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

JULY 13, 2021

At the beginning of 2021, The Hechinger Report’s members (individual readers who donated money to our nonprofit news organization) asked us if we would report on the best practices for helping the nation’s public school system recover from the pandemic. Read the stories. Connecting with kids has been a struggle, too. “I

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 1, 2018

Over the next eight years, until they leave the district for high school, they will cycle through learning about 54 different careers, including real estate agent, paralegal, dietitian, reporter, graphic designer, sociologist, urban and regional planner and financial analyst. Higher Education. appeared first on The Hechinger Report.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

DECEMBER 23, 2023

Prior knowledge is one of the key concept in educational research that fundamentally reshape our understanding of how learning occurs. This includes specific facts, theories, and principles that they have learned in past educational experiences or through personal pursuits.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 20, 2022

Although national data on discipline for the current school year isn’t expected to be public for several years, The Hechinger Report requested data from a dozen medium and large school districts around the country and found that in some of them, exclusionary discipline is down, even way down. Credit: Kelly Field for The Hechinger Report.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

A new report from robotics and open-source hardware provider DFRobot aims to find out by analyzing DIY-labeled products hosted on Kickstarter. The results of this learning model speak for themselves, with the district rising in state education rankings, as well as experiencing fewer high school dropout rates.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

Well, it’s been ten years, and with the recent proliferation of terms like “personalized,” “mastery-based,” and “blended” in the education world, some of Robinson’s viewers may wonder if or how his take on schools has changed. For Robinson, his background in education extends all the way back to when he graduated from college.

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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

APRIL 26, 2019

Rivera Pichardo for The Hechinger Report. Department of Education. The only way I know that this can be changed is when there’s access to higher education.”. The only way I know that this can be changed is when there’s access to higher education.”. Department of Education says. And that’s when I said no.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 19, 2023

An Associated Press reporter has had to visit the family in person to communicate. But she should act fast, the social worker urged, or the department might have to take action against her for “educational neglect.” But the Atlanta metro area seems to be a hotbed, despite the policies’ disruption of children’s educations.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 11, 2018

Photo: Eveline Chao for The Hechinger Report. Through their efforts, along with those of other outside arts organizations, they are introducing theater to more and younger participants, at an age when education experts say children are especially poised to benefit from it. Related: Can testing save arts education? Weekly Update.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 30, 2018

This report from Georgetown University’s Center on Education and the Workforce highlights the special difficulties for low-income students of working while in college. Among low-income working learners who work 15 or more hours a week, 59 percent have a C average or lower,” the report states. Subscribe today!

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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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The Hechinger Report

MAY 19, 2022

Wilkins-Walker teaches career and technical education at West Philadelphia High School, where she has worked for a decade. Credit: Caroline Preston/The Hechinger Report. The pandemic will create that dropout crisis if schools just focus on 11th and 12th graders and trying to catch them up.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 8, 2018

Photo: Harrison Jones for The Hechinger Report. billion a year, collectively, in foregone tuition, according to a review of 1,669 institutions by the Educational Policy Institute. million since the most recent peak, in 2011, the National Student Clearinghouse reports. Photo: Harrison Jones for The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 13, 2021

When the kids showed up, educators could see even more clearly how uneven their learning has been during the pandemic. So, we’ve spent several months traveling the country learning from schools applying best practices and from researchers and educators who have studied what works. Allison Socol, The Education Trust.

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Edsurge

MARCH 12, 2018

In 2012, a book titled, “Saving the School: The True Story of a Principal, a Teacher, a Coach, a Bunch of Kids and a Year in the Crosshairs of Education Reform,” was written about her efforts. According to data from the Texas Education Agency , the graduating class of 2016 started with 326 ninth-graders, but only graduated 243 students or 74.5

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Edsurge

AUGUST 19, 2016

After learning about open educational resources (OER) at the HEeD Think Tank last spring (now. Eventually, I was able to find all but three of my 11 textbooks for my master’s degree in educational technology freely available on the library website, not to mention plenty of other materials (e.g.,

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 24, 2023

The 27-year-old is also one of more than 6,000 Washington community and technical college students enrolled in the state’s Integrated Basic Education and Skills Training (I-BEST) program. Statewide data shows students in the program graduate at a higher rate than those enrolled in traditional adult basic education.

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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

AUGUST 30, 2019

Photo: Sarah Gonser/The Hechinger Report. Low-income students and those who are first in their families to enroll in higher education are particularly vulnerable. Photo: Sarah Gonser/The Hechinger Report. NEW YORK — Monnojan Tasnia needed all the pieces to fit together. Two to three days working as a cashier at Marshalls.

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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 23, 2018

Photo: Michael Farrell for The Hechinger Report. Related: Universities and colleges struggle to stem big drops in enrollment. Department of Education , having a line on applicants ready to start as sophomores also helps those schools fill empty seats and beds and keep tuition coming in. Higher Education. Weekly Update.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

Photo: Kate Flock for The Hechinger Report. This story is part of our Map to the Middle Class project , where we ask readers what they want us to investigate about educational pathways to economic stability. Higher education has long been viewed as the key to higher earnings and financial security.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 29, 2019

Jess Clark for The Hechinger Report. In the decades following, the school became one of the city’s most prestigious educational and cultural institutions. “To He’s promised to add ACT prep, more Advanced Placement courses, and maybe even a STEM program. appeared first on The Hechinger Report. Change, but what kind?

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Dropout rates are high at Swiss universities, where less-prepared students are typically weeded out during the first year, so women probably wouldn’t be dropping out of an introductory economics class in such high numbers here in the United States. In the end, 9 percent of the men dropped the course. Sign up for the Hechinger newsletter.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Credit: Danielle Dreilinger for The Hechinger Report. Buffalo educators hoped Eve’s new program would give more children — particularly children of color — a chance at enrichment and advanced learning. And admissions for gifted programs tend to favor children with wealthy, educated parents, who are more likely to be white.

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Edsurge

APRIL 28, 2017

A popular narrative in the employment market today is that a "skills gap" exists between the abilities employers seek in candidates and the capabilities that new college graduates gain through postsecondary education. high-profile dropouts and the rise of the so-called “ anti-credential.”

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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: Cheryl Gerber for The Hechinger Report. MARKSVILLE, La. — Stanley Celestine Jr.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 3, 2018

This story about the opioid crisis and foster care was produced as part of a series, “Twice Abandoned: How schools and child-welfare systems fail kids in foster care,” reported by HuffPost and The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. WAR, W.Va. ?

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

Photo: Jacob Carroll for the Hechinger Report. Fellows receive monthly stipends that start at $450 and rise each year, up to $700, in an attempt to combat steep post-secondary dropout rates — 33 percent of black college students drop out after one year of college, often because of financial shortfalls. We have synergy.”

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 15, 2014

We also highlight good conversations about learning taking place between educators, learners, leaders, and others from the school, library, museum, work, adult, online, non-traditional and home learning worlds. Remember that ISTE starts a day earlier, so the Hack Education Unconference is on Friday, June 27th. ISTE Unplugged.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

Anthony Boccia, a newly hired special education teacher at Valley High, has three years to complete earn an official teaching license before the district revokes his provisional license. At the beginning of last school year, the district reported 900 vacancies, according to its chief recruitment officer, Mike Gentry.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 9, 2017

The school has struggled to stem sliding enrollment and to address poor safety ratings by parents and test scores that were among the worst in the city. Until recently, education reform has prioritized the growth of charter schools, enforcement of strict discipline and high-stakes testing. The stakes have become extremely high.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 30, 2018

About one-third of all black collegians earn degrees in either a STEM-related (science, technology, engineering and math) field or in business, according to my analysis of integrated post-secondary education data system (IPEDS), the national dataset of college outcomes. Maybe they shouldn’t choose between education and business.

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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. BROOKLYN, N.Y.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 1, 2018

T his story about foster care and higher education was produced as part of a series, “Twice Abandoned: How schools and child-welfare systems fail kids in foster care,” reported by HuffPost and The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education.

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