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.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 1, 2017

This story was produced by The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education, in partnership with the Huffington Post. Candace Cortiella, the director of The Advocacy Institute. Related: How one district solved its special education dropout problem.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 7, 2024

Gifting myself with an education is a part of my recovery,” said Nomi Badboy, 43, one of three students attending this week’s meeting of the school’s collegiate recovery program. Education is an example of what’s called “recovery capital,” something earned that makes long-term recovery more likely.

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The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

Thank you, Pam for your time and wisdom and I hope everyone has enjoyed this four-part series with a truly remarkable educator. ” We have a significantly low dropout rate and high on-time graduation rate in Albemarle. Vicki: So, educators, we’ve gotten so many great thoughts here. I just so appreciate you as an educator.

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Marketplace K-12

JUNE 9, 2016

Secretary of Education Arne Duncan has joined the board of directors for Pluralsight , a Utah-based ed-tech company that provides online courses in various subjects, including software development and information technology, the news site Fast Company reported Thursday. By Guest Blogger Andrew Ujifusa. Cross-posted from the Politics K-12.

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edWeb.net

AUGUST 26, 2019

A recent edWebinar led by Bobbi Bear, Director of Customer Advocacy for Achieve3000, identified effective ways to integrate SEL with reading instruction, through classroom conversations about nonfiction and fiction texts. This edWeb broadcast was sponsored by Achieve3000. WATCH THE EDWEBINAR RECORDING. About the Presenter. Join the Community.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 19, 2023

But she should act fast, the social worker urged, or the department might have to take action against her for “educational neglect.” But the Atlanta metro area seems to be a hotbed, despite the policies’ disruption of children’s educations. The Associated Press education team receives support from the Carnegie Corporation of New York.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 26, 2019

Department of Education. The only way I know that this can be changed is when there’s access to higher education.”. Even low-income students with the highest standardized test scores are more than three times less likely to go to top colleges than higher-income students , according to the Education Trust. That’s about 2 percent.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 15, 2017

This story was produced by The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education, in partnership with the Huffington Post. Former special education students on average earn $9.40 for former general education students. for former general education students.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

As the country undergoes a period of historic racial reckoning, with nearly every sector of society examining its role in racial injustice, higher education needs to do the same. Student parents are incredibly motivated to complete their postsecondary education and have, on average, higher GPAs than their nonparenting peers.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 18, 2023

Credit: Don & Melinda Crawford/Education Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images For decades, a handful of individual states and schools have offered financial assistance to Native students. There are “so many people that are stuck in poverty and stuck in situations where they can’t get an education,” Hall said. “I

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 6, 2017

Like a handful of states, New Hampshire is taking the opportunity provided by the federal Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) to revise its accountability measures to further individualize education. Claire Voorhees, national policy director, Foundation for Excellence in Education. Parents saw curriculums narrowing.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 13, 2021

When the kids showed up, educators could see even more clearly how uneven their learning has been during the pandemic. So, we’ve spent several months traveling the country learning from schools applying best practices and from researchers and educators who have studied what works. Allison Socol, The Education Trust.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2022

“We have this huge digital divide that’s making it hard for [students] to get their education,” she said. David Silver, the director of education for the mayor’s office, said people talked about the digital divide, but there had never been enough energy to tackle it. It was so much bigger than just education.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 7, 2019

The debt-forgiveness program was announced at a gathering of organizations focused on improving higher education outcomes, hosted by the philanthropic Lumina Foundation. Black women earn just 61 cents for every dollar earned by their white male counterparts, according to analysis by the nonprofit advocacy group Equal Pay Today.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 24, 2020

Hernandez, a 33-year-old mother of four and high school dropout, had already overcome an array of obstacles on her nearly five-year journey. “No Yet our reporting has discovered just how difficult it is to educate and train the next generation of nurses. This story also appeared in USA Today. faces a dire shortage of nurses.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

So after dropping out for a while, Dzindzichashvili returned to education part time. Dzindzichashvili’s slog through higher education is surprisingly common. Department of Education. Retention happens when students see echoes of their own life in their education,” said Pam Eddinger, the college’s president.

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Educator Innovator

JULY 14, 2014

The event “Celebrating Community Ready,” part of an initiative supported by the Youth and Participatory Politics Research Network , an Educator Innovator partner, stressed that preparing students for democracy in the digital age is a critical part of the educational mission of schools. There is no textbook to teach civic engagement.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

This story was produced by The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education, in partnership with the Huffington Post. The vast majority of special education students can grasp rigorous academic content. Photo: Karen Salomon for The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 13, 2017

This story was produced jointly by inewsource San Diego, a data-focused investigative news organization, and The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. Related: Most colleges enroll many students who aren’t prepared for higher education.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 6, 2017

Understanding that cost is an issue that won’t be solved immediately, we asked educators to identify the other biggest obstacles to a timely graduation. Students who are worried about debt sometimes work more and then reduce their course load,” said Robert Kelchen, a professor of higher education at Seton Hall who studies student debt.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Hechinger and AZCIR obtained, through public records requests, data from 150-plus districts and charter networks that educate about 61 percent of Arizona’s 1.1 Suspensions can also contribute to new problems, such as lower academic performance and higher dropout rates. million public school students.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 10, 2021

But now, as graduation rates stagnate, the Covid-19 pandemic threatens to make them even worse and the Biden administration proposes spending $62 billion to improve completion at higher education institutions with large proportions of low-income students, it’s attracting unaccustomed scrutiny. After lobbying by universities and colleges, Sen.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 4, 2019

Sign up for our Higher Education newsletter. Higher Education. Closing this educational divide matters for individual students and for the U.S. She blamed the high dropout rates on the fact that many students have to juggle school with full- and part-time jobs, leaving little time for academics. Weekly Update.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2023

We are speaking about an equal right, an equal opportunity to access education,” said Sabrina Bernadel, legal counsel at the National Women’s Law Center. Schools kick students out but call it a ‘transfer’ In 2020, nearly every school district in the nation was forced to come up with a way of providing education online.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 14, 2020

Most states have some sort of truancy laws on the books, but only about half still have policies punishing truancy with potential penal measures, according to the national policy group Education Commission of the States. In synchronous classes, it is enough for a student to be present. Sign up for the Hechinger newsletter here.

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MindShift

JUNE 18, 2020

American education has long been full of innovators practicing alternatives to the mainstream. A national survey by the advocacy group ParentsTogether found big gaps by income in the ability to access emergency learning. In this time, as in previous educational disruptions, teenagers are most at risk for being knocked off course.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 24, 2017

Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos, on a September speaking tour, told students she felt they mostly “just follow the same schedule, the same routine — just waiting to be saved by the bell” and that the U.S. Higher Education. What would you say is one thing that needs to be fixed currently about public education? Student Voices.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 17, 2016

This story was originally published by the Education Writers Association and reprinted with permission. Secretary of Education John B. Department of Education, released today, 83.2 Deering High School graduation at the Cross Insurance Arena in Portland on Wednesday, June 3, 2015. percent in the prior academic year.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

In 2017, Thorne’s last year as a high school teacher, he was one of only about 1,436 Black male teachers in South Carolina, or less than 3 percent of the total teacher workforce, according to the state’s department of education. Four years later, Black male teachers still made up less than 3 percent of teachers in the state.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 16, 2017

Beth Rabbitt, CEO of education nonprofit The Learning Accelerator. There’s tremendous hype swirling around personalized learning, with money pouring in from foundations and education technology companies eager to capitalize on the trend. We know how education reform is. Personalized learning is easy to bastardize.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 21, 2017

At the meeting, a special education teacher had recommended taking the boy out of Martin Elementary School, in a town 10 miles southwest, and placing him in Georgia’s Network for Educational and Therapeutic Support, or GNETS, a statewide system for children with “emotional and behavioral disorders.”.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 1, 2018

T his story about foster care and higher education was produced as part of a series, “Twice Abandoned: How schools and child-welfare systems fail kids in foster care,” reported by HuffPost and The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. KALAMAZOO, Mich.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2019

Danusis and her teaching staff practice personalized learning, an individual-comes-first approach, usually aided by laptops, that has become a reformist calling card in education. Sign up for our Higher Education newsletter. Higher Education. Choose as many as you like. Weekly Update. Future of Learning. Mississippi Learning.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 3, 2019

It’s one example of the many ways that California is taking on seemingly intractable problems that are plaguing higher education nationwide. But California, with a higher education budget for 2019-2020 of $18.5 Not all of the initiatives to solve these problems have succeeded. Those spending more?

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

In 2016 not a single child at “North,” as locals call it, tested proficient in math according to the state’s education department. Where North is now is part of a conscious effort to sabotage black education,” Fuller says. Fuller’s ideas revive a long-standing tradition of African-American educational self-reliance.

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Hack Education

JULY 28, 2017

(National) Education Politics. ” “Not An Advocate for Students or the Public Interest” – historian Sherman Dorn on “ Betsy DeVos as Secretary of Education.” billion from the Department of Education. ” (State and Local) Education Politics. Education in the Courts.

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