The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 1, 2017

This story was produced by The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education, in partnership with the Huffington Post. Related: How one district solved its special education dropout problem. Who is in Special Education? Higher Education.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 10, 2016

Statistically, almost half of school dropouts do so because they don’t see the relevance. If desired, attach documents potential presenters can review to prepare. Her answer: Users or educators need only request their Standards be added and it can be done quickly. Educational Applications. Insider Tips.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 18, 2023

Despite their rich history and Hall’s documentation of her heritage, Hall and her ancestors are not acknowledged by the United States government as a tribal nation. There are “so many people that are stuck in poverty and stuck in situations where they can’t get an education,” Hall said. “I That’s because the U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

Michelle McLaughlin said Michael’s education did not prepare him for college or career. This story was produced by The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education, in partnership with the Huffington Post. Our son’s education was a waste. Higher Education.

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Knowledge Avatars K-12

AUGUST 16, 2015

Since the early days of computers, many of us dreamed of how computers were going to revolutionize education. We didn’t know exactly how it was going to work, but we knew that the “personal” computer made it possible to individualize education. Is it surprising that the e-learning student dropout rate is up to 50%?

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 22, 2020

Even with his impressive list of accomplishments, Elliott worried that his education would be derailed. “I Related: From prison to dean’s list: How Danielle Metz got an education after incarceration. Educators can change this,” she said. Educators can change this.”. But my school had my back.”.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

Central to the case was question of whether an Individualized Education Program is adequate. Known as the IEP, this program had been a source of constant dispute between parents and school officials since the inception of special education law. A FAPE is operationalized through an Individualized Education Program (IEP).

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MindShift

JANUARY 11, 2019

Public education has a persistent and well-documented issue: the achievement gap between white students and students of color. Their presence gives students a tangible example of what educational attainment might look like and therefore something to aspire toward, such as going to college. And they’re not alone.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 15, 2019

It’s trying to increase enrollment, which has rebounded after a decline, according to publicly available and internal documents administrators made available. These also show that Nichols has reduced the number of dropouts, holding onto $5.4 Many are desperate to fill seats; higher education institutions of all kinds had nearly 2.1

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 27, 2016

DECODING DIGITAL LITERACY: Ask 450 educators to define “digital literacy,” and you’ll likely get dozens of answers. FUN SAD FACT: According to Avi Yashchin, Senior Offering Manager at IBM Watson: “Sadness [sentiments] in incoming freshman college application essay is the sixth strongest predictor of dropout.” Think about it like a car.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 27, 2016

Related: Pipeline to Prison: How the juvenile justice system fails special education students. Detention almost always has a negative impact on the education of young people. It further explained that providing an education for detained young people is necessary to support communities and the kids’ future success.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

It’s one of a small but growing number of places where experts are testing new ideas that will shape the future of a college education, using everything from blockchain networks to computer simulations to artificial intelligence, or AI. One of these would transform even the way that students pay for higher education.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 6, 2017

Like a handful of states, New Hampshire is taking the opportunity provided by the federal Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) to revise its accountability measures to further individualize education. Claire Voorhees, national policy director, Foundation for Excellence in Education. Parents saw curriculums narrowing.

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The Hechinger Report

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. Related: How diplomas based on skill acquisition, not credits earned, could change education.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Thiel had long been looking for a way to blow up higher education. Thiel was trying to change the public conversation about higher education, and at the time, 13 years ago, even practices like gap years were pretty uncommon. In fact, these days skepticism of higher education is rising.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 7, 2018

The proportion of overage students — those who have been retained for at least one grade — hovers around 40 percent for New Orleans high school students, according to an analysis of 2014 data by researchers at Education Research Alliance for New Orleans, which is based at Tulane University. Higher Education. Sign up for our newsletter.

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MindShift

APRIL 2, 2015

Concepts educators are covering can often feel archaic and remote from the things students care about in their immediate lives. Zack’s group examined incarceration rates in the United States, with each group member looking at an aspect of the issue, like educational attainment or geographical location of prisoners.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 16, 2018

Massachusetts is turning that traditional model on its head by having many schools combine rigorous academics with hands-on career training, now called “career and technical education.” A similar proportion receive special education services, on par with the statewide average for high schools.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

This story was produced by The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education, in partnership with the Huffington Post. The odds he faced, as a black boy in special education, were actually stacked against him. 20, 2017, in Durham, N.C. Photo: AP Photo/Brian Blanco.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Meanwhile, interventions aimed at teenagers, such as dropout prevention programs , often disappoint. The study is part of a larger body of work in which Lavy has documented positive results from intervening with older students. The paper on afterschool instruction, “Does Remedial Education at Late Childhood Pay Off After All?

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Amid all this glass, Conner feels a bit like Cinderella—lucky to be getting an educational experience that’s a perfect fit for him. Formerly incarcerated people who participate in postsecondary education programs are 48 percent less likely to be incarcerated again than those who do not—and with each degree they attain, the rate drops.

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Edsurge

MARCH 20, 2018

In the course of the research, I’ve listened to hundreds of students tell their story about how they made the college—or any postsecondary education—decision. Many of the students I’ve listened to were, at one time or another, college dropouts. The impact of this on students is well documented. As Nathan D.

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MindShift

AUGUST 14, 2018

Charles Quigley, executive director of the Center for Civic Education, says children grasp these concepts as early as kindergarten. “What’s the dropout rate in some places? ” And according to Jim Shon of the Hawaii Educational Policy Center, civics education needs to extend into college. Forty percent?

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2023

We are speaking about an equal right, an equal opportunity to access education,” said Sabrina Bernadel, legal counsel at the National Women’s Law Center. Schools kick students out but call it a ‘transfer’ In 2020, nearly every school district in the nation was forced to come up with a way of providing education online.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 18, 2022

Some will have hard choices to make about where to spend the next phase of their education. Young people living away from home for the first time and enduring the new stress of higher education need and deserve all the support they can get. Many high school seniors are anxiously awaiting admissions decisions from their dream colleges.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

It’s the largest portfolio initiative for teaching eportfolios in higher education that’s focused on what am I doing to improve student learning,” says Gerry Hanley, assistant vice chancellor at California State University’s chancellor's office. The rate of dropout or failure is down from 13 to 5 percent.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 29, 2022

The Department of Education does not track leaves of absence. Mental health and education experts are working to develop shorter, more accessible models that can be used on any campus and help ensure that more students are able to successfully return from leaves of absence and earn their degrees. Read the series.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 1, 2019

don’t have a single staff member dedicated to college admissions guidance – a major reason why, at The Hechinger Report , we are partnering with the makers of Personal Statement , a film documenting the challenging admissions journeys of three public high school seniors from Brooklyn, to bring public attention to this crisis.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 11, 2017

That’s the next big challenge after years of being pushed, prodded and prepped for higher education at Match High, where students are selected by lottery and get individual tutors for help with a tough college-prep curriculum. as Zar-Kessler is known] to send countless documents to college.”. Now, all they have to do is pay for it. .

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 12, 2023

Tilsen-Brave Heart worried that her 5-year-old daughter, Pia, would be exposed to even fewer lessons taught through a cultural lens than her older siblings had been, robbing her of an educational experience that would foster a sense of belonging and self-identity. “I I want my children to know who they are,” said Tilsen-Brave Heart. “I

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 21, 2017

At the meeting, a special education teacher had recommended taking the boy out of Martin Elementary School, in a town 10 miles southwest, and placing him in Georgia’s Network for Educational and Therapeutic Support, or GNETS, a statewide system for children with “emotional and behavioral disorders.”.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 21, 2018

“Our educational system punishes, suspends and expels children with mental disorders at double or more the rate of their peers. Few educators would consider reprimanding a child to “just breathe” during an asthma attack, or sending a child to detention because he or she had a seizure and disrupted the class. Higher Education.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 11, 2018

Enoch Jemmott’s shot at a college education depends entirely on a football scholarship, along with tracking down the financial aid documents he needs from his homeless mother. Christine Rodriguez can go to college only if she convinces her reluctant mother that girls deserve the same chance at higher education as boys.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 11, 2018

One of the more radical transformations in public education today begins with a simple greeting each morning among second-graders. The Department of Education declined to offer more details on its plan, but it has already sparked pushback: In mid-December, more than 50 members of Congress sent DeVos a letter opposing any changes.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2019

Danusis and her teaching staff practice personalized learning, an individual-comes-first approach, usually aided by laptops, that has become a reformist calling card in education. Sign up for our Higher Education newsletter. Higher Education. Choose as many as you like. Weekly Update. Future of Learning. Mississippi Learning.

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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. But California, with a higher education budget for 2019-2020 of $18.5 Not all of the initiatives to solve these problems have succeeded. Those spending more?

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 3, 2023

secretary of education who is co-chair of This is Planet Ed, an initiative of the Aspen Institute that works on climate solutions through the education sector. Miguel Cardona, the secretary of education under President Biden, promised “a new day” for Puerto Rico. Department of Education report.

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