year have made a return to the industrial education model of the 19th and 20th centuries problematic for school districts committed to preparing diverse students for 21st century careers. By Robert Low. WATCH THE EDWEBINAR RECORDING. LISTEN TO THE PODCAST. Creating a Framework for Innovation.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2022

Like many dropouts, Floyd always intended to finish his college education. His father was a college-educated aerospace engineer. The number of college dropouts swelled during the tight labor market; an additional 2 million people joined their ranks from only a year and a half earlier in 2018. He was 40 years old.

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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. 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 10, 2021

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. When education went online, she struggled to get into contact with students and help them meet college application and financial aid deadlines. Jake agreed. “I racial group. Read the series.

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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. PHILADELPHIA — At first, Marie Wilkins-Walker was just happy to be back in a classroom.

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APRIL 24, 2023

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. Statewide data shows students in the program graduate at a higher rate than those enrolled in traditional adult basic education.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 10, 2021

Monalie Bohannon’s mother tries on a shawl that is a family heirloom before her daughter’s graduation from Hamilton High School, on June 2, 2021. This story is part of a series on college enrollment and retention among Native students that was supported by the Education Writers Association. Read the series.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 20, 2022

In Denver, on the other hand, districtwide data shows that suspensions were down by 55 percent in fall 2021 compared with fall 2019, though 1,000 of Denver’s 92,000 students were suspended in the first four months of the school year. Before the pandemic, she trained educators working with children who live in violent communities.

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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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The Hechinger Report

JULY 13, 2021

At the beginning of 2021, The Hechinger Report’s members (individual readers who donated money to our nonprofit news organization) asked us if we would report on the best practices for helping the nation’s public school system recover from the pandemic. So he has no idea if they’re learning. Your stories. Read the stories. I’m very worried.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Many remain at least partially online this fall and possibly into 2021. The pandemic has clearly upended the college experience for a generation of students and higher education professionals. Prior to the pandemic, major demographic shifts in the higher education student population were also underway.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 25, 2021

Without a college education, they are much less likely to escape poverty. Related: A warning sign that the freshman class will shrink again in the fall of 2021. They may also question the value of postsecondary education. For these students, the delay can derail any chance they have of getting a college degree. And the U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 2, 2021

As this spring’s high school seniors gear up for graduation, there’s a silver lining worth noting: The class of 2021 may be better prepared to take hold of their future than the classes before them. Prior to the pandemic, transitioning from high school to college or career may have marked the first major life change for most teens.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

As the country undergoes a period of historic racial reckoning, with nearly every sector of society examining its role in racial injustice, higher education needs to do the same. Student parents are incredibly motivated to complete their postsecondary education and have, on average, higher GPAs than their nonparenting peers.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 18, 2023

This story also appeared in Oregon Public Broadcasting Hall — who graduated in 2021 with a doctorate in linguistics from the University of Oregon — is the language coordinator for the Coquille Indian Tribe. There are “so many people that are stuck in poverty and stuck in situations where they can’t get an education,” Hall said. “I

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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. 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. Allison Socol, The Education Trust.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 9, 2018

This crucial juncture, and its far-reaching implications for those who don’t meet the mark, is why some educators are focusing their literacy efforts on the school years that come before third grade — hoping through innovation to offset what could be a terrible and lasting deficit in children’s reading skills. So far, results are promising.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 24, 2020

Some universities have already waived the testing requirements for the class of 2021. Many students and educators believe that the coronavirus-related disruptions are likely to be temporary. Sign up for our higher education newsletter. response to the pandemic. “At But some have more dire predictions.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 17, 2017

But in May, sitting in the office of her school’s family support specialist, Joell Stubbe, Karolina talked excitedly about going to Buffalo State university, where she’s been accepted into the class of 2021. I would have been a dropout.”. Karolina credits the turnaround to her relationship with Stubbe. And I do that with [Stubbe].

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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

AUGUST 31, 2021

million teenagers were set to graduate from high school in spring 2021. That’s the entity that we would be better off without,” Jaden said in January 2021. I was faced with having to step up for my family or for my education, and I chose my family,” Jaden said. It threw a huge fork into my plans.”. Jaden Huynh. Jaden Huynh.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

My excitement was palpable given that this fancy piece of technology was (and is) a luxury for most educators. Something tells me that a loose projector hanging from the ceiling was not what Thomas Edison imagined when he proclaimed that motion picture would transform our education system.

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MindShift

JULY 9, 2018

This story was produced by The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. The program is currently working in 32 schools in the Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens and Manhattan, with plans to expand to 62 schools by 2021. Sign up for the Hechinger newsletter. BRONX, N.Y. —

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Hechinger and AZCIR obtained, through public records requests, data from 150-plus districts and charter networks that educate about 61 percent of Arizona’s 1.1 Suspensions can also contribute to new problems, such as lower academic performance and higher dropout rates. million public school students.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Thiel had long been looking for a way to blow up higher education. Thiel was trying to change the public conversation about higher education, and at the time, 13 years ago, even practices like gap years were pretty uncommon. In fact, these days skepticism of higher education is rising.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

She vanished from Cambridge, Massachusetts’ public school roll in 2021 and has been, from an administrative standpoint, unaccounted for since then. She also didn’t allow Kailani to use her headphones while working independently in class, something permitted in her special education plan to help her focus, according to Kailani.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Emerging at the height of the pandemic, pods (or “hubs” as they are sometimes called) were organized primarily by middle-class, college-educated parents and community groups to provide safe, supportive spaces for virtual learning. Related: Communities hit hardest by the pandemic, already struggling, could face a dropout cliff.

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