The Hechinger Report

MAY 27, 2022

Morgan State’s applied liberal studies major targets adult students who have taken some college courses but dropped out before finishing. It’s not enough to have courses online. It’s not enough to have courses online. Related: PROOF POINTS: Lessons from college dropouts who came back.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Kameshwari Shankar watched for years as college and university courses were increasingly taught online instead of face to face, but without a definitive way of understanding which students benefited the most from them, or what if anything they learned. Credit: Molly Haley for The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

Funders for the UIA completion grants include the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, which is also a funder of The Hechinger Report.). Sign up for our Higher Education newsletter. That student might be barred from registering for courses until the balance is paid down. And to what end? Sign up for our newsletter.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 5, 2017

Photo: Amadou Diallo for The Hechinger Report. Turning around struggling high schools is the toughest work in education reform. In this ongoing series, The Hechinger Report is visiting high schools that have beaten the long odds to learn what’s behind their success in improving graduation rates and sending more students to college. “The

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

In 2020, according to the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), the high school dropout rate was 5.3% Students go through a guided, asynchronous course experience, monitored by course coaches and student success champions, that is designed to move students through their coursework efficiently.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 28, 2019

A Stanford University study finds that dropout rates were lower in Oakland, California, high schools that offered a special class for black students called the Manhood Development Program. Higher Education. Advising and college counseling were part of the course, too. Sign up for Jill Barshay's Proof Points newsletter.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 6, 2023

Austin Community College is one of 50 community colleges in Texas that researchers analyzed to determine how much ought to be spent educating students. Credit: Jackie Mader/The Hechinger Report Community colleges say they can’t help the neediest students get through college successfully without more funding.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 6, 2022

Many students whose last years of high school were disrupted by the pandemic are struggling academically in the foundational college courses they need to succeed later in their academic and professional careers. Credit: Erika Rich for The Hechinger Report. Credit: Erika Rich for The Hechinger Report. “It

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Neo LMS

OCTOBER 2, 2018

In the last on our series about the challenges in higher education, we will examine how universities and colleges are managing the fast pace of change in teaching methods and curricula. According to UNESCO, global demand for higher education is expected to grow from 100 million students currently to 250+ million by 2025.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 15, 2023

Nationwide, the cost of remedial education exceeded $1 billion annually; many colleges operated separate departments of “developmental education,” higher-education’s euphemistic jargon for non-credit catch-up classes. Department of Education. Nobody could tell me if we were doing it the right way,” Logue said.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

OCTOBER 15, 2021

A number of educators across the country are finding great value in ‘learning science’ books such as Powerful Teaching: Unleash the Science of Learning. These educational practices can be powerful tools for information retrieval. quizzes and flashcards), rather than cramming information into students’ heads (e.g., lectures)” (p.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 29, 2020

“One cataclysmic event can do it in,” said Renn, a professor of higher, adult and lifelong education at Michigan State University. For them, and for employers who need educated graduates, that means the effects of this crisis will be felt not just for one semester, but for six or more years.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 12, 2023

Credit: Ariel Gilreath/The Hechinger Report. Across the country, schools have shifted toward career-focused education in recent years, reviving a long-running debate on whether the purpose of education is to prepare students for jobs or to be well-rounded citizens. It was engineering week at A.J.

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EdNews Daily

APRIL 22, 2017

As more school districts focus on STEM education, there is room to improve. What is STEM education? STEM education promotes a realm of benefits. More than learning, STEM education fosters the ability to connect with others while enhancing the learning experience of students. Promoting STEM Education Awareness.

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Neo LMS

DECEMBER 3, 2019

If e-learning came to life as a method to augment face-to-face learning, it is now an approach to education that is bigger than the traditional method it was meant to support. The world of education has adopted digital learning as a reliable way of delivering instruction, assessing student progress and supporting better academic outcomes.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2021

We need bridge builders — intermediaries that play a vital role in workforce development by connecting learners, educators and employers, helping them to speak a common language and resolve local supply and demand mismatches. The need to address these problems isn’t new, of course. An economic recession is now making this worse.

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Edsurge

JULY 17, 2018

For a couple of decades, I championed online learning for its ability to uproot entrenched ideas in education, especially by engaging students in active learning, a pedagogical style rarely practiced on campus. One headline in The New York Times summed-up the findings: “Online Courses Fail Those Who Need Help.” Or so I thought.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 26, 2020

According to a preliminary October 2020 report from National Student Clearinghouse Research Center that tallied fall enrollment figures from just over half of the nation’s colleges and universities, the number of undergraduate students has fallen 4 percent since the fall of 2019. The number of new students is down 23 percent.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Credit: Oliver Parini for The Hechinger Report. These short courses last from as little as a few weeks to as long as a year and don’t confer a traditional college degree but, instead, end with a certificate. They’re like the Wild West of education. Professional training programs have exploded over the last dozen years.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2022

But an April 2022 report by Eskolta School Research and Design, a nonprofit consultancy that provides training and services to alternative schools in New York, Boston and Washington, D.C., argues that New York’s transfer schools are doing a much better job at educating struggling students than traditional schools.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 12, 2019

If we did in health care what we do in education, we’d say this to everyone who walks through the hospital door: “We prescribe the same treatment for everyone. ” Of course, we’d never do this in health care. Equal treatment will not enable us to reach the nation’s professed objective of educating all children for success.

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Edsurge

MAY 5, 2023

And in a survey administered by the National Education Association in 2022, 55 percent of teachers and support professionals who responded indicated they are thinking about leaving the profession earlier than they had planned. As a veteran educator with over 20 years in the classroom, I’ve seen the consequences of teacher turnover.

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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 Hechinger Report

MARCH 17, 2022

Wilson, 47, started taking courses in 2019, a few months before the pandemic hit and just before he lost his job as an elementary school music teacher. 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.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 6, 2020

He likes the self-paced curriculum that allows students to complete a course in significantly less time than at a traditional school. Photo: Linh Tat for The Hechinger Report. Like many alternative schools, The Charter School of San Diego allows students behind on credits to complete courses online at an accelerated pace.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 10, 2023

LOS ANGELES — Citrus College was Kyshawna Johnson’s third attempt at higher education. Credit: James Bernal for The Hechinger Report But before dropping out a third time, Johnson connected with Jovenes Inc., Nationally, reports indicate that 20 to 40 percent of youth aging out of foster care lack stable housing.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 18, 2018

Photo: Jackie Mader/The Hechinger Report. But when the caller started sharing specifics about her prior enrollment dates and courses, the 32-year-old mother of two from Southaven, Mississippi, grew curious. Go Back” campaign in Indiana, among the several states trying to get college dropouts to finish their college educations.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Thousands of other students around the country are leaving college — some because of mental health issues, others for financial or family reasons – and educators worry that many have left for good. The dropout spike was even more startling for community college students like Izzy, an increase of about 3.5 Students just are not OK.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 29, 2022

Amoni Hall will move this summer from one higher education institution to another, a process that can be disruptive, complex, frustrating and fruitless when credits don’t transfer and other unanticipated obstacles crop up. Related: Colleges’ new solution to enrollment declines: Reducing the number of dropouts. Why wouldn’t it?

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 4, 2018

Texas A&M University at Texarkana has one of the lowest retention rates of public higher-education institutions; 55 percent who started in 2012 were gone by 2016. Department of Education data analyzed by The Hechinger Report. Photo by Ben Smith for The Hechinger Report. Photo: AP photo/Jeannie Nuss.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 3, 2018

Photo:Liz Willen/ The Hechinger Report. Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Mississippi Learning newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes with trends and top stories about education in Mississippi. Kellogg Foundation is among the various funders of The Hechinger Report.). Subscribe today!

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 2, 2020

Credit: Photo: Ronda Churchill for The Hechinger Report. A lot of people will need more education to get back into the workforce, and they’ll need to get it quickly, at the lowest possible cost and in subjects directly relevant to available jobs. The concept is finding new acceptance among people who need new jobs, fast.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

Credit: Molly Haley for The Hechinger Report. At a time when other higher education institutions are closing or merging because of a decline in the supply of high school graduates, the Roux is among a small but largely unnoticed number of new colleges that are opening. Credit: Molly Haley for The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 28, 2022

Credit: Molly Haley for The Hechinger Report. And the state’s community colleges, which depend on the same dwindling supply of learners, are reporting record numbers of applications for the fall. Credit: Molly Haley for The Hechinger Report. “I Credit: Molly Haley for The Hechinger Report. People want that.”.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 6, 2019

Photo: Jill Barshay/The Hechinger Report. My parents always stressed how powerful an education is and how it is the key to success,” Keenan said. This podcast about colleges using predictive analytics is produced by APM Reports. Photo: Jill Barshay/The Hechinger Report. Robinson’s grades were a little short of that.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Called “un-grading,” the idea is meant to ease the transition to higher education — especially for freshmen who are the first in their families to go to college or who weren’t well prepared for college-level work in high school and need more time to master it. Credit: Amanda Cain for The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 18, 2017

The effect of systemic racism and historical oppression on students of color, especially as manifested in the school-to-prison pipeline, is an issue that educators cannot ignore. As a white educator, it is my duty to educate myself and work against this injustice. Related : The future of proficiency-based education.

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