Dangerously Irrelevant

MARCH 24, 2016

John Hattie, Professor of Education at the University of Auckland, spent 15 years synthesizing the vast body of peer-reviewed, meta-analytical research pertaining to student achievement. Hattie went on to state: It would be difficult to find another educational practice on which the evidence is so unequivocally negative. (p.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 13, 2017

At a time when little to no work exists for a high school dropout to support a family, the community, as a result, falls deeper into despair. That question is at the center of an ongoing randomized control trial study involving 62 underserved schools in 11 urban districts from Boston to Los Angeles. “ Take Noe Castro’s story.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 18, 2018

The push to reach these dropouts by Mississippi and other states, including Indiana and Tennessee, reflects a growing recognition that there just aren’t enough students coming out of U.S. Go Back” campaign in Indiana, among the several states trying to get college dropouts to finish their college educations. Higher Education.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 9, 2017

You’re in purgatory,” said Nicole Smith, vice president of Georgetown University’s Center on Education and the Workforce. By 2025, more than 60 percent of Georgia jobs will require some kind of post-secondary education, and now only 45 percent of the state’s young adults meet that criterion. His grades plummeted.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 10, 2019

Students come here from miles around to meet—first-come, first-served—with advisers for help navigating all things higher education, from admissions tests to majors to meningitis shots. Ultimately, though, he enrolled at the University of Houston, where he now studies accounting. The advice is free.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 14, 2019

Minnesota ranks among the most educated states in the country, with nearly half of adults aged 25 to 64 holding an associate degree or higher. He estimated that nearly one in three new jobs created through 2026 will require education beyond high school. Will jobs go begging? Our future economic vitality depends on this.”.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

A special education student at South Hills High School takes an online quiz about RNA. The district’s reforms to special education have included making sure students use the same textbooks as their general education peers. They moved special education classrooms to be more centrally located. Sign up for our newsletter.

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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

MARCH 5, 2018

Instead of dropping out and waiting months or even years to re-start their education, they can move directly into YEP’s classes and start prepping for a high-school equivalency test right away, without ever officially dropping out. Higher Education. But most don’t take the test immediately after dropping out. Weekly Update.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 18, 2023

Credit: Don & Melinda Crawford/Education Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images For decades, a handful of individual states and schools have offered financial assistance to Native students. Studies suggest affordability is one of the leading causes of attrition. That’s because the U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 18, 2018

It’s all part of a statewide push to “personalize” learning, giving students more of a say over what — and where — they study. Higher Education. For most educators, it’s a cultural shift, and one that comes with additional, often uncompensated, work. Sign up for our newsletter. Choose as many as you like. Weekly Update.

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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. Photo: Kate Flock for The Hechinger Report.

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Personalized Learning Policies Advocacy Assessment 74

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 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 vast majority of special education students can grasp rigorous academic content. Photo: Karen Salomon for The Hechinger Report. It’s a crisis.

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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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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2022

“We have this huge digital divide that’s making it hard for [students] to get their education,” she said. David Silver, the director of education for the mayor’s office, said people talked about the digital divide, but there had never been enough energy to tackle it. The homework gap isn’t new.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2016

It’s also part of a subtle attempt to address a growing problem the United Kingdom has in common with the United States: After decades in which men in college far outnumbered women, boys are entering higher education in ranks so low that the balance on campuses has dramatically reversed. Campuses here, overall, are 56 percent female.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

We rounded up some best practices League members use to ensure students stay in school, get their degrees, and are prepared for success in their post-secondary endeavors. Early exposure to higher learning is key to inspiring first-generation college students who may not view postsecondary education as an option.

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EdNews Daily

MARCH 6, 2020

Schools cannot prepare, highly successful graduates if there are not sufficient highly effective educators in school classrooms and in school front offices. I am a lifelong professional educator. Teachers are leaving the classroom almost as quickly as colleges of education are preparing them. But we are a disappearing breed.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

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. I grew up walking in lines and studying in strict classrooms.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 27, 2019

The reasons for this, its implications and the thorniness of dealing with it make this sparsely populated nation a laboratory for the countries heading in the same direction — including the United States, where the number of women in higher education has also caught up to and surpassed the number of men. Today, 56 percent are women , U.S.

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EdNews Daily

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

The United States faces a serious educational crisis. In the first ten months of 2018, public educators quit at an average rate of 83 per 10,000 on staff. What subjects are losing the most educators? In addition to educational disruption, what are the costs to school systems? By Franklin Schargel.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 30, 2018

“Since my parents didn’t get much education, it’s hard to talk to them about my schoolwork and applying to college, or how to plan my time and get everything done,” says Mariano Almanza, 18, pictured speaking with his Coronado High School guidance counselor, Colleen McElvogue. Photo: Sarah Gonser for The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 30, 2018

So says a 2017 study published by the Institute of Policy Studies. 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.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

A new book makes “ The Case Against Education.” In his telling, higher education is all a big, expensive scam—such a dark place that you imagine that students are housed in a prison, not on campus. Nostalgics who paint their education as an intellectual feast are either liars or outliers.” Cut education budgets.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 6, 2017

He is a member of the Latino education advocacy group Nuestra Voz and a student at Cohen College Prep in New Orleans. Doe that public elementary and secondary schools couldn’t consider immigration status when a student seeks to enroll. Read more about education in New Orleans. The 1982 U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Plyler v.

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Edsurge

MAY 17, 2017

When was the last time you attended an education policy conference that put both kids and parents into the spotlight? Educators and my fellow students: Demand, demand demand.”. Diana Castro Panels at education “innovation” conferences are traditionally populated by nonprofit leaders, school administrators and funders.

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