The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 15, 2021

The cost and logistics of child care can also make or break enrollment for community college students, about 30 percent of whom are parents, according to one estimate from 2014. Enrollment at two-year schools swelled during the downturn a decade ago. Related: How higher education’s own choices left it vulnerable to the pandemic crisis.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

Sanders, who is African-American, first presented the idea for a dual-language program at Houston to the District of Columbia Public Schools in 2014. The growth has largely been driven by advocacy from white, affluent families, as well as by districts responding to an influx of immigrant students.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

They’re experiencing trauma, and trauma has a pretty significant impact,” said Darla Bardine, executive director of the National Network for Youth, a policy and advocacy group focused on youth homelessness. Advocacy groups and researchers , too, have surfaced examples. The agency said it has never penalized a state in this manner.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 4, 2018

Enrollment at the beginning of the academic year just ended was up 13 percent from 2014 , to 2,038. That comment came in response to a rare endeavor by a higher-education institution: a survey emailed to 10,555 of them in 2014 by the University of Washington to learn why some students left before graduating. Nobody noticed.”.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2016

And finally, though many juvenile facilities focus almost solely on getting their students to pass high school equivalency tests, Domenici encouraged his students to become confident in their ability to learn and to earn the traditional class credits that they would need in order to return to high school upon release.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 21, 2019

Under a set of new standards adopted by the Vermont State Board of Education in 2014 , the class of 2020 will be eligible for graduation when they’ve demonstrated “evidence of proficiency” in the curriculum. The idea, popular among well-funded education philanthropies and education advocacy groups, is gaining ground across the United States.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 1, 2017

Mike Flom, a parent and co-founder of the advocacy group New Jersey Parents and Teachers for Appropriate Education, said many factors impact inclusion’s effectiveness. His twin daughters, now in seventh grade, were placed in an inclusion classroom beginning in fifth grade. She became a teacher through an alternate program.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2020

A network of charter schools in California and Washington developed the Summit Learning Program for their students almost a decade ago; the model got a boost in 2014 from Facebook engineers after Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, visited a Summit middle school. Related: The messy reality of personalized learning.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 16, 2017

A looming question is whether personalized learning that works in, say, a tight-knit, mission-driven charter school can be reliably translated into traditional district schools with many more students, less flexible schedules, keener standardized-test worries and cultures steeped in established ways of teaching and learning.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

The education department defends allocating the funds to the 13 schools, saying that they incur more costs by exceeding the academic requirements of traditional high schools. And sometimes they need extra funds to go above and beyond.”. Too often in this country, we’re sticking to the middle and mediocrity.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

On the morning of February 6, 2014, King had jotted down what time her 4-month-old had woken up and what he’d eaten. In 2014, the same year Wiley died, the country’s central funding mechanism for child care, the Child Care and Development Block Grant (CCDBG), was reauthorized by Congress with new requirements.

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The Hechinger Report

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. Many charters hire teachers who don’t belong to a teachers union or haven’t gone through a traditional teacher preparation program, for example.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2019

That push officially began in 2014, when Deborah Gist, then the state’s commissioner of education, announced a public-private “innovation partnership” to merge traditional and computerized pedagogy. For decades, nonprofit advocacy groups and corporate donors have targeted K-12 education for intervention.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 24, 2017

Only in 2014 (after 20 years of charter schools) did the state Department of Education start closely overseeing charter school authorizers’ effectiveness. Third claim: All of Michigan’s charter schools are run by for-profit entities and perform worse than traditional public schools.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 21, 2017

That’s in spite of extra challenges confronting student veterans, who are usually older than traditional-aged students and more likely to be juggling college with families, jobs and service-related disabilities, and who often face significantly more red tape. There are several reasons why things are working for them.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 28, 2019

Education advocacy nonprofit Alliance to Reclaim Our Schools found that “[b]etween 2005 and 2017, public schools in the U.S. Her proposal throttles the expansion of charter schools and seeks to impose on them the same accountability and transparency requirements as traditional public schools.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Fewer than 20 percent of her classmates who entered San Jose State in 2014 finished in four years — less than half the national average. It was they who were defying the odds. That didn’t make Deas feel any better. She considered quitting, or transferring to a community college.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 21, 2017

A 2007 Texas State University study, published in the Journal of Educational Computing Research, found that when students were presented with high-quality online math instruction they did better on tests than those taught in a more traditional way. Related: More schools are online than ever before, but it’s far from perfect.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 17, 2023

Because of the pandemic and the timing of Meryl’s death, the family was not able to have a traditional funeral. Because of the pandemic and the timing of Meryl’s death, the family was not able to have a traditional funeral. Because of the pandemic and the timing of Meryl’s death, the family was not able to have a traditional funeral.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 19, 2017

11, 2014 in Wake Forest, N.C. No doubt other alternatives to traditional public education, such as charter schools, have encoun­tered some of these same impediments. The homeschooling emphasis on depth and mastery, rather than traditional concepts of time and place, could offer some ideas on addressing the needs of individual students.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 21, 2017

Whatever the Justice Department decides to do, disability advocates are prepared to pursue the GNETS case as a class action lawsuit if necessary, said Alison Barkoff, advocacy director at the Center for Public Representation , a public-interest disability law firm. Leslie Lipson, counsel to the Georgia Advocacy Office.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 11, 2017

A recent Associated Press analysis of national school enrollment data found that “as of school year 2014-2015, more than 1,000 of the nation’s 6,747 charter schools had minority enrollment of at least 99 percent, and the number has been rising steadily.”. Their imbalance rating is roughly four times that of traditional public schools.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 7, 2016

This process of seeking exemptions has accelerated since the Obama administration asserted in 2014 that transgender and “gender nonconforming” students were protected from discrimination under Title IX, according to Human Rights Campaign. Patty Murray, D-Wash., one of the lawmakers who demanded that the list be made public.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 19, 2019

Newsweek magazine dubbed the city “ Murder Town USA ” in 2014. Elizabeth Warren’s plan would limit charter schools in favor of funding for traditional public schools. In Wilmington, enrollment across the lowest-performing traditional public schools has plummeted, with students opting for charter schools and private schools.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 13, 2019

That’s partly because the number of 18- to 24-year-olds who comprise traditional college students is declining, even as an improving economy has drawn more people straight into the job market, without stopping to get degrees. Higher education institutions of all kinds have two million fewer students now than they did in 2009.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 29, 2016

This is an event that is designed to bring the party together, and there are these sharp divisions between the education reform folks and traditional education people, so it makes sense that they would avoid talking about them beyond generalities,” said Michael Petrilli, president of the Thomas B. The Eagle Academy Foundation raised $2.2

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