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Edtech, Equity, and Innovation: A Critical Look in the Mirror

Digital Promise

When schools persistently graduate less than half of their students of color and students with disabilities, we call those schools dropout factories. When an educator is unprepared and unable to access high-quality resources to meet our unique learners’ needs, the system penalizes the educator. Let’s start a movement.

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While focus is on fall, students? choices about college will have a far longer impact

The Hechinger Report

Now, just as happened in the last recession, it is likely to take them even longer and cost more, while — after years of hard-won progress — dropout rates rise and graduation rates fall. The Hechinger Report, which produced this story, is also housed at Teachers College.). Credit: Eric England for The Hechinger Report.

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Overdue tuition and fees — as little as $41 — derail hundreds of thousands of California community college students

The Hechinger Report

Pandemic-related hardships have propelled many students to choose jobs over education and online classes have been barriers for low-income students without digital resources. The report was provided jointly to The Hechinger Report and the Los Angeles Times. The pain from these debts is not felt evenly, researchers said.

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For some kids, returning to school post-pandemic means a daunting wall of administrative obstacles 

The Hechinger Report

They said they’d be back to set her up with resources to help her with parenting. An Associated Press reporter has had to visit the family in person to communicate. The post For some kids, returning to school post-pandemic means a daunting wall of administrative obstacles appeared first on The Hechinger Report.

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How one city closed the digital divide for nearly all its students

The Hechinger Report

Credit: Javeria Salman/ The Hechinger Report. “We Credit: Javeria Salman/ The Hechinger Report Boxes of #OaklandUndivided devices wait for student pickup at Castlemont High School in May 2021. Credit: Javeria Salman/ The Hechinger Report. Credit: Javeria Salman/ The Hechinger Report. The homework gap isn’t new.

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In Puerto Rico, the odds are against high school grads who want to go to college

The Hechinger Report

Rivera Pichardo for The Hechinger Report. Rivera Pichardo for The Hechinger Report. Of those who do enroll at universities on the island, fewer than half earn degrees, even after six years , the advocacy group Excelencia in Education reports, compared to more than 58 percent of college students nationwide.

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OPINION: Why Black student parents are at the epicenter of the student debt crisis — and what we can do about it

The Hechinger Report

Briana, an alumna of our program, explained the experience at her college like this: “I don’t think I would have found any resources unless I sought them out purposely.”. The post OPINION: Why Black student parents are at the epicenter of the student debt crisis — and what we can do about it appeared first on The Hechinger Report.

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