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

JULY 2, 2021

The dean’s list student ended up a college dropout, a gay 20-something cut off from his parents after coming out, and working at a UPS Store in a job he described as “retail drudgery” while running up credit card debt and stringing out his college loans. You don’t have to have a dime in your pocket and you can get your education.”

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 6, 2020

Photo: Linh Tat for The Hechinger Report. While credit recovery is one of the fastest-growing fields in online education, many programs are little more than diploma mills hastening students through the curriculum with insufficient support. Photo: Linh Tat for The Hechinger Report. Department of Education brief.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 22, 2020

Photo: Cheryl Gerber for The Hechinger Report. 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. Photo: Cheryl Gerber for The Hechinger Report. Educators can change this.”.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 19, 2016

It wasn’t until three semesters into my degree, after spending $1,000 dollars merely renting my textbooks that I discovered my University’s ebook library. After learning about open educational resources (OER) at the HEeD Think Tank last spring (now. To be clear, I didn’t just stumble upon it either. There is clearly a disconnect here.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2022

After schools went remote in 2020, Jessica Ramos spent hours that spring and summer sitting on a bench in front of her local Oakland Public Library branch in the vibrant and diverse Dimond District. Credit: Javeria Salman/ The Hechinger Report. “We Credit: Javeria Salman/ The Hechinger Report. OAKLAND, Calif.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 7, 2019

Andre Perry/The Hechinger Report. We didn’t pay a parking ticket or a library fine, and our college refused to release our transcript. But imagine that a student’s debt went beyond failing to pay a library fine. The Hechinger Report receives financial support from Lumina. Many of us have been there.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 8, 2020

Luis Gallardo’s favorite place to study was the library at the University of California, Berkeley. Related: Online higher education isn’t winning over students forced off campus by the coronavirus. Jenna Sablan, assistant research professor at the Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

Photo: Tara García Mathewson/The Hechinger Report. And the dropout rate among the first Muniz cohort, the class of 2016, was just 2.5 Related: Rising popularity of dual-language education could leave Latinos behind. Photo: Tara García Mathewson/The Hechinger Report. Photo: Tara García Mathewson/The Hechinger Report.

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Edsurge

JULY 28, 2016

The district is also known for having one of the largest dropout rates and one of the highest pupil-to-teacher ratios in the country. As educators in Nevada, we are always hearing negative noise about the district where we work. In order to do this, I tapped into the valuable resources available to educators free online.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 20, 2015

This is a LIVE show presented in news show format featuring a Wrap up of “This Month in School Libraries” and deeper discussion of topical school library issues with special guest experts. These interactive sessions on future technology trends will present key issues faced by information professionals and educators.

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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. It’s an update to a study NPR reported on in 2017 that found that black students who had just one black teacher could help them stay in school. And they’re not alone.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 22, 2018

Peggy Barmore for The Hechinger Report. 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. Peggy Barmore for The Hechinger Report. HEMPHILL, W.Va.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 17, 2016

Jones, senior vice provost for undergraduate studies at Temple University, and Paul Tough, author of the upcoming book, “Helping Children Succeed: What Works and Why,” presented some promising solutions this month during a session at the Education Writers Association’s National Seminar at Boston University.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 7, 2018

Photo: Cheryl Gerber for The Hechinger Report. 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.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 8, 2018

Photo: Mike Elsen-Rooney for The Hechinger Report. This nearly majority-Latino city began its experiment with personalized learning three years ago, after a districtwide survey revealed that thousands of high schoolers felt their education wasn’t relevant. Higher Education. Photo: Mike Elsen-Rooney for The Hechinger Report. “I

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 3, 2018

Dobrin has embraced the school’s new proficiency-based education model and now offers his students many choices inside his classes. Photo: Robbie Feinberg for The Hechinger Report. This change is part of a larger move at the university towards “proficiency-based education” (sometimes called competency- or mastery-based education).

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IAD Learning

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

Learning analytics has been a hot topic for a while in the education industry. have been part of the “Horizon Report” for a while. Our intent is to provide an honest and updated view of where we are, the real benefits, and the challenges to overcome when using learning analytics as educational technology.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

Nancy Lee Sanchez, in red, executive director of the Kaplan Educational Foundation, with students she advises. I think the majority of higher education is complacent” about their dropouts, he said. Sanchez is one of the increasing number of outside coaches finding surprising obstacles that colleges put up in front of students.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos, on a September speaking tour, told students she felt they mostly “just follow the same schedule, the same routine — just waiting to be saved by the bell” and that the U.S. The Hechinger Report is running 10 excerpts from the project, to give our readers a sampling of what students really think.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

Working with the Hechinger Report for this series , three students from a Northridge journalism class write about what has held them back, and what they think needs to change. Let’s take a trip into a day in my life: Sometimes, I just want to quit my job so I can focus on my education. Read more about higher education.

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MindShift

AUGUST 17, 2018

This story about personalized learning was produced by The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. District officials theorized that students’ disillusionment with the curriculum contributed to Vista High’s 10 percent dropout rate.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

This story also appeared in The Nation The walls of the John Irwin House are more window than anything else, like another space at CSUF designed for formerly incarcerated students: the library’s “study and hangout place,” with its sparkling floor-to-ceiling panes, formally known as the Center for Hope and Redemption.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

She also didn’t allow Kailani to use her headphones while working independently in class, something permitted in her special education plan to help her focus, according to Kailani. Gone is the urgency to find the students who left — those eligible for free public education but who are not receiving any schooling at all.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 23, 2020

Just ask a parent trying to take the place of educators while working from home.). Meanwhile, cultural institutions are relaxing rules and paywalls to offer much-needed diversion, like free streaming of Broadway musicals and plays, operas, online art programs and free downloads of books from public libraries. Photo by Rashad Paige.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 3, 2017

Now add fees for student activities, fees for athletics, fees for building maintenance , fees for libraries — even fees for graduation, the bills for which often arrive just as students and their families thought they were finally done paying for their higher educations. Dropout rates have also fallen.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 20, 2019

The Hechinger Report traveled to three counties with very high numbers of adults without a high school credential to learn about the obstacles schools and families must overcome to provide and obtain this essential first step to a middle-class life. Photo: John Flavell for The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

More than two-thirds of those students — about 70 percent — are women , according to Education Department data analyzed by the Institute for Women’s Policy Research. Credit: Yunuen Bonaparte for The Hechinger Report. “If Among single, Black and Latino fathers, the dropout rate is about 70 percent. Castillo is one of about 3.8

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 15, 2014

The Learning Revolution Weekly Update April 15th The very existence of libraries affords the best evidence that we may yet have hope for the future of man. - Remember that ISTE starts a day earlier, so the Hack Education Unconference is on Friday, June 27th. National Library Week. Audrey is coming this year!)

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

News & World Report rankings. This story also appeared in USA Today “Rankings cannot meaningfully reflect the high aspirations for educational excellence, graduate preparedness, and compassionate and equitable patient care that we strive to foster,” Dean George Daley wrote. News & World Report rankings. Harvard Yard.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 28, 2021

A slim, poised young woman with waist-length hair, Viviana walked past the principal’s office, along the main hallway, and made a left into the building that houses the school library and the daycare. Credit: Emily Kaplan for The Hechinger Report. “My Credit: Emily Kaplan for The Hechinger Report. She motivates me a lot.”.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 12, 2019

Education Images/UIG via Getty Images. The stretch of grass overlooking the amphitheater, Reflection Pond and the library “is pretty breathtaking,” she said. . Rachel Fishman, senior researcher on higher education, New America. Tillman Hall at Clemson University. think tank. Students are getting really nervous about borrowing.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 3, 2023

Credit: Kavitha Cardoza for The Hechinger Report It was just the latest interruption in schooling that’s been characterized by near constant disruption. Credit: Kavitha Cardoza for The Hechinger Report The Puerto Rican school district, the sixth largest in the U.S., Nothing could be salvaged. ” said John King, a former U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Photo: Alison Yin for The Hechinger Report. Jaelyn Deas and her four best friends shared everything, including late-night study sessions in the library at San Jose State University and a never-ending preoccupation with how they’d pay for their tuition there. But California, with a higher education budget for 2019-2020 of $18.5

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 16, 2018

Photo: Liz Willen/The Hechinger Report. Editor’s note: The Hechinger Report followed six students through the college application process last year at Match Charter High in Boston. are only half as likely, recent Education Trust data show. “We Realistically, education is the only way I have out.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 14, 2020

Educators encourage students to share their personal stories as a way to feel proud of their heritage, recognize how strong they are and process trauma. Credit: Kavitha Cardoza for The Hechinger Report. Alvin Thornton, chairman of the Board of Education of Prince George’s County. We were three. Now it’s only me,” he said.

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Hack Education

JULY 28, 2017

(National) Education Politics. ” “Not An Advocate for Students or the Public Interest” – historian Sherman Dorn on “ Betsy DeVos as Secretary of Education.” billion from the Department of Education. Bloomberg reports that “ Trump Administration Tapping Tech CEOs for STEM Policy Approach.”

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