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SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

More than 800,000 people with disabilities found eligible for services received no assistance between 2010 and 2014, according to federal data. Some VR agencies work well; counselors respond promptly to applications and help clients further their education and secure employment. Photo: Meredith Kolodner.

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OCTOBER 25, 2017

For more than 40 years, federal law has required schools to identify and evaluate students with dyslexia and to provide them with an appropriate education. The flurry of new state laws over the past five years is in large part the result of pressure from Decoding Dyslexia, a parent advocacy group with chapters in all 50 states.

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OCTOBER 22, 2018

But since it wasn’t our house, they could use the bathroom first,” Kimberly, 12, told the child advocacy organization Children’s Defense Fund for their The State of America’s Children 2014 report. In 2014-15, the rate of homelessness among U.S. Sometimes we had to go to school late, because we had to wait for the bathroom.

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JUNE 16, 2016

The major advocacy group for public charter schools is concerned that failing online charter schools may be hurting the credibility of the movement as a whole. This story was produced by The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. Read more about Blended Learning.

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DECEMBER 4, 2016

He took honors physics in 11th grade and earned a general education diploma, even though his cerebral palsy classified him as a special education student. She had spent 12 years as a senior education advocate at the Disability Law & Advocacy Center of Tennessee, advising other parents on how to get through the system.

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MAY 22, 2018

In most states, the aid program comes from the general fund, and once it’s gone, it’s gone,” said Sarah Pingel, senior policy analyst at the Education Commission of the States. Sign up for our Higher Education newsletter. Higher Education. Carrie Warick, director of policy and advocacy, National College Access Network.

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DECEMBER 15, 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. BRUNSWICK, Maine — Kate Lord didn’t have a plan when she graduated from Brunswick High School in 2014. for former general education students.

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OCTOBER 28, 2019

Elizabeth Warren released a federal education policy proposal that recognizes a fundamental truth about students: Kids don’t live in schools, they live in communities. Education policy that ignores neighborhood conditions misses the point of why we ultimately go to school — to improve our community.

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NOVEMBER 25, 2016

By 2014, for lower-income students (those eligible for a federal Pell grant), it reached 51 percent — nearly the same as for non-Pell students. Its graduation rate for first-generation students went up 32 percent between 2010 and 2014. Read more about higher education. For Hispanic students, it went from 22 to 54 percent.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2019

In 2014, schools had a new way to give students free breakfast and lunch, paid for by Uncle Sam. Higher Education. This story about tracking student poverty was written by Jill Barshay and produced by The Hechinger Report, a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education.

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MARCH 6, 2022

“Until we had a deep look at ourselves, we didn’t realize that we were selling them [students] short,” said James Capp, assistant provost for academic operations and planning at Florida Atlantic University, which Dickinson attends and where, as recently as 2014, fewer than one in five students was managing to graduate within four years.

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JANUARY 23, 2019

It is seen as a way to close achievement gaps, increase student engagement and offer a better education to today’s students. Tanji Reed Marshall, a former teacher and current researcher at The Education Trust, an education research and advocacy organization, recently studied how frequently teachers offer students choices in the classroom.

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APRIL 7, 2024

Gifting myself with an education is a part of my recovery,” said Nomi Badboy, 43, one of three students attending this week’s meeting of the school’s collegiate recovery program. Education is an example of what’s called “recovery capital,” something earned that makes long-term recovery more likely.

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NOVEMBER 22, 2016

With bilingualism linked to enhanced academic and social skills, educators say dual-language programs can be used to narrow the achievement gap and equip underserved students for a future in a competitive workforce. It’s a common argument, even among educators. Read more about early education. Photo: Natalie Gross.

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MARCH 21, 2022

The Afterschool Alliance – an advocacy group – was instrumental in securing the 1 percent set aside for afterschool and making sure that after-school programs would qualify for learning loss. Another 5 percent of the state money is to be spent on overcoming learning loss, which can also be used on after-school programs.

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DECEMBER 1, 2018

T his story about foster care and higher education was produced as part of a series, “Twice Abandoned: How schools and child-welfare systems fail kids in foster care,” reported by HuffPost and The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. KALAMAZOO, Mich.

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OCTOBER 5, 2016

As part of his special-education program at the new school, Jacob was still entitled to continue his weekly therapy sessions. Out of 14 scheduled visits, dating from October 2014 to June 2015, the hospital counted Jacob as a “no show” for nine of them. His school was supposed to provide transportation. I beg your pardon?” Kast asked.

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APRIL 12, 2017

But state officials didn’t track how many of those students passed the test or how many were forced to go through third grade a third time, according to Kymyona Burk, literacy director for the Mississippi Department of Education. Related: Can literacy coaches help solve Mississippi’s education woes?

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MARCH 25, 2019

In 2014, Carly Robinson, a Ph.D. candidate at Harvard’s Graduate School of Education, noticed how schools across the country were handing out perfect attendance certificates as a way to motivate students to show up. In 2014, Carly Robinson, a Ph.D. Higher Education. Choose as many as you like. Weekly Update.

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APRIL 22, 2019

In 2014, a cash-strapped school district in rural northeast Kansas turned to its residents with a plea: Pay a little more in taxes annually so we can renovate classrooms, update the wiring and give students better spaces to learn. It sends a message that education isn’t important,” he said. “It David Kaup for The Hechinger Report.

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JULY 4, 2018

Texas A&M University at Texarkana has one of the lowest retention rates of public higher-education institutions; 55 percent who started in 2012 were gone by 2016. Enrollment at the beginning of the academic year just ended was up 13 percent from 2014 , to 2,038. Department of Education data analyzed by The Hechinger Report.

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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. It was so much bigger than just education.

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AUGUST 10, 2016

Its 2014-15 arrest rate of 1.5 This story is the first in a series about police officers in schools produced in a partnership between The Huffington Post and The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. percent compares unfavorably to the national referral rate of.06

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APRIL 6, 2017

Understanding that cost is an issue that won’t be solved immediately, we asked educators to identify the other biggest obstacles to a timely graduation. Students who are worried about debt sometimes work more and then reduce their course load,” said Robert Kelchen, a professor of higher education at Seton Hall who studies student debt.

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JUNE 17, 2018

It’s where districts and schools decide to spend their money,” Worth, a veteran educator who has also taught in Greene County’s traditional public schools, explained. Department of Education. Board of Education decision. Some schools spend their money on overhead. We spend it on students.”.

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DECEMBER 13, 2017

This story was produced jointly by inewsource San Diego, a data-focused investigative news organization, and The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. Related: Most colleges enroll many students who aren’t prepared for higher education.

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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.

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

According to the state Department of Education, hundreds of thousands of parents like Gobert are thought to be financially at-risk and should warrant help from the Child Care Assistance Program, the only state-administered initiative in Louisiana that assists low-income families to pay for care and education for children under the age of 4.

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MARCH 1, 2017

. — When Mary Fair became a teacher in 2012, her classes often contained a mix of special education students and general education students. Placing children with and without disabilities in the same classroom, instead of segregating them, was a growing national trend, spurred on by lawsuits by special education advocates.

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AUGUST 7, 2016

Photo: courtesy of Center for Educational Excellence in Alternative Settings. NEW ORLEANS — As recently as a decade ago, the Youth Study Center would have been unlikely to attract an educational pioneer to their juvenile detention facility. David Domenici, director, Center for Educational Excellence in Alternative Settings.

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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. There are “so many people that are stuck in poverty and stuck in situations where they can’t get an education,” Hall said. “I

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NOVEMBER 16, 2022

A Center for Public Integrity analysis of district-level federal education data suggests roughly 300,000 students entitled to essential rights reserved for homeless students have slipped through the cracks, unidentified by the school districts mandated to help them. based nonprofit focused on homeless education. Data disclosed in U.S.

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AUGUST 16, 2016

College Possible is one of many college advocacy groups hoping that technology will jumpstart the slow growth of low-income students in higher education. This story was produced by The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education.

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JUNE 24, 2018

“Only very wealthy people can afford current decent care and education [for young children],” said Richard Brandon, a political scientist recently retired from the University of Washington and co-author of a 2018 National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine report on financing early education. Higher Education.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2017

Turning around struggling high schools is the toughest work in education reform. But a lot of those jobs have moved on and the ones that are here require some higher education.”. Meanwhile, the wage gap between college-educated adults and those with only high school degrees has steadily increased over the last four decades. “In

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Meet Dr. Timothy Lewis APSA Member since 2014-Present Associate Professor Southern Illinois University Edwardsville Dr. Timothy E. In 2021, Dr. Lewis was honored with a Missouri State Resolution “for service in higher education” from the Missouri House of Representatives, Resolution No. 254, Adopted February 17, 2021.

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AUGUST 18, 2016

Half a million, or about one in four, show up on campuses each fall not ready to take college courses in math or English, according to the advocacy organization Education Reform Now. And their educations cost them an average of from $3,000 to $12,000 more than if they’d arrived ready for college-level work.

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