The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

Chantal Fulgencio had the bad timing to start as a freshman in the fall of 2012 at public East Stroudsburg University in Pennsylvania. That was just when the state was in the midst of seven straight years of cutting its budget for higher education during and after the recession, or at best keeping spending level.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

The drop in college graduates who majored in humanities ranges between 16 percent and 29 percent since 2012. In the post-war boom of the 1950s, college students were confident of their economic futures and many studied liberal arts subjects such as English, history and philosophy. Credit: Meenakshi Van Zee for The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 25, 2022

An international study by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development found that students who had more books at home reported that they enjoyed reading more. Simultaneously, reading performance around the world, which had been slowly improving up until 2012, declined between 2012 and 2018.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 23, 2024

About a dozen years ago, Linn-Benton’s administration looked at their data and found that many students in career and technical education, or CTE, were getting most of the way toward a degree but were stopped by a math course, said the college’s president, Lisa Avery. Related: Interested in innovations in higher education?

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ED Surge

APRIL 13, 2023

The result is a new nonprofit named Axim Collaborative, and its focus will be on serving learners that higher education has historically left behind. As the group’s new CEO, Stephanie Khurana, put it in an interview with EdSurge this week: “The focus of the mission is to really help postsecondary completion and issues of economic mobility.”

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 11, 2023

That’s the case with the most recent results from a key global education test, the Program for International Student Assessment or PISA. Education Secretary Miguel Cardona credited the largest federal investment in education in history – roughly $200 billion – for keeping the United States “in the game” during the pandemic.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

Only a handful of states, colored in blue, are predicted to see an increase in the number of students attending regional four-year colleges and universities between 2012 and 2029. But student demand is expected to grow for the nation’s most elite colleges and universities between 2012 and 2029. million in 2012 to 1.27

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 4, 2020

Now, with the added pressures of the coronavirus pandemic, the fabric of American higher education has become even more strained: The prospect of lower revenues has already forced some schools to slash budgets and could lead to waves of closings, experts and researchers say. This story also appeared in NBC News.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 15, 2018

A majority of recessionary budget cuts to education have been restored. National Center for Education Statistics, National Spending for Public Schools Increases for Second Consecutive Year in School Year 2014-15. Last week, the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), an arm of the U.S. See adjacent graph.).

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 30, 2024

That includes some of the world’s largest and wealthiest countries, and others acclaimed for their education systems, such as Canada, France, Germany and Finland. Solving math education Sign up for a limited-run newsletter that walks you through some of the most promising solutions for helping students conquer math.

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Digital Promise

APRIL 24, 2018

Through a series of satirical lectures, Pediwell (or the actual author, education professor Harold R. In math education, the problem is not quite so dire – but it’s time to start breaking a few of our own traditions. As education researchers, we see two different ways that educators can build alternative mathematics courses.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Toward the end of filling out the class, there would definitely be a push to look for more men to admit,” said Medley, who was in her role at Brandeis from 2012 to 2014. Brandeis accepted 44 percent of male applicants compared to 36 percent of female applicants in 2012-2013, according to data the university reports to the federal government.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 18, 2020

Using endowments to avert layoffs also could help spur a faster economic recovery. During the 2008 financial crisis, university layoffs contributed to broader public-sector job cuts that undermined federal efforts to stimulate economic recovery. This would encourage universities to use their endowments to reduce growing inequities.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 6, 2021

From 1993 to 2012, the share of students taking out loans to finance their degrees rose from roughly half to over two-thirds. This chart illuminates the results of Black people’s efforts to obtain economic equality, our lack of wealth and our need for federal aid. Not only are individuals saddled with debt, so are entire neighborhoods.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 6, 2016

Among the 35 industrialized nations that are members of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), the U.S. The weak math performance was echoed by a second national exam, the National Assessment of Education Progress (NAEP), on which 8th graders also posted lower math scores on the 2015 test. now ranks 31st.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 10, 2017

The switch to a proficiency-based education, which focuses on making sure students can demonstrate what they know, has helped students like Elderkin. That’s due to a new teaching approach here called “proficiency-based education,” that was inspired by a 2012 state law. Photo: Gregory Rec/Portland Press Herald.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 9, 2018

Temple has started a master’s degree in sport business, among the 41,446 degree or certificate programs colleges and universities have added since 2012. Students walk on the Temple University campus in Philadelphia. Photo: Matt Rourke/The Associated Press. It’s just spreading a thin broth thinner.”. Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 16, 2025

With declining birth rates and growing skepticism about the value of a degree, higher education is facing an enrollment cliff, set to hit hard in 2026. In this season, we’re standing on the precipice of the demographic cliff and exploring the changing higher education landscape. Applying to schools is really stressful.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 17, 2017

Their positions were created by and are funded through Say Yes to Education Buffalo, a local chapter of a New York City-based nonprofit. In Buffalo, a Rust Belt city still grappling with high poverty and an under-educated population , the results of the Say Yes program have exceeded expectations.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

An educated workforce is supposedly a big predictor of a country’s income and annual growth. Since 2012, U.S. from 36th to 19th in the 2012 international rankings. The researchers conducted the same experiment in Shanghai, China, where students had posted the highest scores in the world on the actual 2012 PISA test.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 5, 2021

Emily House, executive director, Tennessee Higher Education Commission and the Tennessee Student Assistance Corporation. “It It’s a real barrier,” said Zora Mulligan, the state’s commissioner of higher education.) Laura Perna, executive director, Alliance for Higher Education and Democracy at the University of Pennsylvania.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 16, 2019

These findings held even when economic status and IQ were taken into account. But a 2012 report on the subject from the University of Alabama suggests some solutions. The study was published online in the journal JAMA Psychiatry in June 2019. 1,271 per year – amount inattentive kindergarten boys fail to earn as adults.

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Digital Promise

JUNE 15, 2016

Teaching quality has been defined as “instruction that enables a wide range of students to learn” ( Darling-Hammond, 2012 ), and it is the strongest school-related factor that can improve student learning and achievement ( Hanushek, 2011 ; Nye, Konstantopoulos, and Hedges, 2004 ; Rivkin, Hanushek, and Kain, 2005 ).

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 29, 2017

Now California is spending $6 million on a campaign to revive the reputation of vocational education, and $200 million to improve the delivery of it. We needed to do a better job getting the word out,” said Van Ton-Quinlivan, the system’s vice chancellor for workforce and economic development. How can it get better?”.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 27, 2018

It was an effective demonstration of project-based learning , a trend whose roots date back to John Dewey’s educational philosophies and has been spreading through schools across the country over the past five years. The curriculum development was the subject of a 2012 paper.) “The projects we do have more constraints.”

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 28, 2023

Nevertheless, higher education hasn’t had a true redesign of its approach to majors and courses in 50 years. I’m president at Minerva University , established in 2012 and one of the few institutions of higher education that, in recent memory, has asked the question, “What would we build if we could build it from scratch?”

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 10, 2020

average and they do even better than their peers in similarly wealthy school districts, according to the Educational Opportunity Project at Stanford University. The reform model is known by several different names, including proficiency-based education. Students perform well above the U.S. Teachers also change their grading policies.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 22, 2023

Although consumer protections apply to private lenders as well as the government, the legal mechanism that could trigger relief for private education-loan borrowers is different from the one used in the Sweet case, which sought relief only for students who had government loans. Sign up for our higher education newsletter.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

The series was produced by The Hechinger Report and Columbia Journalism School’s Teacher Project , nonprofit news organizations focused on education coverage, in partnership with Slate Magazine. public housing or come from immigrant communities—is one of the surest paths to promoting educational equity. Sign up for our newsletter.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 10, 2019

The more students used technology in schools, the lower the nation ranked in educational achievement. That’s the equivalent of a year of education or an entire grade level. Higher Education. Previous research has generally shown more promise for education technology in math than in reading. Weekly Update.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 1, 2020

Students are choosing disciplines like business, economics and computer science – subjects they believe are better suited to the modern job market. The AHA launched the nationwide initiative in 2012 and called it “Tuning.”. The number of college students choosing to major in history has dropped dramatically over the past decade.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 28, 2024

Related: ‘Simpler’ FAFSA complicates college plans for students, families This isn’t the only roadblock my students face while attempting to pursue a college education. Finally, in 2021, they launched the Immigrant Liaison pilot program in a collaborative project with CUNY’s Initiative on Immigration and Education.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

Gallot graduated from Grambling in 1987 and leveraged his HBCU degrees (Juris Doctorate from Southern University in 1990) to become a state representative for the area in 2000 and state senator in 2012 before being installed as the tenth president of GSU in 2016. Department of Education. For instance, they generate $14.8

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 11, 2020

higher education exacerbate, rather than reduce, these inequities. Economic mobility and security across successive generations have been inaccessible to black communities. Black Americans have historically not been able to operate in the same financial or education system, or with similar opportunities, as others.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 11, 2019

The Hechinger Report conducted a survey in collaboration with the APM Research Lab and APM Reports’ Educate team. More than half of college students under age 30 took on debt to pay for their education , according to the Federal Reserve. Bernazani’s parents paid for his education, but Leon used loans.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 6, 2016

The results do matter, and American educators will lose out if they dismiss the findings so easily. By taking the results seriously, educators can examine the practices and policies of countries that do well on the test and see what they can do to improve practice in this country. This would be a mistake. On PISA, U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 6, 2016

It’s part of a little-noticed but surprising shift under way that suggests new resolve in some places to improve the efficiency and productivity of stubbornly labor-intensive higher education. Sign up for our Higher Education newsletter. Surprising because statistics suggest the opposite is happening.

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