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JANUARY 29, 2017

The numbers reveal a glaring gap in the nation’s education system: A high school diploma, no matter how recently earned, doesn’t guarantee that students are prepared for college courses. Higher education institutions across the country are forced to spend time, money and energy to solve this disconnect. One of those is Maryland.

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DECEMBER 14, 2016

Since President Obama’s ConnectED announcement in 2013 in Mooresville, NC , there has been more than $10 billion committed as part of the five-year program to transform American education. We want to celebrate the extraordinary collaborations between educators and the private sector that have occurred because of ConnectED.

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Code Next was launched by Google in 2016 in response to the stubbornly low numbers of people of color working in tech — only 3 percent of Google’s tech employees were Black or Latino back in 2014. It’s significant progress toward the goal of connecting more young people with educational and career opportunities in technology.

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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 That’s a 2.9

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We are also a devoted Catholic community, founded by the Visitation Sisters to educate young women in virtue, intellect, mind and heart. To build on our founders’ mission, the school began offering a women’s studies elective titled “Women and Society”, which I have proudly taught since 2014.

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JULY 22, 2019

Source: Adam Looney and Constantine Yannelis in the August 2019 issue of Economics of Education Review. Higher Education. Leave this field empty if you're human: Experts haven’t typically worried about people with large student loan balances. The $50,000 is adjusted for inflation in constant 2014 dollars.). Weekly Update.

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 18, 2016

To learn how educators can help students develop intrinsic motivation, we spoke with Dr. Christina Hinton, faculty member at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and Founder and Executive Director of Research Schools International (RSI) , and Dr. Tom Callahan, Director of the Merck-Horton Center for Teaching and Learning, and educator at St.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 31, 2017

How did New Orleans prove urban-education reform can “work” ? For many, the New Orleans experiment is an example of what is possible in education reform. Reformers used an antiseptic term to describe it: strategic management of human capital. Related: Betsy DeVos should know robbing Peter to pay Paul is a sin in education.

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AUGUST 9, 2018

Sign up for our Higher Education newsletter. Higher Education. Leave this field empty if you're human: Wisconsin Scholars Grant recipients were 42 percent more likely to declare a STEM major than their peers, the study found. Humanities graduates averaged $48,733. percent from 2014 to 2024, compared to 6.4

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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. Leave this field empty if you're human: Recent college graduates, working as Americorps members, serve as Saga’s tutors.

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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

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. Weixler, associate director and senior research fellow at the Education Research Alliance, conducted the research along with two others. Higher Education.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 2, 2014

Something about Jeff Bezos “being a good human being but his hearing isn’t so good.” But as Slivka worked his way through this new world one pathway became clear: education. The theme in short: interactive education tools can change the world. Copyright © 2014. In short, Slivka did not share Bezos’s vision.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

Felecia Commodore came into her job search armed with a University of Pennsylvania doctorate in higher education and published research papers. citizen or permanent resident research doctoral recipients in 2014 were black and 6.5 percent of education doctorates are awarded to blacks , they receive just 3.5 Felecia Commodore.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 19, 2018

Longtime educator Hymethia W. Thompson was happily retired after 46 years as an educator when she saw a television news conference last summer that changed her life. “I The problem is so significant, educators said, that many of Jackson’s schools depend on long-term uncertified substitutes to augment the teacher rolls.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 23, 2019

When Matt Johnson’s girlfriend was killed in gang crossfire in 2014, leaving him a single father to a 3-year-old girl, he knew it was time to do something different with his life. in crime reduction, according to a 2014 evaluation conducted for the Massachusetts Executive Office of Health and Human Services.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Between 1998 and 2014, the percentage of freshmen intending to major in science increased among most ethnic and racial demographics and also among women, according to a study by the National Science Foundation. There has been some progress. To capture this essence, science classes need to go beyond what is widely considered science content.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 4, 2018

As a teacher, I strive to treat all of my students fairly and equitably, as I hope all educators around the country strive to do. In 2014, the U.S. Department of Education released guidance to help schools improve disciplinary practices and policies and to promote positive school cultures. Hearing them was devastating.

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OCTOBER 7, 2020

This team of educators was part of the Fuse RI initiative , a fellowship program that teaches educators, administrators and local education agencies in the state how to integrate blended and personalized learning and technology practices into classrooms. Forty of the 104 Fuse fellows volunteered to field questions.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Mississippi Learning newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes with trends and top stories about education in Mississippi. Higher Education. Subscribe today! Mississippi has long struggled to improve reading scores. Sign up for our Mississippi Learning newsletter.

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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. He knew it would be easy; he said tests in his special education classes almost always were. Credit: Melissa Lyttle for HuffPost.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 2, 2020

Education researchers are trying to come up with different ways to measure success. Higher Education. The study, “ School effects on socio-emotional development, school-based arrests and educational attainment ,” is still a working paper, which means it has not yet been peer-reviewed and may still undergo revisions.

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The Hechinger Report

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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JUNE 26, 2019

Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Future of Learning newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every Wednesday with trends and top stories about education innovation. Higher Education. Subscribe today! BRYANT POND, Maine — EB Hoff, 14, was running for class treasurer of the Class of 2022.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

Higher Education. Leave this field empty if you're human: But after three years of learning this way, the Teach to One students in grades six through eight scored no better on New Jersey’s annual math tests than other Elizabeth students who had learned math the usual way with the whole class on the same topic at the same time.

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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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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 20, 2021

But it wasn’t that wall of degrees that most strongly informed her passion for teaching: It was the support she received growing up as a Black child taught by Black educators in her Mississippi hometown, and at her alma mater, a historically Black college. Cassandra Herring, CEO of Branch Alliance for Educator Diversity.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 3, 2016

They’re taking advantage of a state-funded program aimed at bolstering early childhood development, and they come to the Grenada child care resource and referral center not just to borrow educational materials, but also to receive free training in health, safety and child development offered to child care providers or to attend classes for parents.

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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

MAY 6, 2019

In 2014, the Obama Administration jolted the education world with a report detailing unfair and racist school discipline practices across the country. Higher Education. Leave this field empty if you're human: Early research seemed promising. Department of Health and Human Services. Choose as many as you like.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 27, 2016

The 2012 survey from the American Council on Education was sent to public and private colleges and universities across the U.S., 6 percent — The number of colleges and universities led by a black president, according to a 2012 survey from the American Council on Education (13.3 percent of the U.S. population is black).

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

This story is part of our Map to the Middle Class project , where we ask readers what they want us to investigate about educational pathways to economic stability. Higher education has long been viewed as the key to higher earnings and financial security. Photo: Kate Flock for The Hechinger Report. Sign up for Hechinger’s newsletter.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

Two studies in 2014 found that the quality of interaction between parents and babies was a better predictor of language skills. Higher Education. Leave this field empty if you're human: Now scholars are dissecting early childhood speech even more and analyzing the content of these back-and-forth conversations. Weekly Update.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 28, 2019

Skeptics have also pointed out that being held back is both expensive for school districts — taxpayers end up paying an additional year of education — and demoralizing for students. One 2014 study found that kids who were held back when they were young were less likely to graduate from high school. Higher Education.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 22, 2018

The teen birth rate plunged more than 60 percent from 1991 to 2014, the most recent year of data. Nearly a quarter million teenage girls, ages 15 to 19, gave birth to babies in 2014. What happens to the education of these young women? Department of Health and Human Services. But it is hardly a problem solved.

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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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NOVEMBER 18, 2019

Researchers are studying rapid changes in remedial education, from the elimination of placement exams to making remedial classes optional. Higher Education. Leave this field empty if you're human: Policymakers have been trying to fix the system. Photo: Meredith Kolodner. Sign up for Jill Barshay's Proof Points newsletter.

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