The Hechinger Report

JUNE 4, 2019

As manufacturing jobs are replaced by skilled-service positions, Latinx who lack training beyond high school will be increasingly stuck in low-wage and unstable jobs; the resulting lack of skilled workers could depress annual U.S. Closing this educational divide matters for individual students and for the U.S.

Dropout 109

Dropout Laptops Study Report 109

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 16, 2017

For the last two years, Summit has set out to replicate its success, not by opening more Summit schools, but by offering other schools free tools, training and support to transform themselves. Basecamp schools then receive mentoring from and troubleshooting by Summit staff, as well as PLP access throughout the academic year.

Personalized Learning 40

Personalized Learning Learning Elementary Common Core 40

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

During his fourth year, Thorne started teaching an African American Studies course that he designed. It was his dream, and he began teaching the course a couple years before debates about teaching Black history and critical race theory swept the nation. Credit: Grace Beahm Alford/Staff.

Education 135

Education Elementary Data Dropout 135

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 21, 2017

Ten years later, the couple sat across a wooden table from Caleb, now 16, a high school dropout and, as of September, survivor of a suicide attempt. Students like Caleb continue to languish in GNET schools while the lawsuit continues its course. The state of Georgia filed a motion to dismiss the lawsuit in October.

Education 80

Education Assistive Technology Advocacy System 80

The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2019

For decades, nonprofit advocacy groups and corporate donors have targeted K-12 education for intervention. Summit flew Gill and her team to San Francisco, for school visits and training, and won them over. Collectively, New England Basecamp and Highlander have trained hundreds of educators at dozens of schools in the state since 2014.

Personalized Learning 99

Personalized Learning Learning Chromebook Elementary 99

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 22, 2022

She immediately organized last-minute abortion support training for Oberlin students and began trying to figure out what would happen to students in the 13 states where abortion will become illegal automatically if the draft opinion is adopted as the court’s final decision. Often they don’t have cars.

Accessibility 26

Accessibility Training Policies Report 26

Hack Education

JULY 28, 2017

Trump’s budget, of course, cuts $9.2 So this, from the American Enterprise Institute , is completely unsurprising: “School-choice advocate Steve Jobs in 1995: ‘The unions are the worst thing that ever happened to education’ ” The Business of Job Training. ” $100,000. Contests and Awards. ”).

Education 43

Education MOOC Company Report 43

Hack Education

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

Via Inside Higher Ed : “Appeals court ruling continues decade-long legal battle between Georgia State University and three publishers over what constitutes ” fair use “ of course materials.” Via The Chronicle of Higher Education : “Economic Boom Isn’t Helping Some Student-Loan Debtors , Advocacy Group Says.”

Education 53

Education Company Report IXL Learning 53

Hack Education

MARCH 10, 2017

” Trump’s favorite techie is, of course, Peter Thiel. Following up on ProPublica reporting , “ Florida to Examine Whether Alternative Charter Schools Underreport Dropouts.” ” The Business of Job Training. More about Trump’s immigration policies in a separate section below. ” Contests.

Education 46

Education Robotics E-rate Social Media 46

The Hechinger Report

JULY 6, 2018

Only about one in five of 2016 graduates got full-time jobs in legal offices, the advocacy organization Law School Transparency reported. Many students take online courses from for-profit colleges in other states. That was far below the state average. On one hand we have the employers saying, ‘Give us more students.’

Company 71

Company Industry Advocacy Report 71