The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 19, 2023

“One of the biggest problems that we have is kids that are missing and chronic absenteeism,” says Pamela Herd, a Georgetown University public policy professor. She studies how burdensome paperwork and processes often prevent poor people from accessing health benefits. Records show Tameka rarely called back. Communities such as St.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 22, 2021

Universities doing this say they’re “creating greater access and opportunity,” as Fairleigh Dickinson put it, or moving to “strengthen educational value,” according to Rider. It’s absolutely bad news,” said Patrick Lane, vice president of WICHE’s policy analysis and research unit. It’s a bigger decline than was expected.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

More than two-thirds of those students — about 70 percent — are women , according to Education Department data analyzed by the Institute for Women’s Policy Research. Sixty-one percent of student fathers drop out of college without degrees, compared to 48 percent of student mothers, the women’s policy research institute finds.

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edWeb.net

MAY 4, 2022

Baltimore has now established a partnership framework aligned with district policies and priorities and a rubric for evaluating partners. Fayette County Public Schools has a Community Partnership Leadership Team that meets once a month to share information about projects and make sure they are moving the needle forward.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 7, 2024

MINNEAPOLIS — At a late August meeting in a windowless room at Minneapolis College, a handful of students barely a week into classes sat back on couches, took a breath and marveled that they were there at all. While she was out, two student workers ensured the recovery program room stayed open, emails went out and weekly meetings happened.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 6, 2022

There were 236 papers presented with the word “online” in their titles at this year’s meeting of the American Educational Research Association, compared to 158 the year before the pandemic — a nearly 50 percent increase. Related: How higher education lost its shine.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 17, 2023

More than 427,000 undocumented students are enrolled in higher education nationwide Students can meet with counselors and educational advisers via Zoom or in person by appointment or drop-in sessions. It was for us: We educated ourselves about laws, policies and support systems through the help of these centers.

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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.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 12, 2019

Equal treatment — giving the exact same service to everyone — isn’t the same thing as equitable treatment, which is providing what each child needs to meet a particular goal. What can we do about these dilemmas posed by a standardized system trying — and failing — to meet the needs of so many children? Sign up for our newsletter.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

Only one in four students with learning disabilities disclose their disabilities to their colleges, leaving them without access to critical accommodations and putting them at greater risk of leaving school without a degree. Related: How one district solved the special education dropout problem. So why does this happen?

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Advocacy Dropout Policies Training 73

The Hechinger Report

JULY 23, 2018

A single mother with a 5-year-old daughter, the student told me she works 22 hours each week to make ends meet for her small family. As things stand, existing on-campus child care centers meet only about 5 percent of actual need. Another approach to improve access to child care is to modify the federal financial aid system.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 1, 2020

When teachers at Cable Elementary in San Antonio couldn’t reach four siblings who attended the school this spring, Monica Williams of Communities in Schools was able to arrange a meeting with them at their grandmother’s house. Williams arranged to meet the children at their grandmother’s. Credit: Monica Williams.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 3, 2023

Federal policies still disadvantage the island, the result of a “quasi-colonial relationship,” said King. Even in 2017, before Hurricane Maria, about a quarter of the island’s children lacked internet access and half lacked computers at home. Its residents are U.S. Everything I’ve done before is no good anymore,” she said.

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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. The only way I know that this can be changed is when there’s access to higher education.”. The only way I know that this can be changed is when there’s access to higher education.”.

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Dropout Report Accessibility Study 111

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

For years, college students have agitated for improved mental health services, such as more counselors, easier access to them and greater awareness and sensitivity, including having professors put suicide prevention and other hotline numbers on syllabuses. It’s true that there are not enough professionals to meet rising demand.

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Training Meeting Report Policies 121

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 23, 2019

Not everyone is convinced that sending gang members to college is the best way to meet their needs or better their communities. 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.

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Dropout Report Data Policies 98

The Hechinger Report

MAY 7, 2020

Carrie Welton, director of policy at the Hope Center for College, Community and Justice at Temple University. “If If our survey was taken now, the results would likely be 100 times worse,” said Carrie Welton, director of policy at the Hope Center. The system was failing parenting students even prior to Covid.” It’s a worrisome trend.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 12, 2023

Districts across the country have been ramping up career education programs spurred, in part, by federal legislation updated in 2018 that provides funding for career education (commonly referred to as Perkins V ), said Matt Giani, a research associate professor in sociology at the University of Texas at Austin who studies education policy.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Meanwhile, all but four states are spending less on higher education, per student, than they did in 2008 , according to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, a liberal-learning think thank. If policymakers are going to close California’s graduation gap, they’ll have to figure out how to meet the needs of students like Mora and Deas.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

” Eric Duncan, part of education advocacy organization Ed Trust’s policy team, said Thorne’s story is one echoed by Black male educators nationwide who feel perpetually overlooked. It’s a brand-new era of teaching after the pandemic, Joseph said, and so the program has had to be adjusted to meet that. “We

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 6, 2022

Other students faced barriers of access. Related: Hundreds of thousands of students still can’t access online learning. And during the 2020-21 academic year, UT adopted a policy allowing students to designate up to three of their courses to be graded as pass/fail , rather than with letter grades, Patterson said.

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Education Course Report Policies 128

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2022

You don’t have a computer, you don’t have internet, you can’t even access distance learning,” Silver said. RELATED: Racial segregation is one reason some families have internet access and others don’t, new research finds. We need to change that.”. “We We can’t afford not to.”. The homework gap isn’t new.

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Digital Divide Broadband Chromebook Survey 111

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 25, 2016

We’ve seen stories about a dropout factory, or a district school where only a small percentage of students are proficient in math or reading (and not getting any better with time or interventions or waivers). Online learning offers educators access to a wealth of learning data to guide their teaching and assessment of student performance.

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Dropout Competency Based Learning Differentiated Instruction Online Learning 60

The Hechinger Report

JULY 18, 2023

Tribes have to meet several criteria in their petitions for federal recognition, including proof they’ve had decades of a collective identity, generations of descendants and long-standing, autonomous political governance. Documentation depends on the information families can access to prove their lineage. That’s because the U.S.

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Groups Accessibility Policies Advocacy 86

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 22, 2020

Emanuelle Sippy, a rising senior at Henry Clay High School in Lexington, Kentucky, and student director of the Prichard Committee Student Voice Team, another organization involved in the campaign, views student participation in education policy as mandatory. “We ” Kiri Kenman, senior at Catalina Foothills High School in Tucson, Arizona.

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Survey Policies Groups Report 145

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Leanne Davis, assistant director of applied research at the Institute for Higher Education Policy. Insufficient housing or inadequate childcare can derail students who want to finish their education, and many of the institutions they attend my not be equipped to meet all of their needs.

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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. Paul College that shows students’ countries of origin.

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Dropout Secondary Course Report 73

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2019

We believe that all students should have access to counselors and related supports,” Lello wrote in an email. At Northeast High School, a large comprehensive public school with 3,400 students where just half of students meet proficiency levels in math and English Language Arts, counselor Andrew Dunakin has a caseload of 800 students.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 1, 2017

Related: How one district solved its special education dropout problem. Comeaux, who has made it a point to educate herself about the intricacies of special education policy, told administrators she would not be taking her child off the regular diploma track. How one district solved its special education dropout problem. . •

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Dropout Advocacy Outcomes Report 80

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 27, 2018

“This is a state that needs its brightest students to stay here over the long term so our economy grows, so that educational opportunities grow,” said Vincent Rossmeier, the director of policy for Tulane University’s Cowen Institute for Public Education Initiatives. “If Only 16 percent had earned a bachelor’s degree or higher.

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Dropout Policies STEM Outcomes 81

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 24, 2020

Students planning to enroll at community colleges are in many cases just starting their applications, sometimes without access to the internet at home. Goulart’s district is providing Chromebooks to all students and wifi hotspots to those who don’t have access to the internet at home. Photo: AP /Rick Bowmer.

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Accessibility Policies Chromebook Exercises 104

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. Lehigh University has started hiring faculty for a new college of health policy , part of a plan to add 1,800 students. Will there be more?

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Dropout Training Industry Kaplan 74

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 23, 2018

Alana Wolf was accepted to Cornell University, which told her to go somewhere else as a freshman and come back as a sophomore under a little-known policy called conditional admission. Most require that the students meet minimum academic standards and earn a predetermined number of credits. campus as sophomores.

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Policies Report Academic Standards Meeting 81

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 1, 2018

Later that day, she planned to study for her summer session classes, English and public speaking, and to meet with an advisor. Jennifer Pokempner, director of child welfare policy at Juvenile Law Center, a legal advocacy group in Philadelphia, said the Seita program is “seen as a model.” From foster care to college.

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System Study Policies Report 111

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 7, 2017

We should always try to balance the potential of technology with its risks,” said Manuela Ekowo, an education policy analyst at New America, who co-authored the report with Iris Palmer, a senior policy analyst. “We Manuela Ekowo, education policy analyst at New America. Sign up for our Blended Learning newsletter. “We

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Outcomes Report Data Blended Learning 48

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 19, 2020

A June 2020 study by the Brookings Metropolitan Policy Program shows enrollments at regional public universities across six states — Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio and Wisconsin — have fallen by over 10 percent since 2011. More than 100 faculty members, adjuncts and others joined the group’s first Zoom meeting.

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Study Report Accessibility Course 116

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 29, 2022

Mental health and education experts are working to develop shorter, more accessible models that can be used on any campus and help ensure that more students are able to successfully return from leaves of absence and earn their degrees.

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