The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 14, 2019

Recognizing these trends, state policymakers set a goal almost four years ago of increasing the proportion of 25- to 44-year-olds, of all races, with at least a postsecondary certificate to 70 percent by 2025. Before Ontere leaves, she schedules a follow-up meeting and hands him a meal voucher. Kelly Field for The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 12, 2023

The effort in Greenville is part of a growing national trend in which school districts partner with local industries to develop curriculum and expose students to specialized careers at a young age. Schneider was one of thousands of people who responded, many of them critically, to a tweet in December from U.S.

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Industry Elementary Education Robotics 133

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 30, 2019

But the incoming Queens College junior has been trained by the nonprofit College Access: Research and Action (CARA) to help guide students like Tasnia through the transition to college. Once more, Camacho sent her student to the college campus, this time for a meeting with a financial aid advisor.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 7, 2017

It is a growing trend in higher education but it’s not ubiquitous. And, significantly, the university hired 42 new advisors – human beings, not the computer version – and reported that in one year they used data to schedule 43,000 in-person meetings between students and advisors. Really, it’s misnamed.”.

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Outcomes Report Data Blended Learning 52

The Hechinger Report

MAY 4, 2019

Meetings, not so much. So many meetings.”. In late 2017, a research project led by the Harvard Business School, a workforce organization called Grads of Life and the consulting firm Accenture concluded in a report, “Dismissed by Degrees,” that employers “appear to be closing off their access to the two-thirds of the U.S.

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Company Survey Report Training 112

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 15, 2019

These also show that Nichols has reduced the number of dropouts, holding onto $5.4 She has opened the books to faculty and students, holding meetings with them complete with PowerPoint presentations in which she’s spoken frankly about the problems. million a year in tuition revenue it was previously losing.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2016

And meeting college students like him, Hood said, “definitely opens them up to the possibility” of aiming higher. There are similar trends at work in the United States, the Economic Policy Institute reports — including for young college graduates, whose inflation-adjusted earnings are lower than they were in the late 1990s.

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Outcomes Report Study Dropout 40

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 11, 2016

This story is part of a Hechinger reporting series about how “last chance” high schools are pioneering some of the latest trends in high school reform. He realized that some students don’t succeed on the conventional academic path, and ran a school for dropouts on Arena Boulevard. Photo: Luba Ostashevsky. I gravitated toward them.”

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 27, 2019

Like their counterparts all over the world, most of the students here avoid taking classes that are scheduled to meet on Fridays, giving themselves a head start on their weekends. It’s how overwhelmingly the women in the bar outnumber the men, a visible manifestation of a momentous trend at whose leading edge is Iceland. In the U.S.,

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Trends Report Study Dropout 77

The Hechinger Report

MAY 7, 2020

Jackson doesn’t have all the enrollment numbers yet for summer and fall classes, but when she speaks to students who aren’t registering for classes and asks why, some have said they are too busy meeting basic family needs like food, shelter and water. It’s a worrisome trend.

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Survey Policies Groups System 145

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 25, 2016

trillion by 2060, based on current trends, a book coauthored by Hobby Center director and former U.S. In the United States, closing the gap between Hispanics and non-Hispanics would increase personal income nationwide by $24.4 Census Bureau head Steve Murdock calculates. Photo: Liam Richards.

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Groups Report Dropout Study 40

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 16, 2017

The change is part of a nationwide pilot program Walsh joined this year, one that could indicate just how deeply and how quickly the personalized-learning trend will penetrate the average classroom. Basecamp schools then receive mentoring from and troubleshooting by Summit staff, as well as PLP access throughout the academic year.

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Personalized Learning Learning Elementary Common Core 40

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 3, 2023

Community colleges can help lift students into the middle class, but their enrollment has plummeted and their dropout rates are high. Some are working to reverse these trends by changing their cultures. We talk a lot about meeting students where they are, but are we? grade-point average. When are services open?

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Panasonic Survey Report Dropout 145

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

South Carolina has seen its highest number of educator vacancies this year since the Center for Educator Recruitment, Retention and Advancement started tracking the trend in 2001. 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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Education Elementary Data Dropout 137

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 12, 2021

“When that student meets with an academic adviser now, they’re not talking about, ‘Oh, are you babysitting at this time?’ The underlying trends that are certainly pre-pandemic have not gone away, and we’re still not in many ways addressing them, ranging from enrollment, to completion, to the absolute disgrace of public funding.’

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 3, 2019

billion, is bucking a national trend — most other states are continuing to reduce, not increase, their higher education budgets. The goal, writes historian John Aubrey Douglass, was “broad access combined with the development of high quality, mission differentiated, and affordable higher education institutions.”.

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 6, 2017

” Via The Washington Post : “ DeVos rejects invitation to meet with former for-profit college students.” Via ProPublica : “ For-Profit Schools Get State Dollars For Dropouts Who Rarely Drop In.” Related, via Salon : “ Silicon Valley ’s $300M donation to STEM educatio n is not what it seems.”

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 14, 2020

the trauma for many continued, as the Trump administration separated families in detention centers where cells were sometimes kept frigid, food was inadequate and kids were not given access to basic hygiene. While the trend slowed this year, she says, “I absolutely think that the numbers will go right back up when the pandemic passes.

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Elementary Report Exercises Trends 143

Hack Education

DECEMBER 12, 2017

It has shaped the administrative imaginary – and that in turn has shaped how schools have built capacity (or much more likely outsourced capacity ) and defined capacity altogether – notably in response to what’s been consistently framed as the challenge of access and the necessity of choice. ECOT refuses to pay.

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MOOC Coursera Education Broadband 55

The Hechinger Report

JULY 6, 2018

And the trend is picking up momentum as the Trump administration and Congress seek to soften federal regulations that were beefed up during the Obama years. We should remain highly concerned,” said Debbie Cochrane, vice president of The Institute for College Access and Success. Some states may be stepping up, but not all.”.

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