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The Hechinger Report
JUNE 24, 2020
This story also appeared in High Country News. Now, as schools in Oregon prepare to reopen this fall, they must weigh whether returning to work — and greeting the students they sorely miss — is worth the risk of exposing themselves to the novel coronavirus. So too are individuals over 60. based think tank.
The Hechinger Report
MARCH 20, 2018
After five years of clocking in at Home Depot, she was 27 and earning $12 an hour. Lewis-Miller enrolled at Cuyahoga Community College, a 20-minute walk from her apartment. Public university and college budgets are increasingly dependent on how many students graduate. I realized that retail wasn’t for me,” she said. “I
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The Hechinger Report
OCTOBER 26, 2021
But in the early spring of 2020, her business in shambles and bills to pay, she decided that she had no choice but to sell her house. Contreras’s entire stream of income vanished on March 22, 2020, the date by which the state asked most programs to close. We were all going through the same thing, struggling financially.”.
The Hechinger Report
MARCH 9, 2021
This story also appeared in NBC News. It was four days before the beginning of a new school year. Her seventh grade social studies class, like every other in Jefferson County Public Schools, the largest school district in Kentucky, would be online. Credit: Bianca Bagnarelli / for NBC News.
The Hechinger Report
MARCH 1, 2022
Our reporters are spending the year listening to people from across the country who are involved in their local public schools in one way or another. This winter, we talked to a parent in Cleveland, a superintendent in Wyoming and a basketball coach in New Mexico among more than a dozen others. CHOOSE A LOCATION. I was so upset.
The Hechinger Report
OCTOBER 17, 2020
Four months since a shooting on her block left her car and her family’s rented house in north Columbus, Ohio, riddled with bullet holes and her 12-year-old daughter struggling with severe post-traumatic stress disorder. The only thing that keeps me trying is my family.”. This story also appeared in USA Today.
Hack Education
DECEMBER 30, 2019
For the past ten years, I have written a lengthy year-end series, documenting some of the dominant narratives and trends in education technology. I think it is worthwhile, as the decade draws to a close, to review those stories and to see how much (or how little) things have changed. Good for you. But that’s not my job. with Pigeons.
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