The Hechinger Report

APRIL 26, 2019

“It’s essentially a vestige of colonialism,” said Roberto Jiménez Rivera, a rare example of a native Puerto Rican from modest means who went to college on the mainland, where he now is an assistant director of admissions at Tufts University. Enrique Ferna?ndez, Related: New data show some colleges are definitively unaffordable for many.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

The Roux Institute opened last year in borrowed space in this tech company building on the Portland, Maine, waterfront to teach computer science and other subjects. A coach was meeting with a student virtually behind a glass door decorated with a decal of a stylized Rosie the Riveter. Credit: Molly Haley for The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 9, 2019

One way is through acquisitions like the one his university made of the Claremont School of Theology in California, or CST, which is being moved to the Salem, Oregon, campus of Willamette, just as private companies consolidate to increase their size and cost-effectiveness. Will there be more?

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 24, 2019

That fall of 2015, they began rolling out twice-daily meetings where students could talk about their emotions, exercises in which students mapped out their goals and aspirations and lessons to help teachers improve how they communicate with kids. Now every class begins with a “morning meeting.” He knows enough to be cautious.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Experts say that this means dropout rates, which had been declining for more than a decade, will likely start to rise again. Her coalition of advocates in Nashville now meets remotely, every Friday morning. Like the Rio Grande Valley, for example, Nashville had been seeing gains in high school graduation and college-going rates. “We

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 23, 2018

By sending them off to spend their freshman years elsewhere and requiring them to meet certain academic targets, for instance, colleges ensure that students are motivated and likely to make it all the way to graduation rather than cost revenue by dropping out.

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MindShift

OCTOBER 27, 2016

Usually that means creating PowerPoint presentations full of pictures and “just kind of pulling from here and there,” he said — the Internet, a third grade textbook or a preschool homeschool curriculum from Sam’s Club, for example. But advocates are worried schools might not be able to meet these benchmarks without proper materials.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 13, 2021

Last year, researchers at NWEA, an independent nonprofit assessment company, published an analysis of data from the autumn 2020 MAP Growth tests of more than 4 million public school students. For example, she had trouble finding the area of a triangle and other math involving shapes. It’s a long road of recovery.”

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 15, 2019

I was concerned and afraid of what might happen to her, but you cannot cut their wings,” said Aranda, an operations manager for a talent supply chain company. One example of that coordination, Miles said, came after the school opened a new residential floor specifically for first-generation students.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 1, 2018

The online coursework is designed by the education company Pearson. Lynette Tannis, author of a book about educating incarcerated youth and an adjunct professor at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Education, said she sees more examples of what shouldn’t be happening in juvenile justice facilities than examples to celebrate.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2016

By the time they’re 11, researchers observe, these boys feel little motivation to work hard in school, with few examples in their lives of men who went to college, and little hope they can afford what seem to them to be unaffordable fees. companies, at just under 15 percent, according to the Center for American Progress. In the U.S.,

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 4, 2019

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. Her years of assembly line work at Ford left her with debilitating carpal tunnel syndrome, but Perez said she wanted to make it back to the company — off the assembly line, as a manager.

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MindShift

JUNE 18, 2020

. “I’m in touch with my students two, three times a week,” by text, phone, Google classroom and Zoom meetings, Concepcion says. South Fort Myers High School follows a dropout prevention program called BARR, which stands for Building Assets, Reducing Risks. “And then the following week we got it down to 125.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 29, 2022

She pointed to racial disparities in mental health care and said that because not all insurance companies cover mental health care in the same way they do physical health care, people may have to pay out of pocket for treatment. (The Lumina Foundation is among the numerous funders of The Hechinger Report.).

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 16, 2017

Those connections start with one-on-one mentoring, in which teachers meet with students weekly to discuss short-term goals, such as completing a certain number of units in a history course, and long-term goals that stretch into college and career. But now, I love school math, because I’m learning better.”.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 3, 2023

The federal share of Medicaid funding, for example, is capped at 55 percent (if Puerto Rico were a state, it could receive 83 percent), residents are denied certain disability benefits and there are restrictions on access to other funding, such as the child tax credit. Its residents are U.S. Some nonprofits have stepped in to fill the gap.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

And law school deans will meet March 1 to talk about how to deliver more and better information about their institutions. “We For example, a user would have to click on the fine print to learn that the graduation rate for four-year colleges shows the proportion of students who finish in eight years, not in four. But that’s changing.”

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 21, 2017

ATLANTA — Brent Agnew remembers feeling a sense of relief when he left the meeting called to discuss his 6-year-old son Caleb’s anxiety attacks. 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. Photo: Jesse Pratt Lopez.

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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. If policymakers are going to close California’s graduation gap, they’ll have to figure out how to meet the needs of students like Mora and Deas. They can receive up to $1,500 per semester.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 27, 2018

After college, Taylor started an oil company and eventually made the Forbes list of world’s richest people. ‘A At the time, a third of Louisiana’s adults were high school dropouts. The state was $1 billion short of making ends meet last year, and Edwards projected a similar deficit for the upcoming budget cycle.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 12, 2017

Clayton Christensen and Michael Horn, for example, predicted in their 2008 book Disrupting Class that by 2019 half of all high school classes would be taught via the Internet. For its part, Udacity has fully rebranded itself as a high-tech job training company, a topic I’ll cover in more detail in a forthcoming article in this series.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 6, 2018

The case is among a slew of enforcement actions, lawsuits and legislative proposals through which states are cracking down on for-profit colleges and universities and loan-servicing companies they say cheat or mislead students. Related: Once-high-flying private, for-profit universities seek turnaround strategies. “We

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