The Hechinger Report

MARCH 29, 2018

Leave this field empty if you're human: Nearly half of first-generation students who did continue went to community colleges, which spend less per student than many public primary and secondary schools , and where the odds of ever graduating are also comparatively low. “The scope of this problem is huge.”

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 31, 2020

It’s the first time this kind of data has been compiled and analyzed nationally, and some of the spending gaps are extreme. Hechinger’s analysis of state and local spending by school included nearly 700 districts (those with 15 or more schools) from 40 states that made the data available. But he’s not surprised. That’s a problem.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 19, 2019

Nellie Mae passed on the money to the Portland-based Great Schools Partnership, which used it to coordinate The New England Secondary School Consortium, a coalition advocating for proficiency-based diplomas, among other things. And, like Lee-Winship, she finds the data entry meaningless.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

With his transformative efforts, Mr. Hatcher has propelled Akron Public Schools to the forefront of educational excellence, becoming a shining example of how innovative education technologies can truly make a difference in students’ lives. Her advocacy resulted in $1.5 Weinraub is an exceptional leader in student health and wellness.

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MindShift

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

Mehta said the best examples he has seen during the school day are in science classes. In the process, students learned how to develop a hypothesis, gather data, review the literature and write up their results. Lehmann, the Philadelphia principal, embodies this attitude perhaps as well as any secondary educator in America.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 1, 2016

billion on elementary and secondary education. Nancy Loome, executive director and founder of the Parents’ Campaign, a nonprofit and grassroots education advocacy organization. Census data. The class sizes at Enterprise Attendance Center are an example of these struggles. Schools stand to receive $2.4

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MindShift

MARCH 29, 2018

Nearly half of first-generation students who did continue went to community colleges, which spend less per student than many public primary and secondary schools , and where the odds of ever graduating are also comparatively low. That’s twice the proportion of students whose parents have bachelor’s degrees.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 15, 2023

There were no Advanced Placement courses, for example, and little help was available with college and financial aid applications, said Ben, who is Black. “I Forty-five percent of Black children go to high-poverty primary and secondary schools , compared to 8 percent of white students.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 1, 2017

Students with disabilities who are placed in general education classrooms get more instructional time , have fewer absences and have better post-secondary outcomes, research shows. The school serves about 930 students, nearly 20 percent of whom have a disability, according to state data.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 2, 2023

million kids as homeless in 2020-21, the most recent school year for which data was available. Research continues to show the harmful impact of housing instability on kids’ learning: Each time students switch schools, for example, they are more likely to fall behind academically and less likely to graduate. Public schools identified 1.1

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 3, 2022

However, for students transitioning from under-resourced high schools, and without self-advocacy skills, legal knowledge or access to medical resources and insurance, pursuing accommodations in college can be daunting, prolonged and expensive. Little has changed since.

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Policies Accessibility Advocacy Report 75

Iterating Toward Openness

APRIL 25, 2019

For example, I spend a fair amount of time thinking about the future of learning materials writ large. In this vision of the world, OER replace traditionally copyrighted, expensive textbooks for all primary, secondary, and post-secondary courses. The data in the Kernel Development report shatter this illusion.

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edWeb.net

MAY 19, 2020

At Maury County Public Schools (TN), for example, families can check out WiFi-enabled devices for two weeks at a time. ClassLink Analytics gives decision makers the usage data they need. CoSN provides thought leadership resources, community, best practices and advocacy tools to help leaders succeed in the digital transformation.

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edWeb.net

JUNE 4, 2019

For example, while Linson’s district avoided grants for most of their initiative, they knew that many teachers would need assistance using the new digital tools. For example, his district decided to stop hosting the tech applications on site and moved them to the cloud. In addition, they’ve transitioned to ebooks to save more dollars.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 10, 2016

And while the progress is uneven and vulnerable to still more changes ahead — including a shift next year from grants to loans for students’ living expenses — how they have succeeded shows it can be done, and offers some examples of exactly how. Related: Government data single out schools where low-income students fare worst.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 21, 2017

Students like Moises and Lina, for example, wouldn’t be eligible under the Cuomo proposal. We can’t leave behind families who need more assistance to close that financial gap,” said Ian Rosenblum, the executive director of Education Trust–New York, a nonprofit education advocacy group that published a report about the Excelsior Scholarship.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 13, 2019

Related: New data show some colleges are definitively unaffordable for many. Tennessee, for example, which famously made its community colleges free, is on target to have 55 percent of its residents possess certificates or degrees two years ahead of the 2025 deadline, outgoing Gov. Progress toward these objectives varies by region.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 4, 2016

But even without knowing the funding data for the month of December, I can say a lot. I think it’s safe to say, for example, that venture capital investment has fallen off rather precipitously this year. You can find stock market data about publicly-traded education companies at funding.hackeducation.com.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

That being said, if you’re using a piece of technology that’s free, it’s likely that your personal data is being sold to advertisers or at the very least hoarded as a potential asset (and used, for example, to develop some sort of feature or algorithm). It works well, that is, if you disregard student data privacy and security.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 16, 2017

Protests at Evergreen College in Washington , for example. For its part, the Justice Department indicated that it would investigate what it deemed to be free speech violations on campuses – at Pierce College , for example, and at Georgia Gwinnett College. Again and again and again. Protests at Reed College in Oregon.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 17, 2017

Demanding that schools teach “the right skills” is also one of many examples of an ongoing “innovation” fixation , of how industry is pressing the education system to bend to its needs. There are other markets to pursue, after all – markets in Mexico , Gaza , Uganda, Kenya, and Nigeria , for example.

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