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OCTOBER 8, 2018

Artwork decorates the government-run nursery classroom at Badock’s Wood Primary School in Bristol, England. could learn a lot about early education from our international counterparts. That’s the conclusion of a comprehensive, multi-year study of six early education systems that are beating the U.S. Photo: Lillian Mongeau.

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OCTOBER 14, 2024

View of the Tennessee State Capitol, where lawmakers were the first in the nation to pass a law in 2014 to make community college tuition free for future high school graduates. Credit: Joe Sohm/Visions of America/Universal Images Group via Getty Images The free community college movement effectively began in 2014 when Republican Gov.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

A couple of years ago I got a call from an occupational therapist who introduced herself as a member of my son Corey’s special education team. Fast forward to last spring, when Corey’s new special education case manager called from his new school. I hadn’t realized Corey had an occupational therapist.

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OCTOBER 12, 2016

Photo: Peggy Barmore The federal government is trying to increase the number of minorities in the teaching profession by, in part, allowing institutions to maintain a low bar for entry into teaching programs. Department of Education sought public input about the proposed rules. Education Secretary John King. In a statement, U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 21, 2019

National Center for Education Statistics blog, December 2018. According to the government’s report, education spending rose for the third straight year in 2015-16 to $11,841 per student in kindergarten through 12th grades. percent increase from the previous 2014-15 school year, following an increase of 3.2

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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

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

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. It was worth it, John Fulgencio said, to see his daughter become vice president of student government, graduate magna cum laude with a 3.7

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 8, 2018

High school graduation rates have soared in recent years, hitting a new record of 84 percent for 2015-16 in the most recent federal government count, but there are still millions of Americans who didn’t get a diploma in high school. In 2014, the old GED the exam was revamped and the two new exams, TASC and HiSET, entered the market.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

Michelle McLaughlin said Michael’s education did not prepare him for college or career. 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. Our son’s education was a waste. Higher Education.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 22, 2019

Source: Adam Looney and Constantine Yannelis in the August 2019 issue of Economics of Education Review. Higher Education. The $50,000 is adjusted for inflation in constant 2014 dollars.). In 2014, almost third of borrowers with large debts had taken out their loans to finance their undergraduate education.

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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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The Hechinger Report

MAY 1, 2023

It provides a further reflection on what’s the purpose of higher education as a whole. said Michael Itzkowitz, an education consultant and the former director of College Scorecard, an online federal government tool to compare the cost and value of higher education institutions. “It An audit published by the U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 4, 2020

Government agencies and accrediting bodies have safeguards to protect students from such abrupt college closures, but the oversight is often weak or too late. She arrived for class one day in the summer of 2014 and was met with chaos. Clare McCann, deputy director for federal higher education policy at New America.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 29, 2020

Private tutors long educated the aristocracy and continue to supplement the education of kids whose families can afford it. Saga Education embeds tutoring into the school day. Higher Education. The world’s wealthiest families have known for centuries how effective tutoring is. Choose as many newsletters as you like.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Fewer words have been spent on defining what, precisely, is meant when people say the education system is facing a drought of teachers from coast to coast. Nguyen, an assistant professor at Kansas State University’s College of Education, says there’s no consensus about when the rate of vacancies tips into a crisis.

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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

APRIL 27, 2020

That marks the fifth straight year of growth in the number of school counselors, bringing the student-to-counselor ratio down to the lowest level since the federal government began counting counselors more than 30 years ago. Graphic by Peter D’Amato/The Hechinger Report. School counselors are funded through local and state budgets.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 10, 2017

Meanwhile, the number of pre-kindergarten seats for four-year-olds statewide has risen, according to the study by Tulane University’s Education Research Alliance for New Orleans. The biggest takeaway for me,” said researcher Lindsay Weixler, “is the mismatch between decentralized school governance and an optional program like pre-k.”.

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The Hechinger Report

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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The Hechinger Report

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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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 26, 2020

The class-action lawsuit was filed by Student Defense, a national legal defense network focused on higher education, and a Des Moines law firm, Wandro & Associates P.C. Department of Education. In May 2018, the government warned La’James that it was out of compliance with regulations that require quicker disbursement of aid.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 4, 2020

They’d spent the past decade grappling with declining enrollments and weakening support from state governments. How higher education’s own choices left it vulnerable to the pandemic crisis. Even in the case of orderly closings, students’ educations can be significantly disrupted — many drop out and never finish their degrees.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

Rise in the cost of federal higher-education tax credits. The cost of tax deductions that previous research has shown disproportionately help wealthier families pay for college continues to outpace what the federal government spends on grants for low-income students, a new study points out. Sign up for our Higher Education newsletter.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 25, 2023

And she was running for the school’s governing board. The pandemic and travails of remote learning walloped the education profession, worsening teacher morale and contributing to more people exiting the field. Today, Education Evolving identifies roughly 300 schools that follow the teacher-powered model. “In

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 9, 2018

However, the latest data from the federal government, covering the 2014-15 school year, still shows an advantage to the wealthy across the nation’s public elementary, middle and high schools. percent fewer funds per child than the 25 percent wealthiest districts during the 2014-15 school year. That has changed.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 18, 2016

In spite of a gradual economic recovery and improving revenues, most states are spending dramatically less on public higher education, a new report says. The Topic: Reduced spending by state governments on higher education. Subscribe to our Higher Education newsletter. Read more about Higher Education.

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The Hechinger Report

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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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 30, 2022

Certificates are the fastest-growing kind of credential in higher education, touted as solutions for the growing number of people who want workforce training fast and don’t have time for a degree. The analysis used data from 2015, the latest available at the time, though more recent government statistics produce a similar conclusion.

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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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Digital Promise

JANUARY 22, 2019

In this series we explore Powerful Learning, a set of principles to guide educators designing learning experiences that engage the hearts and minds of learners, and incorporate technology in ways that contribute to closing the Digital Learning Gap. Educational Researcher, Vol. Am Educ Res J 1982 19: 237. – Feb.,

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

In 2014, schools had a new way to give students free breakfast and lunch, paid for by Uncle Sam. Higher Education. Yet only half of these eligible schools in Missouri chose to participate because the federal government doesn’t reimburse for the full cost of the meals until more than 62.5 Photo: Tovin Lapan. Weekly Update.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 16, 2023

A lot of times with education, we have to figure things out on our own,” she said. Educators, who are rarely trained on the software, often leave products unopened or unused. A state leader once suggested moving entirely to software-driven learning to eliminate educators, calling them “the weak link,” Ames recalled.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 5, 2019

The federal government and the Department of Education need to start taking their responsibility for prohibiting discrimination seriously and crack down on schools that punish black people for their hair and hair styles. Black hair isn’t holding students’ education back, but the federal government’s dereliction of duty is.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 3, 2021

Among the for-profit students who began paying off their student loans between 2009 and 2014, fewer than 25% were able to begin paying down their loan principal within three years. High-price, low-quality institutions charge above-average prices for below-average outcomes and represent the worst offenders in higher education.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 24, 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 odds he faced, as a black boy in special education, were actually stacked against him. 20, 2017, in Durham, N.C. Photo: AP Photo/Brian Blanco.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 5, 2019

Stewart Lockett (right, grey shirt) leads a meeting of the student government executive team in late January. His team is the most diverse student government the university has ever had. He dug through the bottom drawer and pulled out a student government flyer from five years earlier. Casey Parks/The Hechinger Report.

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Digital Promise

JUNE 30, 2020

Fueled by an influx of new immigrants, the emerging technology industry, and upskilling opportunities from local educational institutions, Nashville’s economy was booming. The AECI’s mission is clear: to “triple the number of adults achieving their educational goals by 2025 and create a network able to better serve more people.”

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