The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

This office, which would be led by a director of basic needs, would report directly to the undersecretary of education, who has the primary responsibility for higher education policy at the department. We know from exhaustive research that hunger seriously impairs learning outcomes and that financial insecurity drives dropout rates.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2021

To meet those needs effectively, we need determined collaboration by numerous players in communities far outside the Beltway. As a result, dropout rates are down, high school graduation rates are up and the number of students successfully transferring from the community colleges to the public university has more than tripled.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 6, 2022

There were 236 papers presented with the word “online” in their titles at this year’s meeting of the American Educational Research Association, compared to 158 the year before the pandemic — a nearly 50 percent increase. Related: How higher education lost its shine.

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edWeb.net

MAY 4, 2022

Baltimore has now established a partnership framework aligned with district policies and priorities and a rubric for evaluating partners. Fayette County Public Schools has a Community Partnership Leadership Team that meets once a month to share information about projects and make sure they are moving the needle forward.

Education 79

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Through Degrees When Due , a project of the Institute for Higher Education Policy, nearly 200 two- and four-year colleges are digging through data and auditing administrative policies to figure out how many such students they’ve lost, and why. The best-intentioned policies just get stuck on the books,” Ajinkya says.

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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.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 7, 2024

MINNEAPOLIS — At a late August meeting in a windowless room at Minneapolis College, a handful of students barely a week into classes sat back on couches, took a breath and marveled that they were there at all. While she was out, two student workers ensured the recovery program room stayed open, emails went out and weekly meetings happened.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 1, 2018

Some school districts with high rates of poverty — including Tacoma, Washington, Fresno, California, and Cleveland, Ohio — had very high percentages of dropouts more than a decade ago. Related: How a dropout factory raised its graduation rate from 53 percent to 75 percent in three years.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 12, 2019

Equal treatment — giving the exact same service to everyone — isn’t the same thing as equitable treatment, which is providing what each child needs to meet a particular goal. What can we do about these dilemmas posed by a standardized system trying — and failing — to meet the needs of so many children? Sign up for our newsletter.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

If we advance institutional change and public policy changes, colleges and policymakers can make immense progress in the fight against food insecurity on campus. Institutions and communities, for their part can advance policies to support student access to resources that address hunger.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 22, 2023

Dozens of organizations, including Achieving the Dream, have joined the Level UP National Panel to raise awareness of solutions and introduce policies that will reverse the trending inequity. It is up to us as higher education leaders, policymakers and community leaders to chart a new path to meet the needs of Black college students.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 15, 2023

The study could be seen as evidence against remedial education, but it could equally be seen as evidence for letting college students meet their math requirements without taking algebra. Dropout rates were the same for students in both the remedial and the “corequisite” courses, as the college plus extra help version is often called. “We

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

It’s true that there are not enough professionals to meet rising demand. Members of the Active Minds chapter at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater gather supplies to make valentines to themselves at a recent meeting. At a recent meeting, she brought supplies for students to make valentines to themselves. That is changing.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

Related: How one district solved the special education dropout problem. Parents and educators can use the Individualized Education Program (IEP) meeting each year as an opportunity to discuss the student’s goals, inviting the student to attend the meetings and encouraging his or her participation in discussions about the future.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 12, 2023

Districts across the country have been ramping up career education programs spurred, in part, by federal legislation updated in 2018 that provides funding for career education (commonly referred to as Perkins V ), said Matt Giani, a research associate professor in sociology at the University of Texas at Austin who studies education policy.

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EdNews Daily

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

Our schools are, in a sense, factories in which the raw products (children) are to be shaped and fashioned into products to meet the various demands of life.” (4) Gruia, “The education pipeline in the United States 1970-2000,” (The National Board on Educational Testing and Public Policy, Boston, 2004). 4) Click to tweet. 2007 ([link].

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edWeb.net

MARCH 16, 2020

Chronically absent middle schoolers have lower grades and test scores that increase dropout potential. Panelist Todd Rogers, professor of public policy at Harvard Kennedy School and chief scientist at EveryDay Labs, highlighted three evidence-based interventions that were—tested in randomized controlled trials with mixed results.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

Students thrive when norms and expectations are clear, they are invested in upholding them and they receive real-time coaching about how to meet them. Our harsh school discipline policies are leading to an increase in repeat offenses, higher student dropout rates and a direct pipeline to the juvenile justice system.”.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 25, 2016

We’ve seen stories about a dropout factory, or a district school where only a small percentage of students are proficient in math or reading (and not getting any better with time or interventions or waivers). Corporate managers use regular online meetings and a host of online tools to monitor the progress of geographically disbursed teams.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

The alternative assessments also have to meet nationally recognized standards for technical quality, standards that Lillian Pace, senior director of national policy at the nonprofit group KnowledgeWorks, said were written and designed for standardized, statewide assessments, not performance-based, local ones.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 6, 2022

And during the 2020-21 academic year, UT adopted a policy allowing students to designate up to three of their courses to be graded as pass/fail , rather than with letter grades, Patterson said. It seemed like there needed to be a policy and expectation change in the face of an emergency situation,” Patterson said.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 26, 2019

It is not good policy to keep Puerto Rico economically on a downturn in what feels like an endless loop of economic underperformance. It is not good policy to keep Puerto Rico economically on a downturn in what feels like an endless loop of economic underperformance,” said Aponte, who also served as U.S. Department of Education.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 1, 2017

Related: How one district solved its special education dropout problem. Comeaux, who has made it a point to educate herself about the intricacies of special education policy, told administrators she would not be taking her child off the regular diploma track. How one district solved its special education dropout problem. . •

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 9, 2017

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. Students who withdraw are also much more likely to default on their loans; dropouts make up two-thirds of defaults nationwide.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 1, 2020

When teachers at Cable Elementary in San Antonio couldn’t reach four siblings who attended the school this spring, Monica Williams of Communities in Schools was able to arrange a meeting with them at their grandmother’s house. Williams arranged to meet the children at their grandmother’s. Housing policy is education policy.”. “We

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 4, 2017

It is features like these that have helped former high school dropouts like Rocheli Burgos — and other students who have struggled in school — get a second chance at earning a diploma. All students need to have transparency about where they are in their progress and what they need to do to meet graduation standards.”.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 14, 2019

Though some programs have helped lower dropout rates and improved graduation rates for students of color, the gap in the percentage of students finishing a degree has barely budged across the 30 community colleges in the Minnesota State Colleges and University system. Paul College that shows students’ countries of origin.

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Dropout Secondary Course Report 72

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 23, 2018

Alana Wolf was accepted to Cornell University, which told her to go somewhere else as a freshman and come back as a sophomore under a little-known policy called conditional admission. Most require that the students meet minimum academic standards and earn a predetermined number of credits. campus as sophomores.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 2, 2020

And if we lose someone, instead of being a dropout, they’ll have a certificate. But is it better than being a dropout? So we’re thinking, let’s look at this natural behavior we’re seeing and let’s try to meet it instead of fighting it.”. “That early milestone — the early win — is so motivating,” Gilbert said. No, it’s not.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Leanne Davis, assistant director of applied research at the Institute for Higher Education Policy. Insufficient housing or inadequate childcare can derail students who want to finish their education, and many of the institutions they attend my not be equipped to meet all of their needs.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 9, 2019

Colleges are also working to reduce their numbers of dropouts on the principle that it’s cheaper to provide the kind of support required to keep tuition-paying students than to recruit more. Lehigh University has started hiring faculty for a new college of health policy , part of a plan to add 1,800 students. Will there be more?

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 17, 2016

To increase the number of Americans with degrees by 33 percent in less than a decade, colleges will have to get much better at serving the kinds of students who have historically fallen through the cracks, and they will have to do so fast to meet that target. Graduation rates for poor students haven’t budged much in the past four decades.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 7, 2019

One such student is Kassandra Montes, a senior at Lehman College , a four-year college in the Bronx, who has to take out loans to stay in school and struggles to meet basic needs like food and shelter. Related: White coaches pick the wrong side when they talk down to their black athletes.

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Libraries Report Advocacy Policies 99

The Hechinger Report

JULY 18, 2023

Tribes have to meet several criteria in their petitions for federal recognition, including proof they’ve had decades of a collective identity, generations of descendants and long-standing, autonomous political governance. I know that sounds so cliche, but how are we going to be educated enough to cite policy, to fight for recognition?

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 20, 2021

After an outcry over his six-day suspension, the state passed a law requiring school districts to write new discipline policies for virtual learning and make it easier for students who face expulsion for certain offenses to appeal. That’s an inappropriate, and potentially illegal, punishment, she said.

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Guidelines Report Elementary Online Learning 143

The Hechinger Report

JULY 13, 2021

Taravella High School in Florida, hasn’t wanted to speak up in her large algebra I class that meets on Microsoft Teams. Steele, who studies high school policies and practices related to algebra I, is advising teachers to slow down this fall — a strategy that, confusingly, the U.S. Zyonne Reid, a 15-year-old at J.P. math-teaching?experts.?

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 18, 2018

Vermont’s experiment in experiential learning goes back a number of years, but it took off in 2013, when the legislature passed a law that lets students meet state graduation standards through work-based experiences. Among Act 77’s aims: to reduce high school dropout rates, particularly among low-income students. (In

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