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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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. This story was produced by The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Traditional public schools alone aren’t responsible for the student debt or skilled labor crises — but a longstanding Massachusetts education experiment has shown promise at addressing both. There’s no reason that Massachusetts alone should hold the recipe for successful vocational-technical education.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Department of Education. It’s a revealing example of how people inside higher education often bristle at adopting strategies from the private sector, and why colleges and universities continue to be slow to change. Credit: Steven Vargo for The Hechinger Report. Related: How higher education lost its shine. And you can’t.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 27, 2022

Related: PROOF POINTS: Lessons from college dropouts who came back. Related: Colleges’ new solution to enrollment declines: Stopping dropouts . This story about college dropouts was produced by The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education.

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EdNews Daily

JULY 30, 2019

The Washington Post reported (July 16, 2019) that a report filed by the National Center for Education Statistics, that online bullying and texting is the rise among middle and high school students. More white students, 17 percent reported being bullied on line, compared with 12 percent of other races. What can schools do?

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 6, 2022

As an assistant professor of economics at City College in New York, Shankar knew that one of the most important requirements of scientific research was often missing from studies of the effectiveness of online higher education: a control group. Credit: Molly Haley for The Hechinger Report. Related: How higher education lost its shine.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 7, 2022

In a world where competition for jobs, pay increases, and academic success continues to increase, certifications offer hope to candidates and educators. Increased post-secondary enrollment: 84% vs 82% Reduced dropout rates: 0.2% vs 2.78 (4.0 scale) Higher graduation rates for certified high school students: 97.5% vs 1.0%.

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Neo LMS

AUGUST 23, 2022

Personalized learning is currently emerging as one of the biggest trends in education. So, how can educational institutions offer a personalized learning environment for students without having to divide them into smaller groups based on their interests and level and get a separate teacher for each group? What is personalized learning?

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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. Nonetheless, the dropouts declined for all black boys who had access to the course. Choose from our newsletters.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2023

Chart from the website of the National Center for Education Statistics. Condition of Education. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences. At the start of college, Michigan’s Black students are almost as interested in teaching as white students, the report found. Retrieved from [link].

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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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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. Related: Where education systems stumble grassroots groups step in to raise success rates. They had to.

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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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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

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Thirty-five colleges and universities shut down in 2021, a 70 percent decrease from 2016, when a peak of 120 colleges shuttered, according to an analysis of federal data by the State Higher Education Executive Officers Association (SHEEO). Many small liberal arts colleges have struggled to attract students altogether.

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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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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

In 2020, according to the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), the high school dropout rate was 5.3% For students who may not have access to these tools and are near an Ancora Education partner school, access to computer labs is available at no charge.

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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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The Hechinger Report

JULY 31, 2023

In Philadelphia, 49 percent of students who graduated from public high schools matriculated to a college or university, a number that does not account for the 19 percent pushout or dropout rate of students who did not graduate from high school. Only 10 percent of Philadelphia public school students went on to earn a college degree.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 6, 2022

Credit: Erika Rich for The Hechinger Report. Credit: Erika Rich for The Hechinger Report. “It From the tiniest kindergarteners to college-ready high school seniors, nearly all students had their education disrupted starting in March 2020. Erika Rich for Hechinger Report Credit: Erika Rich for The Hechinger Report.

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edWeb.net

JULY 23, 2021

Education is just different than it was pre-pandemic—many school leaders think it shouldn’t go back to the way it was before when schools used systems developed in the 20th century. Currently, AASA is looking for demonstration districts to implement their recommendations and transform education. In order to improve U.S.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

We teachers recognize it is our fiduciary responsibility to fulfill state and national education standards that prepare students for college or career. This is where Mastery Education’s Measuring Up can help. How curriculum-based assessment improves education. In math, it was 41 percent. What is Measuring Up?

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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

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. Equal treatment will not enable us to reach the nation’s professed objective of educating all children for success. Getty Images. We’ve always done this.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 3, 2023

The pandemic disrupted the “when I grow up” dreams of too many students, leaving fewer prepared for education and training after high school. Pathways are a way of connecting the dots among K-12, higher education and career training in a smooth continuum, rather than treating them as three separate systems.

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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

MARCH 17, 2022

million students from fall 2019 to fall of 2021, according to state data leaving campuses worried about their future and potential students with fewer of the opportunities offered by higher education. The report was provided jointly to The Hechinger Report and the Los Angeles Times.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

As an educator, one of the most annoying things you can hear a student say is, “This is stupid,” or, “Why are we learning this?”. Students and educators need workable skills and solutions to address these issues. At Urban Assembly, we have used SEL as a way of both preventing and remediating dropouts. Jenine De Marzo, Ed.D

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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. Is online the educational and economic game changer I thought it was? Or so I thought. community colleges.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

Stitchers youth and adult artists report hearing gunshots and sirens when home at night and most have lost friends or family members to gun violence. Literacy and education are key components in the fight to save lives. The Circuit Attorney reports there were 2,092 shootings in 2015 and half involved youth age 25 or under.

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Digital Promise

APRIL 23, 2019

Educational transformation is a civil rights imperative, so every investment we make must be evaluated through a civil rights lens. Unfortunately, too many of our investments in educational technology (edtech) have fallen far short of our civil rights aspirations. Education is too fundamentally important to the health of our society.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 28, 2020

I met Gaweda while reporting on transfer high schools for the Miseducation podcast. In an effort to reengage recent dropouts, Good Shepherd founded South Brooklyn Community High School. Note: the Gates Foundation is one of the many funders of The Hechinger Report ). The early days were tough,” said LoManaco.

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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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EdNews Daily

MAY 29, 2017

While debate about professional development expands, educator hopes for feeling supported are shrinking. Recent studies, including the Gates Foundation, the TNTP Project and Harvard research, all report failing grades from administrators and teachers alike, which is one certainty we can begin with. With research from the U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 6, 2020

Board of Education Supreme Court ruling, African American teachers were pushed out of schools and out of the teaching profession to make integration more appealing to white families. This historical tension of not feeling wanted or valued by the educational system is understandable. After the 1954 Brown v. Sign up for our newsletter.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

With our country poised for years of high unemployment and stagnation, our system of higher education must address this food and housing crisis without further delay. Department of Education can immediately increase support for struggling students across the country. Over the past few months, we have identified several ways the U.S.

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