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Silicon Valley aims its tech at helping low-income kids get beyond high school

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Photo: Alison Yin for The Hechinger Report. Photo: Alison Yin for The Hechinger Report. “There’s a really tremendous gulf,” said Katie Berger, senior policy analyst for higher education at the nonprofit advocacy organization The Education Trust. Photo: Alison Yin for The Hechinger Report.

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Inside Maine’s disastrous roll out of proficiency-based learning

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Kelly Field, for The Hechinger Report. Districts have spent thousands of dollars on consultants and software upgrades, and the racial and socioeconomic achievement gaps that the law was supposed to help eliminate remain largely unchanged. Kelly Field, for The Hechinger Report. Kelly Field, for The Hechinger Report.

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Schools in the poorest state become even poorer

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billion on elementary and secondary education. Nancy Loome, executive director and founder of the Parents’ Campaign, a nonprofit and grassroots education advocacy organization. This story was produced by The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education.

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Can the Right Nudge Help Low-income Kids Go Beyond High School?

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This story was produced by The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. Alison Yin for The Hechinger Report). Alison Yin for The Hechinger Report). Alison Yin for The Hechinger Report ). Sign up here for our higher-education newsletter.

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From here to there: Musings about the path to having good OER for every course on campus

Iterating Toward Openness

I made what was probably the clearest statement of my vision for the future of learning materials in my Shuttleworth Fellowship application several years ago: My long-term goal is to create a world where OER are used pervasively throughout primary, secondary, and post-secondary schools. Let’s keep chasing this. patches/hour (p.

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New Advocacy Campaign Calls for Banning Facial Recognition on College Campuses.

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Though that particular instance isn’t true, the scenario taps into the very real concerns that privacy activists have about the potential application of face surveillance software on college campuses. and abroad, largely for purposes of surveillance and security, as the Financial Times reported last fall.

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Counseling kids during the coronavirus: A tough job made even tougher

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Just before this crisis began, Arizona was poised to spend millions more on boosting its thin roster of counselors, thanks in part to the advocacy of students like Kumar. Nearly a third of high school students surveyed reported persistent feelings of sadness or hopelessness, according to the CDC. About 19 percent reported anxiety.

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