The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 29, 2020

And researchers have a growing body of evidence showing it’s incredibly effective. The results are, as one researcher puts it, “blockbuster.”. Monica Bhatt, senior research director of the U Chicago Education Lab, said results for kids in ninth and 10th grade during the 2014-15 school year are even more impressive.

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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

JANUARY 15, 2018

National Center for Education Statistics, National Spending for Public Schools Increases for Second Consecutive Year in School Year 2014-15. Department of Education, reported that local, state and federal governments had collectively spent 2.8% more on public schools during the 2014-15 school year than in the previous year.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

That’s what researchers at Kansas State University set out to quantify when they began crunching the numbers on teacher vacancies for all 50 states. That's one of the things that I think that we — this includes researchers and policymakers and the public — have to decide,” Nguyen says. “At Source: Kansas State University.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

The world’s developed nations are placing a big bet on education investments, wagering that highly educated populaces will be needed to fill tomorrow’s jobs, drive healthy economies and generate enough tax receipts to support government services. local, state and federal governments chose to cut funding for the schoolhouse.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 22, 2019

But in recent years, there’s been an alarming surge in the number of students taking out big loans to finance their educations, with 17 percent of borrowers leaving school with more than $50,000 of federal student loan debt in 2014, up from 2 percent in 1990 and 5 percent in 2000. In 2014, that had jumped to 11 percent.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

“You can’t see that in most places,” said Daniel Kreisman, an economics professor at Georgia State University who helped launch an effort to inform CTE policymakers by compiling data and producing research. I think we’re doing a great job, but I have no data or research.” Louisiana bet big on career education.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

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. Rise in the cost of federal higher-education tax credits. Adjusted for inflation.

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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. Many factors can cause colleges to struggle financially, according to a review of the data and interviews with 39 college finance researchers, student advocates, state officials, school administrators and faculty members.

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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. By that summer of 2014, the federal government knew that Anamarc was struggling.

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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

JANUARY 2, 2024

Academic researchers have been trying to find out how these scattergrams, which have been widely adopted by U.S. The researchers found that applications to these schools plummet after students see the scattergrams. high schools over the past two decades, are influencing students.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 30, 2022

But new research from the nonprofit National Student Legal Defense Network and scholars at George Washington University shows that nearly two-thirds of undergraduate certificate programs left their students worse off than the typical high school graduate, making an average of less than $25,000 per year.

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 22, 2019

In this third post, we explore how Powerful Learning is collaborative and connected, share research that grounds these two principles, and provide resources to support your own learning and teaching practices. Students are highly attuned to social dynamics, and research shows that relationships can drive learning. – Feb.,

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 6, 2016

From just before the recession until 2014, the latest year for which figures are available, higher education central system office staffs grew by nearly 4 percent, according to federal data analyzed by the American Institutes for Research in collaboration with The Hechinger Report. Sign up for our Higher Education newsletter.

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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. We don’t need to panic,” said Cory Koedel, a University of Missouri economist who presented his preliminary findings at a conference of the National Center for the Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Education Research (CALDER) in January 2019. “If

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 4, 2016

Indeed in 2016 the federal government designated Tennessee’s VR grant “high risk” for most of the year, due to the state’s repeated inability to track how much money was being spent and on what. If you support people with disabilities in jobs that they want to do, they will actually be much less dependent on government services.”.

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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. That’s a lot of people who don’t have good employment prospects, and are likely to need some form of government welfare.

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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

OCTOBER 16, 2023

During the pandemic, school systems dramatically expanded the number of software products they used as companies offered free subscriptions for a limited time and the federal government showered districts with emergency funding, he said. But many of the products weren’t high quality. But at first, few teachers took note.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 3, 2021

Researchers say a new classification system is needed to help students choose colleges that will serve them well. 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.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 8, 2018

Artwork decorates the government-run nursery classroom at Badock’s Wood Primary School in Bristol, England. caring for young children has long been considered the responsibility of individual families, not the government. We were established to escape government tyranny. Photo: Lillian Mongeau. Britain says ‘yes’. In the U.S.,

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 25, 2023

It was the first lesson in a school week that would take her kids through memoir writing, an introduction to division and research on Indigenous history, each activity carefully curated by Snyder. And she was running for the school’s governing board.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 21, 2019

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. 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.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 24, 2017

The study, based on financial data provided by colleges and universities themselves to the federal government, found that 64 cents was spent on administration at the smallest private colleges for every 36 cents spent on instruction. A 2014 report by the Delta Cost Project found that the number of administrators had increased from one per 3.5

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

The Pew Research Center estimates that “middle income” families (whose annual earnings were about two thirds to double the national median) make up about 52 percent of the population, compared with 61 percent in 1970. First, it’s worth noting that talking about the middle class can be tricky because there’s no universal definition.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 1, 2018

Federal legislation passed in 2014 aimed to reduce barriers to foster youth working after-school jobs, playing sports and participating in other activities, but implementation has been uneven. “I Government programs have also freed up some financial support. I think we’re setting them up to have a much harder time,” Pokempner said.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 18, 2021

Since 2014, the partnership program has poured federal funds into established child care programs that serve low-income children, including the most popular non-parental form of infant and toddler care: home-based care. In Brush, Araujo now focuses her days around lessons from a research-based curriculum provided by Early Learning Ventures.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 16, 2017

When the forest funds became too unpredictable in 2014, educators asked residents to back the preschool program directly through a local property tax. They approved the measure in 2014 with a 66 percent majority and renewed it in 2016 with a 67 percent majority. Voters in this hardscrabble town responded. Idaho State Sen.

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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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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

Brown spent years pushing schools to follow the law, after giving up her job doing administrative support work for a government relations firm. Nationally, 76 percent of white students in special education who exited high school in 2014-15 earned a traditional diploma. But those racial gaps are much wider in some states.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

.” Ingersoll and his colleagues at the Consortium for Policy Research in Education analyzed teacher and school principal surveys , administered every four or so years by the federal government, to paint a picture of the teaching force and highlight trends. We have solid research that you get better at teaching over time.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2019

Rolling cabinets stocked with dozens of the laptops sit in classrooms where teachers assign them to students for everything from researching hereditary DNA to writing essays. Yet, the 2014 bond sale used to buy Chromebooks for James Lick and the rest of the East Side Union High School District schools has a much different structure.

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Teaching American History

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Lindblom is the 2013 Arizona Teacher of the Year and a 2014 Graduate of the MAHG program. She also recommended the Master of Arts in American History and Government (MAHG) at Ashland University as the ideal MA program for a working teacher interested in encouraging civil discussion of the perennial issues in American civic life.

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 9, 2018

The role of technology, the changing nature of the work force and the effects of globalisation means citizens and governments are playing catch up to make sure our future generations are capable and competent to perform the jobs of tomorrow. Research reveals this mature-age cohort also exhibit self-confidence, creativity and passion.

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Digital Promise

JUNE 30, 2020

In 2014, the Nashville Public Library Foundation approached local adult education providers to form a learning group that could collectively envision strategies to improve services for learners. Strategies for education providers, government agencies, employers, funders, and other stakeholders.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 24, 2018

Yet, with few exceptions, families earning $88,000 a year — right in the middle of the middle class — get no government help to cover the cost of educating their 4-year-olds. In contrast, attendance at government-funded preschools is the norm in many countries. The government is subsidizing middle class child care anyway. ”.

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