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AUGUST 9, 2017

Students who withdraw are also much more likely to default on their loans; dropouts make up two-thirds of defaults nationwide. The number of dropouts with federal loans at these institutions has grown from 35,443 in 2007-09 to more than 56,600 in 2013-15. That’s typical, said Smith of the Center on Education and the Workforce.

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JUNE 20, 2019

I asked Jerome Lucido, executive director at the University of Southern California’s Center for Enrollment Research, Policy and Practice, how admissions can be fixed. Ted Mitchell, a former U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 7, 2017

The report was released this week at SXSWedu, a national education technology conference in Austin, Texas. We should always try to balance the potential of technology with its risks,” said Manuela Ekowo, an education policy analyst at New America, who co-authored the report with Iris Palmer, a senior policy analyst. “We

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 11, 2011

The scientific management system we use in educational leadership today tends to bring us consistently to the four failures of information learning and applied action identified by the 9/11 Commission Report: failures of management, imagination, policy, and capacity. We fail to properly use our people and resources.

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DECEMBER 22, 2018

But in this county of fewer than 19,000 residents, just 38 percent of recent high school graduates sought more education, according to the latest available data from the West Virginia Higher Education Policy Commission. The district also sponsored its first 3-day home-visiting conference in late November for teachers.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 1, 2016

million since 1995, the Institute for Women’s Policy Research reports. We talk about the college-readiness of our students,” Daniel Greenstein, director of postsecondary success at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, told a conference of the Council for Adult and Experiential Learning. million to 4.8

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MindShift

OCTOBER 27, 2016

It’s not that teachers want to double as curriculum developers, said Gabriela Uro , director of ELL policy and research for the Council, who presented these findings at an education conference in Mexico City last month. public schools and historically have some of the lowest test scores and highest dropout rates of all student groups.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Suspensions can also contribute to new problems, such as lower academic performance and higher dropout rates. Districts and charters use a mix of approaches to address absenteeism, the Hechinger/AZCIR investigation found, including warnings, parent conferences, detentions, in-school suspensions and out-of-school suspensions.

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JUNE 27, 2020

In a forthcoming report, her organization recommends that teachers hold conferences via video with incarcerated parents when possible and send parents copies of their children’s progress reports. “We We have to stop acting like the incarcerated parent does not exist,” Mansfield said.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 4, 2019

In half an hour, he needed to join a conference call about changes to the company’s website. Andy Van Kleunen, CEO of the National Skills Coalition, attributed that trouble to public policies that push bachelor’s degrees as a one-size-fits-all solution rather than training workers for specific middle-skill positions. Coding he liked.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 1, 2019

Jack’s book brings home the pain and reality of on-campus poverty and puts the blame squarely on elite institutions for fostering policies that often “emphasize class differences, amplifying students’ feelings of difference and undercutting their sense of belonging.”. Those were meaningful changes and I’m grateful for them.”.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 10, 2022

Part of a cadre of advisers deployed by the state to prod more Tennessee high school graduates into college, the women in this conference room have suddenly found their jobs to be much harder. They stick to a policy of advertising prices few consumers pay but that discourage many from applying. Last year, it was less than 53 percent.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 17, 2016

A project last year by NPR’s education team found examples at both ends of the spectrum : innovative programs that were legitimately helping students find hard-fought academic success, as well as examples of questionable policies and practices. Understandably at the front of the first group is U.S. Secretary of Education John B.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 5, 2019

New York City’s new schools chancellor Richard Carranza has faced criticism for the integration policies he’s pushing for in one of the nation’s most segregated school districts. But in an exclusive interview, he said he would stand his ground. When he arrived in New York, Carranza was surprised. “I

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APRIL 15, 2014

Updates Partner Spotlight Partner Announcements Calendar of Events Deadlines Highlighted Recordings NMC Navigator Top Ten Conversations Final Notes Updates Learning Revolution Conference. The Learning Revolution Conference schedule is now up! then a full conference day on Thursday. Be a Presenter at Reinventing the Classroom.

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MAY 26, 2020

If, after a natural disaster decimated a city, I proposed to a governor or a school board that they replace a significant portion of a majority- white teaching corps with black teachers because doing so would potentially confer educational and social benefits, I’d probably be denounced as a racist and publicly excoriated.

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JANUARY 16, 2017

Still, there are some stalwart critics, notably Benjamin Riley, who visited many personalized-learning classrooms from 2010 to 2014 as the policy and advocacy director for the NewSchools Venture Fund. Shortly after leaving that post, Riley planted his skeptic’s flag with an oft-cited blog post titled, “Don’t Personalize Learning.”.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 12, 2023

South Dakota, home to nine tribes collectively known as the Great Sioux Nation, is one of dozens of states that have recently adopted or introduced laws or policies that take aim at critical race theory, commonly known as CRT. Kristi Noem speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), Feb. South Dakota Gov.

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APRIL 30, 2018

So says a 2017 study published by the Institute of Policy Studies. According to findings from the left-leaning public policy organization Demos, the median white adult who attended college has 7.2 Photo: AP Photo/W.A. The median wealth of black families “is on a path to hit zero by 2053,” if current trends hold. Mississippi Learning.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 1, 2018

Jennifer Pokempner, director of child welfare policy at Juvenile Law Center, a legal advocacy group in Philadelphia, said the Seita program is “seen as a model.” He lives on campus in a bedroom strewn with baseball caps for sports teams like Manchester United and books on topics including immigration policy and Chinese politics.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

That same day, I watched the parents of 19-year-old Beta Theta Pi pledge Timothy Piazza, a sophomore engineering major at Penn State, sob in front of television cameras at a news conference. “We need parents talking to their kids about this,’’ Piazza said during a news conference this week. “We

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Hack Education

JULY 20, 2018

Senate to serve as Assistant Secretary for Career, Technical and Adult Education and Assistant Secretary for Planning, Evaluation and Policy Development , respectively.” which makes these sorts of policy moves chuckle-worthy (to me, at least). ” There’s more news from the White House in the job training section below.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

In a state that sends one out of every eight black men to prison, the highest rate in the country , this neighborhood bears a disproportionate brunt of the mass incarceration policy, with more African-American men from here locked up than from any other zip code in Milwaukee County. The trade-off. secretary of education.

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Hack Education

JUNE 16, 2017

” The task force, put together by Entangled Solutions , includes “25 members from think tanks (including education policy wonk Rick Hess from the American Enterprise Institute), colleges (University of Texas), coding bootcamps (Galvanize), investment banking (Tyton Partners), and accounting firms (Ernst & Young).”

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Hack Education

JULY 28, 2017

Bloomberg reports that “ Trump Administration Tapping Tech CEOs for STEM Policy Approach.” “ Is higher ed creating the next dropout factories? The New York Times continues its coverage of the awfulness of tech companies’ employee policies : “Abuses Hide in the Silence of Nondisparagement Agreements.”

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Hack Education

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

” Because being cruel and thin-skinned seems to be the policy priority for everyone in the Trump administration. Via The Chronicle of Higher Education : “ Betsy DeVos Criticizes Professors in Remarks to Conservative Conference.” school she visited – and they are not having it.” The transcript.). .”

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Edsurge

MAY 17, 2017

When was the last time you attended an education policy conference that put both kids and parents into the spotlight? Diana Castro Panels at education “innovation” conferences are traditionally populated by nonprofit leaders, school administrators and funders. Parents and kids. Voice Is Nice; Power Is Better. Let’s get real.

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