The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 22, 2016

For America to become the world leader in college degrees — and to reap the economic and social benefits that come with that success — we must close the educational attainment gap between Latinos and their white counterparts. In 2014, Latinos represented 26 percent of students enrolled in K-12 education.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 30, 2024

In a 2014 file photo, Salma Bah, Jennifer Feliz and Paola Francisco work on a math problem in an Upward Bound program based in San Francisco. Schmidt, also a member of the PISA math experts group, believes students should grapple with problems like this, which have the benefit of being more interesting as well.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 13, 2017

According the Louisiana Department of Education, enrollment of African-American students decreased from 93 percent of total enrollment in 2004 to 87 percent in 2014. In addition, 84 percent of students enrolled in public school were deemed economically disadvantaged in 2014. This effort does that.

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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

MAY 4, 2019

In 2014, the labor market analysis firm Burning Glass Technologies tried to capture the extent of degree inflation. Using a four-year degree as a proxy for employability shuts out the most economically vulnerable job seekers. The staff at Resilient Coders sees this racial and economic inequality up close. “If Degree inflation.

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Digital Promise

APRIL 24, 2018

In math education, the problem is not quite so dire – but it’s time to start breaking a few of our own traditions. In fact, students who struggle early with the traditional singular STEM pathway are more likely to fall out of the higher education pipeline entirely.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 10, 2020

But the outgoing superintendent, Cyndy Taymore, is four years into an effort to fundamentally rethink traditional schooling here. Competency-based education demands a shift away from traditional teaching, testing and grading. At no point in recent memory has Melrose Public Schools been failing.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 28, 2022

The university departs from traditional practice by involving all its faculty and staff in recruiting students. That’s up from 83 percent in 2014 , the earliest year for which the figure is available from the U.S. Incoming freshmen at the University of Maine pick up information about student clubs. Department of Education.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 28, 2019

Rural Alaska Native communities are grappling with the existential effects—erosion, loss of important food sources like seals, and fear that the traditions they’ve fought to sustain over centuries will slip away. As a result, the district is finally within sight of the FCC’s 2014 target speed, she said.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 19, 2021

But the community began to suffer economically after several major employers, including what was once the largest olive processer in the world, shut down in the early 1990s. to learn how to make the shift from traditional time-based systems … towards one that is truly organized around the learner.”.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

She was not happy with the first school she and her husband chose, but found a match in 2014 when a spot opened at Homer A. Plus, Gisleson liked the idea that Otto would be surrounded by kids who came from racial and socio-economic backgrounds that were different from his own. “It Sixty-nine percent were economically disadvantaged.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 30, 2018

“Personalized learning is not something you buy,” emphasized Chris Liang-Vergara, a consultant from the Chicago organization LEAP Innovations who helped charter Firstline Schools pilot its personalized learning programs between 2011 and 2014. “It’s It’s a teacher practice; it’s a teacher design.”. Teira Rucker, 11.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 2, 2016

The median household income in Oktibbeha County for black residents is $21,795 annually while the median income for white households is almost double, at $41,501, according to American Community Survey 2014 estimates. This economic divide was mirrored in the school system. The school district had a 27 percent dropout rate in 2014.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 21, 2024

They have teamed up with local educational organizations to advocate for the school district, and by extension, for racially and economically diverse schools. In Pasadena, Dufford said, it has been tradition for established families not to send their children to public schools. “So I was like, ‘Oh, wait, I’m poor.’”

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 16, 2018

Massachusetts is turning that traditional model on its head by having many schools combine rigorous academics with hands-on career training, now called “career and technical education.” Just over 18 percent of the school’s students are economically disadvantaged. Essex Tech is what used to be known as a vocational school.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 23, 2019

But the neighborhood just to the north, Hancock Park, is 71 percent white, with a median income of $85,000; the student body, meanwhile, is 79 percent Latino, 12 percent African-American, 7 percent Asian, and 64 percent “economically disadvantaged,” drawn from Koreatown, Mid-City, and neighborhoods farther afield. Tammy Kim/Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

Of the district’s nearly 91,000 students, 69 percent were considered economically disadvantaged during the 2016-17 school year. John Barry School (grades pre-K to 5) in Meriden, for example, reduced its chronic absenteeism rate from 21 percent in the 2014-15 school year to 9 percent in 2015-16.

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Anthropology News

APRIL 30, 2024

This shift detached investors from the personal aspect of a debt relationship, allowing them to earn 20 to 30 percent annual interest—significantly higher than the 3 to 5 percent offered by traditional banks. The P2P industry thrived in 2014, championing financial inclusion ( puhui jinrong ) endorsed by the state.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 18, 2017

million new tech jobs will be created between 2014 and 2024, many of them requiring people with data and computer-science credentials. Economics is also driving students to sign up for computer-science majors. “The industry would be very satisfied if higher education was taking care of it,” said Eaton. “I CompTIA projects that 1.8

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 23, 2016

Redcliffe leaders, in the long tradition of English nursery leaders, believe children learn best when they are taking the lead and exploring the world on their own, complete with the risks that independence carries like, say, a bump on the head from a wooden swing. Rowena Phair, Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 6, 2016

All but 2 percent of all black preschool teachers are women, according to an analysis 2014 Bureau of Labor and Statistics (BLS) data. When it comes to women dominated education, the economic and social advancement of black men can and should come out of an agenda focused on women’s equity.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 28, 2019

By making the connection between educational adequacy and equity, Warren’s policy breaks from the choice-driven reform movement that ignores the economic context in which children, families and schools reside. Related: For better student outcomes, hire more black teachers.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

There, a majority of students are Hispanic, and over half are classified as economically disadvantaged, according to EdData and the California Department of Education. In the 2014-2015 school year, only half of all students were reading at or above proficiency level, according to school data provided by the district. Why it works.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

The school is too new to have test results, but droves of parents, most of them white, have arrived at Bricolage’s doorstep attracted by relatively small classrooms — all classrooms had 20 or fewer students during the 2014-15 school year — and a curriculum that focuses on fostering creativity and autonomy.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

Giving parents choices beyond the school closest to home would open the door to innovation and put pressure on traditional schools to improve, these advocates argue. But research on whether more school choice improves education is mixed. The results track with international data.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 10, 2017

SEATTLE — After years of declining enrollment, a growing number of Catholic schools nationwide are placing their faith in blended learning, a teaching approach in which computers share the instructional load with teachers, and one that appeals to many parents disillusioned with traditional schools. Therese principal. “It

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CORE Econ

OCTOBER 23, 2024

In a two year long journey, Weikai Chen, Assistant Professor of Economics at Renmin University of China, made it to the city-level stage of the 13th Beijing Young Teachers’ Teaching Skills Competition. I am an assistant professor at the School of Economics at Renmin University of China in Beijing. My name is Weikai Chen. Which parts?

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Some 2,400 districts — from regions synonymous with economic hardship to big cities and prosperous suburbs — did not report having even one homeless student despite levels of financial need that make those figures improbable. And many more districts are likely undercounting the number of homeless students they do identify.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 3, 2016

” Helmick believes charter schools are “businesses getting taxpayers’ money” that aren’t subject to the same operational regulations as traditional public schools. per student in the 2013-2014 school year. If charter schools are public, then why not just invest more money in traditional public schools?

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 27, 2016

In a December 2014 “Dear Colleague” letter from the Departments of Justice and Education, then-Secretary of Education Arne Duncan and then-Attorney General Eric Holder wrote to state superintendents and attorney generals across the nation, asking them to continue their investment in correctional education.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 19, 2016

We don’t have the traditional view that we’re somehow ‘letting these kids in’ to be influenced by us.”. He got his associate’s degree from Essex County Community College and transferred to Rutgers, which he chose for its connection to Newark and so he could study with urban historian Clement Price (who died in 2014).

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2024

On the international Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) , American 15-year-olds rank toward the bottom of economically advanced nations in math achievement. In 2014, San Francisco heeded that call , mixing different achievement levels in middle school classrooms and delaying algebra until ninth grade.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 1, 2016

Related: If the anger that propelled Trump’s win is economic, can higher education fix it? “We Only 40 percent of older students with children manage to get degrees or certificates within six years, a lower proportion than their traditional-age classmates, and dropout rates are higher among older students with kids.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

Indeed, a recent study in the 2017 Mississippi Economic Review found that districts with the worst teacher shortages have a weak local property tax base, a high percentage of black students and are disproportionately located in the Delta. Starting teachers in Mississippi make between $34,000 and $39,000 , depending on their education level.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 26, 2020

David Gross followed in the footsteps of his father, Joseph Gross, taking up the “head of school” position in 2014 after growing up on the campus, attending the school and teaching there for 24 years. In 2014, Pew Research reported that 80 percent of churchgoers attend a congregation that is predominantly one race. Enduring legacies.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 15, 2021

Fewer students equal less revenue for community colleges, which could lead to cuts at the very institutions so many depend upon as a first step toward economic mobility. Instead of spending the fall semester watching a parade of instructors on his bedroom computer monitor, he decided to keep his job at a coffee shop and wait out the pandemic.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 12, 2017

In a district that is about 53 percent black and 39 percent white, children share the same resources, teachers, and the same well-stocked classrooms and school buildings, regardless of their race or economic status. Twenty-one-year-old Nia Sims graduated from Clinton High School in 2014.

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