The Hechinger Report

MARCH 11, 2021

Students who have been underserved by a deeply inequitable education system often undergo a remarkable transformation at an HBCU. They typically come from K-12 school systems that lack resources like state-of-the-art learning technology, curriculum and student supports. Across the U.S., for example, some 1.

Digital Divide 143

Digital Divide Course Accessibility System 143

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

During their college careers, far too many students lack reliable access to nutritious food, hampering their efforts to advance their education and skills. This inequality compounds systemic economic disparities. Students also need better access to and knowledge about nutrition and food preparation to achieve lasting food security.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 22, 2023

In stories detailing inequities, from post-graduation income gaps to programming that places Black students in less upwardly mobile career tracks , the news consistently demonstrates that our higher education system is not equitably serving Black learners. We must not “put the blame back on learners because the systems have been broken.”

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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?

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Dropout Education System Data 109

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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Report Groups Meeting Advocacy 101

Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 10, 2016

Statistically, almost half of school dropouts do so because they don’t see the relevance. Here’s how it works: Sign up for a free version of Nepris (it comes with one live virtual session and access to hundreds of recorded sessions). Check out the “Industry Talks” link on the home page.

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Flipped Classroom Industry Dropout Common Core 150

EdNews Daily

AUGUST 29, 2016

As a leader in educational media for children and students and a key partner with parents and educators across America, PBS today announced SPOTLIGHT EDUCATION, a special week of primetime programming examining the challenges facing today’s students and America’s education system. ET – TED TALKS “Education Revolution”. NAVAJO MATH CIRCLES.

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Report Dropout Education Outcomes 124

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. A meeting with an Aon recruiter changed her course. pursuing bachelor’s?and

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Edsurge

JULY 11, 2017

The American prison system has been criticized for being a place of punishment instead of rehabilitation. In states such as Alabama, where youth as young as 14 can be tried as adults, going into the system can mean a lifetime of condemnation. Most of them were dropouts.” “In They were lost in the cracks,” says Carter.

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Personalized Learning Learning Blended Learning Dropout 99

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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Elementary Online Learning Report Laptops 144

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

Too often, our education system sends the one in five children with learning and attention issues into the world without the skills they need to succeed. Related: How one district solved the special education dropout problem. The Capitol Building, Washington, D.C. Related: Special education’s hidden racial gap.

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Advocacy Dropout Policies Training 74

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Credit: James Bernal for The Hechinger Report One model gaining popularity is called “college-focused rapid rehousing,” which received $19 million in state funding during the 2022-23 school year across California’s three higher education systems. Other times, as in Johnson’s case, the organization offers a rental subsidy.

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Report Study Examples System 128

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 26, 2019

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.”. It impedes access to institutions they might be qualified for, because it’s not being accepted.”. How is it going to be accessible?

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Dropout Report Accessibility Study 111

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 6, 2020

Most Altus classes meet the University of California’s “A-G” course requirements for admission, Altus officials say. They email and telephone parents and call families in to meet with the instructors, a social worker, case manager or other support staff if a student is struggling.

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Dropout Blended Learning Course Report 98

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. That is not who we serve today.”. Free tuition, mentoring.

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Dropout Secondary Course Report 72

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 108

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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Course System Data Strategy 104

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

Everybody agrees that our higher education system is broken. A coach was meeting with a student virtually behind a glass door decorated with a decal of a stylized Rosie the Riveter. Everybody agrees that our higher education system is broken,” she said. They might disagree about what needs fixing first.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 1, 2017

As of 2016, Louisiana and 23 other states had alternative diploma or certificate options specifically for students with disabilities, each state with its own system. Related: How one district solved its special education dropout problem. They “didn’t bring up his ability to do the work,” Comeaux said of that January 2016 meeting.

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Dropout Advocacy Outcomes Report 79

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 19, 2023

She studies how burdensome paperwork and processes often prevent poor people from accessing health benefits. The only face-to-face meeting was in October 2021, when Tameka sent her kids on the bus, only to learn they weren’t enrolled. Inconsistent cell phone access isn’t uncommon among low-income Americans.

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Policies Online Learning Dropout Elementary 81

The Hechinger Report

JULY 17, 2017

I would have been a dropout.”. Stubbe has a counterpart in every public school in the city, yet neither she nor her colleagues are employees of the Buffalo Public School system. We’re finally dealing with the systemic challenges to success … instead of just the symptoms.”. And I do that with [Stubbe].

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Data Secondary System Accessibility 93

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 91

The Hechinger Report

MAY 18, 2020

Students were required to attend college full time, participate in a first-year seminar and meet frequently with an adviser. Extra academic tutoring and career counseling were also part of the program. Meanwhile, CUNY has cut some costs from its $14,000 program by eliminating the first-year seminar and has expanded it to 25,000 students.

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Study Report Course Outcomes 140

The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2023

These are the four system campuses that offer flexible assistance. More than 64,500 students are enrolled at Dallas College, and the system employs nearly 240 success coaches who are spread out across its seven campuses. That makes follow up meetings essential. Experiencing food insecurity? Here’s the campus’ food pantry.

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Outcomes Report Meeting Study 87

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 6, 2022

Other students faced barriers of access. Related: Hundreds of thousands of students still can’t access online learning. Ed Venit, a manager at the education research firm EAB and an expert in student retention and success, said the massive disruption to the education system contributes to what he calls “unfinished K-12 learning.”

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Education Course Report Policies 123

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 19, 2018

Despite these efforts, high school dropout rates remain high. Students from all backgrounds, but especially those who have too often been left behind in a system that has historically favored the white and wealthy, should not merely be staying in school — they must be thriving in school.”. I’m one of the lucky few.

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Dropout Study Elementary Report 84

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 8, 2018

District officials theorized that students’ disillusionment with the curriculum contributed to Vista High’s 10 percent dropout rate. Yet some teachers also said that the intimacy of the house system — in which freshmen often ended up in three or more classes with the same students — caused friction.

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Personalized Learning Chromebook Learning Groups 78

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 7, 2017

Colleges and universities that use sophisticated data systems to analyze and guide students must be careful to avoid ethical dilemmas that can arise, like pigeonholing students unfairly or underestimating their abilities, according to a new report that analyzed common pitfalls of these systems.

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Outcomes Report Data Blended Learning 49

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 2, 2016

Starkville, in contrast, was regarded as a successful school system, offering opportunities such as Advanced Placement classes and robotics competitions through a career and technology center. This economic divide was mirrored in the school system. It’s been a frustrating experience, working with the Department of Justice,” said Hooks.

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Report Dropout System Elementary 111

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. Students technically have access to hundreds of courses, but Jones-Redmond said the district focuses on math, language arts, social studies and science.

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Online Learning Blended Learning Pearson Learning 70

The Hechinger Report

JULY 26, 2018

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. For in-person instruction, students will go to classes at designated spaces easily accessible from their jobs and provided by the college’s corporate partners.

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Report Meeting Accessibility Outcomes 89

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 20, 2019

Right now, the system feels like it is crafted to keep low-income students like us out of college,” wrote Enoch Jemmott, a student at Queens College who is featured in the documentary “Personal Statement,” which we’ve partnered with at Hechinger. Related: Fixing a higher education caste system that screams inequality.

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Report Policies Outcomes System 95

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 23, 2018

By sending them off to spend their freshman years elsewhere and requiring them to meet certain academic targets, for instance, colleges ensure that students are motivated and likely to make it all the way to graduation rather than cost revenue by dropping out.

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Policies Report Academic Standards Meeting 81

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 11, 2011

The scientific management system we use in educational leadership today tends to bring us consistently to the four failures of information learning and applied action identified by the 9/11 Commission Report: failures of management, imagination, policy, and capacity. psid=2011-04-27.1619.M.9E9FE58134BE68C3B413F24B3586CF.vcr&sid=2008350

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Industry Dropout Policies System 50

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 1, 2016

And the gap is even wider in some other states, the commission calculates, where older learners would have to make up 60 percent or more of new college graduates in order to meet degree goals. They have to build in those support systems.”. Sign up for our Higher Education newsletter. 40% of U.S.

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Groups Dropout Report Examples 40

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 15, 2017

He blames the system. Gunn said the district provides professional development for teachers that focuses on transition and has recently begun sending a teacher each month to a regional group meeting to discuss transition topics. Kate herself says that her classes were easy and that she “almost never had homework.”.

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Outcomes Education Report Survey 88

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 27, 2017

Colleges should develop support systems to reflect that. The College Cost Reduction and Access Act of 2007 provides resources in the form of financial assistance and services to make college accessible for homeless youth. Colleges should develop support systems to reflect that.

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Survey Study Report Groups 40