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What researchers learned about online higher education during the pandemic

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With almost all college and university students and faculty forced online during the pandemic lockdowns, researchers could take advantage of what became essentially an unprecedented randomized trial to study whether and how well online teaching works. Credit: Molly Haley for The Hechinger Report.

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PROOF POINTS: COVID has been bad for college enrollment — but awful for community college students

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When the coronavirus hit in the spring of 2020, student surveys indicated that four-year colleges would be hit the hardest this fall, with many students turning to cheaper two-year community colleges until the pandemic ended. Those surveys didn’t get it exactly right. Sign up for the Hechinger newsletter.

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Online learning can open doors for kids in juvenile jails

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Photo: TARA GARCIA MATHEWSON/The Hechinger Report. In 2014, an Illinois Department of Juvenile Justice remedial plan, created as part of a settlement agreement following a 2012 lawsuit against the department, specifically called for a blended-learning model to resolve inadequate educational opportunities in the system.

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Will the students who didn’t show up for online class this spring go missing forever?

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She and her colleagues have had to intercede in evictions, deliver supplies and report children in dire circumstances to child protective services since the start of the pandemic. Other districts around the country have reported similarly high numbers of missing students. Credit: Bonnie Arbittier, San Antonio Report.

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How one city closed the digital divide for nearly all its students

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Credit: Javeria Salman/ The Hechinger Report. “We Credit: Javeria Salman/ The Hechinger Report Boxes of #OaklandUndivided devices wait for student pickup at Castlemont High School in May 2021. Credit: Javeria Salman/ The Hechinger Report. Credit: Javeria Salman/ The Hechinger Report. The homework gap isn’t new.

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Progress in getting underrepresented people into college and skilled jobs may be stalling because of the pandemic

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Experts say that this means dropout rates, which had been declining for more than a decade, will likely start to rise again. And a third of this year’s high school seniors say they’re less likely to go to college when they graduate, according to a survey by the think tanks New America and Third Way. College enrollments have fallen.

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OPINION: The pandemic exposes just how much support college students need

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Even before the pandemic, widening access to student services, increasing enrollment and retention and developing a higher-quality online or hybrid learning experience were a pretty familiar slate of issues. The post OPINION: The pandemic exposes just how much support college students need appeared first on The Hechinger Report.

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